tiojc Scale
Oregon (81)
Wilkins, f .
Dick, f .
Hays, c .
Williamson, g
Lavey, g .
Bartelt, f .
Seeborg, f .
Wren, f .
Bray, f .
Amacher, c ..
Berg, g .
Popick, g —
Fg Ft Pf Tp
4 119
2 2 2 6
6 1 1 13
2 3 3 7
5 0 2 10
5 0 16
3 0 16
113 3
0 2 0 2
112 3
3 0 16
5 0 1 10
Sa
13
13
15
6
15
12
7
5
1
2
9
11
Idaho (41)
Morrison, f ..
Evans, f .
Phoenix, c ....
Christenson, g
Taylor .
Merry, f .
Rainey, g .
Geisler, f .
Gano, c .
Ryan, g .
O'Conner, g ..
Fredikind, g ..
Fg Ft Pf Tp
2 115
2 3 2 7
10 12
4 2 2 10
10 3 2
3 0 3 6
110 3
0 3 0 3
0 0 10
0 0 2 0
10 0 2
0 12 1
Sa
6
8
5
11
5
12
5
6
4
6
2
4
Free throws missed: Oregon, Wilkins 1, Dick 2, Hays l, Williamson d,
Wren 2, Berg 1. Idaho, Mortenson 1, Evans 1, Christenson 2, Merry 3,
Fredikind 1.
DUCK TRACKS
By JOHNNIE KAHANANUI
Assistant Sports Editor
Sports Editor Bernie Hanimerbeck collapsed early Friday
afternoon. It appears lie developed a severe case of nerves
‘sweating out" an invitation to the Heart hop. At any rate
he had to he taken home. But
before they squeezed his inert
body through the exit and out
of the Emerald shack, he
charged me with writing Trax.
“(let in there and fight,” he'
blubbered. So.
We were absently walk
ing north on University
street Friday afternoon and
became entangled in a mess
of rakes, brooms, and wheel
barrows, all slightly
scorched. Apparently some
people had been cleaning up
the campus. Before we were
able to disentangle ourselves,
a pair of hoe handles
swooshed up and banged
against our incisors, upper
left-central. We thought we
had troubles then, and we
JERRY HUEST1S
proceeded to describe them in a few thousand words chosen
at random.
Our troubles really began, however, when we entered the
sports editor’s sanctum sanctorum. For there, waving his
arms like mad and inveighing against everything in general,
was Karl Walters, a varsity swimmer of sorts.
Walters Complains
“(Unprintable phrase),” Walters roared, “some people
around here don't know swimming is a major sport." It ap
pears that on several occasions lately Walters had been a
parly to campus conversations during which athletics had
been the subject. Kventually swimming would be discussed.
And when informed that swimming was a major sport, four
out of five would rear back in alarm or stare in wild-eyed
innocence, depending. Walters gathered from these rather
embarrassing experiences that most students were laboring
under the misapprehension that swimming at Oregon enjoys
a status similar to that of chess, spin-the-bottle, and pinochle.
Walters complained bitterly that Oregon’s swimmers
were forced to employ devious and indirect methods in
order to attract attention to the sport, for example Diver
Ben Holcomb inducing his pretty wife to enter the Dad’s
day hostess contest on the remote possibility that Holcomb
and the swimming team would receive parenthetical men
tion thereby.
We deplored, with Walters, the campus’ ignorance. We
recalled the herculean efforts of men like Jim Hurd and the
lived brothers, and their success in gaining for swimming
recognition as a major sport.
Parade of Stars
We recalled too the parade of impressive Webfoot swim
stars which followed—Jack Dallas, isherm Wetmore, Cub
Callis, Jim Carney, Jim Marnie, Jerry Macdonald. Jim Mal
lory, Dick Smith, Dick Allen, the IInestis brothers Herald and
Kalph, divers A1 Sandner and Willard “Ox" \\ ilson. And
there were Coaches Mike TToyman and Russ Cutler. We recall
too that Oregon splashed off with the Northern division title
in 1942, that the Webfoots were labeled the No. 1 team on
the coast in ’42.
We remind students today that swimming at Oregon still
is a major sport, as it deserves to be. And men like Walters.
Kalph IInestis, George Moorhead, Bob Hiatt. Don Rush,
clivers Holcomb and Tom Corbett are performing creditably.
And with John Warren coaching them, you can rest assured
.that they’ll either swim or drown trying. •
Hobsonmen Win'
'Verts' Spark
Late Splurge
(Continued from page one)
the score to 48-31. Then the green
jerseyed boys went to work.
Seeborg opened the scoring pa
rade with a lay-in, his first score
of the season in division play, and
the Vertebrates were off on a
wild-and-wooly run-b lock- skid
shoot parade that had the 5000
plus crowd screaming as if the
ND title teetered in the balance.
From then on it was a matter
of how high the score would mount
with the Vertebrates pounding the
boards and racing downcourt in
good Hobson racehorse style. On
one occasion Berg drove through
so hard for a lay-in that he went
clear on through the crowd to the
south door carrying a youthful
spectator with him, and on an
other occasion Popick executed a
perfect body block on the referee.
Midway in the second half Hob
son sent in big Bob Amacher, 6-8
freshman center, and the gangling
giant broke his way into the scor
ing column with a three-pointer
as he caged a pivot shot and then
canned the free throw that fol
lowed.
Tops in the scoring department
for the evening was Center Ken
Hays with 13, while Lavey and
Popick each dunked 10 for Oregon
and Christenson looped in the
same number for the Vandals.
