Brother, in case you know it or not, this coming Friday and
Saturday should see some of the hottest, wildest, most fierce
ly contested stuff that ever smoked the hardwoods of a north
west hoop pavilion. If you don’t have your ND hoop schedule
chart handy we’ll tell you what it is. This week-end those two
hoop gigantics of the state—Oregon and Oregon State—cross
swords, with the ultimate reward being a more stable founda
tion for the winner from which to strike at the conference hemp
crown.
Jj) The way things have tightened up in the last week, what
with the lead shuttling back and forth with as much speed as a
woman changing her mind, the few games remaining on the
hoop slate have assumed gargantian proportions. What's more
ho outfit can drop more than one and expect to be given much'
consideration when final tabulation for the winners is held.
Gomes Have Real Meaning
And that’s why the HEAVY emphasis on the forthcoming
OSC-Oregon court feuds. Oregon State has five wins and a
like number of losses with six tussles left. The Beavers can't
afford to let any more contests slide through their fingers . . .
and don't think that Aniory T. (Slats) Gill isn't fully aware
of that fact.
Oregon, meanwhile, is a little better situated at present.
With seven wins and also five defeats, the bounding Ducks
are just .084 points out of first place. If they victimize the
Orangemen in both ends of their double-header, they will
be just about the width of a split atom out of first . . . and
don’t think that Howard A. (Hobby) Hobson isn’t fully
0 aware of that fact.
Has Everything
So what have you got? Two time-worn rivals, champing at
the bit, each with still some chance of hurdling into first place,
a divided twp-game series behind them, plenty of fan partiality
on both sides, and if that doesn’t build up into a real "natural,”
then this tired, old brain is playing tricks on yours truly.
Who the Bevos missed, and missed very dearly last Sat
urday when the Ducks chastised them, 50 to 35, was ungainly,
rough-cut John Mandic, last year’s backboard artiste par ex
cellence. Big John was a slick operator under the hoop and
made life extremely unbearable for opponents, besides lopping
in scores at spaced intervals.
Anderson Stood Out
Andy Aiftlerson, blonde sophomore star who still had his
shoulder partially swathed in bandages, was nabbing rebounds
off at a pretty consistant clip in the early minutes of the con
^hct. Then he was yanked, presumably because of his injury,
<Brid with his departure "good coverage” around the backboard
environs jumped out the window.
Six-foot 5-inch Glen Warren, veteran forward-center
double-duty man, made a tremendous individual effort to
battle the three ball-hungry Oregons on the boards, but
could make litle impression against the overwhelming odds.
Little Lew Beck looks even better than he did last year. He
still hawks that ball as much as ever, but his scoring has reallv
fashioned him into the number one Beaver threat—even over
Brother Donald Durdan. For example, wiry Lew has worked
his way into a second-place tie for scoring plaudits with 112
counters in ten games.
Quinn Keeps Up Pace
Speaking of scoring, Fred Quinn, the boy whom Oregon
blanketed pretty well down here, is dangerously nearing that
192-point mark of Ray Turner’s. With 10 games already un
der the bridge, Ouinn has 130 tallies, 63 shy of the established
Jutal. That means in his six games left, High-scoring Quinn
™11 have to pop in an average of 10.3 counters per tilt. Now,
gentle reader, that is a goodly average, and for Mr. Average
Guy, the man in the street, would almost be a season’s work
in itself. But with Frederick Quinn’s 13 points per tilt aver
age for a background. 10.3 will seem like just a good day’s work.
In the event that Quinn does snap Turner’s record, the
mark will have endured just one year. Contrast that to
Wally Palmberg’s total of 187 which the Astoria high, OSC
All-American racked up in 1936. Palmberg’s 187 survived
six stormy seasons of bombardment before it fell before
the unerring eye of Turner in 1942.
Of course, if you want to delve back into the past for records
which last, one pops into our mind which probably won’t ever
be eradicated. That, is the 249 points clanked up by Lauren
Mmddie) Gale, incomparable forward, in 1938 over a 20-game
®bte when Montana stretched the loop to six clubs. Even dis
counting the four [Montana games, Gale wrapped up individual
scoring honors after 16 games with 193, still one above Tur
ner's present record.
By FRED BECKWITH
Having' elevated themselves
above the .500 mark, Oregon's
green-and-gold clad hoop princes
are concentrating on the imme
diate business at hand-prepara
tion for the approaching two
game northern division series
with Oregon State.
win ue couplers mree ana
four and finis to the 1943 Bea
ver-Duck scramble. Friday night,
the Beavers shoot out the gilt
edge invitations to their Corvallis
basketball shack, and Saturday
evening, Brother Duck extends
welcome to-the Orange and Black
visitors in the Igloo.
The varsity is currently loung
ing on the plush cushions of third
place in the northern division
race, having copped seven games
while dropping five. It’s the mid
dle of toe heap, and if the Web
foots e designs on first place,
they will have to trim the pesky
Beavers both nights to stay in
the running.
Oregon State still has a
mathematical chance for the ti
tle, but the chances appear to
be slimmer than an “A” card
rationing of radium.
Up front are these two north
ern clubs, Washington and Wash
ington State. The Cougars com
mand the lead at this writing,
but the Husky advance booking
is more favorable to the Seattle
kids, and the casaba money is
being heaped on the broad
shoulders of Hec Edmundson’s
cage pupils.
