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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1951)
'Willamette Relays Time Trials Held Oregon’s Cinder Ducks ran time trials on Hayward Field Tuesday in preparation for Saturday's \\ illaineite Kela\- m Salem. . „ Web toot Track Coach Rill llowerman expressed satistaition "on the whole" with results of the trials. Tunes were run while a stiff, cold wind swept the length of the field. Outstanding performance of the afternoon was turned m in javelin thrower Chuck Missfeldt. The Northern Division champ tossed the spear 19d feet, good for this early in the season. Other results, by events, were as follows: 75-yard dash-This represented the 100 yard dash in Bowemian's “three-quarter" trial set-up. Win - wer in 7.S seconds against the wind was Jack Smith. Denny Sulivan v»as second. Mitch Cleary third, and Jerry Mock fourth. 150-yard dash—This event, rep resenting the 220. was taken slowly and in warm-ups by Cleary and A1, Bullier. Cleary won in 16.6 seconds. ' tater in the afternoon Mock ran it. by himself and hit 16.3 seconds. * 660-yard—Jack Hutchins poured .on enough coal to beat Walt Mc . Olure by one-tenth of a second. Hutch hit 1:25.7. This race repre sented the half-mile. In the relays Saturday. Hutchins. McClure, Art Backlund. and Fred Turner will i probably each run an 880 in the . two-mile relay. 330-yard—This took the place of i -.the regular quarter-mile dash. Two . separate races were run. In the first, between A1 Bullier and Earl Miller. Bullier let his opponent run i ; before him into the wind, than pas sed him on the turn and won by . several yards at 39 seconds. In the second 330 race. Denny Sullivan ran in 37.4 seconds to beat .Tack Countryman and Norm Rid dle. Mile and one-half race — Art Backlund gained more than half a lap over the rest of the entrants in this race to finish in a creditable time of 7:10.9. his best of the sea-1 .son. Backlund put on a hard sprint in the final 100 yards into the wind, j Others finishing .were Johnson,1 Bradetich, Culver, and Dignan. Three-quarter mile Fred Tur ner ran this representation of the mile in 3:22.1. High Hurdles Five men tan this event with the wind: three finished after a mishap on the next to the last hurdle. Larry Blunt and Dick Zimmerman tied in a dead heat at 11.5 seconds. In the weight events. Bob Ander son tossed the discus 143 feet, Herb Mill threw it 129 feet, and Sopho more Chet Noe managed 123 feet. Noe also threw the javelin 165 feet and the shot 44 feet, three inches. Hale Paxton put the shot 47 feet, 4 inches from the rim and Bob Craig put it 42 feet. 7 inches. No high jump, broad jump, low hurdles or pole vault testing was done yesterday. IM Schedule TODAY’S SOHEDl'LK 3:50 North Field—Beta vs Sherry Boss South Meld Chemey vs Al pha Tau Omega Vpper Field Phi Fsl vs Phi Sigma Kappa 4:55 North Field Phi Delt vs Phil adelphia House South Field Theta Chi vs Merrick Vpper Field Fiji vs Pi Kap pa Alpha Who is the ugliest man on the Campus ? NOW OPEN THE EUGENE BAKING COMPANY fresh Bread and Pastry Daily DROP in to our COFFEE SHOP too! where you can get a GOOD cup of coffe for $.05 , Special Hot Plate Each Day $.50 Corner of Patterson and loth Phone 5-9928 SPECIAL PRICES Now! On Custom Tailored Uniforms Air Force—Army at GREGORY’S Fine Tailoring Wherrie—Avon Park Customed Tailored Clothes iOSl Oak Phone 5-4771 Wilkins Leaves Coaching Field NORTH BEND UP Dick VVil-1 kins, former University of Oregon athlete, will leave the coaching | field this year. He announced his resignation as basketball coach and football as sistant at North Bend High School, ! and said he would enter private I business. I Ducks Dumped; Faee OSC Today Oregon gave up five runs in the first inning, fulled to close the gup, aud dropped tin 11-7 decision to the Wtllumette Bearcats Wednesday afternoon on Howe Field. Losers of two games in three starts, the Ducks will attempt to I'ts 'Yoyo Jim'... ...vs'Killer Bob' ■m / r i(F* In'The Battle of the Half-Century' It’ll be “Killer Bob” Peterson against “Yoyo Jim ’ Loscu toff in the feature bout of a boxing exhibition during Sports Night Friday in McArthur Court. LoscutolT, down to a slim 22b pounds, has a definite weight ad vantage over “The Shadow” who only weighs 207. In tlie Northern Division in 1951 Peterson’s per-gatne point nvcr.