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.
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"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:
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• 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 -
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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
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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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