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By Jack Wilson
■■MaMnaOTMMaMi Emerjld Sports Writor ■■
The spring sports season is young around the Northwest
with rain making it even shorter but some members of Ore
gon's track team have already turned in notable performances
that have brought national rankings. Last Saturday's meet at
Portland produced the latest nationally-ranked job turned
in by a Duck cinderman.
The top performance aSturday was by Bill Dellinger in
the two-mile run, his former specialty before he became the
top collegiate miler last year. His time of 9:21.7 would be
good on a dry track but was hardly short of sensational run
ning in ankle-deep water on much of the otherwise firm
track at Lewis and Clark’s Griswold stadium.
Not onlv was the fleet-footed junior’s time only .7 of a sec
ond off the school record set by Ken Reiser last year but it
also gave the defending NCAA mile champ the third best time
in the country so far this spring in the eight-lap run. Many
people have always felt that Dellinger had greater potential
as a two-miler than in the mile and with Jim Bailey around.
Duck Coach Rill Bowerman may concentrate Dellinger on
the longer distance this year.
Twelve Seconds Away
Although he set a hot pace that is by far the top time in the
Northwest. Dellinger still was 12 seconds away from the best
two-mile time in the country this spring. Bjorn Bogured, Nor-,
wegian exchange student at Oklahoma A. 8c M.. is tops so far
with 9:09.7. Fernando Ledesma of Southern California has
the second best time, 9:20.6. The NCAA record is 9:01.9, set by
Don McEwen of Michigan State in 1950.
Dellinger isn’t the only Oregon trackman to be high in
national ranking so far. Sopliomore javelin-thrower Ed
Bingham gave the spear a heave of 199-feet plus in the first
meet of the season three weeks ago which has stood up as
the 10th best throw in the country so far, not counting last
weekend's meets.
Bingham hasn’t thrown the javelin that far since his first j
try against Willamette, although the Medford star has taken
first in his event every week. The leader so far in this event is j
Lynn Green of San Jose State with a toss of 231 feet, farther
than the NCAA meet record of 228’ 8%” set by California’s
George Roseme in 1952.
Brown Holds Mark
The Oregon record in the javelin is also ahead of the NCAA
meet record. Boyd Brown of the 1940 Oregon track team threw
the spear 234’ 1 V->" to set an all-time Duck mark. Il,e also set a
Hayward field record in 1939 with a heave of 231’ *4” and set
the Northern Division standard of 223’ 6” in the conference
meet in 1940.
The only NCAA record held by an Oregon man is in the
high jump in which the incomparable Les Steers still holds
the top mark with his 6’ 11” leap in 1941. Steers’ NCAA rec
ord is shy of his Oregon school mark by of an inch while
his Hayward field record is 6’ 10%”.
Oregon’s distance medley team of Dellinger, Bailey, Reiser
and Gordon Dahlquist ran only once this season but their time
of 10:17.5 for the 2^>-mile distance is the sixth best in the coun
try so far. This is surprisingly good considering the weather
the Ducks had to run in.
Cal Schools Lead
Although Oregon's team shapes up pretty well nationally,
the Ducks hardly stack up any better on the Coast than they
do against the whole country. As usual, the California schools,
with USC leading the way, are dominating track.
Marks recorded through April 3 show that the Coast has
four out of the top six two-milers and five out of six of the
country’s top milers. Incidentally, UCLA’s Bob Seaman
has the top mile time in the country so far, 4:10.7. Both
Bailey and Dellinger are capable of beating this, but so are
several others in the country.
Other marks this season show that the Coast boasts 10 out
of the nation’s top 12 javelin throwers, all top seven discus
throwers, five out of seven broad-jumpers and1 three out of five
high-jumpers and eight out of 10 shot-putters. If the North
west could get better cooperation from the weatherman, the
five ND schools could probably get a big chunk of these.
High Schoolers
Prep for Relays
This Weekend
Nearly 1000 high school track
men representing more than 70
teams will invade Hayward field
Friday and Saturday for partici
pation in the four divisions of
the 18th annual Hayward relays.
Class C and B competition, for
schools less than 200 and from
200 to 450 students respectively,
is slated to begin at 12:30 p.m.
