Saturday is arch-rival day for Oregon's tennis and golf
teams when both Coach Hilbert Lee’s net team and the golf
ers of Sid Milligan play their second conference matches in
hosting Oregon State. Both matches figure to be real con
tests with every team having good balance. The golf match
especially will likely produce some outstanding play.
Golf at Oregon, or any other college, is probably the most
forgotten of the major sports. It's the only one that isn’t
played on the campus. The hundreds of acres necessary for
the game usually are found quite a distance from most col
lege campuses. Here in Eugene, the Ducks go across the
river to play at the Eugene country club, a flat but beautiful
18-hole layout that is considered one of the very best in the
state outside of Portland.
Oregon's golf team doesn’t draw a crowd like basketball or
football teams do, but it should. Milligan’s teams have won the
Northern Division dual meet championship six years in a row
and haven't been defeated in a conference match since 1950.
Last season the Ducks capped five straight dual victories by
winning the team medal play title also.
Beavers Play Five
Both Oregon State, second in the medal tournament last
year, and Oregon will go into Saturday's match with some
stiff competition already under their belts. The Beavers have
played five times this season while the Ducks won their only,
match and also played in a California tournament last week.
Oregon State, coached by Jovial Jim Barrett, the OSC
athletic business manager, has a team made up of both vet
erans and newcomers to the Beaver team. OSC lost four
seniors via the graduation route, but have three juniors and
a senior this year that could rank as one of the finest four
somes anywhere.
Larry Trogen. ex-Portland state ace. is a senior and fourth
man on the team that also includes Jerry Cloninger, Idaho and
Montana open champ; Bob Donnelly, the long-hitting ex
Oregon junior titlist and medal play champion last year, and
Ray Lindquist. Corvallis army veteran who wins money con
sistently form the Corvallis country club aces.
Donnelly, Cloninger Hot
Both Donnelly and Cloninger have turned in outstanding
performances so far this season. Donnelly carded a 68 in a j
Beaver win over Portland state and Cloninger carded a 68 in j
a Beaver win over Portland State ami Cloninger had a 71 and
72 in a win over Willamette university and a loss to Wash
ington. But it was the difference in depth that enabled Wash
ington to beat the Beavers while Oregon downed the Huskies*
with ease.
Oregon, meanwhile, has a deep squad loaded with poten
tially great sophomores. The Ducks lost Don Kreiger, one
of the Ducks’ all-time greats, plus sturdy veterans A1 Mun
dle and A1 Cross to graduation. Milligan has so far had to
rely on his young players in Duck meets.
Captain Xeil Dwyer, a two-year letterman, is playing the
first spot on the team with letterman Bob Takano the orilv
other letterman having shown much consistency.
Sophomores Lead Ducks
The rest of the team is made up of Sophomores Don Bick,
state junior champ two year-, ago who shot a 68 against Wash
ington's Barry Ott, highly-touted transfer from Portland
State; Bob Norquist,. another Portlander; Howard Zenger,
letterman from last year and former teammate of Donnelly
at Grant high in Portland, and Justin Smith, a red-haired 1954
squad member from Medford.
Both teams are fairly young with only Dwyer, Takano
and Trogen being seniors out of about 15 men on the two
squads. Oregon state’s top men are more proven performers,
but Oregon seems a sure bet to win on overall depth in match
play. But golf is a strange game and much will depend on
consistency.
Looking ahead to the team championship, to be placed at
Moscow with Idaho hosting the tournament on its campus
course, a real battle shapes up. With only four men allowed,
Oregon State will be a top contender with Washington also
strong in its first few positions*. Oregon is perhaps too well
balanced to have a four best men, but only time and more play
will tell.
Huskies Beaten
As WSC Takes
Baseball Lead
NORTHERN DIVISION
BASEBALL STANDINGS
Team W L Pet.
Washington State 1 0 1.000
Washiitgtun 4 1 .KUO
Oi egon 0 0 .000
Oregon State. 0 0 .000
IJaho 04 .000
SEATTLE (API—The Wash
ington State Cougars rallied be
hind the four-hit pitching of Ron
Webb Monday to hand the Uni
versity of Washington Huskies
their first loss in five Northern
Division baseball starts, 5-3.
Webb pitched superb ball and
got into trouble only in the sixth
inning when the Huskies clubbed
out three hits for two runs. The
Huskies got one unearned run In
the fifth.
Ron Everby wrapped up the
game for the Cougars in the top
of the ninth when he slapped out
a two-run single.
It was the first conference
game of the year for the Cou
gars. Six other games the Cou
gars had been scheduled to play
were washed out.
WSC * 020 000 102-5 8 2
Washington 000 012 000-3 4 2
Webb and Rich; Geiger and
Brady.
Rip Repulski Tops
National League
With .396 Mark
NEW YOP.Y (APi—Hitting be
hind Stan Musical must be an
inspiration, at least it's doing
wonders for Eldon (Ript Repul
ski. the new cleanup batter for
the St. Louis Cardinals.
