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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1950)
Webfoots Breeze to ND Cinder Title; Golfers Second, Horsehiders Third Golf Baseball Track Dual Champ Milliganites Finish One Stroke Behind Oregon State By PHIL JOHNSON One of the unluckiest teams in University of Oregon history met one of the luckiest teams in Oregon State history at Corvillis Sautrdav as the extremely-fortunate Beavers won the Northern Division golf championship by the margin of one stroke. For the second time in ergnt days, the highly-favored Ducks were upset by the Beavers. The previous OSC victory, also by the margin of one stroke, had ruined an undefeated season for Coach Sid Milligan’s Ducks, Northern Divi sion dual meet champions. However, on the basis of season performances, the Ducks, who had opened the season with an easy lG'/o to 10'4 victory over OSC, were highly favorod to capture the -ND meet crown on the Corvallis course, which is described as “the rolling and tricky nine-hole Cor vallis Country Club course” by the official 1950 Oregon State Spring Sports Pressbook. Ducks Rolled The course turned out to be too rolling and tricky as the Beavers, who are accustomed to the rolls and tricks on their home course, finished first with a score of 591, a full 25 strokes behind the record total of 566, which was set by Or e gon in 19-17. The Ducks, paced by senior John Prince, who was fighting his firral battle for the Webfoots, carded a total of 592. The University of Washington finished far behind in third place with 601. Washington State carded 626 for fourth place, Montana’s 651 was good for fifth, and Idaho followed with 665, a to tal of 73 strokes bheind Oregon. Each team entered four men, and each man played 36 holes. Otr the second 18 holes, the Ducks carded a total of 293, six strokes better than the Beaver score of 299, but the seven-stroke OSC margin on the first 18 holes was barely sufficient for victory. Beaver Dick Yost won individual horrors for the second straight year by consistently carding a 35 each time that he toured the course. His 56-hole total was 110, only four strokes ahead of Oregon s John Prince. Webfoot Ron Clark and Heaver Bill Paul deadlocked for 1 nird place honors as each scored 147, three over par. U.O.Netmen Finish Low In ND Meet The University of Washington captured its 14th Northern Division tennis championship in 15 tries by a wide margin at Pullman last week end, while the best the Oregon team could do was a fourth-place tie with Oregon State. In chalking up their 12th straight triumph, the Huskies posted 13 points to 6 for Washington State, 5 for Montana, and 4 apiece for l!he Ducks and Beavers. Idaho was blanked. Washington’s Don Grant won the singles title by defeating teammate Derwyn Christenson, 4-6, 6-3, 8-6, while Jim Witt and Dick Gilliland of WSC snared the doubles crown from Montana’s Wayne Cumming and Bob Nogler. MacDonald Falls The Webfoots’ Tom Macdonald swept through his fiist two matches, but fell before Grant in the semi-finals by scores of 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. In other singles play, Duck Cam eron took his first round contest but lost in the second round, while Bob Mensor and Dan Cudahy both lost in th efirst round. Doubles competition saw Mac donald and Cudahy split in two struggles, while Thom and Mensor lost in the first round. The playoffs wound up the sea son for Coach Robeson Bailey’s net tors, who ended conference dual meet play in fifth place with a 1-5 record. They had a 4-5 mark for the year. Other Ducks who participated in varsity play were Bill Williams and George Boyd. They did not make the trip due to the four-man limit. Phi Delts, Lambda Chi Reach Softball Final By J ACK FAUST The intramural softball champ ionship became a two-house affair IS Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta The ta galloped into the stretch with easy wins over Lambda Chi Alpha and Campbell Club, yesterday, re spectively. The Betas stormed the ramparts to top Lambda Chi, 9-4, and the Phi Dolts clobbered the clubbers, 19-0. Friday on the IM diamonds. Bob Taggesell was in top form for the Phi Delts, and the independ ent crew came close to scoring only in the fourth inning when Cooley tripled. Taggesell