Oregon’s “liquid sunshine” lias so far prevented the Duck ling baseball team from opening their season, but. on the strength of drills atid intrasquad competition. Coach Hob Hasich has been able to pick a 23-man squad and form some opinions on its strength and weaknesses. Running down the lineup, here is how the Duckling team shapes up. Catcher—Can’t see any problem here. Ron Dodge, a Washington all-stater from Olympia, looks sound defen sively and is no slouch at the plate. Dodge stands 6’ 1", weighs 170 and is one of five Ducklings who throw right and bat left. He'll probably get the nod to start when and if the Frosh get to open their season. Backing him up is Jerry McCabe. ex-Eugene high performer, and John Eskild sen, from Portland’s Lincoln high, who is also a top-notch first base prospect. Pitcher—Here’s the big worry for Coach Masich. W ith only three first-class starters, he’ll have to count on improvement from John McCall and Jim Sittser and may resort to drafting some of his overabundant infield talent for mound duty. Big three for the Frosh are southpaw Don Lane from San Lorenzo. Calif.; Don Delbon, another Californian, and Ron Whittaker, a Salem and Eugene product. McCall tossed for LaCenter. Wash., last vear, and Sittser hails from Harrisburg. Don Hack may see action both as a pitcher and an outfielder. First Base Strong First base—A little shallow, but by no means weak. Dave Wanaka’s big bat helped Roosevelt last spring and should produce plenty of base hits for the Ducklings. ITis .411 average was one of the best in the city, and his hitting and glove work got him all-state honors at the Albany tournament. Fskildsen is right behind Wanaka for the first-sack spot, with a definite chance of earning a starting position. Second base—Very strong here. Wimp Hastings current ly has the edge over Terry (Turk) Burke and Dick Jarvis, but these two may find spots elsewhere on the squad. Hast ings, the driving little basketball guard, is very quick, both on the field and at bat. Burke is another ex-Lincoln Card, and Jarvis was all-state at Auburn, Wash. Shortstop—Battle still undecided between Baker's Jim Pifher and Grant’s Jim White. Pifher, an all-around athlete for the Bulldogs, is barely ahead of White, who was picked all-city on his .368. average with the city champs. Both boys are good fielders, both dangerous at the plate. Third Base Deep Third base—Bob Cellers and Clark Miller are fighting it out, with Dale Dickey a good replacement. Cellers at 23 is the oldest player on the squad—he spent four years in the army after playing shortstop and outfield at Drain. He also throws right and bats left. Miller and Dickey are both F.ugene high products. Outfield—Five fly-chasers are looking good. Gerry Wald rop from Cascade Union high has the strongest arm of the bunch. Ron Creps from Banks is another throw-right-bat left man, and LeRoy Phelph, a hard-running halfback for the Frosh gridders, is a switch-hitter. Red-headed George Simpson played all positions at Burlingame, Cal,, but was chosen all-league for his .400-plus stick work as an outfielder. Jerry Urness, also looking good, played last year for The Dalles. Drills this week will concentrate on infield work, and Basich will attempt to schedule games with Eugene high and the varsity “B’s.” Phil McHugh Granted Memorial Scholarship A scholarship awarded last week to Phil McHugh, sophomore basketball guard and football end, is the first of the annual Dean Walker Memorial scholar ships established by members of Oregon’s basketball team of 1919, It was created by the surviving members of that coast champion ship team in honor of the late Dean Walker, coach of the team. Walker later became active in alumni and political work before his death last year. The award was given to Mc Hugh on the basis of his excel lence in athletics and scholarship and is renewable. The ex-Cen tral Catholic star w^s one of three letterrnan ends last fall as well as a regular on the basket ball team and has maintained over a B average for five terms at Oregon. Oregon Cindermen Winners Over Two in Portland Meet By Jerry Claussen (mifild Co-Sports Editor The Oregon Ducks lived up to their name Saturday at Griswold stadium in Portland as the Web foot track squad paddled their way through cloudy weather and a wet