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Intra-Activity Sets Torrid Pace By FRED BECKWITH CO-SPORTS EDITOR Tomorrow night it’s traveling time for the basketball men of Howard Hobson. Our beloved varsity will roll over the roads to Corvallis to engage the Oregon State Beavers in the second stanza of the four game series. The OSC crackerbox pavilion threatens to be jammed to the rafters. In the initial clash be tween the teams, the Bevos managed to annex a “thriller.” There is every indication that tomorrow night’s basket brawl will be just as spine-tingling. The locals will again enter the fray as underdogs. In conference competition they are batting .333 having taken only one of their first three contests. THAT COUNTRY PAPER The Barometer, a newspaper produced by our agricultural friends at Corvallis, spreads a lot of good space condemning friend Bull for installing the Orangemen as favorites in their last tangle with the Hobsonmen. Everyone else in the state of Oregon had the Beavers on the long end of the count. How the Barometer sports staff (headed by a mysterious lass named Priscilla) could dream up a situation that would establish Ore gon as favorites, is beyond our immediate comprehension. Pris cilla did not make the trip to Eugene last week, sending in stead, two of her pet male scribes to cover the story. Words are apt to fly fast and furiously tomorrow night, for Bull and your correspondent, are journeying to the land of the Aggies. Bull intends to locate the writer of the sports pieces in the Barometer. And don’t let that southern gentleman front fool you. Leonard Turnbull can become very violent when the oc casion calls for violence.. But enough of this sideline stuff. The University of Southern California Trojans are antici pating the return of Mickey McArdle, the Hardy brothers, Ralph Heywood, and a host of others to their 1946 pigskin eleven. They even expect Mr. Cal Rossi, who did quite a bit of ball-toting for the UCLA Bruins, to enroll at USC, instead. Optimism runs so high on the Trojan campus, that spectators are predicting a Fall team comparable to that of the 1944-45 Army powerhouse. It's a nice thought for the USC rooters, at any rate. An unidentified rumor was circulating last night to the ■effect that Duke Iverson, ex-blocking back for Oregon, may enroll in school in the near future. In a backfield which al ready will include Jake Leicht, Bob Reynolds, Bill Davis, Walt Donovan and others, Mr. Iverson's presence would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally, our own Carl Winff. who covers the Jnframural games on these pages, was stationed with the Duke in Jacksonville. Iverson played a lot of ball down there, ac cording to Cluff. BROADCAST Coach Howard Hobson had a rather hectic evening- on his broadcast over KOKH the other night. It seems that the air time was hilled tor 8:30 p.m.. and in order to look over the script first, 1 lobby arrived at the station a half hour earlier. The announcer who had been assigned Jo interview the Oregon coach, was nowhere in sight. Me finally arrived at 8:27 p.m. Mr, I lobson did as well as he could under the circumstances. QUINN LEADS bred Ouinn, who is just about the smoothest eager in the northern division when he wants to be, is making a strong bid for high point honors, lie currentlv holds a 7 point lead over team-mate hen l’ync of Idaho. The onl) rub is that the Van dals have played two more games than the other teams in the loop, and the point race may find a new leader when the sched ule evens things up. Ouinn was one of the leaders in the 1942 1943 race, and it was a stronger league then.‘'Salmon" William son is not far behind the leaders, either, having pumped home 31 points. That figure places him in sixth place. Dick Wilkins, who averaged 10 points a game for the season previous to this, will have his work cut out for him if he expects to finish up among the leaders this year. Dick has managed to grab off 19 points during the brief in l< rvals he has appeared in three games. BEAVERS—BEARS? With a caution for upsets, we would like to go on the limb to predict that the Pacific Coast conference play-offs will find Oregon State and the University of California scrapping for the title. It's very early in the season, of course, and teams in both divisions may kick the dope bucket for a merry loop. If California can stop the USC Trojans in this weekend’s com Greeks Swish Cage Wins Over Independent Squads Intramural activity waxed hot last night as the Phi Gamma Delta “A” casaba squad grabbed their second win of the cur rent season at the expense of the independent Yeomen “A,” 24 to 13. To make it a clean sweep for the Greeks, Phi Delta Theta “B” thumped Zeta hall “B” in a fast contest, 41 to 26. The Fijis were just too much for the Yeomen as Chuck Taylor tossed in IS points to salt away individual scoring nonors tor tne evening. me iowa lad did everything but keep score as he repeatedly broke up the Yeomen defense and controlled the backboards. Halftime score was 16 to 5 in favor of the fratmen. Phi Delts Pressure With only a four point lead at the halftime, the Phi Delts poured on the pressure in the second can to as they tipped in buckets