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By Phil White
Emerald Sportt Writer
I lu re should be plenty of opportunities for angler.-, to
stretch their cramped muscles this Memorial Day weekend.
I he l nscadc lake season opens Saturday, hut we’re afraid
that many of the lakes will not be fishablc due to snow and
ice.
It now looks like the only one of the big three of Hast
lake, Paulina lake, and Crainc Prairie reservoir that will he
free of ice is the latter. ’I he others are still covered with ice
and snow to a depth of several feet.
Trolling produces well in those lakes in the early part of
the season, but as the weather progresses still fishing with
worms or eggs seems to produce the best results.
The angling that looks like the best prospect to us this
weekend is the shad fishing in both forks of the Coos river.
I he shad, a migratory fish, is now present in the Coos river
in the greatest numbers that can be remembered for many
years.
1 he catches have been fabulous for boat fishermen using
small spinners, spoons, and flics. 'I lie bank fishermen have
been doing well with spinning outfits.
Shad are not too large on the average, but their smoking
runs and enthusiastic fight puts even the mighty steelhead to
shame. They have a tender mouth, so you must handle them
u ith care.
Shad Runs Awaited
W <• can still feel the jolt of the first shad we hooked in the
Connecticut river. In the East the May runs of shad are
eagerly awaited by all who have had the thrill of the throb
of a shad on the end of their line.
On the \\ i st coast shad fishing has just become popular
in the last few years. This year’s run in the Coos forks should
establish a permanent place for this noble fish in Oregon's
already crowded list of game fish.
For the person who plans to stay close to school, the
McKenzie offers a good bet. Trout averaging ten inches
are rising well now with the warmer weather, and the Mc
Kenzie special seems to be the top fly.
The prospects on the Middle and North forks of the
Willamette appear to be good for this weekend also. The
rivers were a bit high last weekend, but should be in
good shape barring any more rain.
Don't overlook the prospects of a chance to fish for bass.
This noble fish is now starting to hit surface lures with lots
of % igor, and the prospects for a lunker are getting better
every day.
ItC quite a thrill to have a four pounder smash your deer
hair bug in a shower of spray, and you won't forget it for
quite a while. The fish are averaging very large at this time
in many of our coastal lakes.
Preserve Our Wildlife
Since this is our last article for the year, we won't have any
more chances to remind you of the many conservation prin
ciple" that need to be repeated again and again. Therefore
we hope that you can remember some of the items we have
mentioned and will put them to practice.
When you’re out fishing this summer remind yourself and
your friends that someone will be standing where you are
after you leave, so try to leave things the way you’d like to
find them. There’s no thrill quite like finding a lake or stream
that shows no evidence of having been fished before.
'Til next year then, lets hope we all have tight lines and a
smoking gun barrel.
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Ronnie Knox Cleared
By Coast Conference
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
The controversial enrollments of
star football halfback Ronnie
Knox were climaxed Wednesday
by a Pacific Coast conference
blackball of a University of Cali
fornia booster club.
The conference put the South
ern Seas club of Los Angeles
out of bounds to the university
until further notice.
The conference, however,
cleared Knox, the University of
California and the University of
California at Los Angeles, where
Knox now is a student, of any
implication of confex-ence ath
letic code violations.
Knox, a Los Angeles area resi
dent, enrolled at California in
Berkeley in September, 1953.
But after completing the year
he transferred to UCLA, amid
much publicity. He was ineli
gible for football last season,
losing one season’s eligibility,
but is counted on heavily by
UCLA for the coming fall.
Faculty athletic representa
tives at the spring conference
meeting here passed a resolution
reprimanding the booster club
for "carrying on its payroll for
a period of 16 months at a sub
stantial salary an employe whose
sole duty was to recruit athletic
talent for the University of Cali
fornia,”
Ducks Arrive
In Los Angeles
Coach Don Kirsch’s baseball
club arrives in Los Angeles today
for a three-game series with the
University of Southern Califor
nia to decide the Pacific Coast
Conference championship.
A single game will be played
Friday and a doubleheader Sat
urday. In case one team wins the
first two games, a third will not
be played.
Duck* Downed
The Webfoots tuned up for
the PCC playoffs by dropping a
15-3 contest to the Northwest
league Salem Senators at Salem
Tuesday. Salem pitchers held
Oregon to five hits but dished
up 11 walks.
Oregon contributed five errors
to the Senators' batting attack
as both sides used reserve play
ers freely. Salem jumped to a
quick five run lead in the first
inning off losing pitcher Bill
Blodgett and never trailed after
that. The Senators pounded out
16 hits.
Blodgett tossed the first five
innings, allowing six runs and
was succeeded by Jim Lehl, who
was roughed up for nine tallies
in two frames. Lefty Bill Gamer
pitched the eighth and faced
only three batters, striking out
two.
