i THE Firing Line By PAT FRIZZELL Critics of basketball have for many years converged upon what they term excessive whistle-toot ing. It can't be very well avoided, but that’s beside our point for today. John Kiernan, who does “Sports of the Times” for that king of American newspapers, the New York Times, offers an interesting comparison of whistle-tooting in our two fastest forms of organized physical endeavor, basketball and { ice hockey. On the basis of counts made dur ing a national league hockey game and during one of Madison Square Garden’s big time double bill bas ketball programs, Kiernan found that the hoop sport rates tops in whistle-tooting. In the three 20-minute periods of a hockey game between the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings, the referee exercised his mouthpiece 78 times—26, 24, and 28, by periods. In a basketball battle between Long Island university and Wash ington and Lee, Kiernan counted 49 whistle toots in each half, or a ( grand total of 98. In another game, with New York U, and the Univer sity of North Carolina doing the business, ..the ..officials., went., to town with a total of 124 toots. % sj: * Which is interesting enough, but, after all, who’s afraid of a whistle? Unfortunately, interpretation of basketball rules is not uniform throughout the country. This means more whistle blasts per game in some sections than in others. Many fans protest against over use of the whistle, but the same fault-finders raise their voices in a Bronx chorus when an official fails to call ’em close enough on the “enemy.” Apparently little can be done about it. Anyway, the figures are interest ing. Some enterprising lad might draw up a comparison by checking the toots in some of the coming frays at the Igloo. * * The other day we were spouting i a bit about Forrest Twogood, who does the coaching (hope it’s not Too Rood for our Wcbfoots) up at Idaho and who is also a baseball pitcher of sorts. Now a line about Mr. Barry him self, who deserves any lines scrib bled about him. Barry has coached Trojan basketeers to 61 conference victories against 20 defeats in his seven seasons at Troy. In these seven seasons he has placed first in the southern division four times and second on the other three occa sions. And he has captured a cou ple of playoffs for the Pacific coast crown. That's quite a record, ancl it au tomatically tops everything else in the southern division by miles, kilo meters, and fathoms. But up here in the northern division we have a methodical, bespectacled gent whose record is as good if not bet ter. Hec Edmundson, whose Wash ington Huskies are once more in line to cop the northern division bacon, is the man concerned. In the last nine seasons, Mr. Edmund son has the not-to-be-sniffed-at record of seven northern division titles and two Pacific coast cham pionships. Once in this period the Huskies finished second and once they slipped to third. Edmundson’s nine-year record follows: 1928— Northern division cham pionship. 1929— -Ditto. J930—Northern crown again. 1931— -Coast title. 1932— First jn northern division. 1933— Slipped to third. 1934— Back with a coast cham pionship. 1935— Second. 1936— Northern division gonfa lon. * * * Frosh versus rooks at the Igloo tonight! You'll have a chance to j compare Honest John Warren's great trio of Ted Sarpola, John Dick, and Matt Pavalunas with Howard Maple's gang of ex-all staters, and what a fight it should be. Three-fifths of Corvallis high's •state championship crew of 1936 is performing under the rook banner. Stew Warren and Merle Kruger, | both a]l»Ktaters, and Roy Plugrad, an all-star of the uncrowned va riety, are regulars. And there'll be all-state Tommy Hanson from I Franklin high and all-state Jake Hergert from Jefferson. It ought to be slam-bang. Dashing Ducks Take Overtime Battle From Idaho, 32-29 Phi Delt, Sigma