"Dude 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 ing in 1956. looks cooler — is cooler! Light but sturdy; cooler and drier, sweet and satisfying, 'AiUSTOMATIC' (patented screw bit) $2.95 DE LUXE (push bit) 95 INTERCHANGEABLE BOWLS: 950 each IMPORTED BRIAR _ S D 2 ft. S. HERBERT CO., Inc. 103 Lafayette Street, New York 13, N. Y. 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