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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1943)
By FRED TREADGOLD Tattered, torn, and forlorn, but still clutching a small hunk of what was once thought to be the ND flag, the bedraggled Washington State Cougars wearily plod onto the Igloo woods tonight in an attempt to try and salvage something from their disastrous Willamette valley tour . . . and also to try and hop back into a challenging status with the league-leading UW Huskies. For it has been a backward march down the conference ladder for the fumbling Cougars ever since they left their little Pullman strong-hold nestled in the Palouse hills last Monday. Beavers Got First Crack First off Oregon Stale batted them around twice in no uncertain manner, completely demolishing the first place pedestal which was so painstakingly constructed. That allowed Washington to skim into first place by a full game without even lifting a finger. And now aching, throbbing Cougar muscles have no rest from the exhausting casab i wars. They must wander into McArthur's spacious hoop arena in an attempt to match shot for shot with Ore gon's resurgent Ducks. There's been plenty ol’ work mill little time for other things in the Oregon hoop camp as Mentor I low a rd Hobson sent his charges flying- through their drills, pre paring a lethal potion for the groggy invaders. At stake for the Webfooted court artists is their third place position which looked quite secure till Oregon State surged upward on the wings of their double-con quest over the Cougars. Now thir 1 place is tied as tight as a Boy Scout’s prize bowline between the two time worn rivals. Not only will tonight and to morrow night’s casaba ordeals LEADER OF THE DECKS . . . . . . Little Don Kirscli holds down his customary guard position in his last two games for the var sity tins weekend, against Wash ington State. ring down the curtain on the Ducks' regular season but it will be a bowing-out party for a trio of celebrated seniors. Rolph Fuhr rnan and Warren Taylor, a tall. experienced forward twosome with uncanny marksmanship as their main talking point, and Cap tain Donnie (Casaba) ICirsch, flitting chunky guard, are the three who will peel off their green and yellow jerseys for the last time Saturday eve at 9:30. Jack Friel, WSC strategian for over a decade, will try to break loose his fair-haired scoring pet, Gail Bishop. The gangly Mr. Bishop was the only Cougar which OSC could not close the damper on and he proceeded to plop home 31 points over the two game span. Bishop the Big Noise Those 31 plus busy Bishop's pre vious aggregate, gives the Cougar all-star forward 152 markers which he can call his own. And that total — six better than Bill Morris of Washington can muster in twelve games—flings Gail right into the top scoring spot, a posi tion that has been just as hotly contested as has the league lead ership itself. Bishop replaces Morris who basked in the first place lime light for a week after displacing Fred Quinn, of Idaho, who in turn had supplanted Roger Wiley of Oregon. Tonight’s basketball pairing has (Continued from page six) Oregon Mermen Set for Swim Championships Tomorrow By KOI .UK GABEL Defending' her title as cham pion of the northwest conference will be the task cf the Oregon swimming team, this coming Sat urday. The championship meet, in which the five teams of the northwest conference will par ticipate, namely, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, and Idaho, will, as in pro vious years, be held at Pullman, Washington. Coach Mike Hoyman took ten boys to Pullman via the train yesterday afternoon: Huestis, Smith, Allen, Nelson, Gautier, Hoffman, Prowell, Houston, Fox, and McAuliffe. Huestis, breaststroke artist, who incidentally holds the breast stroke record in the northwest A COACH AM) 111S MKN . . . l\s(' plnewood pilot, .Jack Friel, Rives words of advice to Gail Bishop, It'll, ami Scott V\1tI, riRht, and sa>s "So I.ohr" to Captain Owen Hunt, center. conference is making the trip and will be one of the chief as sets to the Oregon squad. Smith, freestyler, who will probably swim in the 440-yard freestyle event, and one of the relayers in the 400-yard freestyle relay event, will annex some life giving points for the green and yellow squad. Dick Allen, another freestyler, will probably be another of the paddlers in the 400 freestyle re lay event. Coach Mike Hoyman may swim him in the short free style events, namely the 50 or the 400. Dick, in previous events has been grabbing some valuable second place points for the Ore gon squad. Chuck Nelson was record hold er of the 100 freeestyle record, up to the meet last week with the University of Washington, at which time Powlison of the Hus ky squad took the honor away from him. Chuck will probably swim, if past meets are any de ciding factor, the 100 yard free style event and as anchor man on the 400-yard freestyle relay event. In the 100-yard freestyle event Chuck will have blood in his eye, because of recent finger length defeat by the Husky boy, Powlison. Jim Gautier, a freshman who clocked his way into the varsity traveling squad, is another free style chap who has annexed sev eral first place points in recent meets for the Oregon squad. Coach Mike Hoyman‘will prob (Plcasc turn to foge five) MELON MENTOR . . . . . . “Hobby” Hobson will watch his 10-13 gang- of cagers in action for the last time this season tomorrow night. p:';.iSi:!;iail!!^llB!IBI!!iia!!l!n!ii;!!3I!iinii;;iH!iiilfl!!l»!!i:!a!!l!iai!»!l!in!!!lHI!!lll!linilBIIII!ai!!H!!llll j Barometer Challenge | \ Accepted by Emerald [ Gathering their dwindling cour age together, a group of Barom eter (Oregon State newspaper) sports writers invaded town last week and promptly proceeded to get in touch with the Emerald sports staff. Frankly, we pretended that we had never head of the northern branch of journalists. Any other reportorial gang would have tak en offense, but not these Bris banes. Their spokesman, one Dick Jenning, came forth with a bold challenge. He dared the Emerald sports staff to have a game of softball with the Barometer hit and run men. On the Level First we thought he was jok ing. What fool would flirt with sheer suicide ? But this babbling lad continued. Finally, we be came convinced that he was in dead seriousness, so we quickly accepted the challenge and as sented our approval to the forth coming ball brawl. The only thing that was uncer tain about Ibis gigantic athletic conference was the date. Late last night we wired Hancock Brothers in San Francisco to print up 5,000 tickets to the game. A Corvallis or Eugene lo cale has not as yet been estab lished, but in all probability, the contest will be showcased in Eu gene, for the benefit of Oregon’s student body and the town folk as well. A quick appraisal of the exist ing softball power on the Emer ald sports staff revealed the fol lowing information: (li Fred Treadgold is out of condition; nH (2) Rollie Gabel is not tcm enough to play first base; (3) Art Carlson is leaving in the air coips shortly; (4) Stan Pierson plays basket ball; (5) Mart Pond hasn’t got much hair; (6) Doug Donahue isn’t c-n the spoils staff any more; (7) Don Lonie may be tied up with a tiddledy-winks tourna ment; (8) Mary Alderson doesn’t know much about the game of softball; (9) Fred Eeckwith is training' for left-out position. Gabel After Talent And that’s a candid survey of the potential strength of the 1943 Emerald softball team. But in t{^| meantime, “Slugger" Gabel is contacting some Poitland “ring ers.” There have been no further communiques from Brother .lea ning on the subject, But just to make the situation legal, we run this acceptance this morning praying that Isadore, our favor ite carrier pigeon survives the exhausting trip to Corvallis; Good luck, Izzy! _ QURSOVS j w™™££COR£j