Welcome home the conquering heroes! You’ve got to hand
it to those green and gold clad varsity basketball men. They
survived the initial Inland Empire trip very nicely thank you,
grabbing three wins out of four scheduled games. As a result
of this fabulous accomplishment, our victory kids are sunning
themselves high atop the northern division standings of the
Pacific Coast conference. And now a garland of honeysuckle
to the youngest member of the Duck traveling contingent . . .
Yezzir, laddies, a broadside for Roger Wiley, the freshman sen
p.tion who can paper his walls with the adjectives that he has
acquired during the past two weeks.
Our eyes are focused on tine coming week-end, when the
cage customers of this neck of the woods will be served a
chef s special of a double-header of casaba action, a two-game
court series which pits the rampaging Ducks against the plat
inum plated Washington Huskies. They sold our Ducks down
the river, m pre-season wrangling. Nope, Oregon didn’t have
an outside look at the never-never championship land. But
here we are, four games played, three won, and the Huskies
knocking at the door. It's a hit early in the week to be going
overboard for a winner, but we’ll start the advance publicity
rolling by saying that Friday and Saturday night you're going
to see two of the sweetest basketball games for the duration.
Speaking of Travel
Through the channels of a column called “Sideline Slants”
a\e glanced over a Stanford University sport department ex
planation of that august institution’s recent holiday basketball
to the Sugar Bowl. It seems that Mr. James S. Ivearns of
Chicago Sun wasn’t too happy about the Indian cagers fly
ing south via the rails for that melon encounter with the Great
Lakes quintet at the Sports Carnival.
Mr. Kearns stated that 400,000 lives were lost because these
teams took valuable space on trains at a time when the OUT
asked everyone to refrain from using transportation facilities.
A\ hat Mr. Kearns’ article does not mention is the fact that the
two outfits went directly to New Orleans to eng'age in a game
that was played solely for Navy Relief. In other words, both
teams had the official sanction of the ODT. And with this ex
planation. the Stanford U. article neatly closes.
How About the Others?
AY e doubt very much if such a similar excuse could be
dreamed up by Oregon State, AVashington State, and the Uni
versity of Southern California. That trio of basketball giants
rode the Pullman service out east and through the mid-west
on a casaba junket that piled up mileage like the proverbial
rolling stone, sans moss.
A number of colleges and universities throughout the
^^and cancelled their cage personal appearance tours this
year, due to ODT regulations. But not so OSC, WSC and
USC . . . Pardon us, while we continue to softly whistle
in the dark. . . .
hour new military rumors have sprung up overnight, even
after our column of the other day. AVe knew there would be
more, gossip and unfounded chatter, so we-won’t even- take the
trouble to print this propaganda. •
So Soon
■ Those terrible Trojans of USC have practically sewed up
the southern division race even at this early date. Under the
present schedule set-up south of the border, the men from old
Troy, have only to face.Stanford.once more, having already
beaten the Indians once, and the California Bears twice.
Therefore, the only team left which has a prayer is
UCLA. The Bruins, in their only outing thus far conked
their Berkeley cousins from U.C. and now they await the
^^approaching four game series with USC.
But the newspaper gentlemen down south have been some
what irked by this minimized conference fare, so they have
painted a new loop, a seven-team affair which includes besides
Stanford and California, the University of San Francisco, St.
Marys College, Santa Clara, Naval Pre-Flight of St. Marys and
the Coast Guard boys of Alameda, California. No one besides
the pencil pushers has endorsed this new league, the instiga
tion of which was a bay area sports publicity release.
Homesick
Anyway, figure Southern Cal to cop the coveted bunting in
no uncertain terms. USC’s club this year is somewhat devoid
of its usual out-of-state talent. It got so the opposition had a
chance in a hoop contest with the Trojans, whenever they be
gan to heckle the L.A. kids by singing “AA^ay Back in Old Indi
«a." The Troy basketballers stopped in their tracks on the
newood boards and wept because they were downright'home
sick. But along came a smooth shaven gen by the monicker of
Edwin G. Atherton, (remember that name for posterity), and
USC was forced to clean house on its “visiting” cage material.
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Betas -Snatch Late Victory;
Delts Whip Sigma Hallers
STILL IN HEAVY ACTION . . .
. . . George “Porky” Andrews, former all-conference Oregon cage
sfar, is doing his job for the Canadian Air Forces these days.
