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By Allen Johnson
Emerald Sports Writer ■■
Although only a sophomore in track competition at Oregon
Australian exchange student Jim Bailey has quite a Backlog
of experience in his lengthy career on the cinders. This in
cludes the 1954 880-yard run championship of Australia.
Bailey toured the half-mile last year ia 1 J3.2 to take the
Aussie title. This compares with his 1:56 against Idaho on a
rain-soaked track last weekend. His best time in the two
lap race was achieved in 1953, when he stepped the distance
in 1:52.8.
In Australia, one meet per year is the limit for prep schools
so Bailey participated also for an athletic club in the 19-year
old class (he’s now 25). As a prepper, he ran at a fairly slow
pace, with a 2:11 88-yard time and a 5 :10 clocking in the mile.
But he lowered the>e substantially as an athletic club star by
going the half mile in 2 :02 and the mile in 4:39.
Second to Landy Five Times
Bailey tied for the Australian 880-yard crown in 1948-49
(they run during our winter) with 1 :54.7 and took the title
alone in the succeeding season. For the following two years,
Bailey did field work as an apprentice surveyor and toured
Europe non-competitivelv. But 1952-53 saw him get back into
the swing by running the mile in 4:12 and the half in 1 :52.8.
Last season, Bailey ran second to world record holder
John Landy five straight times in Australian races. His best
mile time was 4:12.6, as compared to Bill Dellinger’s best of
4:10.6 last spring.
In Vancouver for the British Empire games as a lialf-miler
last summer, Bailey won his first qualifying heat, but broke a
bone in his right foot before getting to the final trials. He
stayed in the States following the Games, and moved in at
Oregon.
Bailey Adds Depth
Bailey is expected to add great depth to the Oregon track
team in these tw o distance events. He has already beaten both
Dellinger and Ken Reiser in a three-quarter-mile race in an
early practice meet but is not likely to face these two again in
the same race.
The hope for Bailey is that he can team with Doug Cle
ment for the half-mile and possibly with Dellinger in the
mile run. Bowerman has hopes that Dellinger can lower his
mile time below 4:10 this season with Bailey in the same
race and running at virtually the same pace.
Already reports have come from California about two “un
known" performers reaching fast times in the mile and two
mile runs. A 4:10 clocking has been reached by Bob Seaman of
UCLA, and a USC two-miler has paced that distance in 9:11.
It should be quite a meet when the Coast conference event is
held at Hayward field May 27-28.
Latest Oregon track record to fall was the two-mile standard,
but it was just lo'wered a second by Ken Reiser, who held the
old mark. He shaved the record to 9:20 in the Idaho meet last
weeeknd. Dellinger also came in about the same time in the
Lew is and Clark-Seattle Pacific meet in Portland three weeks
ago.
Dodgers Tie Record
With Nine Straight
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brooklyn’s Dodgers tied the
modern major league record of
winning nine straight games at
the start of a season in a come
from-behind 3-2 victory over
the Philadelphia Phillies at Eb
bets Field Wednesday night.
Steve Ridzik, who no-hit the
Brooks for five innings, tried
badly in the seventh and forced
in the first Dodger run by walk
ing Duke Snider with the bases
loaded. Rookie Lynn Lovehguth
replaced Ridzik at that point and
was promptly greeted by Gil
Hodges' two-run single that gave
Brooklyn the two runs they
needed.
This is the second time the
Dodgers have won nine straight
at season's start. The 1940 club
did it to tie the record set by
the New York Giants in 1918.
The late St. Louis Browns were
the only other club to turn the
trick, doing it in 1944 when they
won their lone American league
pennant.
In other National league ac
tion, the St. Louis Cardinals beat
Cincinnati 3-0 in a night game
and Milkaukee out-clubbed the
Chicago Cubs 9-5 in an afternoon
contest. New York’9 game at
Pittsburgh was called because
of rain after three innings with
the winless Pirates leading 3-0.
