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 . % 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 WHO ARE THE “TOP-FLITE” GOLFERS ON YOUR CAMPUS? r | If you’ve watched them on the course, you’ve probably thought: “Boy, If i could just get my game down like that!" Constant practice is the answer, of course, but getting the best from your equipment is just as important, too. That's where Spalding TOP-FL1TE * clubs have the edge. 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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. 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