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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1969)
Ducks initiate season Golfers face San Jose By LEE SCHVANEVELDT Of the Emerald The snow-slowed varsity golf ers point to and practice for one of 32 team invitations to the NCAA Championships this June at Colorado Springs, Colo. June, however, is a long way off and many “ifs and huts” must be reconciled before the regular season ends. The varsity linksters travel to San Jose for the season opener against San Jose State Monday, March 24. Tentatively, the golf ers meet Berkeley at a pres ently undecided Bay Area course Tuesday, March 25. Following a day’s intermission the Ducks challenge Fresno State. The finale of the week is the prestigious Fresno State Classic slated March 28 and 29. Of the eight teams entered in the tournament, seven, includ ing Oregon, played in the NCAA Championships last summer. To win this prize the Ducks must defeat such golf powers as Ari zona State, USC, UCLA. Los Angeles State, and host team Fresno State. Coach John Adler realizes that January’s snow hindered in dividual progress and team de velopment. Planned for the next two weeks is intense physical “A real delight../ i i.< ' |»c;iM»<s I ^ m. A dm, i by Robert L. Short “The Parables of Peanuts Is filled with wonderful quotes and is a real de light to read from begin ning to end. I could not possibly be more pleased.'’ — -kCharles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts'® Dioth, $4 95 • Paper. *1.94 At all bookstoroo Harper o’ Row i practice and mental condition ing to bring each player’s game together, so the team will be ready for its fair weather oppo nents. Says Adler, “The snow was too much for my taste. We have a long ways to go before we can compete with the teams we’ll be playing.” The Ducks lost three fine com petitors last year, Gay and Mike Davis and Mike Smith, all NCAA Championship partici pants. Returning this season to (ill the vacuum are varsiety let termen Mike Currie, Jr., Bend; Fred Haney, Jr., Forest Grove; Love named to Pac-8 squad Stan Love, Oregon’s 6-9 soph omore center, was named to the Pacific 8 second team, executive director Thomas Hamilton an nounced today. Love averaged 17.6 points in league play, placing him fourth. He also stood seventh in the league in rebounds with 9.1 per game. The Inglewood, Calif., product also won UPI honorable mention all-coast honors last week along with Duck stars Billy Gaskins and Larry Holli day. First team listed UCLA’s cen ter Lew Alcindor the nation’s Player of the Year for the second time, as the only unani mous choice. Joining Alcindor on the premiere squad are for wards Ted Wierman of Wash ington State and Curtis Rowe of UCLA, and guards Charlie Johnson of California and Mack Calvin of Southern California. Second team choices are Love at center, Oregon State’s Gary Freeman a n d Washington’s George Irvine at forwards, and at; guards Stanford’s Don Grif fin and California’s Jackie Ridglc. Winning honorable mention are Jay Bond and Rafael Stone, Washington; Vic Bartolome, Oregon State; Sidney Wicks, UCLA; Ernie Powell, USC; and Rick Erickson, WSU. Official statistics released to day show two Webfoots finishing second in a pair of depart - ments. Bill Drozdiak, sophomore forward, was nosed out of the Pacific-8 free throw shooting leadership, .860 to .857. by Washington State's Blaine Ellis; and Holliday placed second to Alcindor in rebounding, 13.6 per game to Holliday’s 11.5. Drozdiak averaged 13.0 points per game, marking him as 14th in the league. 1 EXCITING I Palomar Pictures Internationa! presents an Associates 3nd Aldrich Production > Star,i*£ Beryl Reid Susannah York Coral Browne aim stafnng Ronald Fraser Patricia Medina Hugh Paddick Cynl Delevanb b> Gerald Fried rnm The pa> 9y F.r3nk Marcus sweerpuy ev Lukas Heller ProdMcwj .And Dueled b Robert Aldr iCh Metiocotor* 18 Year-Olds and Over Doors Open a! 6:30 H E A T R E 969 Willamette 344-3431 David Leiken, Sr., Roseburg; and Steve Morrison, Sr., Port land. Players lip from the Frosh include Arnie Billingsly, Eu - gene; David Boals, Medford; and Jack Sheehan, Spokane, Wash. Completing the varsity roster are Rick Copping, Jr., Eugene, and transfer student Terry Kim mel, Calgary, Alta. Practice sessions are held at the Robert Jones designed Eu gene Country Club, recognized as one of the “toughest” cour ses in the United States by Sports Illustrated. Although not time restricted, practice is organized to devel op each player’s skill at all fac ets of golf execution from tee through green. The team meets each week to discuss strategy, to maintain mental alertness, and to foster team psyche. Choosing the six-man traveling squad is Adler's most important decision to himself and to the team. It is a completely subjec tive choice that the coach makes himself. “I don’t believe in choosing a team on the basis of 36 holes, 54 holes or 72 holes,” said Adler emphatically. Adler is completely optimis tic about the Ducks’ link chanc es and predicted, “We’ll be go ing to the championships this season and in the years to come . . CD CP ROBO 50c WASH J JV C L IT'S AUTOMATIC WITH 10 GAL. 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