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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1955)
Oregon Takes Baseball I In- regular spring -ports season is over and Oregon teams arc once more riding atop the Northern Division in the two main sports baseball and track. Both were expected, and both were won by only narrow margins. Coach Don Kirsch’s baseball team waited until the last game to nail down their third pennant in a row. It was a team effort, with everyone hitting just fair for the weekend. But Sophomore Pitcher Terry Maddox practically lived on the mound to quiet OSC’s big hitters and sew up the crown, l or the third straight season it was an OSC and Oregon >ear in baseball with the other three teams never in the run ning after the halfwax' point. Both individually and teamwise the Beavers and Ducks dominated the campaign. All-Stars Back Again \\ itli the end of the X I) season comes time to pick an all star team. Most of last -ca^m - all-X'D team has been placing this -eason. and several are candidates for the dream team attain. Washington State never got to appear in the Wiliam-' clt<' \ allej and Idaho played only two games, which makes picking an all-star team tough. Hut here goes. Pitchers—Normally two hurlers are chosen for the all star team. Last year Oregon's Norm Forbes and WSC's Let Dahlquist made it. This year Maddox is head and shoul ders above all the others with six straight league wins. With him it’s a tossup among Washington’s Bill Reams, OSC’s Joe Epperle and WSC’s Jerry Bartow. Make it Reams. Catcher -Last year Oregon's Xeil Marlett won the nod from the coaches f<*r hi- fine receiving and a .321 hatting average. This year the race is between he and OSC’s Dan Love joy, a newcomer who can really hit with a .169 league average. Love joy outshone Marlett in both receiving and hit tiiu last weekend while the Oregon catcher hit less than .201) for tin season. It ha- to he Love joy. Dean Tops Firstbasemen ! -t base The only logical choice is OSC's Jav Dean. The big poker-face was an All-American in 1954 when he hit .43*). Thi> season he hit .545 for the X1) campaign, a new conference record. 2nd base—Here is another easy choice for the all-star spot. Oregon’s Jimmy Johnson, probably the most improved player in the league, is by far the top performer here. Last year's choice here. Chuck Fisk of OSC, has been hitting miserably. Johnson has turned in sensational fielding to go with a batting average over .300. 3rd base --This is a tough one. Oregon’s Pete Williams was the all star pick last year, but hasn't been hitting and has kicked the ball around a lot. OSC Sophomore Jerrv Bettendorf i- a hard hitter and Idaho's Flip Kleffner is a good all-around 1 ballplayer. Hut Washington's Jack Ballard, a converted catch-1 er who hit A(<7 last season and .378 in 1955. gets the nod as the most valuable to hi- team. Keller Heads Shortstops Shortstop- Another Oregon man gets this spot. Johnny Keller, the other half of the slick Duck double-play combina tion. is the natural here. He hit onlv .246 last season as a sopho more hut has upped this considerably this season to become a standout. Outfield—By position it’s OSC’s Phil Jantze in left, Ore gon’s George Shaw in center and Forbes in right. Jantze is the hottest prospect in several years, Shaw is already a three-time all-star in center and Forbes is Oregon’s greatest hitter in history. There are several other good flycatchers in the league, but only room for three on a team. 'There are the picks. The team is full of Oregon and OSC plavers. 'The I hicks get five, just like last year, and the Beavers get three, the same as in 1954. But it’s only logical. The Hea vers and Ducks have the best players. FINAL NORTHERN DIVISION BASEBALL STANDINGS Team W L Pet Orison • 10 ^ .769 Oregon H 4 ,ff-1 WuMimgton State 6 4 .600 Waahinfcton 7 7 .500 Idaho o J.J .000 Friday’* R <r*. u 11 * At Eugtir, Or r gaff 7 7, Oregon Stat/ MS. At Motcot, Idaho 5, WSf*9. Saturday'* Renultfi At (.'orvalliH, Oregon ,st;,tr 6-4. Oregon 4 10. At Pullman. WSf* 5. Idaho ^ By Buzz Nelson Emer.ld Aitittant Sports Editor Oregon gathered in the blue chip« at Corvallis Saturday, turning bank the challenge of the Oregon State Beavers to annex a third consecutive Northern Di vision bane ball championship. The Duck* only needed a split in the weekend series— but al most didn't get it. The two rivals traded wins on Friday, 7-1 for Oregon and 15-7 for the Beavers, but the Aggies nabbed the first Saturday contest 6-4. Thus the whole bankroll went riding on the second game, and Oregon’s Terry Maddox -the brilliant sophomore righthander cashed in. Hurling his second win in two days, Maddox stopped the Beavers 10-4. retaining the championship for the Yellow and Green. The next stop for Coach Don Kirsch’s club is Los Angeles and the Pacific Coast conference playoffs, May 28-29. The defend ing PCC and Far West champs will face a favored USC