Webfoots Start PCC Playoffs Forbes Probable Oregon Starter; First Game Slated Today at 1 Coach Don Kirsch’s Oregon baseball team, winners of the Northern Division title, opens the 1953 PCCC playoffs this afternoon at l’alo Alto, Calif., taking on the Southern Division ■champ, Stanford. The game starts at 1 :00 p.m. The two clubs will resume action Saturday at noon in the second game of the best out of three series.. If the winner is then not yet decided, the rubber contest will be played later Saturday aft ernoon. Forbes Starter Coach Kirsch will probably start young Norm Forbes, the workhorse of the Webfoot pitching staff, in the first game. Saturday's mound nominee is expected to by Stan Dmochowsky, sophomore right hander. If the series goes into three games, Trent Huls is a likely choice for pitching duties. Stanford Coach Everett S. j Dean will start Bob Murphy on the hill for the Indians in the -opener. Murphy has won 11 and ’ lost only 2 so far this season ! against conference, armed ser- i vices, and professional ball clubs, i In the hitting department Oregon ' w ill be decisively outgunned. As a ! loam the Stanfords are batting .280, almost twenty percentage points above Oregon's .261. Tribe Better Fielders The Palo Alto crew is also sharp er afield, with a .940 mark to the Games Broadcast Friday and Saturday’s PCC playoff games between Oregon and Stanford will be broadcast locally over KOBE at 1:00 p.m. Friday and 12 noon Saturday. Webfoot's .935. The Ducks have a lower earned run average, however, 2.76, to the Tribe's 2.97. Topping the California team’s hitters is Jack Shepard, catcher, with a respectable .399 mark in 61 hits in 153 times at the plate. This right handed hitting senior also leads in runs-batted-in, 62, triples, 10, and home runs, four. Shortstop “Goody” Goodrich is next among the Indian regulars, with 58 hits in 17 tries. Chuck Es segian, outfielder, is the remaining starter above the .300 mark, with a .329 average. Murphy Top Hurler Murphy is by far the top hurler with almost as many wins as the rest of the staff combined. His earned run average, 1.89, is one of the lowest in the California collegiate loop, and he leads the Indian hurlers in strike-outs with 90. This will be Oregon’s first bid for an NCCA title and the second for the Palo Alto nine. The winner of the PCC playoffs will earn a berth in the Western Regional NCAA playoffs to be held early in June. Traveler COACH LEN CASANOVA Conducts Japanese Clinic Casanova to Hold Clinics in Japan Oregon’s head football coach, Len Casanova, will travel to Japan this summer to conduct football clinics in two Japanese cities. The Oregon mentor will leave July 7 and is scheduled to return July 27, after a three day stop in Hawaii. In Japan he will stop at Yokahama and Tokyo. Casanova was contacted for the trip by the armed forces, who will sponsor the football clinics in the Japanese nation. Alpha Tau Omega Captures P.E. Club's Decathlon Title Alpha Tau Omega's three man decathlon team scored a total of j 2320.5 points Wednesday and ; Thursday afternoon in the Men’s P.E. club's decathlon to capture the first place team trophy. Second spot went to Sigma Nu, ' close behind with 2302. Monte Brethauer, who didn’t ! score a first place, won the indi I vidual high point trophy by a ■ slim margin of half a point. The ATO star compiled a total of 777.5 points to edge out Doug Minor, who racked up 777. Point System The points were awarded on the basis of 100 for first place, 99 for second, 98 for third, 97 for fourth and so on, except in the % ml'e relay, where the points were di vided among the three members of the squad. Ken Wegner won four first C & M TRANSFER CO. • Let us do your local and long distance moving. • Reliable workmen will do your packing while you’re en route. 2 ' 392 High St. Phone 4-1015 Eugene Hunt CEub 15th .Annual Horse Show June 5, 6, 7 MATINEE SAT., & SUN. General Adm. 80c RESERVED $1.76 TICKETS ON SALE AT GATE or PHONE 4-6634 places, yet placed only third among the individual scorers. The speedy junior won the broad jump, 75 yard dash, high jump, and hurdles events. • The winning team, ATO, re | ceives the handsome, three-foot high pereptual trophy, donated by the Men’s P.E. club, which spon sored the event. Five teams were j entered. Team Scores Team results: 1. Alpha Tau Omega, 2320.5; 2. Sigma Nu, 2302; 3. Phi Delta Theta, 2223.5; 4. Phi Sigma Kappa, 2201; and 5. Camp bell Club, 2180. The top six individual scorers were: 1. Brethauer, ATO, 777.5; 2. Minor, Sigma Nu, 777; 3. Wegner, ATO, 776; 4. Dean Van Leuven, Phi Delts, 768.5; Don Lyman, ATO, 767; and Bob Enright, Phi Sigs, 764. Hale Kane Earns All-Mural Crown Hale Kane, independent men's dorm, has earned its second straight all-sport