field to an easy win over Lewis and Clark and Seattle Pa cific. Coach Bill Bowerman's strong team showed depth in every event as it took firsts in 13 out of the 15 events and third for another. The Ducks amassed 100'» points while Seattle Pacific finished far back with 31 1/3 and L-C trailed with 30 1 6. Kain came down In torrents and virtually flooded the field on L-Oi Palatine hill the morn ing of the meet and let up only shortly before the running events began. Wuter stood on the track in some places but the track Itself stayed fairly solid. The Ducks didn't let the water stop them, however, as they broke four stadium records in chalking up the victory. Nearly every en try won points for the defending Northern Division titlists. The winning Oregon team had two double winners in Bill Sorsby and Bruce Sprir.gbett. The latter gave his best effort of the sea son to win the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat and then took the 220 in 22.3. The versatile Sorsby took the 440 in 51.3 and nabbed the low hurdles in 25.3 over the heavy track. BowermanN experiment* in the distance events paid off as •lint Bailey, 880 ace, and Bill Dellinger, NCAA mile champ, broke two of the four records for the day in the mile and two mile, respectively. Bailey used his long stride to good advantage as the Australian sophomore recorded a 4:24.8 mile to break the old stadium mark by half a second. Dellinger had an easy time as he lapped the field to win the two-mile in 9:21.7, 2712 seconds under the old stand ard. The other stadium records were ; set by Gordon Dahlquist in the 880 and Walt Badorek in the dis j cus. Dahlquist ran the half-mile in 1:58 to top the old mark of 1:59.4 while Badorek’s top heave of the season, 142Tl1i”, was enough to beat the old record by eight inches. The Webfoot’s picked up plenty of help from sophomores as four first-year men took firsts for Oregon. Ed Bingham was first in the Javelin, Jack Moad took the shot put, Doug Basham won the high hurdles with his best time of the sea son, 15,2, and Martin Pedigo took a first in the broad jump for the third week in a row. The other first-place winner for Oregon was Russ Mannex in the pole vault. A tie for first came in the high jump where Ducks Ken Hickenbottom and Donn Sullivan tied with L-C’s Dave Jeans at the S'i-foot mark. Only event in which the Web foots failed to finish in the money was the mile relay. Both Seattle Pacific and Lewis and Clark nosed out the Oregon team in a close race as SP's Chuck Byers overtook Oregon’s Hank Lou mena and L-C’s Pete Hopkins on the last lap. Ken Reiser, whose former stadium two-mile record was broken by Dellinger, was kept out of his scheduled 880-yard run by an attack of flu. He should be ready for next week’s conference opener with Idaho, however. # Results: Mile run 1. Jim Bailey (O), 2. Ron Oliler (SR). 3. Henry Kilmer (L(’), 4. Dave Isliii (SR). Time: 4:24.K. 440-yard dash 1. Bill •Sorsby (O), 2. Chuck livers (SR), 3. Arden Christensen (O), 4. John Eagle (LC). Time: 51.3. loo-yard oath I Bruce Sprutghrtt (in. Tmir : 10 0 120 yard high hurdle* 1. Doug (()), 2. (latence Duke < I.C*h» 3. Don Ward (1.0. 4 Hav Miller (SIM Ttmrj 15.2. 880-yard run I. Gordon Dahh|ui*t (O), 2. I)cnn> Palmer (SIM. Doth* Clement ((.)), 4. Don Uhlcr (SP). Time: 1:58.0. Shot-put 1. Jack Moad (O), 2 Men Lloyd (CM. 3. John Martin (1.0, 4. Walt Madorek (O). Dhtancf: 47’ 2". 230-yard da«h 1 Bruce Springbett (O), 2. Walt Hill (SIM, 3 Hank l.oumeua (O), 4. Hoy Duncan (SP). Time: 22.3. Javelin 1 Ed Bingham (CM, 2. Kttaa Mannex (Ol. J. Joe Itoulin (1.0, 4. Yet ly Iverson (SP). Distance: 187', 3tyM, Pole vault 1 Hu** Mannex (Cl), 2. (t) Dave New land. Boh Held and Ken llicken Itottom (O). Height 12’ h". Two mile tun k Mill Dellinger CO), 2. Ken Cooke (1.0. 3 Dirrow Johnson (SP). 4. Dave Dim (SIM. Time; 9:21.7. High jump 1. (t) Dave Jean* (LC), Terry Sullivan (CM and ken llickenliottom (O). 4. (t) Bob Chu»do ( L( i. Don White head (LO and Bill Hitter (SP). Height: 5* 6”. Discus 1. Walt Badorek (()», 2. Men l.lovd (O), 3. Loren Michelaon (1.1*), 4. Jtiltn Martin (LC). Distance 14;' 11' * 220-yard low hurdle* 1. Bill Soeaby (O), 2. Caley Cook (LC). 3 Doug Basham (O), 4. Gordon Fee (SIM. Time: 25.3. Ilrnail jump I. Martin I'.ilimi (Mi, .* Into ( i«tk (l.C I, ). II..I, (twain