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There apparently aren't any soft ones in this northern division bas ketball derby. Usually at least one team is easy, but not even Idaho can qualify in that category this winter. The Vandals gave Oregon all the fight the Webfoots wanted up at Moscow and they battled Washington on fairly even terms at Seattle. Big reason for Washington's failure to sweep through the league lies probably in increased strength of the rest of the teams. The Huskies ought to be as strong as last year, when they breezed home, and they looked no weaker in their first game here. * * * Chuck Wagner, who teams with Bob Egge in that grand ball handling and feeding combination, believes firmly that the conference is more evenly balanced this year than last. “Idaho was pretty green up at Seattle, and they had a lot to learn,” said Chuck in the Eugene hotel lobby before the Huskies opened their series here, “but they must have learned fast, and they’re always tough on their own floor. ' Chuck, a friendly lad, maintains that any ball game is tough, any way you look at it. His explana- ! tion of the Husky debacle at Cor vallis last weekend is as simple as ; Hec Edmundson's. “We weren’t hitting our shots the first night,” j he said, “and the second night they . really poured it on.” Wagner, whose brother, Clyde, played for Washington two years ago and before, will hie east to Schenectady, New York, and ' an engineering school upon gradua tion. He carries his sheepskin through the Puget Sound portals next June. With the hard-driving Wagner at Schenectady will be Dick Egge, twin brother of Bob. Both lads have appointments to the school, but Egge will not finish at Wash ington until the end of next fall j term. * * * Seems funny, doesn’t it, that one half of a twin combination can burn up a basketball court as docs brother Bob Egge, and the other half — brother Dick — can at the same time languish for three sea sons on the bench. But Hec Edmundson says that Dick Egge, who didn’t make the trip here, has the handicap of be ing slender and that he lacks the drive of Bob. He’s a member of the squad, and a fair sort of ball player, however. Incidentally, isn’t this Bob Egge about the smoothest example of faking, feeding, and defensive per fection you ever saw? * * * No matter what happens from now on, that age-old Washington jinx over the Webfoots at McAr thur court is in the discard. For ten solid years since construction of the big pavilion the Ducks had taken it on the chin from the Hus kies there, but Monday night Hob by Hobson's lads didn’t respect the hoodoo in the least. Interesting is the fact that Ore gon, in that now terminated ten year period, beat Washington five times and every one of the five Duck wins was at Seattle. Chuck Wagner shied away from mention of the jinx before game time Monday. "Don’t talk about it,” he pleaded. Say what you may, it never helps to point out such a thing be fore a game. The mental effect is likley to be damaging. Incidentally, for this reason, it's considered unwise to announce in dividual scoring over the public address system during the course of a baii game. The lad concerned hears the report, too, and more often than not he involuntarily tightens up. Hec Edmundson, when he spoke of the Olympic tournament the' other day, gave an interesting: slant on how basketball is played ! in two widely-separated sections. “Utah State," says Hec, "placed all emphasis on offense, while Ar kansas went to the other extreme, with all importance placed on de fense." To illustrate Utah State's lack of defense, Edmundson told how his players, watching the Rocky mountain outfit play the Wilmer ding, Pennsylvania, national YMCA champions, went out of the gymnasium momentarily with Utah State far ahead. When the Huskies returned a few minutes! Webfoots Drop From