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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1954)
George Shaw's .419 Mark Paces Webfoot Bat Parade i enter - fielder George Shaw oont inucs la lend the Oregon . Duck* In but tin* through 10 games with a batting average of • .4 10. Shaw has hit safely on IS of hie 43 Ilmen at hat. Second place among the regular* . is held by catcher Neal Marlctt Ducklings Play McChord Today The Oregon Froah baseball team will play its seventh game of the reason Thureday afternoon on the Froah dtamond when they host the McChord Air Force base in a 3 o'clock gamr. The Ducklings, who have lost . only to Oregon State In games to date, will have a tough time if . they are to defeat the McChord squad. The airmen have several * ex-<ollegians in their ranks and . will offer the Ducklings some top notch competition. Terry Maddox, who has been the standout pitcher for the Frosh thus far, will probably start cn the mound for Hay Coley’s nine. Jim Lchi. the stocky southpaw flinger. will be ready in case Maddox tuns into trouble. SPORTS FARE Thursday, April 29, IBM SOFTBALL 3 30, North field, Alpha Tau Omega vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon. 3.30. South field, Pi Kappa Al pha vs Theta Chi. 3:5o, Upper field, Sigma Chi vs. Phi Kappa Psi. 4 5.3. North field, Chi Psi vs. Kappa Sigma. 4 35, South field, Beta Theta Pi vs. Sigma Nu, 4:55. Upper field, Phi Delta Theta vs. Lambda Chi Alpha. .. .. NORTHERN 1)1 VISION OSfl OREGON Washington W l. 0 0 4 2 l; t on 5 jj Washington State 3 .1 .375 With 13 safeties in 38 tries or an average of .381. Dirk Schlossteln ia in third place with a mark of .348. Shaw has Included amongst his blows four home run*, a triple and two doubles. His homer total ia a best for the Ducks. S( hlos-tein with three doubles to his credit holds the top spot in this department, followed by Shaw and Dob Wagner v/ith two each. Schlossteln is also second In home runs with two four-ply swats. Four Ducks have connected for three base hits and are currently tied for the top mark in thisj Mage of the game. Shaw, John 1 Keller, Jerry lioss and Jim John-] Idaho « 8 .000 Win arc the men who have connec ted for triples. .'-'haw Is tops in both runs scored and total hits with 14 and 18 re spectively. Marlett is the second best, run producer with nine and Schlosstein is second in hits with IB. As a team Don Kirsch's crew has pounded out 113 blows in 394 times at bat for a team batting average of .287. The team has 11 doubles, four triples and nine homers to its credit. Hcattle .Next The Ducks, who have now won | four of six Northern Division I games, will take a rest from ND action this weekend v/hen they play two non-conference tussles. On Friday afternoon the Ducks host the strong Seattle university Chieftains and on Saturday the Webfoots play a game with the Oregon Alumni team which will be made up of several old Duck grads who were players during their stay at the University. Shaw Leads Batters Bill Garner George Shaw Neal Marlett Dick Schlosstein . Farrell Albright . Norm Forbes John Keller . Jerry Ross . Jim Johnson . Bob Wagner Gene Lewis ... Trenton lluls . Ron Phillips . Bill Blodget Pete Williams . Bernie Averill Don Hedgepeth . Larry Hibbard Duane Reeves „. AB R H 2B 3B HR 4 0 43 14 36 46 3 13 46 24 31 28 4 8 33 5 41 25 2 1 1 2 18 9 13 6 2 2 16 1 4 9 14 2 7 8 6 2 1 4 0 5 1 0 0 0 8 7 1 2 7 1 8 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Pet. .500 .419 .361 .348 .333 .308 .304 .292 .256 .2.50 .250 .250 .212 .200 .195 .160 .000 .000 .000 394 71 113 11 4 9 .287 Altman Chucks No-No As ATO Scores Win r>iulfi Bob Altman pitched a sparkling no-njn, no-hit game as hia Alpha Tan Omega teammates rolled to a hard-earned 3-0 win over Theta Chi in the feature IM softball game Wednesday after noon. Altman was invincible as he put! the clamps on the usually potent Theta Chi batters. He was seldom in trouble and had near perfect control during the entire game. In other action Sigma Chi rolled over Kappa Sigma 11-1, Susan Campbell downed Sherry Ross 11-: 4, Beta Theta Pi whipped Lambda Chi Alpha 10-4, Phi Kappa Sigma won over Sigma Alpha Epsilon 10-3 and Philadelphia House came1 out on the victorious side of the ledger with a forfeit win over Alpha hall. Phi Sigma Kappa put on'a game last inning rally to down the SAK s and cinch themselves a lea gue championship. Going into the final inning on the short end of the score, 3-1, they tallied nine markers to sew up the game. Thursday afternoon's intramur al schedule will feature make-up games. The softball contests which were rafned out on April 3 will be played. Make-up games will continue through most of next week and ihen the drawings will be made to see who plays who in the final softball tourney. SWIM Afternoons 2 to 6 Friday, Saturday, 8 Sunday Nights 7 to 10 Wed., Thurs., Frr., Sat. BENTON LANE NATATORIUM 4 mi No. of June* on City on Highway 99 West Ph. 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