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EMERALD SPORTS STAFF Dick Neuberger Sports Editor Bruce Hamby....Asst. Sports Editor Parks Hitchcock, Joseph Sasiavsky, Malcolm Bauer I ’ i - -.-.. — OREGON SPORTS Doc Spears has issued a call for all freshman football men to re port at McArthur court this after noon at 3:30 o’clock. He says it’s Important that every candidate be there. Congratulations To Bill Reinhart And His Team. -By DICK KEUBERGER r|X) say the least, the Oregon boys did themselves proud over the week-end. They fooled every Doay, in cluding their staunchest sup porters and proved again that a game’s never won until it’s played. Five days ago who would have ven tured to predict Cap Roberts that the Webfoots would take even one game from the Cougars ? Plac ers of bets on Oregon were as scarce as hen’s teeth. The home team was not conceded a chance j against the long-legged invaders from Pullman. But the Webfoots fought with a fury the Cougars could not equal i and the visitors’ vaunted attack W'as subdued to a mere whisper as j Oregon stormed its way to two hair-raising victories. With all the j odds seemingly against them, Bill I Reinhart’s lads carried the offen-! sive to their adversaries in both I games and came away with the | long end of the score both times. If ever two victories were earned, those over Washington State were merited by the Webfoots. They; completely outplayed their rivals, j And don’t think the Cougars { weren’t trying. The W. S. C. bas-1 keteers came here with everything; to lose—and they lost it—to a team they were expected to beat by at least 10 points both nights. By winning from Oregon, Wash ington State virtually could have clinched the northern division championship, but now its reign I over the rest of the league is in more danger of being terminated than at any previous time this sea son. * * * You’ve got to hand it to Bill ' Reinhart for those victories. ! They were a direct result of his remarkable coaching work with the Webfoots. Whenever a team with as many physical limita tions as Oregon conquers a club as uniformly tall and husky as Washington State, there is plen Ends Today liUTH CHATTEKTON PAUL LUKAS “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” COMING TOMORROW rAtl ANY ONE MAN FULfILL AGIRLT DREAM of L0V£?i 'NO ONE MAN' CAROLS LOMBARD RICARDO CORTfZ I PAUL LUKAi i j [Icrcs* llupert Hughes’ brilliant, startling Cos mopolitan magazine serial anil best-seller novel on the sereen. Extra Good Coined* Novelty — News TODAY Cougars Stem Orange Drive In Crucial Tilt Holsten, Gordon Direct W. S. C. Attack Lewis Stars for Beavers in First of Two Games Fagans Out CORVALLIS, Feb. 15.— (Spe cial).—Washington State took a firmer grip on its slim conference lead tonight as they edged out Oregon State, 28 to 24, in a thrill ing game at the men's gym here. The Cougars rallied in the second half to overcome a 13 to 7 Beaver lead at halftime. Huntley Gordon and Bull Hol sten led the Cougars with 20 points between them. Ed Lewis was outstanding for the Beavers with seven markers. Oregon State took an early lead and managed to keep ahead throughout the first period. The Beavers were without the ser vices of Ken Fagans, star forward, who was taken to the hospital with influenza earlier in the day. His place was taken by Skeet O’Connell. Carl Lenchitsky was replaced early in the game by Red MacDonald. In the second period the Cou gars started a scoring spree which gave them a 16 to 13 lead before the Eeavers scored. Gordon and Holsten continually evaded their guards and slipped in field goals. Oregon State had a chance to tie the score in the final minutes of the game when O’Connell and rhomas missed foul conversions. tV. S. C. led, 34 to 22, at the time. The lineups: W. S. C. (28) (24) O. S. C. lolsten (9) .F. (6) Thomas -ross (6) .F.... (4) O’Connell Gordon (11) .C. (7) Lewis Scott (2) .G. (5) Merrill HcLarney .G..