“Hobby” Hobson, dynamic
mesh instructor, will, in all prob
ability, floor his unit system, as
his experimental work of late
with the aid of unit number one
and unit number two, has proved
rather successful.
Top Point-Getter
Roger Wiley, the first year kid
who came through in veteran
style, is still spread-eagling the
Oregon scorers, with his 88 points
amassed in an even twelve games
thus far.
Unit number one includes soph
omore Roy Seeborg at one for
ward slot, senior Rolph Fuhrman
at the other forward position,
Wiley at center, and Captain Don
Kirsch and freshie Stan William
son at guards.
The second group includes
Warren Taylor and Bob Wren,
forwards, W’ally Borrevik, cen
ter; At Popick and Bob New
larid, guards. ,
Oregon will have her hands
full posting a win over the Bea
vers in the latter’s cracker-box
pavilion Friday p.m., but if the
Ducks’ shotting eyes are “on,” it
should be a victory for the Hob
sonites.
Durdan Shaky
Don Durdan, stellar Beaver
guard, may still not be complete- ■
ly back in form, and probably
won’t go the distance, or even
more than half the game, as wit
ness the first two games of the
OSC-Oregon series.
Meanwhile, Fred Quinn and his
Idaho melon-tossing teammates
Morris Creeps Up
(Continued from page four)
both centers, are fifth and sixth
with 94 and 88, respectively.
Top six scorers:
Quinn, Idaho .
Morris, Wash.
Beck, OSC .
Bishop, WSC .
Gilmur, Wash.
G Fg Ft Tp
.10 54 22 130
.11 49 28 126
-10 40 32 112
.. 9 45 14 104
.11 38 18 94
Wiley, Oregon .12 33 22 88
University of Texas is doing re
search in methods of storing
high-octane gas.
“SLICK SAM” STARTS TO SHOW . . .
. . . Sam Crowell, brilliant soph guard, has shaken an ankle hurt
which heckled him most of the season, and is now going great guns
for Hobby’s casaba-chasing aggregation.
Rog Wiley, Tall Center,
Heads Duck Scoring List
That big, angular 18-year-o!d youngster, Rog Wiley, who Holds
sway at center for the Ducks, is still pacing Oregon’s individual scor
ers after twelve heated contests, statistics revealed today. Rog, util
izing his 6 feet, 7 /t inches to its fullest height, has canned 33 field bas
kets while adding 22 one-pointers from the free-throw lanes for a grand
total of 88.
UO Mermen Get Set
(Continued from page four)
to be the roughest and toughest
that the Oregon team has yet
run up against.
The Washington team has a
boy by the name of Promfret, a
breaststroker who evidently is
out to give Oregon’s record bust
ing Huestis the feel of an oppon
ent’s water wake, who as yet has
not had the pleasure. There seems
to be an overlust for blood on
the part of the University of
Washington’s part on this score
in that this boy Promfret did not
swim for this institution so far
this season, and what with the
advent of Oregon’s showing
strong- in fact very strong, he
suddenly shows up on the roster
as swimming the breaststroke,
and from authoritative sources is
training strenuously.
At this meet, from the summa
tion of facts and figures, there
promises to be some competition.
Promfret was the top breast
stroke artist on the University of
Washington’s lineup last year.
At some time trials last night
all of the hoys seem to be com
ing up in anticipation of the
coming meet with Washington.
Prowell in the backstroke
showed admirably, with Tug
man, a freshman, demonstrat
ing in rather a lackadaisical
fashion.
Another freshman who is com
face the arduous task of stopping
the big Husky machine. The po
tential success of Oregon depends
largely on the fortunes of Babe
Brown’s Vandals in their four
game series with the Seattle
crew.
Captain Don Kirsch, fire-brand
guard, worked his way into sec
ond with sizeable scoring sprees
during the last few weeks, and
now has 72 points. He leads in
foul conversions with 30.
Not far behind Kirsch’s pace
conies Rolph Fuhrman, smooth
working senior forward with 70.
Warren Taylor has 68, and Rug
ged Roy: Seetoorg, who has been
going like a (house afire this last
week, has. sky-rocketed up to fifth
with 45.
SPnrincr fimirocc
G
Wiley, c..12
Kirsch, g.12
Fuhrman, f .. .12
Taylor, f .12
Seeborg, f_ 9
Wren, f.10
Newland, g .... 9
Williamson, g 7
Borrevik, c .... 5
Popick, g.10
Dick, f. 8
Crowell, g. 4
Sutherland, c 3
B.Reynolds, g 2
W.Reyn’lds, g 1
Ch’st’nson, f .. 1
Ft Pf Ip
22 16 S8
30 18 72
8 15 70
22■ 22 6S
11 11 45
11 13 39
1 7 33
16 11 32
3 4 19
5 11 19
6 7 16
4 4 10
0 2 2
0 4 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
33
21
31
23
17
14
16
8
8
7
5
3
1
0
0
0
TOTALS
187 139 145 51
ing up and even pacing the great
Huestis in the backstroke event
is McAuliffe. Dick Allen, letter
man, is getting his stride, espe
cially in the short hops. Dick
showed a great improvement in
the 400-yard freestyle relay in
which he swam in second posi
tion. Jim Gautier, another fresh
man aqua-ace, contributed to
bringing the time down to near
record level.
The time trial Thursday is *
open to the public.