First Position As Huskies Win 39-30 A TOs Top Phi Delts, 30-17, Gain A Hotelmen Capture Hard-Fought Game; Enter Last Round Betas and ATOs In Semi-Finals of Donut‘B’League ATOs Walk Over SAEs In Easy Game; Betas Overcome Yeomen in Other Contest Building up an insurmountable first half advantage, -the ATO B hoopers coasted through the sec ond canto to a 35 to 19 win over the SAE B squad to move into the semi-final round of intramural play-offs yesterday afternoon. Two quick cripples by Harry Weston started the first half scor ing spree for the ATOs. Jack Berry and Don Anderson threw in shots from all angles to bring the half time score 22 to 5 for ATO. Bob DeArmond and Ron Arnoldus were the only SAEs to hit the hoop. SAEs Rally The ATO quintet was able to score only one field goal in the third quarter while the SAEs ran in 8 counters to bring the third period score to 24 to 13 for ATO. Going into the fourth quarter the Hotelmen began to hit the basket more consistently, and with Jack Hay and Berry leading the attack they ran out the game 35 to 19. Berry and Hay divided high point honors for the day with 10 apiece. The SAE scoring was evenly divided. Aronldus led with 5: Summary: ATO B (35) (19) SAE B Berry, 10 .F.. 2, DeArmond Hay, 10 .F. 4, Clement Anderson, 2 .C. 5, Arnoldus Weston, 7 .G. 2, Hardesty Irwin, 3 .G 2, McGaughey Dunn, 1 .S. Heilig Fort, 2 .S. Conger S. 4, Lloyd S_ Van Scoyoc Officials: Tingle and Campbell. Belas B 16, Yeomen B 7 The Beta E team moved into the semi-final round of the Donut league piay-offs by defeating a weaker Yeomen B squad 16 to 7 yesterday afternoon. The Betas used 14 men to roll up their victory. A cripple shot by Jerry Kestly, Beta forward was the only scoring in the initial per iod. A foul shot by Harry Hilde burn opened the Yeomen scoring, and another gift toss by Hilde burn, on a Beta technical foul when an avalanche of substitutes rushed in without reporting, con cluded their scoring while the Betas ran in 9 more to have half time score 11 to 2. Two field goals by Hildeburn in the final two periods and a free threw by Eink Dicss concluded the Yeomen scoring in the last half, while the Betas added 5 more to make a final count of 16 to 7. Scoring 6 of their 7 points Hilde burn, Yeomen forward, tied for high scoring honors with Kestly. Summary: Beta B (16) (7) Yeomen B Harrow, 1 .G. Greenup Kestyl, 6 .F. Hodes Conrad, 4 .C. Henry Wolcott, 4 .G. 1, Diess Rosson, 1 .G... 6, Hildeburn Reed ..S. Bowers Fortmiller ..S. Pickens Robinson ..S. Stein Wintermute .S. Witbeck McGowan .S. Leatherman Sayles .S Smith ...'..f3 Newman .S Officials: Tingle and Campbell. later the collegians were so far behind Hec's gang thought the scoreboard had been reserved. On offense the Utahans were marvels, but their defense wa- no match for such a concerted attack. TIC HENOR MARRIES Earl W. Tichenor, ex-'35, and Isabelle McDonough were married in Portland, January 3. They will live in Marshfield. Graybeal Sets Pace in Upset Triumph; ATO Leads Most of the Way In Semi-Final Fray By ELBERT HAWKINS Turning on the heat in a gigantic second half scoring spree, the pow erful Alpha Tau Omega hoopers out-drove a fighting Phi Delt quin tet, 30 to 17, to take a bitterly fought A league intramural play off tilt yesterday. The aggressive ATOs rolled in 19 points in the final two quarters to run away with the battle, after leading the scrappy Phi Delts only 11 to 7 at the end of the first half. The victorious ATO basketeers moved into the play-off finals by virtue of yesterday’s hard-fought win, and Thursday afternoon will meet the winner of the Abba Dab ba-Beta Theta Pi fray. The Abba Dabbas and the Betas tangle today at 4 o’clock. Bitter Battle With over 100 rabid fraternity fans cheering them on, the teams staged one of the bitterest donut hoop games of the season. Through the entire first eight