By Bob Robinson
Emerald Sports Editor
Oregon’s crack miler. Bill Dellinger, did himself proud in last
Saturday’s PCC track and field meet at Seattle. Dellinger, only
a sophomore, showed his heals to the favored California and
t'SC runners and came home the winner of the r.ace in the
terrific time of 4:14.8.
Dellinger's finishing kick in the race left many spectators
limp in the stands from amazement. In fifth place and trailing
pacer Len Simpson of California by almost 50 yards going into
the final lap, competitive Bill opened up .all .the. stops and
v hipped around the oval with a 56 second last quarter to take
home all the marbles. Dellinger passed Simpson midway in the
home stretch and had a good five yard’Tead at the finish line.
Dellinger, who did his prep running at Springfield high
school, Was an unexpected winner of the race. Most experts
figured he would do no better than fourth in the four-lapper.
Another Santee?
The fine showing of Dellinger in the distance races this sea
son has furnished sports fans all over the state with some in
teresting conversation material. Many are-comparing Bill with
Ivansasjwnivers'ity's briHiaut miler. Wes Santee. Santee, when
only a sophomore, was running the mile in about 4:10 to 4:15
In almost ah of hr? faces.,Then in his final two years of school,
t»e cut his time down until now he is considered to be the sec
ond best miler in the world, being second only to Roger Ban
nister of England. ■ • ~
Dellinger lias a much different build than the gangly Santee,
i>eing short and stocky, hut. Bill has the same kind of undying
determination that lias made_Santee the terrific runner that he
is and tlusTmore than anything else, could he the key to Bill's
■future. There is no doubt in our mind that Dellinger will con
tinue to improve "by leaps and hounds in the next two seasons
and it is our belief that-both-the Northern Division and PCC
•nije records may go by the hoards next year or the season fol
lowing. We think that the galloping hooves "of Bill Dellinger
are a real threat to the standing marks.
Clement, Reiser Look Good
Two other Duck runners looked very good in the PCC meet.
Doug Clement in the 880 and Wayne Reiser in-the two-mile,
although neither won his race.,showed performances which can
lie nothing but complimented.
Clement ran the best half-mile of his career at Seattle and
/unshed only inches behind first place Bill Link CTf Washington
•kate. Clement ran the distance in just over 1 :53.
Reiser, running in one of the best two mile fields in PCC his
tory, also ran the top time of his career as he toured the eight
laps in 9:21, three seconds better than his w inning time in the
t\D meet one week earlier. Reiser finished fourth in the race
which was won by Washington’s .Denny Meyer in the recojrd
setting time of 9:09.1. ' - - •" -
Track mentor, Bill Bowerman, has announced that he intends
4o enter Dellinger, Clement.and Reiser in the coming NCAA
4»ack and field meet. This should give them ayvonderful oppor
tunity to show their abilities on a-national-basis. ~
What Happened to Southern Cal?
Biggest boner of the baseball season occurred last week,
when the-USC sports news director stated that the ’Trojans
were going to do all right at Omaha because they had five
fwtehers who could handle the chucking chores. Southern Cab
-which evidently had forgotten that they had to win the West
ern Regional tourney before they could makie thy Qtriaha tfip,
were sadly lacking in the hurling department in-the recently
completed regional.?. . T.
Only Ralph Pausig looked real sharp for the "Trojans who
won only one encounter while falling to Fresno State twice.
-£\ e wonder just what happened to those five brilliant chuckers
w ho were.snpposed to he so dependahle..„The. situation goes to
show how unpredictable baseball is and how.much of a mistake
»t is to be overconfident in the diamond snort.
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For the proud Trojans jk must have been quite a blow to bow
twice in succession to little Fresno State, which wasn’t sup
posed to have a chance against thy mighty men of Troy. The
USC team and a good share of the baseball fans who watched
-th'e game figured that the Trojans..had just had an off day
when they dropped their first tilt to the Bulldogs. But when
they took it on tire chin again Saturday from the same team,
it was rather obvious thatjjie first day win by Fresno l\ad been
mo fluke. - — - —“ ' . •
This makes the second time during this school year that
Southern Cal has travelled to Oregon floating on an imaginary
victory cloud and both times they hare been knocked to earth
with a jolting loss. The first occasion was last fall when Len
Casanova’s underdog Duck football tearh outlasted the Trojans,
*13-7, in a game at Multnomah stadium in Portland.
Powerful USC Takes PCC
Track Title with 70 Points
Three Marks Fall
In Conference Meet
i ...
Southern California’s mighty
Trojans won their 14th consecutive
Pacific Coast coinference track
and field title last Saturday after
noon, May 29, at Seattle with a
grand total of 70 points.
The California Bears finished
second with 49 markers and Stan
ford placed third with 35>i points,
i Washington State took fourth spot
with 16 and the Cougars were fol
• lowed by UCLA with 15, Oregon
with 13* = , Washington with 13,
Oregon State with seven and
! Idaho with six points.
During the meet three new con
ference records were set. Ernie
i Shelton of USC high jumped
6’9V’ to break the long standing
; record held by Les Steers of Ore
gon since 1941.
