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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1951)
Frosh Bill Four Tilts Coach Hal Zurchor's Frosh Bn«=e l>all Team meets the Linfelct Junior | Varsity today at 3:00 p.m. on Howe ; field. The Ducklings are the pos sessors of a 4-2 won lost record. They hold two victories over the ; Oregon College of Education, and lone triumphs over Klamath Falls High and Corvallis High. They have lost a double-header to the OSC Rooks, their arch-enemies, whom they play Friday.in another double bill at Corvallis. Saturday the Ducklings meet the Central Catholic Rams at 2:30 p.m. on Howe Field. Zurcher gave as his tentative starting lineup for today s Unfield tilt the following men: Pitcher Don Hull, a righthander; catcher, Cecil Hodges, a football player just turned out for baseball: first base! Bob Brittain, a left-hand ed hitter: second base. Dick Stearns, the team's leading hitter: shortstop. Lee Jackson, just re covered from an appendectomy; third base, Dick ICesson. who has just won a bout with an ear infec tion. Bill Bottler, a jfitcher who also can hit, will start in left field; slug ging Ron Phillips will be in center; and big Don Seigmund. who also doubles as a pitcher, will open in right field. SPORTS STAFF Rodger Eddy Phil Johnson Bill Gurney Jaek Garnet Jle'l Only a Rut Golf Ace Ron Clark Boasts Long National Links Career By Bill Gurney How does it feel to shoot eight under-par for nine holes in golt ? Captain Ron Clark of the Oregon Golf Team can tell you. He did just thut last Saturday against WSC. ••It really felt great." he said, “my putting had been off. but Sat urday I found the range and could n't seem to miss." That course-record 27 round was perhaps his most spectacular per formance, but the softspoken juniot from The Dalles has a record stud ded with impressive victories. There was his 1949 feat of win ning both the Oregon Open and Am ateur crowns the frst time any golfer ever fashioned such an Ore gon "gland slam." The open tri umph was against such pros hs Porky Oliver and Bud Ward. Other victories include the 1949 Esmeralda Tournament in Spokane, the 1947 Mid-Columbia Tourna ment at The Dalles, the 1950 Pen dleton open und other lesser matches. He reached the Pacific North west Golf Association semi-finals in 1949. He lost in the quarter-finals of last year's NCAA Meet at Albu querque, N. M. Crosby’s Guest Bing Crosby’s hospitality at his Pebble Beach, Cal. home is remem bered with pleasure by Ron as a fea ture of his entry in the 1949 Mor ris Cup Matches; he has played twice in these, and also the Poit land Hudson Cup matches. To top it all off, Ron made a hole in one last year—he sank a 170 yard six-iron shot into the 18th Beautiful - Exquisite BRACELETS RINGS WATCHES ALSO TROPHIES AND CUSTOM ENGRAVING AT University Jewelry jbimct Route CrG&t • CLEAN, CONVENIENT COMFORTABLE— t* NATIONWIDE SERVICE FOR WK I'.K KXU, J!(>U I )AY-VACATION' TRIPS. IT’S fycdliAMMl'i 957 1 'carl Street I'li. 4-5253 OYKR 68.000 MIRKS OK AM K RICA’S IJ JCH WAVS “ Kon (lurk hole at Eugene's LaurelwooJ Course. In 1948. Ron played exhibition golf with Ben Hogan several months before his auto accident; lie says Hogan, often accused of lack of warmth, was very affable when under no pressure to win. Attesting to the soundness of Ron's game is the fact that Hogan asked Ron to go on tour with him. But Ron says that professional golf is not for him because there is too much uncertainty and travel. Apparently the terrific pressure of tournament play doesn't faze him much. He says he can perform bet ter with the chips down. He sleeps soundly before a match, although he eats sparingly. A stocky blonde guy at 5 ft., 9 in. and 165 pounds, he is calm and un assuming both on and off a golf course. You wouldn't pick him in a crowd for a top-flight golfer. Golfing Since Six But he has been at the game ever since his mother started him at the age of six. He says that Hugh Starkweather, now a pro at Med ford, taught him a lot about the game on the windswept course at The Dalles. “That was good training, because if you can play against the winds they have there, you can play any where," he stated. Ron went to The Dalles High School, where he played varsity basketball. In the 1946 State Tour nament he guarded Duck-hooper to-be Bob Lavey with considerable success. After graduation in 1946, Ron joined the famous 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper. He made about 14 jumps and found time to play considerable golf until he was discharged in 1948. Jumping out of an airplane is one place where he says he couldn't stay cool and collected. “I did it for the extra pay and not for the fun of it.” C ollPge in 48 He entered Oregon in 1918 as a pre-dental major, but switched to accounting after a yeur. His goal now is to be a CPA, and he will spend this summer in an account ant's office in The Dalles. Not just an athlete, Ron was a member of Skull and Dagger, is now a Druid, and is president of his fraternity, Theta Chi. Ron mentioned also in the line of extra-curricular activity that he is trying to help Miss Barbara Stev enson enjoy this spring term, her Ducks Battle UW In Seattle Today The Oregon Ducks will battle the second place Wasl.ingtoi Huskies in a Northern Division baseball clash this after.. a ^The Ducks defeated the Idaho Vandals V-l and 7-4 Tuesday a Moscow. A win today would boost the \\ ebfoots into wemu place in league standings. ... , c . Washington's starting pitcher today probahiy will be South paw Bobby Moen, who