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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1964)
'Suicide Swing’ Key to Baseball Title By PHIL SKUAS Emerald Sports Editor They call it the "suicide swing.” It's the trip through the Pa lou.se country of Idaho and east ern Washington and then over to Seattle. It means so much in every Northern Division base ball race. Each year Oregon anti Ore gon State travel up there with their championship hopes riding on how well they do. This year is no exception. The Ducks left yesterday morn ing and play their first game to day against Idaho They meet the Vandulx again Thursday and go on to Pullman for games with Washington State Friday and Saturday The Wehfoots close out t h e swing against Washington in Sc attle Monday and Tuesday Oregon holds the ND lead but either the Cougars or Oregon Slate could still win the crown "We have the most important part of our season ahead of us," says Duck baseball coach Don Kirsch. Kirsch analyzes the way his squad has looked so far "We’ve had good defense and our hitting has been better than I expect ed The pitching hasn't been really outstanding, though ." Kitsch cut his squad to 17 for 3 Ducks Improve Track Positions Three Oregon Wehfoots figured in place changes in Northern Di vision track bests this last week end Although there were changes in position no individual lead changed Oregon’s Dave Blunt is now tied for the second spot in the 100 Blunt ran a 95 to do feat Washington's Jerry Plow man in a dual meet this week end. Blunt's time tied him with Plowman for the second spot Kay Van Aston of the Ducks turned in his best time of the current campaign to move into the second spot in the 880 Van Aston clocked a 1:50 4 to move teammate Don Scott into the third position Scott clocked a 1:50.7 in the same race Oregon continues to lead or share the lead in eight of the 16 listed events. Northern Division track and field leaders: 100 - Harry Jerome, UO, 9 3, Dave Blunt, UO, and Jerry Plow man. L'W, 9 5 220 Jerome, UO, 21 I; Blunt. UO, 21.2, Plowman, UW, 213 440—Gordy Payne. UO, 478. Jim Allen, WSU, 48 0; Lynn Eves, OSU. 48 2. oou—i an underwood, osu, 1:50.2: Hay Van Asten, UO, 1:SO 4 Don Scott. UO. 1 50 7 Mile- 9rchie San Romani. UO, 4:01 2; Morgan Groth, OSU, 4:07 0; Dan Tonn, UO. 4:09 2 Mile—Ken Moore, UO, 8:48 1; Dale Story, OSU, 8:49.2; Gary Baker, OSU, 8:553 3 Mile—Story, OSU, 13:57 2; John Valiant, WSU, 14:03.4; Clay ton Steinke, UO, 14:097 Highs—Marcial Hunter, UO, Gregg Macy, OSU, and Tom Wy att, OSU, 14.3. Inter—Wyatt, OSU. 36.8; Rus ty Brown, OSU, and Macy, OSU, 375. High Jump—Paul Stuber. UO, 6-10; Terry Llewellyn, UO, 0-9: Phil Shinnick, UW, 6-7 Broad Jump—Wariboko West, UW, 25-1>4; Shinnick, UW. 25-Ms; Joe Wiggs, WSU, 23-10%. Pole Vault — Nels Siverson, WSU, 15-6; Gerry Moro, UO, 15-5*4; Bob Yard, WSU, 15-4. Triple Jump—West, UW, 49 4%; Wiggs, WSU, 48 %; Jerry Talbott, WSU, 47-2%. Shot Put — Lahcen Samsam, OSU, 56-3*4; Jerry Larsen, UO, 554: Harald Lorentzen, WSU, 54-11 >4. Discus—A1 Pemberton, UW, 178 7; Lou Fasano, OSU, 176-5*4; Max Leetzow, I, 169-9. Javelin—Les Tipton, UO, 263 1*4; Buck Kipe, WSU, 245 5; Ron Gomez, 236-0. the trip. He’ll have his eight starters - • catcher Ken Jenson, first baseman Sandy Nosier, sec ond baseman Jeff Allen, short stop Terry Lcininger, third base man Ed Vetter, and outfielders If I* Murphy, Cal Dean, and Don Banderas. Also on the squad will be Den nis McCarter, Gordon Avery and Del Jordan. Kirsch will take six pitchers, Bobbie Snow, Arba Ager, Thatch McLeod. Dale Jansen, Wally Palmberg, and Ken Hadden Snow will -tart the first day. After that Kirsch says “we'll play it by ear.” McLeod, After and Jansen will probably draw the other start ing duties, however, with Had den and Palmbcrg in relief. The three teams the Ducks will face are no patsies. The Vandals have some of the best pitchers and hitters in the league, although they lack the depth to be real contenders for league honors. The Vandals' top pitchers arc Gary Peters and Mike Glenn. Hut Oregon State handled Peters and the Ducks beat Glenn on Idaho's road trip into Oregon And be hind that pair the Vandals have little. In