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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1955)
In addition to spending time making up alliterative nick names. sportswrfters like to fill empty column space l>y mak ing comparisons of indiv idttal athletic performances ranging from running miles to shooting clay pigeons. It matters not if the events compared are run in different parts oi the world or under what widely varying conditions they are held, for if thev are practically the same event, they are worth com paring. This weekend was a prime one for scribes with a com parison yen. Of course the cream of the crop was the finish of the Oregon-Washington track meet almost identical to the 1954 Northern Division championships. This year it was Gordon DaKlquist who came from behind to take the Huskies’ Henry Ranks in the anchor lap and get the meet victory. La.-t spring Doug Clement was the one who kicked by Stanford Green of Washington to earn Ore gon the ND crown by one point. Cougars Sweep Handv check? in comparing other individual performances! Saturday were provided by Washington State’s 94 1-3 to 36 2-3 trouncing of poor Idaho’s cindennen, Oregon State’s triumph in a three-wav meet with Lewis and Clark and Port land university and UCLA’s clipping of California, SO's-SO1*. The Northwest’s sprinters, running on tracks soggy from too many days rain, turned in better times than the usually amazing speedsters from supposedly sunny California. Washington State's PCC 220-yard dash king. Rob Gary, took both the furlong and century dashes despite a bitterly cold wind. Gary got the 220 in 21.5, the same clocking as his 1954 PCC win, and took the 100 in 9.7 tor the best times of the four meets. Springbett Tops Oregon's Bruce Springbett wasn’t far off the Cougar flash’. The Duck sprinted the 100 in 10.1, identical to Jim Plessas of Cal. but clipped off the 220 in 21.7. The pair should put on a couple of battles this Saturday when the Webfoots trek to Pullman for an XD duel. Best 220 time for the southern sprinters was 22.2, also by Plessas. However, Russ Ellis of UCLA walked off with the 440 in 48 flat, by far the best time of the day. Of course, Jim Bailey’s record-breaking half mile time of 1:53.7 was tops for the coast, being a full second ahead of the Uclan’s Bob Carney. Bob Seaman, the Bruins' top miler, continued his sweep of mile marks against Cal. He ran a 4:15.6, one-tenth'of a second better than the meet record of the Bears’ Kaare Yefling set in 1949. Pedigo Improves Idaho’s Wilbur Gary, beside causing the usual confusion in running against WSC’s Bob Gary in the sprints, tied the Vandal-Cougar broad jump mark of 23' 3*2’. Oregon’s rapidly-improving Martin Pedigo tool*' the day’s top honors, though. The Jlermiston flash leaped 23’ 5 1-4" to top UCLA’s Chuck Holloway by 5 1-4 inches. Cougar Trackmen Romp; Face Oregon in Crucial T Washington State college romped to an easy 94 1-3 to 36 2-3 victory over Idaho in a Northern Division dual track meet at Pullman, Wash., Satur day. The Cougars took ten first places and scored in every event. The WSC squad will have its biggest test of the season this Saturday when they face the fa vored Oregon Ducks in a crucial meet at Pullman. Heading the triumph over Ida ho were sprinter Bob Gary and weight man Burl Grinols. Gary won the 100 and 220-yard dashes, and Grinds won the shot ^put and discus. PCC sprint champ Gary posted the excellent times of 9.7 for the century and 21.5 for the 220. Both he and Oregon’s Bruce Springbett are undefeated in NP competition. Grinds has gone over 52 feet in the shot and should prove to be a stiff test for Oregon’s im proving Jack Moad and Ben Lloyd, both of whom have cleared 49 feet. Golfers Finish Fifth in Tourney Oregon's strong varsity golf team was bested by rain and a tough course Thursday when the defending Northern Division champions finished fifth in the Northern California Intercol legiate tourney at Santa Cruz, Calif. The Ducks' play on the Pa.sa tiempo course was a far cry from the previous weekend when they defeated Washington. Not a man from the varsity could break 80 with Bob Prall of the Frosh topping the Oregon entry with a 70. Cards Triumph Stanford, the pre-tourney fa vorite. won the team champion ship with a four-man total of 305. Second in the 26-team field was strong San Jose State with Modesto JC third. Seattle univer sity fourth and the Ducks fifth. Oregon State's highly-touted four did even worse than the Ducks and finished far down the list with 34G. Neither Oregon State nor Ore gon placed a man in the two-day individual match tournament which followed Thursday’s team championship. Thus was the poor est showing by Oregon in three years, the Webfoot team having taken the title in 1953 and sec ond last year. Medalist lie peats Medalist honors in the tourna ment went to Modesto's John Me- 1 Mullin, also the 1954 medalist, with a two-over-par 73. Charles Leider of San Jose and Monte Shebalet of Fresno State had 74's. Besides Prall, other Oregon j scores Thursday included Neil j Dwyer. 