Nelson, Huestis Grab Swim
Trial Honors; Others Slump
By ItOLLIE GABEL
In direct contrast with preced
ing swim trial's, last Saturday’s
trials over at the pool displayed
unsatisfactory results as far as
Coach Mike Hayman was con
cerned, in that the boys- did not
produce, or rather cut down their
times as much as their tutor
would have liked.
There were, however, two
bright spots that illuminated the
rather dim-out gloom that hung
over he pool at the conclusion of
the time trials. These constella
tions shone in the drops of times
in backstroker Ralph Huestis, and
breastroker Chuck Nelson. Hues
tist did his 100-yard breast stroke
in one minute, four seconds flat,
with the record time being one
minute, five 3-10 seconds. This
marks the second time that Ralph
has broken the record by a sec
ond or less. Chuck Nelson, in his
100-yard backstroke time did one
minute, four 3-10 seconds; The
record, held by Wetmore, is one
minute four seconds flat. Be
tween the boys, Huestis is one
minute, 3-10 seconds under the
record, although the record' slash
is as yet unofficial, and Nelson is
3-10 of a second over the back
stroke record.
Ideal Conditions
An important point about
these new times is that Huestis
and Nelson made these marks
(Please turn to Paae Seven)
A L .AIMER AND HIS COACH . . .
. . . Jerry Huestis, former Webfoot swimming ace, received his train
ing under present varsity coach Mike Hoyman, who is busy polishing
off the rough edges of his 1942 team.
With the issue always in doubt,
the Beta and Fiji “A” quintets
battled from the opening tip-off
to the final whistle with never
more than three points separating
the two teams. When the regular
time was up, everyone in the gym
turned expectantly toward the
scorekeepers, holding their
breath while the men with the
books feverishly totaled field
goi's and free throws to compute
the final score. Then came the
final score: Betas, 17, Fijis, 17.
The two teams already weary
from the close struggle, girded
themselves for an overtime pe
riod. The battle continued several
minutes with neither five able to
find the bucket until lanky “Si”
Sidesinger swished a beautiful
shot giving the Betas the decision
by a 19 to 17 score.
Sidesinger Shines
Reid Ferral and Bill McKevitt
kept the Beta Crew in the game
constantly, scoring seven and six
points respectively, while Bryce
Sidesinger and George Blake car
ried the brunt of the Fiji scor
ing with six and' five points
apiece.
Summary:
Betas
Fredericks, 3 F
Jayne, 1...F
Sidesinger, 6 . C
Farmer, 2.. G.
Jackson, 2.G. Conlin
Blake, 5.S
Referees: Jim Shephard, Roger
Dick.
Fijis
7, R. Ferral
2, B. Ferral
0, McKevitt
2, Heidenrich
Pigskin Characteristics
The score looked like football,
The play looked like football, and
there was Dick Ashcom's name
in the lineup, but still it was a
basketball game.
The Delta Tau Delta “55” bas
ketball squad managed ti> ‘ out
plunge” the Sigma hall squad for
the first half and then, wiih a
last effort, fought off a second
half sustained drive by the inde
pendents to nab a close victory,
10 to 7.
The Delts, with Welbourne and
Stanley doing most of the scor
ing, led at half-time by an 8 to 1.
count, and then staved off a last
half scoring spree by Sigma. Far
oher, a substitute forward did
most of the scoring for the liall
men, tallying five out of seven
points. Dick Ashcom, Sigma spon
sor, acted as player-coach for his
outfit.
Summary:
DTD, 10 Sigma hall, 7
Welbourne, 4....F. Kinersky
Eekleman, 2.F...".:,i. Landreth
Roberts...... C.. Holland
Barnett.. Ashcom
Stanley, 4.,. G. Growning
Keife...S. DuMont
Hofstetter.S.... 5, Faroher
Maise...S.. Rogers
S. 2, Landreth
S. Sher nan
Feferees: Roger Dick, Jim
Shephard1.
Today’s games:
4:00 Court 40—Omega hall “A”
vs. Phi Delta Theta “A”
Court 43—Alpha Tau Omega
“A” vs. Sigma hall "A”
4:40 court 43—Sigma Phi Ep
silon “B” vs. Law School "B ’
5:20 Court 40—Sigma Alpha
Mu “A” vs. Phi Sigma Ks.ppa
“A”
Court 43—Delta Upsilon “B”
Referees: Roger Dick, Jim
Oregon Trail Featured
The Old Oregon Trail is feat
ured in the January release: of
the Junior Historical Journal,
distributed to schools of the Pa
cific Northwest and edited by
Dean Alfred Powers of the di
versity extension center at PorTfc
land.