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By ELBERT HAWKINS
Co-Sports Editor
Oregon Daily Emerald
Puzzle of the 1940 northern di
vision race . . . why did Hec, Ed
mundson’s always-tougli-when-be
hind Washington Huskies fizzle
away so many conference games
this year? It’s a Washington tradi
tion that no matter how tough the
going Hec’s boys always clamp
down and play ball when they have
to. Take for example 1932 when
they lost games No. 1, 2, 3, and 4
and then swept 12 in a row for the
title.
This winter, the Huskies came
through the Willamette valley and
dropped two to Oregon . . . tossing
away a 16-point lead in the second
clash. Then, faced with elimination
from the conference race, Hec’s
crew vowed they’d stop losing. Re
sult: Two more losses at Corvallis,
both coming on second half cave
ins.
Monday night in Pullman, the
unpredictable Washingtons pulled
another fade-out act by fizzling
away an early second half lead to
Washington State and losing 49 to
44. It was defeat No. 9 for Hec’s
boys in only 13 games! The Husky
fizzle is indeed hard to figure out
when you consider the Washington
tradition. Jack Friel’s Washington
1 Staters have been known to col
lapse during more than one season
but never an Edmundson club.
Always Near the Top
Figure this: Only three times
since 1920 has a Washington club
finished lower than second place,
and since 1926—14 years—it has
been either first or second for Hec..
In fact, from 1928 through 1932
Washington took five consecutive
titles.
Hobby Hobson, the Webfoot
coach who is as amazed as anyone
over Washington’s 1940 collapse,
and Slats Gill, Oregon State head
man, are the gents who officially
and definitely ruined Edmundson
domination in the conference. Slats
started it by grabbing titles in 1933
and 1935. Came 1936 and it was
Washington again, but Hobby pro
pelled his Ducks into a three-way
tie for the top with WSC and the
Huskies in ’37 (the Cougars win
ning their only championship in
history) and he put Oregon- on top
in '38 and '39.
What about 1940? It won’t be
Washington and it almost surely
won't be Oregon, unless . . .
uregon s .New Kecora
A new attendance record for Mc
Arthur court . . . it’s as official as
official can be. . . . Anse Cornell,
the athletic manager, says more
persons jammed the Igloo for Sat
urday’s Oregon-Oregon State game
than ever saw a game there in his
tory. Faid attendance was 6336, ac
cording to Anse, and he figures at
least 6500 must have jammed the
court counting the press and
“guests” for jhe evening.
Previous high mark for basket
ball was at the. California-Oregon
playoffs for last year's coast title
. . . official capacity then was fig
ured to be 6.041 although more got
in. Previous high mark for all
events in the Igloo was one night
when Jack Dempsey fought an ex
hibition in Eugene. Anse says the
Beaver game topped that, too.
Washington, Washington State,
and Oregon State all pretty well
filled the Igloo with hoop custom
ers this year. And this in the $200.
000 building which but 12 years
ago was called a “white elephant.’’
Some Balconys Maybe?
The officials who were behind
creeling the Igloo had foresight
enough to leave room in their plans
for “up|»cr decks” or balconys
along each side which would ac
commodate another 4,000 j»ersoiis.
Anse Cornell says they would cost
an additional $10,000 ... so the
Igloo isn’t apt to have its balconies
for a few years.
There will be no fenefit basket
ball doublehcader for the Finnish
relief fund next Tuesday as far as
the Rubenstein Oregonians are con
cerned . . . that club is playing
about four games next week and
couldn’t be expected to add another
tough contest to its lisL . . . Bobby
Anet's independents would have
played John Warren's crack frosh
club which would have been ex
pected to make quite a scrap of it
since the Rubes have lost Laddie
Gale to the pro hoop ranks . . . big
Laddie’s 11 and 16 points a game
are sorely’ missed by Anct and his
crew . . . BUT the Finnish relief
basketball evening isn't going to
be stopped by the loss of the Rube
team ... an all Finn club from the
campus might play Honest John's
Ducklings . . . anyway, a treat is
in store for next Tuesday night.. .
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Shooting on Practice Menu for Aroused Webfoot Five
Long Shots
Draw Notice;
Beavers Next
Victory Necessary
For Ducks to Stay
In Hoop Race
By KEN CHRISTIANSON
Shooting, the weak spot of Sat
urday's Beaver-Duck encounter,
received prime consideration from
Coach Hobby Hobson last night in
issuing the practice orders of the
day to his Oregon basketball
squad.
