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.
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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
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