The invading Idaho five ap
peared tired and listless, and
showed the effects of a pair of
solid drubbings administered ear
lier in the week by the OSC Bea
vers. Towering Jack Phoenix saw
but little playing time, and all of
that being in the first half.
Forward Dick Wilkins limped
off the floor with a bad charley
horse early in the second half,
but returned late in the game in
good shape.
Center Roger Wiley, though
suited for the encounter, did not
play because of an injured foot.
With rest prescribed as the best
cure, it is doubtful if he will see
action again tonight, though the
team physician has announced he
can play if necessary.
Sports Staff:
Don Fair
George Skorney
Elwin Paxson
Bob Wallace
Johnny Kahananui
A1 Pietschman
Fred Taylor
Bob Lavey . . . The fireball YVebfoot guard was awarded his second
starting assignment of the season last night and came up with 10-point
performance.
GridmenTake Over Court
As Work Units Settle Feud'
It’s a double barreled treat for
Oregon Dads in McArthur court
this evening'. Besides the confer
ence game between the Oregon
and Idaho basketball teams the
Dads will see one of the biggest
intra-school basketball games ever
staged. The varsity basketball
men will take a back seat for a
while and members of the football
team will don basketball equip
ment and demonstrate how to
push the ball down the court.
They are not just footballers
out for the laughs, either, but two
determined teams. Earlier this
week Mike Stedden, Oregon’s ath
letic ground keeper and his stu
dent crew of football players
hurled a challenge to athletic
trainer Tom Hughes and his pill
rollers, also football men, to a
duel in the form of a basketball
game. Hughes and' his team, the
Hughes Huskies, accepted and the
feud was on.
Mike’s Mighty Maulers (that’s
Stgjiden’s team), are set for the
big fracas and will be headed by
such football notables as, “Mar
rying” Sam Ramey, Wayne Bar
tholomew, Pete Torchia, Bill Ab
bey, Walt Donavan, Dick Brown,
Bill Behrens, Clark Stoven, and
Larry Stokes.
The Vigoro-spreaders and lawn
WSC, With Unit System
Trounces Huskies 54-38
SEATTLE, Feb. 14.—(AP) The
Washington State college Cougars
using the old-fashioned keyhole
pivot play effectively, crushed a
listless University of Washington
team tonight 54 to 38 to strengthen
their hold on second place in the
Northern Division Pacific Coast
conference basketball race. The
halftime score favored the winners
30 to 16.
Washington’s Huskies were
ahead just once in the tilt when
Jack Nichols, center, connected for
a field goal two minutes after the
opening whistle. Bob Hamilton,
whose one-liand howitzer shots feat
ured the Cougars’ first half attack,
tied it up at 2-2 and added another
field toss immediately to put his
team in front.
Coach Jack Friel used the unit
substitution system and in the first
half Washington's mentor, Hec Ed
mundson, matched him team for
team. Friel’s second string was
more effective, however, than Ed
mundson’s and the latter soon aban
doned the plan and left his varsity
in action.
Nichols, who was hardly up to
par in the first half, showed flashes
of his old form in the second and
took scoring honors with 13 points.
Bob Gaston, WSC forward, potted
11 using whirling shots from the
key for his field goals.
The crowd of 11,000 realized
Washington State was salting the
game away when the Cougars gal
loped from a tie score of 10-10 to a
21-10 lead in six minutes. Never
again did Washington come close.
Washington started with Bill
Vandenburgh at forward in place of
Sammy White, who has been ill
with flu, but White saw some, ac
tion. Boody Gilbertson, recovering
from an injured ankle, and guard
Bill Taylor tried desperately in the
first half to keep the Husky cause
alive.
cutters also boast none other
than Lightning Jake Leieht, the
speedy halfback on the grid team
and Oregon’s fastest sprinter on
the track team. Leieht has
worked out on the maples this
week ana looks terrific on down
court fast breaks. His speed plus
an accurate eye will label him the
man for the Huskies to stop.
The stars for the pill-rolling
team are “Bruising” Brad Eklund,
“Tiny” Harry Edwards, Pug May
er, John Kaufman, Howard,
“Fangs” Frarey and John Day.
Bruin, Indian
Quintets Win
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14—(AP)
The red-hot UCLA Bruins, setting
a new Pacific Coast conference,
Southern Division, scoring record,
swamped the California Bear cag
ers, 85 to 52 tonight.
The Bruins jumped into an 11-3
lead in the first five minutes and
were never threatened thereafter.
The victory brought the Bruins up
to a first place tie with the Bears,
both teams now having won five
and lost two in conference play.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 14—
(AP)—The Stanford basketball
team edged out the University of
Southern California cagers 55 to 50
at Palo Alto in a bitterly fought
Southern Division Pacific Coast
conference clash.
Center Steve Stephenson, with
his sensational backboard play and
his 15 points, proved the winning
margin for the Indians. The win
ners led throughout most of the
first half and held a 30-25 advan
tage at halftime.
Allton to Appear
In Portland Concert
Donald W. Allton, assistant pro
fessor of organ and theory in the
University school of music, will
be a guest artist in Portland
February 25, at a benefit concert
sponsored by the Oregon chapter
of the American Guild of Organ
ists.
Office to Issue Mail
Amazon Flat residents may
call for their mail' at the dean
of men’s office in Johnson hall
until regular mail deliveries are
established for the housing
project.