Considerable time was spent on
practice in making those long
shots which count so heavily in
drawing out some of those ball
handling defects shown in the
game Saturday in preparation for
the return engagement Friday in
Corvallis.
Last Chance
It will be Oregon's last chance
to salvage one game from the
Beavers in four encounters. In the
past three games the Orange quint
has posted an 11-point margin of
victory over the Webfoots. These
three defeats coupled with a set
back at the hands of Washington
make the only losses for the
Ducks.
Oregon, to stay in the northern
division hoop race, must tip the
highly favored Oregon State team
Friday night. Then if the Ducks
sweep the dreaded four-games-in
Eive-days trip into the Inland Em
pire they will still have to hope
and pray for Washington to tip
the Beavers at least once.
Should the Beavers take it on
the chin Friday as is possible since
much of the pressure will be on
them, then the Webfoots may drag
out the Hindu prayer-string and
mutter the magic Indian words
(O, mani Pai mu hum?—if that’s
what it is. If the prayers are po
tent enough the Huskies may come
through with a win—they’re hard
to beat on their tricky home floor.
Granting that Oregon takes the
i‘est J6f their games and the Bea
vers drop one to Oregon and one
to Washington then the standings
will read with both Oregon teams
tied. That would call for a play
off to decide the northern winner.
So, Ilobson drills his boys on
long shots.
Washington
Trips WSC
NORTHERN DIVISION
W L Pet. PF PA
OSC .11 2 .816 494 4.37
Oregon ..7 4 .636 497 413
WSC 7 6 .538 592 624
WU : 5 9 .357 556 640
Idaho .... 2 11 .154 471 596
Results last night:
At Washington State 52,
Washington 53.
The University of Washington
Huskies squelched the last faint
championship hopes of Washington
State last night at Pullman, de
feating the Cougars, 53 to 52.
The loss definitely ended the
Cougar's title threat. Until last
night they had a faint mathemat
ical possibility of tying for the
crown, but it went glimmering
with the defeat.
For Washington, the win gives
them a split in the scries at Pull
man, aiid definitely establishes the
Huskies in fourth place, two and
a half games above Idaho's hap
less Vandals.
Anet, Dick Strife, Buck Buchwach,
and Bruce Hamby.
Duck tracks . . . the University
ticket office quit selling general ad
mission seats to Saturday’s Beaver
clash at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
. . . 200 more tickets were sold to
the crowd in the evening, and hun
dreds were still turned away . . .
found without seats at the big
game and sitting on the floor:
Anse Cornell and John Warren!
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How High Is Up, Buddy?
Big and little Valley Forge, Pa., military academy cage players do
a stunt for the camera. The little fellow is Archie McGrew, five foot
three, and the big chap is Heckert Horn, six foot five.
The University of Oregon swimming team, now called the traveling
.Webfoots because they have had only one meet in four this season in
the home pool, carry on their mileage-accumulating tactics this Satur
day with a trip to Corvallis for a return meet with Oregon State
swimmers.
The Webfoot-Bcavcr water-splashing contest is the final two-way
Swimmers
for Staters
By PAUL MeCARTY
meet of the season for the Oregon
mermen, and a win Saturday will
give them the northern division
dual meet championship. The con
Russ Cutler's frosh swimming
team will meet Eugene high's
mermen in a dual meet in the
men's pool today at 3 o'clock.
It will be the first engagement
of the season for Bert Kern’s
prep aggregation.
Terence championship meet will be
held at Seattle, March 2.
Cutler Pleased
Coach Russ Cutler was more
than satisfied with the versatility
of the Oregon boys on the victor
ious Inland Empire trip to Wash
ington State and Idaho. Cutler had
Jack Dallas and Sherm Wetmore,
coast breaststroke and backstroke
champions, respectively, swimming
freestyle events. A1 Sandner, var
sity diver, even swam on the med
ley relay team as a freestyler.
Cutler said he expected to use to
advantage against Oregon State
the ability of his proteges to shift
swimming events.
Two more practice sessions, to
night and Thursday, and the Ducks
will call all pool activities off until
the meet starts rolling Saturday at
Corvallis.
