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January 1, 1941
Game Birds and Waterfowl Show Increase
THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON
Interest Seen
In New Dams
By ARTHUR HENDERSHOTT
A survey of conditions in Lane
county indicate that 1940 has pro
ven a banner year for migratory
waterfowl and upland game birds.
Hunters have had one of the best
seasons of duck and goose hunting
In recent years and the China
pheasant and other game birds,
protected by law for the past two
years, have shown a steady in
crease within the year.
Up until two years ago the up
land game birds have been hunted
vigorously and after a closed sea
son in 1939 the increase was not
sufficient to again open the sea-
However, with a second
Ducklings Have Banner Year
closed season under most favor
able hatching conditions it is re
markable how the birds, especi
ally China pheasants, have staged
a comeback.
Quite a large percentage of our
local sportsmen were disappointed
that the state game commission
declared a closed season in the
Willamette valley. The commis
sion gave as its excuse that in
some parts of Linn county and
Marion county the pheasants were
still scarce and the closing of the
entire Willamette valley seemed
to be the smart thing to do. I
claim to belong to the conserva
tionists and agree that the com
mission acted wisely.
20,M Birds Released
The state has three splendid
hatcheries, two in the Willamette
valley and one in eastern Oregon
and hatched and liberated better
than 20,000 birds this year a
miehtv eood record.
The China pheasant lends itself
admirably to parts of central and
instjrn Oregon and really does
better over in that higher, dryer
climate.
Generally speaking the past five
years, ducks and geese have in
creased by leaps and bounds.
That's easy to understand if one
takes Into consideration the time
and money spent and new reguia
tions that have been put into ef
fert durine the past five years.
I will mention some things done
that materially effect our water
fowl. First, the open hunting
seasons have been shortened; less
hours in the days; no shooting be
fore sunup and no shooting after
4 p. m.; no baiting of ponds; no
live decoys allowed. The U. S.
government exacts a $1 toll from
every duck shooter.
Ttiixka Unlimited' HelDS
This fee, known as the Federal
Duck Stamp, goes toward the ren
tal nr nnrehase of larae areas used
as hatching grounds. A scientific
study has been made of summer
resting and hatching conditions in
the northern parts ol worm nmcr
ica. An organization known as
"Ducks Unlimited", has been In
strumental in this work and has
collected and spent thousands of
rinllnr In tmnroving waterfowl
conditions during the past five
By DON A. PLATH '
Athletic teams representing the
1940 University of Oregon fresh
men turned in one of the most
successful years in history.
Competing in a total of 56 con
tests, the Ducklings won 48 and
lost a small total of eight
Baseball gained the highest av
erage. Coach John Warren's base
ball nine went through the seas
on undefeated Basketball was
next in line. The Frosh hoopsters
winning 16 games and losing one
gained a percentage of .941. The
track team, coached by Ned Johns,
won two and lost two for a .500
percentage.
Against their traditional rivals,
the Oregon State Rooks, the Duck
lings won 16 out of 18 meetings.
A clean sweep was made by the
Oregon teams in football, base-
bal, basketball, swimming, ana
golf. And they split in track
and tennis.
The Frosh victories in basket
ball were won by two point mar
gins. A sketch of Frosh sports fol
lows: BASKETBALL
Coach Warren's hoop squad
was made to order for Webfoot
stvle. The first string line-up
was composed of three tall front-
court men, and two speedy guaras.
In winning 16 games out ei
17, the freshmen scored a total
of 703 points against their op
ponents' 493. The Frosh aver
aged 41.3 points to their oppon
ents' 29.
Three of the Frosh Wally
Borrevik, Warren Taylor, and
Quentin Sidesrager who are now
on the varsity team were the
high scorers of the 1040 Duckling
hoop squad. Borrevik scored 50
field goals and 13 freethrows to
lead the squad with 113 points.
The single Frosh defeat was
administered by Longview high.
The Ducklings later topped this
team 47-27.
BASEBALL
Fifteen wins and no defeats
was the record made by the
Duckling baseball nine. The hit
ters on the Frosh team were pac
ed by Johnny Bubalo, Chuck
Clifford, Tony Crish, and Don
Kirsch. Bubalo cracked out 26
hits in 60 times at the plate for
433 average. Don Kirsch and
Johnny Bubalo were the shining
lights in the Frosh's defensive
P'W.
Dean Van Lydegral ana nowara
Robertson, catcher and outfield
er from Springfield and Eugene
high, respectively, were next in
line in the batting.
Coach Warren's main pitching
staff was composed of Stew Fred
ericks, Nick Begteries, and Bob
Reber. Begleries pitched a no-
hit no-run against Gresham high,
and pitched a four-hit shut-out
game against the Oregon State
Rooks.
TRACK
, Coach Ned Johns' cinder squad
wasn't considered an outstanding
team but clever handling enabled
the Ducklings to gain a split in
their four meets. The Frosh were
defeated 5-0 in the annual relay
meet with the Rooks. Thsy de
feated th two Eugene high schools
in a three-way meet, but lost to
Diamond 'A' Sof tballers Lose
Out in Oregon Tourney
It'a going to be interesting to
n,iat Tar Mir new Willamette
valley dams play on ducks and
geese. The past few years the
Willamette valley has been so ter
ribly dry in the fall birds in mak
ing ttioir winter flight south, took
two distinct routes one along the
coast to Mexico and southern
states white the other was by way
if aaotorn fWtrnn. making Klam
ath and Tule lakes their first big
stop.
