DUCK TRACKS
By BERNIE HAMMERBECK
Sports Editor
Coach Howard Hobson’s Webfoots are not the only Pa
cific Coast team to fall on their collective ears thus far in 1947
conference play. Equally as disappointing has been the plight
of the Southern California Tro
jans.
The Mighty Men of Troy
boasted a record nearly as im
pressive as that of the Web
foots, and to date Coach Sam
Barry’s quintet rests on the
bottom of the southern di
vision heap with no wins and
four loss.es.
-First they dropped a pain
to the darkhorse California
Bears in Berkeley and then
last weekend lost two to their
crosstown rivals, the UCLA
Bruins. That’s not a verv en
ART McLARNEY
viable record for a club labeled the team to beat.
Sports writers on the USC campus paper, the Trojan
Daily, left the door open for possible alibis before con
ference play opened, when they claimed the Trojans were
in good shape as long as their starting five of Gene Rock,
Bob Howard, Alex Hannum, Tex Winter, and Fred Bert
ram was in action, but should they be forced to rely on re
serves, they were through.
In their four conference games so far Hannum has fouled
out in three and Winter in one. Their four-game foul, total is
4?5—by game 30, 17, 25, and 23. What effect that had upon the
starters, however, is pretty hard to determine from here.
McLarney Scouts Oregon Teams
Although Oregon fans were mighty unhappy over Friday
night’s humiliation at the hands of the upstate Beaver, there
were others in the house who registered an equal amount of dis
pleasure. Among these was Art McLarney, assistant basket
ball coach at the University of Washington. Art was in town
* to scout the two Oregon schools, and Friday night’s Washing
ton trouncing by WSC at Pullman, knocked the props from
under his enjoying the-evening. - ,
According to McLarney Washington has already filled its
new 14,000-capacity pavillian, but the seats in the ends offer
a very poor view of the hoop action.
Pros Outlaw Zone Defense
Hoop fans are getting quite a chuckle from the action of an
Eastern professional basketball league, the Basketball Associ
ation of America, in outlawing the zone defense. That’s just
about the same as declaring the five-man line or the T-forma
tion illegal in football.
Said Walt Kennedy, publicity director for the loop, “It
was done because it slowed down the game, kept scoring
down, and bored the customers.” All of which may or may
not be true, but what are they to do about a combination
defense.
Oregon’s national champ Alleycats used a combination de
fense in 1939 and on the same team in 1940 and the opposing
coach still thought the Alleycats were using a zone. That will
be a great day when the officials start tooting the whistles at
optical illusions. Or have some of them been doing that for
quite a few years even as things are.
Notre Dame Lashes Back
*»-—- Rev. John Cavanaugh, president of the University of Notre
Dame, hit many of the football “purists” squarely between the
eyes recently, when he replied to the NCAA proposal to clean
up college athletics. Speaking at a Chicago dinner session,
Cavanaugh charged that many (he didn’t say all) reformers
were more interested in de-emphasizing college football than in
eliminating dishonesty, illegal practices, and abuses.
Esquire Drops Annual Game
Many baseball fans are disappointed over the action of Es
quire Magazine in dropping its All-American baseball game.
The game scheduled for late summer was composed of out
standing high school talent from the 48 states.
Pat Wohlers, cotton-topped scrapper on Ted Schopf’s
freshman hoppers, was the Oregon representative in 1945.
Pat was an outstanding prepper in Portland circles in both
basketball and baseball, and was taken East for the game
by George Bertz, sports editor of the Oregon Journal.
With plenty of talent on the Frosh and JV squads the
best bets to move up next year seem to be the JV guard pair
of Jim Bocchi and Ken Seeborg. Bocchi has been troubled
with injuries but is very fast, a beautiful passer, and has a
- good shooting eye. Seeborg started slowly but of late has
improved tremendously. Another Jayvee who at times
showS a lot of talent, but as yet has failed to show enough
fight consistently, is big Bob Don.
SAM, K Sigs Take Close Games;
Theta Chi, Betas Easy Victors
Women Cagers
Open Schedule
Women’s intramural basketball
games get under way today with
two games scheduled. Susan Camp
bell and Gerlinger hall will play in
the Gerlinger indoor gym while Re
bec and Highland battle in the out
door gym.
Sponsored by the WAA, this
year's tournament is being directed
by Pat Mounts and Jeannette Maso
lionis, WAA adviser. A total of 19
teams are entered in the contest
which will continue until the end of
the term.
The teams are divided into four
leagues. Each league will have its
elimination. Winners will play off
with the winners of the other
leagues to determine the champion
ship.
In league 1 are Susan Campbell,
Gerlinger, Gamma, Delta Gamma,
Delta Delta Delta; league 2, Rebec,
Highland, ..Zeta, ..Hendricks, ..Chi
Omega; league 3, Sigma Kappa, Al
pha, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha
Chi Omega, Orides; league 4, High
land Shots, University, Kappa Kap
pa Gamma, and Zeta Tau Alpha.
Intramural basketball is one of
the methods of earning WAA
checks. In order to receive a check,
a girl must practice three times and
participate in all of her team’s
games. The check system is used to
keep track of a girl's athletic activ
ity. When she earns a total of 15
points, she is awarded a letter.
Thursday’s games schedule Sig
ma Kappa and Alpha hall in the in
door gym and the Highland Shots
and University in the outdoor gym.
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Sigma Alpha Mu and Kappa
Sigma held the spotlight in intra
mural “B” league action yester
day. In the only thrilling con
tests of the afternoon, the Sammies
tripped Sigma Chi i8 to IS, and
the Kappa Sigs edged past the Fi
jis 12 to 9.
Other “B” league games were
one sided contests. Theta Chi
trounced the Phi Psis 26 to 4, the
Legal Eagles downed the SAEs 29
to 13, and the Betas dropped the
Yeomen 24 to 14 in contests which
saw the winners take early leads
and retain them throughout the
entire game.
The Legal Eagles in an attempt
to win their second game of the
afternoon lost to Sigma Nu by a
score of 20 to 13 in yesterday's
only “A” league game.
Capitalizing on every break, the
Sammies led at half time 9 to 6.
Counting six points on stolen balls,
the Sammies continued their at
tack to rack up nine points in the
second half to lead by five points
at the game’s end. Fulop and
Saltzman led the Sammies with
two field goals apiece. Bayliss
topped the Sigma Chis with five
points.
In a slow but rugged contest,
Kappa Sig stopped a last minute
Fiji attack to eke out a 12 to 9
victory. Ending the first half with
a two point advantage, the Kappa
Sigs dropped in six more points to
insure victory.
Building up an early eight to
fr
two lead, Theta Chi easily downed a
rugged but punchless Phi Psi
squad. Hitting the basket with
regularity, the Theta Chi quintet
piled up a 22 point advantage by
the end of the game. The hdii
score was 12 to 2. Contrary to the
hoop swishing accuracy of the
Theta Chis, the Phi Psis were un
able to make any of their shdts
count. Tom Collie led the Theta
Chi attack with 12 points.
Using a fast break combined
with accurate shooting, the Legal
Eagles won with ease from a fight
ing SAE squad. Masters led the
scoring for the Legal Eagles bj
hitting two field goals and thr«
charity tosses for a total of sever
points.
Overcoming a half time deficit
of one point, the Betas hit w$tl
phenomenal accuracy from a 1
parts fo the court to rack up a 24'tc
14 victory over the Yeoman clilb
Trailing 9 to 8 at the half, th(
Betas made their shots good foi
16 points in the second half. Jack
son was high point man for th<
Betas with six points.
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