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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1950)
Vicious Vandals Vanquish Ducks; Washington Ducks Favored To Win Event, 'Best in Years' By DAVE TAYLOR Oregon’s Webfoot cindermen will meet the Washington State Coug ars Saturday at 2 p.m. on Hayward Field in what possibly will be the greatest dual track meet of the last two decades. The meet will start immediately after the running of the 13th An nual Hayward Relays. An admission of 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children will he charged on all non-student spec tators. Tickets will be sold at the north end of Hayward Field. The Ducks and the Cougars are rated just about a standoff by the pre-meet dopsters, but the Wash ington Staters will probably be cast in the favorite role because of their past record. Cougars Coach Jack Mooberry’s squad hasn't lo^t a dual meet since 1946, a string of 18 consecutive vic tories. The Ducks haven’t defeated the Cougars since 1943. score predicted Seasoned railbirds say the score will be 27-18 for Oregon before the two clubs come onto the track. They base their claims on the Ducks’ great strength in the sprints and pole vault while WSC is loaded with talent in the shot put and high jump. However, the outcome will hinge on the depth material that each team can put on to the field and still remain under the 22-man limit imposed by Northern Division rules. Duck entry list released by Coach Bowerman Thursday fol lows : 100-yard dash A1 Bullier, Bill Fell, and Mitch Cleary. 220 same as century. 440 Dave Henthorne, Jack Countryman, and Phil Jones. 830 Walt McClure. Mile Jack Hutchins, Art Backlund. Two-mile Pete Mundle. High hurdles — Jack Doyle, Dennis Sullivan. Low .hurdles Doyle, Sullivan, and Jack Smith. High jump Woodley Lew is and Smith. Broad jump Lewis, Smith, and Sullivan. Pole vault George Rasmussen, Don Pickens, and Lloyd Hickok. Javelin -Chuck Missfeldt, Earl Stelle. Shot put Bob Anderson, Dave Earle. Discus — Anderson, Earle, and Jim Wol ters. Mile relay Countryman, Fell, McClure, and Henthorne. Unbeaten Webfoot Netmen Meet Idaho By MARTIN MEADOWS Oregon's varsity tennis team will begin its conference play in the Northern Division when it plays host to the visiting University of Idaho Vandals in matches slated to start at 3 p.m. today on the local courts. Coach Robeson Bailey plans to go along with the same line-up which swamped Willamette 9-0 at Salem Wednesday. Tom MacDonald wil lopen in the number one spot, followed by Cameron Thom, a California JV transfer. Dan Cudahy will occupy the third slot, while Bob Mensor, one of two returning lettermen, will hold down the fourth position. Montana transfer George Boyd will start in the number five berth. and Bill Williams, the other letter man on the squad, will play sixth. Doubles Uncertain The doubles combinations are uncertain as yet, but will be select ed from the preceding group. The Webfoot netters, who finish ed in a third-place tie with Wash ington State College last season, are undefeated this year. They have not dropped a single match in three encounters, having blasted the Eugene Tennis Club, Poitland U, and Willamette by 9-0 counts in pre-season play. As a result o ftheir impressive record, the Duck racqueteers are favored to dump Coach Frank Jones’ Vandal crew and chalk up their fourth straight conquest. Interest Up Interest in the tennis situation on the Oregon campus is quite high, due to the upswing in the local net fortunes. One of the reasons for this surge is the appointment of ex-Harvard player Bailey as the Oregon coach. Bailey started informal workouts last term and had his squad well organied by the beginning of the season. The presence on the team of sophomore Tom MacBonald, form er state high school champion, plus the formation of a junior varsity group, indicates that Oregon ten nis is finally receiving the recogni tion it deserves. The JV team, which won its first start from Corvallis Wednesday, includes Fred Zolezzi, Jerry Barde, Merv Englund, Herb Chin, Martin Meadow's, and Gerry Berreman. Hayward Meet Begins Today; First Events at 1 More than 1,000 young high school athletes will trot onto Hay ward Field today and tomorrow for the 13th running of the Annual Hayward Relays, one of the larg est track spectacles in the Pacific Northwest. Schools from Washington and California are entering the meet this year, the first time that out of-state schools have participated. The Hayward Relays were founded in 1937 by the late Col. Bill Hayward, the grand old man of Oregon track. This year the event is being sponsored by the Eugene Active Club. Today will see the running of class “B” and “C” school events, starting at 1 p.m. Tomorrow, starting at 11 a.m., class "A" high schools will take to the oval and field, and the Washington State, Oregon track meet will follow at about 2 p.m. Defending champions in the class “A” divisions of the Relays are the Klamath Falls Pelicans. In the "B" division, Cottage Grove will be defending its crown, while Henley high will be out to retain its class “C” championship. This will be the largest Hayward Relays ever to be held. Duck vs Cougar In Fencing Duel Washington State's varsity fenc ing squad will engage a group of Duck fencers in an informal meet tomorrow morning in the west ac tivity court of