For with the 1955 major league
season two weeks old Monday,
Repulski leads the National
league in batting with a .396 av
erage on 19 hits in 48 times at
bat. In 10 games, the 26-year-old
outfielder from Sauk Rapids.
Minn., also has produced five
doubles, two homers and nine
runs batted in.
In his first 10 games Inst
season, Kepulski hit .258 with
not a homer and only one run
batted-in. He finished with a
.28.2 mark while hitting in the
No. 1, No. 5 and No. 6 spots in
the liatting order.
A1 Kaline, the speedy out
fielder of the Detroit Tigers, has
taken an early lead in the Am
erican league batting race. He’s
batting .452 with 19 safeties in
42 trips after 10 games. .
Kaline also holds the distinc
tion of being the only major
leaguer to have hit three homers
in one game this season. He has
four circuit blows in all, and is
right behind Bob Nieman of Chi
cago, who leads with five.
Nieman is second to Kaline
in batting with a .423 percent
age. The ex-Detroit Tiger, who
was traded to the White Sox
during the winter, has collected
11 hits in 26 at hats.
Bill Skowron of the New York
Yankees, who is setting the runs
batted in pace along with Nie
man at 14 apiece, is third in the
hitting competition with a .422
mark.
Behind Repulski in "the Na
tional league come Johnny Lo
gan of Milwaukee with .389,
Granny Hamner of Philadelphia
.367, Milwaukee's Billy Bruton
with .364 and Roy Campanella of
Brooklyn and Dee Fondy of Chi
cago with .362 each.
Carl Furillo of Brooklyn is the
senior circuit's home run pace
setter with six. Ted Kluszewski
of Cincinnati, the majors’ home
run king in 1954 with 49, is sec
ond with five.
Loscutoff Signs
Celtic Contract
BOSTON (AP) — Jim liOscu
toff, University of Oregon for
ward and No. 1 draft choice of
the Boston Celtics, Monday
signed his ltti.V5A National
Basketball Association contract
for Boston President Walter
Brown.
A 6' 5” aggressive corner man
weighing 230 pounds, l.oscutoff
was selected on the all-Paelflc
('oast Conference Northern Di
vision team last season. He
scored oOo points for a 10.1
average.
Coast Teams
Slate Series
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The "marathon" team* of the
Pacific Coast league swap oppo
nents Monday and settle down
Tuesday for another series in
the Northwest.
The San Diego Padres, who
went 29 innings in a pair of tight
games at Portland Sunday,
moved up to Seattle after a post
poned game with Portland was
rained out Monday. Sacramento,
loser on both ends of a 22-inning
two-game duel with the Rainier*,
trekked down to Portland for a
shot at the Beavers.
Delayed opening day festivi
ties were scheduled Tuesday at
Portland with the slumping
Solons. league-lenders for two
weeks but current ouners of a
five-game losing streak, as
guests. Two games, afternoon
and night, are on tap.
Seattle, which climbed to first
place on the strength of the five
wins over Sacramento, was billed
for a single night content against
the Padres, tied for third place
with San Francisco and two
games off the pace.
“Sister city” series were on
the menu in the rest of the
league, with San Francisco fac
ing Oakland and Hollywood at
Eos Angeles.
READ EMERALD WANT ADS
Spring Football
Drills Continue
Spring football practice for
Coach Len Casanova a 1955 grid
club sloshed into its second week
Monday with more experiments
In the lineup.
The Ducks completed their
first week of practice Saturday
with a full-length scrimmage for
the benefit of high school vis
itors, and several new faces were
seen In the lineups. The scrim
mage was the fifth of the week,
all held in the rain, for the Web
foots.
More than 60 players arc still
out for the team and have been
going through the basic drills In
order for the Duc-ks to learn
many fundamentals of the Ore
gon T-forinatlon system. Oregon
will be relying heavily on in
exj>erienced players next fall with
only 12 lettermen back from the
1954 team.
In Saturday's scrimmage not
a single letter-winner was r
starter for either side's back
field with several sophomores and
some transfers getting some val
uable experience. Tom Crabtree
was the quarterback on the team
which also included Jack Brown,
Jack Morris and Jim Shanley in
the baekfietd. Wally Russell
headed the other" team and had
LeRoy Phelps. Fred Osborn and
Chuck Miklacic with him.
The Ducks still have 14 prac
tice sessions In store for them
before winding up spring practice
on Muy 14.
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Jerry Clausfien.
Stuff: Buzz Nelson and Allen
Johnson.
for that trim look
STUDENT UNION
BARBER SHOP
three barbers
to serve you
hours—8 a.m. — 5:30 p.m.
OTN SIZE
FILTER TIP TAREYTON
PATENTS PENDING
An entirely new concept in cigarette filtration. A
filter tip of purified cellulose, Incorporating Activated
Charcoal, a filtering substance world-famous as a
purifying agent, notably for air, water and beverages.
PRODUCT OP