THE
Firing
Line
By PAT FRIZZELL
Seven straight on the chin isn’t
a record at which to point with
pride. Idaho, you can be quite cer
tain, isn't happy with its cellar
rating.
Accordingly, the Vandals pro
mise to be extremely tough here
Friday and Saturday. Mr. Forrest
Twogood and his hard-luck ball
club will be out for what the lads
at the butcher shop refer to as the
bacon, or what the original Ameri
cans might call Duck scalp.
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Interesting angle is that the
Vandals promise to be extremely
Vandals have been beaten by a
large score yet. Oregon was lucky
to edge out, 32 to 23 in overtime
and 31 to 29 in regulation, at 3Ios
cow. Washington State, favored
to cop the crown, found the cellar
ites difficult last weekend.
Making the Vandals tougher is
addition of a lad named Lavigne,
who wasn’t eligible until the Wash
ington State series. Lavigne, a
guard, was listed as a potential
regular when the season opened.
Sure, Oregon ought to rate an
edge. But it should be interesting.
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Will Hobby Hobson send the
Ducks against Idaho using a zone
defense, or will he return to man
to-man ?
Man-to-man tactics worked fair
ly well against the Vandals up at
Moscow', and a sneaking suspicion
prevails that Hobby will return to
them against the Vandals here.
But that zone was highly success
ful against both Washington and
Oregon State, and it’ll come in
handy against any team, using any
type of offense.
The University of Washington
Daily runs a weekly tabulation of
leading northern division players,
adding more each week as new
men shine on the hoop horizon. A1
Stump does it in his “Stump
Speeches” column, and at the close
of the season from this list will be
chosen, with aid of officials and
coaches, what Stump calls the offi
cial all-conference team. Maybe so.
Named' in the “big eight” last
, week were four OOregon players—
Dave ..Silver, ..Slim ..Wintermute,
John Lewis, and Ken Purdy. Bobby
Anet and Wally Johansen, both of
whom merit all-coast considera
tion, aren’t on the honor roll.
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Neglect of Anet and Johansen
is surprising, but more astounding
is the fact that among the missing
in Washington’s own Bob Egge,
Chuck Wagner is on the list, along
with Ivar Nelson of Washington
State and Art Merryman and Mai
Harris of Oregon State. But no
Egge.
For two seasons the sprightly
Mr. Egge has been Washington’s
main cog in games played here.
This winter he was superb. Maybe
he isn’t that way always, but he
can’t fail to be good. Chuck Wag
ner's a swell ball player and all
credit to him, but Egge is the
smoothest, slickest, fightingest
piece of basketball personnel seen
around here since Palmberg.
So, Mr. Stump, do your own
Huskies justice and include Egge.
His performances in the two
games here alone puts the lad in
the all-star class.
Howitzers. . . . Wally Johansen,
now up and around, will be ready
for the Idaho series. . . . Wally
Geraghty and Norman Iverson,
shining lights of Idaho’s 1936 bas
ketball teams, are topping two
leagues in scoring this winter . . .
Little Wally is acing a Spokane
commercial league and Iverson col
lects the most points in a Tacoma
circuit. . . . Hec Edmundson told
^ the Washington campus that his
lads played the best game cf their
season the second night against
tlic Ducks here . . . Which is music
to our ears . . . And that makes
us think of Egge. . . . Again, Mr.
Stump, aren’t you overlooking
somebody ?
Follow-ins .... Idaho’s Coach
Twogood is still the baseball pro
perty of the Cleveland Indians. . . .
He received a notice of spring
practice a few weeks back. . . . He
sent regrets. . . . We’ll have a turf
field yet. . . All credit to the zeal
ous few who drive for turf while
the mob expects ... In case you
don’t know it, spring football prac
tice for freshmen begin.; February
15. . . . Which is next Monday. . . •
Quite a ball game the ATOs and
Abba Dabbas put on yesterday af
ternoon. . . . Even two postpone
ments couldn't kill the interest
. . . Last year it was the Phi Dolts
who grabbed off a double, winning
Alpha Tau Omegas Shade Abba Dabbas for Donut Title
Hobson Points
Webfoots for
Idaho Series
U. O. Sophomores Run
Over Frosh in Long
Scrimmage; Johansen
Out of Infirmary
Main task confronting Coach
Howard Hobson this week is to
keep his Oregon Webfoots up to
the pace they showed against Ore
gon State last Saturday.