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Cutler will probably have more
scoring power in his team making
the Corvallis trip than the squad
making up the Inland Empire out
fit, as he left behind Gerald Hues
tis, backstroker who usually fin
ishes second to champion Wetmore
and' is a capable freestyler, and
Pierce Mallory, letterman from last
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Jerry MacDonald, outstanding
freestylist in the northern division
this season as a sophomore, ac
counted for four firsts or 20 points
against WSC and Idaho, besides
swimming a leg on the winning
freestyle relay team.
Oregon State, although beaten
by the Ducks here this year, is an
improved swimming team, as the
Beavers made the same road trip
as Oregon last weekend and beat
the Cougars and Vandals by nearly
as large a margin as did the Web
foots.
Saturday morning the Oregon
Frosh, traveling with the varsity,
will meet the Oregon State Rooks
in a return meet.
Emerald Team Will
Meet Barometer
Emerald and Barometer basket
ball players will meet for the third
and final game of their annual
series at Corvallis Friday afternoon
at 3 o’clock.
Last Saturday, the Duck scribc3
walloped the Barometer 34 to 17
to even the series, the Oregon Stat
ers having won the first game.
Emerald basketeers will leave
the shack at 1:30 Friday. The
traveling squad has not been an
nounced, but Coach George Pasero
plans to take all players who saw
action Saturday plus Lyle Nelson,
wandering Emerald managing edi
tor who faded to show for the
game, and Drama Man Ray
Dickson.
Kappas, ADPis
Draw in Donat
Game; Co-op Wins
Wadsworth Leads
Alpha Delts; Lewis
Stars for Chi Os
The Co-op sextet inched its way
into the finals by defeating the Chi
Os, 11-9, in coed basketball yester
day. It was one of the closest yet
fastest games played at Gerlinger
this season. Nancy Lewis, blonde
Chi O, clicked well in guard posi
tion, keeping Rusty Tomlinson, the
redheaded Co-op ace, down to four
points.
The game was full of thrills and
spills, with Florence Jackson
spraining her ankle during the last
seconds of the game.
Chi O, 9 11, Co-op
West, 4.F.Cramer
Lewis.F Shipler
Nelson 5.F . 1, Mann
Bambford .G . Musser
Bubb.G Donaldson
Jackson.G Allen
Substitutes: Chi O—Murray and
Lewis; Co-op—Tomlinson 4, Don
dero 6, Alderson, Furchner.
Officials: Eastburn, Earl.
Revised schedule:
Wednesday, 4:45, inside—ADPi
vs. Kappa; 4:45, outside—AOPi
vs. Pi Phi.
Thursday, 4, insidemajors
game; 4, outside—news staff vs.
sports staff game; 5, inside -
finals between Co-op and winner
of ADPi vs. Kappa game.
Friday, 4:45, inside —Alpha
Gam vs. DG.
Kappa 10, ADPi 10
Kappa and ADPi see-sawed
through a semifinal basketball
game yesterday to end in a draw
with a final score of 10 to 10 on
the Gerlinger floor. This tic will
be played off today at 4:45 in the
indoor gym, and the winner will
meet the Co-op, winners of the 4
o'clock semifinal contest, Thursday
in the final game.
Kappa’s fast guards saved the
day for their team. Gloria Wads
worth tallied all the points for
ADPi.
Kappa, 10 10, ADPi
Moore.F.McCarthy
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Theta Chi Club Grabs
Overtime Contest From
Super Charger Quintet
Winners Gain Berth in Semi-Finals
Of Intramural 'B' League Basketball
Play-off; Ballif Gets Crucial Goal
Bv JIM SCHILLER
A mid court howitzer by Guard Len Ballif in the second overtime
period gave the Theta Chis a 22 to 20 thriller over the Super Chargers
in first round “B" league intramural championship playoff. This win
was the Theta Chis’ second in as many days and put them into the
semi-finals of the playoff.
Airhomrh the Theta Chis led throughout the entire first three
quarters, the Super Chargers with
Baseballer Jack Jasper leading the
way forged itno a four-point lead
with but two minutes left in the
game. However, in this remaining
time little Phil Lowry and big Mike
Dariotas managed to connect with
a long basket apiece. This left the
score tied with but seconds left in
the contest. Then as the final
whistle sounded, Silva, Theta Chi
sub, was fouled, but the pressure
was a little too great and he
missed.