Meyer Gallops
Denny Meyer. Washington'9 ace
two-miler, ran his best race of the
'season and finished far in front
of the field in the brilliant time of
9:09.1. This time beat the old rec
ord held by Dixie Garner of Wash
j ington State by more than three
' seconds.
The other meet standard to fall
was in the javelin. Leo Long of
Stanford pitched the spear 235'
9 V to far outdistance the field in
this event. Long threw more than
20 feet farther than his nearest
competitor.
California gave the Trojans
Track Results
Mile run Dellinger (0), Sirpp
ison (Cal), Montgomery (USC),
I Clark CL), Matson (WSC). Time -
4:14.8,
440-yard dash—Lea (USC),
Garrett (St), Timmerman (Cal),
Lanabee (USC), Turner (Cal).
Time-—48,4.
100-yard dash—Graffio (USC),
Gary (WSC), Brownsberger (St),
Jackson (Cal), Wilder (USC).
Time—9.7.
120-yard high hurdlea—Tie be
tween Wood (St) and Wright
(USC), Dozier (Cal), Ball
(UCLA), Roselini (UCLA). Time
—14.3.
880-yard dash—Link (WSC),*
Clement (O), Spurrier (Cal), Tay~
lor (USC), Wilson (Cal). Time—
1:53.4.
220-yard low hurdles—Roselini
(UCLA), Plessas (Cal), Chambers
(OSC), Ledbetter (W), Ddzier
(Cal). Time—24.
Two-mile—Meyer (\V), Ledesma
'(CSC), Gourley (I), Reiser (O),
Hunt (UCLA). Time—9:09.1.
220-yard dash—Gary (WSC),
Wilger (USC), Lea (USC),
Brownsberger (St), Graffio
(.USC). Time—21.5.
JaveHir—Long (St), Church
(OSC); Bugge (St)rRlghter (Cal),
Kimball .' (Si), Dinstance—235’
■9%’*. ;
Pole vault—Anderson (Cal); tie
between Hecht (USC) and Levack
(USC); tie between Hilton (W),
Kell (UCLA) and Mitchell
(UCLA). Height—14’3”.
High, jump—Shelton (USC),
Faucett (O); tie between Findley
(USC), Jlles (St) and Stewart
(St). Height—6’9i/gM.
Shot put—Stellern (Cal), Butt
(Cal), Cheney (St), Wetter
(UCLA), Koch (USC). Distance—
53’IJ
Broad jump—Arnett (USC),
Skartvedt (W), Mattson (Cal),
Turner (Cal), Church (I). Dis
tance—24’6%”.
Discus—Koch (USC), Patterson
(USC), Butt (Cal), Smith (USC),
Wardlow (W). Distance—168’
11%".
Mile relay—S t a n f o r d, USC,
California, UCLA, WSC. Time—
3:15.5.
plenty of trouble early In the meet.
The bears showed Just as much
power in the running events as
Southern Cal could muster and
midway in the meet actually were
leading the men of Troy. But USC
took complete command of most
of the field events and soon left
California far behind.
USC Wins Five
USC won five of the fifteen
events on the program and picked
up many extra points on second,
third and fourth place finishes.
Some of the best races of the
day were the mile, 880, 440, high
hurdles and mile relay.
Oregon’s Bill Dellinger pulled a
big upset in the mile run when he
came from far behind in a field
of 11 to breast the tape first in
the excellent time of 4:14.8. Del
linger was in fifth place going into
the last lap but a tremendous fin
ishing kick brought him home
ahead of his nearest rivals. Len
Simpson of California and Martell
Montgomery of USC.
Clement I-ooks (iood
In the 880 Bill Link of Wash
ington State and Doug Clement of
the Ducks staged a great two man
dual which Link won by inches
in 1:33.4. Lon Spurrier of Call
Phi Delis Win
Mural Crown
Phi Delta Theta won the intra- ^
mural track trophy going away
with a flurry of spring term
| points which gave them a final
, total of 962 for the year.
The Phi Delts finished the year
. with a comfortable margin over
| their nearest competitors. Alpha
j Tau Omega and Hale Kane. It
marked the sixth time that the
Phi Delts have won the champion
ship trophy since the I M's first
season of action in 1934.
Bgth ATO and Hale Kane are
stffl battling frit the second place
Ispot in the final standings. Both
| houses have teams playing in the
; tennis tourney and because of this,
j neither of their point totals is
I completely compiled.
Campbell Club has sewed up
! fourth place with a total of 708
points and Theta Chi rounds out
tha first five with 692 counters. ^
fornla, who was favored to win.
finlHhed third.
Jim Lea, defending NCAA king,
had to give all he had to beat Walt
Garrett of Stanford and Don Tim
merman of the Bearn in hla apc
cialty. Lea's time was 48.4 aec
onds.
The 120 yard high hurdles
turned out to be the clonest race
of the day. Gerry Wood of Stan
ford and Will Wright of USC ran
aide by aide for the full diatance
and finished In a dead heat In the
time of 14.3 aeconda.
In the mile relay the biggest
surprise of the day occurred when
Southern Cal's highly favored
team went down to defeat at the
hands of a determined Stanford
quartet.
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