THE FIRING LINE
By PAT FRIZZELL
Forrest Twogood, Idaho's youthful basketball coach, sat
in a Eugene hotel chair and lit a cigarette.
“Wonderful weather you’re having,” said the friendly Mr.
Twogood, who's a swell fellow and likes to talk basketball or
any other sport. “It was 38 degrees below zero up at Moscow.”
Forrest Twogood, coaching his first varsity basketball team,
is not discouraged about the Vandals’ losing streak. “All my
men are sophomores,” he said, “and all but one of the first
ten will be back next year.”
It was three hours before the Vandals were to clash with
Oregon last night. Twogood said his boys were tired after last
weekend's tough game with Washington State and an added
tussle with Gonzaga Monday.
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Huskies Dump League Leading Cougars, 45-40
“The reason Washington State is so tough,” Twogood said,
y “is that the Cougars are such good shots.
“Washington wasn’t so impressive against us,” he con
tinued. Idaho has played both Washington and Washington
State, lost close ones to both teams.
Hobby Hobson’s Webfoots are ace-high with Twogood. Ore
gon was lucky to edge out the Vandals in the Inland Empire,
once by three points, once by two, and one of them was in
overtime, but Twogood praised the Webfoots and put them on
a par with the Huskies and Cougars.
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“Yes, I think the tip-off will be ruled out,” said Two
good. his blond hair glistening. (He’d just been to the hotel
barber shop, was there when we first saw him). “Everything
points toward it.”
The young Idaho coach favors elimination of the tip. He
says that attendance has increased tremendously since it was
y abolished in the southern division, where for seven years he
was freshman coach at Southern California. There, incidentally,
he developed players who in varsity years won conference
championships for Sam Barry.
“The tip-off slows up the game,” Twogood went on, “and
it’s the cause of many of the injuries in basketball.” He doesn’t
believe it adds drama, but thinks instead that it diminishes
crowd interest. Pointing out the obvious, he added “And what
pleases the crowd counts.”
Twogood likes the three-second keyhole rule. He says it
keeps the big fellows who can’t do anything but rough it up
out of basketball.
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“Luisetti is a wonderful ball player,” Twogood answered
promptly in response to a query concerning the Stanford ace.
“He shoots any way, from anywhere, and he puts himself in
position for his shots.” He recalled a game last season in
which the Trojans led Stanford at the end of a first half in
which Luisetti scored only six points. In the second period the
Indian miracle man ran up 24 points and USC lost.
Lee Guttero, rubber-legged Trojan center of a few years
' back, came in for praise from Twogood. “He was valuable on
the tip-offs, but after we abolished the center jump he scored
i more points. When he was jumping he tired by the half, but
without the tip he was fresh all the way.”
Guttero or Luisetti? “They’re both great ball players, but I
think Luisetti is undoubtedly the better.”
Twogood called the Stanford team the equal of any in the
country and predicted that if playing in the Midwest’s Big
Ten the Indians would lead that conference. He played three
seasons of Big Ten basketball himself and knows both leagues.
Twogood was an all-around athlete at the University of
Iowa, and after graduation he went into professional baseball.
He’s the property ri^rht now of the Cleveland Indians, but lie
has a bad arm and is on the retired list.
“I’m sure I’d stay in professional ball if 1 could,” said the
likeable Idaho mentor, “but 1 don’t think 1‘11 be able to play
again. He hurt his arm in college and was always bothered by
it in professional seasons with Cleveland, the !St. Louis Card
v inals, Toledo of the American Association, and St. Joseph of
the Western League.
“Dizzy Deans is dumb like a fox,’’ said Twogood. “He acts
dumb around the hotel lobbies, but he’s a great pitcher and a
swell fellow.’’
Twogood played with Dizzy at St. Joseph, farm club of the
Cardinals. Then he went up with Dizzy to the Cards, who later
traded him to Cleveland.
He thinks the Cards will nab the National league pennant
this season and picks the Yanks to repeat in the American. He’s
played in both leagues, with members of both clubs, and has a
right to pick ’em. He figures Paul Dean will win a lot of games
for the Cards and, with Dizzy and Lonnie Warneke winning
plenty, he counts on St. Louis to lead the pack.