The Duck Mentor figures a
tough week-end for his basketball
team when Idaho comes here for
two important northern division
games.
Jubilant, but far from over-con
fident, the Webfoots raced to a
93-to-41 over John Warren's driv
ing Ducklings in a lengthy scrim
mage yesterday afternoon.
Johansen Recuperating
All but Wally Johansen, recup
erating guard, of Oregon's big
eight, went into action in the prac
tice. Johansen is out of the in
firmary, but won't be back in ac
tion until later this week.
Coacch Hobson is definitely
pointing his booming sophomores
for the Idaho series three days in
advance. “We’re taking them as
they come,” he stated yesterday.
But three home games and three
on the road, remain for the hustl
ing Webfoots in this year's heated
race. Friday and Saturday will
wind up the Idaho series, and a
contest February 26, in Eugene, i
against Oregon State,. will be the
final home stand.
Weaknesses Studied
Oregon exhibited several weak-'
nesses against the Beavers last
Saturday and work in this week's
practices are expected to iron those
out. The team showed raggedness
on tip-off plays, and somewhat
erratic from the foul line.
Frosh Prepare !
For Coast Trip'
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^ arren’s Quintet Faces j
Varsity Hoop Team in'
Practice Contest
Oregon’s Duckling quintet, pre- |
paring for a two game coast invas- j
ion this weekend, scrimmaged the j
varsity last night and will perform
the same task again today.
Honest J o h n’s fast - moving
freshmen got the jump on the
Ducks last night, taking a 5 to 0
lead, and later on were out in front
9 to 5.
They could not keep up the kill- j
ing pace set by Oregon’s Webfoot
aggregation and fell far behind,
finally losing out 93 to 41 in the
end.
A tentatively scheduled contest
with the Oakridge Townies, which
was set for tonight, has been can
celled indefinitely.
Leading the frosh in last night's
lengthy scrimmage against
the varsity was John Dick, ex-The
Dalles center, who was laying
them in consistently. He poked in
15 points, while forward Ted Sar
pola canned 11 tallies.
Sigma Delta Psis j
Takes In New Men
Bert Meyers New Prexy
In Athletic Honorary:
Snow Meet Scheduled
Admission of seven new mem
ber.- and election of officers were
the highlights of o meeting of Sig
ma Delta IVi, national physical
education honorary, held last night.
Those who completed a series of
tests required for initiation were
Ala--.rice Ward. Don Lewis, Doug
la; Ramsey, Bob Chilton, Frank
Lloyd, Comet Gibson, and Bob
Samuels.
New officers elected were Bert i
Meyers president; Tallant Grcen
ugh, historian, and Frank Lloyd,
. tcretr.ry. Jirn Rummel is the re
tiring president.
In the bu-ines- meeting, plans
for a . now trip, tentatively sched-1
uled for the 21st cf this month, j
were discussed. Plans for the ban
quet dinner in the near future were
discussed, but no definite date has
been set.
both A and L championships.
This year the ATOs dittoed.
Varsity Swimming Team
Determined, Says Coach
“Oregon’s 1937 varsity swimming team is not looking for any alibis
because of their handicapped training program this year, but will be
right in tne thick of the fight for the championship during the coming
season,” said Mike Hoyman, coach of the Webfoot mermen, defending
northwest champions yesterday.
There is a decided case of pessimism on the part of the students as
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By JOHN PINK
I and student body are offering ex
| planations concerning the training
' handicaps with which the Oregon
squad is confronted, pointed out
Hoy man.