-ioc i,f 12.5 was tons. LoscutolT ranked fourth with 10.2. Using these figures alone, Peter son is a slight favorite. Hut Loscu toff, utilizing his weight advan tage and “Around The World” swing cannot be counted, out of contention. Other Events In addition to the boxing events, there will be tumbling exhibitions and track demonstrations. Coach Bill Bowerman’s cindermen will show you “how to do it" in the sprints, low hurdles , high jump, pole vault, and shot put. Jerry Mock, Jack Smith, Dennis Sullivan, and A1 Bullier will pro vide the sprinting entertainment, while Dany Blunt, Bill Sorsby, Dick Zimmerman, Ralph Risley, George Guldager, and Roger Dock stader will perform over the low hurdles. Pole vaulting will be handled by Lloyd Hickok, Don Pickens, and Ray Packwood, and high jumping will be shown by Jack Smith, Bryan Weddell, and George Guldager. Bob Anderson will shot put. improve their record when they buttle the Oregon State Hcav-'is at 3 p.m. today on Howe Field. Jim Hanna and Jack Pyle wdll see ac tion on the mound for Oregon. The Heavers defeated Portland University 7-3 Tuesday afternoon, despite a display of defensive wild ness by the Staters. Oregon State took both ends of a double header with Linfleld lust Saturday, winning each game in the final inning 10-9 and 4-3. Then Unfield dropped Oregon 10-6 Mon day. Despite a strong offensive, the Ducks failed to halt the Willamette attack until the final three innings of Wednesday's clash. Oregon Coach Don Kirsch reliev ed three pitchers before Portslder Lyle Rogers entered the fray In the seventh inning and stopped the Bearcats without a hit in the final three innings. The blond six-footer, who was held back by an arm ailment dur ing the 1930 campaign, celebrated his first assignment of the presents5, season by fanning six of the nine Bearcats who batted during those final three innings. Other bright scenes in the Ore gon picture included long home runs by Webfoot Second Baseman Daryle Nelson and Right Fielder Dick Salter. No runners were on base. Two Homers Nelson opened the first inning for the Ducks with a powerful blast to left field. The horsehlde bounced twice and dropped over the edge of Howe Field. Salter whammed a line drive to left center during the fifth inning, and the ball rolled over the edge onto the intramural area Willamette opened the scoring in the top of the first inning and jumped on Oiegon's starting hurl er, Bob Schoonover, for three hits and five runs. Millard Bates opened the Inning with an Infield single. Cliff Girod drew a free pass, and Dave Perlman bunted the ball and reached first safely. Schoonover reduced the threat by fanning Bearcat John Markos kie. but Lou Scrivens followed with a line drive single, scoring Bates and Girod. A1 Brown collected an other single for the record books, driving Perlman across the plate, and Scrivens and Brown reached home safely when the Duck miscues mounted. Willamette 502 013 000—11 9 3 Oregon 101 113 000— 7 9 6 (iotehell. White (5), and Striv en*; Schoonover, Tamlyasu (4), Ilerg (6), Rogers (7) and Averill, .Smith (3). SU Mixed Doubles^ Bowling Action On Student Union Mixed Doubles Bowling League action opened Tuesday night with four decisive wins, including two shutouts. Jack Heading and Nancy Hud dleston blanked La Verne Thomp son and Zoe Hager 4-0, and Ned Takasumi and Mutsue VVada took a similar 4-0 triumph over Clarence Naapi and Nancy O'Connor. Bob Hanberg and Connie Lowery defeated Fete and Kvon Darlington 3-1, and Warren Woodruff and Nel da Vogel gained a 3-1 decision over Cameron Thom and Jean Cave. Wednesday Acton Action in League 3 Wednesday was as follows: Marion Smith and Bill Grieve de feated Harriette Alderson and Merv England. Darlene Swanson and Leo Naapi defeated Joyce Mercado and Keith Hansen. Betty Towata and Bruce Koppc defeated Helen Johnson and Roe Jensen. Jill Crlsholm and Dick Graham defeated Allison Risley and Ken Eaton. SPORTS STAFF * Rodger Eddy Phil Johnson Don Dewey John Barton Clark Smith