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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1928)
Freshman Hoopsters to Meet Commerce High Tomorrow Babe Cagers To Play First Tilt Saturday Commerce Hi To Furnish Opposition to Leslie’s Infant Hoopers Game To Start at 2:30; Starting Lineup Given Visiting Guests To Be Honored Guests By HARRY BUTTON One of the features of Saturday for the visiting high school dele gates will be a basketball game bo tween me l nrver sity of Oregon ducklings and the speedy q uintet f r o in Commerce high of Portland. The game will start in McArthur court at 2:j0 in the afternoon. The strength of the fresh five is ( at present a cam pus mystcr y. Spike Leslie Coach bpike .Leslie Deueves no iiass a squad that should rate above the average of past Oregon yearling teams but as yet has not given them an actual test. So far the green babes are a strong team in theory only. Thus far practice has been mostly in the nature of elementary drill in individual offense and defense, stressing footwork, dribbling and ac eurate passing. The yearlings have had practically no scrimmage work. All this is due to Leslie’s efforts to give all the men out an oppor tunity -of showing up proficiency in the game and any signs of develop ment in new material. ' Leslie Expects Win The frosh, with so little team work to date, are not expected to display a polished brand of ball when they go on the floor against the invading prep cagers tomorrow. They probably will appear ragged in their team play as compared with < the Commerce squad, because the latter group have been playing to gether a much longer period of time. However, Coaeli Leslie expects to take the visitors into camp. The yearling squad has enough power in the ranks of its ex-high school luminaries to make it a dangerous team if the players had never team ed together before. The freshman mentor has given out a tentative line-up fot the open ing whistle. The center position is a toss-up between Gene Eberhart, tall and gangling Eugene high grad uate, and Edward Dvorak, a. slender young man who hails from the wide open spaces of Montana. Eberhart is taller than Dvorak, and will prob ably play the first part of tho tilt. Shades of Okerberg. Eberhart in his physical construc tion, is reminiscent of Okerberg. He is tall, extremely slim and stooping, and deceives an unsuspecting ob server into believing that the first It's Friday the 13th! Oh, What a Day for Orating Journalists To the world in general today is just another day. To five quavering souls at large on the Oregon campus, today is— Friday—the 3 3th! Today this quaking quintet must emerge from the privacy of their respective and respectable abodes and disport themselves in evening dress before the critical optics of their fellow students. Just before the witching hour of assembly, at 10 minutes till 9, this fearful five will mount those his toric steps before the old library and for the edification of the visit ing high school delegates wil dis sertate on what—and how? These nervous neophytes of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic hon orary fraternity, will rove the cam pus throughout the day and far into the night, silk hats at a jaunty angle, canes twirling merrily, “happy” and “carefree,” — “oh, what a life!” These wandering black and white ghosts are not to be mistaken for preppers. They really belong on the campus, even if some of their dress suits, don't. They answer to such cognomens as Don Johnston, Lawrence Mitchelmore, Citrl Greg ory, Chalmers Nooe, and Harry Dut ton. time some one bumps into him he’ll break in two. On the contrary this sad looking youth isn’t fazed by the roughest kind of scrimmage. He seems to like it. If he continues tc develop as his playing now gives promise, he may also emulate the redoubtable Okerberg as a star be fore his college career is ended. I Leslie plans on starting lid Stod dard, from sunny California, and Woodward Archer, ex-Medford bas ketball flash, at the forward berths. Both these men are good shots at the hemp, and are shifty on foot. Archer, who played end for the duckling |oqtbaII eleven, is harjl. to stop when lie decides to dribble. Horner a Scrapper Harold Olinger, curly headed bas keteor who has his name carved in the Hall of Fame at Salem high, and j Cliff Horner, bashful and modest, 1 a team-mate of Ebcrhart on the Eugene five, will probably draw the opening guard assignments. Olinger is a close checker, and fast at break ing to the offense. Horner is short and stocky, and a fighter. The “bigger they are the easier to catch” is the motto of this tenacious scrapper. Horner is not cr.ly a good defense player but when his team is on