Ducks Win Two, Drop Three
On California Baseball Tour
By Buzz Nalton
Emerald AttitUnl Sport* Editor
Hie Hi.rain of five gurries In
Ml* day* proved too much for the
Oregon pitching staff ua the
Ducks dropped the last three
games of the California tour.
Coach Don Klrttch'a club opened
the season with a 3-0 win over
Stanford Monday, March 21, and
scored a 7-4 triumph the next
day. They then lost a pair to
Kan Jose State, 7-3 and 5-2 on
Wednettday and F'rtday and were
outslugged by California 11-5 in
a Saturday encounter.
Portland Here
The Webfoota continue the sea
aon this Thursday with their
home opener against the Port
land university Pilots. The Ducks
play at Willamette Friday and
tackle Lewis and Clark In a
doubleheader at Portland Satur
day.
In the first Stanford game,
BUI Blodgett and Bill Garner
stopped the Cards with six
scattered hits while their
mates pounded three Stanford
hurlers for single runs In the
second, fifth and eighth In
nings.
In the second Pete Williams
got on via the error route and
tallied on a long single by Neal
Marlett. George Shaw singled in
the fifth, stole second, and scored
on Bob Wagner’s one-baser. The
final run came on Marietta
double and Jerry Boss's single.
Shaw. w»th a triple and single,
and Marlett. with a double and a
Single, were the hitting stars.
Hchlossteln Swats
The Ducks took the Tuesday
game 7-4 on the strength of a
homer and two singles by Junior
First baseman Dick Schlosstein.
The 380-foot circuit clout was
only the 33d ever hit in Stan
ford's sunken diamond.
Kv MtUes and Terry Maddox,
two newcomers to the Oregon
pitching staff, combined to lim
it Stanford to four runs despite
II hit*, four walks, and four
errors.
Norm Forbes, Northern Divi
sion’s leading sticker in 1954,
rapped out three-for-four and
Shaw added a pair of singles.
Shortstop John Keller was hit
in the head by a pitched ball in
the eighth inning and taken to
Palo Alto hospital. He suffered
only a bad bruise, however, and
was In the lineup again the next
day.
Hattie of Homers
The first San Jose State game
was a battle of home runs. Shaw
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GEORGE SHAW
Pace* Duck Hitting
and Williams homered for Ore
gon and Chuck Reynolds and
Jerry Clifford cleaned the bases
for the Sparta.
Shaw's homer came in the
first with Keller on first via a
single. Williams hit a solo
homer in the fourth. Han Jose's
big blow was Clifford's three
run homer In the third. The
Spartans rocked Forbes, Ore
gon's star htirler, for five runs
in three frames.
Clifford hit two more four
maatera Friday aa Oregon lost
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SETS THE PACE IN SPORTS
i again 5-2. Oregon hit Spartan
: right-hander Bill Kline for 13
! single*, but could produce only
I two runs. Jim Johnson and Keller
I each hit three-for-four for the
Ducks.
Webfoot pitching was hit the
hardest in the 11-5 Saturday loss
to Cal. The Bears counted 11
runs on 13 hits off the efforts
of Garner and Maddox. Williams,
normally an infielder, took the
mound for the second time on
the tour, and set Cal down one
1 tw'o-three in the eighth.
Averill Leads Attack
Bernie Averill slashed out
i three singles to pace the Duck
1 attack. Shaw, who hit nearly .500
for the trip, slugged a triple.
Linescores:
R H K
Oregon 010 010 010 ) 10 3
Stanford 000 000 000 -0 6 5
Blodgett. (r4fner 6 and Marlett; Verdur
man. Brown 7, Jone* 9 and Swartz. Mur
phy 9.
K H F.
Oregon 002 020 111 7 8 4
Stanford 000 010 021—* 11 5
Stiles. Maddux 4 and Marlett; Payne,
Young 6, liuncan 9, and Swartz.
K 11 F
Oregon .200 100 000 3 9 2
San Jine State 023 200 OOx—7 8 1
For!rev Holt 4. William* 7 and Marlett,
Bowen 8; UicV and Clifford.
R H E
Oregon 010 000 001 2 13 0
San Jo*e State 302 000 OOx 5 10 1
Bl-elgrtt. I.undrfl 7. and Marlett; Kline.
Ilick 9. and Clifford.
R H E
Oregon 200 003 000 5 7 3
California 046 000 1 Ox 11 13 1
Catner. Maddox 3, William* 8, and Mar*
lett. Bowen. ). (laggero and Kalamara*.
Cindermen Outrace
Willamette in Opener
By Jerry Claussen
Emerald Co-Sport* Editor
Several good early season per
formances highlighted Oregon's
1955 track squad debut here Sat
urday as Coach Bill Bowerman’s
cindermen romped to an easy
96 2/3-20 1/3 victory over Wil
lamette university.
The meet was run for practice
purposes and races were run at
three-fourths the normal dis
tances. It was a warmup for both
teams in preparation for the
Willamette Relays at Salem next
Saturday and both Bower-men
and Willamette Coach Ted Og
dahl were pleased with the per
formances of their top men.
Leading the Duck victory
was sprinter Bruce Spriagbett,
stocky speedster recently re
turned from the Pan-American
games where he was a member
of the Canadian team. Spring- j
bett was the only twin-winner
of the day as he flashed to vic
tories in both the 75-yard and
160-yard dashes. He ended his
day’s work by anchoring the
winning Oregon 880-yard relay
team.
The Webfoot win was costly j
in one respect, however, as Doug:
Clement, top middle distance vet
eran. pulled a muscle in his right
leg while running in the 660-yard
run and may be lost to the squad
for three weeks.
Besides Hartman, the only j
other first place for Willamette
was grabbed by ace hurdler Dean
Benson. He turned in a time of
11.1 in the 90-yard high hurdles
despite knocking over two bar
riers. Oregon’s Bill Sorsby reg
istered an upset in the low
hurdles, however, as he nipped
the big Bearcat star by a yard.
Oregon got another fine per
formance from Jim Bailey, the
Australian 880-yard champion
and top-notch miler. The long
striding sophomore made good
in his first college race by
beating both defending NCAA
mile champion Bill Dellinger
and veteran Ken Reiser in the
mile run with an extra
burst of speed in the final 220
yards. His time was 3:07.4.
In the field events the Ducks
also held a big edge as two fine
performances were included in
the six victories there. Ed Bing
ham, Medford sophomore, tossed
the javelin 199’, 9*6” for one of
the best spear throws in several
years by an Oregon man. Senior
Ben Lloyd won the shot put with
the best to3s of his career, 47’,
11”.
Other winners for the Oregon
team were Gordon Dahlquist,
who beat Sorsby by a whisker in
the 330-yard run, Terry Sullivan
in the high jump, Russ Mannex
and Bob Reed, who tied in the
pole vault, Martin Pedigo in the
broad jump and Walt Badorek
in the discus.
Borcher Calls Varsity
To Meet Wednesday
Varsity basketball members
are to meet at the Athletic office
Wednesday, March 30, at 5 p.m.
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