minutes, they struggled from one end of the court to the other, with the Phi Delts, led by Ed Stroheck er and Sid Milligan, spotting them selves to a 5 to 2 advantage. Right at that point, the ATO attack, spcyked by driving Jay Graybeal, started clicking, and they piled up 9 points while holding the momentarily checked Phi Delts scoreless. uraybeal Holes Two Graybeal holed two rapid-fire lay-in shots on passes from Jack Dunn and Jack Stafford, and made it 11 to 5 in the closing- seconds of the first half. Sid Milligan, rugged Phi Delt guard, pumped a long howitzer into the net at the gun to make the count 11 to 7, and cut the ATO lead to four points. Up to this point the fighting quintets had played without a sub stitution, at a speedy tempo, but in the second half they moved even faster. Vein Sprague, Phi Delt reserve, went into the fray as the half opened and immediately cut the ATO lead to two points on a swish ing one-hander from near the foul line. That was as near as the Phi Delts ever came to the win ners. Miller Connects Darrell Miller, ATO forward, ran the count to 13 to 9 on a beauty from out past the key-hole, and his running mate, Stafford, hit an other one to widen the gap to 15-9. The score went up to 18 to 9 before midget Bill Crosbie, smooth working Phi Delt guard finally hit one. Miller countered again for the ATOs at the end of the third period making it 20 to 11, and prac tically sewing up the ball game. Four minutes before the end, Hans Karstens, who had just been injected into the Alpha Tau Omega lineup, connected on a shot from the side, preceding a neat follow in the basket which made the score 28 to 14. The fighting Delts were able to slash but one point off that 14-tally lead before the game ended. Summary: ATO A, 30 17, A Phi Delts Stafford, 6 .F.. Watson A. Karstens, 4..F. Wilson Miller, 6 .C.5, Strohecker Dunn, 4 .G. 6, Milligan Graybeal, 6 .G. 4, Crosbie H. Karstens, 4..S. 2, Sprague S.:... White Officials: Holden and Ward. Beta A 27, Fiji A 16 Sparked by Steve Anderson, flashy forward, who netted 14 points, the aggressive Beta Theta Pi hoop team rolled to a 27 to 16 triumph over the battling Fiji bas keteers, in yesterday's second A league play-off contest. After a nip-and-tuck first half of brilliant play by both teams, the Beta outfit stepped out with a little too much power for their weakening adversaries, overcom ing a 12-to-ll lead. Face Abba Dabbas The victory put Eeta Theta Pi into the liemi-final round of donut In Scoriing Form Dave Silver, above, returned jto the torm that put him in an early northern division point collecting' lead as the Webfoots lost to Wash ington at the Igloo last night. Duve ran up eight points. All-Campus Track Event Scheduled Bill Hayward Announces Meet for Late in Term; Meeting Friday Ail indoor all-campus track meet will be held at McArthur court the latter part of this term, it was announced by Colonel Bill Hayward yesterday. A meeting of house intramural managers will be held upstairs at the Igloo Friday aftrernoon at 4 o’clock, and at that time plans will be laid for the meet. The meet will be for novices. No track lettermen will be allowed, but freshman numeral winners may enter. There will be eight events, ac cording to Hayward. These include the mile, 880, 440, high jump, pole vault, shot put, 45-yard high hur dles, and 45-yard sprint. play, where they will face the strong Abba Dabba outfit. In the opening minutes, a short Beta scoring rush netted them a 5 to 2 lead, but back came the scrappying Fijis on two free throws and a long howitzer basket by Dick Hutchinson, frosh guard, to snatch the jump, and take a 0 to D lead at the end of the first quarter. Moore and Beard Tally Vein Moore, husky Beta center, and Bob Beard, guard, netted field goals to give their team its open ing three point lead. The teams see-sawed up to 9-8 at