Chi fA’ Teams Garner Fourth Donut Win Beta B Squad Smothers Sigma Chi B, 19-4; ! SAE B Beats Sigma Nu B in Rough Contest The strong Phi Delt A basket ball team romped through the Sigma Nu A team to win their fourth straight game in this year's intramural tournament, 23 to 4. Missing Bingo Crosbie and Eld Strohecker from their lineup be cause of influenza, the Phi Delts started their usual slow game and only led 4 to 2 at the end of the first quarter. With Will Watson hitting the basket with his one handed shots, the defending cham pion piled up three more buckets to lead 10 to 2 at the end of the half. In the secondhalf, the Phi Delts speeded up their offense, running rough shod over the hapless Sigma Nus. Using a zone defense, the Phi Delts were able to keep the Sigma Nus from working the ball in and forcing them to shoot long ones. Watson, substituting in this game for Bingo Crosbie, was high point man with 10. Summary: Phi Delt A (23) (4) Sigma Nu A Wilson, 2 .F. Cass White, 6 .F.2, Battleson Sprague, 3 .C. Healy Milligan, 2 .G. 2, Hockett Watson, 10.G. Guisse Referees: Gordon and Ward. Betas 19, Sigma Chi 4 The Beta Theta Pi B team elim inated the Sigma Chi B team from championship playoffs in a 19 to 4 win in a one sided rough game yesterday afternoon. In the first half, little Bill Har row, Beta forward went wild to score nine points to put his team far in the lead, 11 to 2. The Sigma Chis lone score was a long basket by Jack Gorriii late in the second half. With Harrow out of the game in the second half, Dale Lasselle, varsity footballer, led the winners to victory scoring three of the four field goals. Harrow, playing only the first half of the game, led the scorers with nine points. Summary: Betas (19) Kestly . Harrow, 9 Conrad, 2 .. Lasselle, 6 Walcott, 2 Smith . Neuman . McGowan . Miller . Bittle . King' . (4) Sigma Chi . Amato j . Burlingame . 2, Gorriii . Corey . G 2, Breckenridge ,S.. .s .s s .s Gammon . Vale Referees: Gordon and Ward. SAE 28, Sigma Nu 8 In a wild and wooly game from start to finish in which three Sig ma Nus were put out of the game on account of fouls, the SAE B team walloped the Sigma Nu B team 28 to 8 in the third lopsided game of the afternoon. Starting right out in the first quarter the SAEs piled up a seven to nothing lead and then continued on in the second quarter to score seven more points to lead 14 to 2. Bill Van Dusen, sinking one from a little past the center of the floor, accounted for the Sigma Nus only score. The second half was the same as the first with Ed O'Reilly, SAE forward, leading the attack. He scored a total of 14 points, exactly half of his team's points. Hate in the fourth quarter, Woody Robin son, Dick Watson, and Bill Van Dusen left the game with four personal fouls. SAE (28) (8) Sigma Nu O'Reilly, 14 .F. 4, Eichner DeArmand, 1 F Dungan H. Hardisty, 2 . .. C. Robinson McCoy . G. Watson Clements, 5 . G. 4. Van Dusen Conger. 2 .S. Stretcher Van Scoyac, 2 ... S Smith, 3 .S Heileg .S Referees: Gordon and Brown. Subscriptions only S3.00 per year. H During intermission 9 i THE FALCON • I • Opp. Men s Dorm g ”■■■■■■■■■■ I" f - Theta Chis Beat Gamma In Rough Fray 20-10; Phi Psis Eke Out 8 to 5 Win Over Pi Kaps Following the current trend in donut play the Sigma Chi A team out rough-housed a stubborn Gam ma hall five, 13 to 11 to cop their fourth straight game. The climax of the game came late in the fourth quarter when Wayne Valley, Sigma Chi guard, was ejected on account of unnec essary .roughness. As a result of close checking the score at the half was 6 to 6. But with Pete Thome, Gamma sharpshooter, showing the way with two field goals, Gamma led at the end of the third session, 10 to 6. . Amato caged a foul to put Sig ma Chi one point closer but Em mons followed suit for Gamma. Then Valley drove in hard and tipped one in to bring the score 