Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1979)
Singles championship battle highlights tennis tournament By STEVE JETT Of the Emerald Roger McKee successfully defended his men's singles championship with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 wtn over fellow Duck Gerry Farmer Sunday to highlight the Oregon Spring Tennis Cham pionships at the 15th Street courts The win was McKee s third straight Oregon singles cham pionship However, McKee ad mitted he wasn’t in top form for the final match “I haven't played that many tournaments recently,” said McKee, “and I have not been real aggressive ” This lack of aggressiveness showed in the second set against Farmer, when McKee lost six straight games after leading 4-0 "I just lost my concentra tion." said McKee, "so I wanted to get off to a quick start in the third set.” McKee broke Farmer's serve early in the final set and eventually clinched the win with an ace McKee reached the final by stopping Oregon's Tom Greider 7-5. 6-4 in the semifinals. Farmer beat Duck teammate Thor Carlson 6-3, 6-1 in the other semifinal Carlson pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament Satur day when he outlasted second seed Dick McLaughlin in the first round 7-6, 3-6. 6-4 "I was serving really well.'* said Carl son. ' He (McLaughlin) is really a tough player But I guess he made the most mistakes ” The women s open final fea tured two players from Oregon's tennis team. Patti McKenna defeated doubles partner Lynn Haeckler 6-2. 6-4 for the title "I just played okay.” said McKenna, who stayed on the baseline during most of the match "I just tried to be con sistent because I knew she (Haeckler) wanted me to come to the net,” The men’s and women s doubles both featured all Oregon finalists Farmer and Larry Vollum defeated Greider and Russ Childers 6-3, 6-3, while the women's match was won by McKenna and Haeckler over Tina Mickelson and Patti Marihart 6-1, 6-3 The men’s A’ singles was won by Oregon's Mark Evans 6-1, 6-3 over Chuck Goodin The tournament included 141 participants "It is probably the biggest draw we've had,” said tournament director •’Buzz” Summers "I expected it to be at least as big as last year We had some good, hard fought matches ” Nearly all survive Torture Ridge Six miles is a long way to run Six miles through mud. through bushes, up hills, down hills and up more hills is a long way to even walk About 175 "runners'* struggled through the six-mile Torture Ridge III course Sun day. and most ot them survived the poison oak. the snakes, the hot sun and the passing mo torists One man became delirious from heat prostration and passed out 100 yards from the finish line When he regained his senses on the way to the hospital, he told race officials he dtdn t remember anything past the halfway point The finishers, including winner Chris Mulholland, dis covered the meaning of torture There's no other race like this anywhere around." said race official Randy Tjaden "It was too bad most of the mud dried out on us — it was something special we would have liked to have had for our race.” he added with a sadistic gnn. Apparently most of the 750 who last year ran the race deckled to trade the mud and brush for more conventional races this year But Tjaden said Torture II MM I aw I pm ■ 12 pM am w«Mrttt * SIS E. I .Vh Pool, Amusement and Recreation Lounge 3414*42 Find Inner Piece at Pizza Inn. A feeling of hapr«nr*» *nd contentment Thai* wtial y»Hi1l enjoy with every piece of ptna from Piru Inn NXA- give you k»ad» ul v«<ut favontc topptng* and a choice of thick or thin cru*t Have a piece And find true contentment At Pina Inn, that'* Inner IVrcc' Buy one pizza, next smaller size 99c. With thn coupon, huy an* giant. larite of medium *ile pirn at regular menu price and get yen*. *econd puM 1 ‘f ihe neat *m.il ler *nr with enual numhef of ingredient*, up to three ingredient*, fot only Vff Prncnt fhi* coupon with gurM check May 2K, IU7U i Not ValU Fw I'mtnmn him FIP 12 £lzzdJUui.i Find Inner Piece at Pizza inn 2175 W. 11th Ridge will at least break even financially And that's too bad. because they'll undoubtedly find more suckers to run it again next year pqopi's GREEK PEASANT FOOD WINE AND SPIRIT 8:00 AM - 10:30 PM daily, closed Tuesdays, 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM Sunday 675 E. 13th ¥ The ASUO Senior Quacks present 1 st Annual Senior Ball with the RACCOONS & PARTY KINGS Friday, May 25 King Cole Room 9:00 P.M. Eugene Hotel Tickets: $2.50 at EMU Main Desk 21 & over - I.D. required Formal attire please I VERSATILE Pushbutton Cassette Recorder with AC Converter and Dual Microphone System Tape recorder for business, home or school •Sensitive built-m condenser microphone PLUS re mote pencil microphone with on off control *AC DC power batteries (not tncl ). AC converter included •Automatic AC DC switching ^Integrated circuitry <IC) component •Automatic end-of-taoe shutoff •Automa tic Level Control (Ato Suggested Retail Price $39.95 $35.95
