Kver stop to tliink how many pitches a hurler makes in an
average inning? Or in a nine-inning game? If he does a good
joh he probably won’t make over 120. This averages out to
13-plus per inning. But he may make more than 150 pitches
and hurl a shutout. And he may make 85 and lose.
Good control pitchers have it a lot easier than those noted
for wildness. The batters will be swinging and not waiting
him out. The pitcher will be able to save his strength and
weather out the late (or extra) innings.
On the Oregon pitching staff sophomore John Lundell
seems to get by with as few pitches as any. Against Portland
Tuesday he made 33 pitches in three innings. Karlier against
Washington he got by with a total of 25 pitches in four inn
ings. The string was seven, six. six, six. for the fifth, sixth,
seventh, and eighth innings.
Can't Find Plate
But in the ninth he ran into trouble. He couldn’t find the
plate and dished up 35 pitches to seven baiters, 'ferry Maddox
came in and made 23 more—a total of 58 for the inning—as
the Huskies scored seven runs. Incidentally in that long 13-12
contest the Ducks won. Washington pitchers made 15‘>
pitches and Oregon pitchers made 164.
Pitching against Portland U. early in the season Bill
Blodgett tossed a three-hit, seven-inning shutout and threw
119 times. This averages 153 for a nine-inning contest. Com
pare this with the 159-164 in the 13-12 game. Blodgett al
lowed six walks and made 20 pitches almost every inning,
but for the fourth when he got by with five.
Maddox has done very well for himself as a sophomore. In
28 innings he has walked eight and has an earned run average
of 1.29. In his seven-inning, one-hit shutout again>t W411am
ette, he made 83 pitches, which averages a little le>s than 107
for nine. In his nine-inning whitewashing of Idaho he made
106 pitches.
Turnabout in Averages
Although Oregon has practically the same baseball per
sonnel as in 1954. you can’t tell much about this year’s hitters
from last year’s averages. Norm Forbes was the top Northern
Division hitler with .476. Rut his season’s average is only .222
to date, although he is definitely coming out of his slump.
George Shaw hit .328 and is hitting .320 now but was up
around .500 and is slumping terribly. And Neal Marlett hit
.321 in 1954 play, but is limping along at .163 on the season
so far. And he batted cleanup at times last year. Now he bats
eighth (but is still the best defensive catcher in the league).
And who batted in the eighth slot in 1954? It was Jim John
son. and he was down there because he hit .226. Rut he i.- only
hitting a cool .388 now, and that average is going up with
each game. Jerry Ross hit only .241 in 1954 but is -macking a
robust .351 in 1955. And Pete Williams, who hit a far from
rousing .254 last year, is currently sporting a .365 average.
Five ND All-Stars
Other comparable averages: Dick Schlosstein hit .297 and
is hitting .261. John Keller batted .246 and is now at .263.
Williams, Keller, Shaw, Marlett, an'd Forbes all made the all
Northern Division team, Forbes as a pitcher. Rut it looks like
Norm won’t be doing any pitching in the ND this year, so
he will have to make it as an outfielder, even if secondbase
man Johnson has to run out and take the ball from him on balls
hit to right field.
With their 6-1 record, it looks like Southern Cal will take
the Southern Division title. This year’s playoff will be at
the southern school, and that will make it doubly tough for
the northern winner.
At Kugene last year Oregon won the Far West champion
ship, beating Fresno State, which whipped USC twice in the
double-elimination tourney. The Trojans thought they had
it in the bag even before they went north, press releases from
Los Angeles stating that the Trojans would have it easy at
Omaha (scene of the national championships) because of their
five starting pitchers! They were humiliated but will be re
solved to make up for it.
Webfoots Enter Squad
In Vancouver Relays x
Hoping to improve on their
last year’s second place finish,
twenty-two members of Bill
Bowermnn's Oregon track squad
left Thursday morning for the
seventh annual Vancouver re
lays in Vancouver, B.C., sched
uled to begin Saturday morning.
Several Webfoots are ex
pected to figure heavily In an
assault on records at this
year’s meet, with the I>uck
distance men especially fa
vored.