the Physical Educa tion Building. The Oregon fencers are mem bers of Swimming Coach John Bor chardt’s physical education class. The meet, which will probably begin about 10 a.m. and end at noon, will be strictly unofficial, since the University of Oregon does not have an official fencing team, and none of the Duck duel ists have been declared eligible for competition. A1 Naito will be the Duck captain. The six-man Cougar squad, coached by Nick Peters, will ar rive tonight with the Washington State track team. Fencing has not been part of the Oregon ath letic calendar during recent years, but it once was an important sport in local circles. One of the high lights of Oregon duelling history was Norris Porter’s Northwest In tercollegiate fencing champion ship in 1932. IM's? Not Today No intramural games will be played today. IM action will resume next Wed nesday. A schedule will appear in Wednesday’s Emerald. TENNIS SEASON IS HERE Our tennis department oilers a complete line of National brands • Tennis rackets • Wilson N Spalding Tennis Balls OUR SPECIALTY Rackets restrung quickly and expertly JOE GORDON HARDWARE 971 Willamette Phone 5-3353 Golfers Travel For Idaho, WSC Dual Matches Coach Sid Milligan’s Oregon golfers left Wednesday afternoon for Inland Empire country, where they will meet the Idaho Vandals at Moscow and the Washington State Cougars at Pullman during the weekend. The Ducks opened their 1950 sea son last Saturday with an easy tri umph over Oregon State College at Corvallis, taking their seventh win over the Beavers in nine starts. During the past three years, Ore gon has had powerful golf teams. The Ducks have won two Northern Division dual meeet championships in three years, and they placed sec end in the remaining season. Webfoots Favored The Ducks should be favored to top the Idaho Vandals, who have rarely offered serious competition for Oregon divot squads. Oregon smashed Idaho 22 V2 -4 / at Eugene last spring gained an easy 19-8 victory over the Moscow men in 1948, and captured a one sided 26-1 devision during the pre vious season. Washington State has had little better luck against the Webfoots, although the Cougars gained a 2014-6}A win in 1946. Oregon bounced back in 1947 for a 1714-9}4 victory over WSC and gained a 1914-7'/> triumph in 1948. The Ducks dropped the Cougars 18>4-By, at Eugene last spring. Several Duck divoters plan to enter the Oregon Open Meet, which will be held April 24 at Tualatin. Webfoot Ron Clark is the defending champion. The Northern Division Meet will be at Corvallis May 20 21. Aiken Stresses Running Plays Coach Jim Aiken put his Spring football squad through running plays yesterday, in an effort to teach more plays to his crew of green backs. No practice will be held tomor row, Aiken said, but the team will work out every day of next week. Aiken has tentatively scheduled an intra-squad game for next Satur day, one week from tomorrow. This will be the first chance for the team to run itself on the field without a coach in the huddle. Nine-Run Rally In Sixth Inning Evens Series By PETE CORNACCHIA Idaho’s Vandals picked up their first conference win of the season Thursday as they trampled over Oregon, 17-12, in what was suppos ed to be a baseball contest at Howe Field. The win put Chuck Findley’s cel lar-dwellers half a game behind the Webfoots. Nine runs in a sixth-inning night mare broke a 4-4 deadlock and set tied the issue for the Vandals, al though Oregon made a too-little, too-late bid in the last of the ninth. The two clubs pounded out 28 hits in the festival of walks, balks, * errors, and hits, with Idaho claim ing 16. Seven physical errors went into the books, five of them for the Ducks. Anyone leaving the game at the end of the first inning would have been very unlikely to put so much as a nickel on the Vandals, for in that frame the Webfoots came up with a double, triple, and home run. Mouse Owens got the two-bagger, Chuck Stread accounted for the triple, and' Joe Segura was respon sible for the blow that went over the left field bank. The hits, added to a walk, gave Oregon a 3-0 lead. Don Kirsch’s men picked up an other one off starting pitcher Hinckly in the second when Don Kimball tripled and loped home af ter Ray Coley lofted to center. Jim Hanns meanwhile was blanking the boys from Moscow. He ran into trouble, however, in the top of the fourth. Joe Zavetsky’s homer, his second of the series, along with two walks and an Oregon error brought in three runs for the Idaho nine and put them back in the game. The smoke still hasn’t settled from that savage sixth, so exactly what happened isn’t too clfear. Whatever happened, the Vandals scrambled five hits, six walks, an error,-and a passed ball or two into an omelette good for nine tallies. Hanns lost track of the plate, Swede Johnson couldn’t establish ^ even speaking acquaintance with it, and Kirsch sent Gene Rose to the mound. Sid Mills took over at the start of the seventh and was nicked for another run. The fifth Duck chuck (Please turn to page eight) . (Mac) MAXWELL O s w £ w o 5* £ O c t/2 s - g p - C* 2 S' 5 -t c/: £ ° s t—i r: c w < rD —s __I ~ cr w £3 CD C u >-i "I £- <"5 £- in cr* *2 p cr o rs o - _ p K-; r-t — rr P CL C OJ V; cr o p O . v. < cr. c < c ^ rD c 8 s. E ^ OC c o rD C c (S. c H O g *< w HH M Z G oo > Z D O c w H O 3 M W OT v< e. s NOTICE!