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Page 4 DAILY EMERALD Wednesday, February 4, 1942 9 s k i a a s a i ■ i r« Oolo-G- Ot&mi. 0*1.^bo-n Kigali | By BILL STIiATTON Don Kirsch is the heavier of too midgets on tKe Webfoot bas Jketball squad this season. Strain ing to reach 5 feet 1 >/2 inches, he 4' only 1/2 inch taller than Paul *!<;ickson, another guard. Kirsch was the j, ;an of the hour two week3 ago, when he dropped the winning basket fcr.. the last 28 sec onds of play to clinch the first ' (rtegon State game <or the Ducks. As to the not so-liappy episodes JM 1 /i//?SC// in Seattle last weekend, Kirsch remarked, “Washington has a good ball club, but I don’t think they will win the championship.” However, interest is turning to the OSC game in Corvallis this weekend, and Kirsch said. “I think we can beat them over there. They will be hard to beat on their home floor though.” If Oregon does come through with victory, Don hopes it doesn't de pend on another last minute birdie. Chunkier Than Jackson Don is just a chunkier edition of Paul Jackson, his running mate and fraternity brother. Tipping the scales at 165, he out weighs Paul by 20 pounds. Kirscli might be called an all around man. He is a fine stu dent and baseball player as well as a good basketball play er. He won all-American ama teur honors as second baseman two years ago and got 1(5 hits for (51 times at bat for Oregon last season. One of those hits was a home run, and he drove in 15 runs. Don was born and raised in Portland. He attended Jefferson high school there. He helps to cut down insurance costs in Portland during the summers as a mem ber of the Portland fire depart ment. AT© Cagemen, Sigma Chis Win ‘B? Hoop Tilts By JOE MILLER The “B” basketball league stumbled along its rough path with five more games being dis posed of. A sixth game resulted in a forfeit. The Dl’s scrambled over Gamma hall, 19 to 7, a fast Sigma Chi brace of teams ran Ducks Swallow Weekend Woe, Load Guns for Beaver Hoopsters aturday’s Rumpus Erupts in Corvallis By FIIED TREADGOLD I'ar from daunted by the twin beatings which Washington’s pace i.i tting Huskies dished out to them last weekend, the wiry Oregon varsity hoopmen bounded back i 11 practice this week with determina tion. Morale was excellent, despite the double loss to the Huskies, cod past performances were forgotten in lieu of coming events. Next on the Webfoot bill of tare is Oregon State, with which Hobby Hobson’s boys do battle at Corvallis Saturday. In their 1 i,st encounter at Eugene, the ,s upping Ducks showed little hospitality, sending the Beavers lie: i > whimpering with a 47 to 46 Whipping. Ducks Drill Bigger things are being planned ;f .ir the touted Orange five Satur day, according to information ,s v ping out from the McArthur .<■ >urt. After a layoff Monday, the lashing Ducks were once more g illoping through practice ses . ons last night. After being unceremoniously dumped by Oregon, the Beav ers hit the road for the Inland Empire this week where they oli-so-narrowly edged out a two-point victory over Idaho’s last place club, 47 to 45, Mon day night. Scoring leadership has shifted of late from the inexperienced shoulders of Sophomore Le\f Beck to the veteran John Mandic, who beginning to get into his last ear’s scoring “groove.” Valenti Ails On the infirmary list for the ^leavers is Paul Valtmti, tried Uickcourt man, who has been ail ing from an assault of influenza. Keplacing him is Don Durdan, tri ll port star and late of Rose Bowl i line. According to Corvallis re ports, Durdan has caught Coach Siats Gill's eye with his showing .uid should give Valenti a tough V ittle, upon the latter’s return. Another man who has risen from substitute ranks to pluck off .» starting position is George McNutt, one-year letterman forward from Pasadena. Mc Nutt's yeoman-like perform ances have given him prefer ence over Jack Mulder, 1940 regular, and Don ltall, junior, both of whom had held the starting post at one time or another this year. Completing the Orange first vve is Sam Dement, capable sen ior from Myrtle Point, whose . coring rate has jumped consid erably. The four-game Oregon-Oregon State series will be completed > -bruary 13 and 14. On Friday the tilt will be held at Corvallis \ t!i the next contest scheduled for the Igloo. I Oregon Sports Staff Fred Treadgold Wally Hunter Filing Erlandson Tommy Mayes Nancy Lewis Bill Stratton Virginia Wells Juno. Hitchcock Jean Frideger Harry G lie km an Joe Miller Frosh Grind For Tank Tiff With Rooks University of Oregon’s frosh swimmers—who last week lost their coach, Bill McArthur, to El mira high school — are slaving daily in the Oregon pool, and hope to bring back their first win over the Oregon State Rooks, when they battle in a return match Saturday. Ducklings Lose In the Ducklings’ first meet the Orange Babes slipped home with a narrow win margin by captur ing the final event. After this rather dubious performance the young Ducks took on the Uni versity high school mermen and took a clean-cut decision. To date the frosh have un covered only two genuine stars in their sessions. Co-captains A1 Peterson and Earl Walthers have been doing most of the scoring for the Ducklings be sides taking places on the vari ous relay teams. With McArthur gone the job of schooling the frosh in the ways