Duck Swimmen Submerge Staters; Gagers Begin Crucial Inland Series Warren Shifts Lineup, Goes Cougar Hunting By DON FAIR Oregon’s basketball team invades the lair of the Cougars tonight at 8 p. in., in the first of a two-game series against Washington State at Pullman. Arriving at their destination this morning after leaving Eugene yes terday afternoon, the Webfoots, 12 men strong plus Coach John War ren, trainer Tom Hughes, and manager Paul Edlund, open the strenuous Inland Empire swing against the second place WSC quintet. The Ducks, currently ranked fourth in Northern Division standings, trail the Cougars by a full game. A win for the Lemon-and-Green cagers would deadlock them with Washington and Washington State f< r third slot in the standings. Lineup Given Before entraining yesterday, arren announced his tentative starting li neup for tonight. C foot-8 inch Bob Amacher is being used to give the Webfoots added height against the Jack Friel’s WSC team. Roger Wiley, as usual, will start at center, and Stan Williamson rates the nod at one guard post. The other position is a toss-up between Jim Bartelt, Kenny Seeborg, and Lynn Hamilton. All trhee of these men have shown marked improvement in scrimmages last week, and' could start. However Bartelt will probably be the logical choice to open the game, with Seeborg and Hamilton destined for plenty of action. Slow Start Friel’s Cougars, who started off slowly by dropping two to Oregon State, have been coming with a rush, with four wins in their last f ve starts, they now boast a three-game winning streak at the ex pense of Idaho. Washington State uses the alternating unit system, with two teams being substituted at frequent intervals throughout a game. They stress t ie ball-control brand of game, with a deliberate set-em-up type of fense. The Cougars have a big, rugged ball club, with C foot-8 inch Vince Hanson to match Wiley’s height at center. Gayda Tough Starting at the forwards for WSC will be Ed Gayda and Norm Lowery. Gayda, only a sophomore, is rated a worthy shot and uses k.s 6 foot-2 inch stature to good effect on the boards. He is also a tough defensive player, a feature at which the Cougar team as a vi hole is strong. Lowery is a senior, and another dangerous scorer. Hanson, another senior and starting center, is the ace hook-shot, artist of the Staters a id only last Saturday night he gave his team a 41-40 game over Idaho v itli a bucket in the last seconds. Both defensively and on the back I- .ards he will give Wiley a rough evening. George Hamilton and Kob Elliott draw the first-string guatd as signments, and both are fast and hard to check. Hamilton is a one Imnd specialist, but can and does sink the two-hand variety. Elliott is a deceptive ball-handler, and like his running mate, Hamilton, has e good eye for the basket. Teams Change On Friel’s alternating string, which comes in at approximately five r mute intervals are forward's, Bob Gaston and George Heathcoate; center. Ray "Tiny" Arndt; and guards, Wes Dahl and Reggie Scodeller. Each of these reserves has the scoring capabilities of the first five. :> id Arndt, with his 240 pounds under the basket, is a hard man to get e it of the rebound scrambles. In addition to Hanson and Arndt at cen ter the Cougars have 0 foot-5 inch Gordon Prehm to throw in against Wiley, Prehm was injured early in the first Washington encounter and 1 isn’t seen much action since then. How the officiating will stack up on the Pauouse swing is anybody’s guess, although Hal Lee and Hal Eustis are slated to handle the whistling for the Webt’oot Cougar frays. _ Girls' Sport Front Active Tuesday’s (James H'ri-Delt ns Hendricks, indoor gym Bleeps \s Gamma hall, indoor gym Alpha hall edged out a stub born Rebec team 16 to 11. and Gamma Phi Beta forfeited to Pi Beta Phi in Monday's girls’ bask etball intramurals. Inability to hit the basket show ed lip many times in the slow mov ing Alpha-Rebec contest. Lilly Kobayashi led the Alpha attack with seven points to her credit. \ dh team-mate Helen Robertson accounting for six. Jean Neeley a ad Joan Huntington sparked the Rebec attack with four points each. Half-time score was 9 to S i favor of Rebec. Gannna Phi forfeited to Pi Phi ween only five girls appeared, but a practice game was played any v. in' .with Betty Arnold, Pi Plii sub-stitute, filling the Gamma Phi i gilt forward post. The final score was Pi Phi IT, Gamma Phi 16. Outstanding player of the contest was Joan Carr, Pi Phi captain, who made ten points, while Sally Mount and Liz Gilmore of Gamma Phi hit the hoop for six. Oregon W Emerald SPORTS Don Fair, Fred Taylor, Co-Sports Editors Probable Starters Ht. OREGON Pos. WSC Ht. 6-2 Wilkins . F ....