“It will be granted that there is
some basis for this attitude, as the
team is under a decided handicap
with their pool incompleted. But it
will not be granted that this handi
cap is so great that it is impossible
to overcome. A championship team
is one that can win despite handi
caps,” Hoyman went on to say.
Oregon opens the dual meet sea
son on February 20 at Seattle, said
the mentor, adding, “The team that
beats Oregon will have to do it in
the water and not on pre-meet
dope. The competitive payoff
comes at the tape, and the Oregon
swimmers intend to be somewhere
near the finish line when the races
are completed.”
ine varsity squad is not pessi
mistic about the coming' season,
they are fully aware of their ad
verse circumstances, and of the
fact that they will have to fight
hard to maintain the record of the
past few years, stated Hoyman.
“Oregon has six capable free
style swimmers in Jim Hurd, Har
old Sexton, Jack Levy, Jim Smith,
Len Scroggins and Tom Hayashi.
Hurd is undefeated on the Pacific
coast at 50, 100 and 220 yards.
Last season Sexton swam the 420
consistently under 5 minutes and
15 seconds, and is a good perform
er in the shorter distances. Len
Scroggins is the most versatile
man on the squad; he can turn in
good times in the free style, back
stroke, and breast stroke, and
wherever an extra man is needed,
Scroggins can be counted on. Levy,
Smith and Hayashi are all new to
intercollegiate swimming but show
possibilities of developing into
competitive men. “These men are
all under 2 minutes and 35 seconds
for 220 and under 1 minute for 100
yards,” Hoyman stated.
Oregon’s two divers, Bob Chilton
and Bert Meyers, who finished
one-two in the northwest champ
ionships last year are showing good
form this year and should be able
to retain their crowns, added the
coach.
“In the back stroke Hurd, Scrog
gins and Hoffman head the list,
while of the breast strokers, Chuck
Reed, two-year lettcrman, has not
as yet exhibited the form that has
made him one of the finest in the
northwest during the past two
years. In the coming meet with
Washington it is doubtful that
Reed can place better than third.
This means that the Huskies’ two
breast strokers, Caddey and Erik
son, would score eight points to
one for Oregon, which would be a
severe handicap to overcome,” ex
plained Hoyman, who pointed out
that Hurd and Scroggins have also
made good times in this event.
“Competition this year is strong
er than ever. Oregon State has one
of the strongest teams ever assem
bled on the Beaver campus. Most
of their men lack competitive ex
perience but will improve rapidly
as the season progresses. Wash
ington gave concrete evidence of
its powerful squad by its defeat
of Oregon State last Saturday. Al
though they are missing Jack
Medica this year, the Huskies have
developed several other outstand
ing men and now present one of
the strongest teams on the Pacific
coast.” said Hoyman.
The Idaho and Washington State
squads, while not as strong as the
Huskies and OSC, have men who
will probably annex quite a few
points in the northern division
championship meet, he said.
“Oregon will have to defend its
title against these four teams in
the northwest division meet. The
team's success depends directly on
the individual swimmer's determin
ation to overcome handicaps and
go on to victory. The Webfoots
are favorites on past records, but
under the present circumstances
are the dark horses in this year's
race,” he stated.
Oregon will be hard pressed to
keep her dual meet record clear in
early season competition. The team
will develop rapidly during the sea
son's grind and should be at its
peak for the championships in
March, Hoyman said.
“If the 1937 Oregon swimming
team fails to retain the northwest
title it will not be because of
training handicaps. Potentially this
year's squad is of championship
caliber. On March 27, at Pullman,
Washington, they will demonstrate
whether or not they should be
ranked with Oregon teams of for
mer years,” Hoyman concluded.
Varoff Cops Third
In Eastern Meet
George Varoff, Oregon’s own
world outdoor record holder in the
pole vault, failed to show his cham
pionship form Saturday night in
the Millrose A. A. track and field
carnival held at Madison Square
Garden, New York, and finished
in a tie for third place with Bill
Harding of Yale.