Friday. Class A and Metropolitan
action for the larger schools
will get under way at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday with field action.
The Eugene Active club cinder
counterpart to its state basket
ball carnival is scheduled to un
dergo a few changes to make
more nearly identical competi
tion in all classes.
Action in the C division will
include five relay and individual
events: class B runners are to
vie in six relay and four single
events, and the two larger divi
sions are to try nine relay and
three individual contests.
Expected to give tough com
petition to Medford, perennial
Metro winner, are Grant, recent
winner of the Portland Inter
scholastic relays; Grants Pass,
another strong Rogue valley club,
and Roseburg, usually a deep
track school.
Marshfield in class A and Es
tacada in B competition are oth
er returning champions.
Trojans Report
For Spring Prax
LOS ANGELES (AP>- Spring
came to USC's Bovard field Mon
day. Eighty-three aspirants for
the Trojans' 1955 football team
thundered onto the turf in lieu
of the first robin.
The temperature for the open
ing of spring practice matched
the squad. It was 83 degrees as
Coach Jess Hill shaped up his
No. 1 backfield: quarterback
Frank Hall, fullback Gordon Du
vall, left half Fred Pierce and
right half Ron Brown.
Jon Arnett, who rates ahead
of Pierce for the left half spot,
can’t practice because he’s
broadjumping with the Trojan
track team. He’ll be No. 1 when
fall comes.
It may be the last spring prac
tice. As rules now stand, spring
sessions will be abolished start
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Teams Post
IM Triumphs
Because of wet grounds, only
three Intramural softball games
were played Monday afternoon,
with Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta
and Sigma Nil posting victories.
Both the Theta Chi-Sigma rhi j
Kpsilon and Phi Gamma Delta
Olympic Site
Not Certain
MELBOURNE <APi Mel
bourne newspapers today gave
wide play to Avery Brundage's
blast on Melbourne's lagging
Olympic construction, and a lead
ing columnist called for the resig
nation of the head man of the
city’s Olympic Games commit
tee.
In a front page story In The
Melbourne Argus, columnist Ken
Moses charged that Wilfred Se|
wyn Kent-Hughes, chairman of
the Olympic Games organizing
committee, had "snubbed” the
president of the International
Olympic committee and "must
resign not tomorrow, but to
day."
While all the Melbourne morn
ing papers were spreading the
details of Brundage's interview
Monday, the American softened
his tone somewhat in Canberra
last night before meeting with
Australian Prime Minister Rob
ert G. Menzies.
Although he still expressed dis
appointment over what he called
the limited amount of work actu
ally completed for the 1»56
games, Brundage said he did not
think he would have to recom
mend taking the games away
from Melbourne.
In his farewell news confer
ence in Melbourne Monday fol
lowing a stx-day inspection tour
of Olympic sites in the city, the
Chicago hotel owner declared he
was “not happy” over the prog
ress made and warned Austral
ians they still are in danger of
losing the prize plum of world
sports.
Lambda Chi Alpha contests wore
postponed, and Hunter hall was
awarded a forfeit win over Nes
tor.
Nick Markulls of Sigma Nu
turned In the top pitching Job
of the day, twirling a no-hlt mas
terpiece. as his team topped Phi
Kappa Psi 7-0. Ed Keegan
home red for the victors, and
Markulls added a triple as Sig
ma Nu won Its second straight.
Sigma Chi came up with seven
runs in the fourth Inning to
down Beta Theta PI 7-4. Pitcher
Wally Russell of the Betas had
kept Sigma Chi well in check
until the fatal fourth.
The longest hit of the game
was a triple by Chuck Kay of
Beta Theta Pi.
Phi Delta Theta dumped Alpha
Tau Omega 14-0 behind Ted Lar
sen's one-hit pitching. It was
the second win in a row for the
Phi Dells, as well as for Sigma
Nu and Slgtnn Chi.
Phi Delta Theta Jumped off to
an 8-0 lead in the first inning
and coasted home as Larsen
baffled the ATO's. Jim Briles
helped I-arsen along with a home
run.
The losses were the first for
both Phi Kappa Pal and ATO and
the second for Beta Theta Pi.
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