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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1952)
*Duc& ' Mafditt Meadowl All over the country the weather has caused more baseball postponements this spring than the University administration can think up restrictions mi the students. This has especially been the case in the major leagues and in the Pacific Coast League. On the other hand, the Oregon squad has had more than its share of luck in its schedule, although the weather was pretty threatening for the Washington series last Monday and Tues day. Both games were completed without any delays or post ponements, fortunately. However, the Ducks have not always been so fortunate. Con sider the 1948 Northern Division final standings. Washington State finished on top with a record of 8-3, compared to the Webfoots’ 10-5 mark. That was the season when rain washed out five WSC contests and one Oregon game. On a percentage basis, the Cougars were voted in as ND champions, Jupiter Pluvius thus dealing the Ducks a vflorse setback than any suffered on the diamond that year. Ex-Duck on Portland Roster The following year Oregon missed an opportunity to tie the Cougars for first when two more league tilts were rained out. WSC captured the title with 12-4, while Coach Don Kirsch’s tyatn wound up with 10-4. That same year, 1949, the freshman baseball crew had an outstanding young pitching prospect named Dick Waibel. He showed such form that the Portland Beavers snatched him from college by signing him to a contract. After two years of minor league seasoning, Waibel has improved to the extent that he is still on the Beaver list after the PCL team cut its roster to meet the league’s player limit of 23 men. The Washington series earlier this week seemed to indicate that the Ducks are determined to equal or better the base running reputation of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Once in each game the would-be Babe Hermans, showing more hustle than a lmndt eft-Mystie salesgirls, squelched what looked to be promising rallies by coming up with two runners on third base. The second game occurrence was particularly beneficial for the Huskies. The Webfoots, on a bases-loaded, none out single, on the same play were adept enough to score one run and get two baserunners tagged out. During this weird performance Washington hurlcr Bob Houbregs was taken off the mound and stationed at his old post, first base. Houbregs Is No Walter Johnson As a pitcher, Houbregs makes an excellent basketball player. He managed to win his first start from WSC, but since then has been batted out of the box by both Oregon and Oregon State. However, his batting ability makes him a threat when ever he steps to the plate. It was Houbregs who snapped Don Siegmund’s first-game string of 5 2/3 hitless innings, i*. As a result of winning only four out of six home games, the Ducks will be on the spot when they hit the road next week for the swing through Idaho and Washington. The ND sched ule sends the Webfoots into action on four consecutive days in the Inland Empire, after which they move on to Seattle for a total of six mimes in seven davs. Big Question: Will the Pitching Hold Up? The possible effects of this grind on Kirsch’s undermanned pitching staff are fearful to contemplate. If the Duck mentor is lucky, he can work two and perhaps three starting assign ments out of southpaw Siegmund, which is asking quite a bit. If Siegmund, along with Bill Bottler, Stan Aune, Bill Mays, and Norm Forbes, continue to be backed by heavy hitting, the prospect is not too disheartening. One consolation is that Ore gon State, co-league leader with Oregon, faces the same sched ule as does Oregon, although the Orangemen have a better balanced staff than do the Webfoots. The ND race has so tightened up that only two games sep arate the leaders and the cellar squads. WSC and Idaho are knotted for fourth spot with 3-5 slates, and neither can be counted out of the picture, especially as both have completed their Willamette valley trips. ND Pace Tight This Year Washington, with 4-4, prevented a four-game sweep of its Oregon invasion by downing the Ducks, 6-5, in ten innings in the final contest of the trip. The victory kept