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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1942)
Duckfoe Superior On Paper Oregon meets the YY asliington imitate Cougars on McArthur court Friday and Saturday nights, Jan uary 9 and 10, at 8 o’clock. The Friel-coached Washington Staters, 1941 runners-up in the National intercollegiate playoff, Jook so good on paper they have the Ducks entirely out of the win ning idea. Kirk Gebert and Mai vin Gilberg, holdovers, fit in the new Cougar combination that has crushed all early-season oppon ents. vv sc Loses Top Four Friel lost four top men, Paul Linde man, Vern Butts, Ray Sund iquist, and Dale Gentry by gradu ation, and ineligibility, but has suffered bo pains as far as sta tistics go. Aside from Gebert and ^ Gilberg, Owen, Hunt, A1 Akins, and Gale Bishop spell out the .starting role. Oregon fell short by one game of breaking even an the tough < d pre-season schedule faced lay any Pacific team. The Ducks played 11 games, look i -.g ragged, winning five from tap eastern and mid-western aggregations. It isn’t that and il isn’t this that’s wrong with the Web foots this year, but suppose Hobson quits kidding and gives Friel the back of his hand, we’ll go out there and pick up those streamers per sonally. Oregon hoop followers will V.ave several new faces to spot this weekend. Newcomers to the varsity include Bob Wren, and (Warren Christensen, forwards; JLloyd Jackson, center; and: Wil son Maynard and Bob Newland, guards. Wren, who has led Ore gon’s scoring to date, and Jack son, a 6-foot center, have clinched starting berths. Veter ans who form the lineup, of Hob son’s sixth Oregon hoop creation rue Warren Taylor and Ralph Fuhrman, forwards; Archie Mar sh ik, center, and Porky Andrews. Don Kirsch and Paul Jackson, guards. IM Sports Sked Awaits Runoff Interhouse bowling may be added to the winter term intra mural schedule, which now in cludes only handball and A. and Jt basketball. Athletic managers will meet in the physical educa tion building Wednesday after noon to discuss plans for the sea son and vote on the proposed .addition to the program. Entry blanks for the handball n ul basketball were sept, to all managers Monday. Teams must be entered: by Wednesday. Some sports were dropped dropped from the intramural set tip in a meeting last split)*- in a move towards concentration on sports drawinpAljjf lar^cstl'turn out. I managers quest ionc*i'ngree that todJitiou of bowling to the pro gram would offer more chance i .a competition, iiuV U*< lack of ft alleys is considered a draw back by many. Paee 4 DAILY EMERALD Tuesday, January 6, 1942 AWAIT COUGARS . Paul Jackson( above right) and Warren Taylor, wandering W'ebfoot basketeers, who are ready for action against the invading Washington Stute crew Friday night. TrackCreeping OnSportFront By OWEN DAY Though the track and field sea son here in the Pacific ’North west is still a few months off results of a few of the eastern indoor meets and the Sugar Bowl carnival have already made their way into the local papers. So it is none too soon to consider the prospects of the Oregon team, subject, of course, to change without notice due to the war. As the situation looks right now, the best Coach Bill Hay ward can hope for is a team that will do as well as last year's team did, which, though it included a win over Oregon State, was none too successful otherwise. War Cuts In The war situation has already taken its toll in the jumping de partment. with High-jumpers Les Steers and Bill Beifus employed in defense work and Broadjump er Ray Dickson in the navy. Jake Leicht, leading sprinter on last year's varsity, was also called be fore school opened last year. Only five lettermen will lie on hand when the season opens. Bob McKinney, halfmiler, and Francis Tuekwiler, quarter mi ler, should be able to hold their own in the middle dis tances. Zenas Butler was an outstanding hurdler last year in both the highs and the lows, and is a good bet to top the league in one and maybe both events. Homer Thomas, a 13 toot oole vaulter, will again be on hand, and can well be used. The fifth man is Bill Regner, stellar weight man for the past two years, whose best event is the discus. .The outstanding prospect up from the frosh team is Don Wil son, whose time in the mile last year bettered the best varsity time. Don can also run the half mite or the two mile. Another ex-frosh on whom Coach Hay ward will be counting for points is Bob Newland, six-foot high jumper and currently a member of the basketball team. Others who turned out for (Please turn to page jive) By BERNIE ENGEL Oregon’s sr-nhcmore-talented basketball varsity is back on the campus after winning three games on their eight-game eastern tour. The 1941 team, which ended in a tie with Washington for third in the Northern division, won four and lost four in the east. Wayne university, Detroit, clipped the Ducks, 47 to 38, in the ^ first game of the tour, the following evening in Buffalo, N. Y., Canisius college left Oregon on Lhe short end, 42-34. Jackson, Andrews Lead Paul Jackson and George ‘Porky” Andrews pulled the Web foots into a 29-all tie with Long Island university with five min utes left in the annual Madison Square Garden opener, but see saw scoring in the closing min utes gave the game to the Black birds, 33-31. Eastern sports writers tagged the 1942 Oregons the best of the last four Hobson teams, each of which has ap peared in the Garden’s opener. Oregon solved a tight Temple university defense in Philadel phia to come from behind and win, 35-29. Bob Wren, sopho more forward, was high-point man in the game with five field goals and two successful free throws. A 10-point spurt in the third quarter gave Duquesne university of Pittsburgh a safe lead after a torrid second quarter in which the lead changed seven times. The Duke’s 33-28 victory made it two in a row, last year’s Ducks falling to Duquesne 37-34. Second victory for the Ducks came against Xavier in Cincin nati. Holding the X-men score less for 28 minutes, the Ore gons used 11 men to ring up 38 points to their opponents’ 25. Scoring was well distributed, Paul Jackson and Andrews be ing tied with Xavier’s Robbens for high point honors, 9 each. Another of those close squeaks which the Ducks seem to invite turned out wrong, DePaul stop ping the Oregon 27-23 in Chicago after the slow' scoring had seen the Ducks ahead most of the way. The first half wrent scoreless for four minutes and the second for eight. Nebraska, playing in Lincoln, lost out 42-49 in the Oregon’s final ‘‘tour’’ game. Roughest of the trip, the windup contest saw' 24 fouls called on Oregon and 14 on the Cornhuskers. Coach Howard Hobson took the 2 3 Gagers Answer Frosh Call Oregon’s frosh basketball team opened practice for the forth coming season last night as Menj^ tor John Warren sent 23 hoop sters through their paces in a lengthy drill that was climaxed by a brief scrimmage session. Warren has little time in which to mold a starting quintet, as the Ducklings open their casaba sea son this weekend. Oregon jour neys to Tillamook Friday to face the high school team, and Satur day the Frosh tangle with Asto ria high school, last year’s state titlist. Fast Break Stressed Particular stress was placed on the fast break in last night's drill, which was held in the physi cal education gym. Warren, long noted for his ability to condition players, had the hoopsters racing up and down the floor in an ef fort to perfect an offensive threat patterned after Oregon's famous fast break. Although no starting lineup has been selected, those that looked particularly impressive in last night’s practice session included Roy Seeborg, Astoria; Bob Er landson, Klamath Falls; A1 Pop ick, Lincoln high, Portland; and Bob Reynolds, Jefferson high, Portland. following players on the cross country conditioning trip: Eolph Fuhrman, Bob Wren, Lloyd Jack son, George Andrews, Paul Jack son, Wilson Maynard, Warren ^ Christensen, Don Kirsch, Archie Marshik, Bob Newland, and War ren Taylor.