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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1949)
Big Dave Ready READY TO HUNT buffalo is Dave Gibson, Oregon’s big offensive renter, who will see plenty of ball-lifting action against the Univer sity of Colorado Buffaloes in Saturday’s Hayward Field tussel. Gib eon, last year’s understudy to Brad Ecklund, has been showing the tricks he learned from Big Brad during his grid clashes this season, and is ticketed to show more. Bay City Ready for Battle Of Heavies Friday; Charles Named Pre-Fight Favorite SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 (UP)—Dusky Ezzard Charles, the NBA heavyweight champion from Cincinnati, was installed as a 5-1 favorite today to whip challenger Pat Valentino in Friday night’s title bout. As both fighters wound up their training for the 15-round title bout the first heavyweight cham pionship brawl in San Francisco la 40 years enthusiasm reached a fever pitch in the San Francisco streets. There was little betting on Valentino to win the crown but he is a sentimental favorite; and there are a lot of bets being made that he goes the distance. The Cow Palace, a huge state owned structure being used the first time for a professional sport, villi seat just about 17,000 fans and indications are that at least 15,000 v dl view the bout and pay at least $175,000 for the privilege. Charles, who has combined a flood of personal appearances at the races, football games, etc., since he started training here, wound up his pre-fight work today at national hall with former Cham pion Joe Louis among the large crowd watching the workout. Val entino tucked his paraphernalia away yesterday. Both men have trained down to their fighting weight. The Champion probably will weigh in at about 180 pounds and Valentino five pounds heavier. The California State Athletic Commission has announced that it will not name a referee until Fri day morning. In the meantime, pr omoter William P. Kyne rejected the services of former Champion Jack Dempsey, who asked $5,000 tc handle the job. The squabble over the size of the ring was settled when a ring 10 fed, six inches, was agreed upon. • Besides a referee, there will be th ee judges at ringside in case a decision is needed. They will ballot on the California point system of 11 points to the round. | The records show that Charles and Valentino both started their boxing careers in 1940; both spent some time in the service—and have met three common opponents: Joey Maxim, Jimmy Bivins and Fitzy Fitzpatrick. Off the returns, Charles looked the better against the three men— but by no means decisively. Maxim and Valentino drew twice; Maxim lost three close decisions to Char les. Bivins and Charles met four times, with Charles winning three and losing one. Bivins decisioned Valentino twice- both times very close. Fitzy Fitzpatrick was kay oed twice by Charles; and he kay oed Valentino once. The records also show that Char les has had 70 professional fights; won 64 (39 by knockouts); had one draw and lost five. He has been kayoed once—by veteran Lloyd Marshall of Sacramento. Sanders, Stelle, Lewis Lead PCC Offensive Columns LOS ANGELES—Three players from the Northwest—Ken Carpen ter of Oregon State, Bob Sanders of Oregon, and Don O'Leary of Washington — are the individual statistical leaders in the Pacific Coast Conference as the season en ters the fifth week, according to figures released by the PCC Com missioner’s office. Carpenter holds a three-yard lead over UCLA’s Ernie Johnson in to tal offense with 478 yards combined Ducks Work Over Buff Defense Preparing for the invasion of Colorado Saturday, Oregon’s Ducks went through another scrimmage session with pads yesterday. Offense against the Buffalo de fensive system occupied half the scrimmage time in yesterday s workout. Speculation is thick over what kind of offensive system Col orado Coach Dallas Ward will use in the Hayward Field tilt. From Minnesota, Ward will probably not use a “T” formation, but is more likely to run his char ges from a single wing or double wing atack. Fans will be sure to see style of play not yet met by the Webfoots this year. Jim Aiken continues to give his gridders conditioning exercises such as sled pushing, calesthenics, and plenty of running, amounting to four laps around the practice field after yesterday’s workout. WAA V-Ball In Second Week WAA intramural volleyball sea son completes its second week to day with eleven teams on the prac tice schedule for this afternoon. Scheduled for the 4:50 practice are Alpha Chi Omega, Ann Judson House, Carson Hall, Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Kappa, Pi Beta Phi, and Alpha Delta Pi. At 5:20 will be Rebec House, Highland House II, Delta Zeta, and Highland'House I. Twenty three teams have signed up to play according to Phyllis Rich, intramural manager. Games will be played in the form of a double-elimination tournament from Oct. 24 to Nov. 22. Miss Masil onis is faculty adviser. "45” RCA Players AT NEW LOW PRICE ONLY $12.95 Radio Laboratory 768 E. 11th rh. 4-4431 from passing and rushing. Carpen ter and Johnson overtook WSC’s Bob Gambold, who led for three weeks. The individual rushing leader is Oregon’s fullback, Sanders, who has accounted for 341 yards in four contests, an average of 5.9 yards per carry. Sanders’ nearest compet itor is Carpenter, who is 56 yards off the pace. STELLE MOST ACCURATE Washington’s Don O’Leary leads in passing with 33 completions. However, Gambold has the best yardage figure of 464 on 21 com pletions. Earl Stelle of Oregon made the outstanding percentage mark of .677 by completing 21 of 31 tosses. Joe Cloidt of Washington caught his passes against OSC to boost his total for 14 ofr the season, and he also leads .in yardage from recep tions with 218. Hal Braly of UCLA has the best punting average of 45.5 yards per boot. Sanders leads the PCC scoring parade with seven touchdowns, and his teammate, Woodley Lew is, is in a position to break the national intercollegiate record for pass interceptions. The Duck star has intercepted six in four games, and the record in 11. Dick Gray of OSC leads in punt returns with 167 yards on six re turns; and Johnson of UCLA leads in kickoff runbacks with 176 yards in seven attempts. The defending co-champions of the Pacific Coast Conference from the University of California enter their important game Saturday against Southern California with the best team record in the PCC. Statistics released today by the PCC Commissioner’s office indi cated that California has the best total offense record and leads in all defensive departments. 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