the offense he is an important scoring threat. Spike intends to use other men in the contest. “I want to use as many as I can,” he said. Some of the alternates lie mentioned for the duckling caging crew were Ted Park, Bill Pittman, Paul Walgren, and John Barber. There are a num ber of others besides those named that the frosh coach is going to give an opportunity to show their metal in the game, he indicated. These men and others will be heard from later, as the season progresses. Only 2 More Days— TODAY and SATURDAY Matinees Daily 2 p. m. Evenings 7 & 9 p. m. On The Stage Burton Co-Ed Harmonizers Nightly at Nine ALSO Comedy — Pathe News ADMISSION: Evenings.00c Matinees.35c Children Always 10c -—f---— Leads Webfoots In Tonight’s Fracas GORDON RIDINGS, forward, who has acted as floor captain in all the pre-season contests played thus far. With an uncanny shooting eye, this scrappy forward gathers plenty of points. Epp’s First Basketball Experience \ Received on Franklin High Team If it had r.ot boon for the keen insight of Colton Meek, ex-Oregon athlete and former touch at Frank an nign senooi in Portland, Dave Kpps might never have takefi up basketball and Or egon would be minus an excel lent player who is very badly need ed this season. Seeing possibili ties in Dave’s speed and ability on the football field, Coach Meek Dave Epps asked mm to turn out tor basketball that winter, ills predictions were amply fulfilled for Epps developed into a star forward at Franklin, a fitting running-mate for the sensa tional Seallon. Later when the Franklin five were runners-up in the state tournament, and made the trip to the National tournament in 19124, it was Dave and Seallon who were largely responsible for the Quaker aggregation placing third in the consolation tournament. Even surpassing his basketball record are Epps’ achievements in baseball. He played four years in high school, setting a record one season by playing in eighteen sue-1 eossive games and making one or I more hits in each contest. Coming to Oregon, Dave played on the Erosh nine, and last year was a mainstay on the varsity, lie plays in the out field, but his strong point is in his hitting, which causes the downfall of many a strong pitcher. Last year Epps came within one , or two minutes of making his let ter in varsity basketball, but an infected foot early in the season kept him out of many games. Al- ! though he held down a position as forward last season/ he has been i shifted to guard this year and prom ises to be a valuable man in that! position. Dave is a junior, twenty years old and a member of Beta Theta l’i fraternity. lie tips the beam at 170 pounds and is over six feet in height. Majoring in economics, Epps has not definitely decided what line of work he will take up upon his graduation from Oregon. With another year of intercollegiate basketball still ahead of him, Dave is an important asset to Oregon's success ou the maple court. ^ Ex-Webfooter (Continued from page one) nitely arranged, while several other dates arc tentative. Oregon golfers will enter a two man team in the Pacific Coast con ference tournament at tho San Francisco Country club, according to Jack W. Benefiel, graduate manager. Ed Crowley, who, with Lloyd Byer loy, won the Northwest conference championship last year, will be back to lead the team this year. Among the candidates for tho two man team' to go south are John Gray, Robert. Gift'en, William Palm berg, and Myron Gray. The Webfoot track team will elect a captain •for this year’s team next Thursday, January 19, at Virgil Earl’s office in McArthur Court. There are nine track lettermen in school, but only eight of them are eligible for the honor. Jerry Extra, who will have a vote, has had the limit, three years, of conference com petition. Tho most likely candidate is Vie Wetzel, the only two-year lotterman on the team. Ralph McCullock, Bill Crawford, Vernon McGee, Clarence Hill, Joe Standard, George Burnell, and George Stager are the other lettermen eligible for the captaincy. Style Show (Continued from page one) Cochran, Florence MeXcrney, Emory Miller, Edith Bader, Bonita Tiche lor, Eloise Schade, Madge Normile, )livi’ Ranks, Jane Cullers, Marjorie leffries, Marjorie Edwards, Doro hy Fraley. Riding habits—Juanita Babbit, Vudrev Lyons. Afternoon dresses-—Virginia Coke, Sarah Rarer, Josephine Price, Kath een Kaufman, Julia Kaufman, Edith fenwiek, Thelma Kitchen. Evening dresses—Sally Hughson, Elsie (ioddard, Margaret Nugent, Marabel Braden, Louise Clark, Ruth Field, Margaret Mumaw, Rosalind Loren?;, Alice Latture, Jean Hart. Mrs. Halton Announces The Exclusive Agency —For— Gotham Gold. 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