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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1966)
Over Varsity Hardballers Frosh Riding High After Big Upset By KICK FITCH Sports Writer It look a victory over the var sity to do it, hut dually word is getting uround that the frosh baseball team is something spe cial. Even though the Ducklings cap lured seven of their first eight contests, they labored in relative obscurity Hut now, witli that 0-5 Tuesday afternoon victory over the varsity under their belts, the frosh athletes are riding high. That victory surprised nearly everyone, including their own coach, Terry Leininger. “I'm sur prised at the amount of hitting we got," tie said Deininger is coaching for the first time after playing three years of hall for the Oregon varsity. “Our guys hit better than ever before," said Leininger. "We had good pitching. We were ready, and they weren’t." Rut even without this big up set, the Ducklings stand as an exceptional team They have out scored ttieir opposition, (1024, in running up a H 1 mark Their only defeat has been a 5-4 loss to the 1.infield frosh, and since then, they have won five straight. Stiong Pitching Pitching is "very strong,” ac cording to Leininger. and the sta tistics bear him out The mound staff, led by Terry Ley and Jon Wheeler, whom Leininger cate gorizes as "our top two starters," had held the opposition to a mea ger 2 052 earned run average thiough their first eight games Both Wheeler and Ley, who combined to xtap the varsity with only live hits, have 10 records, and have yet to gi\e up an earned run The t h i r d starter, Larry ■ a a (Cnlllmurti fmin fiaof 4) and ha\f been throwing at that distance consistently Kgil Sund bye, once an Oregon prospect, has a best of 237 -t1 z. followed by Pave Weber at 237-W, and Jack Bonkrude, 234 2 The best Duck in the event is Bill Meikkila at 219-3, with Jim Sagle second at 211-1 ’z. Weak Broad Jump Both teams are weakest in the broad jump and points and posi turns are up for grabs Oregon’s best is Herman Brame at 22-Hl-z and the Bruin best is Allan lier man at 23-B: The triple jump has possibilities of a 50 foot effort as Doug Dim stead of the Bruins is only three feet shy of this magic mark Her man Brame, 47 4rli. and Werner Sonnenschein, 44-0, are the Duck entrants. The high jump is a UCLA event v ith Mike Weinreich at (>-9‘z, the best. Teammate Steve Lock, 0 0, will try to get second place away from Bob Shephard, 0 4, and John Franz, 0 2. of the Ducks. The final event of the day is the mile relay where the Ducks v ill send a contingent of I'ayne, Southam, Crunican, and Scott against the Bruins’ Gall, Homan sky, Jones, and Copeland. The best times for each team are 3:13.8 and 3:10,8 respectively. Mayes, has compiled ii 20 record v/itli fin curncd run average of 8 207 Hon Caderette, 20 with a .000 'earned run average, leads the re lieving corps. That group also in eludes A1 Miller and Andy Ros sen. Coach Leininger is still expori rrt'ntlng with Ids starting unit. "We don’t really have a first team yet.” Hut juggling the line up seems to have worked to good advantage, for the team is batting 28ft and sports a .004 fielding average. The outfielders are providing! much of the Ducklings’ muscle at i the plate. Jerry Knutson, who Leininger said has been hitting pretty well” is hitting at a .400 j pace and is a co-leader, along with j Wayne Murray, in runs batted in with six. Murray and Tom Malloy are each batting 500, Bruce Becker, 400 and Chuck Wilson. .333. Leininger "rotates” his outfield line-up with each game. Steve Arnold, who handles the catching duties, is hitting .250, while first baseman Keith Mar shall and Ed Wabon are hitting 500 and .333 respectively. Steve Johnson, Jerry WycofT and Steve Stevenson alternate at second while Frank Franzone and Dave Wcybright change o(T at i shortstop. At third base is clean- j up batter Larry Hanson from Jefferson Even though his team has per-1 formed so well, coach Leininger isn’t about to rest on his laurels “We’ve got to hustle,” he said "The main part of the game I’m stressing is hustle If you hustle, the wins will come." In speculating about the future, Leininger noted, "Oregon State and Clark Junior College will be our toughest games." Ten of the Ducklings’ remaining eighteen games are with those two schools "Our major weakness is hitting." added Leininger "We’ve got the. pitching and the defense to stop the opposition from gelling runs. II we get runs, we’ll do all right " Coaches Needed For Little League Any person who can spare two hours for three evenings a week from May through July qual Hies The Eugene Boys Athletic Association needs volunteers to fill coaching positions for local little league baseball teams before practice begins May 2 Call the KBAA oflice at 344 3115 for information IAA Schedule Tennis 4 00- Beta Theta Pi vs. Phi Gam ma Delta Golf Parsons vs Tati Kappa Epsilon T V. RENTALS NEW SETS Donovan's TV Confer 225 W. 7th Avenue Call 343-1821 for rates \ * fie 6u(|ituC 'PANCAKE. HOUSE-’ 'panakts as yu like them _ OP£M A 6 aim- -t» * 6P14 Lauwncc. Coed Requests Draft Exemption The College Press Service ALBUQUERQUE, N M. There have been cases before where a girl with a masculine name has received a draft notice but. there seems to be no history of this be ing a family problem. It is, however, for the Doyle family of Albuquerque. University of New Mexico stu dent Alex Clark Doyle is the first girl in her family to receive a draft notice, but she may not be the last. The 19-year old coed has a sis ter named Wilbur and another named Stacey. Alex has politely requested an exemption. Women Netters Win The University women’s tennis team recently won all but the last match to defeat host Oregon State 4 1 in the first action of the season for both squads. Intramural diving preliminar ies have been changed to 6 p.m. Friday at Leighton Pool be cause of schedule conflicts. High School Orators On Campus for Meet Nearly 300 forensics students and 70 speech and debate coaches are on campus for the 59th Ore gon High School Speech League state tournament. Students from 70 Oregon high schools are competing in the tour nament of the nation's fourth oldest high school speech league. Competition is in both Oxford style (four man) and Lincoln - Douglas (two-man; debate, and in the individual events extem poraneous, impromptu and after dinner speaking, oratory, seri ous and humorous interpretations, radio, and poetry reading. To be eligible for participation in the yearly state tournament, a student must have placed first or second in an individual event, and/or first in debate during one of the state's 13 district speech tournaments. The state tournament began Thursday with registration and two rounds. Competition in indi vidual events and debate will be held all day today, with final rounds slated for Saturday. Finalists will be announced tonight at a banquet in the Student Union. First, second, and third place winners will be announced and trophies awarded - at the Saturday evening banquet, also in the SU. The final round of after-dinner speaking will also be held at that time. Tournament co-ordinator is Kirt. E. Montgomery, assistant pro fessor of speech at the University and executive secretary of the Oregon High School Speech League. Mothers, Dads Clubs To Meet Jointly The annual joint meeting of the University Mothers and Dads Clubs, campus branch, will be Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. in (ler linger Hall. Parents of the high school sen iors from Eugene and Springfield and other nearby high schools who have indicated an interest in enrolling at the University wiH be special guests at the meeting. Phil Schoggen, director of aca demic advising, will be the fea tured speaker. doncjratufationd— Sharon O’Dell JUNIOR WEEKEND PRINCESS Don’t you think Sharon will look cute pumping gas some Saturday afternoon LOYAL’S TEXACO FRANKLIN & VILLARD Smile nice for the judges honey—I’ve got thirty bucks invested in you.
