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DUCK TRACKS lty GEORGE PASERO Co-Sports Editor Oregon Daily Emerald ^iiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuii1 This 1940 frosh club of John Warren’s intrigues and fairly fas cinates me. At first it bewildered me, but now I l>elieve I understand why I appreciate the portly men tor’s product of the moment. You see, being a rather sensi tive fellow, I am still raked t>y memories of last year’s team . . . the one that lost four games to the rooks. Now I don’t blame John Warren. In fact, I’m sure * he's been haunted many a night by the same feeling of anguish at thoughts of that ball club. Poor John. He couldn't help it, for he lost more good boys through ineli gibility rulings than Howard Jones does from his Rose Bowl champs this year. So when I go out to see this present frosh club in action, I get a glow just thinking* how much better this aggregation is. What’s more, the team is unpredictable, one night those Ducklings will look like supers, and then they’ll fairly flounder. Either way, they’re still mighty interesting. For instance, Wednesday night Warren’s boys played Dallas high, one of the state’s hoop powers. ■ And what happened. Why, the yearlings .despite the fact that four of their starters couldn’t play, trimmed the Dragons, 32 to 28. Heads in the Stratosphere Then, too, the frosh are tall, and how. Center Wally Borrevik, in six-eight, Forward Warren Tay lor is six-five, Forwards John Bu balo and Quentin Sidesinger are about six-three, Jake Werschkul is six-five. Haufle is six-eight and a half dozen others can’t be classed as “li’l fellows.” The starting frosh lineup of Werschkul, Taylor, Borrevik, John Tuttle, and Don Kirsch averages six-two, and should be a whale of j a ball club when John gets the players in shape and working to gether. As for capable reserves, John shouldn’t be too worried with Bu-1 balo, Sidesingcr, Baker, Walt Rey- ■ nolds, Bob Oliver, and Gordon! Stanley at his call. Interesting? You bet those frosh are. They could easily become the ! best yearling combination since the one that included Anet, Johan sen, Laddie Gale, Bob, and Gale Smith. Break for Oregon When the northern division hoop schedule was released by the high moguls, Oregon hoop fans quick ly noticed and commented on the fact that the Webfoots were billed for four straight games with the Huskies, on successive weekends. A few even grumbled, but now it’s quite evident that this sched uling is a break for the Webfoot team and its chances of defending the division title. Against Oregon State, Hobby's club was not clicking, and the Oregon mentor had to shake it up a bit. The effects were noticeable in last week's practice sessions, the Ducks beginning to show again. And now the Ducks can face a fast-breaking team in the Huskies and can run to their hearts’ con tent, all the while perfecting their offense and defense. These four games should definitely tell whe ther or not Oregon can cop the laurels again. Furthermore, they should prime the Ducks for the bruising contact of later contests with OSC and WSC. (Please turn to paae four) Energy is vital to champions such as these 1 Remember that fish gives you the energy ! that is as necessary for | students as for these i i champions! Phone 2309 NEWMAN’S Fish Market 39 Last Eread-va" Seattle Tonight: Webfoots vs. Washington Champions Hold Second Place Broadcast of Game Booked; Oregon Lineup to Be Same as for Beaver Contest, Coach Hobson Indicates By KEN CHRISTIANSON Assistant Sports Editor Oregon’s national champion basketball team defends its second place in northern division standings tonight and tomorrow against Coach Hec Edmundson’s University of Washington cagers in the University pavilion. Station KJR in Seattle will' broadcast both games starting at 8:00 p.m. V Coach Howard “Hobby" Hobson's Webfoots will take the floor on an even standing with the Huskies. Both teams feature a fast-breaking type of game with each team trying to run the other into the floor. Snowmen Enter Coast Meets Terry, Hagen Top Men on Varsity Ski Lineup By AUSTIN CHANEY The two-year-old University of Oregon ski team is coming out of the adolescent stage and rapidly assuming the dignity of a man sized sport. The Duck snowmen have already scheduled one major conference meet for this season and applied for entrance in anoth er, Rollie Dickie, varsity coach, announced. Only definitely