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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1963)
OREGON VARSITY bowling stars, Jim Bradbury (left) and Andy Smith (right) racked up 205 and 204 averages respectively in last weekend’s Oregon State Masters tournament. Bradbury rolled the second highest series in the tourney with a 960 effort, while Smith took high game honors with 267. photo by Dave Feiring. Vengeful Ducks To Meet Vikings By BOB HERNDON Assistant Sports Editor Once again the weather is giv ing Oregon sports a run for the money. Although spring is almost here, the rain is threatening to do what few teams have been able to do, halt Don Kirsch's base ball team. Rain forced the cancellation of Tuesday’s game with the Univer sity of Portland, and black clouds and a soggy field loom as barriers to today’s games with Portland State. The Ducks will be looking for victory number 20 today and re venge from the Vikings who put the only blemishes on the Web fool’s 19-2 record with a pair of wins on the Portland State dia mond. Portland State, runners-up in the NTAIA championships, snap ped a 12-game Webfoot winning streak with 2-0 and 3-2 wins, and KWAX, at 91.1 megacycles, will broadcast the Oregon-Port land State game today. Game time will be 3 p.m. Viking moundsmen held the Ducks scoreless for 12 straight innings. Since then, the Webfoots have molded a new seven-game win ning streak with five Northern Division wins and two non-con ference victories over the Univer sity of Portland. With five Northern Division wins to their credit, the Ducks are holding down first place a full game ahead of Oregon State. The Webfoots have rolled over Washington and Washington State twice and hold a single victory over the Idaho Vandals. Portland State, a pre-season pick as one of the best in the Northwest, has lived up to its reputation by dumping both na tionally ranked Oregon and Ore gon State. The Vikings boast two of the best hurlers around in Gordon Riese, voted the most valuable player in the NAIA tournament in Kansas City, and A1 Raschio. It was Riese and Raschio that guid ed the Vikings to their previous wins over the Ducks, and both should be tabbed for action today. Oregon hitting, a real weak spot in early season play, has shown a marked improvement in the last few games, and the Ducks have boosted their team batting average from an anemic .160 to a more respectable .223. H. D, Murphy, reserve outfield er. leads the Webfoots at the plate with 10 hits in 21 trips to the plate for a husky .476 aver age. F'red Pettengill, Webfoot third-saeker, is second with 15 hits in 43 attempts for a .349 mark at the plate. In five Northern Division games, Pettengill has been red hot with seven hits in 20 times at bat. The junior third baseman has also clouted four home runs and driven in 12 runs in five league contests. Webfoot pitching has continued to shackle opposing batters with Robbie Snow and Arba Ager lead ing the staff. Snow has posted a perfect 4-0 record so far this rea son, and a fine 1.71 earned run record. Ager has recorded four wins against one loss for a .72 earned run average. On the mound, Oregon’s Don Kirsch plans to go with junior right-hander Thatch McLeod. The ex-Central Catholic star has post ed a 2-0 record and has yet to give up an earned run. All hopes for today's game rely on the weather, and with the pres ent five-day forecast calling for rain, the outlook is not too bright. “I’m not a weather prophet,” said Coach Kirsch, “but I sure hope we can get it in. If we don’t get anymore rain, I think we can make it.” Berry Injured At Grid Scrimmage EUGENE (AP)—Quarterback Bob Berry of the University of Oregon football team may miss the rest of spring training be- j cause of rib fractures. Athletic Department officials said Tuesday that Berry suffered three broken ribs in scrimmage Saturday. Bradbury Finishes 6th in Tournament Jim Bradbury, a member of Oregon’s varsity bowling squad, won three of six matches last weekend to finish sixth in a field of 32 keglers competing in the Oregon State Masters Bowling tournament, held at Eugene’s Emerald Lanes. Another varsity bowler, Andy Smith, participated in the double elimination tourney but was drop ped after his third match The freshman won his first match with an 840 effort (four games). Dick Phipps, who took second in the competition, defeated Smith 843-313, after which the latter lost again by another close mar gin, 814-796. Smith rolled the tourney’s