Washington State-Oregon Hoop Issue at Stake This Weekend 'Question-Mark’ Series To Usher in Conference Season for Eugene By GEORGE PASERO The big ‘'question-mark” series of the 1939 northern division basket ball inaugural opens Friday night when the very potent, tough and tall Cougars of Washington State college invade the Ducks' McArthur court. And when the referee's whistle lowers the curtain on the series Saturday night, hoop followers the northwest over will have a much clearer insight on the muddled hoop situation. Up to Tuesday night, fans have asked more questions than Rip Winkle did after sleeping 20 years. Who will win the northern division tiara?—Oregon’s defending cham pions, losers of only one veteran, Dave Silver; Washington’s fast shooting outfit minus only last year’s Captain Ross Warner and bolstered by a number of frosh aces; WSC's brilliant array, the favorite to dethrone the Oregon ians; or Oregon State’s darkhorse quintet, backed by powerful re serves. No Answer To this query, the cage experts have found no answer, and now they are faced with still another question — how much did the Ducks’ transcontinental tour take out of them ? Friday night those who asked questions and those who awaited the opening round with puzzled concern will get their answer. So will the northwest. The Webfoots are tall, fast, and capable. They have Captain Bob Anet, all-coast Wally Johansen and Laddie Gale, and Slim Winter mute, all veterans of one successful title campaign, as a nucleus. And they have a good fifth man in either Ted Sarpola, Bob Hardy, or Matt Pavalunas plus a host of re serves topped by big John Dick, Ford Mullen, Earl Sandness, Red McNeeley, and Footballer Don Mabee. Win Six Coach Hobby Hobson s proteges won six out of nine games on their long road jaunt. Add these wins to four previous ones, and the Ducks have taken 10 out of 16 pre-season encounters. But this year’s pack of Cougars, according to second-guessers, will not have to concede anything to Oregon, not even height. They have come through a tough pre season schedule with an impressive record, losing only one game in 11 starts. Tuesday, these same Cougars opened the title chase by downing Oregon State 30 to 19. Coach Hob son and his boys viewed the con test, and the Pullrnanites from the Paiouse hyIs evoked this from the Duck mentor, "they’re a big, tough team.” In height, the two teams are nearly a match. Oregon's “tf.ill firs," height champs of last year, no longer can claim undisputed “skjyscraping” championship this year. The Cougars are the chal lengers and a match for the Ducks in height, and boast a weight ad vantage. Jack Jennings and John Kosich are both sxi-feet-four and Paul Lindeman towers six feet seven! inches. In addition to these players, Coach Jack Friel has an all-north west star in A1 Hooper, and ball-1 handling veterans in Bill Chase, Ed Kerpa, Jack Griffin, Howard Shumway, Merle Miller, and Ray Mahnkey. University Skiers Place at Sun Valley Oregonians Paced By Wood, Evans In National Meet Outstanding performances at the Sun Valley four-event intercolle giate ski meet last week-end of two University of Oregon wooden ! sandal artists, Walt Wood and Henry Evans, placed them in rank ing position with 110 of the na tion’s stellar collegiate skiers. Wood led the ski team, his com bined score that covered the four events giving him sixth position. 1 Evans won fifth place in the cross country event and ninth in the jumping. Oregon's ski entry, a. 10-mau team, was the largest in the meet. The Webfoot skiers were Thomas J Witer, Norman Holt, Paul Eaf | ferty, Art Lowlher, Sam Stevens, and Hank Nilsson, with Wood, Evans, Pat Dolan, and Ralph Laf ferty taking honors as the Uni versity’s ace skiers. Steve Bradley of Dartmouth took championship honors of the ski contingent by placing in all the events in which he partici pated. Swimming Slate For Winter Changed California Dates Juggled; Season to Open January 28 Oregon’s streamlined brigade of swimmers face a slightly changed schedule for the approaching sea son. The order of matches for the California trip has been switched, but Coach Ned Johns regards the change as “more desirable." The match previously scheduled with the University of Washington for February 11 will run only if Washington can come to Eugene, instead of the Webfoots going to Seattle. The revised schedule is as fol lows : January 28, Washington State college, here; February 4, Oregon State, here; February 15, Univer sity of California, Berkeley; Feb ruary 1(5, Stanford, Palo Alto; February 18, San Jose State, San Jose; February 14, Idaho, Eugene; March 18 (indefinite), Oregon State, Corvallis; and March 25, Northern division meet, Seattle. The only state college remote control studio in New England ha.. , made its debut on the airwaves, . with daily programs being broad- a east from the University of New t Hampshire. (TAPTAIaJ aMd STAR. of= TMe Purdue, SASKereAL-E 8«3 7fevl port is Wuuia winch \ou will be seeing ere main Mitt, Mat Club May Have Twin Bill Central 'Y' From Portland, Elks May Be Opponents > 1 It may be a double-header fea ture when the Oregon wrestlers I clash with the grapplers of Cen tral “Y” of Portland January 14. The matches with the local Elks , boxers may be shifted from Janu ary 13 to January 14. “Smokey" Whitfield, Oregon's dusky ace, would square off ' against Wayne Dillingham. John Wood, Bob