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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1943)
The End of The Hoop Trail By FRED TREADGOLD The sun sinks on basketball Saturday. And with its setting' collegiate basketball careers of three green and gold hoop stalwarts come to nin end. Those three “old timers," breathing their last breath, flip 1,: :g their last shot, and drib h ng their last ball for their do ill ol' alma mammy are Cap tain Dpn Kirsch, Forwards Rolph thshrman and Warren Taylor Fans will miss the scampering, driving of stubby-legged little K.rseh, who led the Ducks t i ough an extremely hectic cam t lign, to an upper division berth that even the most optimistic Oregon addict would have been loathe to predict at the season’s outset. Fuhrman Will Be Missed Fans will miss the long looping o . -handed howitzers which de liberate Mr. Fuhrman has sunk i' tough the mesh repeatedly. Be sides his fine scoring show, Fuhr has rounded into, one whale of a defensive backboard man. Fans will miss the fiery, ag gressiveness of “Shanks” Taylor, the six-foot five-inch fighting dlvi'vish, who when he contested the backboard, very seldom came out second best. Pius that, Tay lor was no piker when it came to ringing the point-gong. Now these three—and the rest of the Duck squad—will be out to do Washington State ill when the Cougar-men ramble into town Friday and Saturday for their brace of contests. For in the Web foots' minds, they still have to be reckoned with in the league scramble which has all but nar rowed down into a two-team fight between Washington and the Cougars. Tlie Ducks will have two ad vantages lying in their, favor: 11) they have all week to recu perate from the exhausting Ore gon State series last week, and (2) they can scout the Cougars twice, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of this week when the Pullmanites cf Jack Friel meet Oregon State at Corvallis. Not so Fresh Besides that, the Cougars won’t be exactly as fresh as a daisy when they hit here. For that four games-in-five-nights stuff is a gaff which even the most rugged find hard to maintain. Washington State is rapidly having her lineup drained of the cream of the crop. Captain Owen Hunt, brilliant floor general and steady-as-a-rock guard, was pulled into the service last month, leaving a big gash at the guard slot. And now it's Gail Bishop, all conference forward and Cougar scoring leader who is being giv en the old come-hither look by Unc Sam’l. But Bishop will be able to finish the road trip before he dons his khaki livery, not be ing inducted till February 28, the day after the Oregon series. Cougars Strong The remainder of the Cougar lineup looms strong what with A1 Akins at one guard spot, Bob Sheridan, ex-Oregon Aathertotn purgee at center, and Scott Witt, crack forward, all revealing plen ty in past performances. Hobby Hobson, Oregon’s mas ter mind, will undoubtedly inject his favorite five of Warren Tay lor and Kolph Fuhrman at for wards, Bog Wiley at eenter, and Don Kirseli and Stan Williamson at guards. But just a step behind these regulars come Roy Seeborg, Bob Wren, forwards; Wally Borrevik, center; and A1 Popick, Bob New land, and Sammy Crowell, guards. All should see action. Beavers Tame Cougars, 50-35, Knock WSC From First PSace; UW Leads League Utilizing a smooth-working zone defense for the second time this season, Oregon State's Beavers upset the Washington State basketball cart, 50-35, in Corvallis last night to change the picture of the northern division title race somewhat. < The loss dropped the Cougars to second place in the hoop standings, as Hec Edmunson’s Washington Huskies zoomed to the coveted number one slot, by the margin of a half-game lead over their Palouse country rivals. Washington State forward Gail T-'.shop annexed the high point to tals for the evening, canning . ime IS digits. Close behind was B • iver representative Lew Beck, who rang the basket .bell for some .1 ’ points. 