Duck Mermen Leave Today
For Delayed DivisionFinals
A. ten man swimming squad en
trained early this morning for Se
attle and the week-late ND finals.
The defending champion Washing
ton Huskies play host to the re
mainder of the conference teams.
The title meet was originally
scheduled foi? February 22 in the
Husky field house, but the Ore
gon-Washington basketball series
the same weekend put a crimp in
the aquatic program, and the
paddle fete was rescheduled for
Saturday.
Washington, last year’s laurel
winners, are favored to repeat
their performance in this season’s
fracas. Oregon is listed as the
squad that will give the Huskies
their toughest competition. The
Seattle powerhouse has already*
lopped a trio of ND and I’aeific
Coast conference records, the
backstroke, the 300 yard medley
relay, and the 400 yard freestyle
relay.
Second-seeded Oregon will pin
their point-making hopes on Ralph
Huestis, breastroke; Earl Walters
and Johnny Miller, backstroke;
Tom Corbett and Benny Holcomb,
diving; George Moorhead, Alden
Sundlie, Paul Thompson, Bob Hi
att, and Don Rush, freestylers.
1942 champ Tom Corbett will
attempt to repeat his achievement
Saturday, and Benny Holcomb will
threaten the leaders if he repeats
his performance against Washing
ton State. Only opponent to out
dive Corbett so far this year was
OSC ace Ray Staub.
One of the most improved
strokers this year, Bob Hiatt is
expected to cop the 220. Cougar
Byron Canning will probably press
him every lap, with Duck Don Rush
ranked third or fourth.
Moorhead and Sundlie will carry
the lemon and green colors against
such speedsters as Powlinson and
Trager, Washington, and Palouse
boys DeVlemming and Rohrs in
the 60 and 100 yard freestyle
sprints.
Hayward Shy Distance Men
As Intra-Squad Run Nears
Trackmen continued hard workbuts in preparation for the
coining intra-sejuad meet scheduled for hiidae, fs I a 1 c h 14.
Colonel Bill Hayward has been sending his men through
practices that stress stamina and speed.
Hayward is still casting about for additional distance
men. as his forces have been depleted. Leg injuries have
forced veteran spring track and cross country runner Hug'll
Stapleton and cross countryman A1 Pietschinan into light
practices. Neither runner is ex
pected to be ready for the first
meet and it is doubtful if Staple
ton will be set for his one mile
grind this spring.
Sprinters Loosen Lp
Carl Maxey and Chuck Beckner
have been looking good in the
runs, both finishing out front of
the men without much effort.
Beckner was one of Hayw.ard’s
top trackmen before the war and
Maxey turned in sparkling per
formances last year.
Halfmiler Stu Norene is ham
pered by sore legs lately, but con
tinues hard workouts as a remedy
for his soreness. He hasn't forced
himself in the half yet and prob
ably won't give it a real test
until the intra-squad meet.
Speedsters Jake Leicht and
Wally Still are devoting their en
tire workouts to distance work.
Neither of the two sprinters has
opened up yet for the full dis
tance and it isn't probable that
Hayward will have them do so
until later.
Shot Putters Out
Bob Koch, heavy hitting full
hack, has turned out for the shot
put and this will be a stimulus
to Duck hopes. Bob will not be
back for football next fall so has
decided to try his arm at the 1G
pounder. Oregon wasn't strong
in this event last year and his
help should bring in added points.
Pole Vaulters George Rasmus
sen and Don Pickens are spend-I
ing their time limbering up, Hay
ward giving them special exer
cises that will give them added
height in the jumps.
Bill Beifuss, Oregon’s No. 1
high jumper last year is on the
track warming up but not over
working, as a sore ankle is handi- j
capping him. Bill cleared 6 feet
5 inches last year in one of the
first meets of the year, and Hay
ward expects him to reach higher
levels this year.
Javelin tossers Lou Robinson
and Dick Shelton flipped their
spears lightly yesterday and Shel
ton spent time instructing new
comer Bill Bayliss in the art of
tossing.
French scientists have won the
Nobel prize 1G times during the 45
years since the scientific award
was established.
Don Juan de Onate, in 1598, [
headed the first colonizing expedi
tion into New Mexico.
Web foot Cagers Wallop JVs 21-I3L
In Abbreviated Scrimmage Session
In their second successive prae- (
tice scrimmage with the JVs, the
Oregon varsity squad looked some
what livelier yssterday as they
took a 21-13 decision after a bruis
ing 12-minute session.
This was a complete reversal of
form from Wednesday’s practice
when the junior varsjty copped a
22-16 verdict. ’ Howard Hobson's
team showed up piuch better oh i
defense as they allowed the city
league champs only three field
goals.
