Webfoots Face UBC Tonight
Stan Musial
Given NL
'48 Award
NEW YORK, Dec. 3—Stan Mu
sial, the pitchers’ nightmare, was
the most valuable player in the Na
tional league in 1948.
The voting of the baseball writ
ers wasn’t close, as the lean St.
Louis Cardinal outfielder piled up
an impressive margin.
If the pitchers voted, instead of
the writers, it probably would have
been unanimous, for Musial was a
terror at the plate all season. He
won as many races as Citation,
leading with a .376 average, 135
runs, 230 hits, 131 runs-batted-in,
46 doubles and 18 triples.
Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh and
Johnny Mize of New York tied for
home run laurel9 with 40, but Mu
sial was right behind with 39.
Ed Burns of the Chicago Tri
bune, retiring president of the
writers, announced that Musial re
ceived 18 first place votes from his
24-man committee.
Five went to the Boston Braves’
ace pitcher, Johnny Sain, and one
to Alvin Dark, the Braves’ sensa
tional rookie shortstop. In the
American league, Cleveland’s Lou
Boudreau took 22 of the 24 firsts.
Musial’s election, his third in six
full seasons as a major leaguer,
carried with it baseball’s official
annual Kenesaw Mountain Landis
plaque. It cannot mean any more
salary for Stan, because he already
has signed for 1949 and 1950 at a
reported $50,000 per. He also won
in 1943 and 1946 and, at 28, has
many years to go.
Points actually decide the award
on the basis of 14 for a first place
vote, 9 for second and so on down
to 1 for a tenth place for a ballot.
On this basis, Musial rolled up 303
to 223 for Sain and 174 for Dark.
’Football Kidnaped from Players/
Claims U. of Delaware President
PHILADELPHIA., Dee. 3—(AP)
—A university president kicked
yesterday about what has happened
Vo college football.
The game has been kidnaped
from the players, he said, and made
sacrifice to victory and box of
fice success.
Dr. William S. Carlson empha
sized he was not delivering a ha
rangue on the purity of intercolle
giate athletics, pro or con. He just
feels that America’s colleges are
going to hnve to live a long time
with their gigantic offspring
football.
“And if the offspring is at times
a Frankenstein's monster which
threatens to obliterate the aims of
the college itself.” said the Univer
sity of Delaware head, “at least it
in a monster of the colleges’ own
making.”
Dr. Carlson told the Middle At
lantic States Collegiate Athletic
conference that any respected col
lege has a reputation and a tradi
tion of disinterested service which
must apply even to the entertain
ment which they retail in the form
of football.
Intercollegiate football, he said,
is aping tlie professional game in
increasing degree, as evidenced by
the unlimited substitution rule.
Citing the “battery of coaches
and other experts" called into use
for a college grid tussle, the Dela
ware president demanded:
“What kind of a game is that '
Must we mobilize such huge forces
before we can permit a couple of
dozen supposedly health and intel
ligent youths to play a game?"
BIGGEST MAN on the floor—
Roger Wiley, 6-foot, 8-inch cen
ter on John Warren’s Oregon
basketball team will be after bas
kets and rebounds this weekend,
when the Webfoots face the UBC
Thunderbirds in a two-game pre
season series at Vancouver, B. C.
Rog will be a UO mainstay in
Northern Division play.
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Ducks Battle Thunderbirds
In Two Weekend Games
Oregon’s cagers will attempt to bounce back from Wednes
day’s surprise upset at the hands of W illamette tonight and
Saturday at Vancouver, B. C., against Don Wilson’s Thunder- -
birds from the University of British Columbia.
Wilson, a former star miler at Oregon, is in his first season .
as head man of the Thunderbirds, moving there from Molalla
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the same situation at UBC,
most of the stars from previous
quints having graduated.
The Webfoots will be favor
ed to cop both games this week
end. though the run-happy Ca
nadians will be gunning for an
upset. Big Roger Wiley, bottled
up by Willamette Wednesday, will
be for and away the biggest man
on the court and should gave a good
weekend.
Duck Sparkplug
Sparkplug for the Ducks will be
little Bob Lavey, two-year letter
man, who will be at one of the guard
spots. Lavey paced the Webfoot
scorers against the Bearcats with
13 points followed by Wiley with 10.
Oregon starters against UBC are
expected to be 6-foot, 8-inch Bob
Amacher and transfer Paul Sow
ers at the forwards, and either Ken
Seeborg or Dick Unis joining Lav
ey in backcourt. Unis turned in a
good game in Salem and Coach John
Warren is hopeful he’ll come
through again tonight.
Still Experimenting
Though the above men are slated
PE Club Schedules
Open House at 7:30
All men and women physical
education majors and minors
have been urged to attend a
PE club open house, scheduled
tonight at 7:30 in the men’s PE
Building.
Volleyball, basketball, badmin
ton, and other games will be
played, and refreshments will be
served.
to open the game, there will be fre
quent changes, in an attempt to
find the best unit possible. That
might be the reason for the Willam
ette loss, Warren’s only comment on
it being "I put in the reserves too
early and couldn’t get back into the -
game.”
Making the trip to Vancouver are
Amacher, Sowers, Paul Cooper,
Lynn Hamilton, and Will Urban for
wards ; Wiley and Bob Don, centers; ..
and Lavey, Seeborg, Unis, Johnny
Neeley and Don Peterson, guards.
The team left for Vancouver by -
train last night at 5:50.
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