high game with a 267 mark and also racked up a 259 game. Bradbury led off Friday night with a 906 series, second highest in the tourney. Jim Smith, win ner of the Masters action, topped Bradbury’s score by one pin to take high series honors. Aside from his 906, the Oregon junior shot series of 841, 781, 858, 816 and closed out with a 708. I Half Mast J lSv KAY MA By KAY MAST Kmcrald Spurts Kditor You might remember a series of stories in the Emerald a few weeks ago dealing with the prob lem of major league bonuses. Well, it seems that there are people in higher echelons who are also concerned with the proh lem. Walter Shannon, former farm director of the St. Louis Cardinals and now a scouting supervisor for the Milwaukee Hraves, is a man with a plan. Shannon's plan calls for sum mer baseball for amateur ath letes that is directed by college coaches, played under the NCAA rules, and under community spon sorship with financial aid of the big leagues. No Pay to Amateurs The amateurs, mostly college players, wouldn’t he paid, but would be given jobs in recreation fields and private industry. The major league sponsors would pay expenses. Shannon said, “Having hund reds of college players developed in the summer leagues would be a plus factor for the game "If we could get a better look at them in college, we may be able to avoid some of our mis takes.” Amen. Seems like it would save a few headaches and gray hairs for the many college coaches who see their best prospects plucked away from them just when it looks like a winner is in sight. Hob Garibaldi was grabbed from the Santa Clara campus for well over a hundred grand last year after he had pitched the Broncos to the runner-up position in the NCAA finals, (iarihaldi was only a sophomore, Husky Coach Resigns A few notes were left over from the weekend. The 6 5 loss Oregon pinned on Washington Saturday may have been one of those “win for the coach” efforts by the Huskies Husky coach Car men Mauro said Saturday that he was resigning at Washington to accept a job at the new Merced Junior College in California Pitchers Chart Games Don Kirsch has taken a page out of the major league books Each game he has his pitchers chart each pitch in order that his game pitcher for that day can see how effectively he has pitched The chart shows the percentage of fast balls and curves that were strikes. The chart may help the next day’s pitcher know what pitch h** can use on a certain individual to get him out The only trouble is, the way the rain has been falling, it's difficult to tell who will be pitching the following day—niucii less with whom the next game will be Frosh Dominate Vancouver Relays Oregon’s freshman track team is beginning to perform like the varsity. In Vancouver, B.C., last weekend the Ducklings won every running event they entered as they scored 108 points to com pletely dominate the Vancouver Relays. In the distance medley relay, Ken Bauman. Don Scott, Barrie Dargie, and Bruce Mortenson combined for a 10:20 clocking which set a meet record. Jim Hawke, Gordon Payne, Bauman and Scott ran the mile relay in 3:208, which was also a meet record. Oregon’s competition came from the University of Washing ton Frosh, Seattle Pacific. West ern Washington. University of British Columbia, The Seattle Olympic Club, and the Vancouver Olympic Club. The Vancouver club provided the stillest oppo sition for the Frosh as it scored 89 points. Coach Chuck Bowles said, “The competition wasn't too strong.'' and that almost "everyone won by a considerable margin ” Me also said that the distance medley and the sprint medley races were close until the last lap Marcia! Hunter turned in a line performance as he won the high hurdles in the time of 14 6 Coach Bowles said that "he knock ed over the eighth hurdle or he would have had a lower time" Hunter also placed third in the high jump at 6-2 He actually jumped as high as the first place man. but was given third on misses. Hawke won the 100 in 10 1 and John Warrington was third in 10.3. Mortenson won the steeple chase in 9:33.4 and Ken Moore was third with a time of 9:55 6 Moore came back and won the three mile in 14:264 In the 440 relay Bob Woodell, Hawke, Payne and Warrington teamed up for a 42 8 triumph. In the sprint medley Payne, War rington, Woodell, and Dargie were victorious in 3:266. DRIVE OUT < D«Ve thru Servi ice ,1 DRIVE IN “A NAME YOU CAN TRUST" Dl 5-6321 821 E. 13th I Laundry > Dry Cleaning Fast Service on Dress Wear No Parking Problems
