tDctc&7,Mc6& U-t ill uncover the true facts! Let's keep this a secret no longer! Although few individual are aware of this noteworthy development, it is true that Oregon won a Northern Division championship last Saturday. Coach Sid Milligan's golf squad wrapped up the XI) dual meet title by routing the WSC Cougars 20 7 Saturday at I’uil mau. The Ducks have one more dual meet, a Saturday clash at l or vail is with the Oregon State Heavers, hut a loss in that en counter would not drop Oregon out of first place. I lie \\ eh foots also plan to enter the annual .Northern I )ivision Meet Saturday, May 10, at Seattle. Marring unforseen develop ments, w hich have a habit of developing in golf circles, the I tucks "'ll " in the X.I). meet championship on May 10. Seven Wins in Eight Tries C oat h Milligan has been associated with eight Oregon golf teams. Seven of them won championships. A member of the Duck hob squad in 1035, 1936, and 1937, he plaved a major role in the winning of two Northern Division Meet titles (1035 and 1037) and two X.I). dual meet crowns (1036 and 1937). He acquired the coaching reins in 1047 and guided the Ducks through a fairly successful season—undefeated with seven tri umphs and no losses, X.I). dual meet champions, X.I). Meet champions, fired the be t score in X.I). Meet history, and placed seventeenth in the XCAA tournament. I he Ducks were led by Lou Stafford, ace Portland divoter who set a new Northern Division Meet record after completing an undefeated season in X.I). competition. Surprisingly enough, some of Stafford's outstanding perform ances occurred very early in the season. In the first Duck match of the year, he fired a brilliant seven-under-par 04 to tie the Ku gene Country Club course record. The following season, 1948, was Milligan's unspeakable “Year i f Horrible I ragedy” that was the sad season in which Milli gan was not associated with an X.I). championship team. Uh, Horrible Tragedy However, the 1948 campaign does not compare too unfavor ably w ith tliose seven seasons in which Milligan contributed to \\ ebfout champions. < )regon n on four dual meets and lost two, the Ducks placed second in the X.l >. Meet, and Stafford re tained his N'.l). individual crown. Second place . . . this was discouraging. Consequently, Milli gan tutored his golfers to the X.l). dual meet crown in 194'). Ore gon won the championship again in 1950 and repeated last Sat urday for a respectable record of three titles in three years. It i.-. hoped that the present 1 )uck g<>lf squad will not be drown ed in a tropical downpour of unfortunate luck similar to the flood of ill fortune which deposited the 1950 Webfoots upon the deso late sands of depressing, lugubrious tribulation. They did win the dual meet title, but they couldn’t overcome the chance advantages received by their opponents*after the dual meet crown was settled. The season began fairly satisfactorily. The Ducks dropped Oregon State 16l/f> to lCflg. smashed Idaho 22-5, routed W ashing ton State 19-8, ended a 10-meet College of l’uget Sound winning • streak b\ drubbing C.l’.S. 20-10, blasted W ashington 211/f> to 5*4, and slipped by the University of British Columbia 15*4 to 2V4. Then the troubles began. Only one meet stood between the Duck golfers and a perfect season. Their opponents were the Oregon State Beavers, who had lost to the Ducks earlier in the season, had also lost.to W’SC,.and had been tied by a weak Van port squad. Oregon should have won quite easily, but the Ducks had an “off day.” The entire meet was an exceptionally unusual affair. Oregon’s No. 6 man, Jim Donahue, carded a 71, which was bet ter than the score of any of the five Ducks ranked ahead of him except that of Ron Clark, Xo. 1, who also shot a 71. Ridiculous Nevertheless, Donahue, although he fired an amazing score for a Xo. 6 performer, lost to his Beaver opponent, 1 )ick Zeigler. The Xo, <) Aggie walked away with a five-under-par 67, providing the margin for a shake 14-15 OSC victory which ruined an unde . featecl season for the Ducks. Oregon immediately initiated preparations for the annual XI) Meet. They were highly favored, of course, but several factors intervened to relieve them.of the burden of an X.l). Meet champi onship. 'The meet unfortunately occurred on the Oregon State prac tice course, a lavout in w hich practice was almost essential. 1 he Beaver golfers were well-acquainted with the course, which the , 1950 OSC Spring Sports Pressbook termed the “rolling and trickv nine-hole Corvallis Country t lub course. Kach team entered four men and each man played .46 holes. The total score was used as the team score. 1 he Beavers, well-ac quainted with the course, gained a seven-stroke advantage on the first 18 holes. Although they were seven strokes behind, the Ducks staged a d< tcnnined rally on the second 1H and slowly closed the gap to the margin of one stroke. Oregon gained six but failed, by the one-stroke margin, to tie the Staters. A one-stroke margin is insignificant. In a meet in which each team fires over 290 strokes, the margin of one stroke is smaller than an electron in an electron-compression chamber. Saturday s Duck-Heaver clash will end the regular season for the Wcbfoots. An undefeated season is again at stake. The fugh\) Corvallis Country Club course is the scene. A repeat per formance by the underdog Beavers is not likely. Two Vanport Men Head OCC Again PORTLAND (/P) The Oregon | Collegiate Conference will be head ed again by Stephen Epler of Van port. Joe Holland, Vanport’s athlet-: ic director, will continue as secre tary. The conference, which has just completed its first year, reported the elections Tuesday and also listed these actions: Schools will not schedule games against freshman teams, but Ore gon College of Education may com 1 - pete against Oregon and Oregon State freshman teams in basket ball and baseball; Oregon Tech and Eastern Oregon were authorized 30 basketball games for next season; the one-quarter residence require ment was waived for one year. In a soccer game at Wolverhamp ton, England, a bolt of lightning knocked the referee's whistle out of his mouth. The bolt landed and the landlubber bolted. Cinder Sidelight’s (C onlinued from page jour) closey. Neither the Ducks nor the Eeavers boast terrific putters, tout they are all above average. Ctalg, Noe, and Anderson will represent old Oregon, and any one of the three could win or be beaten by Duane Eby from Com Valley. Ttop billing in the strong am field goes »o Cjhuck Mlwfdlt Did you know that his plus'325 feet is the best in the nation for the 1951 season? Russians To Spar MILAN, ITALY—(JP)—S o viet Russia has entered her 10 ~4>est amateur boxers in the European championships here next week, sending her p eked athletes Into Western competition for the'Ctfth : time since the war. It is the first pre-Olympic' test of Soviet boxing strength. Don't test one brand alone ♦.♦compare them all! —-asV Y°° **• nToU »° ’“T. *°;;u »°w,s on-/ siss sl^r3£»L •