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By Jerry Claussen
Emerald Co-S ports Editor ■■
The greatest event of Oregon’s spring sports season is due
to go off on Hayward field this weekend when Oregon's track
team hosts the annual Pacific Coast conference track meet.
Two l>ig days of events are scheduled with preliminaries slated
for Friday and the finals scheduled for Saturday.
Track fans, a phenomenon that was seldom seen around
here before Bill Bowerman came to Oregon and built up the
sport, will get to see some of the top athletes in the country
at the PCC event. If it wasn’t for USC's annual dominance,
both of the coast and the nation in track, the meet could be
actually exciting.
As it is. regardless of the great Trojans’ power in the run
ning, throwing and jumping that goes on in a track meet. \
Oregon fans should have something to cheer about. Oregon
figures to do its best in the meet snce 1950. when Bowerman’s
second Oregon track team came in fourth.
Second PCC Meet fdr Bowerman
This will be the second time Eugene has hosted the meet
in recent years, the last time being in 1952. Bowerman did
such a good job in handling the big affair that year, with tin
fact that the meet attracted plenty of fans who paid plenty to
see it. that Oregon got the nod again his year with but a three
year interval.
This season Oregon was the Northern Division track
champ for the second year in a row, a fact which figures to
draw even better crowds to watch the home Ducks buck the
dominance of the big schools from the south. Oregon should
do all right, too.
The Ducks have four good chances to pull down first places
in the meet’s 15 events. There are the Ducks’ three great dis
tance runners—Bill Dellinger. Ken Reiser and Jim Bailey—
and Sophomore broadjumper Martin Pedigo. There are also
possibilities of other Webfoots taking places.
USC Leads Best Marks
Going almost strictly on best performances so far this sea
son, here is how the meet lines up, event by event:
100-yard dash.—1. Pat Co>le, USC (9.6); 2. Howard Bugbee, USC (9.6); .1. Bob
Gary. WSC (9.71 ; 4. Keith Brownsberger, Stanford (9.7); 5. Jim S^ra», Stanford (9.7).
220-yard dash — 1.- Keith Brownsberger, Stanford (21.1); 2. Howard Bugbee. USC
(21..1); 2. Jim Saras, Stanford (21.3); 4. Bruce Springbett, Oregon (21.4); 5. Bob
Gary, WSC (21.6).
440-yard dash. —1. Walt Garrett. Stanford (47.7); 2. Mike I.arraliee. USC (47.8);
3. Russ Ellis, l CLA (48.0 i ; Bob Warwick, Cal. (48.5) ; 5. Larry Spicer, Stanford (48.8.
880-yard run 1. Jim Bailey, Oregon (1:51.5); 2. Gary Gayton, Wash. (1:51.9);
3. Bob Seaman, UCLA (1:54.7); 4. Bob Carne, UCLA (1:54.7); 5. Bill Tavk.r. USC
(1 :54.7).
Mile run 1. Sid Wing, USC (4:08.2); 2. Bob Hunt, UCLA (4:09.5); 3. Bob
Seaman. UCLA (4:10.7); 4. Marty Montgomery, USC (4:10.8); 5. Bill Dellinger,
Oregon (4 :12.2).
Two-mile run 1. Fernando Ledesma, USC (9 :09.5) ; 2. Ken Reiser. Oregon (9 :! 1.3) ;
3. Bob Hunt. UCLA (9:12.5); 4. Bob Seaman, UCLA (9:20.6); 5. Bill Dellinger.
Oregon (9:21.7).
120-yard high hurdles 1. Jim Ball. UCLA (14.2) ; 2. Bernie Nelson. Stanford (14.2);
3. Dave Ro-*-llini, UCLA (14.5); 4. Jim Luttrell, Stanford (14.7); 5. John Morgan,
USC (14.7).
220-yard low hurdles 1. Jim Luttrell. Stanford (23.); 2. I .eon Clarke. USC (23.8);
3. Bob I.eadbetter, Wash., (23.9); 4. Jim Blesses, Cal. (23.9); 5. Charles Holloway,
UCLA (23.9).