Take Six Pitchers
The 17-man squad taken to
Los Angeles includes six pitch
ers, one catcher, six outfielders,
and four infielders, plus team
manager Roth Martin.
The pitchers are Blodgett, Gar
ner, Lehl, Terry Maddox, John
Lundell, and Denny Olsen. Out
fielders are Bernie Averill.
George Shaw, Jerry Ross, Jim
Pingree, Norm Forbes, and Bob
Wagner. The four infielders are
Dick Schlosstein, Jim Johnson.
John Keller, ana Pete Williams,
and the catcher is Neal Marlett.
Sixteen Selected
To Play for Title
NEW YORK <AP)- The wind
up of three conference races this
week-end and the meetings of
a few district selection commit
tees will complete the field for
the ninth national collegiate
baseball championship playoffs.
The district playoffs will be
staged next week to determine
the eight teams to go into the
college world series at Omaha,
June 10-14.
The 16th—and perhaps the
best—team entered the field
Wednesday when the Missouri
Valley conference named unbeat
en Oklahoma A&M as its repre
sentative. The Aggies, winners
of 22 straight, had been sched
uled to play St. Louis for the
conference title, but the series
was rained out and St. Louis
found that examinations would
prevent playing next Monday and
Tuesday.
Nine other cinference winners
and five “at large" teams al
ready have been picked for dis
trict play-offs. Still to be de
cided are the Middle Atlantic,
Skyline and Pacific coast confer
ence races, in which the winner
automatically qualifies for the
NCAA playoffs.
Utah and Wyoming in the
Mountain States and Southern
California and Oregon on the
Pacific Coast will play off this
w’eek-end.
Sports Staff!
Desk Editor: Buzz Nelson.
Staff: Neki hokey Claussen,
Mumbles Mitehelmore, A1 (Base)
Johnson and Jack Wilson.
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IM Finalists
Play Today
Three intramural champion
ships will be decided today with
Sigma Chi facing Phi Kappa Psi
in the feature softball attracton.
In track Alpha Tau Omega
goes against Sigma Phi Epsilon
and in tennis the Dorm Coun
selors meet Hale Kane.
Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Psi
were originally slated to play
last Monday but a track conflict
forced concellation and the two
houses will vie for the softball
title today at 5 p.m. on the north
softball diamond.
In Wednesday’s track ATO
edged Phi Delta Theta to move
into the finals. A1 Morris paced
ATO with wins in the three
Kid Matthews
Plans Return
SEATTLE (AP) - Like so
many who have hung them up,
Harry Matthews has taken down
the old boxing gloves and says
he is returning to the ring wars
for “another crack at Marci
ano.”
The Seattle heavyweight, who
was kayoed by Don Cockell in a
fight here last August, an
nounced Nov. 18 he was quitting
for good, retiring to his business
interests.
Wednesday night he said that
motion pictures of the fight
Cockell lost to Rocky Marciano,
the heavyweight champion, in
San Francisco May 16. influ
enced his change of mind.
“Marciano looked so crude and
awkward against Cockell," he
1 said. "I decided the champion is
slipping. I think a good boxer
I could beat him.”
He said that an old back in
jury' which figured in his pre
vious decision to retire had heal
ed and “I am confident I Can
whip the young crop of fighters,
including Pat McMurtry.”
His losses include three to
Cockell and a second-round
knockout at the hands of Mar
ciano. the man he thinks is slip
ping.
quarter mile and the pole vault.
Other first place finishers were
ATO’s Jerry Ross in the 75
yard dash, Jerry Jones in the
shot put, and Max Anderson in
the high hurdles. Phi Delt win
ners were Dean Van Leauvan in
the high jump and Bob Wilcox
in the broad jump. The ATO's
captured the relay.
Sigma Phi Epsilon captured
the other track meet, skimming
past Beta Theta Pi for four
points, 35% to 31%. Taking
firsts for the Sig Eps were Don
Spinas in the hurdles, Tom Tay
lor in the dash, Emerson Harvey
in the shot, Berge Borrevik in
the three-quarter mile, and Gil
Leiberman, in the broad jump.
Jerry Pool of Beta Theta Pi tied
in the high jump with Sig Ep
Roy Chase and there was also a
tie in the pole vault. The Sig
Eps won the relay.
In tennis the Dorm Counselors
moved past the Legal Eagles
2-1, and Hale Kane downed Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon 2-1. Hale
Kane has already won the golf
title and will be going for a sec
ond win today.
IM Schedule
THURSDAY
Softball Finals
5:00 Sigma Chi vs. Phi Kappa
Psi, north field.
Track Finals
4:55 Alpha Tau Omega vs.
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Tennis Finals
4:00 Dorm Counselors vs. Hale
Kane, courts 4, 5, 6.
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