Oregon's crack distance med
ley quartet of Bill Dellinger.
Gordon Dahlquist. Jim Bailey
and Ken Reiser will be eyeing the
mark of 10:27.0 set by a Uni
versity of British Columbia
team. The same Quck foursome
ran their specialty ten seconds
faster at the Willamette relays
earlier this year under unfavor
able weather conditions.
With no two mile run slated
for the meet, attention will
focus on the mile event, where
Dellinger and Bailey will vie
with Denny Meyers, ex-l'ni
versity of Washington PC<'
Intramural
Track Slated
Intramural track gets under
way Monday afternoon with two
dual meets scheduled at 4:55 for
the intramural field.
Seven events will be on the
agenda for each track meet
and two meets a day are sched
uled for the next two weeks.
The bracket tournament is a
single-elimination affair and
26 teams have been entered.
No letterman will be permitted
to compete for any living organi
zation team and no spikes should
be worn by any competitor.
Each entry will be limited to
one running event, one field
event and the relay.
Other events besides the %
mile relay will include the high
hurdles. 75-yard dash, high jump,
broad jump, pole vault and shot
put.
Sigma Nu and Gamma hall
will dash in one meet .Mon
day w hile Hale Kane and Phi
Kappa Sigma will provide oth
er competition. The first round
will be nearly completed by
the end of next week. The
championship meet will be run
May 26.
Phi Delta Theta, the defend
ing IM track champion, draws
a bye in the first round and will
not race until May 16, against
the winner of the Sigma Nu
Gamma hall meet. Others to
draw byes include Alpha Tau
Omega, Sigma Chi, Beta Theta
Pi and Theta Chi.
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two-mlli' champ. Meyer, run
ning unattached at Vancouver
Saturday, lias reportedly run a
4:15 mile this oeanon, Dellin
ger's* liest effort for 1955 Is*
4:17, considerably under the
record he set last year In heal
ing favored Bill Parnell, for
mer WSC ace. In 4:28.4.
Other records pegged to fall
by the boards include Martin
Pedigo's 23’ broad jump leap of
1954 and the javelin standard of
188' 6‘2" established by Bob
Hall of Willamette in 1950.
Pedigo set his mark while
competing for the Oregon Frosh
last year and has a 24' 1" leap
this season. Ed Bingham is al
most certain to top the javelin
standard. The ex-Medford ace
owns a 204’ 5” high mark to date.
Webfoot weight man Jack
Moad has a chunce to cruck
the existing shot put mark of
49’ 10" set by Oregon State’s
Duane Kby, but it will take
one of his top performances
to do it. Moad hit 49’ 10' t
against Washington two weeks
ago.
The Duck thinclads will be
without the services of both
their top hurdlers. Bill Sorsby,
who missed two previous meets
because of an infulenza condition,
will remain sidelined for another
week under doctor’s orders.
Sophomore high hurdler Doug
Basham has suffered a leg injury
but should be ready for the
Northern Division dual meet
windup with Oregon State next
week.
Also remaining at home in
sprinter Lei toy Campbell, who
is recovering from a cold.
The Relays will Is* a return
home for pole vaulter Hob Reid,
half-mller Doug Clement, sprint
er Bruce Spilngbett and Don
Steen all natives of British
Columbia. The only freshman
making the trip, Steen is a high
Jumper, hurdler and Javelin
thrower from South Burnaby,
B.C.
Springbett established the 100
yard dash mark of 9.8 last yar
and will be a threat in both the
century and 220 sprints again
this spring.
Only new face In the Oregon
traveling squad list la Chuck
Phillips, a senior high Jumper
who has been out of competition
for several years.
Olson-Moore Bout
Slated for June
NEW YORK (AI’)—Archie
>1 o o r e, light-heu\ v weight
champion of the world, will de
fend his title against Carl Bobo
Olson of San Francisco, in the
Polo <. rounds on \\cdnesd;»>
night, June Vi.
No terms were revealed.
Should Olson, the mtddlrweight
king, win in the Moore bout
he would be required to give
up his IGO-poiind crown.
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