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By ELBERT HAWKINS
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Guess what is Coach Hobson’s
most perplexing problem as his
Oregon basketball champs face
their final week of northern divi
sion play and a crucial title series
against Washington in Seattle?
Is it the “dead” floor of Wash
ington's pavilion court? No! (the
answer will “floor” you). Hobby’s
worry is Oregon’s own little maple
court, the Igloo! A super super
perfect job of waxing that floor
for the senior ball left it so slick
the athletic department is right
now contemplating rigging out a
hockey team.
Wanted: A super perfect for
mula for unwaxing the Igloo floor.
It’ll have to come pronto . . . today,
or else. Bill Kirtley, the janitor,
was using everybody’s secret and
patented un-waxing formula yes
terday to no avail. The surface
was as impenetrable to water as
concrete. Turpentine was no bet
ter. So Janitor Bill rolled up his
sleeves and manufactured a little
rig with a weight on it to push
around and sandpaper the fool wax
off. Anse Cornell even pitched in
to help.
IT bby says, “we're used to the
Seattle floor, we’ve played several
times on it,” but he's frankly wor
ried about the amazing McArthur
ourt puzzle. For three weeks the
Ducks have been preparing for the
slow breaks of Idaho and Oregon
State, and now when they are fac
ing the season’s most critical pair
of games and need to practice the
Tst break and gallop, they can’t
Unless . . .
Best solution to the problem of
fered yesterday was to apply a
and new coat of varnish to tlu
i r But that would take twe
’ays, and Hobby’s most intense
preparations for Washington’s fast
break will occupy just that length
of time. Another suggestion: the
Webfoots might practice this week
in the new gymnasium. That, too
has its drawback as the Webfoot;
need “the wide open spaces” tc
practice their boom-boom tactics
Hobby anti his Webfoots didn’t
ha’fce ice skates yesterday so they
were forced to do their running in
the cooped up quarters of the new
gym. The Duck mentor said if he
let his proteges run wild on the
Igloo floor- they might get so lame
there wouldn't be any use to gc
to Seattle.
So think hard before noon to
day. If there’s a super super per
fect method of unvvaxing basket
ball floors . . . out with it . . . anil
save Oregon’s basketball cause.
University of Washington's i'looi
is unique in itself. Like Madison
Square Garden, the big pavilion is
used for indoor track meets on
good old mother earth. Plyboard
sections are laid in for the basket
ball floor. But the whole floor has
a deadness for dribbling the ball
and it's not even uniformly dead.
Some spots are worse than others.
For this reason, Hec Edmond
son's Huskies are hard to beat at
home. Idaho’s Coach Forrest Two
good told us he figured a 10-point
handicap for road games and 10
in Seattle. Rarely are the Huskies
beaten there by any club the first
night. Oregon hasn't in its last two
invasions although the tables were
reversed in the second game.
Which, incidentally, is all Oregon
will need to duplicate this week
end to clinch its second consecu
tive championship and a right to
meet the southern division titlist
in a play-off for coast honors at
Eugene.
The Oregon basket eers and
Coach Hobson figure to defy tradi
tion and Washington’s unique floor
by winning game No. 1 up there
Friday night. Said Coach Hobby
Saturday: ‘T believe wo demon
strated superiority over them here
lust month—wo know they have a
good team—the second l»est in the
north.” And there you have the
philosophy ot Oregon's champs. II
you have the best team, why wor
ry.
Sports Editor Ed Guthman of
the Washington Dally, in a letter
prior to Oregon’s last win over
Oregon State, had this much to
say: “Since OSC dumped you last
week things are really looking up
(for us) and although our chances
are still rattier slim, we’re just
relying on Hec to come up with
his usual clever strategy. . .
Igloo Floor Waxedr
Too Slick for Ducks
Hobby Takes Conference Champions
And Holders of First place to Gym
For Day's Scrimmage Session
By GEORGE PASERO
Oregon’s Ducks aim to be just “right” against Washington’s i
Huskies at Seattle Friday and Saturday nights—that is if they can
find a floor to practice on.