Only two American league
games were played. Baltimore
won its first of the season, after
six defeats, by topping the New
York Yankees 6-3 in a day game
•at Yankee stadium. And Willard
Nixon blanked Washington fot
league leading Boston 1-0 in a
night game. Rain postponed Chi
cago’s game at Detroit.
Brooklyn was in a spot against
Ridzik, just a so-so righthander
and had but one hit until the
seventh. They wound up with
three hits as Thorn Kipper re
placed Lovenguth. Billy Loes
was the Brooklyn starter and
W'inner, giving way to the Dodg
ers’ first pinch-hitter of the sea
son in the seveuth.
Divoters Ready
For California
Tourney Today
A young but potent University
of Oregon golf team prepared
Wednesday for the Northern Cal
ifornia intercollegiate tourna
ment. coming up today through
Saturday on the Pasatiempo golf
course in Santa Cruz.
The Webfoot squad, composed
of one freshman, three sopho
mores and two seniors, scheduled
practice rounds for Wednesday in
preparation for the three-day
test.
Conch Sid Milligan's sixsome,
i which Includes Captain Neil
Dwyer. Bob Takano, Barry Ott,
Bob Norquist. Don Bick and Bob
Prall, left for California early
Tuesday. They will reutrn to Eu
gene on Sunday.
Last year. Oregon's divoters
tied for second place with the
Stanford university freshman
team in the same tourney, which
was easily won by Stanford’s
powerful varsity crew.
The team title will be deter
mined by the individual per
formances in match play. At
least 26 colleges from the North
west and California are entered
in the tourney.
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Jack Wilson.
Staff: A1 Johnson. Buzz Nel
son. Doug May, Jerry Claussen.
Duckling Action
Due Tomorrow
Freshman teams will try to
take the field In three sports Fri
day, with the weatherman their
main opponent, as usual.
Bob Basich’s Duckling base
bailers are scheduled to take on
; Tongue Point Naval Station at 3
: on Howe field; the tracksters of
Coach Bob McCollum will travel
- to Corvallis to meet the Rooks
at 4. and John McKay's golfers
open their season with a three
way meet against OSC's year*
; lings and Eugene high.
The Frosh diamondmen have
had three openers washed out
alreudy this spring, and pros
pects don't look good thut their
fourth try will he any more
successful. Don I-ane, San I-o
renzo, Calif., southpaw, Is
scheduled to start, with Ron
Whittaker and Don Delbon
billed for relief roles.
Another nine-inning contest
is scheduled for Saturday, when
the Frosh will take on Albany's
strong Bulldogs.
Frosh trackmen ignored the
weather as they managed to get
in a 75 1^3 to 44 2/3 win over
Eugene high. The Rooks arc
strong in the sprints and hurd
les, but have only one half-miler
and no longer-distance men.
The Ducklings have state
hurdle champ Jack Morris of
Medford In the lows and 100
yard dash, plus Benson's Sam
Whitney in the highs, broad
jump, and pole vault.
Duck Records
Batting—Fielding
Player g ab h r 2b
Bund. 3b.. -1 4 3 2 0
Shan, ci 10 34 14 II 0
William*, 3b-p .10 30 12 13 3
SchWtein, lb . 10 31 10 7 1
Kellrr, ** 10 25 8 7 0
Pingrer. 11 . 6 19 6 4 2
• Ru«». If. 9 21 6 3 0
; Johnson, 2b .. 10 32 9 6 0
Wagner, rf _ .... 8 15 4 J 1
Averill. rf .. 5 12 3 10
Maddox, p-rf . . 6 15 3 3 0
Marlett. c . 10 32 5 2 1
Forbes. p-rt 6 9 1 0 0
Lumlcll. p*2b .. 6 6 0 0 0
Bowen, c . ... 6 5 0 0 0
Blodgett, p .... . 3 6 0 0 0
Garner, p.. 3 4 0 0 0
Other* . 4 6 0 0 0
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0 1 3 0 2 4 1 #! .75" 1 5
3 3 904540 .400 24 2
0 2 4 1 2 1 2 0 .333 7 17
1 1 9 1 0 4 2 1 .323 82 0
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0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 .316 H 0
0 0 4 0 $ 3 5 0 .2.46 10 0
0 0 2 2 1 1 3 0 .241 20 24
0 0 4 1 1 1 2 0 .267 4 1
0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 .250 5 0
0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 .200 5 3
0 0 3 0 0 1 6 0 .156 34 5
0 0 1 0 0 I 1 0 .III I 1
0 0 1 1 0 2 3 0 .000 4 5
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Totals
10 313 84 62 8 4 7 45 10 19 36 42 4 .268 239 90 19 .945
Player g ip ab
William* . 4 10 44
Holt . 1
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Nance . 1
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Pitching
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2 6
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Ducks Slate
WSC Again
With their Northern Division
opener delayed for the third time,
the Oregon baseball team will at
tempt to get started at 1:30 p.m.
