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DUCK TRACKS By BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor The undefeated Duck is no more. Mr. Cougar from Wash ington State took care of that in a rough bruising series. It was the opening series of the 1947 season and gave the Lemon and Green quintet s title aspi rations a stiff jolt. It’s pretty rough losing, the games at home with such a stiff season still ahead. The Webfoots are far from out, though, and may have met in the Cougar series just what was needed to start % them clicking. Coach Hobby Hobson’s five showed the effect of too many easy games in pre-season. Ex cept for a pair of rugged con tests on the Eastern swing the Ducks have had things all their own way, and their perform ances showed it. No longer were the guards open' for nu merous good shots in the key. Stan Williamson’s point total in the first game wasn’t STAN WILLIAMSON due to the large number of shots he took but because of a phenomenal eye in the first half. For the entire game Stan hit 7 out of 19 tries from the floor which is mighty good shooting—just about 37 per cent. According to averages compiled by Hobson over a period of years 26 per cent is just about the average. The forwards also found that it wasn’t as easy to get off shots, and when they tried to press and hurry them off, down went their percentage. Several times they took just a fraction of a second too much time in getting off layins and as a result had them blocked. Against pre-conference competition they ivould undoubtedly have scored. Should Look Better Against Oregon State Now that the Webfoots have settled down to conference play, they should start looking better. Their showing against Oregon -State next Saturday night at the Northerners’ gym should tell. And it will also pit two of the topflight guards in the country against each other—Stan Williamson and Lou Beck. The Washington Huskies boast a speed merchant of the first magnitude in Bill Taylor, and George Hamilton of Washington State was no second-rater, but they will have to show an awful lot of class to outmatch the Willamette valley pair.- • The officiating in the Cougar series was nothing to write home about, in fact to most of the observers it left somewhat of a smell. Coach Hobson and crew have made no efforts to use the officiating as an alibi as the Cougars also got their share of bad ones. Ken Hays and Roger Wiley were well worked over under the boards, all of which didn’t bother Messrs. Lee and Eustis a bit. Among the more obvious were the numerous slow whistles on held balls and the number of charging fouls which went uncalled. If an official calls a charging foul he can always be accused of calling it the wrong way, but the present cry is that they just didn’t call—period. According to the Cougars, Coach Jack Friel has spent the ^majority of the WSC practice sessions thus far working on defense, and if so it paid off in holding the Webfoots to 52 and 49 points. Bob Sheridan, WSC captain, was at Oregon as a freshman, but was Athertonized in 1941 along with a half dozen others including Bill Gissberg and Bert Gianelli. Gissberg is now at Washington while Gianelli played guard on the Santa Clara football team last fall. Norene Deserts the Beavers L. H. Gregory’s yarn in the Oregonian on Colonel Bill Hay ward’s card to OSC Track Coach Grant Swan thanking him for Stn Norene doesn't quite cover the bill according to a local version. Norene happens to be a nephew of Coach Hobon’s wife, and as such was the only one in the family who didn’t go to the University of Oregon. He chose Oregon State in stead to study engineering. Stu completed his college work but was granted an extra year of eligibility by the conference fathers. He changed his mind on engineering, and decided to continue his gradu ate work in business. Oregon State not being the place for that he looked toward Eugene. Beaver bosses -didn't like that at all and started giving him the sales talk on the Stanford school of business, or any school of business as long as it wasn’t in Eugene. All to no success, however, as Norene is here in school where Colonel Bill count ing heavily on him to produce in the half mile this coming spring. ...... v. Frosh Cagers Outlast Teddies, Marshfield; Remain Undefeated By DON FALK Rolling to their third and fourth wins in two days, a game-weary Frosh quint edged Marshfield 42-40 and Roosevelt of Portland 50-39 Saturday afternoon at McArthur court. The win stretched the Duck ling unbeaten season’s record to sev en wins. . Coached by an ex-Oregon star, Bill Bo'rcher, the Marshfield Pirates gave the Frosh their closest scare yet, before bowing out. Sharpshoot er Bill O’Neal of the visitors slipped in the first bucket of the game and the teams then swapped two-point ers with the quarter ending in a 10-10 deadlock. Pat Wohlers, southpaw Duckling guard, gave his team its first lead of the game early in the second quarter, and despite the closeness of the final count, the Frosh were nev er behind following this. At half time, Ted Schopf’s crew hung on to the basket advantage, leading 22-20. First Team Weary With his first stringers definite ly showing signs of weariness from their two games the previous day, Schopf inserted a new team. Sparked by Elton Lantz and Ken Johnson, the Frosh increased their margin to 35-25 at the end of the