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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1946)
RANGY WEBFOOT FEATURED Ken Hays tipped in the winning bucket in Saturday’s 54-52 victory over the Washington Huskies at Seattle in an overtime period to give the Oregon Webfoots their third conference victory of the season. In the final seconds of the contest Hays again put his 6 feet 7 inches to a good advantage when he inter cepted a Husky shot as it was falling toward the basket that would have spelled victory for Washington. 'l|!lllll!llllllllll!!ll!IIIIUill[lll[!llllllllllll!!lll!!!ll!l!1lllilill[lllllJ!lll[lt[[!lllllllll!IJ!lttllll!ll!IIIIHII]]i(lt!llllllinflllH1lllllllllllll!IIIIIIII|[llllllllltlltllllllltlllfllltlltl!lilllilllll[llllllllll!!|[lllll!lllllDtl A Duck Sez - - Sez He By Lynn Smith There’s really a lot to said about Kenneth Hayes, one cf Oregon’s most colorful players, and all that’s said could well be said in his favor. Since, however, the space today is limited, only the most important ‘'»-«£.act about Kenny have been com bined below in order to give every one a better knowledge of the “ins and outs” of Kenny’s life in gen eral. Ken is now twenty-one years old, and a junior here at the University. Washington is his home state and although the University of Washington w’ould have been much closer to Ken’s home, he neverthe less chose Oregon as his col lege alma mater. Genuine Modesty One of the outstanding features about Kenny is his genuine mod esty. Although he never fails to excel in every game Oregon plays, he never refers to how well he played or how much “on the ball” he was. Instead, he just expresses hope towards winning the next game with some opposing team. “Hope we’ll all be in good shape,” he says. “We sure want to win!” Feel At Home Kenny has that special knack of making everyone feel like they’ve known him a long, long time, and he also has the power to make everyone with whom he comes in contact -feel at ease. He s.eems to in still much of his own sense of humor into all who are near him. Besides possessing such sterling qualities of spirit as have just been mentioned, Kenny is at his best socially, too. Dancing he enjoys, and music is a favorite with him, provided it isn’t a “lot of noise— no melody.” Kenny states that as for girls, he likes them, but that’s as far as it goes. Sleeping Hanks As for Kenny’s favorite past time: “Nothing,” says he, “can quite rank with sleeping, unless it’s eating. Banana splits are about his main love, besides sports. Take a 6 foot 7 inch blond haired, blue eyed northwest erner, combine with the afore mentiorjid character - traits, and you have Kenny Hayes, the pride of Oregon’s team, and a definite threat to all who oppose him. YELL IDEAS URGED (Continued from page one) will be awarded during the dance at Gerlinger which will be given by the rally squad after Friday night’s game. First Webfoct: They say a sharp nose indicates curiousity. Second Webfoot: Yeah, and a flattened nose may indicate too much curiousity. Returned to Form Casaba Men Drill For Husky Return Series Intramural Schedule BASKETBALL 4:00 Zeta “A” vs. Campbell Club “A” ' 4:45 Phi Delta Theta “A” vs. Theta Chi “A” Around The Clock With Duke By Duke Dennison Have any of you potential big league prospects ever batted against a better than average knuckle-bailer ? It’s tough cooking. First, its there, then it ain’t. That’s the way the story goes for the stellar outfielder of the New York Yankees, Charley Kel ler, who can’t, never will and has virtually given up any hopes of ever attaining the pinnacle of bat ting strength of the Red Sox's Ted Williams. Reed, you’ve been read ing too many sporting news. williams f avored Williams can faithfully show in any department of the game, a decided edge over the killer, and who, afield, is a giant on strength of past per formance. There’s no knocking Keller, but there definitely is no putting Keller ahead of Wil liams, much less DiMaggio. To bear that out there are such hurlers as Dutch Leonard, Roger Wolff, Ted Lyons, Bobbie Feller and Dave Ferriss, who McCarthy is eager to buy so that Keller can swing into line again. It ain’t hay. Money Feller Bobbie Feller, who, is drawing down the highest salary of any pitcher in organized baseball to day, is outdoing the big operators of old by opening up a baseball school of his cwn in Tampa, Flori da. Foremost at the opening ses sion were ex-service men in their khakis, but they were outdone by the 17-year-olds from every walk of life, and probably as many high schools, and old time professionals. The war has taken its toll in the baseball world, as well as in the other fields, but in a different respect this time. For the second time in as many years, the members of the Baseball Writers’ associa tion have failed to agree on any one candidate for election to baseball’s Hall of Fame. New Voting If it isn’t a known fact to the games following, there is a new method of voting this year for that purpose. Th.ei'e is necessary 75 percent of the total ballots polled to aline any of the 21 greats voted on at this session with the all time greats heretofore named. The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League are endeavoring to erase the stigma of last place from their fold, and with their ex-G.I. President, Bob Carpenter, flashing his fancy bankroll, there is the possibility of the Blue-jays jumping up the ladder. He has acquired Jim Tabor, slugging