DUCK TRACKS
By WALLY HUNTER
Assistant Sports Editor
Athletic Director Percy Locey of Oregon State made a be
lated effort to quash the myriad of stories that have arisen over
his alleged disagreements with Beaver Football Coach Lon
Stiner in, a statement to the
press yesterday. This . state
ment might ■ have satisfied a
number of people, but it must
have paused raised eyebrows
in some quarters. Locey said
“I have no fight with Coach
Ivon Stiner or any othqr mem
^ ber of the Oregon State coach
ing ^ff,TL'ocey’1s. statement is
undoubtedly true, but it ‘seems
that it;d‘oe‘Snvt'cover‘ the" entire
situation. He might not be
having a fight with Stiner or
with-any-other member of the
btate coaching stall at present,
but has this always been true? PERCY LOCEY
Locey doesn’t develop the past—with the exception of the
squabble over tickets—which by now is a well-aired topic.
Near the finale of the 1946 football season however, one Port
land member of the Board of Intercollegiate Athletics at Ore
gon State volunteered the information that Locey and Stiner
were in disagreement on several issues. At that time our in
formant said, the situation was serious enough to have of
ficial circles consider seriously a change. He also cited several
good examples of the type of thing that was causing the dis
turbance._ Now Locey lays the trouble to “false” rumors and
malicious gossip, which have magnified the situation beyond
its true status*
Gossip, Hearsay Angle Overworked
Possibly he is correct. It has been magnified to some ex
tent. But if stories concerning this alleged feud are phonies,
^hen some responsible people have been taken in, and further
more, have dreamed up some new and original versions of the
story. This much-used pooh-pooh method of branding un
favorable publicity as “rumors, falsehood, gossip, hearsay” is
a fine old dodge, but it’s overworked. Many times a public
official will have good reasons for standing pat on a “no com
ment^ statement. Many times an official will have good rea
sons fe)r!'itot‘a'ttemptm!g to~ explain publicly every bit of canard
that finds its way into print or into conversation. But where
thereV smoke there is likely to be a certain amount of fire. It’s
time that people in public positions acknowledge that you can’t
insult the public’s intelligence for very long and escape its
censure. Someone is bound to scream sooner or later. This
screaming we think is entirely justified.
At times in the past student reporters for the Emerald have
been treated-with contempt and have been made butts of at*
tempts at rather vicious rumor. While making a serious at
tempt to do a job, they have been treated as though they were
truant children on a street corner asking the local policeman
for directions to the nearest wading pool.
Their questions were lightly treated and many times ig
nored. When queries were answered there was present an
air of condencension which would sicken a healthy horse. At
>^best it was a bad situation. In the present athletic adminis
tration there are no men of this type—for which fact many
persons have cried “hallelujah!” The fact still remains that
too many times reporters (school and otherwise) are treated
as naive children. They are brushed off, ignored, and gener
ally treated as one* would treat a misguided puppy. Then
comes the time when their tormentors wonder why it is they
don’t get the full cooperation that they demand. Many a
story such as this Stiner-Locey thing easily could be brought
into the open—not forced. This would help to thwart a lot
of the red-eyed name calling so prevalent in such situations.
Junior Varsity Loses
Coach Ted Schopf’s junior varsity basketball team finally
lost a ball game, and another unbeaten record fell. In bowing
before the Oregon State JVs, 44 to 36, the Duck juniors came
to the end of a 13 win string. At present the only unbeaten
basketball team on the campus is the frosh squad, also coached
by Schopf, which has amassed a total of nine wins.
Sports Staff This Issue:
Bernie Hammerbeck
^Wally Hunter
Bill Stratton
Fred Taylor
Bob Reed
George Skorney
Peerless Pieschman
Awfuls Win on Forfeit
The Awful Awfuls won the only
handball match Wednesday on a
forfeit when the Phi Kappa Psi
team failed to show up.
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She Licked Polio
Among the polio victims who climb the come
back trail to athletic success,, Portland’s Nancy
Merki heads the list. Nancy was crippled by polio
for the first eight years of her life. She regained
her strength by swimming. She is shown above
winning the 1500-meter event at the National AAU
Women’s swimming meet when she was 14. Pre
senting the trophy is Curtis Smithdeal.
This is March-of-Dimes season. Your contribu
tions may help some polio-stricken youngster to
walk and swim. Your opportunity is available at the
Oregon-Oregon State game tomorrow night.
Let the dimes (and dollars) roll!
Jayvees Stage Rally
To Edge Eagles, 51-47
OSC Stops Winning
Streak at Thirteen
After trailing for practically the
whole game Oregon’s faltering jun
ior varsity hoopsters tbok the lead
on a long howitzer by Ken Seeborg
with 45 seconds to go and then add
ed three more points, to edge out
a fighting Eagles quintet, 51 to 47,
last night in an independent league
fray. It was their fourteenth victory
in fifteen starts.