But this matter of finding a practice court suitable for their needs
is a problem. No, there is nothing wrong with the Igloo itself. No
hurricane has swept in from the ocean to topple the huge structure, nor
! has it been hit by fire. The McArthur floor has iust been a victim to
Coed Athletes
Plan Softball
Slate for Spring
WAA Checks Given
For Competition
In Several Sports
I -
Softball (technically, but let’s
call it baseball) come with spring
term following the exciting and
successful coed intramural basket
ball competition of winter term,
Miss Louise Pursley, WAA base
ball manager, announced last
weekend.
Potential Yanks, Cardinals, or
Phillies will be divided into leagues
which will play within themselves,
and then these league winners will
vie for the coed baseball series
pennant, she said.
A WAA chock may be earned by
practicing five times and playing
in all but one of your group’s
scheduled games, according to
Louise Pursley.
Requirements Given
These WAA checks are earned
by fulfilling certain practice and
participation requirements in dif
.erent sports, volleyball and basket
ball requirements are the same as
the ones outlined here for base
ball. A year’s membership in Am
phibians, Master Dance, or the
WAA council accerdits one check.
But arrangements are made for
checks in most any WAA activity
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Skier Henry Evans
Gets Ankle Injury
Webfoots Compete
In Yosemite Meet
This Weekend
Word was received yesterday
from the University of Oregon ski
team which competed in a jumping
meet at Treasure Island, San
Francisco Friday and Saturday,
that Henry Evans, the top ranking
Duck jumper, had sprained his an
kle in a practice jump.
Information concerning the se
riousness of the sprain could not
be obtained. Evans had placed
eighth in jumping on Friday’s ski
schedule.
On March 3 and -1 the Webfoot
ski squad competes at Yosemite
in California at the Pacific coast
intercollegiate ski union tourna-l
ment. George Hoffman and Scott
Wright will join the ski team of
Pat Dolan, Henry Evans, and Cap
tain Walt Wood and complete Ore
gon's five-man entry in this tour
I ney.
After the Yosemite meet, the
i Oregon skiers head for Kcno, Ne
j vada for a dual meet with the Uni
versity of Nevada ski team.
a little waxing, energetically done
by students who “spread it on”
before swinging to Ran Wilde’s mu
sic at the senior ball.
Waxing Hurts Floor
And this waxing has had its
effect. It’s made the Ducks’ “the
homeless wonders.” Sunday, Coach
Hobson called out his squad for the
first drill in preparation for the
championship series with the Hus
kies. But the Ducks found it very
hard to keep on their feet, and
part of the squad decided it was
much safer executing dance steps
and the other half waltzing a la
Sonja Henie, the Duck mentor
called a halt to the proceedings.
Yesterday, McArthur was little
better, so Coach Hobby escorted
his boys to one of the courts in
the men’s gym. There the Ducks
turned on the heat in a strict
"fast-break” session.
After Both Games
When it was over, the Duck
mentor and his squad exuded confi
dence. “We’re going up there to
play both games, not just to win
one,” Coach Hobson said last
night. “I think our chances are
good both nights. I think we have
a better team than Washington.”
Long scrimmages featuring the
“drive” order, fast breaks, and
quick shooting will be in order for
the lanky Wcbfoots this afternoon
and Wednesday. Coach Hobby feels
that his Ducks, after meeting two
clubs such as Idaho and Oregon
State, masters of the slow-break,
need plenty of speedy play before
facing the Huskies who run and
run.
Wally Is Back
Wally Johansen, brilliant little
guard of the Webfoots, took part
in scrimmage yesterday for the
first time since he was injured in
the OSC game at Corvallis.
The Duck mentor expects (and
makes no secret of it) his big men,
John Dick, Laddie Gale, and Slim
Wintermute, to carry the scoring
load against the Huskies. The trio
has accounted for 405 points in 14
games. They have chalked up 146
field goals and 113 free throws.
Captain Bobby Anet and Johan
sen, while not as potent scorers as
Dick, Wintermute, or Gale, never
theless rank among the first 20
scorers.
Coach Hobson and 10 or 11 Web
foot hoopers will leave for Seattle
at 9 o'clock Thursday morning.
