Tonight the varsity hoopsters collide with the Oregon State
Beavers in the first of a four game series. Ball game number
one will be housed on the Corvallis boards. Off the basis of
the two teams’ showing of late, Oregon gets the nod. The rival
ry between the Ducks and Beavers'is so intense, however, that
the favored team is not allowed a moment of feeling secure in
the forty minutes of melon-tossing action.
New Combination
^ After weeks of experimenting, shifting, men around, How
ard “Hobby” Hobson has come up with a new scoring quintet
that packs speed and punch. Spearheading this new unit are
forwardsAVarren Taylor and Roy Seeborg. Taylor’s backboard
work; his-general fire and scrappy playing has proven a boon
to the third place Ducks this season. Seeborg has come up the
hard way, meriting his starting position on the prowess of his
consistent play in the past three games.
The pivot-spot position, center, still finds those two
giants, Roger Wiley and Wally Borrevik, fighting for su
premacy. Their height has been a tremendous factor in
■ the green-and-gold wins in 1943. • Freshman Rog has a
slight edge on starting position, but letterman Borrevik is
bound to see plenty of action.
A senior and a freshman compose the starting guard com
bination. Little Stan Williamson, who was only about five
four in high school, put on a couple inches to his diminutive
frame, and headed Oregon way. To say that he has been the
fastest man on the court in the past few Duck games, is to
only throw one compliment his way.
Captain Don Kirsch has been the. only starter at the front
end of this season to keep his place constantly in the face of
the changes which have been occurring in the varsity lineup.
And those are the gents who will be ramming home the bas
kets against the Beavers tonight. Of course there are a few
other fellows who will be in the thick of things, gents like Rolph
Fuhrman, flashy forward, Ed Dick, freshman forward, and
guards Sammy Crowell and A1 Popick.
Good luck, gang.
That's Life
The University of California has been hard hit by the draft.
The Bears can trot out their crying towels long and often, and
for good reason. At the start of this casaba year, the Berke
ley institution was beginning to mold together a nice group of
sophomores and a few veterans. They had height, speed, and
looked fairly good in pre-southern division games. And so the
league race opened. It became apparent that the Trojans of
USC had the pennant scramble fairly well sewed up but the
^fl|ears were endeavoring to trip old Troy at least once during
the year.
Along came the selective service program to the Cal
cagers. Boom! Right off the bat, “Chuck” Hangar, the
number one forward on Nibs Price’s starting quintet, steps
out of his abbreviated basketball suit and into a khaki out
fit. Hangar was leading the Bear scorers, too. Price, the
head of the Berkeley hoopsters, then shot into the number
one team a sophomore lad by the name of Gordon Cuneo.
Cuneo had been seeing service as a sub. He came through
all right, as did another sub, Ray Oliver. Last week, how
ever, the draft caught up with Cuneo and Oliver, and now
that vacant starting forward position has been filled by
Grover Klemmer, world’s record holder in the 400 meters
and 440 yard lopes, and member of the blue-and-gold pig
skin contingent last season.
At this .date, Klemmer is well on to winning his letter in
the: easaba sport, and if he succeeds, he will become the first
three-sport letter winner at the University of California in the
#ist fifteen years.
Frosh Shine
While the freshman-varsity trio of Williamson, Wiley and
Dick has been grabbing the newspaper space of late, it appears
about time that a good word he mentioned about Oregon’s
own very fine freshman team. The first year men have won
ten out of their past twelve games, and have looked very good
while posting these triumphs.
Forward Ken Hume, Guard Benny Hamilton, Center
Joe Coenenburg have all shown exceptional promise of de
veloping into good varsity men. They will probably have
an opportunity to display their wares next year, if the re
serve programs wipe out the manpower of the juniors and
seniors on campus.
t Amusing sidelights of the Delta Upsilon-ATO intramural
isketball game the other day was a thirty second “blackout.”
Someone, maybe the janitor, had forgotten that the two clubs
were placing each other, and went about his routine business
of switching off the fizz ed department’s lights in the activity
DuckMermen
Train Daily
By ROLLIE GABEL
Oregon has a potential cham
pionship swimming team, a team
that last year amassed more
points in dual swimming meets
than all the other teams in the
Northwest conference put togeth
er, a team that holds more rec
ords than any other team on the
Pacific coast.
For instance, last Saturday
Ralph Huestis broke the 100
yard breaststroke record; two
other members of the Oregon
swimming team came very close
to slapping the finish tile in less
time than the records of their
respective events now tabulate.
In almost every meet that the
Oregon swimming team has com
peted in, and every event that
Oregon boys have been swim
ming, the opposing swimmers
were splashing vainly in the
swirling wakes of the Oregon
boys.
Why is this ? Can you attribute
this consistent success in swim
ming to good luck?
Sample Day
Here’s an example of a work
out of a typical Oregon swim
mer. This is the case of Dick
Smith, the boy who churns the
foam in the 440 freestyle event.
(1) Dick sprints at top speed,
three 40-yard laps. Between each
lap Coach Mike Hoyman allows
him a one-minute rest.
