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
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1943 cage finale against Washington State this weekend.
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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.