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Swinging back to basketball. Twogood told of liow the hoop
sters pack ’em in back in the Midwest. “Iowa has a gymnasium
which seats 17,500 persons, he said, and they fill it for every
conference game.” lie spoke of the mammoth field houses and
^ pavilions all over the territory.
“The high school championship means everything back
there,” he said, confirming stories we've always heard. “Every
high school in those states points toward one big goal and they
play basketball the year around.”
Twogood has great faith in the future of basketball. More
people by far watch the court game than any other sport, he
pointed out, and more are watching it each year.
For all the Midwest’s super basketball interest, Twogood
doesn’t believe its college teams have much edge over coast
quintets. “The Big Ten,” he said, “is orobabiy the strongest
conference in the country, but any northern division team, with
the exception of Idaho (your correspondent wondered about
this) would make a good showing in that league.
“Yes, we have a good freshman team up at Idaho,” admitted
Twogood. Asked about the Barrett who is running wild for
the Vandal frosh, Twogood said that he is no relative of Afton
Barrett, Idaho forward a few years back. Barrett comes from
* Gary, Indiana, stands 6 feet, 3 inches, and earned honor roll
grades last term. Another freshman praised by the Moscow
mentor is a lad named Parke.
Webfoots Lose
Opening Game
To Idaho Men
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off most of the evening-, and at this
important moment the Vandals did
it again. It was the climax. Kra
i mer, who had already potted four
one-handers, swung out his left
arm in shot put form. Swish!
33 to 29.
Johansen fouled Winter as the
latter shot and the Idaho guard
swished a duo, making it 35 to 29
and Idaho's ball game.
Dave Silver took Wintermute's
pass and pumped one through with
seconds to go, giving the crowd a
final forlorn thrill.
First Half Jittery
The first half would have been
laughable had it not been so vital
ly important. Both teams were
jittery. The lads handed the sphere
back and forth as if all were team
mates in one big family. Oregon
was pitifully off and Idaho was
apparently lacking in confidence.
Two minutes elapsed before Sil
ver broke the scoring ice with a
free throw. He added /mother a
minute later, but the first field
goal, by Purdy, wasn't scored until
the six-minute mark.
Two field goals by Silver aided
Oregon in taking a 9-to-4 advan
tage at the end of eight minutes,
but two free throws by Belko on
Lewis’ foul and one by Winters
on an infraction by Purdy made it
9 to 7.
Johansen Tallies
Johansen, in for Purdy, took
Anet's pass on a breakaway and
Wintermute holed an out - of -
bounds heave from the same Jo
hansen, but Kramer and Belko
scored for Idaho. Silver made it
16 to 11 with a swinging portside
flip.
Winter’s shot from under the
hoop rolled through the rim and
Silver knocked it up and out. Un
usual, but such a bucket counts
and it was 16 to 13. Winter holed
a shot on Anet’s third foul. Inter
mission: 16 to 14.
Belko tied the score immediately
after the start of the second half,
but Silver’s foul shot gave Oregon
a lead. Belko dribbled in for a
swisher, making it 18 to 17 for
Idaho, first Vandal lead of the
night. Silver again knotted it on a
foul shot, but Idaho slipped ahead
on Belko's gratis conversion. Sil
ver's rebound field goal gave Ore
gon the edge once more, but the
uncanny Kramer potted one of
his shotput specials and it was 21
to 20, Idaho.
Wintermute’s one-hander gave
Oregon a lead, Johnson tied it with
a foul shot. Field goals by Kramer
—another from way out in the
sticks—and Silver made it 24-all.
Then came the storm.
Phi Delts Attain
Handball Finals
Phi Delta Theta advanced into
the finals in intramural handball
yesterday, when they defeated the
Zeta Hall team 3-0.
Vem Sprague encountered little
difficulty in downing Joe Amato
in straight games, 21-5, 21-5, in
the first singles match. Ed Stro
hecker won the other match by
default when his opponent failed
to appear.
In the doubles division, the Phi
Delt team composed of Sid Milli
gan and Bill Martin trounced the
Zeta duet of Gene Truby and Mar
ino Innocenti, 21-9, 21-15.