scheduled compe tition to date is the annual Pacific coast conference tournament March 1, 2, and 3 at Paradise Inn, Mt. Rainier. The Webfeet will en ter a five-man team in this event with Tom Terry, Bert Hagen, Ed Ziegler, and Hank Evans holding down the key positions. Terry Outstanding Freshman Tom Terry, No. 1 man in this year’s lineup, has turned in consistently good records on his practice runs so far and, accord ing to Dickie, should improve as the season progresses. Already the possessor of several honors for junior skiing including the Berger Underhal trophy for outstanding junior skier of 1939, Terry should place well in all of his starts. Sharing the top position with Terry is Bert Hagen, former Bend Skyliner. Bert has been skiing for 12 years and in that time has built himself an enviable record. Hagen is the Northwest junior sla lom champion and was course prover for the national champion ships last year. Experienced Ziegler and Evans are both ex perienced skiers with good rec ords and have shown very well in past meets. At the last prac tice session Ziegler turned in the fastest time of the day for the downhill run edging out Hagen by a fraction of a second. With a team built on these vet erans of the snow sport, Dickie hopes to bring back a few rib bons from the conference tourna ment March 1. Seven hundred and eighty in juries were recorded at Mt. Hood last year, all from skiing bottom side up. P^omekou $ ASSOCIATED / Eugene's Finest Service Station ! “ON THE CAMPUS’’ MALTS and SHAKES • SANDWICHES • SOFT DRINKS "Just oi'£ the Campus’’ ROBINSONS CAFE .jjO E loth Fh. 29 V 4 the outcome or the game de pends on whoever is 'on',” stated Hobson before leaving witfi his traveling squad of 11 men yester day morning. Shakeup Threat Hobson will probably await the start of the game before announc ing his starting lineup, but it is believed that he will start the same men he did for the Oregon State game. This would put Captain John Dick at center, Vic Townsend and Matt Pavalunas at guards, Ted Sarpola and Evert "Red” McNeeley at forwards. However, Hank Anderson, Ar chie Marshik, or Bill Borcher may replace Sarpola and McNeeley. George "Porky” Andrews or Paul Jackson may start in place of Pavalunas. Hobson was displeased with the playing of several of his men following the Beaver game and may carry out his intention to shake up the lineup. Edmundson will probably start Captain Bill McDonald at the cen ter spot. Bob Dorr, speedster, and either Dick Izzard or Bob Lindh, sophomore courtster, will probably be at forwards. Sophomore Harry Nelson, one of Edmundson’s finds, and Jack Voelker will prohably be in the Husky backcourt. Nelson was a former all-state player from Colorado. Tossup There is not much to choose between the two teams. Washing ton shows a bad pre-season record but in conference play, split with Washington State as did Oregon State. The Huskies also took two straight from Montana. Edmund son’s team was able to take but one of three games from Minne sota and lost to Anet’s Oregons and an alumni team. Oregon, on the other hand, won nine or 15 pre-season games. Five of the six defeats were suffered on the eastern trip, the Ducks playing the best in the country. The Ducks downed a tired Idaho team twice, then looked futile at times in los ing to Oregon State. If both Oregon and Oregon State make a clean sweep of their two games this weekend then standings will not change. But if the Beavers drop one to Idaho then the Web foots will be in undisputed posses sion of first place. AD Pis Beat Pi Phis In Coed Hoop Debut Last night the ADPis walloped the Pi Phis by a score of 24 to 5 ir. the first intramural basketball game of the season. Gloria Wadsworth, who alone scored 17 'of the 24 points made for the. ADPis, is a veteran in the field of basketball, having been on championship teams since grade school. Her brilliant performance was the outstanding feature of the game. ADPi (24) (5) l*i Phi Shoemaker, 2. ..F 2, Vincent McCarthy, 5... ..F. 3, Dagget Wadsworth, 7 F. Tyler Van Dellen ..G. DeBolt M. Smith.G.. Mehalcik P.Smith .G. Reisch Workman S. Foster Hermann S. Fox Ralph .S Shook .S Hartley.S Heisler S 2 FINE PRINTS from each of your good negatives on every 8 exposure roll you send Only 4"^ p1 C Get q u a 1 i t y 25' p i c t ures and prompt service. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send coin. Reprints 2c each minimum order 25e. WESTERN PICTURE CO. eo< fORT'.A\B, OREGC* Duckling Hoopers Begin Third Tour One Goes, One Stays ! Toivo Piippo (right) was left at home while Porky Andrews, his teammate, went off to fight the Husky in a two-game series at Seattle tonight and tomorrow night. Both are guards, playing their first year on the varsity. Aquaducks Schedule Huskies ATOs, Finns, Sigma Chis, No-Stars, DUs, Hallmen Win In Donut Hoop Play By BEKNIE ENGEL Six “A” league intramural basketball games went by the boards yesterday. Scoring at will, the blue-shirted Alpha Tau Omega live ran over ' the Sigma hall squad, 51 to 6. The Finns, a team composed mostly of ineligible frosh players and Astoria lads, used superior height and heftiness to trim the Phi Gamma Deltas, 37 to 4. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon boys lost to the No-stars, 34 to 10; Sigma Chi squeezed past the Phi Delta Theta men, 18 to 17; Sherry Ross hall beat Canard club, 8 to 2; and Delta Upsilon came from behind to rub the Phi Kappa Psis, 21 to 17, in the day’s other games. Darrell Miller potted 18 points as the ATOs made a calculating ma chine a useful asset for the scorer. Superb under-the-basket play brought the hotelmen a good share of their points. The count stood j 9 to 4 at the end of the first quar ter and 27 to 4 at the half. Lineups: ATO (51) (6) Sigma Hall Scott, 9 .F.4, Libkc J. Dunn, 9 .F . Richardson Miller, 18.C . Shackleford R. Dunn, 11.G . Chaney Graybeal, 2.G . 2, Phillips Hay, 2 .S Browne. Wilson.S . Still; S.Kenyon Officials: Mullen and Boroughs. Finns Take Fijis With lanky Henry Kokko can ning 14 points, the Finns were just too big for a Fiji team that at least didn’t lie down on the job. The fraternity team, sparked by Reid j Ferrell, kept up its ball-snatching tactics to the very end but was hampered by a lack of good shoot ing eyes. Hart played a nice brand of ball for the Finns. Lineups: Fijis (1) (37) Finns Stineba.ugh, 2 . .. F . 6, Savel Ferrell, 1.F . Urell Haliski, 1.C . 11, Kokko Lonigan .G . 7, Anet Marland .G . Palmrose Blagan.S Seeburg ' ’ S . Hart S . Korhonen S . Martin \ Official:- : Nilsen and Tower. No-Stars Triumph The No-stars had nicely distrib uted scoring as they dropped the chunky SAK lads. The fratmen were weak on the defense: greater speed downfloor was responsible in a large measure for the No-star rout. Lineups: SAK (16) O’Reilly, 2 Hardy, 9 Shearer, 3 Thomas, 2 Bcckner Walden . Meek .... . iMguii Ck Fitlifflg the (34) No-stars F 6, Kimball F 6, Jonea C. . 7, Fox • G .2, Hamilton • C 4, Nichols S 4, Faust . 3, Goodwin L ... 2, Chapman : XvpfctSjastt, hottest’' fi.'t ts set the intramural courts in the pres ent season, Sigma Chi effectively blocked the Phi Delt's fastbreak tactics. The Sweetheart squad built up a 6 to 1 lead in the first frame and were ahead 10 to 7 at the half. Lineups: Phi Delta (17) (18) Sigma Chi Shipley, 2 .F . 10, Peters Stevenson, 1.F. 4, Peterson Morgan, 6 .C .... Hendershott Bailey, 2 .C.4, Maynard Holmes, 4 .G.Scderstrom Wimberly .S DUs Win The Phi Psis led 5 to 4 at the quarter and 14 to 13 at the half. It was close all the way but the DUs were on top when it was all over. Cam Collier kept the Phi Psis in the game with his speed and patter. Lineups: DUs (21) (17) Phi Psi Foster, 4 . F . 2, Brook White, 7.F.6, Hamer Niklas, 2.C ... . 3, Hichcns Weber, 2.G 3, Simmons Wall.G.3, Collier Corby, 6.S.Bennett Halhncn Beal Club With the query being "whose pitching?” the Sherry Ross five was leading the Canard clubmen, 2 to 0, at the half. Neither outfit could got clicking so the lid stayed on the basket. Lineups: Canard (2J, Kruger McFadden, 2 Stub. Rama Stanhurst Shankle ... Williams.. (8) Sherry Boss I1' . Greedy F . . McCarthy C. Ryel G 4, Warren G 2, Blair S 2, Thompson S.Kaplan Cutler's Squad Leaves Today For Seattle UW Swimmers Favored in Meet Saturday By PAUL McUAKTV University of Oregon athletic teams have taken to the road again the Webfoot basketball team is already in Seattle for a two-game series with the Univer sity of Washington—and to make the invasion a dual one, the Oregon swimming squad, 10 strong, with Russ Cutler, coach, and Jim Seld ers, manager, leaves today at 12:25 for Seattle and a swim meet with the favored Husky mermen. A three-way battle was sched uled for the ninth position on the team, but with a case of chicken pox still keeping Jim Marnie out of competition, the fight to make the Teattle trip narrowed down to Pierce