11 to 9 Gamma, and Anderson fol lowed a minute later with a short swisher to tie the count. In the brawling last minutes, Bob Fitchard sneaked in one from the foul line to give Sigma Chi the nod. Summary: Sigma Chi A, 13 11, Gamma A Yerby, 2.F.... l, Patterson Samuels.F. Herzog Fitchard, 4 .C.3, Emmons Braddoek .G. Helgren Valley, 4 .G. 7, Thome Amato, 1 .S . Anderson, 2 .S . umciais: jonnson and Holden. Theta Chi 20, Gamma 10 The Theta Chi B team, leading' the entire game, trounced Gamma hall B team by a score of 20 to 10 in another rough game. The first quarter was fairly close ' with the Theta Chis holding a three to two lead, but Gamma hall wilted in the second quarter to let the winners run up a five-point advan tage at the end of the half. In the second half the rough playing continued with both teams taking innumerable free throws. Hewitt, Hanscome, and Frye, The ta Chis, completed free throws to shove them farther ahead in the third quarter, with an 11-point lead. ! Gamma hall put on a drive in the last canto to score five points in quick order but were stopped be, fore the outcome of the game was endangered. Vernon Hanscome and Willie Frye led the scorers with seven points each. The summary: Theta Chi, 20 10, Gamma Hall Frye, 7 .F. 2, Lattimor Hanscome, 7 .. .F.1, Parker Cooley .C.2, Newhouse Hewitt, 3 .G. 2, Wilson Kamph, 2.G.3, Helgren Kaseberg .S. Dariotis Harbart .,..S Referees—Holden and Campbell. Phi Psi 8, Pi Kap 5 In the lowest scoring game of this year's intramural basketball games, the Phi Psis managed to score enough points to win over the Pi Kaps B team 8 to 5. With the score tied in the third quarter, 5 to 5, Derwin Banta sank three free throws in the last few minutes of play to give the Pbij Psis the victory. The winners started off in a rush with Sam KroscbeJ scoring five points in rapid order. They led five to two at the half. Bill McCarthy sank a long one from the center for the Pi Kaps only score. The summary: Phi Kappa Psi, 8 5, Phi Kappa Bogae .F. 2, McCarthy Kroschel, 5 .F.Faunt Banta, 3 .C. Nison Bernhardt .G. Pierson Burley .G. Nilson Stanton .S. 3, Robins Referees — Campbell and Hol den. Frosh Annex First Game of 4-Tilt Series Dick Buckets 12 Points. Tops U.O.; Pfhigrad Leads Baby Beavers: Teams Meet Tonight John Warren's hard driving freshmen opened the “little civil war” series with a close 40 to 32 win over the Oregon State Rooks last night at Corvallis. The twc teams meet again tonight at Mc Arthur court. Following the example set in former years the game was very rough with three Oregon rrten and two Rooks being ejected on per sonal fouls. The Frosh led at half time 23 to 21. Immediately after the opening of the second half Roy Pflugrad dropped in a bucket to tie the score 23 to 23. From this point on the game was nip and tuck. With only 9 ■ minutes left the Frosh led 29 to 28. But from this point on the driving power of War. ren’s men began to tell and they raft the Rooks into the ground to win 40 to 32. Pflugrad Tops Scorers Pflugrad took individual scoring honors for the evening with 13. John Dick and Ted Sarpola came close behind with 12 and 11 respec tively. Bob Blenkinsop. Stan Short, and. Matt Pavalunas of the Frosh left the game on four personals, as did Tommy Hansen and Bill Baugh man of the Rooks. Ducklings Face OSC Rooks at Igloo Tonight Rival Yearling Quintets Clash at 8 o’Clock in Second Tilt of Annual Four Game Series Oregon's versatile Ducklings and the Baby Orangemen of Oregon State will clash on maple boards of McArthur court tonight in a game for which Eugene fans have long been waiting. The contest is slated to start promptly at 8 o’clock, and is free to holders of ASUO tickets. Gen eral admission tickets will be on sale at the gate. There will be no reserved seats. Fireworks Expected Fireworks aplenty are expected at the Igloo tonight when the