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DUCK TRACKS By DON FAIR Co-Sports Editor The Oregon basketball team was cold Saturday night, except from the free throw line, when they defeated Oregon State 42-41. but the fact remains that they won the ball game. It does n’t make an)- difference whether the margin is one or 21 points, as long as the Webfoot team was on the long end. Along with the Oregon victor) comes the good news of the uncovering of another clutch player, Paid Cooper, and the bad news of the loss of Marv Rassmussen, veteran forward, for tire season. While shooting a lay-in in pregame warmup practice, Rass mussen's knee buckled under him. and although it was put in shape before game time, the big fellow is out of competition. This is a tough blow, not only to the Webfoot team, but to Rass mussen himself. The big, likeable athlete is one of those rarities who is a “good guy". To say that the team will miss him is an under statement. but there is no need taking the chance of permanent injury to the knee. Xo competitive sport is worth the sacrifice. Cooper, who has slowly been proving himself throughout the season, came through when the blue chips were on the line in those last 10 minutes, and Oregon trailing 28-23. The first time he got his hands on the ball, he pivoted around and banked in a honey of a left-hand hook toss. A few minutes later, he added his second basket, a 30-foot one-hander which very neatly clipped the twine. That Corvallis gym was a madhouse—when Oregon State made a basket. You could count the Oregon rooters,-except for the team itself, on one had. Silence reigned when the Webfoots countered. The floor also wasn't in any great shape for the battle. For some reason, it was slick as ice. Time after time, the Oregon cagers went sprawling when trying to execute a quick stop or pivot. The Beavers managed better footing, however, through out the contest. The refereeing again left much to be desired. Oregon was no more a victim of it than OSC, but still the officials seemed sleepy-eyed about the whole thing. Roger Wiley was swarmed on under the boards and out by the key when setting up plays. More than once, the Aggie defenders wrapped their arms about him in sortof bearhug. The Beavers refused to run with the Ducks, and slowed the pace to their deliberate set-em-up style. Still their plays didn’t click consistently, as the Oregon team turned in their best defensive game of the season. The Webfoots were checking man-to-man and sticking like glue. Dick Wilkins was excep tional in this department as he kept cagey Cliff Crandall from making a single field goal. The Oregon State player who impressed us most was Norm Carev. The 5 foot-11 inch forward is a sweet ball-handler and can dribble in and out and down court with the best in the business. Jim Catterall was the Aggfes shot-maker, but he choked up visibly in the second half. As a whole, the Oregon State quint is a gang of long-shot deadeyes, but the Oregon de , fense cut their percentage down considerably. Timer End.Game Too Soon When the timer’s gun fired 13 seconds before the actual end of the game, everyone in the house was stunned. The Oregon team leaped onto the floor to congratulate their men, but Beaver coach Slats Gill leaped to the scorer’s bench to find out what the matter was. Then players and spectators were shuttled off the floor, and the game resumed. Kenny Seeborg’s length-of-the-floor pass in those dying seconds was not just a wild, erratic heave, but was intended for Cooper down under the Aggie basket. However Cooper, because of the poor background, couldn’t judge where the pass was coming until it was too late. And Oregon State had six seconds to put in a Frank Merriwell winning basket. They did take one shot at the hoop before the gun sounded, but Catterall’s toss from 30 feet away hit the side of the rim and bounded harmlessly off. From the bench, it was obvious that the ball was not going into two-point territory, and that meant the ball game to Oregon. Not enough can be said for Oregon’s free throw shooting —16 out of 18. In the last two minutes, with Oregon leading 41-39, Wiley was fouled. Being team captain, he had the choice to either take the ball out of bounds and stall, or shoot the charity. The big pivot man calmly toed the line, and without hesitation, swished in what was to be the deciding point. Throughout that final half, the Webfoots were placing money ball. Each basket clearly stands out—W ilkin's long two-hander; Reedy Berg's hook shot cutting across the key, one of two beauties he canned; Stan Williamson’s 35-foot net splicer; two cripples and a left-hander from the key by Wiley; and Cooper’s pair of baskets. Maybe some will feel that the win was an upset. But it was a case of an Oregon team, that couldn't find the basket all even ing. scrapping back to win a game that, despite everything, ^they weren’t going to lose. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sammies, Lambda Chi Cop IM Games Today’s Schedule (All B Games) 3:50 Delts vs Campbell 3:50 Sigma Nu vs Phi Sigs 4:35 Phi Delts vs SAE 4 :S5 Kappa Sig vs Phi Kaps 5:15 Chi Psi vs Theta Chi 5:15 ATO vs Pi Kaps Handball' Sig Eps vs Theta Chi By JOHN BARTON Yesterday’s Intramural basket ball tilts featured the first round of “B” games and wound up with a hot game between Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Gamma Delta going into the second overtime before the Fijis came out on top 22-17. The Handball Results Lambda Chi Alpha swept the singles games to win yesterday’s handball matches from the Merrick hall team, two games to one. Bill Davis beat out Fred Dahl quist 21-1 and 21-0 to take the first singles match for Lambda Chi. The second singles game again finished with Lambda Chi ahead as Harry Granger defeated Dave Cole 21-0 and 21-2. Merrick hall took the doubles game by downing Lambda Chi 21-8 and 21-12. Ed Ladendorff and Tom Hatfield played for Mer rick; Tom Patton and Bill Liew ellen for Lambda Chi. other contests of the afternoon finished with Sigma Phi Epsilon over Beta Theta Pi 24-15 and Lambda Chi Alpha on top of Min turn hall 13-11. Fijis Top SAM In the best game of the after noon, the teams from Fiji and SAM went into two overtime periods be fore the height of Fiji center Ray Keidenrich finally provided the winning margin for his team. The Sammies were in the lead at the end of the first quarter 4-2, but halfway through the second period the Fijis tied the game up at four-all and went on to lead' at the half by a 7-6 count. Score at the end of regular game time was tied at 13-13. Heiden rich who was high with nine points for the Fijis, got hot in the final three-minute over-time to put his team in front 22-17. Marv Horen stein was high for the Sammies with five points. Teamwork and drive provided trie winning spark for the Sig Ep team in the first tilt of the after noon, as they easily downed the Beta five in a rough and tumble game. The winners gained an 11 3 halftime edge and went on to hold the Betas scoreless in the third quarter to build up a lead of 18-3 at the end of this period. Norton Smith broke the drought for the Betas when he poured in a bucket in the early part of the fourth quarter. j Spee Dick Northam and Chuck | Kitchell of the Beta squad shared high-point honors for the game with eight counters apiece. In a wild game that looked more like a handball - match under the backboards, Lambda Chi Alpha kept steadily ahead of the team from Minturn to finish out front 13-11. The boys turned in the low est scoring game of the afternoon. Score at the end of the half was 5-4 with Lambda Chi on top. The Minturn men were held scoreless in the third period as the Lambda Chis added three markers to their total for an 8-4 third-quar ter score. The game finished fast as both teams scored a fielder with 30 seconds to go. High for Lambda Chi was Chuck Marks with six markers, and Allen Smythe shared honors by dumping in six for Min turn. Oregon W Emerald SPORTS Don Fair, Frecl Taylor, Co-Sports Editors \* Cage Official Favors Slowing Down Game NEW YORK, Jan. 19—(UP)— Natty Matty Begovich, wearing a double-breasted grey pin stripe in stead of the traditional referee’s zebra-striped ensemble, pleaded to day on behalf of players, coaches, and officials to “slow down this rat race game of basketball.” Begovich. speaking before the New York Basketball Writers' weekly luncheon, recommended several rules changes which “will help all oof us live longer.” “I’m not kidding,” he said. “This game, the way it is played now is hard on the youngsters. They shouldn't be kept running at full speed the way they do. And it is hard on the coaches, who have to keep watching these runaway one handed shoooters ruin the hard, fine work they have done on defen sive play. And last of all, it is hard on us officials.” Begovich, one of the top officials in the game, said that he had never seen a season when there had been so many abusive and degrading re marks directed at officials, and he blamed much of it for the necessity of trying to keep pace with the whirlwind game. “The game of basketball is a mighty tough proposition,” he said. “It is the most difficult of all our major sports to coach, the most i difficult to play, and the most dif ' ficult to officiate. Packed with ac tion like it is we have to make spontaneous calls, with no chance for a second guess. We have 'to make from 150 to 200 decisions in a game on fouls, held balls, double dribbles, and other violations.” j Begovich said that some of the I whistle tooting could be eliminat | ed, and one of his chief recommen dations in that respect was for a “delayed whistle,” similar to one used in hockey, whereby the ref eree is permitted to withhold de cision on a foul until after the com pletion of a play. Illustrating how the “delayed whistle” would work, Begovich said a man going down court with the ball might be fouled en route but would ordinarily be able to con tinue toward the basket. “Under the rules now, we are forced to blow the whistle and stop the play at that point,” he said. “I recommend letting him go on through, withholding the whistle until after he shoots.” He also urged that in shooting melees under the basket, players who merely tap in the ball get only one point instead of two for field goals and that it be up to the referee to decide whether the ball was dropped or pushed. CAKES BREAD, COOKIES Eat and Delight in Our Pastries Home Bakery and DELICATESSEN 86 E. Broadway Phone 4118