Freshmen Basketballers Prime
For Pair of Weekend Prelims
Though they haven’t played a
regular game since Christmas
vacation Oregon's fresUman bas
ketball team has been improving
steadily since then.
While the varsity was making
the Inland Empire invasion, the
Ducklings made good use of Mc
Arthur court, getting in two prac
tice games with local teams.
Crush Junction City
Late last week, they met a
highly-touted Junction City five
and simply ran away from them,
63-31. The Tigers couldn't keep
up with the bigger and faster
Yearlings, who dominated action
on both boards and scored almost
at will. Bill Korpela, a guard from
Astoria, paced the winners by
dunking in 15 points.
Yesterday the Frosh took on
Eugene high, and for the first
time this year were up against a
taller team. But they played one
of their better games to date,
and rolled to a 72-48 win, after
leading 32-23 at halftime.
Axeman Game High
The Axeman, with six men 6-3
on up, made a game of it in the
opening half, but the ball-hawk
ing and superior speed of the
freshmen paid off in the final half.
Two guards, Korpela with 11 and
Ken Hunt, all-state from Marsh-,
field with 17, paced the little
Ducks.
Guard Clark Hollis was high
for Eugene with 14, all but two
being made in the first half.
The next games for the Year
lings will be preliminaries to the
Oregon-Idaho series this Friday
and Saturday, when they take on
Oregon vocational school and Eu
gene high. __
Ducks Limp Home
From Inland Trip
With 1-3 Record
Oregon’s casaba team returned yesterday from the Inland
Umpire invasion with an unexciting record of one win and three
losses. The Wcbfoots were unable to connect with the bucket
t'onsisently throughout the entire trip, hence the poor record.
Idaho's unruly Vandals gave the V ebfoots a run for their
money before finally falling 50-48, in the opening game of the
invasion, but from there on, Oregon was close but always be
hind at the final gun.
Vandals Bounce Back
John Finley, head Vandal coach
who is rated as one of the “ten best
informed men in the country on
basketball,” had his charges ready
tile second night, and the home
tow nets, after a thrilling first
Eugene Hockey
Six Tops Salem
By 5-3 Margin
Eugene’s strong Redwings came
through with their initial victory
in Oregon Hockey league play at
the local arena Sunday night, de
feating the Salem Hornets by a
attm 5-3 margin.
Instrumental in the victory were
members of the University of Ore
gon, counting for four of the five
Redwing tallies.
After a slow first period that
saw the Hornets sink their only
three counters and take an early
lead, Eugene came back for a fast
second stanza with Roger Newton,
Frank Sauer, John Olsen, and Dick
Gillespie each canning one for the
victors.
In a rough and tumble thin!
Game Olsen again came through,
t apping one past Salem’s Linn Or
ton to finish the scoring. Only min
i tes later Olsen was down on the
ice as a result of a corner collision
vrith two Salem players which re
sulted in his being carried from the
game.
The league opener was played
before a capacity crowd of 700, the
largest crowd ever in attendance
at the local arena for an athletic
contest.
Oregon students who played for
the Redwing's were: Newton. Olsen,
Sauer, Don Severson, Ed \t orth,
Will Walla, Dick Runyard, and Jim
Hoffer.
Wednesday night sees the Red
wings playing at Salem in a re
match with the Hornets. They re
turn to local ice next Sunday night
against the Corvallis Beavers.
half, romped through to win 60-52.
Moving to Pullman, the Ducks
found that town equally unhospit
able, as Washington State swept
the two-games series 46-43 and
43-40. In both games the Webfoots
moved close in the closing mo
ments but were unable to overtake
big margins. Two finds of the trip
were sophomore guards Johnny
Neeley and Don Peterson, who
were both close to starting posi
tions when the trip ended. Neeley
was fourth and Peterson sixth in
individual scoring in Northern Di
vision action at the close of the
trip.
Bartelt Ready
Another hopeful sign was the re
turn to active duty of three-year
letterman Jim Bartelt at forward.
The 6-foot 2-inch senior has not as
yet reached last year's form but is
at least on the way after being
hampered by a bad ankle for most
of last term. (
The Webfoots will take it easy,
facing no more competition until
they open their home season in the
Northern Division against Idaho
this Friday and Saturday. Finley’s
Vandals will be making their Wil
lamette valley invasion, meeting
Oregon State after they tangle
with the Webfoots.
The key man in the Vandal at
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Bob Says Bye-Bye
TAKE A LAST GLIMPSE at big Bob Amacher, letterman forward.
You probably won’t see him again. The 19-year-old junior parted com
pany witli the VVebfoot cagers recently after differences with Coach
John Warren.
Aiken Switch Depends
On Salary Differences
Jim Aiken, coach of Oregon’s
footballing Webfoots, headed “for
Nebraska yesterday and the ques
tion was whether he would still be
holding that position when he re
turned.
The possibility of the coaching
job at Nebraska hangs in balance,
and the big thing is: will Oregon
offer him enough to remain here in
Eugene, or will the Cornhuskers go
high enough to draw him there.
The gravel-voiced coach recently
went into a discussion with Presi
dent H. K. Newburn and Athletic
Director Leo Harris, during which
time the subject of salary and seeur
ity were brought up. This was dis
closed by Harris, who added that at
that time Aiken indicated he was
satisfied to stay at Oregon.
Aiken's decision to travel to Ne
The Oregon Webfoots open their
ND home basketball season Janu
ary 14 and 15, with a two game ser
ies with Idaho scheduled in McAr
thur court.
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Swimmers Prep
For Intra-Team
Meet Saturday
Accent this week in the Men’s
Pool is on speed and more
speed, as all members of the
swimming squad get in their fi
nal licks prior to staging what
should be one of the classiest
meets ever held at Oregon on
this coming Saturday at 2 :30 p.
m. It’s an intra-squad affair, the
Varsity taking on a strong combi
nation composed of freshmen,
transfers and ineligibles.
Coach John Borchardt will field
about as talented a group of swim
mers as can be found anywhere this
side of the Mississippi and perhaps
further at that.
Varsity Experienced
The varsity is blessed this year
with an experienced squad of let
termen and fine material up from
the unbeaten frosh team of last
year.
Their opponents win inciuue sucn
fancy fin movers as Bob Kang, the
latest sensation from Hawaii, who
two years ago captured two sec
onds and a third in the Senior AAU
Nationals at San Diego. Kang is fa
vored over the varsity's veteran
Earl Walter in the 100 yard back
stroke and the pool record is cer
tain to fall.
Also this aggregation will have
such fine distance men on it as Joe
Nishimoto, transfer from Ohio
State, and one of the finest distance
prospects from the islands since the
great Bill Smith made his appear
ance.
Uyeda Rates Raves
In addition to Nishimoto the var
sity’s opponents will have little Carl
Uyeda, who despite his lack in
stature, is considered to be one
of the best up and coming distance
men by his coach, Sakamoto, one of
the top notchers of tutoring field.
The sprints will see a battle be
tween Louis Santos, the number one
varsity man, and Pete Van Dyke,
who already this year has come
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