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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1946)
Ducks Wallop 'Firs' 55-37 Rampaging Ducks Start Slow; Dick Scores 12 in First Half By BILL STRATTON Assistant Sports Editor Oregon's varsity basketball squad made it four straight in their pre-season schedule last night in McArthur Court out running Bobby Anet’s Oregon Lumber Sales “Firs of the City AAU League 55-37. 2,000 fans witnessed the contest. The Webfoots failed to keep up their high scoring record, however. Anet’s quintet was in the ball game all the way and Sports staff this issue: Wally Hunter Bernie'Hammerbeck Bill Stratton Don Fair Howard Hobson . . . whose Webfoot basketball team last night lowered the boom on the Oregon Lumber “Tall Firs.” Coach Hobson’s men made it four wins in a row with this victory. Hobson was forced' to utilize every I player on the bench to overcome the rugged independents. Although the Oregon team hit a poor percentage for the evening, Letterman Ed Dick kept them in the ball game during the first half, scoring 12 of Oregon’s 28 points in the opening period. The “Firs" trailed at half-time by 9 points with a total of 19. Diminutive Stan Williamson started the scoring for the Ducks with only 25 seconds gone in the game and Dick tossed in his first bucket a minute later. Ron Pupke broke the ice for the Dumber Sales, but Ken Hays pivoted in the key hole and the Ducks held a 6-2 lead. Carl Brophy, who is rated' one of the smoothest cagemen in the area, tallied two more for the “Eir's’' and then Dick and A1 Pop ick hit the net in rapid succession for Oregon to put them ahead 10-4 with seven minutes played. Although the Lumbermen could not connect from the floor, they capitalized on free throws and Anet and Brophy ran their score up to seven. Dick connected with two more, and Roger Wiley scored from the key hole to give the Web foots a more comfortable seven point lead with 12 Vs minutes gone. <• It was sec-saw until the half was nearly gone when Dick and Williamson scored from the floor and the latter sank a pair of free tosses. Brophy tallied two more points for Oregon Sales SO seconds before the half end ed with Oregon ahead 28-19. Hobby started a new team in the second half, and Anet’s crew scored 6 points before Bob Wren coun tered for Oiegon. The Lumber men pressed the Oregon reserves until midway in the final period when the first five went in for Oregon with the score 36-30 in ‘Mike’ Jacobs Seriously III NEW YORK, Dec. 3—(API — Michael Straus (Mike) Jacobs, czar of boxing' for a decade, was rushed to a hospital in a grave condition with a cerebral hemorr hage late today, and after several houts his physicians said only his response to treatment in the next -18 hoiirs would determine if he would pull through. The 66-year-old promoter of a raillion-dollar-a-year fight busi ness collapsed as he stepped into a Broadway theater building to visit a chiropractor friend, pre paratory to departing for Miami Sunday, and was rushed to St. Clare hospital by Dr. Vincent Nar (jiello, New York State Athletic Commission physician who had been hastily summoned. Eight hours later, after consul tations with three other physicians, Dr. Nardiello announced that only time will tell, although he was encouraged over the fact that “Uncle Mike’s” blood pressure and pulse had come down, and that he was able to swallow again. tlieir favor and the situation changed. The Oregon starters racked up 19 points during the remainder of the period, but the “Firs” could not keep up with the fast pace set by the galloping Web foots and they scored only 7 more. Dick was high scorer with 12, and Anet had 11 points for the visitors. Oregon FG FT PFTP Oregon, f. 6 Sowers, f. 0 Hays, f. 2 Wren, f . 1 Wiley, c .:. 3 Ducich, c . 0 Amacher, c. 0 Williamson, g. 3 Crowell, g. 0 Berg, g . 0 Popick, g. 4 .. 1 .. 2 ,.22 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 2 0 1 0 1 11 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 3 3 0 3 1 0 18 12 0 4 4 6 0 0 11 2 0 9 2 5 55 FG FT PFTP 2 6 2 10 2 3 1 0 Seeborg, g . Lavey, g . Total . .Oregon Lumber Sales Brophy, f . Burris, f . Anet, f. Marshik, c . Danner, c . Applegate, c. 0 Pupke, g . 