two quintets lock in battle. A full half-dozen all-staters arc expected to cavort on the Igloo floor. The frosh have two, and Howard Maple, rook mentor, blessed with the best Orange Babe team in years, has no less than four big guns ready for action. Rooks Have All-Staters Heading the list are Stew War ren, elongated center, and Merle Krueger, forward, both of Corval lis high. Tommy Hansen, Frank lin guard, Jake Hergert, Jefferson, and Roy Plugrad, former Spartan forward are other hot shots. Ted Sarpola, three times all state forward at Astoria high, is one of the main cogs in Warren's hoop machine. Matt Pavalunas, twice all-state for Raymond high in Washington, and John Dick, lengthy pivot man from The Dalles, are a pair of .well-drilled main stays. Paul Jackson, midget guard, Bobby Blenkinsop, forward, and Stan Short, guard, are certain to see action in tonight's game. Ralph Coleman, Oregon State, will offi ciate. i Pictures at Night | | — Are Easy Now | * For full information cm bow to take them and tlie ■ * equipment to do it with, see— §jj * CARL BAKER FILM SHOP ■ ■ b9ii Willamette g Ducklings Dump Rooks, 40 to 32 Sibilant Syracuseans Those five hoopsters dribbling toward the camera arc the S-men of the Syracuse basket hall varsity. Left to right: Wilmoth Sidat-Singh, reportedly the only Hindu in American bnsketball, Bob Stewart, Ed Sonderman, Johnny Sohroeder, and Captain John SimonaltiN. Husky Track Squad Opens Season Grind EdmundsoiTs Men Show Strength in Sprints; Material Lacking for Weights and Jumps UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Seattle, Jan. 21.—With the opening of track and field practice at the University of Washington this week in preparation for the 1937 season, indications are that the Huskies will be weak in the jumps and weights and particular! ly strong in the flat and' hurdle races. Once more Coach Hec Edmond son must endeavor to taring forth enough talent to bolster his broad jumping, pole vaulting, shot and discus throwing departments, while from the sprints through the two mile he has a wealth of material. In the broad jump, Bert An shutz, two-year letterman who has never bettered 22 feet, is the sole standout. Eddie Gross, member of the Olympic games tumbling team, will be turning out as a sophomore and has come close to Anshutz’ best mark. «. nnus manuoui Boyd Childs, who hit 13 feet once last year, is likewise the only pole vaulter of merit, with no help com ing up from last season’s frosh squad to strengthen the event. Vic Markov, the 205-pound tac kle, has a bad knee injury suffered in the Rose Bowl, and will lose sev eral weeks of practice as the No. 1 discus tosser. Markov has never bettered 140 feet in college compe tition. Leon Bjorklund, a 6 foot 5 inch sophomore, is a promising candidate, but lacks poise and ex perience. Again in the shot-put, Hec has no stellar performer. Johnny Buck ley is not back in school as ex pected, leaving Markov and Merle Miller, the sophomore halfback, to share duties. Neither has bettered 43 feet. Not AH Gloom Sprinters Bruce Humber, Olym pic semi-finalist, and Marion Hay, powerful junior, rank tops among Northern Division dash men. Both ran one-two in ’35 and with Dick Montgomery, who has shaded even time in the century, to help them INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL SUMMARY Monday’s Schedule 4:00—Court 38—Oregon Freemen (A) vs. Phi Kappa Psi (A). Court 48—Ahjba Dahlia (A) vs. Pi Kappa Alpha (A). 4:40—Court 38—Yeomen (A) vs. Delta Ta-u Delta (A). Court 43—Canard Hall (A) vs. Zeta Hull (A). 