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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1942)
Jndh’s Freethrow Ruins Ducks n Grueling Seattle Hoop Row By JOHNNY KAHANANUI Co-Editor of Sports, Oregon Daily Emerald orv VY ctaillllg tun, , v/icgun, U1/, These cold figures will push up through pages of record books on 1942 Northern division basketball play, but swirling invisibly around them will be all the drama, irony, and tense ness jammed into that Oregon-Washington game last night, “the fastest and most grueling •Seattle has witnessed in the past two years.’’ Husky Forward Bob Lindh it was, who, with less than two minutes remaining, wiped off ins spectacles, shuffled with fatigue up to the free-throw line via a foul by Webfoot Guard Porky Andrews, and jolted University of Washington fans into screeching hysteria with a i.hot that trickled through to break a 39-to-39 deadlock for the Huskies, 40 to 39. Oregon and Washington battle again tonight at 8 o’clock on the Seattle floor. Ironic Loss Ironic for the Webfoots was that basket, for just one week ago Substitute Oregon Guard Pon Kirsch tossed one in from the floor with with 28 seconds remaining to pull the Ducks i .vo points ahead of Slats Gill’s OSC Beavers—47 to 45—and crown a brilliant Oregon second period uphill struggle with victory. And Washington’s second-half rally last night was a near photostatic copy of the one staged by Oregon last week. Oregon led from a few minutes after the start until Lindh's “last straw,’.’ and again, as it A2> Swe&pAtak&i Last night’s games: Washington, 40; Oregon, 39. Oregon State, 36; Washington State, 34. G.P. W. L. Pet. Washington . 7 5 2 .714 Washington State. 8 4 4 .500 Oregon . 6 3 3 .500 Oregon State . 6 3 3 .500 Idaho.5 14 .200 was last week, it was little Paul Jackson who sparked the Web i'oots, as they rushed back to overcome the early Husky lead M'd push ahead. Coach Howard “Hobby” Hobson’s charges rolled the host Huskies all over the maples after breaking' in front, to retire at halftime with a 21 to 18 advantage. . Following- is a seccnd-half description: Washington breaks at the opening of the second period, ami Forward Merlin Gilbertson grabs a short fling from Center Bong Ford to score from the floor. The Huskies edge up to within one point of the Ducks, 20 to 21, but Oregon Forward B ’pli Fuhrman bumps the ball over the center line imme < ■ • y after and hoists a long •I • -hander through to shove the ) * ahead by three digits, 23 to 20. Wcbfoot Forward Warren '.i’aylor misses, drives in and scores, and it appears as though the Ducks will drive too far ahead for any Husky men* »iv. Ford, however, flips one in from the key, and Oregon’s h ad is whittled, 2 a to 22. Washington Guard Bill Morris ■wrongs Paul Jackson; the dimin utive swishes two free throws in; "Washington is panting five points V-'hind, 27 to 22. Fuhrman con >> 'ets after a Morris foul 28 to 122 for the Webfoots. But Boogey auan Lindh races down the floor .rlone and dumps the ball in— -Oregon, 28; Washington, 24. Huskies Sneak Up F >rd misses after a Taylor 3 <ul. but Morris gets the range •after a Lloyd Jackson “error” 1 pours one through after an Andrews foul; the Huskies sneak 'd two points, 28 to 2G. Hobson i i.shes Bob Wren in for Taylor -at forward. Baul Jackson drives behind L i . Washington guard and lays ti.o easaha in nicely, but fouls Ford shortly after. Ford erases one point off the Oregon lead, tin n Lindh stabs unmolested at tie Weht'oots’ basket, good, and tl Huskies threaten, one small p ’ ‘ behind, 80 to 29. rris fouls Paul Jackson, who 1 > ’s, good; F.dmund.son stamps '.he floor and yanks Morris in "* Bob Bird; Hobson hustles i 'an KT.-ch in, jerks Andrews. Oregon Forges Ahead V.hvn pops a one-hander from *'’ key, Kitsch flips one in after • v h : 1 foul, Gilbertson connects \ a Fuhrman hack, Edmundson ; h ves Norm Dalthorp in for ) ■ h and Oregon is ahead, 34 to •TO. Dalthorp reaps dividends for the Huskies, a push-in good t n in the floor; Kirsch equal's 1 this with a long two-hander, ' l«at Gilbertson retaliates with simile, adds a point on Ore ' g a C’enter Archie Marshik's j .:rth it'til, and only one point i- pa rates the two teams, un til Ivirsch salvages a digit on a Dalthorp foul with 7 minutes remaining—37 for Oregon, 3,7 for Washington. Dalthorp knots the count, 37 to 37, with 6 minutes left to play: indomitable Kirsch roars back with