They will arrive in Seattle at 5:30
that afternoon, in time for a work
out on the Seattle maple that
night.
Lucky Ace Six
Challenges Co-op
Flash! Lucky Aces have chal
lenged the Co-op, coed basketball
champions, to a post-mortem game
Wednesday at 1 :!10 p.m. in the in
door gym.
In the semi-finals last Tuesday,
the Co-op snaked through to a
close victory, 15 to 12. over this
independent squad. Hazel Oldfield,
the Lucky Ace captain and high
scoring forward, said that they
just wanted a chance to even up
that score, "I think we can do it,
maybe!”
Oregon, California
Eye Play-off Berths
Northern Division Standings
\V L Pet. Pts. Op.
Oregon 12 2 .857 635 517
! Washington 11 3 .781) 68!) 520
WSC . 6 8 .429 523 563
| DSC . 4 8 .333 397 419
Idaho. 1 13 .071 427 554
Saturday’s Kesults
At Pullman - Washington State
14, Idaho 34.
Six games this week ring down
the curtain on the 1939 northern
division championship campaign,
two of them -between Oregon and
Washington — definitely settling
the race,
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Southern Division Standings
W L Pet.
California .82 .800
Southern California 7 3 .700
' Stanford.0 5 .500
i UCLA 0 10 .000
Saturday's Kesults
At Berkeley — California -12.1
; USC 16.
At Los Angeles—Stanford 37, '
UCLA 33.
The southern division basket
hall race has relegated itself into a
two-team race as the season draws
to a close, and it's California's
(lolden Bears and the University
of Southern California Trojans out
in front. !,
The Bears hold undisputed first .
place by only one full game over .
tin Trojans, having dropped Satur- 1
day night's contest between the 1
two clubs at Berkeley, 10 to 12. . <
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Flying High Soon
Marily Rhodes and Ed Rose, University ot Nevada students, wax
their skis in preparation for a coming meet.
Intramural GrapplersShow
Wares in Four Classes
During Day’s Competition
Matches Last Longer Than Last Week's
Record-Short Tiffs; Full Schedule
Billed for This Afternoon
Intramural wrestling- advanced another round toward the cham
pionship flight as the 128, 155, and 165 pounders and heavyweights
furnished the action in Monday’s wrestling schedule.
The fast throwing time that was characteristic of last week’s wrest
ling failed to show yesterday, with the fastest time for throwing an
opponent going to Herb Gifford who threw Dick Loomis in 50 seconds.
Three matches went overtime
periods as A1 Simpson won over
Harry Steirwalt, Chan Smith de
feated Duke Young, and Elyza
Willis threw Elmer Hanson.
Heavies Are Postponed
Arrangements are being made,
according to Roland Dickie, for the
heavyweight contestants whose
extra-curricular activities made it
impossible for them to wrestle
yesterday to stage their bouts
later.
Since the matches have been
run off far ahead of the daily
schedule, all wrestlers should be
in suit 40 minutes before their
matches.
Yesterday’s results were as fol
lows:
126-pound division—Bob Dalton,
fall over Gil Dannielson; Lee Ren
nolds, fall over Jim Bayless; Row
ell Loggan. fall over Clare Eshelby.
155-pound division—Jack Terry,
fall over Jim Hickey.
165-pound division Bob Spear,
fall over AI Van Duyn; A1 Simp
son, fall over Harry Steirwalt;
Chan Smith, fall over Duke Young;
Floyd Elliott, fall over Chuck
Hoagland; Buzz Baker, fall over
Willis Fry; Herb Gifford, fall over
Dick Loomis; John Davis, winner
by default over Bill Skade; Tony
Frombolo, fall over Wendell Hen
drickson.
Heavyweight division Elyza'
Willis, fall over Elmer Hanson;
Nello Giovannini, winner by de
fault over Lester Ready; Art
Hannifin, fall over Ted Gebhardt;
Jim Dimit. fall over Charlie Foss.
Today's Hill Given
With the first match starting
at 4 p.nt, the following will
wrestle today at five-minute inter
vals in the order given:
126-pound division—Glenn Con
gill vs. A1 Childs.
