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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1948)
DUCK TRACKS By FRED TAYLOR Co-Sports Editor Oregon s campus will be athletically inactive this weekend, with all the teams on the road. The varsity hoop scjuad travels to Seattle today for the all-important series with the Washing ton Huskies 1* nday and Satur day nights in the newly dedi cated Clarence S. Edmundson pavilion, 'l'he Erosh quintet travels south, taking on the prep outfits of Klamath Falls and Grants Pass Friday and Saturday nights. And the swim squad shoves off today for a • battle with the Pullmen pool men tomorrow, and with the Idaho Vandals Saturday. Although the Northern Di vision swim season is just barelv underway, with each school having but one contest be hind it, the water championship is already sewed up, barring a tremendous upset, by the University ‘o’f Washington. Ray •Kireilis, coach of the Oregon water team, holds no hope of beating the Huskies, and is concentrating upon knocking off the Cougars and Vandals to snare the second place spot. In the three seasons since 1942, when the Webfoots last captured the title, the division has finished with Washington first, fol lowed by Oregon. This has also happened four times previous to 1942.” Huskies Potent in the Pool Since 1934, when a regular Northern Division swimming schedule was adopted, the Huskies have garnered seven togas, Oregon four, and OSC slipped in once. And this season looks like another shoo-in for the Seattle team. In a meet last week' with Idaho the Huskies took first place in all nine events; George Heany, a backstroker established a new meet, pool, ND, and Pacific coast record in the 100 yard race, with a time of 1 :01.3; the holder of the ND record for the 100 and 50 yard free styles swam in the 220 for the first time in his collegiate experience and tied the 14-year-old ND record. A meet record in the 50 yard free style was also set. Whew, what an afternoon. The above information is not given to detract from our aquaducks. Oregon at present has a good squad. One of the best things about it is that only two of the present team mem bers, Pete Hill and Paul Thompson, are seniors. There is plenty of promise in the freshmen members of the squad, as well as in some of the varsity men. But at present the team doesn't show the quality of the Huskie aggregation. Soft sounds of weeping, as into a towel, have been coming out of the Palo Alto area lately. Seems the Stanford Indians, rated pennant contenders for the SD hoop championship be fore th eseason starter, have been running into all kinds of trouble, which has just about killed the hopes for a high-flying finish. In their first four conference games, which they lost, the Indians were leading by substantial scores at least once during the games, only to fold in the later stages. The so called ‘Virus X’ which has been sweeping California, laid a good portion of the Stanford quintet low in the recent Cal series, and two members of the squad who saw action were unknowns till that game. Dave Davidson, 6 foot 4 inch guard and last season's captain has played only 15 minutes this season because of the flu. Babe Higgins, captain of this year’s five, is hobbling about with yards of bandaging around his leg. And so it goes through the lineup. SD Scoring Behind North Southern Division scoring, despite the one night splurge of Cal's Chuck Hanger who set a new individual record of 27 points in a SD game, is lagging behind that of their northern neighbors. Hanger leads the loop with 64 points, followed by Alex Hamum of Southern Cal with 54 and Bill Stephenson of Stanford with 50. All three men have played in four conference games. Speaking of the south, the Oregon basketball team was much impressed with the Cow Palace, the court where the Ducks battled Stanford and San Francisco before the conference started. Opinion was that it was a better floor than Madison Square Garden, and much better facilities. The Webfoots played before crowds of about 12,000, but the court has a capacitv of 18,000. It derives its strange name from the fact that it is also the building where the International Livestock Exposition puts on its show. Jack Phoenix, the lanky Idaho basketball center, hasn’t had a chance to perform at the standards expected of him this season. Last year he sat out several of the games on the bench while lesser men played for alleged insubordination. Just what that involves is hard to tell, but the rumor was that Phoenix, being the only big man on the team, didn’t expect to be forced to train with the rest of the boys. SX,SAM, Betas Cop IM Hoop Contests Today’s Schedule 3:50 Court 40 Sigma Nu B vs Cherney hall B. 3:50 Court 43 Phi Kappa Psi A vs Minturn hall A 4:35 Court 40 Phi Delt A vs Yeomen A. 4:35 Court 43 Sig Eps A vs Sigma hall A. 5:15 Court 40 SAM A vs Legal Eagles A. 5:15 Court 43 