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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1952)
IM Sports Action; To Start Apr. 7 Intramural softball, tennis, ami golf will start on Monday, April 7. according to Intramural Direc tor Everett Peery. Schedules for -these sports are being made up •siow and will be sent out to com peting organizations over the week end. Peery also requested that any one interested iu working as a softball official spring term see «tttm at the Physical Education De .partment. Mintum hall now leads total *4&>int standings for the grand in •tramural trophy, followed by Alp »fca Tau Omega. \ 'The actual area of the city of -Olso, Norway,-is so great—about kfralf that of-New York City, about idO square miles—that, apart «#voni two ski finals, the downhill -cmd giant slalom, all the events in ■the Olympic Winter Games last tpettruary were held within the city -limits. Cos in Hospital; Athletes Reenroll Both good and bud news hit the University of Oregon Athletic De partment Monday. Head Football Coach I.en Casa nova aggravated an old back In jury—and is hospitalised In San Francisco. Casanova had been on a week-long tour of alumni groups in Los Angeles, San Jose. San Francisco and Sacramento. He is expected to return this weekend. Spring football practice is sched uled to open Monday, April 14. Ed Halberg. Olympic Junior Col lege. re-entered the University and is a sure-fire bet for a forward berth on the 1952-53 VVebfoots' basketball team. Halberg is six feet. six-inches tall. Emery Barnes, a former Duck gridder. also registered for the spring quarter. SPORTS STAFF Desk Editor, Bill Norval. Staff, Bill Gurney, Rick Tarr, Larry Lavelle. The Olympic Winter Games were first held in 1924 in Chamo ni. France. CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSETS! HAVE YOUR SPRING CLEANING DONE AT UNIVERSITY of OREGON CO-OP The Weather Was Balmy, but... Oregon Loses Four on Road, Downs San Jose State in 6-5 Tilt Ideal spring training weather greeted Coach Don Klrsch's Uni versity of Oregon baseball team last week in California, but the op posing batsmen gave the V\ cbfoot pitching staff a warmer reception. The barnstorming Ducks came out second best in four games, but managed to outlast the San Jose State Spartans. 6-5 in a 11-inning marathon Thursday afternoon. Ducks Downed Catcher Ron Bottler, erstwhile Oregon basketballer. registered i George Shaw, centerfielder, with u long poke to rightfield. Stan Aune, who twirled the last seven and one half innings, allowed the losers two. single*. Oregon opened the excursion with a 15-4 setback at the hands of the Stanford Indians. The boys Assistant Baseball Manager Needed Norm Kolb, head baseball man ager, has requested that any stu dent wishing to be an assistant manager spring term see him at McArthur court. The assistant will act as man ager for the junior varsity baseball team. from down on the farm clipped Aune for five runs In the first Inning and then shelled him from the box with a three-tally outburst In the second. The game was play ed in balmy 80-degree plus tem peratures. The YVebfoots fell apart in the eight and ninth innings of Tues day's game with the University of California and lost 10-9. The Bears .US'-t-"* - DON KJR8CH Oregon BaM-lwlI Boss scored twice in the eighth and | shoved across four more in the j home half of the ninth, without the | aid of a blngle. Hurler Norm Forbes issued six free passes and his infield came up with a pair of costly errors to move the Bear bascrunners into the scoring column. Forbes walked across the final run. Fresno State's highly regarded Bulldogs smacked the Don Klrsch nine 11-1 Wednesday night In the FSO lmllyard. .Southpaw Jerry Bishop and Dick Clevenger shared I the mound duties for the winners. Oregon outhlt the Bulldogs, 11-7. It was Fresno's 38th win in JO games over two s«-ssons. San Jose evened the series with the Webfoots with a 6-3 triumph Friday. Shaw Hits .530 Center-fielder Shaw combed the Cal toasers for It hits in 20 tripjl for a .550 batting average. IJaryle Nelson, second baseman, collected five aouDies, two rounu-irippcra ; and drove in 11 runs. Nelson is batting an even .