The event was won by Sueo Oye
of Japan, who climaxed his Am
erican debut by clearing 14 feet,
3 inches to beat Earl Meadows,
Olympic champion, of Southern
California, who came second.
Varoff apparently unaccustomed
to jumping indoors vaulted only
13 feet 9 inches, far below his rec
ord of 14 feet, 8 inches which he
set in Boston last year before the
Olympic game tryouts.
Varoff will get an opportunity
of evening things up this Friday
night when he goes to Boston to
compete and will probably meet
the. same jumpers.
This Friday night Varoff will
compete in Boston in his final east
ern appearance. With one indoor
meet under his belt Varoff shouldl
flash in his old form which has
made him one of the outstanding
vaulters in the country.
After the Boston meet Varoff
will return to the Oregon campus
and go into training for the com
ing varsity track season.
Duck Ex-Gridders Watch
Andy Hurney and A! V\iison, former Oregon footballists, look on
in the above picture a-, Hradloek Hagan and Jack Lipscomb grunt and
groan at the local armory.
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Oregon’s Varoff
George Varoff, above, is representing Oregon in Eastern indoor
tr.iek and field meets this week. Varoff holds the world’s pole vault
reeord at 14 feet, 6 inches.
Alpha Chi Omega,
Orides Take Wins
Independent Girls Romp
Over Chi O Sextet, 23
10; Tri-Delts Lose
The hard-driving Orides II hoop
sters romped over Chi Omega, 23
to 10, yesterday afternoon for a
second victory in the women’s
basketball tournament.
Chi held a three-point lead dur
ing the opening minutes, until the
Orides passing attack began to
function. Field goals by Sprague
and Clark put Orides ahead 4 to 3,
and from that point forward their
lead was never seriously threaten
ed. Scoring honors were annexed
by Edythe Sprague, Orides for
ward, who scored 11 points.
Summary:
Orides II (23) (10) Chi Omega
Clarke 8 . F. 6, Boulter
Sprague 11 .F. 4 Foster
Cnochson 4 .F. Nichols
Davis .G. Kurtz
..G. Boothers
Huchinsou .G. Hutchins
Esh ....•.S.
Donaldson .S.
Alpha Chi Omega 15, Tri Belts 9
Alpha Chi Omega’s fast-playing
sextet defeated Delta Delta Delta,
15 to 9.
The Tri-Delt team held the lead
for a few minutes in the third
period, but fell back into second
place after a' series of Alpha Chi
baskets.
Marian Brookings, tricky Alpha
Chi forward, led the scoring with
i total of eight points, while Ber
nice Vadnais of the Tri-Delts fol
lowed with five points made in
the game.
Summary:
Alpha Chi O (15) Tri-Delta (11)
falser 2 .F. 2 Merrell
^hite l .F. 5 Vadnais
Brookings 8 .F. 4 Wolcott
^oss .G. C. Dudley
Cleator .G. M. Dudley
Dufl’y .G. Thurmond
Porter 2 . S.
Driscoll 2 .S.
Officials: Branthover, Misley,
Martin, Van Dellen.
The schedule of remaining
James in the tournament follows:
February 11— Kappa Kappa
3amma vs. Hendricks hall; Oride::
. vs. Susan Campbell hall.
February 15 Susan Campbell '
Alpha Omicron Pi; Pi Beta Phi
/s. Gamma Phi Beta.
February 16 Kappa Alpha
rheta vs. Alpha Omicron Pi; Alpha
-hi Omega vs. Chi Omega.
February 17 Susan Campbell
lall vs. Gamma Phi Beta; Pi Beta
^hi vs. Orides I.
February 18—Alpha Delta Phi
's. Gamma Phi Beta; Orides II vs.
Upha Chi Omega.
Finals will be played February
13, 24 and 25.
Pi Lambda Theta
Entertained by
Dean Schwering
i’i Lambda. Theta, women's edu
cational honorary, met at the home
)t Mrs. Hazel P. Sehwering, dean
>f women. Monday evening.