(2) MacDonald Referee, Bobby Morris, Seattle; umpire, Scotty Milligan, Eugene. ty of credit due the coach of the winning quintet. It was no weak, lackadaisical percentage system that Oregon ised to vanquish the Cougars. The Webfoots played vigorous offen sive ball, taking advantage of ev ;ry opening left by Washington state. They took chances and fol owed the ball like pointers after heir quarry. Slender Hank Levoff was the ad who led Oregon on the court, le played inspired basketball. His shooting was phenomenal and he cas continually harrassing the lougars when Oregon was on the lefense. The first night Hank cored 13 points and the next night ight. His 21 tallies gave him ioint-producing honors for the eries. All season Hank has been a ;reat builder of plays, but in the lougar games he was more ef icient than ever in this respect, le consistently worked the ball eep into Washington State’s do lain to create set-up shots for Eva Beats Street In Peppy Celluloid Socking Contest |X a hectic, nine-game match, Don Eva edged out Bob Street to advance into the three cornered finals in the all-cam pus V. M. C. A. tourney yes terday afternoon. Street cap tured the first three games but collapsed before Eva's steady assault. Ingram Iijosness disposed of Joe Kalisky, varsity net man in the other semi-finals match ocer the week-end and the two, along with Julian Apil, Lillipu tian Filipino ace who drew a bye in the last round will fight it out for the campus title and the Co-op trophy. Iijosness is to meet Apil, while Eva draws a pass into the final match. his teammates. But even more than that. Hank proved he was a “money player." Both nights he was fouled in the closing minutes, giving him a chance to sew up the games for Oregon. And both times, under the heaviest sort of pressure, Hank delivered in the pinch and sank his shots. :|s $ Jj; Cap Roberts also played splen did bail for the Webfoots. He consistently out - maneuvered Huntly Gordon and was a vital factor in getting the ball off both backboards. Cap, Hank and Windy Calkins piled all over Gordon every time the big fellow had his hands full. That was one reason the officials called so many “held-ball” de cisions. Jack Robertson played more spiritedly than he has at any time this season. His accurate long shots were instrumental in keeping the Webfoots within beck and call of the lead when the Cougar defense tightened. Calkins turned in his usual de pendable performances. The Ore gon captain proved he always can be counted upon in the pinch. Calkins was fouled by McLarney 55 seconds before the gun that ended the second game and was helped from the court with a painfully hurt ankle. The injury may lay him up several days, but Reinhart says he will be in the lineup when Oregon faces Oregon State at Corvallis Friday night. The others who helped Levoff, Roberts, Calkins and Robertson were Cliff Potter, Isaac Donin, Jim Watts and Gilbert Olinger. They all played nice ball. When Donin was on the floor, there were three lads from Lincoln high of Portland in the Oregon lineup. Levoff and Robertson were also former Cardinal basketeers. * * * Both gamese were the kind that make the heart beat faster. The finish of Saturday night's battle was as wild as a four-alarm fire. Did you ever see a more sensation al basket than the one Bobby Cross sank for the Cougars just before the gun roared its welcome message ? Another shot or so like that and there might have been a different story to tell. A no less spectacular incident late in the second battle was Calk ins' dash the length of the court after which he was fouled by Art McLarney. Windy was injured in the melee, but not so badly that he couldn't step up to the coul W/COIUAAMA / PICTURE With J'iit O’Brien Mae'L la i he I I Mat Experts Will Grapple At Gym Today Annual Bone - Crushing; Event Starts at 4 165 Pound Tusslers, Light Heavyweights, To Open All-Campus Meet WRESTLING 4:00 Haviland-Nicely Renner-Summers Clapp-Vernon Campbell-Sears By ED GOODNOUGH Four matches, starting; at 4 o'clock this afternoon, will open the annual all-campus wrestling tourney at the men’s gym. Two of the bouts will feature 165-pound ers, and the remaining two are welterwegiht clashes. Joe Haviland will tussle with Charles Nicely and Omer Summers tangles with Joe Renner in the heavier division, while John Ver non vs. Ray Clapp and Kermit Campbell vs. Freddy Sears round out the opening day’s programs. Due to the fact that Clair Meisel, student wrestling instructor, is under the weather with a case of