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Ducks Slam PSC Baseball Team By RANDE WII.MARTH Sports Editor For half an inning Wednesday it was a pitchers’ duel at Howe field. But after Oregon exploded for nine runs in its half of the first -inning in a rain-caused makeup game with Portland State, the Viking hurlers could have just as well have called the whole thing off. The Ducks added six anore runs in three different innings after the initial outburst and wound up with a 15A win. their tenth victory against eight losses this season .The win was also Ore gon's eighth in a row and its sec ond over the Viks in eight days. After Duck pitcher Larry Hills held Portland State scoreless in the first stanza, Oregon blasted seven hits—six of which were for extra bases—past Viking pitching in its half of the in ning And that was all. obviously, the Webfoots needed for the win. PSC coach Roy Love used three pitchers in the inning and the second hurler, Phil BarnekofT, suffered the loss, allowing five runs in two-thirds of an inning. EMERALD SPORTS "That hitting was good to see," said Oregon coach Don Kirsch. ■That’s what I’ve been looking for all season—they’re getting con sistent now. 1 was real pleased.” Calling the Ducks power at the plate Wednesday "consistent" would probably have been an un derstatement. The first seven batters reach ed base and two of the seven belted two extra base hits in the same inning. Ualderidge Doubles Center fielder Dennis Baldridge opened the inning with a double down the left field line and short stop Hon Delplanche followed with a home run over the right field fence at the 360 foot mnrk. Oregon Track Dynasty Shows Strength in Distance Events By DAVE BARONTI Sports Writer There's no denying it. Nuns and priests in and around South Bend. Ind.. will always recall fondly the Notre Dame football dvnasty of the early 1900’s. And CBS the pre-1965 Yankees. But it should also be noted that whatever the sport on the colle giate scene, and however it is played, a certain segment of track and-field has been dominated more by one school in the 12 years since 1954 than has any other form of sport. That segment is distance-run ning. And the school is Oregon. The dynasty ultimately brought the University six out of a pos sible nine NCAA mile champion ships in the years between 1954 and 1962, seven out of eleven three-mile championships from then until 1964. two out of four steeplechase crowns since 1961. and three of the last five NCAA 880 titles. There is no denying that this record is impressive. But how it was done, where it was done and who did it makes it even more so. Started with Dellinger Probably the instigator of the whole thing was an unlikely looking. blond and stocky Spring field High School graduate named Bill Dellinger who, in the spring of 1954. W'as just another - prom ising" Webfoot distance runner. Just another -promising” run ner until April 30. 1954. On that date he handed Idaho two-miler Lou Gourley his first loss of the season in the excellent time (as the Emerald reported a few days later) of 9:34.5. The following week, the Em erald noted: ‘‘Bill Dellinger, the Ducks’ promising sophomore mi ler, pulled an upset in his spe cialty when he nipped Bill Par nell. former WSC track star, at the tape in a very good 4:23.4.” But Dellinger was just begin ning. In the next five weeks, he was to construct a string of mem orable dates: ARCHIE SAN ROMANI Last of Oregon's Sub 4-Minute Milers • May 21—won the northern division mile with an all-time best of 4:19 4. • May 29—sprinted from far behind to win the Pacific Coast Conference mile title in 4:14.8 (last lap was a record-breaking 56 seconds). • June 19—passed nine run ners on his final lap, including favorite Lewis Oliver of Army, to win by 50 yards and in 4:13.8 Oregon's first NCAA mile cham pionship. • June 26—broke the school mile record (4:12 2) set by Ralph Hill in 1930 and won the then - Volkswagen Specialists • Low Repair Charges • Workmanship Guaranteed • Factory Trained in Germany • Fully Equipped to Handle All German Makes GERMAN AUTO SERVICE 2045 FRANKLIN BLVD. 342-2912 annual PCC-Big 10 meet in 4:10 b. After a first year like that, he might have expected to have the field all to himself the following year. But in 1955, the rapidly - growing Oregon distance program was even overtaking Bill. That was the spring after Rog er Bannister cracked the four • minute mile barrier. John Bandy of Australia had already lowered Bannister’s mark and mile times all over the world were drastic ally improved. Oregon was ready. Enter Jim Bailey Jim Bailey, a sophomore im port from Australia, chased Del linger out of the mile and into the two-mile with impressive clockings And with Ken Reiser, who took second in the NCAA two-mile the year before, also returning, there was—for the first time—talk of a VVebfoot distance dynasty. According to then Emerald (Continued on page 5) I AT COLE'S Students & Faculty Get 10% DISCOUNT on cash purchases $1.00 & over AT TIME OF PURCHASE Two hits, five runs, two outs, and seven hatters later, the duo repeated the act. Baldridge slammed a double into left cen ter Held that rolled to the fence and then Delplance hit his sec ond homer of the inning to about the same spot as before in right field. Another Hit That performance should have made any coach happy. But Bal dridge had to carry this consis tency thing a bit farther. For his next act, this time in the third inning, he lofted a Les Fahey pitch against the fence in right center, sending Ted Amato from first base home to score and winding up with a three-bagger. Baldridge scored a minute lat er on an infield out when Del plane hit a ground ball to the PSC second baseman Bill Heck man. Kirsch used 18 players in the game, including four pitchers. Hills received the win, after pitch ing three innings and giving up one hit and now owns a 1-0 rec ord. Soph Ilurlers He was followed by Mike Snow, three innings and no hits, Mike Powers, one and two-thirds in nings, three runs and three hits, and Joe Kniser, one and a third innings, one run and two hits All four are sophomores. “That was Power's first assign ment," said Kirsch. "He had a good chance to throw and see wnai no coum uo; mu u ioukcq liko ho wus tiring there at iast. •'I thought Iiilla did a duo Job," Kir.sch added, ‘ and Snow looked pretty good." Oregon had a total of 15 hits and nine of those were for extra bases—two home runs, two tri ples and five doubles. Delplanche finished with 25 and five rbis. Baldridge was 3-4 and knocked in three runs. Right fielder Dave Ehlor was the third Duck to gain two hits, going 2-4 with a triple and one rbi. George Vass scored the big hit for the Vikings, hitting Kniser's first pitch in the ninth over the left field fence. PSC shortstop Paul Johnson went 2-3 with a paid of doubles and three rbis. 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