Broad jump— 1. Martin Pedigo. Oregon (24’ 1”); 2. Frank Hermann. Stanford
(24' 1"); 3. Charles Hollowa.,, UCLA (24' 1"); 4. Marshall Cele-tin, Cal. (23' 10");
5. Dick Richards, USC (23’ 5 3-4').
High jump 1. Ernie Shelton, USC (6 10"); 2. Floyd Jeter, USC (6’ 8"); 3. Nick
Dyer, ( CLA (6* 6 3-4") ; 4. Phil Felilen, Stanford (6’ 6") ; 5. John Stewart, Stanford
(6' 5").
Pole, vault 1. Ron Morris, USC (14’ 9 3-4"); 2. Walt Levack, USC 04' 9 3-4");
3. Dave Seed, USC (14' 0").; 4. Dave Hill, UCLA 03' 10"); 5. Twig Chambers,
Cal. (13' 9").
Shot put 1. Ray Martin, l,'SC (57’ 6”); 2. Don Vick. UCLA (55' 10"); 3. John
Kehnert, Cal. (54' 7 1-4") ; 4. Clyde Wetter, UCLA (54' 3 1-2") ; 5. John Stellrrn.
Cal. (53’ 9").
Discus —1. Des Koch. Stanford 068' 10 1-2"); 2. Don Vick. UCLA (168' 3-8");
3. Ron Drummond, UCLA (167’ 0"); 4. Eric Murray, Cal. (157* 3-8"); 5. Howard
Smith, USC (157' 0").
Javelin—1. Bob Kimball, Stanford (239’ 7 1-2"); 2. John Bugge. Stanford (229'
8 1-2"); 3. Jerry Church, OSC (215’ 5 3-4") ; 4. Henry Roldan, Stanford (214’ 6 3-4") ;
5. Ed Bingham, Oregon (209* 9”).
Mile relay 1. UCLA (3:12.8); 2. USC (3:14.5); 3. Stanford (3:16.7); 4. California
(3:19.2); 5. Oregon (3:20.2).
California Teams Dominant
It’s obvious that the California schools, especially USC,
Stanford and UCLA, are a long' way ahead in top perform
ances by track athletes this season. The old story of the dif
ference between Northern Division and Southern Division
athletics is repeating itself even in track.
If the meet follows form USC will get about 67 points,
only three less than last year. Oregon figures for fourth
with about 20. Other totals include UCLA, 55; Stanford,
54; Washington, 7; Washington State, 4; Oregon State, 3,
and Idaho, 0.
It looks like Oregon can’t possibly finish any better than
fourth behind the southern schools, but their point total could
be much higher. Everyone remembers what Bill Dellinger did
in the mile last year and Oregon has the personnel to pull
some upsets. There’s a good chance they will.
Webfoots Fly South
Thursday for Playoffs
By Buzz Nelson
Emerild Aoltlant Sportt Editor
Oregon’s defending Pacific
Coast conference and Far West
basebull champions leave for Los
Angeles by plane Thursday for
their weekend series with the
University of Southern Califor
nia Trojans to decide the PCC
championship.
The Webfoots won the North
ern Division title and USC cap
tured the Southern Division, or
California Intercollegiate Base
bull assocation. crown. A three
game series will be played be
tween the two to determine who
will meet the Coast's leading in
dependent team for the right to
represent the Far West in the
NCAA finals.
Oregon and USC are sched
uled for a single game Friday,
starting at 3:15 (PDTt, and a
doubleheader Saturday, to start
at 12:30 p.m. If one club should
win the first two games, a third
will not be played.
Coach Don Kirsch will take
a 17-man team (not yet selected)
to Los Angeles for the series.