(>00. doubles, a home run and knocked , in five runners. The Ducks have a composite butting average of .211. Oregon lias registered 13 doubles, one triple and three four-ply a al lops. Portslder Don Scigniund tops . the pitching staff with an earned run average of 1.75. Selginund has whiffed five hatters. The Southern tour was the first of its kind by a Northern Division j, PCC nine. Oregon will debut at home .1 Thursday at 1:80 p.m. in a double- I header against Unfleld college. Remaining varsity guinea are as follows: April 3, Unfield at Kugene April 4, Oregon State at Kugene April 5 P(Wtland U at Eugene^ April 10, Ore. State at Corvallis I April 11, Willamette at Eugene | April 12, Willamette at Salem April 18, Wash. State at Eugene April 19. Wash State at Eugene April 23, Idaho at Eugene 'I April 24. Idaho at Eugene April 20, Portland U at Portland t April 28, Washington at Eugene April 29, Washington at Eugene May 1, (night). Unfield at Me- * Minnvllle May 7, Idaho at Moscow May 8, Idaho at Moscow May 9, Wash. State at Pullman May lO.dA'nsh. State at Pullman May 12. Washington at Seattle May 13. Washington at Seattle May 17. Ore. State at Corvallis . May 19, Ore. State at Eugene May 23, Ore. State at Corvallis ., Muy 24, Oregon State at Eugene Bowlers Travel To UW Saturday A team of bowlers from the Uni /ersity of Oregon will bowl a series )f 12 games with bowlers from the University of Washington, accord ing to Louis Bellisimo, recreation manager o^the Student Union and •oach of the team. The 12 game home and home match wiU start this Saturday vhen Oregon’s team travels to Seattle to play six games. Three •punes will be played Saturday af ternoon and three in the evening. May 3 the Washington team will bowl a return match of six games here. The games, which will be de cided on a total pin basis, are to be bowled at the Memorial Union in Seattle and at the Student Un ion here on the Oregon campus. The seven team members chosen by Louis Bellisimo are: Don Allen, Dick Graham, Bill Ferkett, Leo N'aapi, Ken Ireland, Bruce Koppe and George Troeh. A warm-up match with the Eu gene Elks club will be held today at 3:30 in the Student Union. I. . . "SKFf Seven Kansans Make Olympic Basketball Squad NEW YORK. — (U.R) — Battle weary but brilliant Kansas, hailed now as undisputed king of college basketball after its rouBing, up hill victory over La Salle, named seven of its sensational stars to day to help carry the United States banner in the Olympic Games. Coach Forrest (Phog) Allen, proud and overjoyed at the come back surge staged by the mighty Jayhawks in Monday night's 70 to 65 triumph over I-a. Salle in the semi-finals of the Olympic try outs, quickly exercised his new won light to name seven players to the Olympic team. “I’ll pick my five seniors—.John Keller, Bill Lienhard, Bill Houg land, Clyde I^ovellette, and .Bob Kenny,” said the beaming Allen. “And with them, those two star juniors, Charley Hoag and Dean Kelley." -- S LONGER WEAR WITH SHOE REPAIR Campus Shoe Repair 843 13th Ave. Baseballers Report For Examinations JACKSONVILLE, FLA., (U.R) Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Gerry Coleman of the - New York Yankees placed their baseball futures In the hands of Marine Corps doctors Tuesday in- » slating, "We're no better than any body else there's no ri-aaon for anybody to pity us.” The 33-year old Williams and the 27-year old Coleman will report to the Marine Air Corps base this • morning for physical examina tions. Both will be recalled to ac tive duty on May 2 and required to serve two years if they pa^s. Both are captains In the reserves and served during World War 11, Williams as a flight instructor and Coleman as a dive-bomber pilot. There was little likelihood that ' either would fail the examination although part of Williams' left elbow is missing as a result of Surgery. Ted required the opera tion after fracturing the elbow when he crashed into the left field wall at Comiskey Paik, Chicago, in tho 1950 All-Star game. OSC Star Enrolls At Portland State CORVALLIS, ORE., — (U.R) — Dave Mann, foitner Oregon State . college star halfback, said Tues day he will enroll at Portland State (formerly Vanport; in Port land for spring term. The grid ace was suspended from Oregon State last Saturday because of scholastic deficiencies. • He said he hopes to gain read mission to the Beaver school next fall, and be eligible to play in the ■* 1952 season. Beavers to Start Spring Football CORVALLIS, (U.R) — Oregon State college opened its 20-day , spring football training Tuesday with nearly 100 candidates out for the drills. , Coach Kip Taylor greeted 16 lettermen from the 1951 Orange varsity, but said his biggest job - would be in replacing 16 other lettermen who graduated.