erased the threat l y fanning Mastrandre to end the inning. The rest of the time the game resembled a parade across home plate, as Bud Covey and Will C rban scored the first two mark* C.s in the first inning on Bill Tue t ful's hit. Brad Fullerton then drove in Tueful, Taggesell singled Fuller ton home, Bob Lavey batted in Tag gesell and Lou Urban, Jack Keller scored on an error, and the Camp bell Clubbers finished the inning seven runs in the dust. Kims, Kilns, linns Keller pounded out a three-bag ger in the third inning to score Tag gesell and Urban, and scored on Lavey’s single. In the fourth, Tag gesell drove in Urban to make the count 11-0. Campbell Club pitcher Wollonweber chalked up his second and last horsecollar on the Phi Belts in the fifth, before Fullerton, Taggesell, Keller, and Lou Urban scored in the sixth. Bill Tueful was the caboose on the long train of scorers as he crossed the plate for (Please turn to pane seven) Pair of Wins Over OSC Lifts Ducks 1 Oregon’s baseball Webfoots clos ed out the season Friday and' Sat urday with two wins over the Ore gon State Beavers. The pair of vic tories lifted the Ducks from the Northern Division cellar to third place, a few percentage points ahead of Oregon State, and evened the four-game series with the Bea vers. The third-place finish climaxed a long comeback for Don Kirsch’s nine, who got off to a dismal start in the early stage of the 195.0 cam paign. The Ducks managed only one victory in their first six starts but recovered to play .500 ball the remainder of the season. Kimball and Nelson Lead The bats of Don Kimball and Daryl Nelson shared most of the re sponsibility for the Friday win over the eavers at Howe Field. Kimball poked out four hits in five trips, in cluding a homer, off the offerings of Don White, while Nelson contin ued his terrific hitting pace with three safeties in five trips. Swede Johnson started on the mound for the Ducks but had to have help from Lyle Rogers and Sid Mills in claiming credit for the win. Oregon built a 3-u leaa in tne first four innings before OSC col lected a run in the top of the fifth. This was dwarfed by a 5-run Web foot outburst in the sixth, but the Beavers came back with three of their own in the seventh to stay in the game. Oregon’s cushion was too big, however, with each club netting two tallies in the remain ing frames. Walks Aid Ducks The two teams moved over to Corvallis Saturday afternoon to re sume their desperate struggle to evade the cellar. Five walks and a wild pitch by Beaver starter Bud Berg in the first inning gave the Webfoots a 2-0 lead. The Orange evened the count in the same in ning when Gene Tanselli liomered with a mate on base. Oregon tallied three times in the fourth, which meant the ball game. Kirsch’s men added one in the fifth and another in the sixth, while OSC was being limited to two in the bot tom of the ninth. Ray Stratton, Nelson, and Jack Smith, each collected a pair of saf eties to account for six of the seven Orange hits. The eavers also col lectad seven blows off winner Mel Krause. FRIDAY: R H E OSC. 000 010 802— 6 7 2 Oregon 101 105 02x—10 9 ' 1 White and Clingman; Johnson, Rogers (7), Mills (9), and Smith. Saturday: R H E Oregon 200 311 000—7 7 1 OSC. 200 000 002—t 7 8 Krause and Smith; Berg, Erick son (1), and Goodbrod. Borchardt to Help John Borchardt, University of Oregon varsity swimming coach, lias been reappointed to the Na tional Collegiate Athletic Associa tion Swimming Committee. One of the duties of the committee will be to study various plans of standard izing the size of collegiate swim ming pools. Surprise Firsts Ease Ducks To First Meet Title Since 1934 SEATTLE—Oregon’s greatest track and field squad in year’s registered a smashing Northern Division championship under a brilliant sun and before 2500 spectators here Saturday afternoon. Theta Chi Retains IM Links Crown By JACK FAUST The Theta Chi mantel will be the resting place of the intramural golf trophy for the second straight year, as the hilltop crew took an easy 7-0 shutout win over Sigma Nu in mat ches played Saturday and Sunday at the Laurelwood links. Although their last year’s num ber one man, Hon Clark, now does his club-twirling—for the varsity, the quartet of Dick Schultz, Dave, Krieger, Wes Nicholson, and