a fast pace, and then to 11-8, with Anderson providing the spark of their at tack. Hutchinson countered from in front of the basket on a beau tiful push shot, and his teammate, Hal Adams, holed another from the corner making it 12 to 11 for the Fijis. The intermission provided the neecssary rest for the Beta gang. They came out to snatch the lead and immediately launched a deter mined drive tshat wasn't to be stopped. Anderson and Siegrnund each added field goals to spot their team to a 19 to 13 advantage which the Fijis could never touch. i Orides, Kappa, Beat ADPi, Theta Mary Seely, Betty Roberts, Are High Point Players In Tuesday Gaines Jumping into an early lead and then tstaving off a determined ADPi rally, the strong Orides I sextet won their first WAA hoop game, 28-16. Not until the third quarter were ADPi forwards successful in pene trating a tight Orides zone de fense. Mary Seely, tall forward for the independents, took scoring honors with 14 points. summary: Orides I (28) (Mi) ADPi Schaeffer, 8 ...F. P. Smith Seeley, 14 .F... 6, Thomas Huston, 6 .F. 4, G. Smitii Branthover .F. 6, Heisler Lewis .F. Van Dellen Martin F. Overstreet Russell .S. . Lougheed Holcomb S Referee, Watson; umpire, Clark. Kappas 22, Thetas <i Kappa walked over Theta 22-6, with Betty Lou Roberts and Mar cia Stcinhauser, forwards, keeping their team well in the lead. The Theta team scored one point in the second quarter, and made the other five points in the last few minutes of the game. Summary: Kappa (22) Roberts, 14 Steinhauser, 8 Thatcher . Hayes Williams . Brown. Bates . F F.. F. . G. . ,G. ..G.. S . (6) Theta 4, Espy Cleveland 2, McCoy Green .Robbins Labbe Horstkotte Referee, Donaldson; umpire, Mc Carter. It was 21 to L as piay W'ent into the fourth qaurter. Summary; Beta A (27 > Anderson, 14 Burnett Moore, 0 . Adams Beard, 2 Siegmund, 0 Adams . ,..F. F . C G G. S ..s (16; Fiji A Maguire . 4, Findtner . Skinner 6, Hutchinson .. 5, H. Adams .1, Maeder Ofliuaio; Ward and Vossen. Finals Quick-Ones By J. PINK Not so good last night. This one is from Hec Edu inundson, the smiling Husky mentor whose hoys evened up the series with the Ducks. “We beat a good team. My boys played the best ball they have played all season. This was the first time this year that they have shown 100 per cent drive.” Anil big Ed Loverich, the Husky regular who was forced to sit on the bench with a severely sprained toe hAd this to say. ‘‘This was the first time the boys really drove out there. Johnny Lewis played beautiful ball both nights for the Ducks.” From Johnny Lewis the boy who played such a hard driving game for Oregon. “They out-drove us tonight.” The following statement was gotten from Bob Egge and Chuck Wagner by the dint of persistent effort. When asked, Wagner said, “Ask Egge.” And Egge when asked said, “Ask Wagner.” Not having time to shuttle back and forth all night this much was picked up, “Ore gon has a plenty good ball club. We will enjoy our two game ser ies in Seattle with them.” This from a fellow who sees ~a lot of the Huskies, Fred Duffy, one of the managers, “The team to night for the first time looked like the driving ball club that they were last year.” Some personal nominations. Nicest display of camaradie: The way the Oregon players congratulated Chuck Wagner when he was forced to leave the game on 4 personals. The whole crowd scented sorry to see the big fellow leave. Most nonchalant shot: The same Wagner who flipped in a beauti ful long number early in the game with such seemingly careless aban don. Swishiest swisher: Ken Purdy’s in the last three minutes during a belated Oregon rally. Best, most beautiful (supply your own adjective here) shot of the fray: Johnny Lewis receiv ing a pass from Johansen, go ing full speed and screened by a Husky player, caught the hall and with the same motion gave it an underhand