today in a doubleheader against
Washington State college at
Howe field.
Wet grounds and rain will like
ly force cancellation. In case the
games are not played, they will
not be made up when the Ducks
trek to Pullman later in the sea
son.
Washington and Idaho man
aged to open the Northern Divi
sion season at Moscow Tuesday
with the Huskies winning a pair
12-6 and 4-3. Monte Geiger and
Bill Reams twirled for the now
firsfe place Washington nine.
The Oregon-WSC twin bill is
set for one nine-inning and one
seven-inning game. Coach Don
Kirsch can call on a number of
starting hurlers, including Bill
Blodgett, Bill Garner, Terry
Maddox or Pete Williams. Cou
gar Coach Buck Bailey looks to
pitchers Jerry Bartow, Wes
Stock and Ron Webb for his top
mound strength.
Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. Pet. GB
Boston .
Cleveland ....
Chicago .
New York ..
Detroit .
Washington
Kansas City
Baltimore ....
...6
.5
3
...4
3
2
...2
.857
.625 1 Va
.600 2
.571 2
.500 2 Vi
.400 3
.286 4
.1 6 .143
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn ...
Milwaukee .
St. Louis .
Philadelphia
Chicago .
New York .
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh .
...9 0 1.000
6 2 .750 2'/*
5 3 .625 3>/2
4 4 .500 4 Vi
4 5 .444 5
2 5 .286 6
2 7 .222 7
0 6 .000 7</2
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Touring the Eugene country
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will be Don Anawalt, Eugene;
George Stadelman, The Dalles;
Keith Guhrud, Eugene; Dick
Berg, San Gabriel, Calif., and
Bruce Titus, Lincoln high of
Portland.
The Hooks have Wld Jensen.
Leo Grunt, Bob Langton and Jim
Coleman, all of Corvallis; Jerry
Plank. Woodburn. and Dick Sad
ler. Bozeman, Mont. Top men for
Eugene are Gary Geertsen and
Leighton Tuttle.
UO Netters Face
Huskies, Portland
With a new method of beating
the rain by using the indoor mir
fuce of McArthur court, the Ore
gon tennis squad will meet Wil
lamette university's net team to
day at 3 o’clock. Matches are also
scheduled for Friday and Satur
day against Washington and
Portland.
The use of the Indoor court al
lowed the Ducks to perform yes
terday against Seattle univer
sity, but they dropped all the
matches to the Chieftuins. A fea
ture match saw Janet Hopps of
the visitors overcome her male
opponent. Bob Baker, by
straight-set scores of 6-1, 6-1.
The invading Huskies will
open the Northern Division cam
paign Friday as they begin an
other season of expected dom
inance of the conference. Bill
Quillian. the top performer for
Washington, has taken the ND
singles title for three straight
years and has also shared in the
doubles crown on three occa
sions.
Portland’s net squad holds one
victory ovfr Oregon already.
Jack Neer led the Pilots to an
earlier win over the Ducks In
Portland. This match will com
plete non-conference activity for
Hilbert Lee's netmen.
The W’ebfoots will probably
feature the usual five players,
who all saw action against Se
attle. Going against the Bear
cats should be Ron Carlson, Bob
Baker, Don Bontme, Dick Gray
and Dick Hamilton.
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