80; Bob Takano. 85; Bob Norquist, 86; Don Bick, 87, and Barry Ott, 87. Next action for the VVebfoot varsity golfers will come Saturday when they host Oregon State at the Eugene country club in a «conference match. Standings NATIONAL Brooklyn . Milwaukee . St. Louis . Chicago . Philadelphia . New York . Cincinnati . Pittsburgh . AMERICAN Chicago . New York .... Boston . Cleveland .... Detroit . Washington Kansas City Baltimore .... LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB 11 2 .846 7 3 .700 2‘/i 6 4 .600 3>/2 7 5 .583 3 6 6 .500 4 Vi 4 6 .400 5V£ 2 10 .167 8 % 1 8 .111 8 LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB .6 3 .667 .7 4 .636 .7 4 .636 ..6 5 .545 1 .5 5 .500 1>2 .5 5 .500 1% .3 7 .300 3‘/2 . 3 9 .250 4 fata CatHjbu# Day’s College Cords $6.95 FENNELL’S ON THE CAMPUS Ducks Take Track Test While other Oregon sports suc cumberi to the rain, the Webfoot cindermen nearly fell victim to the influenza bug aa they squeezed by Washington's Hus kies in Seattle Saturday. 69'.j 61 u, with two top performera on the sick list. Gordon Dnhlquist anchored the Duck mile relay to a win in the final event of the day to give Bill Bowerman's boys the necessary victory murgin. The host Huskies had been trailing, 6-1 <...-61hut the relay would have given them the track meet. Points Missed Oregon's thlnclads missed the services of hurdler Bill Sorsbj and two-mile star Ken Reiser. Both were out of competition with the flu and their usual points were missed. Dahlquist whipped Washing ton's quarter-miler Henry Banks to take the relay. The Webfoots' Jim Bailey handed him the baton nearly even with the Husky hand off. but Banks slipped into the lead and Dahlquist had to catch Harper Conquers Field in Golf Open VIRGINIA BEACH. Va <AP) Slender. balding Chandler Harper of Portsmouth. Va., used magnificent iron shots and five birdies for a five-under-par G4 Sunday to win the third annual $17,500 Virginia Beach Open Golf tournament with.a score of 260. Harper’s victory, his first ma jor triumph since he won the 1954 Texas Open, producing a stirring battle down the back nine between the 41-year-old ace and National Open champion Ed Furgol of St. Louis. It brought him $2,400. Sports Staff Desk Editor: Buzz Nelson. • Staff: Chuck Mitchelmore, A1 Johnson. Jerry Claussen. him on the fnr curve and kick home the Northern Division dual win. Banks had beaten Dahlquist earlier In the day In the 140-yard dash. Bailey turned in a l :53.7 time in the half mile, bettered thin season only by his i :53 clocking in the distance medley of the Wil lamette relays. The performance wan good enough to establiah a new meet record, topping the 1:54.1 old mark set by Washing ton's Jack Hensey in 1917. llouhle Winners Bill Dellinger and Bruce Spring* bett took two races apiece for the Ducks, but Husky Dean Singer walked off with both the high and low hurdles and high Jump. Dellinger got the mile in 4:23.8 and took over for Reiser in the two-mile with a 9:35.4 time. Spring bett nabbed the 100-yard dash in 10.1 and the 220 in 21.7. Results: Mil** run Hill Dellinger (Ob Jhh Hailey (f)K Gene llamnifinu trr (\v). Time, 4 :2J 8. 440'yard run Henry Hank* <\V), G««r* cion DahU|ui»t (Oi. Alien Oin*ten*en <<»), *1 ime, 50.6. 100 yard dad* Bruce Sprintfbelf (O), l.cKo> < amplteil (Of. Hob f#cdbcttct (\\ ), Time, 10.1. I'0 pid hinh hurdle* — I lean Smjfrr (AVi, kun Lurid t\N », I long H.»*tiam (Oj, Time. If. 1. SHo-vurd run Jim Hailey (O).Cary Gay Ion IW), Gene f farmnrrmaOrr <\V j. Timr. I :53.7. I Nr* meet reo.nl. 4l!«l frond uj 1 :S4.1 art by Jack Hen*<> in 1947.J 270-yard d.a%h Bruce SDrinylx’ll (O), Mel kohcl < W >. l.fK-n I amtdfcll I II Time, 21.7. Two mile run Hill DcMingrr (Hi, Vo#l Jem nan (W). bliik l.ucci (\V K I »me. 9 :.1S 4. 220 yard low hurdle* Dean Sir^rt f \\ ), Hol» I.n|lir||r( (\V|, 1> wg Ihihjm 1(0, Time. 24 9. Pole vault Jim Hilton <\V). Ken Hick* rnlKrtiom (Oi and Hu>- Mamie* (O), tic (or second Height, IJ' 3". Hiah mmi* Dean Singer (W). Tom Wood (W), Kei. Hicket.U.uom *0) and Delimit Human (Wi. Hettfht. 6' 2". Shot put lack Moad <Oi Ed Sheron (W), Hen l.lu)d (O). Dotaiice, 49 left j 10 1-2 inebe*. Javelin bl Hmgliam (O). Cemue ( j* *ity (W), Jim l>ribcl (W). Di*iancc, 199 feet. Diacu* Terry Str<»m (NV), Walt Bado* rek (()). Jerry Lar.ger (W). Distance. m2* h i r. Hr'Kid jump Martin Pedtifo (O). Donn Sullivan tO), H.#n l.und (W). 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