Ducks could be absent-minded
Bill Dellinger absent-mindedly toed the
shot {Hit circle at Hayward Field Thursday
By PALL BUKER
Of the Emerald
and hedged a bit about Saturday’s dual
meet with Washington State.
Forgive Dellinger’s Ducks if they go
after the Cougars the same way.
“I’m sure there’ll be somewhat of a
letdown,” he admits. “Especially after
something like UCLA.”
Oregon came out 67 points bettor last
weekend by international scoring and
there’s no reason to think it won’t be dif
ferent at Pullman.
“We try to take them one meet at a
time,” says Dellinger, “but ultimately
we’re looking forward to the Pacific-8.”
The Cougars admittedly have some
outstanding performers, notably haif
miler Dale Scott (1:48.5), three-miler John
Ngeno (13:21.8), high jumper Bob Niehl (7
0), and hammer-thrower Tony Tenisci
(209-8).
Still, the Ducks could sweep every event
on the track, with the possible exception of
Photo by Phil Waldstein
Wilkins will battle WSU’s Tenisci in hammer Saturday
Griswold’s sick, but in contention
Golfers long gone in team race
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Oregon’s Craig
Griswold put together a three-over 75
Thursday in the second round of the Far
West Intercollegiate Golf Tournament at
Santa Cruz.
Slightly miraculous, figures Duck Coach
Jim Ferguson. Griswold was the only
Oregon man to make the cut in the three
day meet, which ends today.
“His performance was amazing,*’ said
Ferguson Thursday night. “He’s been sick
all week with a terrible sore throat and
head cold.”
Playing on 50-year-oid Pasatiempo Golf
Course, a narrow, tree-filled horror made
doubly difficult by strong winds, Griswold
had one of the best rounds of the day.
While the Webfoots are already out of
the team competition, the All-American
from Lake Oswego still has a chance for
the individual championship.
His 75 yesterday and a one-over 73 on
Wednesday gives him a two-day total of
148 — just three shots off the lead.
Six golfers are lied for first at 145: Bob
Harris of BYU; Beau Baugh of Cal-State
Long Beach; Don Baker of USC; Tom
Purtzer of Arizona State, and Mike Kranz
of Cal-State Long Beach.
It's BYU leading the team race. The
Cougars overhauled first-day leader USC
and Cal-State Long Beach is in third place.
Griswold is tied for third with one other
golfer. Two more are bunched at 147, just
lwo strokes off the pace.
Oregon’s six-man team, with the ex
ception of Griswold, ran into disaster
Thursday at Pasatiempo.
Peter Jacobsen shot an 81 and finished
the meet with a 160 stroke total. Carl Sch
wanlje had a credible 76 in Thursday’s
round but his first-day 84 put him out of
contention early. He totaled lfeo.
Bob Beauchemin shot a 79 and finished
at 162 while Dick Shafer, Jr. shot an 83 and
was at 166. Duck John Adler skied to a
horrendous 87 the first day and never
recovered. He shot 82 yesterday and was
dead last on the team with 169.
Oregon’s failure to place comes on the
heels of a tie for 18th in the All-American
Classic at Houston. While Jacobsen turned
in a respectable four-day total there,
everyone else was way down the list.
A sweep? Won’t be easy
Mike Shoup tries to solve his late-iinning
problems and Oregon tries to stay alive in
the Pacific-8 Northera Division baseball
race today in Seattle.
Shoup is set to pitch against
Washington’s usually lowly Huskies. Of
course the Ducks have to sweep the three
game series to remain in playoff con
tention.
“It won’t be as easy as everybody
thinks,” said Duck Coach Mel Krause
before the team left Thursday.
It sure won’t.
While compiling a team batting average
of .321 in Pac-8 play, the Ducks have
earned the adjective “The Agony and the
Ecstasy” in struggling through a 3-3
campaign to date.
Pitching has been spotty in a word.
Oregon bats boom with regularity but the
opposition’s big inning has been fatal.
Greg Richards (2-0) and freshman Brian
Shandera (2-0) will pitch Saturday’s
doubleheader, and Krause is hoping he
won’t have to go to his bullpen.
In the other divisional game first-place
Washington State (5-1) hosts Oregon State,
and the Beavers (4-2) need to win at least
one of the three to stay in contention.
The Ducks need that one OSU victory,
too.
the three-mile. If such a rout
materializes, Steve Prefontaine will get
the day off.
“We’ll take him along,” nodded
Dellinger at Thursday’s practice. “If it
comes down to the three-mile and we need
the points, we’ll run him.
“I’d like to let him take the week off to
get some of the zip back in his legs.”
Zip means a superhuman double, like
3:56.8 in the mile and 13:06.4 in the three
mile 70 minutes later. That came against
UCLA and rates as the all-time best one
day performance.
Prefontaine’s heroics of course weren’t
enough to beat the Bruins, and of late he’s
been openly critical of the development of
the Ducks as a team.
Early this week he pointed to Oregon’s
sprinters and said “they didn’t come
through like they should have.”
It was UCLA’s Gordon Peppars who won
both sprints from Webfoot sprinters A1
Hearvey and John Mays.
“I think our sprinters are better than
what they showed last Saturday,” said
Dellinger.
“I don’t know what happened. Maybe
they just got beat by a better sprinter. I’d
like to think they just got beat by one who’s
just a little farther along.”
Hearvey and Mays will probably find the
stiffest challenge craning from each other
at Pullman in the 100. Morris Noble (9.7)
has the top time for the Cougars this year
and he’ll have to run 9.5 to beat either of
the Oregon runners.
The 220 could also be an Oregon
monopoly between Hearvey (20.7) and Bob
Martin (21.3).
On the track, the best races should come
in the 880 and the mile.
Steve Bence spent the entire race last
week waiting for UCLA’s Anthony Veney
to wear down. He didn’t, and the Duck
sophomore ran second at 1:49.6.
This week he meets WSU’s Scott, the
national high school record holder who last
week was shifted to the mile by Cougars’
Coach Jack Mooberry.
The strategy figured to cut into Oregon
distance points but Scott finished seventh
and WSU settled for fifth and sixth in the
880.
Mooberry’s strategical finesse won’t
mean much if Todd Lathers runs the mile.
After running the fastest steeplechase
(8:35.0) in the nation a week ago, he was
bubbling with confidence.
He should. Nobody’s come close to him
all year, such is his conditioning at this
point.
“He’s back where he was a couple years
ago,” smiled Dellinger. “Todd’s an ex
tremely talented runner.”
In a strategical ploy of his own, the Duck
Coach isn’t saying where Lathers will go.
“He might run the steeple again, I don't
know.”
The Cougars don’t have anybody like
Super-Mac Wilkins, but the struggle in the
field should be interesting. Wilkins of
course will triple, probably taking a little
away from what could have been a
monumental hammer competition.
WSU’s Tony Tenisci is a 200-foot thrower
but Wilkins extended him to the wire last
week. Mac got a school record 189-8 and
teammate Mike Bolliger went 183-3.
Tenisci pulled out a 191-7 on his last throw
to win.
Wilkins’ 59-10 Vi best in the shot is almost
five better than the Cougar best. In the
discus, he’s over 30 feet farther (202-3).
Quite a margin of error there. The same
holds true for the Ducks.
Men’s, women’s
crew teams to
race Saturday
Oregon concludes its home crew season
Saturday at Dexter Reservoir.
Oregon boats face Stanford and Oregon
State lightweights in races which begin at
10 a.m. The Duck lightweights are 4-1 on
the season.
Three Oregon women's teams will also
race Saturday on the same program.