a one-hand push; but Dal thorp again bursts through to deadlock the score, 39 to 39. the second time in 35 seconds. Winning Pot Two minutes remain. Andrews fouls Lindh, and the Husky dumps the ball in, the game into Washington's laps, and Oregon into a percentage deadlock with Oregon State and Washington State for second place in the Northern division race. Washington freezes the ball and wins, 40 to 39. Paul Jaek (Please turn to f>ape six) Phi Psi 'B’s Win,NusCop PDT'A’sWin By JOE MILLER The usual weekend slump hit both the “A” and “B” IM bas ketball leagues, and the tempo of play slowed down from the tor rid pace it was traveling. Two rough games saw the DUs out shoot Campbell co-op, 22 to 12, and the Theta Chis climb over a rough and tough Sherry Ross ag gregation, 27 to 20. In the final “A" game, a none too impressive Phi Delt five took a slow affair from a game Yeoman team, 23 to 6. Waltz Me Around, Willie In two “B” waltzes, marred by about everything that can slow down a ball game, the Sigma Nus staggered over Kirkwood co-op, 13 to 6, and the banners of Sherry Ross trailed in the dust once more, going down before a victory hungry Phi Psi outfit in an overtime period, 15 to 13. The Sigma hall “B’s” again failed to show, and the SAEs took one the easy way. The DUs were again out played on the floor by a gallant Campbell club, but in the all important of hitting for those two points, they were far su perior, and won easily, 22 to 12. They were kept sprinting by the ever hustling clubmen, and it was a dog fight. Wally White, A1 Cellars, and m = j feiSUMUj, GltGutvp*o*t- flacJz jbuJlan<f | By FRANK CALISE If Jack DuLong twirls a com paratively sinali lead pencil over a constructive accounting prob lem with the same skill and ease with which he whirls a 16-foot log over the surface of a pond, he is an incomparable accountant. The unobtrusive DuLong, who is enrolled in the University of Oregon business administration school, is ex-junior world’s cham pion birler. Lithe Jack won his first title at the tender age of 14, and for five consecutive years pushed off all contenders for his title. Roll ’Em Off Sport “Billing,” DuLong says, “is a sport that not too many people understand. Longs are used that are from 14 to 17 inches in diam eter. The object is to get two men on a log and each tries to understand. Logs are used that on the log is the winner." DuLong, a smooth looking slender athlete, soars 5 feet 11 inches into the ether. He got his biggest sports thrill when after dominating the junior di vision for so long, he took a whirl at the title-holding senior champion, Walt Swanson. The Oregon junior had the world’s title within his grasp as he took the first of three falls from the veteran Swanson. “It was before 25,000 spectators, and was one of my greatest moments, when I saw the champion of the world down,” DuLong said, with a grin. Jack took up this tricky sport billing for the fun of it. Natural ly he gradually learned the tricks and finer points and began to en ter meets. Now a veteran he has performed before crowds a]> proaching 30,000 in Chicago, De Moines, and Milwaukee. His fa vorite stunt for exhibition is changing clothes with his part ner on a spinning log. There are about seven people in the nation that are able to do this. Born and bred and Minnesota, DuLong intends to return to the midwest to enter the na tional birling championships in Escanaba, Michigan, at the close of the present school year —if the army doesn’t step in to carry him off before that plan materializes. HERE'S ONE WAY WE'LL GUARANTEE YOU WILL NOT LOSE YOUR TIME— LEARN TO TYPE—AND TYPE WELL RENT A TYPEWRITER — PUT IT TO WORK RENT OR BUY — $3.00 PER MONTH OFFICE MACHINERY & SUPPLY CO. 30 East 11 tli Phone 148 Ed Niklas, a boy who can get mighty rugged under the basket, all split up DU scoring honorS^" with six apiece. Campbell had Milt Small, a tireless and slick forward, who is also a Phi Bete, and two other boys, Bob Signer and Bill Morris, who refused to stop scrapping for the ball and constantly stole it from the big ger DUs. Shots at the hoop were plentiful, but the clubmen were badly off. Boys Get Rough Another “A” scrap saw Sherry Ross and the Theta Chis push each other all around the gym floor with the Rattlers slugging out a 27 to 20 triumph. Bill Da (Please turn to page five) CALL NOW and have that formal or tux shirt cleaned for that house dance next week.