2 Karnes, g . 1 Kelly, g . 1 Dowdy, g . 0 Totals.12 Free throws missed by Oregon 4: Williams, 1, Hays 2, Lavey. Oregon Lumber Sales 8: Brophy 2, Pupke 3. Kelly 1. Dowdy 1. Officials: Koch and Johansen. 2 5 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 13 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 10 6 11 2 0 0 4 2 2 0 37 Give your breakage fee to the stu ( dent union fund. Group Picked To Study IM Rule Changes At a meeting of all intramural managers in the PE building yes terday afternoon, a five man com mittee was nominated from those present to revise the present touch football rules. In addition, the drawings for the semi-finals of the volleyball tourney were arranged. The five men elected to look into the grid rules, which haven’t been changed since 1941, were “Soup” Kreiger, an official; Bob Aiken, ATO; Dick Burns, Sigma Chi; Ray mond Farmer, Beta; and Bob Mos by, Campbell Club. Semifinals in Volleyball A bracket: Wednesday—4 p. ni., Phi Delt vs. Phi Gamma Delta; ATO vs. Delta Upsilon. 5 p. m., Theta Chi vs. Beta Theta Pi; Delta Tau Delta, Thursday—t p. m., Sigma Chi vs. Beta Theta Pi; ATO vs. Campbell Club; Kappa Sigma, bye. Denver Cancels Game DENVER, Dec. 3—(AP)—A post season football game between Denver University and Southern Methodist university was cancelled tonight by Athletic Director Clyde Hubbard after being informed that Denver’s Alamo Bowl appearance New Year’s Day prohibits it. The student union drive is under way. _ _ ^ Emerald > pjb&vk Vandals] Lose 46-35_ In EasternlDebut j NEW YORK, Dec. 3—(AP)— Sparked by Joe Galiber, a fourth string center, City College turned on the heat in the final seven min utes to come from behind and de feat a towering Idaho quintet 46-35. Tuesday night as Madison Square Garden ushered in its 13th annual college basketball season before a Orangemen Win From Grocers CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 3—(AP) —Coach Slats Gill’s Oregon State Beavers played a fast breaking game of basketball here tonight while trimming the independent Portland' General Grocers 75 to 31 as OSC made its 1946 debut on the hardwood. Shorter on the average than Gill’s recent basketball squads, the starting line-up of four lettermen and a San Francisco university transfer star looked quick on the plays and plenty fast as they notched a half-time 42-11 score and with plenty of substitutions to the final gun. Lew Beck, an OSC 1943 All Coaster at guard, hauled' in 16 points to high man honors,while Red Rocha, last year's Northern Division high scorer, netted 13. crowd of 17,283. Galiber, who sat on the bench for the first 30 minutes scored five points and fed beautifully for addi tional scores by his mates. Displaying superior skill as ball handlers but badly handicapped by their comparative stature, the CCNY Beavers managed to keep in front of the westerners for the most part of the opening half, but the Vandals, paced by their All-Pacific Coast conference forward, Fred Quinn, drew abreast two minutes before intermission and forged into the lead at the end of the period 19-16 on a pair of free throws by Norman Fredekind and another by Grant Mortensen. City trailed 30-24 early in the second half as Quinn, helped by six foot-nine inch Bill Phoenix, ac counted for nine of Idaho’s first 11 points. ^ The appearance of Galiber spurred the Beavers to a six-point scoring spree which tied the score at 30-all. In the next six minutes, the Beavers connected for 10 points while holding the Vandals to a pair of free throws by Phoe nix and Mortensen to lead 40-32. The loss of Quinn on personals with eight minutes left hurt Ida ho considerably. Quinn led the scorers with 12 points, while Hilty Shapiro paced the winners with nine. STAN \\ ILLIAMSON . . . who has been floor captain and a mainstay (if tiie Oregon attack during the first four pre-season games. “Salmon” has a knack for faking his opponents into the nickel seats.