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Montana, Aggies, Win Over Oregon Netmen Bad Arm Stops Cudahy By MARTIN MEADOWS Oregon’s varsity tennis team suffered two setbacks during the weekend as the visiting Montana U. Grizzlies and Oregon State bounced the Ducks on the local courts by identical 5-2 scores. On Friday, the Grizzlies dropped o ily one singles and one doubles match, while the Beavers lost two singles encounters in osting Satur day’s victory. It was the twelfth triumph in 13 starts for Coach Karlin’s experi enced Montana netters, who now have a 3-1 slate in northern divi sion play. Mac Donald Loses The struggle saw Oregon’s Tom Macdonald lost his first match of the season, as Wayne Cumming ptjlled out a three-set 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 decision. The only Duck singles win ner was George Boyd, a Montana transfer. Oregon State’s win was its eighth of the year and gave Coach Irwin Harris’ players their first undefeat ' ed season in ten years. Five of the wins came in conference competi tion. The Duck winners in Saturday’s contest were Tom Macdonald, who registered an impressive 7-5, 6-2 conquest over Wes Brigham, and Cameron Thom, who won a mara thon duel by scores of 7-5, 2-6, 8-6 over George Allison. Dan Cudahy was lost to the Ducks for the season due to torn ligaments in his arm. Oregon’s season record now stands even at 4-4, but in confer ence play it is 1-4. Match Scores Here are the results of both mat ches: Singles: Wayne Cumming (M) defeated Tom Macdonald, 7-5, 5-7, 7- 5; Bob Kramer (M) defeated Bob Mensor, 7-5, 5-7, 6-1; Bill Jard'ine (M) defeated Cameron Thom, 6-2, 6-1; George Boyd (O) defeated Bob Holmstrom, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4; and Bob Nogler (M) defeated Dan Cudahy, 1-6, 6-1, 6-3. Doubles: Cumming and Nogler (M) defeated Macdonald and Men sor, 6-1, 6-2; Thom and Bill Wil liams (O) defeated Giff Martin and Jim Wylder, 6-3, 8-6. Singles: Tom Macdonald (Ol de feated Wes Brigham, 7-5, 6-2; Don Megale (OSC) defeated Bob Men sor, 6-4, 6-2; Cameron Thom (O) defeated George Allison, 7-5, 2-6, 8- 6; Ray Thornton (OSC) defeated George Boyd, 6-1, 6-2; Trostel Werth (OSC) defeated Bill Wil liams, 6-2, 7-5. Doubles: Brigham and Thornton (OSC) defeated Macdonald and Mensor, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Megale and Allison (OSC) defeated Thom and Williams, 8-6, 6-0. Golf Team Takes Championship; Defeats Washington for Third Division Title in Four Seasons By PHIL JOHNSON For the third time in four years, the University of Oregon golfers are the dual meet champions of the Northern Division of the Pacific Coast Conference. Coach Sid Milligan's undefeated I Hicks captured title honors by smashing the University of Washington Huskies 21 H to 5l/> at the Kugene Country Club Saturday. Ron Clark, 1949 Oregon open champion, and Dave Free led the Ducks in the best-ball matches Saturday morning as they both carded 68’s, four under par. Clark a id A1 Riebel teamed together in t.be best-ball competition to dead lock two other Ducks, Dave Frey a id Dom Provost., for low score honors as both teams finished with CG. Shut Out Dogs The Ducks shut out the Huskies 9 0 in the best-ball matches and then gained a 121 -51 triumph in the singles events. Clark and Riebel routed Ed Draper and George Kin ney of the Huskies 3-0 in the best ball play, and Provost and Frey gained an identical 3-0 victory over Washington's Ernie Tullis and Bob Lorenlzen. Then Oregon's John Prince and Jim Donahue completed the one-sided clean sweep with a " 0 win over Frank Draper and Tom Barwick. In the singles, Clark and Frey each carded a 70, two under par. Clatk defeated Ed Draper 21 to v, bile Frey ontscored Kinney 2'^ to 1'.. Dom Provost carded a 71 as he edged Tullis 2-1; A1 Riebel drop ped Frank Draper of the Nortliern l—i. '■ —-j_--—■■ ■— ers 3-0; Donahue overcame Lorent zen by a close 2-1 score. Oregon now has won more North ern Division dual meet golf titles than any other school. The Ducks have won the crown eight times, and Washington is next with a record of seven championships. Top Cl’s Oregon’s decisive victory over Washington followed Friday’s 20 10 triumph over the College of Pu get Sound, in which a 10-meet CPS winning streak was shattered. The Ducks took the best-ball play by a 6-3 score and rollled up a 14-7 win in singles competition. Clark led the Ducks by scoring a 69 in best-ball play and a par 72 in the afternoon singles play. The Ducks have won five straight meets, scoring 99 points to 39 for their five opponents. Oregon closes the dual meet sea son Saturday when the Ducks meet tlie Oregon State Beavers at Eu gene. Oregon defeated OSC 16C to 101earlier this season. The North ern Division Meet will be at Corval lis on the following Friday, May 19. PhiKapsCop; Forfeits Mar IM Contests In re-scheduled games that were originally set for April 13, but were postponed because of rain, Phi Kappa Phi overran Lambda Chi Alpha 5-4 and Phi Kappa Sig ma took a close one from the SAE’s 4-3. These two games were the only ones that were played of the six games originally scheduled for Monday afternoon. Four Forfeits There were four forfeit games with Merrick, Sherry Ross and Phi Sigma Kappa receiving wins over Sigma, the Yeomen and Seder strom respectively when the latter organization failed to field teams. The Stitzer-Phi Kappa Alpha fra cas turned out to be a double for feit when neither team showed. The Phi Sigs gained a 2-0 edge on Lambda Chi Alpha and stretch ed their lead to 5-1 by the fourth and final inning. Phi Sigs Score In the SAE-Phi Kappa Sigma game the Phi Kapps triumphed 4-3 in a hotly contested tilt. Sam Con chetti gave the best batting per formance of the afternoon with his homer in the second with two teammates on board bringing