3:30—Court 38—Alpha Tau Omega (A) vs. Theta Chi (A). Court 43—Chi Psi (A) vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon (A). Yesterday’s Scores Phi Della Theta A 28, Sigma Nu A 4. Sigma Chi A 15, Gumma Hall A 13. Sigma Alpha Epsilon B 28, Sigma Nu B 8. Beta Theta Pi » 19, Sigma Chi B 4. Theta Chi B 20, Gamma Hall B 10. Phi Kappa Psi B 8, Pi Kappa Alpha B 5. should have little trouble cleaning up points. Jim Drury leads the quarter-mil ers and although he has trouble shading 49 seconds, can step with the best in the conference. Vic Palmason who has done 1:53.6, is the leading 880 man on the coast and with Roger Samples, good for 1:55, to aid him will bolster Husky point totals in the half mile. Angle Kated Tops Jimmy Angle, like Palmason, is the tops in his department, the mile run, and should have his biggest year this season. Sandy McClaren and Dave McGinnis are average two-milers and have plenty of ex perience. Ednnindson may come up with a prodigy in the javelin throw in the person of Merle Miller, the powerful footballer, who is only a sophomore. Miller eclipsed 200 feet twice as a frosh without benefit of training or concentration and ap parently has the ability to become a star in this event. Jesse Miller, no relation to Merle, who has done over 190 and wears two varsity letters to prove it, is also back. In the high jump, Bill Vandcr may, who has a mark of 0 feet, 4 3-8 inches and who also broke the conference record last year, will be the No. 1 jumper. This tall blond had trouble with his form in the final meets of 1935 but should pull out of his slump and add inches to his best height. Bert Anshutz backs Vandermay up. But it is the hurdle events that the Huskies will present their com ing ace, Art Morgan, the supple junior. Morgan ran 14.4 for the lows last year and was almost as good in the 120-yard high barriers. Jim McGoldrick and Jack Flagg, two promising sophomores, will be up for varsity duty along with Fred Stutfield, letterman. Send the Emerald to your frieuds. Subscriptions only $3.00 per year. 1 *7 J 1 THE DOORWAY TO tint; foods IlMl 735 SW Broadway Keataurant • Coffee Shop Portland’s popular rendezvous for all college and high school students. On Broadway next to the Orpheum Theater. OPEN ALL NIGHT Beavers Bow to Huskies, 37-31 Washington Keeps Victory String Unbroken. Tops Northern Conference The Oregon State Beavers vir tually eliminated themselves from the Northern division champion ship last night when they dropped a close 37 to 31 decision to the Washington Huskies at Seattle. Washington is the defending cham pions and leads the league this year with three consecutive wins. This game made the fourth straight loss Slats Gill’s men have dropped this year. They opened the season with two losses by the Washington State Cougars, fol lowed by a thrilling encounter witli the Oregon Wcbfoots last Fri day night, losing 35 to 34. The two teams meet again to night and then Washington comes down to Corvallis Lo finish up the four game series. Send the Emerald to your friends. WViV.WdW ■■ HOT INDIVIDUAL 1*ECAN FIE SIBEIUUANATED 13c TOMMY MAY’S Delivery I’lione l^lltii and Alder; -VJWJVJVJV? Webfoots Open Vandal Series With Victory Urjjel W intermute Tops Ducks With 10 Points; Johansen Gets Victory Basket Forced to play a j minute over time, Oregon's dashing Ducks squeezed out a 32-29 victory over s hard fighting Idaho Vandal team last night on the Moscow court. Dave Silver, southpaw high scorer, opened Oregon's scoring with a free throw. The game then leveloped into a tight battle witli Idaho coming out on the top 15 to 10 at half time. Vandals Hold Lead The Vandals continued in the lead until Wally Johansen, substi tute Duck forward, tied it up at 21 to 21. The Webfoots then forg sd into a three point lead but Seiko came through with two field goals to tie the game again 25 to 25. With one and a half minutes left, both teams bucketed another field goal to tie the score for the third time 27 to 27 as the game snded. Ducks Score Twice In the overtime period Johansen and Urgel Wintermute scored for Oregon to give them the victory. 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