Mallory and Harold Chting Hoon, freestylers. Coach Cutler settled the issue by including both swimmers on the traveling squad. Il'iUll LIMCU Kemaining members of the team scheduled for seats on the north bound Southern Pacific No. 18 to day arc Jerry MacDonald and Dick Smith, frees lylers; Shenn Wet more and Gerald Hucstis, back strokers; Jack Dallas and Kalph Lafferty, breaststrokers; and A1 Sandner and Kalpli Cathey, divers. Seattle reports, although not coming out directly with a predict ed Washington win, did indicate that the Huskies were the favor ites over the Oregon underdogs. Defending champions, Washing ton lost only three swimmers from its 103D varsity that was far above anything else in tire conference last season. And the trio of Husky swimmers routed from school by graduation wore not flrtst place men. This leaves the top swimmers, first place men, ready again lor another year of compe tition. (Please turn to pa<jc jour) Lucky Strike Chesterfields Camels Per carton . . $1.15 Playing Cards ..23c Frosh Meet | The Dalles In Opener Portland 'Y Golds' To Oppose John's Crew Saturday By DON CAWLEY The University of Oregon year ling basketball team takes the road for the third time today when they travel to The Dalles to take on The Dalles high school team tonight. Saturday the frosh will return to Portland to play the “Y Golds,” one of the city’s lead ing independent basketball teams. Winners in six out of seven contests, the rangy Ducklings will leave with four of the five regu- , lars semi-cripples. Kirsch and Tut- j tie, the two speedy guards, are still nursing ankle injuries which may or may not respond to treat ment before the games. Jake Still Hobbles Jake Werschkul, the giant for- i ward, is still hobbling around with an injured foot and is a likely bench warmer in both contests. The fourth of the injured men is Warren Taylor, high-scoring for-1 ward, who is still favoring a bad ly injured mouth. Most of the frosh followers have ' been wondering- about the reserve! strength of the team. Their wor I l ies, if any, should be over after ! the exhibition the reserves put on i in the Dallas high game last Wed nesday night. Oliver Sparkles Bob Oliver and Quentin Sidesin ger, both reserves, were the stand- ! i outs, scoring ft and 10 points re ' spectively. Oliver, who had played but very little up to that game, really surprised everybody by the fine game he played. Warren plans to take a squad of 12 or 14 men on the trip. Sure.to, go are Kirsch, Tuttle, Borrevik,; Reynolds, Werschkul, Taylor, Side-! singer, Bubalo, Baker, Oliver, and Soper. The other four men will be picked tomorrow by the portly. mentor. All-Campus Sports Begin Next Week An all-campus sports parade i.» scheduled to begin next week in bowling, handball, and fencing, with the entry list closing tomor row in the men’s gym, it was an nounced last night by Elmer Ol son of the intramural department. Both single and doubles match es will be held in bowling and j handball, with the winners of each to be recognized as the school champions. All those in the bowl ing classes are urged to enter as the tournament will likely be held on a handicap basis. Lois Onthank Outstanding Week's Coed By MARGE DIBBLE This week’s position of out standing woman in athletics goes to Lois Onthank, vice-president of WAA and a senior in the Uni versity. Lois, a lively 5 foot 4 brunette, is co-chairman of Sat urday night’s Winter Wonder land formal, sponsored by WAA. Lois has always been a strong worker in women’s athletics, and is a member of the fencing and Amphibian clubs. “Fencing is lots of fun," she said, “and al most every girl who tries it, likes it immediately.’’ “I find that my interest in athletics has helped me in my grades,” smiled Lois, who is a Phi Beta Kappa. “It helps me to relax and takes my mind off the books for a while.” As a leader of WAA, Lois is very much interested in intra> mural basketball and promises that each game will be full of thrills and surprises. “The teams have been practicing each after noon, and, who knows—a star may be uncovered this term,” Lois laughed. Gale Smith, first baseman of last year’s Oregon baseball champions, hit around the .330 mark in hi3 first professional season. SPECIAL DANCE FRIDAY N1TE 35c Couple Swell Music SATURDAY NITE ART HOLMAN Regular Price WILLAMETTE PARK You Still Have Time to Make that Reservation for your Formal at the EUGENE HOTEL DINING ROOM Pilose $000