• Lowery 6-2 6-8 Amacher .. F Gayda 6-2 6-8 Wiley . C Hanson 6-8 5- 7 Williamson G Hamilton 5-10 6- 2 Bartelt G Elliott 6-0 Frosh Split Prep Games, Gird for Rook Hoopers Returning home after another split in weekend games, the Oregon Frosh basketball squad took over McArthur court yesterday after noon for the first of four pre-OSC game practices to be held this week. Coach Carl Heldt is juggling his Fro’sh lineup in an attempt to get back into the win column against the up-s'tate Rooks. The two squads meet for the second time this Fri day night in Corvallis. Heldt's latest move was to switch Don Peterson, ex-Roose velt high all-city guard, to for ward, in order to pair straight shooting Leroy Coleman and Jack Keller at guards in the same starting five. Peterson, ex Roosevelt high all-city guard, is a valuable man because of his floor generalship and scoring ability. The three-way battle between Will Urban. Bob Taggesell, and Rod Slade for the remaining back-court starting assignment is still raging, with no edge given to any of the three. New Man Newest addition to the squad is Gene Hover, six-foot two-inch for ward from Klamath Falls, who has been kept out of competition till now with a badly pulled leg muscle. Balancing this gain is the loss of Malcolm Bolen, who dropped from school. The Ducklings are slightly the worse for wear after their jaunt up the Willamette valley. They trounced Oregon City 64-49 Friday night, but the rugged Vikings of Salem high hung a 48-33 drubbing on the college boys the following evening. Peterson led the Oregons in both Our Wide Selection of Photographic Equipment Will help you take Better Pictures Conic in and look it over— 1 “tli and Willamette Phone 535 contests, potting 20 points against the Pioneers and collecting 12 in the Salem game. Hope for the Freshmen to even the score with the Rooks is main tained, after Paul Valenti’s charg es dropped their first game in nine starts. Milwaukie high turned the trick with a 33-30 upset win last Saturday afternoon. MOVIES TONIGHT Movies of the Oregon-Oregon State football game will be shown tonight in 307 Chapman. Sponsored by Druids, the pic tures are free of charge. Two showings will be given, at 6:30.. ..p.m. and 7:25. Sports Staff: Glenn Gillespie Elwin Paxson Dick Maso John Barton Bob Coughlin Don Fair Webfoots Annex All But Diving By Elvvin Paxon The varsity swimmers turned in a. repeat performance of their sea son opener victory Saturday after noon ,by dunking the luckless Bea vers 52-23 in the Corvallis pool. The Ducks were minus the ser vices of the team’s leading scorer, George Moorhead, who was con fined to the infirmary for the week end. Running-mate Bill Vannatta, however, came through in rousing style to take firsts in both of the free-style sprints, and a share of the top-spot points in the medley relay, to collect high point honors. The Webfoots won every event except the diving with little dif ficulty, as they outshone their ri vals in every department. Little Ray Staub annexed the only OSC victory, as the defending ND div ing champ edged out opponent Willie McCullough. The inexperienced Beaver mer men made a much better showing but failed to rack up any impres sive times as they gathered in four seconds in the swimming battle. Summary: 300-yard medley relay-Won by Oregon (Hill, Walters and Vannat ta.) Time, 3:32.4. 220-yard free-style - Thompson, Oregon, first; Weddle, Oregon, second; Hall, OSC, third. Time 2:43.2. 50-yard freestyle-Vannatta, Ore gon, first; Gromacy, OSC second; Dahlen, Oregon, third. Time, :26. Diving-Staub, OSC, first: Mc Cullough, Oregon, second; Wicks, OSC, third. 100-yard freestyle - Vannatta, Oregon, first; Dahl, Oregon, sec (Please turn to page fire) In your shopping include stopping at Roy Copping's FOR SMOOTH RIDING GATES TIRES 6:00x16 $12.95 (plus tax) Our Easy Payment Plan $1.00 down - $1.00 per week and CHAMPION ('.as and Oils Dependable Lubrication We Give Double Green Stamps "It's Thrifty to Buy" "THE CHAMPION DEALER" llth and Oak Phone 4812