DUCK TRACKS By Tom King • Emerald Sports Editor Let’s take a quick whirl around the sports world, hitting all - the high spots and assorted points in between : No sooner does the basketball season start tailing off in readi . ness for its annual trip to the mothballs than every sideline wise acre from the breadth and girth of the countryside begins piec ing together an All-Conference team for himself. First one to give voice to the subject was Marlowe Branagan, ! jack-of-all trades on the Oregon Journal sports staff. Marlowe, C who has been Fourth Estating for quite a number of years now. sized up things and decided that Oregon State's Cliff Crandall > was about the best player in the Northern Division. ■ i Paging the Missing Mr. White This gave us quite a jolt, for, from what we have heard. Mr. . Crandall is having his troubles this year and actually is not as - good as he was during the 1947-48 campaign. However, it was only a mild tremor compared to what fol / lowed. Marlowe told us without batting an eyelash that the best five cagers in the Northland were Ed Gayda of Washington i_ State, Pres Brimhall of Idaho, Rog Wiley of Oregon, Bill Van denburgh of Washington, and Crandall. The absence of a certain name on that imposing list is quite conspicious. Which is to say that the chap with the largest col lection of pre-season buildups, one Samuel White, has been r shunned, bypassed and otherwise mistreated. White’s many talents are tied up somewhat because he has - no really good player to whom to feed the ball. He was tabbed to be the bellweather of that disappointing • Washington squad, but, since his scoring total has dipped too, the plaudits have been going to Yandenburgh. And Duck Coach „ John Warren agrees. According to him, Yandenburgh hurt the Webfoots more than did White in the recent Oregon-Husky series. Washington Recruiters Work Overtime . Furthermore, “Honest John” figures that, besides Wilev, the ND's foremost performer is Gayda. Moving around to other points on the sports compass, word is out that the reason behind the Huskies’ dismal showing this season is internal dissension. Washington, incidentally, is running a strong first in the ' ND’s proselyting Derby. Reports are that the Huskies have been pulling all stops in an effort to corral one of the lushest pig ' skin crops ever. Obviously backing it up is Athletic Director * Harvey C. Cassil, who was noble minded enough to offer Ore gon to part with some of its Cotton Bowl take, and progressive . minded enough to talk down the pre-season PCC cage tourna ment in San Francisco. The latter is only one of the finest ath letic events on the slopes. Conference Commissioner Vic Schmidt, however, has sens . ed that something is rotten in places other than Denmark, and the Huskies are headed for a heavy fine. ■ Matson Case: Is USF Playing It Straight? Oregon has around a dozen or more Junior College transfers * lined up for next Fall. Some are on the campus now, and all of them have gilt-edged reputations. A couple of possibilities are really in the “higher priced” brackets. University of San Francisco officials are coming to the rescue of themselves and Oilie Matson, who enrolled there despite al legedly not having the scholastic rating necessary. Matson, foot * ball and track phenom, was to enroll at Oregon, but the registrar nixed the idea because of his grades. USF claims that Matson has a “C-plus average” and that his subjects are “solid.” The big Negro enrolled at USF after spending a year at SF City College, - Avhere he made Junior College All-America. This could give the registrar leeway. - We know for certain that his high school grades very large ly are composed of D’s and F’s, that he didn’t make above a C in any course other than physical education, and that his decile rating was 1, which is as low as it comes. We also happen to know that one basketball star and two football stars who couldn't matriculate at Oregon because of grades are now at San Francisco. This Should Make Someone Blush - What’s the latest bait offered to a muchly-sought halfback: a house and a Mercury car. * NCAA Sanity Code? Phooey! The same boy, Sherman White, who was refused service in - a Eugene eatery because he is a Negro, received a tumultous ovation from Southern fans when he stepped on the court in a - recent Oklahoma A. & M.-LIU game. He was the first of his race to play on the Stillwater, Okla. floor. And down South in California, a Negro was accepted for en rollment in Santa Clara University, the first one to be admitted in more than 100 years. The fact that he happened to be an All State fullback had nothing to do with it, of course. Girls Chalk Up IM Cage Wins Hendricks hall ancl University house swept to victory in their wo mens basketball league finals last night in two fierce battles between topnotch teams. Although Highland house Team II had defeated the Hendricks aces in Monday's game, they fell beneath a 26-17 count by the dorm sharp shooters, spearheaded by deadeye Bonnie Gienger and Diane Hoeck, with 13 and 12 points to the respec tive credit. Lee Odland of Highland sunk 9 pointers. These two teams were thrown in to a double playoff because neither had been defeated twice, a neces sary qualification for elimination under tournament rules. Hendricks had been undefeated before Monday night’s battle. The red-hot shooting of Uni House’s Harriet Minot led to the downfall of a spirited Alpha Xi Del ta squad, 25-13. Harriet accounted for 17 of Uni’s 25 points. The Al pha Xi’s were led by Nelda Vogel with seven markers to her credit. 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