the hitting department Tom Hoagland, who’s in the top ten in the Northern Division, is about the best the Vandals have. Again they didn’t show much depth here. Washington State is Oregon's real test on the swing. The Ducks WSU Leads Stats, Oregon Leads ND For I hr second week in a row the Oregon baseball team is lead mg tin . Northern, division pen nant chase in everything but statistics Take hitting for example A1 though the Ducks are leading the league with a 6 2 record they arc only third in team hitting with a 247 mark Washington State is the leader with an amazing 305 mark In the individual statistics WSt s Hob Garretson is making a shambles of the batting race In his last five games through last Saturday Garretson had col lected 16 hits in 22 at bats That's a .727 clip and it has raised his overall batting average to .514. Teammate Bob Fry is in sec ond place with a 488 mark and he also has the most hits, 20. Oregon’s H. D. Murphy is in the fourth spot with a 357 average. Garretson is also setting the pace in RBI's with 12. and dou bles with four, and he leads in triples with three. The Webfoots can claim two of the top three pitchers Robbie Snow of the Ducks and Bob Stephens of WSU are tied for the top spot, each having a 3-1 rec ord and an ERA of 1 62. Oregon’s Thatch McLeod holds down third, also with a 3-1 rec ord, but has a slightly higher ERA of 1.71. HITTING (25 or more at bats) AB Bob Garretson, Washington State Boh Fry. Washington Slate Girard Stone, Washington H. I). Murphy, Oregon Duane Rossman, Washington State Gary Strom, Washington State Stu Thompson, Washington Rod Trask, Oregon State Dale Ford, Washington State Tom lloagland, Idaho 35 41 46 28 34 37 38 29 36 43 H 18 20 18 10 12 12 12 9 11 13 PITCHING (15 or more innings pitched) W Robbie Snow, Oregon 3 Bob Stephens, Washington State 3 Thatch McLeod, Oregon 3 Steve Clark, Oregon State 4 Dennis Straub, Oregon State 3 L 1 1 1 1 2 Avg. ,514 488 .391 .357 353 ,324 .316 .310 .306 .302 IP 322 32-1 21-1 42 1 39 RBI 12 9 6 11 6 5 3 8 5 6 ERA 1.62 1 62 1.71 2.16 234 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RBI—Bob Garretson, WSU, 12; II. D. Murphy, UO, 11; Frank Peters OSU, 10; Veeder South, OSU, 10. 2B— Bob Garretson. WSU, 4; Dale Ford, WSU; Mike Matheson, UW; Girard Stone, UW’; Ed Vetter, UO, 3 each. 3B—Bob Garretson, WSU, 3; Girard Stone, UW, 2. HR—Gary Luce, 1; Charles Johnson, UW; Frank Peters, OSU; Veed er South, OSU, 3 each. SB—Bob Fry, WSU, 9; Girard Stone, UW, 5; Rod Trask, OSU, 4. Washington State Oregon State Oregon Washington Idaho TEAM STATISTICS AB R H RBI 325 54 99 45 330 53 82 47 231 44 57 39 416 44 100 32 384 31 68 26 2B 3B HR SB Pet. 16 5 7 12 .305 9 2 10 12 .248 10 1 6 8 2.47 15 3 6 10 .240 4 17 4 .177 lino's p)ZZA and Italian Dinners FREE DELIVERY (any amount) from 5:30-12:00 p.m. every night except Monday PHONE: 344-2453 PIZZA SPAGHETTI RAVIOLI Open 5 p.m. - 1 a.m. Closed Monday 14 Years in the Same Location at 15th and Willamette, Eugene KEN HADDEN Pitching the Key on Swing managed to beat the Cougars twice down here but WSU is be ginning to look more and more like a title team. “They’re in the driver’s seat,” agrees Kirsch. The Cougars are by far the best hitting team in the Northern Di vision and have the best outlook as far as schedule is concerned. They play only one more game on the road. A pair of Cougar outfielders, Bob Fry and Bob Garretson, are the leading hitters in the league Dale Ford and Duane Rossman also hit well for WSU. The Cougars’ looked weak in pitching on that road trip but they appear to have developed one good hurler in Bob Steph ‘•ns. Stephens is tied with Snow for the KRA lead and had back to-back shutouts last week. Washington is the bottom team in the division but they beat the Ducks last weekend and could do it again, especially since they meet the Webfoots on the tail end of the series, right after WSU. The Huskies looked like a strong hitting team against the Ducks, picking up 25 hits in the two-game series. Tom Kallas, Gi rard Stone, and Charles Johnson are the top Husky hitters. No sin gle I'W pitcher has looked par ticularly good. 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