flu, Earl Boushey will referee the card. Bouts will consist of two four minute rounds with two extra two minute rounds in case neither of the contestants secure a fall or 1 one minute's advantage during the regulation period. The principals 1 on today’s bill are vvarn,ed to ap pear promptly on the hour or risk losing the match by forfeit. The ' ring will not be set up today, but is to be used for the semi-finals 1 and finals on Wednesday and Fri day, respectively. Twenty-nine men have signed up 1 and weighed in for the tourney. ' Divisions and entrants are as fol- ! lows; Heavyweights: Walter Gray, Howard Lewis, Jim Gemlo, and Howard Clark. Light - heavyweights: Chuck Johnson, Frank Kellner, and George Minturn. 165-pound class: Doc Kelliher, Joe Haviland, Charles Nicely, Omer Summers, Joe Renner, and Walt McCaffery. Middleweights: Bob Nunn, Lloyd Ruff, Kayo Mullins, and Tom Mountain. Welterweights: Charles Martin, John Vernon, Ray Clapp, Fred Sears, Kermit Campbell, and Charles Kleinegger. Lightweights: Glenn Bechtold, John Ruttencutter, and Wallace Miller. Featherweights: John Siever kropp, Norman Burke, and Otto Vonderheit. Fleaweights: Art O'Reilly, Paul “Whataman” Washke, and Kelsey Slocum. line and convert one of the gift shots allowed him. * * * It will be interesting to see how the Cougars come back. They’re only only one game ahead of the Washington Huskies now, so they can’t afford to lose many more. Washington State was a discour aged troup when it left here for Corvallis yesterday. “My gosh,” moaned Jack Friel, youthful coach of the Cougars, “I don’t see how Oregon lost so many games to Idaho and Washington. Your boys certainly looked unbeatable in the three games they beat us.” Ah ha! U. C. L. A. rebelled in the South and now everything’s tied up between Southern Califor nia and the University of Califor nia. While the Bears were having a picnic with Stanford’s forlorn Indians, the baby Bruins rose in wrath and smote the Trojans, 28 to 27. Dick Linthicum was the lad who turned the trick. With only 10 seconds to play, he dribbled down the side of the court and looped one over his head for the points that brought the Bruins victory. L1ISL GUTS NEW BOOKS One rent book and three seven day books were received at the li brary yesterday. The rent book was, “Peacock’s Feathers” by George S. Heilman, and the seven day books were “Successful Living in This Machine Age,” by Edward A. Filene, “Counter-Statement,” by Kenneth Burke, and “The Story of Alaska,’’ by Clarence L. Andrews, j Frosh Reserves To Play Tonight In Initial Tilt The Oregon yearling reserves will tangle with Bob Officer’s All Stars in a hoop contest at the men's gym at 6:30 tonight. The yearling players have not played a scheduled game together this year, but have been working as a unit in practice sessions all sea son. The starting lineup for the freshman team will probably in clude Jette and Jacobs at for wards; Bauer at center; and Mc Clain and Whyte at the guard positions. There will be no admission charge for the tilt. DONUT CHATS by JOSEPH SASLAVSKY BIFF, BOOM, BANG, CRUNCH. GRUNT. GOANS, HAIR PULL ING. EAR BITING. TENDON TUGGING. OUCH. GRR. STRUG GLE. By now, gentle reader, you should have guessed the signifi cance of all these elegant expres sions. If you have not, they serve only as a reminder that today the big carnival, the battles of the century, the classical combats get under way today in the men's gym, with the start of the annual all campus wrestling tournament. About 30 “rasslers” have signified their intention of taking away the crowns in the various weight di visions and putting them on their own dear little (block)heads. So if you want to see what passes for action, drop in to the matches be ginning this afternoon at 4 p. m. Action de luxe, mixed with all the ingredients that go to make wrest ling such a popular sport. At last the Yeomen bumped into a Waterloo which put a crimp in their habit of winning any and all intramural tournament titles. The Yeomen had serenely gone about their task of taking all donut crowns and were already conceded the volleyball gonfalon, when the Phi Delt six decided that it was about time that the Yeomen were prevented from becoming too grab by. The