(2) After these laps have been
completed Dick rests five min
utes.
(3) After this breather he
kicks a quarter of a mile. He lit
erally kicks because he is not us
ing his arms at all, merely lack
ing his feet and leaving his arms
dingling at his sides, which de
velops the swimming muscles in
the legs.
(4) Without a rest from the
kicking exercise, Dick goes an
arms alone, using a rubber tube
that entwines his legs to prohibit
cheating on his part.
(5) A fifteen minute rest im
BATTLES BEA VEILS . . .
. . . Forward Rolph Fuhrman will
see plenty of action tonight at
Corvallis. It is very likely that
he will toss a few baskets through
the hoop against old OSC.
mediately follows this three
quarter rendezvous.
. (6) He completes the workout
with a 1500 meter sojourn up and
down the pool, or in lay language,
one mile with a set time limit on
him of 22 minutes, 30 seconds.
This workout, which is typical
of each Oregon swimmer, and
which varies according to the
event that each man is accus
tomed to swimming in the meets,
takes Dick approximately one
and one-half hours to complete,
and covers an approximate dis
tance of one and three-quarters
miles, plus the three forty-yard
sprints at the beginning of the
workout.
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employing burpee exercises as
their workout; one sees basket
ball players duck-walking; one
thinks, rather on the disillusioned
side that swimmers come around
to the meets, take their clothes
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courts. The confusion was expected, and the scorekeeper had
a beautiful job of fighting off would-be score erasers and
changers.
Tennis Bows Out
Yesterday’s Emerald announced that tennis and golf had
been voted out for the duration. Some time ago, in this column,
we predicted the finale for the racquet sport, both golf and
tennis are good muscle-developing sports, but the budget cut
had to nick some activity, and it was just fate that these two
sports were sliced from the docket. When the lights go on
again all over the world, the fellows at Oregon will be teeing
off again, and slapping backhands to all corners of the court.
bnemy Court
Scene of Fray
(Continued front page four)
Warren Taylor, the nigged and
effective senior backboard star,
has waxed brilliant most of the
year and is almost certain to get
the nod at one forward post.
A three-way struggle is rag
ing at the other forward posi
tion with Rolph Fuhrman, Roy
Seeborg, and Ed Dick as the
principles. Fuhrman has proven
his worth as a pinch-hitter and
his prodigious one-handed how
itzers pour through the twine
with unerring accuracy.
Seeborg, a sophomore, has ar
rived suddenly and beat a heavy
tatoo on the bucket hi both Idaho
engagements. Hobby showed his
faith in him by starting him the
second struggle.
Just a freshman but revealing
a vast amount of resourcefulness,
young Ed Dick may eke out eith
er of the other two.
Center is practically welded
down by Rog Wiley, frosh strip
ling of some 6 feet 7 finches.
Hobby's half-pint guard duo
Captain Don Kirsch, Stan Wil
liamson—is almost a certainty
to open in those slots. Sam Crow
ell, A1 Popick, and several oth
ers will undoubtedly see action.
Beaver Boys
Gill starters appear to stack
up thusly: Glen Warren, lanky
vet, and Don Cecil, J.C. transfer,
at forwards; Anderson, center:
and shifty little Lew Beck and
Tommy Holman, all-state frosh
sensation, at guards.
The two clubs move back to
Eugene tomorrow night for a re
peat performance on mammoth
McArthur court. A special sec
tion has been provided for stu
dents’ parents visiting over Dads'
Day weekend.
Probable lineups:
Oregon; Oregon State
Taylor.....F. Warren
Fuhrman..'. F.;. Cecil
Wiley.......C. Anderson
Kirsch (c).G. Beck
Williamson.G. Holman
off, dive in and walk away with
first places.
This definitely isn’t so, as any
of the members on the Oregon
squad can tell you—especially
with a coach like Mike Hoyman,
Mike is definitely the "hardest"
man in the status of a swimming
coach that can be found on t.he
coast, and as a consequence of
his methods and tutoring has
turned out the finest swimming
team that the coast has ever
seen.
Not Buck
It definitely isn’t good luck
that accounts for the consistent
winning of meets that the Oregon
team has been pulling down,
rather attribute this winning to
workouts, the way Coach Mike
Hoyman dishes them out, and the
perseverance of his boys.
This coming Saturday, Oregon
meets the Washington State
swimming squad, of which meet
the details will be given in Sat
urday morning’s Emerald.
Phi Delts, Sigma Chi
(Continued from par/e four)
shah Hot Shots played the final
of the afternoon games with the
Phi Belts coming out on the long
end of a 22 to 15 score. A bit on
the rough side, the game provid
ed many a thrill for the fairly
large turn out of supporters.
Phi Delta Hanshah
Theta, 22 Hot Shots, 15
Dickson, 4.F. 5, Flatberg
Erickson, 4.F.... 3, Baughman
Prior, 6..C. 7, Day
Candee, 5 . .. G. Kapel
D. Dyer..G. Werum
Dayley, 1..S
B. Dyer, 2.S
Krieger.S