Can’t Score
The first overtime period found
both outfits trying- to keep their
passing and shots under control,
but neither five could work the ball
in close enough to score. The sec
ond three-minute overtime period
turned into a wild, rough affair
after Ballif sank his two-hander,
j In fact, in the final thirty seconds
| fists were flying on both sides fol
j lowing a mix-up under the Theta
I Chi basket. Referees Mullen and
Boroughs, however, soon put an
end to the fisticuffs and the wild
scramble proceeded during the re
maining seconds.
It was the found uncanny long
shots of Phil Barrett, chunky Theta
Chi guard, that kept his team in
the lead throughout the first per
iods. Although the smoother pass
ing Super Chargers controlled the
majority of the rebounds, they did
not even come near the winners in
the percentage of shot conversions.
Jasper Gets 10
It took four minutes of play be
fore the accurate Barrett came
through with one of his long ones
for the first score of the contest.
From then into the final period the
Theta Chis stood off the Super
Chargers and managed to hold onto
the lead, even running it up to 11
to 7 at halftime.
Jasper of the losers was high
scorer of the exciting fray with 10
points. Barrett’s four long howitz
ers gave him second honors with 8.
Theta Chi, 22 20, Super Chargers
Houck, 2 .F .. 3, Bob Flavelle
Ballif, 0 .F . 4, Wolfe
J Dariolas, 4 .C. 10, Jasper
| Barrett, 8 .G . 2, Dulaney
Lowry, 2 .G 1, Brian Flavelle
Subs: Theta Chi—Silva 1.
Officials: Mullen and Boroughs.
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Want to see a good hoopfest?
Then watch the coed's in their
championship playoff.
Beaver Matmen
Meet Webfoots
Here Friday
Strong State Team
Has Whitewash
Victory Over Ducks
Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the wres
tling room of the physical educa
tion building the grapplers from
Oregon State tangle with Eric
Waldorf’s local products. The Bea
vers lost their first intercollegiate
match in over two years to the
strong WSC outfit last weekend.
The Staters have two undefeat
ed ringmen on their squad, Merle
Hutchinson, 145, and Bob Nelson,
165, who is rounding out his third
year of competition without defeat.
Five Seniors
Dr. Allman, OSC coach, has five
seniors who are making their final
appearance in the Igloo, Bob Mac
Roberts, 135, Ray Fugate, and Phil
Grey, heavyweights, and Nelson
and Hutchinson.
The Webfoot3 have a nearly
new team this year, with only two
holdovers from last season. Heavy
weight Hal Kaschko has lost only
a. close decision to Fugate this
year, and has won four matches in
smokers and collegiate matches.
Final tryouts for positions on
Waldorf’s team will take place to
night during regular practice.
Certainties are Kaschko and Mey
ers, 145, Lynch, 128, Logan, 135.
In the first encounter between
the two schools, Oregon State won
by a 30 to 0 count. The teams have
defeated Linfield college, by 28 Vi
iy2 ,and 23 to 11, respectively.
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Warren's Quintet
Plays in Corvallis
Saturday Night
John Warren’s frosh wind up a
most successful season next Satur
day night when they meet Oregon
State’s Rooks at Corvallis.
The Ducklings go into the final
game of the little civil war with a
clean sweep behind them. Three
times they’ve trotted out to meet
the Baby Beavers, and three times
thy’ve walked off with the game
under their belt, the last one an
18-point rout.
Beaten Once
On top of this, the yearlings have
trounced the best prep opposition
in the state in 13 games, losing
only one to Longview high. And
that defeat was wiped out of the
books when they trounced the
Lumberjacks here Saturday in a
return engagement.
It’s a great team that Warren
has sent out this year. Hampered
by injuries all season, they have
consistently shown a fighting spirit
that equals their ability, and that’3
no small total. In two of their rook
games they came from behind, to
win, getting the winning basket
with just 15 seconds to play in one.
Strong Forwards
There’s a forward wall on this
team that has ripped enemy de
fenses apart, and a defense that
has torn enemy offenses to bits.
Big Wally Borrevick at center,
Warren Taylor, Quentin Sidesinger,
and Jake Werschkul—these are the
boys that ran up a mountainous
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