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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1947)
Beavers Blast Out 71-57 Win By BERNIK HAMMERBECK Sport* Editor Oregon State's high-flying Bea vers soundly trounced Coach Hob by Hobson’s Oregon Webfoots again last Saturday night as they walked to 71-57 win over the Lemon and Green at the men's gymnasium in Corvallis. And walk was just what it was, as the team in black and white (Hal Lee and Hal Eustls) came to life with a whistle-tooting ex hibition that made even the clas sy Beavers look like second-rat ers. The win put the Beavers three-up ©r. the Webfoots for the 1947 sea son with the Lemon and Green yet to score a victory. By winning the Saturday night affair the Aggie loam registered its first series win since 1942 when it won three and the Webfoots one. Last year the se ries was split. OSC Leads Early The Orange lead was never in doubt as Guard Morrie Silver opened with a cinch shot, the Ducks tying the count, and the Beavers then going ahead to stay when Cliff Crandall hit with a long hay-pitch er from midcourt. The first half continued at a fairly fast pace with the sputter ing Ducks trying vainly to click. An occasional fast break shook Hobsonmen clear, but for the most part the Beavers slowed the game down considerably with Guard Lou Beck showing spurts of speed to add variety. Several times the Ducks were on the verge of clicking but suddenly fell apart again, as the Beavers surged back with an attack of their own. Coach Hobson opened with his expected five of Ed Dick and Dick Wilkins, forwards; Ken Hays, cen ter; and Stan Williamson and Reedy Berg as guards. Before the contest was over the bench had been cleaned with a smooth-working five still unfound. High spot of the game for the losers was undoubtedly the work of Ver tebrate Bob Wren, who entered the game in the second half and tallied eight points on three field goals and a pair of free tosses. Key Hays High High for the Ducks was Center Ken Havs with 14 points on four field goals and six free throws. Hays fouled out of the game in the final minutes of the whistle-tooting con The Beavers took the tloor at I ho sturt of tin- second half with a 8SI-28 lead and proceeded to romp, boosting the margin up over the ‘20-mark. It was at this stage ot the game that the officials, Lee and East is, moved into the lime light. Early in the first half they had called four quick ones on Beaver starter Alex Peterson, and had built up large figures behind the PF column of another half dozen on each team. Then OSC’s Red Rocha left tire game with a bad ankle and Doug Martin came in. The proces sion was really on. There was little chance for of fensive play as the striped-shirt pair found repeated occasions for toot ing fouls in the back court. It was a continual parade from one foul line to the other as the minutes ticked off. •>4 Fouls Called By gun time Martin, Peterson. BASKETBALL Western Michigan G7, Bradley 02 Washington and Lee 101, Olem son 56 Tennessee 61. Mississippi 2? Ohio State 75, Purdue 61 Wisconsin 52. Michigan 51 Wake Forest 54, VMI 44 George Washington 63, Mary land 4S and Andy Anderson of the Beavers and Hays and Wilkins of the Ducks had all been waved to the bench via the five-foul rule. And with Rocha on the bench with a bad ankle, the tallest man on the floor for the Or angemen was 6-2 Cliff Crandal. Fouls totaled 59 with 29 against OSC and 25 against Oregon. Lou Beck captured top scoring honors from his driving post at guard as he canned six field goals and a like number of free throws for an 18-point total. Duck Paddlers Drown OSC SATURDAY S LINEUP OSC (71) Peterson, f Crandall, f Anderson, f Torrey, f .... Samuel, f .... Carey, f. Rocha, c .... Martin, c .... Beck, g. Silver, g. Roelandt, g Totals. Oregon (57) Wilkins, f . Dick, f . Bartelt, f. Wren, f. Seeborg, f . Hays, c. Wiley, c. Bray, c. \yilliamson, g Berg, g . Popick, g. FG FT PF TP .4 0 5 8 .4 5 1 13 .4 15 9 .0 111 .1 0 12 .0 111 .3 4 1 10 .1 15 3 .6 6 4 18 .2 0 4 4 .1 0 12 L.avey, .26 19 29 71 FG FT PF TP .1 0 5 2 .3 3 3 9 .1 0 12 .3 2 2 8 .0 0 0 0 .4 6 5 14 2 2 2 6 .0 0 0 0 .2 4 2 8 .2 3 17 .0 0 3 0 .0 111 Totals.18 21 25 57 Free throws missed: Oregon State (ID—Crandall 3, Beck, Anderson, Roelandt, Martin, Torrey, Samuel 3. Oregon (13)—Wren 1, Dick 3, Hays 2, Williamson 2, Wiley 4, La vey. Officials: Hal Lee and Hal Eustis. 