Behind from one to eight ponlts
for all but the final seconds, the
Jayvees had to realty make a
comeback to register their win.
With 1:50 left in the contest See
borg brought his mates within
two counters of the Eagles by
driving in fro mthe keyhole for a
lay-in shot, and then Forward Ed
Devaney hit with one of his fa
vorite shots, a two-hander from
far out on the side, to knot the
count at 46-46.
A gift toss by Chuck Taylor,
who was a thorn to the collegians
all night, again gave the Eagles a
brief lead, but then Seeborg came
through with his aforementioned
basket, and the JVs took over for
good.
Switzer Stretches Lead
Less than a half-minute remained
in the tilt, and when Jerry Switzer
made good his chance at the foul
line, and then followed this with a
lay-in to make the four point mar
gin the jig was up for the FaeW
Only once in the entire game
did the local stars manage jt
into the lead previous to theihr fi
nal drive, and that was early in
the first half, when, with five
minutes gone, they went ahead on
a rebound by Jim Bocchi, to lead
..7-6.
This situation quickly changed
as Bob Caviness hit from deep in
the corner, and Taylor tossed in an
other lay-in. From there on the
Jayvees had to fight to keep in
sight of their opponents, as the Ea
gles’ slow-down tactic caused the
usually fast-breaking college boy
plenty of trouble.
Twelve players were used by
Coach Ted Schopf in an attempt to
get a clicking squad, but no com
bination tried proved successful.
The Oregon team was obviously off
their shots from the floor, and woe
fully so on free tosses, connecting
with only five out of sixteen tries.
JVs Close Gap
Before Devaney tied the score in
the closing seconds the Jayvees had
really turned on th eheat to close up
the gap. At four minutes to play
the scoreboard read 45 to 38 for the
Eagles, and ragged action by the
Oregon team seemed to insure a
victory for the independents. But
the JVs finally started clicking for
a brief time and racked up enough
points to take the contest. Fred
Wilson, a former frosh man who
seems to have made good, hit from
the key for a field goal. Ken See
borg, who was Oregon’s only potent
scorer registering 14 points, sank
another, and then the already-de
scribed action took place.
Upset by OSC
The local lads had their win
streak of 13 games brought to an
abrupt halt Tuesday night by the
Oregon Jayvee squad to the tune
of 44 to 36.
After leading by one point at the
half, ( 24 ot 23, the junior Ducks fal
tered in the second period, with
shapshooting- by .Ward Pardaniua,
who has been playing varsity for
the State boys too, contributing
greatly. He scored 18 counters, 13
of them in the last half.
Oregon’s team was off its usual
game and made a very bad average
on gift tosses.
Lineups:
Jayvees (51) (47) Eagles
Hamilton .F.(14) Taylor
Devaney (6) ....F....(13) Applegate
Switzer (8) .C. (10) Hannam
Bocchi (6) .G....(5) B. Caviness
Seeborg (14) ....G. Phillips
Substitutions: for Jayvees: Don
(2), Kirsch (2), Baccelleri (8), Hol
loman (2), Henderson, Amacher
(1), Wilson (2).
For Eagles: Wimberly (2), A.
Caviness, Stillwell (3), Christenson.
Officials: Shisler and Hartman.
Betas Tip Omega Hall, 19-15
In 'A' League IM Thriller
It took the Phi Delta Theta boys
a three minute overtime to down
the fighting red-shirted Campbell
Club 19-15 while the Beta Theta Pi
squad won a close one, 15-13, in
the final seconds from a stubborn
Omega hall team in a pair of thrill
ers in yesterday’s “A” league in
tramural basketball play.
Campbell Club, commanding a
10-6 lead at half-time, led through*
out most of the game by playing
tight ball. The Phi Delts nabbed
the lead with a minute to go on a
field goal by George Watkins from
20 feet out. With four seconds
left Jerry Mosby, Campbell club,
dropped in a foul shot to knot the
score.
In the overtime period the Phi
Delts canned two baskets to win
19-15. Bill Skade topped the win
'ners with 11 points while Mosby
ed the losers with 6.
Art Milne with 20 seconds left
Hilled the Betas out of the hole
Arith a field goal from the keyhole
o give his teammates a 15-13 win
over Omega hall after the losers
had commanded' the lead during
most of the game.
Villard Wins
Villard hall outran the Sigma
hall hoopers 27-21 in a sde-saw
affair. Dick Unis paced the vic
tors with 14 points. Villard took
a 9-0 lead in the first quarter, but
Sigma poured in the points in the
second quarter to make the score
9-8 at half-time.
Ron Pupke led Kilroy hall with
12 tallies in dropping the Yeoman
21-9 in a one-sided contest.
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