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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1946)
By LEONARD TURNBULL 1 .1 Oregon’s varsity basketrballers actually accomplished a neat trick in pinning the Huskies’ ears back Saturday night. There hasn’t been a Northern division quintet for some time that could whip the ^Vashingtons on their home court two nights in succession. Of course our beloved Ducks only garnered a split in the twin bill, but they were supposed to drop both contests, according to the papers. WIDE OPEN At this writing, the league race is wide open, and take your pick. Of the five clubs, only Washington State seems to be out of the running, but the Cougars and Gail Bishop will continue to make it mighty rough on the cage leaders in the cage chase. It’s Oregon State and Washington right now, neck and neck. When the results come in front the second Beaver-Cougar clash, the loop may be topsy-turvy again. Oregon has its work cut out. The Hobsonrnen, in order to get to the top of the ladder, must dump the Huskies twice this weekend, knock off Idaho on their court beat the Beavers in the remaining game at Corvallis, and grab three-out-of-four from Washington State. Nice little job, isn’t it? It's not impossible, but improbable, to say the least. When the Idaho Vandals left their dressing-room after their second night victory over Oregon earlier in the season, they vowed that they were going to win the championship. Thus far. they’ve started out like a house afire, splitting with Washington, dumping Oregon State twice, and defeating Washington State. Oregon s hopes may well rest on the giadual return-to-form of Captain Bob Hamilton. Bob was in the Washington game Saturday night for about 20 minutes, and that's‘very encouraging to Duck fans, because prior to that, lie was only able to make a few 3 minute entries into games, and of course was of little value (excepting morale) to the club. CORVALLIS CHARACTERS We note that the cow college scribblers at Corvallis are already mapping out their plans of strategy for the big casaba contest with the Kmerald Sports Staffers. The scheduled date has not been set as yet. however. With such sterling characters as Bull, Dale Tyler, Carl Cluff, Bob Reed, Duke Dennison and A1 Cohen to choose from, bow can we lose. The Bargmeter mentioned the idea of inserting some of their female writers into the starting lineup. We can answer that challenge by using Lynn Smith, the barefoot wonder, or possibly Rhyl Litzcn berger and Jolting Jordis Benke. Pocektfull of notes: Don Durdan, who starred on the grid iron and basketball courts for Oregon State a few years back, has signed with the San Francisco entry in the All-American professional football league. Durdan, who played for Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Station’s eleven, will try and grab a berth in a backfield that already includes Frankie Albert and Norm Standlee of Stanford, Dick Renfro of Washington State, Len Eshmont of Fordham and Pete Franceschi of the University of San Francisco. We’re going to try and get Duke Dennison, our jack-of all-trades to snap some, pictures at one of the intramural games this week. Speaking of the IM race .it’s developing into a pretty tight battle in both “A” and “B" leagues. At the present moment, the undefeated “Bums” rate the slight edge in the "A" scramble, while in the "B” chase, it's a toss-up between the Phi Delt’s and ATO's. Watch for our annual selection of all ir.tramural team at the conclusion of the season. FIFTY-FIFTY 'The Oregon swimming team is batting an even .500 for the league season to date, having waxed Oregon Statty only to k • crushed by almost the same margin by Washington. We would hate to think of what the possible score could be if Washington faced Oregon State in the near future. Creating quite a bit of sports attention lately are the fresh men and junior varsit\ quintets. Without the acclaim of their bigger varsit\ brothers, the Jayvecs and frosh continue to whip all comers of their own class. His varsity team-mates are pre dicting that Bob Kurhli may turn out to be a great basketball player in the Northern division in a year or so. As soon as he builds up his own confidence, and irons out a few of the rudi mentary kinks. Bob may fulfill all expectations. HONOLULU TRIP Coach Howard Hobson recently informed us of an offer he and his basketballers received from the Honolulu Junior Chamber of Commerce. Hawaii has extended an invitation to the Oregon basketball squad to play a number of service teams and other organizations over there this year. Coach Hobson stated that he didn't think that he would be able to accept the i: citation this year, because the trip would necessitate the Sigma-Law School Top Greeks in Intra-Play SPARKPLUG OF ATTACK hbb." mma i ... Pacing the Vv tuiuma otui mg uc|)iu uiicni 10 vjuaii VV miam son, 5-foot, 7-inch guard, who hails from the coastal city of Astoria. Rated as one of the best guards in the conference, Williamson is