flip and poured i it into to put Oregon in the lead ‘21 to 20, right after the start (Please turn to page four) i Washington Evens Series by Taking Second Igloo Game (Continued from pane one) of Purdy's last-minute swishcr. W'intermute collected nine points and Silver eight. Wally Johansen and Bobby Anet were again the driving force of Oregon’s floor game. Johansen was credited with five assists. Gannon Scores 12 Gannon, a sharp - shooting lad who believes in casting off at op portunity's most timid knock, holed five field goals and two free throws for a dozen points, to pace nil scorers. Ross Werner, tall re serve center who played forward in place of Ed Lovcrich, out with a sprained toe, ran up nine points. But it was Egge, with his drive, his fight, and his clever, precise passing and ball hawking, who carried the lion’s share of the Hus ky burden. His passing pierced Dregon's zone defense time and again. The Webfoots missed 13 of 23 free throws, and Washington caged r in 13. That made a big differ ence. Oregon players were letting "ly as often as the visitors, the Huskies taking 65 heaves at the eucket to the Webfoots' 58. Ducks Over-Anxious The Ducks weren’t hitting the dose ones and the Huskies were. Hobby Hobson's sophomores ap eeared over-anxious on numerous eccasions and missed set-ups were frequent. Once the Webfoots foo zled four cripples in succession. Oregon made a real battle of it, towever, and needs no apologies. Wintermute gave Oregon a lead it the outset with a foul shot, but Voelker and Werner laid in passes from Wagner and Egge and the Huskies stepped in front, 4 to 1. lohnny Lewis took p. pass from lohanse nand pushed in a one lander from the right corner to cut he lead to a point. Werner slipped in a rebound and ifoelker got his second cripple sucket on another pass from Wag ler to make it 8 to 3 for Washing on. The Ducks, slightly non slussed by this sudden surge, mmmoned full force and fought sack. Winlcrmute counts Wintermute laid in Anet’s re sound and Silver sank a foul shot 0 make it 8 to 6. Chuck Wagner ipiked the rally momentarily with 1 one-hander from the rear edge >f the keyhole after a fiist-passing SUMMARY Oregon (30) A FG FT PF TP Lewis, f .0 5 1 1 11 Silver, f .I Wintermute, e 3 A net, g .0 Johansen, g .. .5 Purdy, g .I Gale, c, .0 Courtney, g .0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 2 1 0 Totals ... Washington (39) Werner, f .1 Gannon, f Voeiker, c Egge, fr Wagner, g .2 Ziegenfuss, g .2 Dorsey, f .0 Lowe, c .0 .9 10 10 13 30 0 5 2 2 4 2 2 1 2 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 4 2 4 2 4 2 0 0 9 13 5 5 3 4 1 0 Totals .11 16 7 18 39 Free throws missed: Lewis 5, Silver 4, Gale 1, Anet 1, Johansen 3; Werner 1, Voeiker 1, Egge 3, Wagner ..1, ..Totals—Oregon.. 13, Washington 6. ..Field shots taken: Lewis 11, Purdy 3, Silver 19, Wintemiute 7, Gale 2, Anet 5, Johansen 11; Wer ner 17, Gannon 21, Voeiker 8, Egge 9, Wagner 7, Ziegenfuss 4. Totals—Oregon .58, ..Washington 66. Technical foul: Gannon. Half-time ..score: ..Washington 20, Oregon 19. Officials: Ralph Colenuin, Cor vullis, ..referee; ..Archie ..Buckley, Spokane, umpire. Husky defense had dazzled the Webfoots. Lewis took another pass from Johansen on a play identical to the one a few moments before and swished a one-hander to make it 10 to 8. Then Wagner fouled Sil ver and southpaw Dave canned two shots to knot the count at 10. Egge holed a gratis toss to give Washington a one-point lead, but Lewis pushed in a third one-hand ed crowd thriller from the right corner, again on a pass from Jo Imnsen. The shot was trajectory, straight for the rim, but it dropped ■through and Oregon had a 12-to-ll edge. Silver Cops Three Wintermute and Wagner holed foul shots, and then Dave Silver pumped in a one-hander and added (Please turn to page four) "-BUT 1 DON 'T WANT A HUSBAND /WANTAfOIW V*8