Discussion of “Understanding '
Dther Women’s Problems,” was!
cd by Mrs. Elisabeth Montgom
Volleyball Tilts
Are One-Sided
A League Teams Feature
Intramural Openers; 6
Games Today
Today’s Vollelyball Games
4:00 Alpha Tim Amego (A) vs
Sigma Phi Epsilon (A);
Canard Club (A) vs. Abba
Dabba (A).
4:40 i*i Kappa Alpha (A) vs.
Delta Tau Delta (A).
5:20 Omega Hall (A) vs. Theta
Chi (A); Phi Sigma Kappa
(A) vs. Kappa Sigma (A).
Nearly all A league teams have
second-day battles in intramural
seen action with completion of
yolley-ball yesterday.
The majority of the games have
been featured' by one-sided scores
but they are expected to be closer
when the first-round winners meet.
Summary of yesterday’s games:
Phi Gamma Delta defeated Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon, 15-4, 16-14.
Sigma Chi defeated Zeta hall,
15- 6, 15-7.
Sigma hall defeated Chi Psi, 15
6, 15-3.
Sigma Alpha Mu defeated Cas
ciato’s Comets, 15-8, 15-8.
Yeomen defeated Gamma hall,
16- 14, 15-11.
Sigma Nu won by default over
Campbell Co-op.
Monday's games:
Kappa Sigma defeated Phi Kap
pa Psi, 15-5, 15-8.
Beta Theta Pi defeated Omega
hall, 15-3, 15-5.
Delta Tau Delta defeated Sigma
Phi Epsilon, 15-11, 15-5.
Alpha Tau Omega defeated Can
ard Club, 15-0, 15-1.
Abba Dabba defeated Pi Kappa
Alpha by default.
ery, assistant professor of educa
tion.
Other talks were given during
the meeting by Mrs. D. R. French,
Mrs. Montgomery and Cecilia
Mielke, senior in education.
“A Professional Attitude for
Women” will be the topic for dis
cussion at the next meeting March
8, at the home of Edna Starrett,
1034 Mill street. There will also be
election of new members.
Camp Fire Girl
Executive to he
University Guest
Kldora DeMotts, national field
;xecutive for the Camp Firl Girls,
vill be on the campus today to
ncet and talk with girls interested
n Organization work.
“How to Kit Physical Education
nto Girls' Organizations’’ will be
he subject of Miss DeMotts’ ad
Iress to the faculty, majors, and
ninors of the women's PE uepart
nent. The convocation will take
dace at 9 o’clock in Gerlingcr.
A luncheon at the Anchorage
vill be given Wednesday noon in
ionor of the New York visitor.
Florence Marriott and Helen Lewis
ire in charge of arrangements.
Wednesday evening from 7:30-9
r’clock, a fire side will be held in
the north end of Gcrlinger hall.
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Come From Behind
To Capture Bitter
Play-off Tilt, 17-16
Twice-Postponed Game
Finally Played; Tough
Defensive Tiff Waged
By Rival Teams
Meet the new donut champions.
A driving, fighting Alpha Tau
Omega quintet came from behind
in yesterday's championship tilt to
ring up a 17-to-16 victory over the
Abba Dabbas.
Bitterly fought from start to
finish, the game furnished a record
crowd of intramural fans with by
far the season’s most stirring con
test.
The- ATO basketeers after trail
ing by a narrow margin through
half the ball game, turned aggres
sors in minutes of the final half.
They erased a three-point Abba
Dabba half-time advantage and
changed it to a four-point lead of
their own in nine minutes of in
spired ball.
Evenly Matched
In typical championship fashion,
the two evenly-matched quintets
kept within four points of each
other to the very end. It was one
of the tightest checking contests
of the play-off.
Eight minutes of brilliant play
found the teams tied up at four
all. The Abba Dabbas stepped out
in .the second! period to nab them
selves a 9 to 6 advantage which
soon melted before the smooth,
methodical ATOs.