Phi Delta Theta voliey ballists vindicated their decision by winning the volleyball flag and making it the first time this school year that the independent squad has not found itself in possession of a donut championship. The winners, without any outstanding players on their roster, displayed a better game and teamwork to just barely nose out a victory for the title. * « * Apropos of the donut volleyball tournament, which is now history, we would like to make an attempt to pick some sort of all-star ag gregation. If all the participants in the recent tourney were lined up against the wall and we were given our pick, we might have to display quite a little cogitation as to which players we would choose. But here goes for our team, and we make no excuses or apologies for it. The squad would be com posed of Ingram Kjosness of the Yeomen, Kermit Stevens of the Phi Delts, Florendo Mangavil of La Casa Filipina, Willie Paul of Kappa Sig, Paul Bale of SAE, and Don McKim of ATO. Anyone who watched the volleyball games at all in the tourney knows that these players would have brought joy to the hearts of a manager of any ,'olleyball team. Kjosness was the star of the Yeomen team and dis played a great knack of killing the ball so that opponents had plenty of trouble in even trying to return them. Stevens was the de fensive star of the champion Phi Delt combination and could on oc casion salt away needed points by his fairly good ability to spike the ball. He went after every ball that came on his side of the net and made miraculous saves. Mangavil was without peer as a defensive player. He handled the pellet nice ly and set up many intended kill shots from the hands of foes. Paul simply slugged the ball over the net for his kill shots, and they were boomed so hard that they were unreturnablc. He also could set up to the front line in a highly : satisfactory manner. Bale was a spiker de luxe, while McKim i showed pleuty of stuff Cougar Claws Slightly Dulled Leaders of Conference Not So Sure Now Three Beatings Given WSC By Lowly Oregonians Is Biggest Upset Northern Division Standings W. L. Pet. | Washington State .9 3 .750 j Washington .8 4 .667 Oregon State . 6 6 .500 Oregon .6 7 .452 Idaho .2 11 .150 Tonight's games Washington State vs. Oregon State at Cor vallis. By BRUCE HAMBY Washington's chances for a sec ond northern division basketball title faded soprewhat last night as the Washington State Cougars Duck Wins siagea a infilling comeback to de feat the Oregon State team 28 to 24 at Corvallis. The Cougars now have a game and a half lead on the Huskies. Last night’3 victory was the first for Wash ington State on its four - game road trip. Ore Hec Edmundsen gon’s two victories last week over the Cougars, 34 to 32 and 24 to 21, while Washington was defeating Idaho twice, put Hec Edmundsen’s Huskies within a half a game of the league leaders. The Cougars proved they were of championship caliber last night, however, and handed the Beavers a decisive, al though close, defeat. Webfeet Wake Up Oregon aroused from its lethar gic state and staged two great games last week. Friday night’s thrilling battle was rivaled closely by the nerve-racking contest the | following night. In both games the Webfoots out - fought the league leaders and dominated the scoring throughout both games. Hank Levoff and Cap Roberts led the Webfoots in the two up sets. Jack Robertson, Windy Cal kins, Jim Watts, Cliff Potter, Ike j Donin and Gib Olinger turned in i outstanding games. Oregon’s three victories over the Cougars are the only defeats suffered by the Pull man team this season. Duck Defense Strong Great defensive playing was the main factor in the Oregon vic tories. In both games the Oregon players presented an airtight de fense and every Cougar shot was hurried. Hank Levoff's scoring eye was responsible for 13 of the Oregon scores in the first game and his fighting tactics in both! contests gave Oregon control of j the ball most of the time. While the race has narrowed ■ down to W. S. C. and Washington for the division pennant, the main 1 objective of the Oregon team from ' now on is to climb back into third place. At present it is only a game behind Oregon State and another loss by the Beavers