Around The
Clock
With JDuke
By Duke Dennison
This is the way it goes from
here, sports fans. A lot of things
are happening from coast to coast,
but today we shall go inland to
the Windy City and probe for ac
tion.
The Chicago Cubs are going to
have three weeks of spring train
ing at Catalina Island, and at the
request of Pilot Charlie Grimm,
Walter (Dutch) Ruether, the old
time great, will endeavor to take
the Cubs six lefties in hand and do
a better than average job with
them.
The Black Hawks, Chicago’s en
tree in the American Hockey
League, will defend their newly
won first place standing with -a
thoroughly crippled aggregation.
Graham A Cager, Too
Back to- the basketball hoops is
Otto Graham, Northwestern great
of a few years back, and' one of the
best basketball stars from this sec
tion. He is playing pro ball with
the Rochester Royals of the Na
tional basketball league, which
team happens to be on top at the
moment with 14 wins and two
losses.
“ The Cubs didn’t win the world
series, but they did place three of
the eleven men on the mythical
baseball club for 1945: Phil Cava
retta, stellar first-baseman, Andy
Pafko, hard-driving outfielder and
Hank Borowy, Yank cast-off, who
was the answer to the Cub’s pray
ers down the stretoh.
The middleweight section of the
fight game is due for a fancy
opening with Tony Zale, present
middleweight champion, fighting
his third battle since his discharge
in Youngstown, Ohio, and Holman
Williams, contender for the crown,
meeting Joe (Butch) Lynch from
New Jersey in the Coliseum in
Chicago. Both of these encounters
will mean a lot toward determin
ing just who is going to stay up
near the top in this division.
Jimmy Dykes, whose White Sox
got nowhere last year, and show
no indication of going any farther
■>4bis year, states: “Ball players are
just like horses. They will run for
some jockey and play dead for
others. I know some guys who
couldn’t play marbles for one team,
but are stars on another. Players
are tempermental. Little things
disturb them, like coaches, secre
taries, roommates, etc.”
SPORTS STAFF THIS ISSUE
Co-Editors:
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Fred Beckwith
Staff Writers:
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Duke Dennison
Lynn Smith
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Sellout Crowd Is Expected
As Game Time Draws Near
By LEONARD TURNBULL
screaming crowds are expected to jam McArthur court to
the rafters tonight in witnessing a basketball clash between the
Hobson-coached Oregon Webfoots and the Huskies of “Hec”
Edmunson from the University of Washington, in a tilt on
the hardwoods scheduled to start at 8 p.m. There will be speed
to burn and friction enough to cause a conflagration of flailing
muscles tonight.
-t>ocn tne squads are sparked by
men of short stature and the
fastest court battles of the season
are on tap for the local’s week
end.
The Yapping Huskies are seek
ing the trail leading to the cham
pionship crown. At present the
visitors are topping the jumbled
heap in the Northern division race,
but the fourth place Ducks are only
a game and a half behind. A sweep
of the tw'o-game series this week
end would put the Hobson-five in
a clear field for a repeat per
formance of last year’s kings of
the northwest role.
Tension Gone
The tension of bad breaks has
eased and the Ducks are flying
high with the attributes of best
condition and morale of the year.
Men forced to the sidelines earlier
in the season are back, and the
air is cleared for a racing finish
in the conference race.
Tenacious and steady, ball
hawking Captain Bob Hamilton is
ready for a starting assignment
tonight. A nursed-along injured leg
has improved greatly and the
scrappy guard will be set for more
action tonight against the visiting
five from his home town of
Seattle.
The Huskies will also have an
eye on the sharp shooting of Dick
Wilkins tonight. The lanky Duck
forward has settled on his winning
stride of last season again recent
ly and is expected to give Edmun
eon’s floormen plenty, of point
trouble.
Speedy Crew
Washington men boast of a net
swishing combination with the em
phasis on speed. Yearling forward
Le Don Henson has looped in 100
points in eight games to place him
at the top of the Northern division
individual scoring race feud, for a
game-point average of 12.2.
Treading close behind his team
mate’s heels, Norm Dal thorp is
flowing through a third year of
letter winning with a point total
of 90 for this season. The heiglith
man on the Husky five, pivot-man
Schaffer, is an ever-present threat
on rebound plays.
The harawood duels in Seattle
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last weekend gave the Huskies a
silght advantage over the then
visiting Ducks. The first game was
the picture of a smooth casaba
machine, with the Seattle men
hardly making an error in down
ing Ducks 57 to 46. On the next
night, packed fans in the Univer
sity of Washington pavilion saw a
complete reversal of form by the
Oregon visitors and the two teams
battled through a regular game
time and an overtime before Web
foots finally emerged victorious by
the count of 54 to 52.
Large Crowd
Over 7,000 fans are expected to
stir the air in McArthur court
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PLOTTING HUSKY DOWNFALL •
Reedy Berg and Bob Kehrli will both be on the basket firing
line tonight in the cage action against Washington. They’re
out to win this one, and they haven’t given up hopes of suc
cessfully defending their 1945 championship in the Northern
division.
during' the game tonight. Tomor
row evening the story is expected
to be repeated, with the Igloo
jammed again for the crucial
clashes.
All of the reserved seat tickets
are gone for the two clashes. Only
around 1500 general admission
ducats will be sold at the windows
to latecomers who hope to watch
the Ducks attempt a repeat of last
season’s record of three-straight
over the Huskies after dropping
the opener in Seattle.
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