from all over the court. Hoff garnered 13 counters for individual honors but was ably as sisted by his team mates Candee with nine, Kay and Stevenson with eight points apiece. Hill led the losers with 10 scores. F F C (x G S s s Yeomen “A” Gardner (2) Derrickson. Luck Dennison (3) Roloff (4) Clark Fredrickson Beier (2) Lineups: Phi Gamma “A” (24) Benham Caviness (2) Pond (3) Taylor (15) Miskhe Ralston (2) Louis Galt Officials: ger. Phi Delta ‘05” (41) Zeta Hall “B” F Perkasitch (5) F C G G S s s s Ladd and Puffinbar Abbey (3) Hoff (13) Stevenson (8) Candee (9) Kay (8) Stanton Tansing Dienes Fry Officials: Packum Hill (10) Pelz (1) Keller (2) Kobenson (4,* Arment Matthis Olson (2) Jones (2) Ladd and Puffinbar ger. Nine Amphibs Honorary Initiates Amphibians, women's swimming honorary, initiated nine girls at a recent installation held in. the social rooms of Gerlinger. Pledged fall term, the following girls re ceived their pins at the ceremony: Lucy Trowbridge, graduate as sistant in chemistry; Lucille Bell inger, sophomore in liberal arts; Pat Mounts, freshman in physical education; Lynne Langa, freshman in liberal arts; Harriet Minot, freshman in physical education; Betsy Moffitt, freshman in art; Penny Welch, freshman in liberal arts; Birdella Bell, freshman in liberal arts, and Shirlee Heimann, sophomore in arts. The next meeting of the organi zation will be held Monday at 8 p.m. in the pool of Gerlinger. En durance swimming, diving, and speed will be practiced, anticipat ing intramural swimming meets and the forthcoming Intertele graphic meet. According to an ancient Chi nese superstition, swallowing the eye-balls of night-dwelling animals would improve one’s sight. TO DUTY i Captain Bob Hamilton returned to duty with Coach Hobby Hobson's casaba men yesterday, and worked out with the team after over a week's layoff due to-an attack of influenza. "Hammie’s” duty status is questionable, however, dud to a prevailing leg injury. Sorboe Gets Boost With New Contract Popular Phil Sorboe, head foot ball coach of the Washington State Cougars, recently signed a two year contract with a substan tial pay increase granted by pleased alumni after closing out his first season at the helm with the won-lost record in the black side of the ledger. 33-year-old Sorboe took over reins of the Cougars last season from "Babe” Holinberry. Under the old, one-year contract Phil re ceived S4.000 per year, compared with the new two-year papers which call for a pay boost to $6,000 per grid season. ing series crucical. the Golden Bears will not have to worry about Stanford or UCLA. Oregon State’s path will not be so sure, however. The Beavers must wade through their three remaining games with Oregon, successfully stop Washington and be on their toes when they finish the Idaho series. The Orangemen have to play top-notch ball all the way through. SFORTS STAFF THIS ISSUE — Co-sports editors: Fred Beckwith Leonard Turnbull Staff Writers: Carl Cluff “Duke” Dennison Dale Tyler Lynn Smith Larry Neer Carolinian Grid Star Blanchard ’45 Top Athlete Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the Army juggernaught, who teamed up with Glenn Davis, to make the West Pointers the class of football for 1945, won the annual James Sullivan Memorial award for 1945. There wasn’t too much competi tion afforded Doc in his quest to keep the Army amongst the leaders in the pigskin parade. Alan Ford, who grabbed the runner-up spot for 1944, was again in the second slot, with 432 points as against 923 for Blanchard, polled from the 500 sports leaders, who annually select the top man in the various sports fields. Carolina Crasher There wasn’t any doubt in any one’s inind as'to the prowess dis played on offensive and defense by the insurmountable lad from Bish opville, S. C., who is as good with the 16 pound shot as he is with the pigskin. The award will be made at a banquet for that purpose in New York City, February 24. Following this the national A. A. U. indoor track meet will be held at the Madison Square Garden, where he will match his efforts with the shot with the best ama teurs in the nation. Two To Tear He has two more years at West Point and the football world should see record after record fall from his line battering efforts. There wasn't a game that he didn’t put in 60 minutes of consistent foot ball. With the stellar quarterback, Arnold Tucker, late of the U of Miami, and Glenn Davis of Cali fornia, alternating in the handling of the leather, there was little doubt as to the outcome of any of the battles that were won on the field. Never had high ranking elevens, such as Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and the Navy been humiliated in such fashion. Theirs was to rue the day that they had to meet the on slaught of such a performer, and to prepare a defense against him in the ensuing year’s frays, be cause he looms as the biggest thorn in their sides than any other athlete in any department. Oregon ^Emerald BUSINESS STAFF Date: January 16, 1946 Day Manager: Don Persinger * Solicitors: Virginia Parr Mary Jean Reeves Earl “Bing" Crogan Office Staff: Virginia Parr Mary Jean Reeves Vernon E. 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