team that swept Southern Division honors. Maddov Pitches Often The strongarmed Maddox was again the man of the day. Only Friday he flashed a six-hitter at the Beavers to win the open ing game 7-1, and came back in relief in the second contest. Then on Saturday, with Kirsch des perate for pitching, the Medford star took the hill again to hurl the final win. Backed by an Oregon attack that rolled up nine runs in the first two innnigs, Maddox al lowed nine hits over the seven inning route, but dealt them out sparingly. He had the Beavers on his hip all the way as the game never threatened to get out of hand. The inning that clinched the championship was the second, in which the Ducks scored seven times. Oregon had tallied twice in the first on John Keller's walk, an error and a long triple by Dick Schlosstein. Big Inning Wins But in the second they salted the pennant away. Jerry Ross and Jim Johnson drew walks and Neal Marlett doubled them both home. Maddox got an infield hit and, after Keller went out. Shaw drew a pass to load the bases. Norm Forbes then forced Marlett Hale Kane Takes Top Spot in Golf Hale Kane's red-hot golf team became the first spiing intramural champion Sunday as it trounced the defending champion Phi Delta Theta team at Oakway golf course. It was the third championship of the year for the men from Hale Kane. Last fall they took down both the A and B volleyball crowns. The teams started playing Sat urday and Hale Kane won five out of the first six points. Hale Kane first Man Art Fujita paced his four-man team with a brilliant 67. The title was decided Sunday when nine more holes were played with the new champions winning two out of thiee points for a 7-2 lead. The Phi Delt’s forfeit the final three. at the plate, but Schlosstein walked to score Maddox with the third run, Pete Williams, the next batter, had been in a fearful slump, but drove a solid double down the left field line to score Shaw and Forbes. Jerry Ross whacked a long single to plate two more and there were the seven runs and the ND crown. Shaw added a homer in the fourth for good measure. The Beavers tried to get back with two runs in their half of the second and single tallies in the sixth and seventh, but prom ising rallies were cut short. Oregon Defense Improves The Oregon defense came up with some sensational play3 after shoddy fielding in the second and third games. Kellar starred afield throughout the series and made several fine stops in the final contest. In the first game Oregon ran into a roadblock in the form of Lowell Pearce. The OSC right hander set down 22 Duck bat ters in a row before Oregon got a four-tun rally going in the eighth. Keller blasted a bases loaded triple to briefly tie the score 4-4. But the Beavers came back to win in the last of the eighth as two runs scored on Jerry Exley’s single. The Friday games were both one-sided. The Webfoots took the first on Maddox' tight pitching. George Shaw, who hit 7-for-14 for the four games, led the hit ters and made a beautiful catch of A1 Guidotti’s long curving drive in the third. Oregon State jumped to a 12-0 lead in the second game and routed five Oregon pitchers be fore the slaughter was over. Duck hitters also got the range on Joe Epperle to score seven runs, with Shaw and Forbes bat ting in three apiece. Forbes, who socked .476 in 1954 to lead the league, racked out six hits in a row in the sec ond and third games and finished with ND batting average of .593 on 16 hits in 27 at bats. Jay Dean ■ of the Beavers collected 24 for 44 to bat .545, but will probably be awarded the official batting i crown as Forbes did not appear at the plate enough times. In any case a new league record Has been set, surpassing Frank Roe landt's .508 average of 1949. Large and enthusiastic crowds of around 3500 turned out each flay. Displacing the umpires as chief target for abue from the fans was the venerable OSC coach, Ralph (Coley) Coleman. Repeated conferences with his pitchers and hitters and cojitin ued delays of the game by the Beaver mentor brought about more objections from the fans at Corvallis than at Eugene. 1st game: 1st game R H E Oregon State 000 001 000—1 6 0 Oregon .004 102 OOx—7 12 0 Guidotti, Mohler (6) Lovejoy; Maddox and Marlett. „ 2nd game R H E Oregon State 103 082 1—15 16 1 Oregon .000 040 3— 7 9 4 Epperle and Lovejoy; Blodgett, Maddox (5), Lundell (5), Stiles 16), Olsen (7) and Marlett, Bo wen (7). 3rd game R H E Oregon .000 000 040—4 7 2 Oregon State 022 000 02x—6 7 0 Gamer, Lehl (8) and Marlett; Pearce and Lovejoy. 4th game R H E Oregon .270 100 0—10 7 2 Oregon State .020 001 1— 4 9 2 Maddox and Marlett; Wilson, Johnson (2) DeHaas (2), Epper le (2) and Lovejoy. IM Schedule Monday Softball Finals 4:00 Phi Kappa Psi vs. Sigma Chi, north field. Track 4:55 Phi Delta Theta vs. Hale Kane, intramural field. Alpha Tau Omega vs. Sig ma Chi, intramural field. 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