Monday afternoon at 3:40, the
Phi Delts will meet the ATOs for
the championship. If the ATOs win
it will be the third intramural
championship for the hotelmen this
this term. A win for the Phi Delts
will garner them their first champ
ionship for the year.
Send the Emerald to your friends
Jake With Jake
Idaho's victory over :lie Web
foots last night pleased K. Jacobs,
Vandal guard, substitute, pictured
above.
Donut B Volley
Sixes Compete
In Tight Frays
Yeomen, Betas, Phi Sigs,
Kappa Sigs, Phi Delts
And SPEs Winners in
First Games
Monday’s Volleyball Schedule
4:00—Alpha Tau Omega (B)
vs. Zeta Hall (B); Phi Kap
pa Psi (B) vs. Theta Chi
(B).
4:40—Sigma Alpha Epsilon (B)
vs. Alpha Hall (B); Sigma
Nu (B) vs. Abba Dabba
(B).
5:20—Delta Tau Delta (B) vs.
Delta Upsilon (B); Alpha
Tau Omega (A) vs. Abba
Dabba (A).
By CHARLES VAN SCOYOC
Exhibiting form that would offer
stiff competition to any A league
teams, the intramural B league
teams made a classy showing in
the season’s opener yesterday.
The Yeomen won their opener in
straight games from a hard play
ing Fiji team by 15-13, 15-4 scores.
The Yeomen were particularly ef
fectitve in making kill shots while
the Fijis encountered considerable
difficulty in setting their plays up.
Baily Barnett and Leonard Green
up were outstanding for the win
ners, and Bill Hildreth topped the
Fijis.
Phi Delt Swamp Omega
The Phi Delts encountered little
trouble in smothering Omega hall
15-4, 15-4. Bill Crosbic and Tallant
Greenough were outstanding in
making kill shots for the winners,
while Johnny McComb played good
ball for Omega.
The Betas found a tough oppon
ent in Sigma hall but managed to
edge out a victory in straight
games, 15-10, 15-12. The games
were close most of the way, but as
the score increased, the Betas put
on extra spurts which gained them
the win.
Steven Anderson of the Betas
and George Haley were the stars
for their respective teams.
Kappa Sigs Beat Sigma Chi
Aftr taking the first game by a
landslide, the Kappa Sigs were
forced to extend themselves to
down the Sigma Chis 15-5, 15-12,
In the second encounter, the Sigma
Chis rallied and knotted the score
at 12 all. only to lose on errors in
setting their plays up.
SPEs Defeat Gamma
Sigma Phi Epsilon followed in
the steps of their A team, who are
undefeated, by swamping Gamma
Hall 15-4, 15-3. Cliff Morris of the
SPEs was the outstanding player
on the floor, making many well
executed kill shots.
In the sixth scheduled game the
Chi Psis forfeited to Phi Sigma
Kappa.
‘•We re bothered this year by not having any tall men,”
said Twogood. returning to his varsity. “Therefore we're
forced to foul against the big fellows, and we’ve lost several
games because of men fouling out.”
He called Slim Wintemute the ideal tall man, one who can
really play basketball -and doesn t have to just stand under the
basket and swing his arms.
"Well, good luck tonight, Mr. Twogood.” That was your
correspondent, preparing to scram, not the interviewee.
Twogood smiled in his friendly way and shot back a dis
believing “Oh yeah?”
Well. Mr. Twogood. we're all for you every time out —
every time you play anybody but Oregon.
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Wading through a happy, shout
ing, jubilant, crowd of victorious
Idaho Vandals, who were cavort
ing around their dressing room
with smiles as wide as barn doors
on their faces, your.scribe man
aged to pick up a few pertinent
ones.
From Forrest Twogood, whose
boys after seven straight heart
breaking losses shot the dope
bucket as full of holes as a sieve
tonight, to register their first
win of the season, “We've been
losing games all season like
Oregon lost this one, and, well—
a blind pig wHI piek up an acorn
once in a while.” It might be in
order to remark here that the
youthful Twogood, is a hook of
a good fellow and our personal
nomination for the best dressed
coach in the circ.uit, and the one
with the readiest smile.