Ken Seeborg went undefeated through a schedule of Nestor Hall, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Theta, and finally Sigma Nu. Nicholson Starts Nicholson began the Theta Chi final victory by taking a 3-0 win over Hal Torkelson. Nicholson won the first nine six-up and the second nine three-up, giving him nine-up for the eighteen holes. Saturday af ternoon, Schultz romped to an easy four-up, three-up, and seven-up win over Jim Bartelt, giving the Theta Chi’s a 6-0 lead. This lead was a half-point shy of victory. Krieger clinched the title for his mates Sunday morning as he top- j ped Dick Wilkins, three-up, and | clinched the match. It was the 21st annual meet. The Webfoots won with such ease that Coach Bill Bowerman scratch ed his mite realy team. Otherwise the Oregons might hav established a new scoring record, bootsing the acutal 58% points to 63%, a half point over the record' established by Washington State in winning the 1948 championship. Washington fa vored to win the title by Seattle ex perts, was second with 36 points, followed by WSC’s defending champs with 28, Idaho 17%, OSC 16% and Montana 8%. Along with the team title, that accompanies victories in four dual meets this season, the Oregons won seven individual championships: 100—Bill Fell in 9.7, after run ning preliminaries in the morning. 440—Dave Henthorne, twice both 100 and 220 champion, added the quarter-mile crown with a 49.3 time, the best in the northwest this season. * Mile—Jack Hutchins in 4:18.3, the best mile run in the northwest this season. Two-mile—Pete Mundle in 9:34.4, the best time in the northwest this season, and his very best. >. Broad jump—Woodley Lewis in 23’8”, best Oregon mark of his ca reer and close to the 24 feet, one inch he made at Los Angeles City College in 1947. Pole Vault—George Rasmussen in 13’9”, only three inches better than teammate Don Pickens. Javelin—Chuck Missfeldt in 196’ 9”, next to his best performance this season. Greens, Whites Battle To 21-21 Tie in Finale A new possible-star rose in the ranks of Oregon football on Hay ward Field Saturday in the annual spring intrasquad game. Little Hal Dunham passed and called his Green team to a 21-21 tie with the favored Whites. And the Whites had to hurry from be hind to overcome a Green lead in order to save face. Individually, too, Dunham pushed Stelle aside in the passing depart ment, completing 9 out of 20 for 147 yards, while the White cap tain completed 6 out of 17. Stelle Not Still As a running quarterback, how ever, Stelle proved he still has the edge on anyone in either white or green. In the first quarter, Stelle faded back from the center spot with the ball, tucked it down into a bootleg position, and galloped like a race horse 68 yards around the strong side of his line for a touchdown. He added the conver sion. Big Carl Erwin, standout Green fullback who led the day's rushing, helped tie the game up in the sec ond quarter when he bulldozed his way from the 34-yard line for a TD. In the third quarter, the Whites produced another long run, this time a 65-yard sweeper by half back Tom Lyons behind tremen dous blocking, to add a touchdown. Stelle again converting. That put the Whites ahead, 14-7. But Dunham and company came back in the last period to pile up two counters, with conversions via the toe of Harry Caldwell, who also kicked the first extra point for the Greens. Johnson Neglected On the first of these two drives, Dunham threw four straight strikes, with the final toss good for 22 yards into the end zone. And in the end zone was Long Wayne Johnson, who simply stood and watched the ball settle into his hands for six points. He was all alone in the striped area while the White defense was out looking for a ball carrier. The final Green touchdown came after Dunham flipped a pass to Monte Brethauer for 28 yards to the White 8-yard line. Erwin than put his head down and shattered the Whites for the touchdown. It was then up to the Whites to come back and save the game. Stelle and lithe Jake Williams came through with a 50-yard pass play to the Green 12. Two plays later, Tommy Edwards plunged over. Stelle booted the most care fully prepared extra point of the day to tie the game up. At that point, the officials de cided the game was over.