135-pound division - Dick Sears
vs. Nick Nickerson, Bill Hanen vs.
font Baldwin, Preston Phipps vs.
Jim Stearns.
145-pound division Bill Cttra
nings vs. Doug Hay, Lloyd John
son vs. Cam Collier, Bob Black vs.
Dick Shannon, Jim Pickett vs. Len
Eaton.
155-pound division Paul Bocei
,'s. Frank Anderson, Ehrman Gui
stina vs. Roland Rodman, Waldo
Jaufield vs. Earle Maynard, Rud
Rousseau vs. Jack Terry.
165-pound division—Bob Speer
rs. A1 Simpson, Chan Smith vs.
rioyd Elliott, Buzz Barker vs.
lerb Gifford. John Davis vs. Tony
froinbolo.
175-pound division Bob Hayes
’s. Maury Binford, Chick Kern vs.
Iim Armpriest, Davie Griffith:, vs.
lit Kbright. Gene Brown vs. A1
Jogue. Dusty Jameson vs. Conrail
Harman. Jack Massie vs. Mike
Hooley, Jack Jasper vs. BUI Met
ill.
Co-op Feud
Results in
12 Technicals
Twelve technicals fouls were
called simultaneously in one bas
ketball game last week. It seems
that the Hilyard and Universtiy
Co-ops were playing a little bas
ketball game when it was de
cided among the teams that the
forwards should trade places
with the guards for a while.
Then the whistle blew and the
last half started. The ball was
thrwon to the center-forward
who passed it quickly, but the
whistle blew again. This time it
was to call 12 technical fouls,
one on every member of the two
squads because they had all
failed to report their new posi
tions to the officials and score
keeper.
This threw the rivals into such
gales of laughter that only two
of the twelve free shots were
made.
Beaver Matmen
And Sluggers
Defeat Oregon
Rival Ringmen to
Meet in Return
Matches Friday
The Oregon State lx>xing and
wrestling teams soundly thumped
Oregon's ringmen Saturday eve
ning in the men's gymnasium in
Corvallis. The Beaver leather-tos
sers scored a 6-2 walloping over
the Oregon mittmen. The Oregon
wrestlers took a 2S 1-2 to 1 1-2
shellacking from the Oreangemen.
Pete Thorne, clever-fisted Web
foot, scored a decision over Bill
Powell, Oregon State, at the 165
pound division for one point. Jim
Greene. Oregon 120-pounder, won
the other mitt point on a forfeit.
Dutch Wendt. Oregon State,
knocked out Merle Hanscom in
1:33 of the first round.
Three Forfeits
Herb Colwell's Ducks handed
Jim Dixon's Orange sluggers two
forfeits, while they received one.
Dale Peterson, blond bombshell
from Clatsksnie, held his right to
president of the Mitt and Mat club
by drawing with Ted Tibbutt, Ore
gon State. The 175-pound bout
Trio Wage Fight
For Top Niche
In Point-Getting
Laddie Gale Needs
27 Points in Last
Two Contests
The Northwest’s three top scor
ers, Oregon's Laddie Gale and
and Slim Wintermute and Wash
ington's dynamite Roy Williamson,
battle it out for northern division
scoring honors when the Ducks
meet the Huskies at Seattle this
weekend.
Shoved into the background only
by the importance of a series
which will decide the circuit crown
wearer, the stretch bid for point
gathering plaudits will neverthe
less be a closely followed feature
of the “big series.”
27 Points Short
Laddie Gale’s 161-point total is
still 27 shy of Wally Palmberg’s
record of 187 set in 1935. In order
to break Palmberg's mark, tall
Laddie, the boy who set a new
20-game schedule record of 249
points last year, must average 14
points a night.
Wintermute, who was dropped
to third place last week by the as
tonishing rise of Williamson,
moved close to Gale again Satur
day night by scoring 13 points
against OSC. Pete Hooper, Wash
ington State, is fourth with 124.
