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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1943)
“Now you’re up, now you're down!” And so this mad, merry whirl, which goes under the curious name of the north ern division basketball race, enters its third week of hectic play. Every club in the circuit, save the cellarite Idaho Vandals, has at one time or other, lolled comfortably on the purple plush cushions of first place, only to be stricken from behind by some unsuspected foe. Oregon for seven riotous days was the club to which hom * ge was paid. They knocked over Idaho twice and split with W ashington State on their junket into the Inland Empire. And so the Ducks were the peers of the league . . . but for a week only. Oregon State, "King for a Day" • Then Oregon State whipped Washington January 19 on the Huskies’ little outing into the Willamette valley. This gave the Beavers, last year’s.champs, the driver’s seat in a “one-night reign." Tire next evening. Washington clamped a bone-crush er on the Orangemen and they fell into the ranks of the beaten. Oregon once again soared to the king's throne. Gaining momentum in their invasion of the state to the south, the Washingtons flipped the Ducks twice and it was the Huskies’ turn to assume the loop leadership. .^feamvhile, Washington State, in typical quiet, unobtru sive Cougar athletic fashion, bounced Idaho to elevate WSC stock to within striking distance of the top. WSC Takes Jts Turn Oregon then chastises Washington in a surprise coup d' etat, which coupled with a Washington State victory over Oregon State, completes another shake-up. The Cougars were ahead of evrybody, for the first time this season, Tuesday, for a day at least. And so this crazy, up-see-Daisy, down you go stuff con tinues... Your club which is ahead in the league one min ute might well be down in third after one night’s furious playing. You can’t tell where defeat will strike next, or when Dame Fortune will loose her winning smile. Who knows, maybe by this time next week Idaho might even be leading the pack? Move a Wise Une Hobby took a pretty bold stride when he inserted those three green frosh into the lineup last Saturday against Wash ington in hopes that the new life could snap the four-game los ing streak. But the kids came through like vets. And Hob tn says he is going to string along with these youngsters just long as they keep up the stuff. Ed Dick shows the same cool smoothness on the hard woods that Brother John was so famous for back in the halcyon days of the great “alleycatters.” That one-handed pusher from the side is almost a rubber-stamped motion of big John’s . . . and almost as deadly. Little Stan Williamson with his vigorous gyrations, drib bling. passing, dashing here-and-there, has capured the fans’ fancy in no small way. He isn’t all show either. The litle per formance he turned in at Seattle shows he can be downright effective in the clutch. For it was the frosh half-pint who re peatedly stole the leather out from under Washington noses and turned the perperation into points. Dig coy Comes +nrough While we’re on the subject of newcomers who are beginning to blossom, we can scarcely pass tip Wally Borrevik, 6 foot 8*% inches of hoop improvement. Big Wallace found himself after fich perseverance and looks to give Roger Wiley, another g boy, a whale of a tussle for that starting center berth. Wal ly has learned to move around more, and not just under the basket either. All the talk about Washington having a “great” team looks more than ever to be just the brain fruitation of a sports publicist from Seattle. They folded and folded com pletely when Oregon went into its great comeback in the closing minutes of Saturday’s game. Vandal Series Should Show Idaho comes to town next Monday and Tuesday in what should be a crackerjack series. The Vandals began to roll fin ally when they bopped Oregon State after dropping a few “closies” here and there. Main cogin the hard-driving Idaho machine is Fred Quinn, ill center, who has been setting such a scorching scoring pace. Reports have it that he has just as mych stuff in the scoring way as did Ray Turner, his predecessor who made 192 points last year. s CHICKEN POXED . , . -Courtesy tne Oregonian . . . Don Durdan, Oregon State’s little basketball giant, and