They leave by United Airlines
Salem Drops Ducks
SALEM (AP)—The Salem
Senators of the Northwest
league defeated the University
of Oregon, the Northern IMvl
sion champion, in an exhibition
baseball game Tuesday night,
1.1-3. Both teams used reserves
freely.
Whitman Streak Ends
As Seals Clip Bevos
PORTLAND (API—Don Frac
chia pitched San Francisco to
an 8-2 victory over Portland
Tlesday night and snapped out
fielder Dick Whitman's hitting
streak of 28 consecutive games.
San Francisco 010 205 000-8 9 0
Portland .002 000 000-2 8 1
Fracchia and Tornay; Werle,
Anthony (6i, Burtschy (8i and
Robertson.
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Chuck Mitchel
more.
Staff: Mumbles Claussen and
Neki Hokey Nelson.
Neither Washington nor Idaho
landed men on the 1954 Northern
Division all-star baseball team.
Oregon placed five, Oregon State
three and Washington State two.
Rod Prossey of Washington
hit .361 in Northern Division
baseball in 1954. He got 13 hits
in 36 at-bats—but batted in
only one run,
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Thursday and figure to arrive
at Burbank airport at 5 p.m.
From there they will go directly
to the Trojan's ballpark for a
short workout.
Southern Cal swept to the
CIBA championship for the thiril
time in four years, tieing with
Stanford in 1953. Coach Ron
I Dedcaux’ club finished with a
12-3 record, three games ahead
, of second place UCLA. The USC
team batting average for league
games was a neat .317, including
.300 plus averages by six regu
lars.
Topping the USC hitters was
righefielder Gerry Mason. Mason
pounded the ball for a .457 aver
age, second only to the .481 of
Bill Mills of UCLA, and led the
league in slugging with .783. Ma
son also tied for home run lead
ership with teammate Bill Faddis
with three circuit clouts apiece.
Trojans Slug
Teaming with Mason in the
outfield are centerfteldcr Tony
Santino and leftfielder Gary
Robin. Santino, who played first
base last year, swatted .438. and
Robin posted a healthy .359 av
erage.
The Trojan infield includes
Kent Hadley at first. Jim Oros
at second, John Stevenson and
Hal ‘•Buddy" Pritchard at short,
and Faddis at third. John Gar
ten handles the catching.
And as usual, the Trojans fea
ture solid pitching. The two
front liners are Vic Lapiner and
Ralph Pausig. Lapiner finished
■ with 5-0 and a 4.56 earned run
! average and Pausig notched a
5-1 mark with a 3.70 ERA. Be
hind these two are Marty Jtua
nich 12-1), Jack Lovrich (0-1),
Bob Burdick, Roy Scharer and
Len Landy. All are righthanders
except Landy.
Garten, Mason and Pausig
have been mentioned as possible
All-Anferican candidates. Garten
is playing his fourth season on
the varsity and is hitting .308.
He is rated a good receiver and
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well as a solid sticker.
Another four-year man 1m the
strong-armed shortstop Steven
son. Alternating with Pritchard,
Stevenson hit .333 while* Pritch
ard. a sophomore, hit .303.
ItItl leaders
Secondhasemnn Oros, back for
his third year, blasted .357, while
Hadley hit .235 and Kaddts hit
224 Hadley led the league in
runs batted in with 20 and Fad
dis was second with 15.
Other Trojans likely to see ac
tion In the series are outfielders
Mike Hoeck, Bill Olson and Carl
Maggie, inflelder-outfUdder Bob
Gcrst. and infleldei-catcher Dick
Horns.
Dedeaux. the Trojan's coach,
has been at U8C since 1942,
when he took over for Sam Bar
ry, who went into the navy. A
former Southern Cal shortstop
himself who had a brief trial with
the Brooklyn Dodgers, Dedeaux
won the CIBA championship In
'42 and finished second In '43,
'44 and '45.
Barry returned and assumed
the hcacl reins in 194*1 but cm his
death in 1950, Dedeaux took over
again as head coach and ha c
won or tied for the title every
year since.
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