UJ. T ana .niintt IIMirtsmen
in hopes the completion of th
Fern Ridge dam will provide a
rest haven lor waterfowl and win
eventually bring to the Willamette
valley a much greater wnabar ef
By BUCK BUCHWACH
Baseball's fast growing compet
itor, the spectacular game of
softball, continued to be an ath
letic success in 1940 in Eugene,
although the financial returns
were not too gratifying.
The Diamond "A" softball team
tumbled the 1939 champions
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throne in 1940. but only after a
touch battle that saw Sterling
drop a 3-2 overtime championship
tilt that meant the Due.
Although the Diamond A ciud
showed Dlentr of batting and
fielding power throughout me
summer months, evidently H was
off form in the state tournament
in Salem, for the first game or
the tourney was dropped to Bn
neville by a 1- score. The game
took but 55 minutes as Bin faor
geson fanned numerous ef the
heavy Diamond hitters.
However, in city eompeuuon
the Diamond team proved It had
what it takes. After it had beat
en both of its closest conspetitors
in the double eliminattoa play,
it sat back and watched Sterling
win from Fenn's Tire Shop by a
11-2 count
Then in the Shaughnessy sys
tem playoff, Diamond "A"
its game from the Knights of
Columbus 8-0, while Sterling did
away with the champions of the
minor loop, the Army Engineers
to the tune of a 7-1 win.
Gordon Bailey of Fenn's won
the major league batting cham
pionship, with an average or. .soa
which topped the last year's
champion's mark by a cool .055.
Taylor of Sterling was second
with .490. Russell of Diamond
"A" was third with .474, Wilson
of Diamond "A" bad .471 and
Hamer of Sterling finished with
.412.
In the minor league batting
standings, Christensen of Cottage
Grove was at the top with an
average of .476. He was closely
followed by Bujan of the En
gineers with .448, Brunton of the
S. P. shops with .444 and Pav
alunas of the Engineers with .409.
a strong Medford track team
that won the state championship
in the spring. In the final meet
of the season tilt Frosh turned
the tables and downed the Baby
Beavers, 67 to 55.
TENNIS
A six-man tennis squad made
up of Manning, Kahannnui, Hill,
Westfnll, Baker, and Mclnnis had
a great chance to go through the
entire season without a defeat.
but lost the final match to the
Rooks, 4 to 3. The Duckling squad
had defeated these same Rooks
by the same score earlier in the
season.
GOLF
Freshmen golfers, paced by
Dick Hanen, topped the Oregon
State Rooks twice. The fresh
men tost to the strong University
high five-man team, state high
school champions.
SWIMMING
Russ Cutler's swimming team
won four out of their five meets.
The squad, composed of Dick Al
len, Tom Corbett, Warren Finite,
Lee Ghormley, Bob Wagner, and
Ralph Huestis and Earl Walrath,
Eugene boys, defeated the Rooks
and Salem Y twice. Their loss
was to the Portland Aero club.
FOOTBALL
Coach John Warren's football
team did twe outstanding things
this season. First they avenged
two defeats handed them by the
Rooks last season, and second,
their victories over the Rooks en
abled the teams coached by War
ren to make a complete sweep
over the Rooks in all contests for
the year erf 1940.
The loss suffered by the Duck
lings was handed to them by the
University of Washington Babes,
S to 0.
A sweet pair of halfbacks in
Jimmy Newquist and Inky Boe
were the main offensive threats
on the 40 Frosh eleven. New
quist was the leading ground gain
er, and Boe had the best per
try average. Outstanding line
men who will have the best
chance to crack into the varsity
line-up neat year are Chuck El
liot, guard from Eugene; Brad
Ecklund, center from Milwau-
kie, and Bert Gianelli, end from
Longview.
Wrestling and boxing under the
tutelage of Eric Waldorf and
Vaughn Corley respectively was
quite prominent, but very few
contests were scheduled. .
Trap Shooters
Active Here
The boys who shoot to kill
and don't bring back any live
game the trapshooters have
just finished one of their most
successful years, as far as Lane
county and Eugene are con
cerned. Top event of the year was the
opening of the new Eugene gun
club grounds, six miles west of
the city. At the innaugural shoot,
Troch won all-around high hon
ors, with Ray Glass second.
In the Pacific International
Trapshooters Association shoot at
Salem, Glass and Troch tied for
first place.
Other teams showing well in
various meets throughout the
year were Cottage Grove, Mt-Kenzie-Gatewny
of Springfield,
Siuslaw of Florence, Noti, and
Upper Willamette of Dexter with
Florence representatives, led by
George Nelson and L. R. Swart-
hout, particularly impressive.
The Eugene club, already with
the largest membership ever en
rolled and possessing one of the
best grounds in the state, hopes
to hold one or two major tourna
ments in 1941, and further in
tends to have registered shoots
regularly, alternating with Port
land and Salem in this respect
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