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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1948)
Olympic HockeyDispute ' Near Settlement Stage By United press ST. MORITZ, Jan. 27 - (UP) — Reliable U. S. Olympic sources predicted tonight that a settlement will be reached in the dispute over the American hockey representa tive which will permit all the other U. S. teams to compete in the win ter Olympics which open here Fri day. The prediction, the first hopeful sign that a solution to the contro versy was being worked out, fol lowed day-long conferences which left Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic committee, “op timistic” as to the outcome. Brundage is striving to reverse \ the Swiss organizing committee’s1 acceptance of the Amateur Hockey association team, as the official U. ft. representative and have the tf. S. O. C.’s team substituted. Failing in that, Brundage wants Dotn teams uarreu. The U. S. Olympic head remained adamant, however, in his position that if the AHA team is permitted to compete all other American ath letes will be withdrawn from the games. The American sources were con fident that the full international executive committee would resolve the hockey dispute in a manner! satisfactory to both the factions— the U. S. O. C. and the A. H. A. Brundage, the central figure in the fight, conferred this morning with the executive committee of the international organization al though two of the six members failed to arrive. Despite the ab sence of Lord Aberdare of Eng land and F. W. Scharromney of Holland, however, Brundage said the hockey question was discussed “informally.” Shooting Eye Closed --—— - ^ a i ii i Hugged Jim Bartelt, a beautiful set-shot artist, who lias improved immensely over last year, lias had difficulty finding lii.s eye since i tie Huskies were here in Kugene. UW Picks Aiarv Franklin To Coach Frosh Football SEATTLE, Jan. 27 (UP('-Sign ing of tlie University of Washing ton football coaching staff for 1948 neared completion today with an nouncement that Marvin Frank on, end coach at Yale last season, 1 ad been hired as Washington's Li eshman grid mentor. Athletic director Harvey Cas s 11 said he had been informed of j Radio Station to Air Student Discussion "Is Partition the Answer to the Palestine Question?" will be dis cussed on the Town Meeting of the Air over KORE this evening at <i SO. The discussion, under the spon jHirship of the International Rela tions club, was held earlier in the M eek and recorded for broadcast at that time. Moderator for the group is Dr. ('. P. Schleicher, professor of politi c il science. f ranklin’s signing by Howard (Howie) Odell, newly-appointed Husky head coach, who is in New Haven, Conn., arranging for com pletion of his staff. Odell recently resigned' as Yale head coach to accept the Washington position. Earlier, Cassill announced that i Odell had telephoned from New Haven that he had signed Reginald Root, line coach and chief assistant to Odell at Yale for three years, and Morris (Red) Badgro, end coach at the University of Wash ington under Ralph (Pest) Welch. BICYCLES Rented and Repaired Campus Cyclerv )/"% K llili Ph. 4789 1 II. A Steady Player : One of the tallest guards to ever play at Oregon is needy Berg, a senior from Huron, South Dakota. Berg may be shifted from his guard slot to forward for the two-game series with the Cougars. PCL Baseball Owners Consent to Stock Ruling LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27—(UP) The Pacific Coast league today voted that no club owner may dis pose of the controlling stock in his team without the unanimous con sent of the other seven club own ers. The action, taken during the sec ond day of the annual mid-winter convention, followed approval of Oscar Salenger’s purchase of the Sacfamento Solons by a 6-2 vote, only a majority vote being needed prior to today’s action. Salenger’s purchase was object ed to on the grounds that Sacra mento should remain home-owned. Salenger is a former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers of the Ameri can association. At this morning’s session the PCL adopted a plan calling for an arbitrated price on all players drafted by the majors. The plan also established the first draft year at the end of six years instead of the present four. The plan, presented by Charley Graham of San Francisco, called for a three-man board to set a price on each player a major league wished to draft—one representa tive each from the PCL team own ing the player, the major league team drafting him and Commis sioner A. B. Chandler’s office. Chi Psi Takes Handball Tilt Handball for the day saw the Chi Psis downing the team from Stan Ray hall by a count of 3-0. Chi Psi Bill Besey downed Hall man Bob Schooling, 21-9 and 21-6i in the opening singles game of the day. This was followed by a win for Chi Psi in the second singles match by Chuck Strader over Bob York of Stan Ray by score of 21-3 and 21-6. Chi Psi took the doubles game of ' . . ' " —' Cagers Drill For Coming WSC Date Coach John Warren sent his tVebfoot cagers through a 45-min ite scrimmage with the Frosh :eam yesterday, in preparation for the coming Washington State ser ies at Pullman, Tuesday and Wed nesday. Stan Williamson was given a day’s rest from the practice, fol lowing his two good, yet tiring, exhibitions against Washington last weekend. The rest of the var sity men were worked on different five-man combinations by Warren, in an effort to find a scoring quin tet. scoring riaggeu In the first 10-minute session, the team of Reedy Berg, Roger Wiley, A1 Popick, Dick Wilkins, and Jim Bartelt edged the year lings 21-17. This Webfoot squad at times showed signs of a scoring punch, but it couldn’t consistently find the range. The second quintet composed of Bob Lavey. Kenny Seeborg, Wiley, Wilkins, and Bob Amacher came up with the highest point effort as they defeated the Ducklings 35-18. Wilkins was exceptionally hot, as his two-hand set shots were plop ping in perfectly from the 30-foot range. Frosh Ties Varsity Seeborg and Lavey gave a good exhibition of heads-up. fast-break basketball, as they several times caught the Frosh defense short. In the third scrimmage, Carl Heldt’s first year men held the team of Seeborg, Lavey, Amacher, Lynn Hamilton, Paul Cooper, Bob Don, and Jim Bocchi to a 15-15 tie. Lavey again caught fire, driv ing in to click with one hand push ers. The next game found thp varsity team of Seeborg, Lavey, Unis, Amacher, Wilkins, and Co oper on the long end of a 22-19 count. Amacher was deadly under the basket, as he snagged rebounds (Please turn to page six) the afternoon by scores of 21-5 and 21-16. Playing for Chi Psi were Preston Holt and Ron Peterson against Fred Steed and Carl Eng lund for Stan Ray hall. Completely Remodeled KAMPUS KAFETERIA New Low priced, well balanced meals for vour own selection 1244 Alder IceHockeyTonight (Regulation Game) SIG EP "WOLFPACK" VS. EUGENE "RED DEVILS" 7 p. m. Admission — 30c - Public Skating after the game EUGENE ICE ARENA Open to public every afternoon and evenings 8 to 10 Private Skating From 6 to 8 1850 \Y Sixth ‘ Phone 4957 \