of the water, has gone to already overloaded Varsity Coach Mike Hovman. In Swim Workouts Bv WALLY HUNTER University of Oregon’s varsity swimming team was granted relief from time trials yesterday, but went through a regular heavy workout. Coach Mike Hoyman still has his eye on his swimmers when they cavort in the froth, however, and there is no sign of a letup for the remainder of the week. The end of the reprieve came at the end of yesterday’s workout, and today will find the timepiece in the regular place—at the edge ot the pool. Hoyman Dissatisfied Coach Hoyman is still dissatis fied with the times that his charges have chalked up and fig ures that at the end of this week's training he will be able to tell whether times will ever drop—to any extent. Back-stroke and free-style man Chuck Weitzel, has been one athlete who has lieen nick ing a little from his times con sistently in the past weeks. Weitzel, though, is the only one who is really showing the needed improvement. As for Hoyman worrying about the Oregon State Beavers — it isn’t true. Though the Corvallis lads swept the swimming bill nearly clean of first places in a dual meet with Washington State college this weekend, Coach Mike and his husky Ducks are still confident of victory when they invade the OSC campus next weekend. Victory Assured As Sophomore Chuck Nelson put it last night, “We still think Pi Lambda Theta Miss Bernice Storm from the Eugene vocational school will speak on personnel work at a meeting of Pi Lambda Theta, wo men's education honorary, tonight at 7:30 in the YWCA bungalow. The yearly election of officers will be held and other business transacted. we can beat them—and do it in better times/’ After taking a glance at the heavy Oregon total in the first OSC Webfoot meet it isn’t hard to conceive. At that time the score stood 63 to 12. Diver Tom Corbett has re turned to his old haunts at the Webfoot spring board, with all traces of his injured foot gone. Corbett’s return should help boost the Oregon total of points when the Beaver and the Webfoot trade splashes. The Orangemen were able to take both second and third places behind Ox Wilson, the only Webfoot board man, and Corbett should smooth out a lit tle of the Oregon trouble. away from the Fijis, 32 to 11, the brawny ATOs boomed over a cold Chi Psi outfit, 27 to 7, and Alpha hail and the Phi Delts stag gered to wins against Campfiflf and the Pi Kaps, 15 to 9. and 17 to 11, in two slovenly, sloppy games. The final contest was won on forfeit by the Theta Chis when the Omega hall “B”s failed to show. The DU victory over Gamma was marked by slow play and the appearance of a new and big ger “Dumbo” to rival Lenny Surles. Merritt “Roll out the Barrel” Kufferman shook his lard over the court convincingly to win plaudits from the thin crowd. He also tanked 5'points. Gordie Jones, another one of the “Thin Men,” put in 7 points to totsff the DU points. For the Gamma hall club, the only offensive gun was Wyman French who how itzered G counters through the hoop. He also was a thorn in the DU offense, stopping them single handedly at times. The Sigma Chis look like they are going to be the team to beat. The Fijis stayed with them a while in the first half, but their bolt was soon shot, and the Sigs potted points at will. Rabbit Pete Stinebaugh dropped in 10 points to match any individual Sigma Chi scor ing, but he was riot a onefnan match for all of them. The rap-"'’’* id flurry of second half Sig baskets gave Dick “Point Hun gry” Hanen, 10, Hal Lloyd, 9, and Dick Davis, 7. The game traveled at a fire engine pace, but slowed down near the end as both clubs felt the race-horse gait. Official Har ry Prongas watched the boys carefully and called some very “close” ones. It seemed to quite a few of the onlookers that he suffered from overzealousness. ATOs Breeze After a slow, dragging first half that ended 7 to 3, ATO. fcfee Alpha Taus got moving, and gunned a profusion of buckets through the hoop to easily subdue an “off” Chi Psi club, 27 to 7. Both teams had successfully blan keted each other in the first half, but a fresh ATO team that start ed the second had no trouble in pouring points through a loose Chi Psi zone defense. Powerful “Jesse" Dunlap slapped the cords for 10 markers, and Paul Bocci was close behind with 8. The Lodgemen’s two offen sive aces, Tom Houston and Cull Murphy, w’ere completely bottled, but By Van Metre slashed through on two fast (Please turn to page six) 1 Highland Hoopers Bop | 1 Sig Kaps in Hoop Tilt I Highland hoopers downed the Sigma Kappas yesterday in a nip-and-tuck basketball battle with a final score of 9 to 6. Clever passing and close checking kept the score low and fouls high. Sigma Kappa grabbed the lead once in the first quarter, and the Hoopers never increased the margin more than three points during the entire contest. Highland Leads At half-time the Highland lassies squeezed out a 1-point ad vantage, 5 to 4. Pat Howard dropped two shots in the hoop for the Sigma Kappa girls, while Mary Alderson led Highland hoopers with two field goals. Gamma Phi won its game by default from Alpha Gam. To day ADPi meets University house in the indoor gym, and Alpha Chi plays the DG team in the outdoor gym. ^ Thursday Hendricks hall vies with Kappa Kappa Gamma in doors, and the Pi Phis take on Hilyard house. v