After the short tilt, the varsity
tried out their set-play offense
against the JVs and brushed up
on their fast-break style of play.
This was the final vigorous" scrim
mage of the season for either
squad, as the JVs have finished
their regular season while the
Boo luugii-aua-ieuuy reserve forward, vvno as a senior will be
playing bis last game for Oregon tomorrow night. He is expected to see j
quite a bit of action in the Beaver fray.
Frosh Win Garre
From Drain 72-25
Tod Schopf's Frosh basketball
quint, in its final tuneup before
the Washington high tilt Saturday
afternoon, larrupped Drain high
school 72-25 in a practice scrim
mage at McArthur yesterday.
Because the game was only to
give both teams a workout, it will
not count on the Ducklings’ sea
son record. The Drain squad,
coached by Bill Chatham, asked
for the practice session as prepa
ration for a B league tournament
at Ashland this weekend.
As is their style, the Frosh
opened slow, leading 12-6 at the
quarter. The Little Ducks really
hit their stride in the second
period running away to a 42-12
lead, and coasted in from here.
Bill Green was high man for the
Schopfmen with 16. and Pat Woh
lers hit 14.
Swim Review...
J\!^b tyitiali.
The University of Washington
swimmers will defend their 1946
northern division swimming cham
pionship Saturday in the 12th an
nual swim championships. This will
be the seventh time that the Hus
kies have defended their title since
the inauguration of the division
championship in 1934. The powerful
swimmers from Seattle have won
five out of the last six yearly races,
Oregon breaking the long list of ti
tle quests in 1942.
The Ducks stand second in num
ber of wins with four titles stacked
away. Following the Webfoots is j
Oregon State with one win, and noi
other team lias won a title.
Oregon’s heyday in the swim
ming eirele was baek in the days
when the sport was still in its in
fancy. Washington annexed the
first win in 1984 but Oregon was
second.
Xot content with the second
place rating, the lemon and green
swimmers swept the 1985 meet to
win their first swimming crown, j
The 1985 victory was just the be- j
ginning of a three-year stretch of
title teams, as in 1980 and 193'
the Ducks did it again.
The three year grip on the con-,
ference was broken, however, in j
1938 when the Beavers won their |
one and only title. Since then OSC;
has fared no better than thud in
any attempt to get back to top
spot.
The 150-yard back stroke rec
ord set by Oregon’s Sherman
Wetmore in 1939 of 1:39.8 was re
cently smashed by Washington’s
George Heaney. Heaney clipped
off the distance in 1:39.1. Ore
gon's Earl Walters will face Hea
ney in the backstroke race.
Oregon medley team record in
1940 of 3:01.3 is no longer. Led by
star Heaney, Washington erased
this mark just a few weeks ago.
lowering the time to a 2:59.3 mark, j
Only Oregon record still standing
is Jack Dallas' 200-yard breast
stroke mark of 2:26.G set in 1939.
Nichols Selected
As Husky Captain
SEATTLE, Feb. 27— (AP)— Jack |
Nichols, center and holder of a new |
University of Washington season
basketball scoring record of 204.
points in 16 games set this past
winter, was elected next year's cap-:
tain tonight. _
Boody Gilbertson, one of three ]
graduating seniors, was unanimous-;
ly acclaimed inspirational plaque
winner' and named co-captain for
the past season with Chuck Sheaf -
fer, on Sheaffer’s proposal.
varsity holds only a loosening up
drill today.
JVs May Play
Hobson, who is determined to
send out the scrappiest starting'
five that he can muster, openly
declared earlier in the week that
should any of the JVs show the
stuff, they will see action against
Oregon State Saturday night.
The meeting between the Ducks
and the Aggies will be their fourth
and final one of the year, with
Oregon State having won the first
three frays. The Beavers edged
out the opener 73-69 in overtime,
and then won by considerable
margins, 58-45 and 71-57, in the *
last two battles.
Same Starters
Chances are that Oregon will
open with the old reliable five
composed of Ed Dick and Dick
Wilkins forwards; Ken Hays cen
ter; and Stan Williamson and
either Bob'Lavey or A1 Popick at
guards.
Oregon State's set-style of bas
ketball has baffled the Webfoots
all season as the Beavers have
opened wide holes in the local de
fense to score almost at will. For
that reason Hobson has been
spending a good portion of this
week's workouts in polishing up
the Oregon zone.
Tomorrow night’s fracas will be
the finale for Oregon, while Ore
gon State has at least two more
games to go, in the Coast playoff
series at Corvallis, March 7, 8,
and 10. Should the Beavers win
the best two-out-of-three of these
games, they will advance to the
Western NCAA finals at Kansas
City. *
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