Portland Dinner Ready to Honor Varsity Athletes The fifth annual Bill Baker award will be presented to the most valuable player on the 1955 Oregon basketball team when the Ducks are honored at the Portland Duck club banquet at the Congress hotel. The award, with which goes a watch and the winner's name on a permanent trophy, is de cided by a vote of the basketball squad members. The Webfoots met earlier in the week to de cide this year’s winner. Last year the award went to Barney Holland. all-Northern Division guard and assistant coach for the Webfoots during the 1955 season. The first award in 1951 went to Jack Keller with Kent Hunt and Chet Noe getting the 1952 and 1953 honors. Hoop Letters Given Meanwhile eight varsity and 12 freshman basketball letters for the 1955 season were an nounced by Athletic Director Leo Harris. Co-captains Jim Loscu toff and Howard Page, the only seniors on the squad, head a varsity list that glso- inclydes Juniors Ray Bell, Jerry Ross. Max Anderson and Gary Mc Manus plus Sophomores Ed Bing ham and Phil McHugh. It is the third varsity award for Page .who will receive an Oregon blanket as well as his third sweater. Bell. Anderson. Ross and Loseutoff got their sec ond letter while this was the first for Bingham. McHugh and Mc Manus. Jim Fraser and Jack Courtemanche received manag er’s awards. Included in the list for awards for Coach Don Kirsch’s freshman team are Hal'Duffy. Dave Wan aka. Bob Ay re. Don Delbon, Bob Faris, Roger Diddock, Wimp Hastings. Martin Swan. Paul Tuchardt. Wendy Rasar, Lowell Slick and Burt Williams. Charles Hall got a manager's award. Wrestlers Honored Wrestling awards were also announced for Coach Bill Ham mer’s varsity grapplers, who fin ished fourth on the coast. Includ ed were Dick Barker, Ken Kesey, Darrell Klampe, Dave Newland. Roy Schlesser, Charles Williams. Roland Wilson, John Woyat and Franz Niegemann. manager. Those to be given awards for Coach Vern Sterling’s freshman wrestling team include Ray Green, Jack Cooke, Jack Mc Brien, Howard Timmons, J. D. Griffith, Bob Rrynan, Don Dex ter, George Krupicka. Alvin Den ham, Jay Dearing and Tom Skiens, manager. Seven letters will be given for Coach John Borchardt’s swim ming team plus one to Gary Can non, manager. Varsity letters W'ill go to Captain Harry Fuller, Jim Englund, Jerry Froebe, Bob Hays, Howard "Hedinger, Phil Lewis and Yogi Matsushima. •a. ssv attention*. ,s*op hel\°cy°"en I you'll come bacK WAI DFR’S ASSOCIATED STATION 694 East 11th Ave. Willamette Game Rained Out; LC Set for Saturday Wet ground* has forced post* ponement of today's scheduled baseball game against Willam ette at Salem, A makeup game will be played as part of u doubleheader when Willamette plays here next Friday. The postponement was the second in as many days for Coach Don Klrsch’s club. Port land university had been sched uled for Howe field Thursday. A doubleheader against Lew is and Clark at Portland is still tentatively listed for Saturday. Track Coach Gets Different License The state of Oregon has made Oregon track Coach Bill Bower man feel like an old man. It seems that when Bowerman recently received a new set of license plates for his car. the new numbers read 4B-440. It was a change from the old license plates under a different numbering sys tem in which Bowerman’s plates were numbered 440-880 in honor of the distances he ran under the grand old man of Oregon track. Colonel Bill Hayward. Apparently the Secretary of State's office felt that Bower man was getting old and couldn't run the 880 any more, so it lim ited Oregon's track mentor to the quarter-mile. Halbrook, Sears, Gola On USF Opponent Five SAN FRANCISCO (API—Ken' Sears of Santa Clara and Tom ; Gola of LaSalle were the only! unanimous choices of the all-op ponent squad named by Univer sity of San Francisco NCAA bas ketball champions. The Dons made their selection j without regard to position. Their picks: First squad: Sears: Gola; Jim j Scott, West Texas State; Wade j Halbrook. Oregon State: Tom Salvino, Loyola of Los Angeles. Second squad: Ron Tomsic, Stanford; Bob McKean, Califor nia; Gary Bergen and Art Bunte, Utah; John Moore, UCLA. Sports Staff Desk Editor: Allen Johnson. Staff: Jerry Claussen, Chuck Mitchelmore, Buzz Nelson, Jack Wilson. Oregon has never won a bas ketball game from California, losing on all three tries. Oregon Trackmen Ready For Willamette Competition “irtunate Gordien, world rec ordholder in the discus; a sub 10 second 100-yard dash field, and a top-rated Oregon distance medley team will be the featured attractions in the collegiate di visions of the Willamette relays in Salem’s McCulloch stadium Saturday. Gordien, United States Olym pic team performer and ex-Min