EMERALD SPORTS
WEBFOOT-PRINTS
Six-Year String
By RANDE WILMARTH
Sports Editor
It doesn t look like the NCAA meet string that the Oregon track
team has run out over the past six years will be cut off this spring
.—as long as the Ducks can get a few performances that compare to
the results the team obtained in 1965.
And with the returnees to the VVebfoot squad, those performances
could be readily obtained.
Oregon hasn't finished lower than fourth place in team scoring
since the 1960 NCAA meet, and that fourth position came in 1960
After that date. Bill Bowerman’s team took three first places—
including last year's co-championship with Southern California—
and a second and a third.
Bowerman again has publicly expressed his pessimism, mainly
about the weakness of the team as a dual meet winner. But a look
at a few of the Oregon returnees will show, at least in champion
ship meets, such as the Northern Division. AAWII and NCAA
matches, that the team will again be competitive and a first rate
power:
Bruce Mortenson—a senior this year who. as a junior, won the
NCAA steeplechase title and the Northern Division steeplechase
crown, and placed second in the AAWU meet in the same event. His
best two-mile time is 8:59.2 while he won the NCAA steeplechase
title in 9:00.8.
Ken Moore—a senior, two-year letter winner, was a definite fac
tor in Oregon’s AAWU win last spring with a double win in the
steeplechase and the three-mile. And he would have been certain
to place in the NCAA meet (he owns an 8:48.1 all-time best in the
two-mile) but for a foot injury. His best mile mark is 4:05 6.
AH 260 Pounds of Him . . .
Neil Steinhauer—Oregon's second NCAA champion. He tossed
the shot 63-5*^ last year and has already topped that mark in
competition this season with a throw of 63-5a4 in an open meet at
Sacramento last week. That mark, incidentally, is an Oregon school
record.
Steinhauer, all 260 pounds of him, is only a junior and thus makes
it possible for the defending NCAA, AAWU and Northern Division
shot put champion to give the Ducks a boost for another year after
this season.
Wade Bell—another junior and a fifth-place finisher in the NCAA
meet last spring in the 880. His best half-mile time is 1:48.0 and his
top mile mark is 4:06.3.
Gordon Payne—a senior, two-year letterman, and a defending
Northern Division champion in the 440. Payne also placed fifth in
the 1965 AAWU meet. His best is a 47.5.
Although there’s a fine group of sophomores that make up a por
tion of Bowerman’s squad, these veterans will shoulder quite a bit
of the load when it comes to scoring points in the Northern Division,
AAWU and NCAA meets in May and June. A lack of depth in the
field events could be one of the prime causes for a number of losses
in dual meets, but performances equalling those scored late last
year could again give the Ducks top positions in the big meets.
“If I Had to Lose . . ”
Notes . . .
Oregon’s first gymnast to ever qualify for the NCAA meet is
competing this weekend in the NCAA gymnastics championships at
State College, Pennslyvania.
John Turchi, a junior and a fifth place finisher in the Far West
Championships, will compete in the trampoline event . . .
The results of the Oregon-Linfield baseball doubleheader couldn’t
have ended more favorably Wednesday for the principals involved.
Roy Helser’s Linfield team split the two games with Don Kirsch’s
Oregon squad—and Helser, among other things, is Kirsch’s uncle.
According to Kirsch, Helser started the Duck mentor in baseball
and got him interested in coaching as a career. “If I had to lose to
anybody,” smiled Kirsch after the contest, “it might as well be to a
relative.”
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Golf Tennis Open Year
Oregon varsity tennis and Rolf i
teams open competition this
weekend with Elwood Kretzing I
er’s Rolf squad hostiriR Portland
State at the Eugene Country Club
at 1:30 p.m. Friday and Vern
Ball's tennis team traveling to
meet Portland Saturday.
Gay Davis, a sophomore, and
Bob Kiesz, a senior, led the golf
team in the 72 hole qualifying
competition last weekend on the
Oakway Championship c o u r s e.
Both scored 296 totals.
Carvel Nelson, third with a 297
mark, scored the round's only
hole-in-one with an ace on the
165-yard, 13th hole on the final
day.
Other varsity qualifiers were
Bill Ward with 298, Tom Kabler
3(H), Mike Davis 301, Boh Lovejoy
302, Ralph Schafer 305, Hick
KniRht 306, and Don Morrow 307
Sophomore Jim Wilkey, with
a two on the 465-yard eighth hole,
scored the second double eagle
ever scored in the 17-year history
of the course but failed to quali
fy
Jim Taggard led the frosh qual
ifiers with a medalist total of 308.
The Ducklings open the season
Saturday at Bend in a match
with Bend Country Club members
and Oregon alumns.
Bob Donnelly and Bill Miller,
both letter winners, pace the ten
nis squad. Donnelly posted a 12 4
singles mark last year and Miller
netted a 12-5 record, also in
singles.
Other letter winners returning
are Jeff Lewis, 5-8 for the 1965
season, and Bob Dendatl. 36 in
the 1964 campaign.
Sophomores expected to be
competing for Ball are Charles
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Friday
Varsity Baseball — Pacific at
Howe Field, 3 p.m.
Varsity Golf—Portland State at
Eugene Country Club, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday
Varsity Baseball—Portland (2)
at Howe Field, 1:30 p.m.
Varsity Track—Montana State,
Oregon Track Club, and Santa
Clara Youth Village at Hayward
Field, 1 p.m.
Varsity Tennis — Portland at
Portland.
Sierra Club Sets
Ski Trip Sunday
The Sierra Club has scheduled
a ski or snowshoe trip Sunday to I
Saddle Blanket Mountain, in the
Fall Creek area.
All interested persons should
sign up on the sheet on the SU
Bulletin Board.
The group will leave at 8:30
a m. Sunday from the SU turn
around on Emerald St. Skiers
should be equipped with climb
ers.
Anyone wishing further infor
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ext. 2186.
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