also considered the fastest on the Oregon squad. The "Mighty Mite” played an important part in Oregon’s over time victory in Seattle last Saturday evening against the Wash ington Huskies. Independents Start Spree In Coed Trial Casaba Tilts By PHYLLIS LITZENBERGER For the past two and a half weeks the coeds of the different living organisations contesting for the women’s intramural basketball title have been practicing diligently, getting in a few trial games and playing at least one intramural game to start the season off right. But now that the teams are getting into the swing of things it is time for the team’s backbone, its rooters, to get in and pitch tor whoever they are supporting. It not only gives the game more pep and vitality but also gives the team confidence. Susan Campbell has won again! This time, with their team clicking like clockwork, they defeated University-house with a rather top-heavy score of 38-10. The game was fast and full of action, scoring honors for the Susie girls was captured by B. J. White. Other members on this team who deserve special attention are Gerry Arnold, Betty Crabb and Thelma Chaeney. Independents Squeeze Monday, January 28, the Inde pendents tripped the Delta Gamma team 16-10 in a strenuous battle, which was fairly even until the 4th quarter when the Independents broke away and took the lead to ! emerge victorious in the tangle Donna Chapman, guard, and Jean Herndon, forward, did the D. G.’s justice with their very fine play ing. i Zeta Tau Alpha and Rebec House battled it out the same eve ning, with Rebec House setting the pace in the first quarter and con tinuing to trample over the Zeta Tau's until the final whistle blew with the sco^e. 16-3 in favor of Rebec House. ■ Yell Sections With a host of rooters for both teams, the Alpha Delta Pi's clashed with Highland House in a very fast and clean game, which ended in nothing but a victory for Highland squad to miss some twenty days of school work. Even con sidering the possibility that arrangements could be completed for a Spring vacation trip, the squad would still be away from the books too long'. It is possible that negotiations may be completed for a series of games in Honolulu next year. Another Northern division school is under consideration by the Hono lulu piomoteis at the present time. 1 he Hobsonmen made the trip to the islands several years ago. but the current gang wouldn t mind seeing the sights in civilian clothes, instead of the service garb they sported out in the Pacific for the last few years. Bill Mayther Paces Dorm To Victory Sigma Hall and the Law School quintets registered victories in yesterday’s intramural play at the men’s gymnasium by knocking over two Greek teams, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Beta Theta Pi in “A” league competition. The Sigma boys ran up the largest total of the season by downing the SPEs handily 53 to 11. In the nightcap the Law School tipped the Betas in a rough, low scoring fray 20 to 15. Mayther Leads _ Big Bill Mayther settled scoring honors for the evening with a total of 20 digits to his credit against the SPE fratmen. His team mate, Bond, followed with 15 and Holland added another 10 to the Sigma score as they tossed in baskets with ease. The Law School was pressed all the way in their contest and had the Beta boys been hitting their usual shots it might have been a different story. The “Old Men" from Fenton proved capable ball hawks, however, as they repeated ly sneaked through for lay-in shots. Beta Rally Leading all the way the Lawyers staved off a last quarter rally when the frat team closed the a single tally. Successive scores from the floor by Davis and Kab ler put their team far enough ahead to insure victory. Davis led the scorers with 11 counters to cop individual honors for the game. Jones paced the losing Betas with five. Lineups: Sigma Hall Sigma Phi Ep. “A” (53) “A” (11) Bond (15) .F. Will Stonebraker (2)..F. Heestand Mayther (20) .C. (5) Carl Scrivener (3) .G. (5) Kay Hoiland (10) .G. (1) Ferrary Kent .S. Grossman James (1) .S.t. AleKeel Dority .S. Mead White .S... MacAnaulty Morgan (2) .S Avritt .S Beta “A” (15 . Officials: Puffinbarger and Bolt. Beta Theta Pi Law m ~ “A” (15) School (20) McElhose (1) ...,F. (2) Kabler Jackson (1) .F. Conklin Smith (2) .C- (4) Sahlstrom Heed (4) .G. Walker Fortmiller (2) ... G. (11) Davis Rau .._.,.S. Luoma Hangsten .S. Jordan Jones (5) .S. (3) James Officials: Puffinbarger and Bolt. House,-21-6. The ADPi rooting' section was something out of the ordinary, with at least 20 excited girls screaming yels, lead by Glo Fletcher, Ameri ca’s undiscovered talent. OSC-WSC FLASH Washington State Cougars scratched out a 49 to 34 win over the visiting Beavers from Oregon State last night in Pullman to give the inland empire men their second vic tory in the northern division conference crown race. Gail Bishop showed the visitor^ that he had not lost an old touch, as he tossed in buckets for a total of 15 points in the night’s affair.