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.
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Hayward Stadium
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Get Face-lifting
New Improvements
Possible Through
PWA, ASUO Funds
Hayward field will have a com
Jleto facelifting for the 1939-41
season and will blossom forth will
iomplctely remodeled stands, threi
lew football fields, a new freshmai
jascball diamond, and several in
ramural fields.
After the close of the 1938 foot.
Jail season work was begun on tin
Hayward field project. This call:
or an extension of the east grand
stand to the south goal line will
1200 additional seats. The wesi
<tand will be completely rebuilt U
irovide 1000 more seats.
Ornamental Fence
An ornamental iron fence or
lo we baseball field, extending
dong University street and ad
joining the Howe field memoria
fates has been completed. Re
seeding has been finished on botl
Hayward and the varsity practice
Helds.
The remodeling is made possible
hrougli PWA grants and by th(
Associated Students athletics de
partment. With an added PW.t
frant of 83915 received last Satin
lay the University now lias avail
ble $40,715 for improvements on
lie athletic center.
Other- improvements will include
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Mitt, Mat Club May
Have Twin Bill
Central 'Y' From
Portland, Elks May
Be Opponents
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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.
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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.
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Duchess is one of the South’s leaders.
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