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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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night and then Washington comes
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four game series.
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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.
Wintermute and Belko led the
scorers with 10 points each, with
Johansen and Silver of Oregon fol
lowing closely with 9 each. Bill
Kramer was outstandng for the
Vandals with his freak shots.
Summary:
Oregon, 32
Silver, f.
Lewis, f .
Johansen, f ....
Wintermute, c
Courtney, g ....
Purdy, g .
Anet, g .
Fg Ft rt Tp
2 5 2 9
1
.3
3
1
0
0
0
3
4
0
0
0
2
9
10
2
0
0
Totals
.10 12 11 32
Idaho, 29
Smith, f .
Belko, f .
Johnson, f
Bohman, c
Kramer, g
Jacobs, g .
Winter, g .
Fg Ft Pf Tp
0
4
1
1
3
0
1
0
2
3
0
2
0
2
9
10
2
8
0
4
Totals
.10 9 15 29
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