The winners tied things up at
11-all within four minutes after
the third session ended, and raised
it to 15-11 early in the last quar
ter before an Abba Dabba upris-1
ing finally checked them.
Hayashi Injured
Tom Hayashi, brilliant Abba
Mermen to Hold
Inter-Squad Meet
Revised Program Will Be
Used for First Time;
Full Team to Churn
The 1937 varsity swimming team
will hold its first regular inter
squad meet tonight at Gerlinger
pool.
These meets are a regular fea
ture of Coach Mike Hoyman's
training program, and this year
they will be held under the new
1937 revised program, which is
considerably different than last
year.
All members of the varsity squad
will compete and time will be kept
of all events for future compari
son.
The Duck free style relay team
composed of Jim Hurd, Jim Smith,
Harold Sexton and Den Scroggins
will attempt to break the record
of 3:07.5 set last year by the Ore
gon State Beavers.
The new revised program, under
which all meets will be held, is
run off in the following order: 300
yard medley relay; 220 free style;
50 free style; diving; 100 free
style; 150 back stroke; 200 breast
stroke; 440 free style; 400 free
style relay.
Hoyman’s mermen have four de
finite meets lined up to date. They
will be held as follows: February
20, Washington at Seattle; Febru
ary 27, OSC at Corvallis; March
j, OSC at Eugene; and March 27,
:he northern division champion
.hips at Pullman, Washington.
Negotiations are under way for
i meet in the latter part of March
with the University of California,
lore at Eugene. Nothing definite
ias been made known yet about
his meet.
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Dabba forward, was taken from
the fray late in the third period
with his team trailing for the first
time by a 13 to 11 count.
The pestiferous Jay Graybeal,
driving cog of the ATO attack,
took things into control at this
point, pushing' in a short shot out
of a wild melee under the Abba
Dabba basket to make it 15 to 11.
Graybeal, individual star of the
game, teamed with Darrel Miller,
standout center, for 12 of the ATO
points. The pair dominated play
for the winners, and figured
strongly in the final outcome.
Graybeal Aids
. Graybeal’s buckets gave his
team a four-point advantage, but'
a fighting Abba Dabba, Stuart
Marsee, teamed with Tom Jacobs
a moment later to snip the lead to
two points.
Marsee stole the ball in mid
court, dribbled down into scoring
territory, and then passed to Ja
cobs who converted it into an easy
lay-in shot. Four fleeting minutes
were, left in the scrap when this
shot rolled through the hoop.
Stafford, ATO guard, rose out
of a heap of players to hole Gray
beals rebound shot making it 17
to 13, but back came the Abba
Dabbas on a long howitzer by Ed
Jacobs to get within one point.
Jacobs Connects
Jacobs swished the hemp beau
tifully from far out near center
court along the sidelines in an
astonishing bulls-eye. A bare two
moinutes of play were left when
this bucket was registered.
A free throw by Andy Karstens
made it 17 to 16, and anybody’s
ball game.
Up and down went the fighting
hoopmen until with 45 seconds to
go the Abba Dabbas gained pos
session of the ball. They cut loose
three times from out past the foul
line, and then lost it again.
The ATOs attempted to stall the
remaining seconds away, but lost
the ball on an out-of-bounds play
just before the gun. A lone shot,
far out, at the end, failed, and Al
pha Tan Omega had captured the
championship.
Summary:
ATO (17) Fg Ft Pf Tp
Dunn, f . 10 3 2
Graybeal, f . 2 3 17
Miller, c . 2 12 5
A. Karstens, g . 0 0 2 0
Stafford, g, . 1113
H. Karstens, s . 0 0 0 0
Totals . 6 5 9 17
Dabbas (16) Fg Ft Pf Tp
Hayashi, f ...-.. 10 12
Tingle, f . 0 111
E. Jacobs, c . 2 0 3 4
Hopkins, g.110 3
Marsee, g . 0 0 10
T. Jacobs, s . 2 0 2 4
Weber, s . 10 0 2
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Totals . 7 2 8 16
Officials: Hex and Ward.
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