nesota standout, holds the discus mark with a throw of 194' 6”. Gary in Field Washington State’s Bob Gary tops the fast century dash field with a best time of 9.6. The Web foots' Bruce Springbett, fresh from the Pan-American games in Mexico, and Seattle Pacific’s Fights Slated For Tonight Six bouts will be on the pro gram tonight at McArthur court at the Lettermen's Fight Night program, .scheduled to begin at 8. Tag team wrestling and a box ing match between the Austral ian featherweight champion and an Oregon Golden Gloves star will be featured during the eve ning. Gil Durey, the Australian titleholder, will meet Jack Pus cas, popular young lightweight from Fugene and Northwest AAV champ, in the top bout on the card. This match is scheduled for four rounds. In the other three boxing matches, which will be at three rounds. Bob Williams will meet John Coefield in a welterweight bout, Larry Rose will go against George McKnight in a heavy weight clash and John Woyat and Carl-Ray Steen will fight in a light-heavyweight match. In wrestling, Don Dexter of the Frosh team will grapple with Don Biehn in a 160-pound clash. In the tag team match football Captain Lon Stlner and Harry Johnson will meet a pair of “Masked Marvels.” The wrestling matches will be conducted in three three-min ute rounds. Admission will be 50 cents and tickets will be available at the door, according to Bob Reid, Or der of the O president. Co-eds are especially invited, Reid stressed. Receipts will be used to finance the furnishing of. the new lettermen’s lounge in Mac court. TENNIS The Co-op Can Supply All of Your Needs For Tennis SPAULDING — WRIGHT and DITSON — WILSON — and DUNLOP BALLS SPAULDING — WRIGHT and DITSON — and MAGNAN RACKETS TENNIS SHOES — SWEAT SOX RACKET RESTRINGING UNIVERSITY "THE STUDENTS OWN 5TC Walt Hill have marks of 9.7, and Caley Cook of Lewis and Clark rounds out the top field with a 9.8. Cook is also an outstanding broad Jump performer and has a record jump of 24 feet to his credit. The favored Duck distance medley quartet will be shooting at the meet record of 10:24.1 held by a University of Washington team. Oregon runners will be Jim Bailey, Australian 88 0 champ; Gordon Dahlquist, a 50.5 quarter miler; Ken Reiser, Nor thern Division two mile winner, who will run the three-quarter, and Bill Dellinger, NCAA mile champion. Clement Injured * Originally slated for a position on the Webfoot medley, middle distance star Doug Clement probably will not see any action at all Saturday. Clement pulled a muscle in last weekend's meet with Willamette and has not yet fully recovered his form. He took a medium workout Thurs day and will undoubtedly la ready for competition against Lewis and Clark next week. Other top performers seeing action in Salem include Oregon State javelin standout, Jerry Church, expected to cop the Pa cific Coast conference title this year and many outstanding Ore gon and Washington high school track and field men. Approximately 2500 athletes from 22 colleges and 101 high schools will be divided into three Frosh-Cleveland Game Postponed The season-opening baseball game for the Oregon frosh has been moved up from today to next Saturday, allowing Coach Bob Basich to look over the 34 man team before cutting it to 25. Cleveland high will come to Eu gene for the games. The Duck lings worked out Thursday on a soggy field. classes high school, novice and senior. The novice division Is for college men who have not letter ed and the senior class Is for lettermen college varsity per formers. Frosh to Perform In addition to a full varsity entrance list from Oregon, the Froah will also be well repre sented The Duckling 440-Vard relay team includes Bob Rogers. Burt Williams, Karo Whitney and Jack Morris. Morris was a sprint and hurdle record setter while at Medford high school before entering the Air Force, and is slated to run in the open 100 yard dash. Whitney, holder of the Oregon high school pole vault mark at lS'ft", is one of the top entrants in the novice pole vault. Wcbfoot varsity competitors follows: Shut pul Jack Mup), itcu IA<>)(I. Wall lladmek Slid Jim June*. Dikii, KJ tliugham, fladnrek, IJoyd and Muad. Javelin Hum Mannex ami Bingham. Ilruail jump Martin I’edigo, I>un Me (.lure, Dorm Nullv.»n and Mamie*. tlmh jump Terry Sullivan, Bub Held, Ken llickettliutPim ami IVdigo. Pole vault Dave Nralami, Reid, nea ami Hickenbutlotn. inn yard deh Bruce Springl»clt aiui Hank Imumetia, Utah hurdle* Doug 11:,,ham. arm.yard rrta, Springtarlt, Dave Tailed, laiumena and Sundry. Splint medley Sor*l,y, (.minima, Cur> dun l)aht<|iii«l and l.rrny ( amplartl. Divtance medley Da)ili|ui*t, Jim Hailey, Ken Kei»er and Hill Dellinger M ilc relay Tailed, Daht