his point-' gntliehing tactics were missed by the Beavers on their trips to Moscow and Pullman this week. Don is at Corvallis, abed A . with chicken pox. mermen Grind Thru Crucial Time Trials Today at 4:00 p.m., Coach Mike Hoyman again will hold time trials^ for his victorious Oregon swimming squad. The public is in vited to attend as the trials will promise plenty of action since Mike has been putting the boys through some arduous workouts. Coach Hoyman is still not satisfied with the boys even though they swamped the Oregon State team last Saturday by G1 to 14. So, the Hot Shots Win Contrary to an erroneous report in Tuesday’s Emerald, Hanshah Hot Shots recorded a 15-8 win over Sherry Ross Monday in intramural basket ball. The hallmen led 8-3 at the first quarter, but were un able to score again, while the H~t Shots hit the hoop from all angles in the final three pe riods. John Day paced the winners with 11 points. ijoss has a strenuous work cam paign outlined for the boys, among them these weekly, if not oftener, time trials, which keys them for competition and gets them to work harder. This week, in anticipation of coming meets, and especially the meet with the University of Wash ington, which is reputed to have the strongest squad in the north west conference, Hoyman is put ting the boys through the paces, and is planning still more stren uous workouts for the future. As a result of the Oregon-Ore gcn State meet last Saturday, freshman Jack Pennington suf fered a ruptered ear drum in one of his dives, and will be out of competition for the rest of the season. Following is a schedule of events for the time trials today: 300 yard medley: Prowell, Mc Cauliffe, and Houston competing against Tuggman, Huestis, and Nickolson. 220-yard freestyle: Nelson, Al len, Smith, Gautier and Hoffman. 60-yard freestyle: Fox and Kor rell. 440-yard freestyle: Pinkerton. 100-yard freestyle: Gautier, Nelson, Smith and Allen. 150-yard backstroke: Prowell and Tuggman. 200-yard breaststroke: Huestis, Abbott and McCauliffe. 100-yard freestyle: Fox, Kor rell, Pinkerton and Nickolsen. 440-yard freestyle: Smith, Al len, Nelson, Gautier, Hoffman and Huestis. Sports Staff Fred Treadgold, Fred Beckwith, Co-Sports Editors Rollie Gabel Ned Liebman Mart Pond Doug Donahue Don Lonie WSC Bashes OSC Club Again 55-52 NORTHERN DIVISION STANDINGS W. L. Pet. Washington State ...A 1 ,800 Washington . 4 2 .667 Oregon . 4 4 .500 Oregon State . 2 4 .333 Idaho .1 4 .200 Washington State bowled over Oregon State for the second night running Tuesday 55 to 52 at Pull man, to further fortify their first place position. The game concluded, for the Beavers, a very disastrous Inland Empire road trip, during which time the Orangemen were blasted three out of four times. Idaho whacked the 1942 champs, 56 to 44 after Oregon State eked out the first game. The itinerant Beavers then went to Pullman, there to re ceive a twin-shellacking which put a severe dent in Orange titu lar hopes. Slats Gill, OSC coach, was ex perimenting with a green lineup, composed of two freshmen, and an untried varsity reserve. The latter, Howard Jeffries, was in serted when Don Durdan, regular guard, contracted chicken pox, and was left in Corvallis. General opinion was that with Durdan in the lineup, the Beavers would have hal a little stronger say-so in the final score. Heading home following their miserable showing, the Orange quintet has little time to lick their wounds and must face Idaho in Corvallis Friday and Saturday. 'Feather Swatters' Schedule Beavers Members of badminton club will play against students frorft Oregon State college some time during the next few weeks, Joafl. Martin, adviser, said Tuesday. In addition to other prepara tions for the meet, Miss Martin is drawing up a ladder tourna ment for the men and one for the women which will determine the position of the Oregon players. The University will play several games of singles and doubles with Oregon State. Oast year Oregon badminton players were guests of the OSC club, Miss Martin stated. Beavers and Ducks will meet this season as soon as transportation is pos sible. To help meet the war demand for trained physicists, the Uni versity of Texas has created a new degree, Bachelor of Science in Physics. <§ET THE URGE v TO HELP PURGE I .itHfiAB ' HITLER' , ^ DUU