And Bill Kramer, the boy with
the shot-put one hander who push
ed 'em up for five field goals, after
dashing in and out of the showers
a few times smilingly said, "Well,
I lost two pair of pants on the
first two Oregon games, and I won
one pair back tonight. Tomorrow
night I'm going after the other
pair."
Little Steve Belko the hard
working Vandal forward who
slipped past the tall W'intermute
on two occasions to cage spec
tacular field goals stated, “This
is the first of a lot of them.”
Happy, smiling, sweaty, Bo
land Winter said, “We’ve been
trying hard all season for some
thing like this.”
Don Johnson the small center,
as centers go in this league, gave
the old Vandal victory smile and
let this go, “We had one coming.”
Gloom hung over the Webfoot
end of the Igloo dressing rooms,
and none of the boys had much to
say over the upset which has put
them on the veriest precipice as
far as a conference title is con
cerned.
Did you catch this?
Those uncanny shotputters of
Bill Kramer, who stood in a sta
tionary position and instead of us
ing the usual two-handed method
would let fly with one of his spec
ialties. He looked like Bill Fos
kett heaving the leaden tomato out
there.
Quick-Ones
By J. PINK
One brief spark o fthe old
Webfoot fire when Anet whipped
a fast pass to Johansen going
down the floor at full speed, and
Wally flipped It In like former
times.
The big argument that developed
around the Webfoot foul circle
when Dave Silver and Don John
son each tried to get into a space
that could accommodate only one.
Finally Ralph Coleman stepped in
that could accommodaet only one.
satisfaction.
David the Silver boy finally be
gan hitting the old peach pasket
again. His 18 points last night
were the most he has scored since
the first Cougar game, when the
boys, supposedly in the know,
started handing him the league
scoring record.
The never-say-dic shot of the
game Silver that gave Oregon her
31st point.
The disrcsi>eotful, unsports
manlike, fair-weahter attitude
of a crowd of Oregon rooters
who started to scramble all over
the floor before the ball game
was over. If a team can’t de
pend on its own rooters for a
little support when it Is on the
losing end of a tough contest,
whom can it turn to? We can do
with a lot less of that stuff.
What are we? A bunch of knife
’em-in-th-back supporters when
the boys are losing. Sit down
and give the boys a chance after
this.
W'c’ll get ’em tonight.!
Itooin for the gang, TAYLOR’S, ad
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Frosh Trounce
Texaco, 57-29,
At Tillamook
Warren's Duckling Crew
Both Frosh and Varsity
Starts; Play Union
Oil at Astoria Tonight
Sparked by Stan Short, driving
guard, who piled up 16 points.
Oregon's high-riding Duckling bas
keteers raced to a 57-to-29 victory
over Texaco Oil at Tillamook last
night.
It was the season's second loss
for the strong Oiler quintet, which
was outclassed by a 30-to-29 half
time count. The frosh will travel
to Astoria tonight for a clash with
the strong Union Oil hoopmen.
Short. Cans Howitzers
Short impressively snapped out
of his scoring slump, to hit the
basket from all over the court.
Summary:
Frosh (57) (29) Texaco Oil
Sarpola, 9 .F. 4, Muzzy
Blenkinsop, 3 ...F. 9, Metcalf
Dick, 7 .C. Smith
Short, 16.G. 8, Schilling
Jackson, 6 .G. 8, Weis*
Krietz, 7 .S.
Quinn, 4 .S.
Jones, 5 .S.
Referee: Sonikes.
Callison Will Meet
Grideers Monday
Moth Frosh and Varsity
Candidates Requested to
Report at igloo
FOOTBALL MONDAY
There, will be a meeting of
varsity football aspirants, both
frosh and leltermen, in McAr
iur court oil Monday at 4
o’clock it was announced by
Coach Frink Callison yester
day.
All varsity football aspirantsj
both frosh and lettermen, are to
meet at McArthur court on Mon
day at 4 o’clock announced Prink
Callison, varsity football mentor,
yesterday.
Callison expects to outline plans
for the coming spring training sea
son at the meeting, and meet new
men out for the squad for the
first time.
Spring workouts for the mem
bers of last year’s freshmen squad
are expected to start Monday or
Tuesday afternoons, if weather
permits.