third canto. Chuck Rufner’s two left hook shots late in the final period put the Ducklings safely in front, 42 33. Despite a last-ditch rally by the Pirates, with five points by Ken Hunt and a bucket by O’Neal, the Frosh stalled out the verdict. The second tilt against Roosevelt, reputedly the strongest from the Portland district, started out as a walkaway for the Roughriders, with 6-foot 4-inch center Jackson Win ters pacing them to an early 5-0 lead, before Don Kimball aced one for the Frosh. Teddies Lead 11-3 The Teddies bolted the count to 11-3 as John Chaney, Dick Robert son, and Winters flipped in a trio of baskets. The Frosh rallied, some what cutting the quarter gap to 13-9, as Bill Greene, Wohlers, and Kimball came up with timely coun ters. Again in the second quarter, Kim ball and red-thatched Greene car ried the bunt of the Duckling scor ing as Roosevelt held gamely to a 19-17 lead. Schopf again inserted his reserves in the third period but Win ters and Chaney maintained their control of the boards and shoved in enough points to give the Teddies a 30-25 lead at its close. Back into the ball game in the last stanza came the startling Duckling team and the Schopf men really turned on the heat in the final eight minutes to cop the verdict, Wohlers, Roger Mockford and Kimball countered for the Frosh but Winters and Chaney slipped a pair in to keep the Roosevelt quint in front 33-32 with five minutes remaining-. But the Frosh were not to be de nied as they started their fast break to clicking, and rolled in 11 straight points and a 43-33 lead before Roosevelt recovered. Mockford opened it with a long one-hander be hind the key. Kimball followed suit with a left-handed angle shot head ing pellmell down the court. Lead Increases Then came three charity tosses in a. row, one by Mockford and two by Wohlers, and a 39-33 bulge. Wohl ers swished a long one-hander anc Greene dropped in a beautiful over Rampaging JVs Clobber Eagles 70-43 in Ninth Straight Victory uregon s iast-breakmg junior varsity hoop squad extended their win streak to etn straight last night as they romped over the Eagles Lodge team 70 to 43, in an independent league basketball game in McArthur court. The juniors lay off hostilities until Thursday evening, when a double-header is scheduled to make up games missed over the holi days. First-half action of the tilt was nip and tuck, as neither team was able to move out in front very far. The Eagles drew first blood as Center Howie Applegate sank a rebound but the JVs came back with a free toss by Ken Seeborg and a lay-in by Jim Bocchi to go into the lead. The count went up to 13 to 6 for the Jayvees, on two more field goals and a charity toss by the steaming Bocchi, a lay-in and foul shot by Lynn Hamilton, and a one-hander from the floor by See borg. But here the determined Eagles began to press the college youngsters with a sharp-shooting attack of their own. Score Knotted Chuck Taylor of the Lodgemen canned a long onehanded' shot from the side, and then after an inter ruption as Ed Devaney sank one for the Jayvees, proceeded to hit for two more field goals to cut the count to 15 to 12. Walt Kirsch temporarily lengthened the gap his-head shot on a dash under the basket. Fred Wilson’s free toss, and bas kets by Greene, Kimball, and Rod Downey closed the scoring for the Frosh, as Winters, Chaney, and Don Peterson vainly scored for the Teds. For the Little Ducks, Kimball with 13, and Greene at T1 were high-to talers, while Winters had 11 and Chaney 10 for Roosevelt. again with a long swiaher for the Oregon squad, but a gift throw by Lee Wimberly and a field bas ket by Bob Caviness narrowed the distance to two counters, and then the ever-present Taylor was fouled as he was shooting, and calmly sank both tries to tie the Score at 17 to 17. At this point Wimberly got hot briefly and rimmed two from the floor, which, combined with Apple gate’s gift toss, extended the eount to 22 to 17. But here the attack burned itself out, and the Jayvees resumed command, and this time they kept it for good. The Ore gon lads hit for ten points in a row, all from the floo’r, before the Eagles could squeeze in another basket, and then sank a free shot for a 28 to 24 lead at halftime. Coming back after the rest period the JVs kept right on with the march that they had started, seeming to gain momen tum by the minute. Before ten minutes had passed in the second stanza the margin was up to 2# points, as the Oregon quintet rained in field goals from all sides. Coach Ted Schopf ran his boys in and out of the tilt repeatedly, and all kept up the burning pace. The Eagles squad tried gamely to stem the onslaught, but the fresh replacements, and the speed proved too much in the late stages of the fray. Jayvees (70) (43) Eagles. Bocchi (18) .G.... (10) Wimberly Seeborg (5) .G....(5) B. Caviness Switzer (6) .C.. (2) A. Caviness Devaney (12) ..F ... (9) Applegate Hamilton (15) ..F. (9) Taylom Substitutions: f o r J a y v e e s: Kirsch (5), Holloman (8), Baccel leri (5), Henderson (1). For Eagles: Hannam (S); StiH well (2). FOR YOUR HOUSE DANCE Rent A P A System Record Player SMEED SOUND SERVICE G. H. Smeed Phone 4402-M WANTED! Mailing Clerk For Oregon Daily Emerald. Paid Position. Must be able to run addressograph. Apply Emerald Business Office after 10 a. m. 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