Delta Sig A vs Stan Ray hall A. The intramural basketball sea son surged through another blis tering afternoon on the PE maples yesterday at three quints ran ram pant over their opponents in post ing lopsided margins to notch their initial lower division triumphs of the year. In the afternoons curtain raiser the Sigma Chis showed speed to burn as they waltzed away from Triplicate Noses Field For Actor Arcadia, Cal., Jan. 21 —(UP— Triplicate, seven-year-old veteran of the turf owned by movie actor Fred Astaire, today nosed out a field of youngsters in winning the 510,000 La Jolla handicap at Santa Anita. By his victory Triplicate demon strated he will merit consideration next month in the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap. But less than a length separated the first three horses as Brabancon finished second and On Trust was third. Triplicate ran the mile in 1:37 1/5 and appeared capable of carry ing his speed beyond that distance, although he won by a neck. The son of Reigh Count moved from sixth to first in the stretch run. Winner Strong Brabancon forced the early pace of Breezing Homo and took the lead in the stretch but could not meet Triplicate’s belated rush. On Trust, carrying top weight of 128 pounds, compared with 117 each for Triplicate and Brabancon, made a determined bid in the stretch but could not reach the leaders. Triplicate paid $17.60 to win on $2 pari-mutuels. On Trust and Brabancon ar'e both nominees for the $100,00ft maturity for four-year-olds Jan. 31. I Louis' Reign Longest Yet NEW YORK, Jan. 21—(UP) — Heavyweight championship reign of Joe Louis, which nearly ended in his 15-round bout with Joe Wal cott on December 5, became the longest in the history of boxing to day. Louis now has held the crown longer than John L. Sullivan who was champion for 10 years and 212 days, from February 7, 1882 until September 1, 1892. Louis, who has reigned 10 years and 213 days, won the title from Jim Braddock at Chi cago with an eighth round knock cut in 1937. __i Sports Staff: George Skorney Elwin Paxson Don Fair Bob Reinhart Dick Mase Glenn Gillespie the DUs with an easy 37-12 de cision. Sigma Alpha Mu proved to have too much in the way of court savvy and ability to hit the hoop as they dumped .-Tench hall 32-7. In the final tilt of the day, Beta took a 37-11 win over Phi Psi. DUs Come Alive The Sigma Chi “B" squad found things much to their own likings in their match with a scrappy gang of DUs. Turning on the heat in the early moments of play the Blue and Gold hoopsters raced to a com fortable 18-4 half-time lead. At the outset of the third canto the Delta Upsilon players suddenly found their range and hit for four straight buckets to pull within six points of the leaders. It was to no avail however, as the Sigma Chis caught fire and ran away in the final moments of play. Bill Colver led the scoring with 14. Sparked by lanky Vic Menache, Sigma Alpha Mu turned the tables on French hall. With the count resting 14-3 at the half, the Sam mies began pumping shots through the hoop from all angles in the final two quarters of action.) Fiench hall lost the ball many times due to the ball-hawking and backboard ability of the Sammies. Hays Leads Scoring In the final action of the after noon the red-clad Betas out-raced and out-shot the Phi Psis. Taking command in the early moments of the contest, the Millracemen led handily, 18-6, at the halfway mark. Bill Hays led the leaders in the final two periods. He hit eight of his 10 points and set up many of the plays which sparked the Beta attack. Will Urban Tops Frosh Scoring With 35 Will Urban, deceptive forward on Oregon’s freshman basketball club, tossed in 13 points against the Ore gon State Rooks to bring his total to 35 points, enough to take over first place in Frosh scoring rec ords. Guard Jack Keller, who hit for nine in the Baby Beaver con test, holds down second place with 33 counters. As a unit, Carl Heldt’s charges have scored a total of 217 points in their Pour games thus far for a hefty 54.2 per game average, while holding their opponents to 149 points, an average of 37.2. The Frosh have a tough weekend facing them, with successive games scheduled against Klamath Falls and Grants Pass Friday and Sat urday nights. Individual scoring Urban .35 Keller .33 Taggesell . 23 Coleman .22 Fullerton .19 Peterson .18 Slade .13 Miner .12 Barde .12 Lebenzon .8 Wilde .6 Ford .6 Mase .4 Artzt .4 Dasch.2 Night Staff: Glenn Dudley Carol Fallin Jim Cox Bill Wallace, night editor j I / V COR DAY'S just a drop or two ... Black Magic for your witching hours A French parfum that brightens the night with its radiance. .. and invites the adventurous to explore its mystery. Long-lasting Jet—unmistakably a creation ol the master parfumeur CORDAy. Parfum: $40, $22.50, $12.50, $7 50, $3.50 Eau a’e Toilette- $4.50 Eau de Jet: $3, $1.65 (Plus taxi Tiffcsny-Davis 8th and Willamette