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Alina Wygonowska defeated the No. 16 player in the country in Seattle on Sunday.
Women could rank in top 30
Last weekend marked
huge tennis victories for
Oregon’s women
By Mirjam Swanson
lor the Emerald
Last weekend was very sweet
for both the Oregon men’s and
women’s tennis teams.
The women traveled north to
take on No. 42 Washington and
No. 52 Washington State.
The Ducks not only rebounded
from the previous weekend’s loss
to San Diego State, but they made
history in the process.
Traditionally, the Ducks never
had much success on their tri ps to
Washington. In 44 tries, Oregon
had never beaten the Huskies.
But the Ducks, finally healthy af
ter last season’s plethora of in
juries, were playing well going into
the weekend. Already, their five
wins surpassed last season’s total.
And Sunday, Oregon further
showed that it might have its best
team ever, as head coach Jack Grif
fin asserted.
"It’s the best thing that ever hap
pened to the program,” Griffin
said. “It was really neat for the
players to accomplish this. ”
Washington had been enjoying
a particularly successful season,
which added significance to Ore
gon’s win. They were on a five
TENUIS
match winning
streak, which
included upsets
over No. 25 San
Diego State and
No. 29 New
Mexico.
“It was about
time,” senior
captain Shanelle Kaneshiro said.
"Our whole team just wanted to
put it all out on the court. Every
one played well.”
Alina Wygonowska, the Ducks
No. 1 singles player, helped lead
the way. She upended the nation’s
No. 16 player, fighting back from
a deficit to beat Kristina Kraszews
ki in three sets.
More impressive still, the win
over Washington was Oregon’s sec
ond major upset of the weekend.
On Friday, the Ducks knocked
off Washington State, which had
also recorded some of its own up
sets this season.
Because of their early season
success, Washington and Wash
ington State are sure to move up in
the new Intercollegiate Tennis As
sociation poll released today, Grif
fin said. And although Oregon’s
wins last weekend won’t be re
flected in this poll, they will sure
ly affect the following ranking,
due March 23.
“We will probably be ranked be
tween 20 and 30,” Griffin said. “Af
ter everything we’ve been through,
that’s just really, really sweet. ”
And the men may see their
stock in the polls rise as well, after
upsetting No. 31 UC Santa Bar
bara, 5-2, on Sunday.
“It was a monumental win,”
head coach Chris Russell said.
“It’s the highest win in the history
of our program."
The Gauchos defeated Oregon
twice last year, the second defeat
occurring in the NCAA Regionals.
After coming up just short in
several matches to ranked teams
this season, the Ducks were ready
to claim a win, Russell said.
Joltin’Joe has left and gone away: DiMaggio dies at 84
By Steven Wine
The Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, Fla, — Joe
DiMaggio, the elegant Yankee
Clipper who captivated America
with The Streak and inspired
wistful lines in literature and
song, died at home Monday at
age 84. He had battled lung can
cer for five months.
Tributes poured in from ball
fields and beyond, and many
said DiMaggio’s death marked
the end of an era. But his legend
will linger, shoulder-to-shoulder
with fellow New York Yankees
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
DiMaggio underwent surgery in
October, fighting complications
for weeks afterward and even
falling into a coma briefly during
his 99-day hospitalization. But he
also astounded his doctors by re
peatedly bouncing back.
He left the hospital Jan. 19 to
recuperate at home, where his
bed was decorated with a sign
that said, “April 9. Yankee Stadi
um or Bust.”
He died shortly after midnight,
said Morris Engelberg, his long
time friend and attorney, one
month and one day shy of mak
ing it back to the Bronx for the
home opener. For years DiMag
gio had smoked three packs a
day, and at times he even
sneaked behind the runway at
Yankee Stadium during games to
have a cigarette with Gehrig.
At DiMaggio’s bedside when
he died were brother Dominick, a
former major league outfielder;
two grandchildren; Engelberg;
and Joe Nacchio, his friend of 59
years. A funeral will be held
Thursday in his native Northern
California, with burial to follow
in the San Francisco area.
Tributes poured in from base
ball's past and present.
Said Ted Williams, who
shared the spotlight with DiMag
gio in the '41 season by batting
.406 for Boston, the last time any
one batted .400: “There is no one
Ted Williams admired, respected
and envied more than Joe DiMag
gio. Because of my close relation
ship with the DiMaggio family, I
feel a very deep personal loss.”
Said former Dodgers manager
Tom Lasorda: “If you said to
God, ‘Create someone who was
what a baseball player should
be,’ God would have created Joe
DiMaggio. And he did.”
Commissioner Bud Selig said
he idolized DiMaggio: “I never
saw a player who was as grace
ful. There was an aura about him
that was amazing.”
The Hall of Fame flag in Coop
erstown, N.Y., was lowered to
half-staff and a wreath was
placed around DiMaggio’s
plaque. U.S. flags at Yankee Sta
dium, including the one in left
field’s hallowed Monument Park,
were also at half-staff.
DiMaggio roamed center field
and ran the basepaths for 13
years through 1951, playing for
10 pennant winners and nine
World Series champions despite
missing three years because of
service in World War II.
He batted .325 lifetime, with
361 home runs. He won three AL
Most Valuable Player awards, ap
peared in 11 All-Star games, and
entered the Hall of Fame in 1955,
his third year of eligibility. For
half a century, he was introduced
as “the greatest living player.”
Yet, the numbers don’t ac
count fully for his almost leg
endary place on the American
cultural landscape, the reason
Ernest Hemingway wrote about
him and Simon and Garfunkel
sang about him. There was some
thing about the courtly bearing of
this son of Italian immigrants
that made him special.
“I would like to take the great
DiMaggio fishing,” the ancient
Cuban fisherman says in Heming
way’s “The Old Man and the
Sea.” “They say his father was a
fisherman. Maybe he was as poor
as we cure and would understand.”
Perhaps it was the class and
swanky swing that inspired Si
mon and Garfunkel’s lament to
lost heroes in the song “Mrs.
Robinson” from the movie “The
Graduate”:
“Where have you gone Joe
DiMaggio?
“A nation turns its lonely eyes
to you.
“What’s that you say, Mrs.
Robinson?
“Joltin’ Joe has left and gone
away."
The summer of ’41 was magi
cal largely because of DiMaggio’s
56-game hitting streak, one of
baseball’s most enduring records.
The streak riveted a country fresh
from the Depression, with war
just months away, and elevated
DiMaggio from baseball star to
national celebrity.
He ascended to the top rank of
popular culture in 1954 when he
wed Marilyn Monroe, a story
book marriage that lasted less
than a year and left him broken
hearted. For years after she died
in 1962, DiMaggio sent roses to
her grave but refused to talk
about her.
A handsome man of quiet
strength — unpretentious, proud
and intensely private — DiMag
gio embodied the kind of hero
parents wanted their sons to em
ulate.
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