'Tiie Corvallis hosts were riding a -d-19 halfway juncture lead, and they did little to relinquish, it in the second half. Tlu\ Cougars •vt ■ ■ unable to catch "Slats” Gill's quintet when the second half ac tion took place. Veteran guard Don Durdan pot ted 12 points, and forward Don Cecil meshed some 10 digits. Ob viously the Beaver scoring brunt was carried nicely by Durdan, Beck and Cecil. VVSC Holds Dead Oregon State’s triumph occur red in the first of a two game lSOAKl) OF STRATEGY . . . . . Pictured above is a Washington State basketball huddle. Includ ed are Scott Witt, (tail Bishop, Captain Owen Hunt (now in the armed r,« i'vices), l’liil Mahan, and Hot) Sheridan. SPORTS STAFF Cn-Sports Kilitors: Fred Treadyold, Fred Beckwith. Swimming': Kollie (label. Frosh Basketball: Mart Pond. Intramural': Art Carlson, Stan Pierson. I-’eatures: Don l.onie. Coed Sports: Mary Alderson. series. The Beaver-Cougar series stands at two games won and one lost for the advantage - holding Jack Friel men. The two clubs hold another court war on the Corvallis boards tonight. League standings: Northern Division W. L. Pet. Pts. Wash’ll . 8 4 .667 594 W.S.C. . 7 4 .636 503 Oregon . 8 6 .571 591 O.S.C. 7 6 .539 579 Idaho . 1 11 .063 460 Op. 477 524 548 564 614 <§ET THE URGE „ TO HELP PURGE w — A oih,c»te HITLER/ .SOPHOMORE SWISHER . . . . . . Roy Seeborg will be out to garner some baskets in the Backs’ 1943 cage finale against Washington State this weekend. g i i;!:!!:ii:ii!:i!i!i!ii!!i!iiiii:;'iiii;iiiiiiiiiii:i!iiiiiiii!'!ii!!!i:: raiuaiMiiuruciKi; iffimi; !Biiiii!iiniiniii!iii!:!i:H!i: '.raaiiraiiiiiuiiiii mM8RM<ang| | 9tem& .... 2ha$i Kifc&cU 1 By BOX LOXIE Laurels go this time to Cap tain Don Kirseh, for his out standing hoop operations this season, plus his inspiring work as Oregon's casaba squad leader. Five feet and seven inches of drive and smooth, consistent play ing; that’s the best way to say it. From Jefferson Don tripped down to Duck Town from a high school near Portland, name of Jefferson. His record there, our scouts tell us, is still hanging up in center hall as a tribute to what he contrib uted to the school in the way of sports. There, as here, he turned out for the major sports, base ball, and basketball. Don’s baseball operations dawn here are probably even more amazing than his basketball work. He holds down second base on the diamond, was an all-star selection last spring, and until the war threw things out of line he was seriously considering a career in pro baseball. Friars, the men’s senior hon orary society, claims Don as a member, and the faculty claims him as one of its best students. In addition to his many, many activities on the floor and field, this busiest of men even has time to be president of his fraternity house. The freshmen and sophomores Speaking of Casaba Statistics With an average of 83 points per game, Kliode Island Univer sity holds claim to being the high est scoring basketball team in the nation. Kecent cage surveys also disclosed that Detroit has the best defensive mark in allowing onij 27.4 points to be tallied against it. The best ten teams in the na tion offensively a*e the following: 11) Rhode Island. (. 2) Wyoming. (3) Providence, (4) Western Ken tucky, (5) Georgetown. (6) Ari zona, (7) NYU. (8» Toledo, (9; LIU and (.101 St. Joseph's. The Bowling Green Teachers of Kentucky, ■ holding the number four slot offensively, rank as the only team in that listing of ten, to hold down a spot in the nation al ten-best defensive ratings. Here, Western Kentucky rates second to Detroit. The only Pacific Coast teams to receive any intuition were the University of Southern California and the University of Washington, both of whom received honorable mention on the defensive side of the survey ledger. know Don well because of his drill field antics. Weekly he is seen marking out “Harch” and going through his “Hun, ooh, eee, ore” routine which is peculiar to senior military students through out the campus. Sometimes, though, Don get’s a little dis couraged with the boys, especial ly the third guy from the end in squad three. This dead-head, pleads Don, is as bow-legged as the letter “O" and rear never know which half to fcff low. “At the end of the hour,” ciies our hero, “I invariably have one squad marking time on the sergeant's face while the rest of my men are running back and forth in front of the stadium, counting the seats in cadence.” Currently Don is playing guard for the maple gang, but he se cretly has aspirations to he an elevator operator. When ques tioned about the future in the ele vator game, Don said, “Oh, the work’s all right, but it has its ups and downs.” SENIOR EXIT . . . . . . Rolph Fuhrman made his last appearance against Oregon State iast Saturday night.