Lettermen and members of last
year’s team are not expected to be
called for several weeks, as Calli
son wants to get acquainted with
his new men first.
Coed Rifle Team
Still Victorious
Oregon, Syracuse, Lead
In Three-Way Match;
Gettysburg Loses
Results of last week’s postal
matches show that the coed rifle
team has not yet lost a match.
The match shot last Friday was
between Gettysburg, Syracuse and
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OREGON-IDAHO SUMMARY
Oregon (81) A FgFtPfTp
Silver, f . 1 6 6 2 18
Lewis, f . 0 6 0
Wlntermute, c . 13 1
Anet, g. 2 0 0
Purdy, g . 0 10
Johansen, g . 2
2 0
Courtney, f . 1 0 0
1
0
4
1
3
1
Totals
7 12 7 12 31
Idaho (35)
Belko, f .
Smith, f
Johnson, c
Winter, g
Kramer, g
LeVlgne, f
Bownn, f ...
A Fg Ft Pf Tp
3 4 4 4 12
3 10
2 2
13 1
4 3 It)
0 2 10
1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
Totals 11 13 9 14 35
Free throws missed: Silver 4,
Courtney 2, Purdy 1, Jolmn.sen 2:
Smith 4, Belko 2, Kramer 1. To
tals—Oregon 9, Idaho 7.
Field shots taken: Silver 18,
Lewis 8, Courtney 6, Wintermute
15, Anet 7, Purdy 5, Johansen 6;
Smith 7, Winter 8, Johanson 8,
Kramer 18, Belko 13. Totals —
Oregon 65, Idaho 44.
Half-time score: Oregon 16, Ida
ho 14.
Officials: Ralph Coleman, Cor
WaHa Walla, umpire,
vaults, ;referee; Roger Folgafie,
Inkslinger Tilt
Of News Staffs
To Be Contested
The battle of Inkslingers. To
day on the maple boards of court
38 in the new gym, precisely at
two o’clock, the first annual
beef, between the boys who split
their infinitives on . the sport
staff and the verb parsers
of the news staff, will be rolled
off.
Big gun on the news staff at
tack both on the floor and
through the air—mostly of the
hot variety—is LeRoy Matting
ly, prayer shot specialist, who is
already offering alibis—claiming
a broken wrist, bent thumb, flat
feet. Teamed with the Mattingly
person will be Orvie Hopkins,
the hop, skip and jumps hooper,
and about 15 others of his cali
ber.
The sports staff attack will be
led by Morrie “the Monster’’
Henderson, who will have Pat
Hec’s Champs
Pass Oregon
In Standings
Washington Cops First
Of Four-Game Series;
Huskies Lead at Half
In Seattle, 28-16
Hec Edmundson's second-place
Huskies handed the league-leading
Cougars of Washington State a
45-to-40 defeat last night at the
Husky pavillion in Seattle in the
first of their two-game series.
Washington led through the
driving contest, holding a 28 to 17
advantage at half time.
Starting out with a barrage of
baskets, the smooth Husky mach
ine rolled up a 17 to 4 lead before
the bewildered men from Pullman
could get rolling.
Cougar Rally
The Cougars put on a second
half rally that pulled them within
five points of the Huskies, 38 to
33, with but four minutes to go.
Prom this point the Huskies re
gained their faltering stride and
kept their advantage to the end.
Ed Loverich, veteran Husky for
ward, led the scoring for both
teams with 18. He was also the
mainstay on defense. Chuck Wag
ner dropped 10 for the Huskies.
For WSC, Sewell Carlson and
Ivar Nelson divided the scoring
honors with 10 apiece. Three men
left the game via the personal foul
route. Bill Dahlke and Cassius Dol
quist for the Cougars and Chuck
Wagner, Husky guard, were ban
ished.
The two teams meet again to
night in a game that will decide
the conference leader.
Frizzell, dymanic sports editor,
and several other word tossers
of this rank to bolster the squad.
The sports staff expects to
play only two or three men
against the 15 of the news staff
in order to make the game even.
It is expected that Fred “Pol
onius” Colvig, arbitrating editor
will officiate with the same un
canny judgment that he uses in
his editorial column.
LOST—Alpha Chi Omega pin.
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