The 20 scoring leaders are as
follows:
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Gale, Oe.14
Wintermute, Ore ..14
Williamson, WU ..14
Hooper, WSC .14
D. Voelker, WU ..13
Olson, WSC .14
Ziegenfuss, WU....14
Barrett, Idaho .14
Dick, Ore .14
R. Harris, Idaho....14
Mandic, OSC .11
Dorsey, WU .14
Belko, Idaho.14
Johansen, Ore.14
McDonald, WU ....14
Kolberg, OSC .12
Chase, WSC .14
Anet, Ore.14
Jennings, WSC ...14
Romano, OSC.12
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The four colleges of the City of
New York have a total enrollment
of 52,000.
Varoff, Storli Give
Oregon Third Place
Victories by two of Colonel Bill Hayward's Webfoot trackmen, Kir
man Storli and Captain George Varoff, gave Oregon third place in the
Pacific association's annual indoor championships, held in connection
with San Francisco’s Treasure island exposition.
Varoff, former holder of both the indoor and outdoor pole vault
records, won his favorite event with a leap of 13 feet, 6 inches. Guinn
Smith, California, and Anthony
Sunseri, San Jose State, both
jumped 13 feet to take second and
third places respectively.
Powerful Kirman Storli, north
west half-mile champion, turned
in one of the standout perform
ances of the meet when he led a
fast field to the tape in the 1000
yard run. His winning time was
2:20.3. Peters of California placed
second and Wesley Lathon of Idaho
third.
Dod Wins Heat
S Oregon's third entry, L'.oyd
Dod, won his hurdles heat, but
failed to place in the finals.
All three Webfoot trackmen will
stay over at San Francisco this
week to compete in the Golden
I Gate exposition invitational meet
Saturday.
While the Duck trio was com- 1
peting at San Francisco, Colonel
Hayward, beginning his 36th year,
I as Oregon track coach and trainer,
I sent the remainder of his squad
, through time trials on Hayward
field.
Mitchell In Front
The feature of the trials was a
driving win by Blazing Bob Mit
chell, miler, over Ray Kleinfeldt,
freshman from Bend, and Don
Barker in a three-quarter mile
race. Kleinfeldt took the lead from
Pace-setter Barker at the begin
ning of the final lap and held it
I until the final sprint when he was
I overhauled by the speedy Mitchell,
j Jimmy Schriver, veteran half
miler, ran a smooth race in the
I 60.0-yard special event to finish fat
in front. Dutch Schultz, frosh
sprinter from Forest Grove and
high point man in the state prep
meet last year, won his heat in
both the 75 and 150-yard dashes.
Bob Keen, sprinter up from last
year’s frosh, tied Schultz’s mark
of 8.2 seconds in the 75-yard dash.
Keen ran the varsity heat.
Oregon’s No. 1 sprinter, lithe
Jimmy Buck, did not compete in
the trials.
Wes Steele, freshman middle-dis
tance runner from Portland,
copped the 300-yard event.
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home to the folks.
Oregon Mermen
Plan Reception
For Beavers
Rivals Will Tangle
In Campus Pool
On Saturday
What’s going to happen when
Ben Beaver comes to town next
Saturday, March 4? The Webfoot
swimming team has planned a
warm little revenge party for the
Oregon Staters at 2 o’clock. The
two clubs have met once before
this season. Oregon State won that
meet, 38 to 37, at Corvallis.
The Orange rooks are next on
the frosh itinerary. The young
Oregons, crippled by the loss of
some of their outstanding swim
mers, have been working out with
the idea of dumping the rooks.
Dick Smith, Duckling speedster,
defeated the rooks’ touted Bill
Blakely in every event where the
two were matched in the Corvallis
meet February 4, and which the
rooks won.
Idaho Win Is First
The Oregon varsity scored its
first conference win Friday at the
expense of the Idaho Vandals, 61
to 14, while at Seattle the title
bound Washington Huskies were
trampling Bill Bond’s 'Washington
State tank crew, 62 to 13. The
Cougar victory was the fourth of
the season for the Huskies, having
trampled the Idaho and Oregon
State squads and edging out the
Ducks.
A general improvement of the
Oregon team has given rise to
hopes of reversing the form for
the Orangemen. Coach Jack Tor
ney, when his Huskies swam
against the Ducks February 11,
voiced the opinion that the Ned
Johns-Jim Reed coached Webfoots
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