4-in-5 Trips Out SEATTLE. Feb. 10— (AP) The four-games-in-five-days trips of Washington basketball teams to Oregon and eastern Washington and Idaho are thnigs of the past, Athletic Manager Harvey Cassill said today. With basketball the tough game it is, such trips take too much out of the men, he ex plained. Warrenmen Easy Winners, 59 to 16 The Oregon paddle squad made it two in a row over the luckless Beaver swimmers Saturday after noon at the Oregon pool, as they de peated their performance of three weeks ago, and pounded the Aggies 59-16. The Ducks allowed their oppon ents only one first place in the en tire meet. The diving contest saw a bad dive by otherwise steady Tom Corbett enable Beaver Ray Staub, a classy little diver, to annex top po sition by a scant four points, with Benny Holcomb of Oregon taking third. Get Early Lead Oregon lost no time in forging ahead as the Webfoots grabbed first place in the initial event, the medley relay, with the team composed of John Miller, backstroker; George Anderson, breaststroker; and George Moorhead, free-styler. Both freestyle distance events, the 40 and 220, were a neok-and neck duel between Webfoots Don Hush and Bob Hiatt. Kush hauled in the first place in the 220 with Hiatt pressing him all the way, and in ttie 440 the situation wns reversed with Hiatt finishing strong to outlast Rush by several yards. George Moorhead was the only double winner in the meet, copping both the 60 and 100-yard freestyles. Most opposition for the rangy sprinter was furnished in the short er event, as Dick Hazard, outstand ing frosh performer, matched him stroke for stroke for the first two lengths, but tired in the home stretch. Huestis, Walters Win Breaststroke and backstroke aces, Ralph Huestis and Earl Wal Workouts Stepped Up For Webfoot Trackmen Track and field men swarmed over the Hayward field oval yes terday in the first of a regular series of workouts. Colonel Bill Hayward, track coach issued the order Friday that workouts would be daily instead of thrice weekly and that all aspirants for positions would have to be on the track by 3 p. m. daily. Besides the activity of the trackmen, the field was covered by student workers getting it ready for the coming track sea son. The track had been in poor nape and rollers and scapers were used, giving it a smoother sur face. Another crew readied the field, rolling the football scarred sod with a heavy iron roller and gen erally putting the turf back into good condition. OSC Meet April 5 Oregon is starting the training program for tracksters early enough to enable returning service men to iron out kinks in their legs and to have all hands ready for the first run-for-sliow race against Oregon State on April 5. Track experts and prognosti cators point to Oregon as a team to watch for top honors this year, as the Ducks will have one of the most evenly balanced teams in the conference. With all predictions just on paper and judged by last year’s performance in the Northern Di vision meet at Seattle, the fan fare will have to be taken with a grain of salt, however. Hayward's biggest loss thus far this season is the performance of quarter-miler Andy Swan. Swan set the conference ablaze with his fast times last year and just fell to OSC's famous O. B. Hughes in the title race. Hayward had expected great things from Swan, and sideline observers had picked him as the runner to give Hughes a licking in the quarter-mile this year. How ever, he has withdrawn from school, and Hayward is now scout ing for another quarter-miler to replace Swan.. Even the field event men went through steady paces yesterday. Oregon’s two top men in the pole vault, freshmen George Rasmus sen and Don Pickens, flexed their muscles and went through the pre liminary steps in the high soaring event. Rasmussen and Pickens, No. 1 and No. 2 in the state high school meet last year, will carry the Oregon colors in this event. NORM FREDIKIND . . . topflight Vandal guard, is oiuiea plenty of duty on the University of Idaho invasion of the Willamette valley. The Vandals play tonight and tomorrow night at Oregon State and this weekend at McArthur court. ------"r ters respectively, had little difficul ty in fashioning out victory in their events. Don Kessler, Oregon's num ber three man in the back, outdis tanced both OSC paddlers to take a second spot, and breaststroker George Lipp came up fast to grab runner-up in that race. Midway in the program team manager Bill Abbey and Diver Ben ny Holcomb staged a comedy div ing exhibition, that provided plenty of chuckles for the rafter-packed house. The Oregon freestyle medley squad composed of Pug Mayer, Bill Ferris, Alden Sudlie, and Paul Thompson wound up the one-sided meet in rousing fashion, winning by a comfortable margin. Summary: 300-yard medley relay—Won by Oregon (Miller, Anderson and Moorhead). Time 3:26.4. 220-yard freestyle—Won by Rush (O); second, Hiatt 1.0); third, Church (OSC). Time :32. Diving — Won by Staub (OSC); second, Corbett (O); third Holcomb (O)Points 108.37. 100-yard freestyle — Won by Moorhead t O); second Oliver (OSC); third Sundlie (OF Time :59.4. 150-yard backstroke — Won by Walters (O); second Kessler (0); third Kies (OSC). Time 1:45.6. 200-yard breaststroke—W7on by Huestis (O); second Lipp (OSC);, third Fowler (OSC). Time 2:48.5. 440-yard free style—Won by Hi att (O); second Rush (O); third Ullman (OSC). Time 5:25.5. 440-yard relay—W'on by Oregon (Mayer, Ferris, Thompson, Sund lie). Time 4.07.5. Score Oregon 57, Oregon State 1 Badgers Hold Lead ANN ARBOR, Feb. 10—(AP) A pair of .charity tosses by Forward Exner Menzel in the final three sec onds of play gave Wisconsin a 52-51 Western conference basketball vic tory over Michigan before a capac ity mob of 6,800 howling spectator^ at Yost fieldhouse tonight. THE PERFECT VaUntim gift beautifully leathered billfolds and cigarette cases — Preston & Hales 857 Willamette Phone 665