intramural championship. Although some sports are not yet completed, the dorm has a wide enough margin over its nearest rival that it can coast to the title. In second place is Phi Delta Theta, which jumped from sixth last year. The next in line is Alpha Tau Omega, followed by Sigma Al pha Epsilon in fourth, and Sigma Chi in fifth. Hale Kane, with the tennis fi nals yet to be played, can get no less than 941 points. If they win the tennis championship, they will cop 954. The Phi Delts, in the golf semi-finals, can do no worse than 850, with a possible high of 870. Alpha Tau Omega cannot over haul the Phi Delts, since the high est it can get, even if its wins the golf championship, is 846. On the other hand its margin over SAE, which has finished its competition, is a safe 100 points. Hale Kane got off to a blazing start last fall, winning first place in all three sports for 375 points. Winter term, it was Phi Delta Theta which walked off with the highe.st total, 379. Alpha Tau Omega has cinched a first place spring finish, with either 267 or 277 points, depending on whether or not it wins the golf crown. Faculty Netmen Edge Ducklings The university faculty tennis team came from behind to edge out the FTosh court crew Thursday aft ernoon, 3-2. Duckling first man Dick Grey turned in the only ac tual playing victory, slipping past Ed Bingham, assistant professor of history, in a marathon match, 9-7 and C-4. Don Bonime turned in the other student win with a de faul decision. The faculty swept the last three matches to grab the victory. In the third singles, Martin Meadows, graduate assistant tripped Duke Oldham, 6-2 and 0-2. The fourth singles competition saw E. C. Bob bins down Bill Dutton, 6-1, and 0-4. In the deciding event, the sec ond doubles, Meadows and Rob bins won out over Denny Carlson and Pete Plumridge, 7-3 and 7-5. Intramural Point Summary TEAM Hale Kane . Alpha Tau Omega . Phi Delta Theta . Sigma Alpha Epsilon . Sigma Chi . Theta Chi .*. French Hall . Phi Gamma Delta . Beta Theta Pi. Sigma Nu . Campbell Club . Sigma Phi Epsilon . Nestor Hall . Kappa Sigma . Delta Upsilon . Phi Kappa Psi . Chi Psi . Sigma Alpha Mu . Susan Campbell . Merrick Hall . Sherry Ross . Pi Kappa Alpha. Delta Tau Delta. Frosh Counselors . Phi Kappa Sigma . Tau Kappa Epsilon . Pi Kappa Phi . Lambda Chi Alpha . Alpha Hall . Philadelphia House.. Legal Eagles . Barrister Inn . Stitzer Hall . Phi Sigma Kappa . Yeomen . Sigma Hall . Gamma Hall ...... Vets . ♦Indicates schedule not FALL .228 .294 .284 .199 .262 .212 .242 .210 .218 ... 212 .182 .218 .207 .192 .162 .163 .162 .150 .149 .151 .112 .162 .222 .161 .137 . 87 .165 .102 .150 . 75 . 62 .133 . 91 .137 ... 62 completed. WTNTE 324 228 379 255 304 248 299 258 279 260 213 258 192 192 220 179 222 195 197 206 178 160 217 194 145 142 50 140 120 115 106 75 70 87 50 30 70 42 Totals are I( SPRING 255* 341* 197* 196 230 197* 190* 194 190 170 173 158 138 138 112 163 130 147 130 105 128 118 100 62 45 158 110 50 50 60 117 96 50 ‘ TOTAL 954* 836* 870* 735 733 707* 701* 694 679 648 598 598 558 558 539 534 514 505 489 461 455 429 429 418 367 348 345 337 335 327 316 267 228 220 191 167 150 50 highest possible. THREE TEAMS TOO MUCH Faculty Nine Loses to Students Despite a tremendous late game rally that netted two runs, the Faculty women fell victim to the combined talents of three student co-ed ball clubs Wednesday on Ger linger field, 7-4. An apparent cause of the defeat was that the faculty nine was just worn out by the trio of girls’ teams which each played one inning. The older club had to go the entire three innings without relief. Mixes ’Em Up Faculty pitcher Shirley Cox, P.E. instructor, hurled a masterful ball game, completely baffling the stu dent hitters with a variety of fast, slow-fast, medium, fast-slow, anc slow ball pitching. Her curve, uf and down, was also working tc perfection. The losers threatened to pro test the contest in the second in ning, after going behind, 6-2, when the second student throw er, Norma Munie of the Lone Swatter nine, substituted a sponge ball for the regular horse hide. However, the impartial arbitra tor, Counselor of Men A. L. El lingson, overruled the protest. (Be fore the game began, Ump Elling son banned all soda pop, sold ir bottles, from the field.) No “Coming Home Late” Faculty member Golda Wickham ruled her squad with an iron hand. She didn't tolerate poor excuses, such as “being stranded on the bases,” whenever her girls “came home late.” The game almost broke up in the last inning when the students, feaTTng a last minute faculty come back, assembled all three of their teams on the field. Against 21 fielders and three pitchers, the Faculty batting attack folded, with the last batter hitting into a double play.