Calkins, Edwin Hard ing, and Cam Collier will be bat tling for welterweight spots. “Tiger” Nickerson and Wayne Towne will be favored at the 135 pound limit. Jim Greene will work for the 118-pound go. Wrestlers favored to start against the “Y” grapplers are Dale Peterson, at 175; Willie Williams, speedy heavyweight; Glen Carroll and Hal Kaschko at 185. Hal | Spence is favored at 165. Mort Myers and Jack Moriarity compete at 155. Jim Mountain and Burt Duke fight at 141. Bill Lauderback is favored at 135. a new press box, new plumbing facilities, and painting of the struc tures. SKI ( Lilt TO MEET There will be a ski meeting at 7:30 in the men’s gym tonight with a ski expert who will give a chalk talk, announced Norman Holt, ski club president, yesterday. Plans will be made for a ski club outing Sunday and other ski trips throughout the year. All members who wish to compete for places on the University ski team must be there. MR. and MRS. NEWT WSC Cougars Beat Oregon State Again, 37 to 25 Northern Division Standing W L Pet. i Washington State. 2 0 1.000 1 Oregon State . 0 2 .000 Oregon . 0 0 .000 1 Washington . 0 0 .000 ; Idaho . 0 0 .000 | Coach Jack Friel’s Washington State Cougars made it two straight over the Oregon State quintet last night as his charges took a 37 to 25 win at Corvallis. The Cougars led during tho en tire game and were in the lead at the halftime, 19 to 13. Both teams played a looser game than the night before in which the half score was 8 to 7. A1 Hooper, flashy Cougar guard, was high scorer of the evening with 13 points, followed by Pflu grad, Beaver forward, with 10 points. Cougar Forward Kosich showed his prowess at foul shooting by making 6 out of 7 trials for his only points of the game. The game was interrupted at various intervals by the officials Four Freshman Hoopers Are Lost for Season Squad Encounters Commerce High of Portland Friday Honest John Warren’s freshman basketball team opens the 1939 season Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock when his GPA riddled scor ers meet Commerce high school of Portland at McArthur court. With four men out for the sea son with scholastic difficulty, War ren sent his squad through light drills last night in preparation for the opening whistle Friday. The Duckling players who will be out for the season are Howard and Kenneth Fox, talented hoop scorers from Thurston; Worley El lis, all-stater from Vancouver, Washington, and “Bud” Alexan der, all-stater from Valley, Wash ington. A second game, scheduled for Saturday at 3 o’clock, is also with the highly touted Commerce high five from Portland. Don Galbreaith, captain of Ida ho’s all-state five from Boise; Leonard Gard, high scoring all stater of Oregon, and Doug Caven, ex-Eugene high guard, are out standing candidates left on War ren’s crew and will no doubt see action this weekend. Lester Thompson and Elliott Wil son, fresh football centers, are fighting for the starting position of center on the basketball team. Both are well over six feet tall. Ross Kilborn, forward, is also an outstanding candidate for a start ing berth. Warren’s reserves will be made up of Jack Waits, fast stepping scorer from Klamath Falls; Dick Whitman, Woodburn; Burke Aus tin, Bob Deverall, Eugene; Pat Smith, Shelton, Washington, and Gene Brown, Beaverton. This afternoon at the men’s gym the frosh recruits have a practice session with Lakeview high school. The Lakeview quintet is in town to play a series with University high school. Warren expects to pick out his regular five after the scrimmage. who had to wipe up the water which had dripped through the skylights onto the floor making it dangerous for the game to con tinue. Washington State made 26 points by field goals, while the Beavers made only 20. Eleven points by foul shooting helped the Cougars while the Beavers netted only five points via the gift toss. ■ The British Royal Air Force last year flew an aggregate of about 50,000,000 miles. I'm through sending 0 laundry home. Not g while I can have it done as cheaply and expertly as I can the NEW SERVICE ■ way. Phone 825 New Service Laundry ...-it. -t— r r .vi »r—— ,y • - • ~ Beta Intramuralers Lead Scoring Parade The new term starts and house teams start polishing their steel for intramural “A” and “B ’ league basketball. Also in line of fire are wrestling and handball. Beta Theta Pi leads all houses in total intramural points with 311. Tagging—but not very far behind—are the Phi Delts with 309. The rest of the standnigs are: Kappa Sigma, 254; ATO, 250; Phi Gamma Delta, 248; Pi Kappa Alpha, 223; Gamma hall, 207; Phi Kap^a Psi, 207; Sigma Alpha Ep silon, 207; Sigma Nu, 204; Sigma Chi, 203; Phi Sigma Kappa, 201; Delta Tan Delta, 194; Theta Chi, 193; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 180; Campbell coop, 178; Zeta hall, 174; Omega hall, 173; Chi Psi, 142; Sherry Ross hall. 138; Canard club, 137; Sigma hall, 130; Hor nets, 113; Delta Upsilon, 95; Sig ma Alpha Mu, 73; Oregon Yeo men. 72; and Alpha hall, 35. After edging out SAE, the Phi Delta Theta “A's” downed ATO to win the main intramural sport— volleyball—of last term. Spoils in the “B” league went to Beta Theta Pi, who won the cham pionship by outlasting Gamma hall. The Betas previously sur passed Kappa Sigma. The Duchess Goes to Town Sulky . . . that’s what they t call the two-wheeled buggy. 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