in the SAEs three runs. TUESDAY’S IM SOFTBALL 3:50 Beta Theta Pi vs. Phi Sig ma Kappa 3:50 Merrick Hall vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon 3:50 Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Phi Gamma Delta 4:55 Yeomen vs. Phi Kappa Sig ma 4:55 Sigma Chi vs. Sigma Alpha Mu 4:55 Westminster vs. Tail Kappa Epsilon Inter-Dorm League Won By Gamma The Inter-Dorm Bowling League wound up season play with the Stan Ray Aces shutting out Mar rick Hall four games to none, Gamma breaking even in four games with Minturn, Sherry Ross trimming the Stan Ray Bees three out-of-four, and Omega winning four by forfeit from Sigma. The Stan Ray Aces win culmin ated a sixteen game win streak which beat out Merrick for second place in final league standings. Minturn’s split with Gamma was a moral victory for the Vets Dorm ers. Merv England of the Stan Ray Aces won high single game for the week with a 213 game. He also carried off high series with 561. The Aces had high team single and high team series with 567 and 1602, respectively. Trophies to Gamma and the Stan Ray Aces, one-two teams in the league, will be presented by the Inter-Dorm Council, Used roulette wheel Or a mongoose Try Emerald Classifieds and get Results. Wild Throw in Ninth Costs Oregon Crucial 4-3 Game with Dogs By MARTY WEITZNER For seven innings yesterday, Mel Krause was fashioning him self a shutout. For eight innings, he was twirling a fancy 3-1 vic tory. When the guns stopped firing in the ninth. W ashington had the ball game 4-3, sending Oregon back into the cellar. uoing into tne eignrn inning, Oregon held a 3-0 lead. Before their home crowd, Washington was going down inning after inning against Krause’s sharp curve. Then the old base on balls bugaboo reared its ugly topper. Three free tickets filled the bases, and a wild pitch broke the string of zeros. Don Kirsch had the bull pen crew ] working overtime. Led in Eighth After a moment’s breather, Krause went back to work and stopped the Huskies with only one run. The Ducks failed to score against Bob- Peterson in the top of the ninth. Then came disaster. Krause walked the first man up in the ninth. Gordon Rodland lashed a long triple to left center field. Bill Andring, one of the league’s top hitters came through with a line single, and the ball game was tied. With Clyde Glassman at the plate, Andring stole second, chang ing the Oregon strategy. Glassman was passed to set up the force at any base, or the double play. Ron ald Mullen, the next batter hit a slow infield grounder. In trying for the quick snap throw to first to get the twin killing, Oregon shortstop Ray Coley threw wild, allowing Andring to come home with the tie breaking run. Arnason Starts Hal Arnason was the first of the Washington pitchers involved in the hill duel with Krause. He gave way to Peterson in the eighth when a pinch batter was inserted for him. Oregon got their runs by ones, tallying one in the fourth, one in the sixth, and one in the eighth inning. Ray Stratton was the lead ing Webfoot hitter with two singles and a double. The win sends Oregon a half game back of Oregon State, with whom they will battle next week for the league’s cellar spot. Wash ington moved to the head of the circuit, a half game above Wash ington State. Johnson Today The Ducks got another chance to grab their first win against the Huskies when they meet today in the second and concluding game of the series. It will probably be a left hander's a f f a ir, with Bob Moen’s soft curve working for the Dogs, and De Wayne Johnson throwing fireballs for Oregon. Figures Show Depth os Reason For Track Teams Meet Triumphs Coach Bill Bowennan’s Oregon track squad, assured of at least a tie for the 1950 Northern Division dual meet champion ship, can win the title outright this Saturday with a victory over Oregon State at Corvallis. In other meets this week Washington travels to Washington State to settle second place and Idaho invades Montana’s home field. Performances of the individual stars continued to improve last week despite poor weather conditions. Oregon tops the league in number o' men in the first three places with 13, followed closely by Washington and Washington State. Oregon Wash. W. State 2 6 4 OSC 1 2 3 Idaho Montana 1st places 2nd places 3rd places 4 6 3 5 1 5 2 0 1 2 0 0 9M jbexinf, 'll/tilt cMenllif, By C. HERBY FAHLMAN The mighty gods whilin', we’ll see some action this week in TM softball, tennis, and golf. With the exception of one day, all of last week’s softball eames were rained out. This is the revised schedule as it stands at this writing: Games officially scheduled for Aril 26 will be played today. Rained out games, scheduled for May 2, will be played tomorrow with the exception of the Kappa Sigma-Hunter and' Merrick-Sigma clashes. TKE and Gamma Hall will play-off a 5-5 tie while the Delts and DU will play-off an 0-0 dead lock to fill-in the schedule. Thursday Games On Thursday, in addition to the games originally scheduled for May 3, Stan Ray and SAE will replay a protest game. Six games originally scheduled for April 5 will be played on Fri day. Games slated for April 12 will be 1 played on Monday, May 15. Min. turn and the Delts will play-off a 2-all tie on that date, replacing the Philadelphia-Hunter forfeit clash. If all goes well, play-off games will start on Tuesday. Gamma and Westminster are tentatively sche duled to break an early season 1-1 deadlock on the same date. Now, here's the scoop on some thing that everyone-sportingly speaking—has been talking about. Under the authorship of hardwork ing Herb Nill, IM boxing may be in augurated at th ealma mammy next year . . . full details later in week. IM tennis is virtually at a stand still due to ol’ man weather. 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