By AL HYNDING
Emerald Sports Writer mm
You don’t have to look too far these flays to ascertain
just where national opinion is siding with regard to the
coming NCAA track championships.
According to reputed journalistic sources, the midwest is
going to supply this year’s top college meet with the fastest
sprinters, highest vaulter, and best hurlers that ever was.
Could be they’ve forgotten just what area of the country
has been dominating NCAA track and field for the past ump
teen years.
It’s been USC, with guys like Parry O’Brien and Mel
Tatton. and California with Bowden and King and, of
course. Oregon with Grelle and Dellinger and others who in
the past have managed to divert more than just a portion
of the first places their way.
By all odds. Southern California’s Trojans should be fa
vored in the NCAA meet were they able to compete.
As it is. USC’s defending champions and 16-time NCAA
winners have been done in once again by their avid alumni
who fought just a little too fiercely for the old alma last
vear, incurring, in the process, several serious football re
cruiting penalties.
If the Trojans can’t repeat and gain the coveted title of
team track supremacy, who then?
Like we said, you can pick up any of the national sports
releases and come up with the odds-on-favorite—the Kansas
Jayhawks.
Kansas a threat
The big news in Law rence. Kansas is that the Javhawks,
representing the midwest symbolically, boast three certain
winners: Ernie Shelby in the broad jump. Charlie Tidwell
in one of the hurdles events at least, and Bill Alley in the
javelin.
That’s all fine and dandy, but as many track meets are
won with seconds and thirds as with a scattered number of
firsts.
One of the chief reasons Oregon's Ducks were able to
chalk up their sixth straight win in the northern division
finals last weekend w as because of athletes like Dave Ed- |
strotn, who piled up four or five seconds or thirds and plenty
of valuable-points. In other words, the Ducks have depth.
Ducks have fine record
Not too long ago a semi-healthy Duck track contingent
journeyed south to Palo Alto and just about defeated the
mighty Southern Cal crew in a three-way meet with Stanford.
Even without such stalwarts as Steve Anderson, D. C.
Mills and Phil Pacquin on hand last weekend, the Duck cin
dermen were far and away the class of the Northern Division
meet.
The Ducks appear fairly certain of only one first place, and
that in the mile. Jim Grelle should get trouble from Ed
Moran, Penn State’s fine young miler, but here, class should
tell.
As far as the hurdles are concerned. Dave Edstrom, on past
performance in the big national meets, may well be capable
of placing in both hurdle events, particularly in the 120 highs.
It was Edstrom who hit the tape first in the high hurdles
two years ago at the Drake relays'.
Dick Miller, the surprising Webfoot two-miler, must be
considered one of the top entrants in a race that should prove
interesting.
440 highlight's meet
This weekend's PCC championship race should go a long
way in determining whether Oti<» Davis has enough to run
in that great NCAA field that will include world record
holder Glenn Davis, Eddie Southern* and Willie Atterberry.
But if Otis can outlast the Coast field of Cal’s Jack Yerman
(46.5), Bobby Staten (47.0), and Terry Tobacco, he has Jo
be considered near the top in any national rating of cjuarter
milers.
While it's always nice to dream about next year’s sopho
mores like Dyrol Burleson, Jim Puckett, Dick Brown and
crew, it is wrong to consider the Ducks out of contention for
this year’s NCAA team title.
The only problem lies in the fact that the Ducks have never
won a NCAA title, that they have not been recognized
nationally, and that they have, up till this year, b€en under
the shadow of a powerful USC track dynasty.
Things of this nature have nothing to do with what actu
ally happens down on the cinders. There is no doubt in this
corner that the Ducks are going to do well back at the NCAA
finals this June.
Even if they don’t win, the Webfoots should finally bring
home that long overdue respect for track and field in the
northwestern United States.
Fijis win IM golf championship;
Stafford defeats Sheldon Hall
Phi Gamma Delta captured the
1959 intramural golf champion
ship Saturday by scoring a 7Vs
4 V» victory over Morton Hall.
The victorious Fijis gained a
berth in the championship play
off with Morton by downing Phi
Delta Theta in the semifinals.
Morton defeated Sigma Phi Ep
silon to advance Into the finals.
In the final softball action on
the 1959 IM slate. Stafford Hall
won the freshman dormitory title
by defeating Sheldon Hail 16-9.
In Tuesday’s contest softball
playoff Stafford jumped off to
a big lead by scoring II tallies
on nine hits in the first Inning.
Sheldon scored once in the sec
ond inning. The victors length
ened their lead to 13-1 in the third
Inning. Stafford added one more
run In the fourth to take a 14-1
lead.
The losers narrowed the gap In
the fifth by picking up two tal
lies to trail 14-3. Stafford's final
runs were scored in the sixth on
one hit.
Sheldon rallied in the top of
the seventh to score six runs on
two hits and four Stafford errors
to make the final score 16-9.
Wednesday was the last day
for living organisations to turn
in their entry blanks for the
IM track action which gets un
derway Monday.
Preliminaries in the field events
will be held Monday with the
initial competition in the run
ning slated for Tuesday. Finals
will be held Thursday, May 28.
Yanks hit bottom
The New York Yankees took
it on the chin and how Wednes
day when the Detroit Tigers
pounded out a nineteen hit attack
to submerge the world champ
ions 13-6.
The Yanks were submerged
In more ways than one. The de
feat knocked the Bronx Bombers
into the American League cellar
for the first time In 19 years.
Frank Lary. the old Yankee
nemesis, was up to his tricks
again, beating the New Yorkers
for the second time this year and
the eighteenth time In his career.
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