the Huskies ih 4he running, but, like Oregon and OSC, they have yet to visit the Inland Empire. It seems extremely likely that the ND winner this year .may accumulate five and possibly six losses, which is a relatively 'poor record. At any rate, the tight chase is arousing more than the usual amount of interest in ND baseball. Bowlers to Face 1IW Saturday The University of Oregon bowl ing team will meet the University of Washington keglers at the Stu dent Union alleys Saturday, and this is one of the few Duck-Husky competitions where the Oregon team will be odds-on favorites. The local bowlers, coached by Louis Bellisimo, will go info the match with a 181 pin lead which is left over from their trip to Seattle several weeks ago. Three games will be played Sat urday afternoon starting at 1:00 p.m . and three more will be rolled1 Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m., Alleys seven and eight will be the scene of the contests. Seattle. Meanwhile, the Duck bowlers have clicked off two tuneup matches with the Eugene Elks team this week, losing the first played Wednesday night at the Eugene Recreation center by a 120-pin margin, and winning the second .Thursday afternoon at the Student Union by 218 pins, 2718 to 2500. ATO's, Chi Psi's Win in IM Softball The only variation in Thursday afternoon’s softball competition was the forfeit of Thc-ta Chi to Chi Psi and the one-sided 24 to 2 victory of Alpha Tau Omega over Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The rest of the games were won by moderate margins. Kenny Wegner and Bob Altman each hit homers as the ATO’s rolled over Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Kappa Sigma Wins Don DeForest pitched the Kap pa Sigma nine to a 9 to 2 victory over Sigma Phi Epsilon. DeForest gave up two hits, struck out five batsmen and walked three, while the losing pitcher, Del Weaver, allowed two hits, whiffed three and walked six. As the second round of compe tition got under way, Phi Gamma Delta downed Phi Sigma Kappa 10 to 5 behind the eight-hit pitch ing of Bob Wheeless. The losing pitcher, Bill Mikkelson, gave up 15 hits and walked four. Wheeless walked two batsmen. Sigma Nu Triumphs The boys from Sigma Nu down ed the Lambda Chi Alpha diamond nine 6 to 2 with the aid of Bert Bergstrom’s two-hit hurling. Berg strom whiffed four batters and John McBee, allowed three hits and walked one. Cherney hall advanced another step along the undefeated route as they scored a victory Over Nestor hall 11 to 3. Cherney pitcher Bob Hinman allowed Nestor batsmen four hits and no walks while whiffing six. The losing pitcher, Pat Curtiss, gave up eight hits and walked four. JV Track Team (Continued from page four) Midlam, O. Time: 10:46.5. 220-yard low hurdles: French Parker, WSC; Oppliger, O. Time: 22.4. 120-yard high hurdles: Sogge, O; Powell, O; Taylor, O. Time: 17.0. Shotput: Rixley, WSC; Lloyd, O; Severin, WSC. 42’ 6”. Discus: Lloyd, O; Widmon, WSC; Van Leuven, O. 128’ 1”. Javelin: Schoonover, O; Oahl man, WSC; Liles, O. 165’ 2”. Broadjump: Dill, W'SC; Jacobs, WSC; Oppliger, O. 21’. High jump: Davenport-Badorek, O; Phillips, O. 5’ 10”. Pole vault: Hickenbottom, O; Buckley, WSC; Noralson, WSC. 12’ 2”. Mile relay: Oregon. No time available. Football Team Sharp (Continued from page four) j sure we had. One thing is sure, we will be awfully thin as far as depth is concerned next season.” The Duck mentor does not feel that the new NCAA ruling short ening spring drills from 30 to 20 sessions will hurt Oregon chances to any degree. “I have never used the full 3C drills when they were available,” he stated, ‘‘although we could use some extra time working with freshmen and sophomores whom we had to pass over last fall while preparing for games.” BOWLING... Faculty Mixed Doubles Gelhausen and Gelhausen 4, Bruns and Bruns 0; Haines and Haines 3, Fish and Fish 1; Case and Case 3, Greiner and Greiner 1; Masson and Jensen 2, Corcoran and Borchardt 2; Williams and Bellisimo and Williams 1, Unger leider and Ungerleider 3; Yevtich and Hunter 4, Mihailov and Mi hailov 0. High series: Dick Williams 572, Howard Case 530, Bob Greiner 514, John Fish 534, Evan Haines (women’s high; 482. 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