will put the i two teams into a lie. South Grows Warmer While the boys were having their fun up north, the race in the I Hayward Slates Cinder Tryouts Foe Tracksters JJOTH freshman and varsity track candidates will hold the first tryouts of the season J next Saturday afternoon on j Hayward field. All men signed up for track are expected to turn out. According to Colonel Bill Hayward, truck coach, the pur pose of the meet is to give him a chance to size up the track and field possibilities for the coming season. Cold weather has held up the runners and in door work in McArthur court has been the only means of ex ercise. Kappa Sig Hoop Squad Loses To Phi Delt Townies In a rough and tumble hoop game last Saturday afternoon, the town members of Phi Delta Theta triumphed over the Kappa Sig townies 18-13. The tilt was a wild affair, and Jim Weed, who started officiating, was forced to give way under fire in the last part of the game to Francis Sullivan. The Kappa Sig five got off to an early lead, but the Phi Delt sharp shooters, Burr and Olson, began dropping them in from all angles to give the boys from the big gray barn a lead which they didn't lose for the rest of the contest. The victors were awarded a handsome tomato can as a trophy. “This emblem of victory will be contested for each year, and we hope this townie game will be come an annual affair," states Captain Burr of the winners. south got hotter and hotter. Nibs Price’s California Bears strode over Stanford, 33 and 16, and then rejoiced to hear that U. C. L. A. had gotten so inspired that it' had defeated the Southern California Trojans, 26 to 24. Now the race is tied up tighter than a drum. The Trojans and the Bears are in a deadlock for the lead. It was Capt. Richard Linthi cum’s spectacular “hope” shot when only 10 seconds remained to be played that defeated the team from Troy. As usual, Jerry Nemer topped U. S. C. He scored 12 tallies. Joe Kintana and Dick Reed were the leading lights in Cal’s triumph over Stanford. EMERALD ... of the A I R “Volcanoes in Hawaii," will be the subject of a talk by George Godfrey, who has recently spent some time in that country, on the Emerald of the Air program over KORE at 4:15 this afternoon. God frey’s 15-minute discussion will be in the form of a question and an swer interview. Because of the recent eruption of Mount Kilauea, and since God frey has studied and photographed the volcanoes at close hand, his talk is timely and should be well handled. The Wednesday Emerald of the Air will feature a sports talk by Bruce Hamby, assistant sports ed itor of the Emerald. FINAL WEEK OF OUR SALE ANY PAIR OF SHOES NOW $2.98 2 PAIRS $5.50 MCDQNALD THEATRE KLDQ1032 Willamette W ebfoot Swim Stars Sweep O.S.C. Otf Feet Varsity, Frosh Natators Whip Beavers Ducks Shatter Three Pool Records in Dual Meet At Corvallis The Oregon varsity and fresh man swimming squads satisfied their craving for Beaver meat when they both took dual meet victories from the Orange varsity and the rooks, respectively, at Corvallis Saturday. The Webfoot varsitarians trounced the O. S. C. varsity, 56 to 28, in a meet in which three Corvallis tank records were broken by the Duck combina tion and also took a water polo game by a score of 4 to 1. A supposedly weak Duckling outfit turned on the rooks and nosed out a victory by a tally of 43 to 41. The frosh also took a water polo tilt from the baby Beavers, 4 to 2. One record was broken by Charlie Foster, Oregon star, in the 440-yard event, which he took at a very fast clip of 5:43 2-5. Francis Oglesby, Webfoot natator, broke the time in the 220-yard free style by winning it in 2:32 2-5. The third record to be shattered was the 300-yard medley relay, which the Lemon and Yellow squad, com posed of Jim Brooke, Paul Laffer ty, and Wally Hug, took in a fast race at 3:27 3-5. In the varsity water polo battle, Paul Lafferty tallied two, Bob Needham, one, and Charlie Foster, one for the Oregon poloists, with Dunham manufacturing the lone State goal. In the freshman game, the frosh markers were recorded by Willie Paul with three and Jim Ringrose with the other one. ' Staten and Dockery each counted one for the rooks. 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