third baseman from the Boston Red Sox, as well as the shortstop Skeeter Newsome, Roy Hughes, sec ond baseman from the Chi cago Cubs and first baseman Frank McCormick from the Cincinnatti Reds, bringing to light for the fans, an entirely new infield, and a potential factor in next year’s pennant race. Seattle Visitors Will Strive For League-Leader Stride Casaba aces of the Oregon Webfoots are drilling long and hard in practice sessions this week in preparation for the com mg Friday and Saturday night tilts with the University of Washington quintet, who will return last weekend’s visit by the Ducks. Coach “Hobby” Hobson’s men are rounding into their best condition of the conference season for the harrlwnnrf with the Huskies. Captain Bob Hamilton will be expected t;o see more action in the series than thus far this season. Wilkins Hits Stride Dick Wilkins, regular forward, hit his scoring stride last week against the Huskies ana racked up 29 points for the Webfoots in the two game series. He will be counted on for the continuance of form. Center Ken Hays lias also hit his best defensive and of fensive form of the year in the recent games. The 6-foot, 7-inch pivot man is drilling for the tower of strength role in the host team’s starting line up. Division Toppers Huskies will aim toward a cham pionship form in the dual meet. At present the charges of Coach “Hec” Edmundson are riding the crest of a surge by competing teams in the Northern division of the Pacific Coast conference. The loss by Oregon State to Cougars of Washington State last night placed the Seattle men in undis puted possession of first place position. Defending champion scorers, the Webfoots will make a bid for upper honors in the conference race dur ing the two games. The con ference standings show a five-way race between all the teams, with ups and downs prevailing. Watched Men Big guns in the Husky at tack are Jack Pomfret, high scorer for the Seattle frays, and LeDon Henson, who is among the leaders in the divi sion scoring race. Sheaffer, towering center, and guards Dalthorp and Jorgenson are also counted on by Hec Ed mundson for full scale action. A capacity crowd is assured for the weekend battles. Reserved seat tickets are sold out, and only a few general admission ducats are left for latecomers. Husky Slant On Division Setup Seattle, Jan. 28.—The Northern division basketball race is ex periencing its most competitive year. Any one of the five teams can win the championship or be cellar champions. The Washington Huskies lost a golden opportunity by losing the second game of a two game series to University of Oregon. Washing ton was able to tie the score at the close of the regular period, but lost out in the overtime period by a final score of 54 to 52. The Huskies trailed Oregon by 2 or 4 points most of the game. Oregon was much improved in the second contest over their play in the first game which Wash ington won 57 to 46. Washington did not look as smooth as on Fri day night and could not control the backboard sufficiently to keep possession of the ball. A bright spot in the Husky line up is the work of Bob Jorgensen. Bob has had trouble in his basket shooting. It now appears he has SPORTS STAFF THIS ISSUE Co-sports editors: Fred Beckwith Leonard Turnbull Staff Writers: Carl Cluff Phyllis Litzenberger Audrey Kullberg Idaho’s Pyne Tops Division Point Tossers Leapin’ Len.Pyne, Idaho’s small but effective guard, is currently on the top cf the heap as fas as Northern division point tabulation is concerned. Performing in nine games thus far, Pyne has pumped home 89 points, a feat which shades the 88 performance of Washing ton’s Dalthdrp. Fred “Wimpy” Quinn, Idaho’s one man basketball show, pulls up in third place with 84 points. The rest of the top ten cagers are a bit more spread-eagled. Stan "Salmon” Williamson, Oregon’s little giant, moved up to ninth place in the race by virtue of his 65 points. It promises to be a hot battle all the way through, and at this early season date, nobody has the scoring business all sewed up. Following is the list of the top ten scorers: G FG FT TP Pyne, Idaho . 9 37 15 89 Dalthorp, Wash. 8 37 14 88 Quinn, Idaho . 9 30 24 84 Rocha, Oregon State 7 28 18 74 Hanson, tyash. St. 5 29 15 73 Mortensen, Idaho 9 23 26 72 Phoenix, Idaho 9 26 19 69 Carbaugh, Idaho .... 9 21 25 67 Williamson, Ore. 7 20 25 65 Pomfret, Wash. 9 26 8 60 overcome the jinx and will be of considerable help in scoring. Jor gensen was high scorer last year with 180 points to his credit. It ties the all-Washington scoring record set by Bill Morris in 1944. LeDon Hanson leads the North ern division scoring race with 98 points. Hanson scored 16 points on Friday night but was held to 5 points in Saturday night’s game. Sheaffer, Dalthorp, and Gill con tinue to play very fine ball. Dal thorp is up in the running by scor ing third place in the Northern di vision with 88 points to his credit. Washington will experience its most crucial part of the 1946 season this week when the team makes the Oregon trip. They play Oregon at Eugene on Feb. 1 and 2 and move to Corvallis, playing the Beavers Monday and Tuesday. An even break on this trip would keep Washington in the running. Winning four would almost insure winning or tieing for the cham pionship. Losing four would put Washington out of the running. Math student: I’ve added those figures up 10 times. Professor: Good work! Student: Here are the ten an swers, sir.