hurled against the Ducks when the tw< teams met late in April at Eugene._ i NOKTHKUN DIVISION mSKBAIX STANDINGS oso Washington OKKOON wsc Idaho W L, Pet. ! « 0 1.000 5 3 .02r> I o 4 .now 5 rs .500 ; 0 10 .000 Oregon hud little trouble * with Morn's offerings when they faced him on that occasion. He was re lieved after he faced 25 battets. walked 4, and gave up 12 hits. Despite the strong Duck attack at tile plate. Washington won D-'i when the game was called (dark ness) at the end of the sixth. The Husky batting attack is game of the doubleheader, taking a narrow' 8-7 victory after Coach Don Kirsch’s Webfoots shelled another j heralded Washington hurler, Bob Peterson, off the mound with ten hits in eight innings. Low Husky Kit.Vs Moen and Peterson have earned run averages of 3.11 and 3 18, ie spectively, outstanding for North ern Division plsfy. The Husky battling attack is spearheaded by Tom Absher, soph omore outfielder >om Puyallup. Washington. Absher, who led the Husky Frosh last spring with a | ,552 average, was hitting 100 when the latest Northern Division bat ting averages were released Tues day. 1 The Washington starting lineup | probably will include Absher in left field. Gordon Rodland in right, Larry Herns in center, Clyde Glass man at third base, Lome Hurlbut Jit second, Bob Houbregs or Jim Mor rison at first, Jack Englert, short stop, and Dave Lewis behind the plate. Washington Coach Warren Tap pin had hoped to shift Sam Mitchell to the shortstop position, but the speedy catcher bruised his throw ing arm Friday during the annual spring football game. Another Game Friday The Ducks and Huskies vwll meet | again Friday afternoon. In other I Northern Division diamond action, i the undefeated Oregon State Beav ers will be seeking their 19th and ! 20th straight victories when they : battle the Washington Stale Coug ars Wednesday and Thursday at Pullman. The Staters, who routed Willam I etle 20-2 and Linfield 15-7 during | the weekend, will move to Moscow j for Friday and Saturday games | with Idaho and will meet Washing I ton Monday and Tuesday at Se I attle. I last at Oregon. Ron says he is basically the out door type. He likes to fly fish on I the famous Deschutes River; also | he brags of a limit catch of Eastern Brook Trout last year on Sparks | Lake near Bend. I This summer, besides fishing and ; accountancy, Ron will defend his ! Oregon Best Ball title, paired again with Dick Yost of OSC. He'll also | play in the Oregon Open for sure maybe other tournaments. In the next few weeks, Golf Coach I Sid Milligan is counting heavily on I Ron in his hopes for a ND Clown. | Here’s hoping Mr. Clark can keep I that putter of his in line. Cinder Sidelights By Jack Garnet Sometimes the thought comes t this writer that schools teach eithe too much or too little of history am literature. Certain nonsense keep popping up about sucU legendar strong men as Atlas, who held ui the world. Let us get down to our own locu strong men. Those who will pci form m the middle of Haywao Field come Saturday. Here lares flesh and blood stuff. Younjprn.v who arc fleet of foot and strong u limb. To consider cases, there is th discus. Here is an event that tin been passed down through histor from the day of the Greeks. To b sure, the event has change through the centuries. A gooi Greek warrior could part the seal| of a Samaritan at 100 feet. A an athletic event the Greeks to s.. the stone platter from a six foo circle. That is not interesting, bu let me tell you that many Gre.-i spectators got a belly laugh when i performer stepped out of tin- cirel their ring was on top of a tei foot pedestal. Bob Anderson, the Scappo< Vlklng. heads Oregon's flying sau cer crew. Assisting Bob are Hetl Nill and Chet Noe. This is one < Oregon's strong events. You cal watch the performance they put n at the north end of Hayward Field Anderson has been working like Norse horse to break into the Hi' foot class. Maybe this will he h: week. The Ducks have had a long and it lustrous line of javelin throwers Listed among the division, coast and national champions are the names of Jim Demeers, Warren Do Maris, Boyd Brown and Boh Parke The present heir to the harpoon i Chuck Missfeldt. who is ably assist ed by Fai l Stellc. This guy DeMari was supposed to be red hot at spearing rabbits up in the sage brush country of Prineville. Ha! t would like to see that. ISom lake Hits t nnricy feldt. He holds thp slate record ut 21 I feet. He won the dlrislctn championship last year as u<fcl>h omore. This year he has a hesl throw of 223 feet—yes, and a worst of I7H. I asked Hill Bower man about that and he advised me that he considered himself one of the few coaches In the country who could coach a man from down to 178, and concluded “bet ter I should candle eggs.” “Well, this harpoon content "■ill not only be for distance, for there are also a couple of better than av erage Staters to be on hand. Both. Royal Delaney and Ralph Sutton have top season performances of over 190 feet. Charley had better not have an “egg candling” day. The 16 pound iron bull is called a shot. Here is an event I can’t under stand. A man steps into a circle, snuggles a ball that I can't lilt up to bis neck, then grunts terrifically and pops it out somewhere between 40 and 00 feet. This one should be u (I'lease turn to pane five) CO-OP MEMBERS Your cash register receipts must be turned in to The Co-op by May 21st List and total your envelopes before leaving at office ? of The Co-op UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CO-OP STORE