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Here's Pre-season Rundown
On Pacific Coast Basketball
By RAY ALPETER
Looking over the preseason and loop tilts of the Pacific Conference teams in basketball, a
few select players have shown great ability in controling the scoring honors for their teams.
Several clubs in the Northwest have started their conference play and Washingtan State is
holding on to first place with a 2-0 record. Ed Gayda has been the sparkplug for the Cougars and
the man that controls the backboards for the Staters.
Oregon State is holding some important players an dthese men have been stars to the last line
in their preseason and conference
play thus far this season. Bob
Payne, a Junior for the Beavers led
the attack against the Washington
State Cougars in their first confer
ence play of the season. Bill Har
per also has been the star in the
guard position.
Oregon has been hitting the hard
luck column so far but will give any
conference opponent a tussle be
fore they die or probably win. The
Ducks have shown spark and de
termination in their preseason play,
and lost several games by several
points or during an overtime. Will
Urban has sparked the Ducks in
scoring and hustle along with Sow
ers, who has been ill and could not
aplay for several games.
' The University of Washington
I Huskies have been rated the top
threat of the Northwest and led
by several big names in basketball.
Dane Enochs has been outstanding
during pre-season play along with
team mate LaDon Henson. Both
are top scorers and probably will
be rated as all-stars before the sea
son is over. Henson holds down for
ward and is a junior, Enochs is a 6
foot 5 inche center and is only a
Sophomore.
In the South UCLA has several
good men on their team. UCLA is
rated very high this season and is in
the top twenty teams o fthe nation.
Ralph Joeckel is rated as one of
the nations best shots and holds
down one of the UCLA forward
spots.
I This survey-forecast is a pre
season dope sheet and how the
final decision turns out is another
matter. For the All Pacific Coast
team stars that have been picked
are as follows: at forwards, Bob
Payne, OSC, and Ralph Joeckel,
UCLA; guards, Bill Harper, OSC,
and Ed Gayda, WSC; center, Gene
Conley, WSC. Honorable mention
will include Will Urban, Oregon;
Duane Enochs, Washington; Paul
Sowers, Oregon; Dick Ballantyne,
1 OSC, and Ed Fleming, OSC.
In the Pacific Northwest crown
race it is the author’s prediction
that University of Washington will
come out on top with Oregon State
(■lose at its heels. Idaho will place
third, Oregon fourth and Washing
ton State fifth.
Number of IM Clubs Hits All-Time High
The winter term schedule of in
tramural sports will present the
largest number of teams ever to
participate in the history of the
program, according to Professor P.
K. Washke, IM athletic director.
The fast-growing basketball en
try list has now reached a total of
76 “A" and “B" quintets. These and
32 handball teams will swing into
action next Monday, Jan. 9.
The 42 “A” basketball outfits
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PCL Directors
To Meet Jan. 19
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5—(UP) —
Pacific Coast Baseball League di
rectors will pick the date and site
of the PCL all-star game when they
meet Jan. 19 in San Diego, Presi
dent Clarence Rowland disclosed
today.
The meet will also get up a meth
od of selecting all-star players and
discuss the $80,000 to be divided
among first division clubs, Row
land said.
With the governor’s cup playoffs
cancelled this year, the league
plans to give the pennant winner
$40,000 o fthe pool, the second place
club $20,000, the third place club
$12,500 and the fourth place club
$7500.
Rowland said he hoped that in
1951 the league could arrange a
post season game with the winner
of the “little world series’’ between
the American Assn, and the Inter
national league, but he doesn’t ex
pect such an arrangement this
year.
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Letter to Editor . . .
AlumniTellAnotherStoryofCagers;
Say Can't Be Called 'Slow Starters'
No one can say the Oregon basketball team
is a slow starter.
On December 30 Oregon played Iowa here
in Madison, Wisconsin—a game which this
basketball-macl town will not forget for a
long while. Oregon lost 70-69 in overtime,
and most of the fans thought they should
have won. Even anti-PCC, Madison news
papermen said so—in print.
Oregon's good sportsmanship captured the
support of the fans. Their fighting spirit and
teamwork made up for their lack of height.
The Ducks whittled Iowa down to their size.
Those fellows were hustling all the time.
We join with John Warren in asking,
“Why can’t some of these one-pointers go
our way?”
Oregon richly deserved this win.
Respectfully,
Ross Yates ’48
Don McNeil ’49.
(You have our permission to print this letter).
Thomas Claims
OSC's Fesler
Needs Security
COLUMBUS, O., (UP) — Pos
sible resignation of Wes Fesler
as coach of Ohio State’s Rose
Bowl football champions might be
averted if school authorities give
him a vote of confidence and let
him know'they really want him,
Oscar L. Thomas, former assistant
athletic director said today.
Thomas, in a letter to the board
of trustees of the school, athletic
board, administrative officials, al
umni and students, noted that Fes
ler had considered resigning be
cause of the mental strain of the
job on himself and his family.
“Fes couldn’t be blamed for
wanting out when there has been
no evidence of honest-to-God
wanting him to stay within the
university family,” Thomas said.
"The university has the reputa
tion of being a graveyard for
football coaches and we are now
witnessing an example of the atti
tude which makes that reputation
well earned.”
Thomas asked if school officials
were “afraid that next year Fes
may lose a few games?”
“Are they afraid that in the fu
ture, irate fans will demand his
scalp after a loss to Michigan?
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No Decision Yet On Navy Coach
ANNAPOLIS, MD, Jan. 5 (UP)
—Eddie Erdelatz, 36-year-old for
mer St. Mary’s star, spent another
day-long session with Navy ath
letic officials today without reach
ing an agreement on the Acad
emy’s vacant head football coach
ing job.
After a conference which lasted
from 9 a.m. until 7:30 p.m., Capt.
Howard H. Caldwell, Navy ath
letic director, said, “There is no
sense of emergency in filling the
position; we are looking into every
phase of the thing.”
Erdelatz, who earlier this week
was offered the first crack at the
job left open by the resignation of
George Sauer, said that today’s
conference took up more specific
details of the contract. He will
meet with the athletic department
again tomorrow.
The new hubby should’t try to
tell wifey how to make biscuits.
She probably has concrete ideas of
her own.
An Oklahoma dentist was only
slightly injured when run over by
his own car, but we’ll bet it DID
hurt a bit.
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will be striving for a championship
award of 150' points, and the “B”
division winner will annex 75, the
same as the handball champions.
Schedules for winter action are
now being mimeographed and will
be in the mail in two or three days.
One full week starting
January 5th
John Wayne, John Agar
In
“SANDS OF IWO JIMJ
Starting Thursday January
“INTRUDER IN THE
DUST”
With
David Brian, Claude Jarman, J
also Roy Rogers in
“GOLDEN STALLION’
Big Jinx-Breaker Friday, 13tl
midnight spook show 11:80
Friday nite, Jan. 13th
“SON OF DRACULA”
Starts Sunday, January 8
“THE RED DANUBE”
With
Walter Pidgeon, Ethel
Barrymore
Starts Thursday, January 12 h
John Wayne, John Agar in
“SANDS OF IWO JIM/S”
LAN Etou
Starts Sunday, January 8
Bob Hope in
‘SORROWFUL JONES
also George Raft in
“OUTPOST TO
MORROCO”
Starts Tuesday, January 10
“SPECIAL AGENT”
with William Eythe
also
“SMART WOMEN”
Starts Thursday, January T
Gary Cooper in
“PRIDE OF THE
YANKEES”
Also
“B^DMAN’S
TERRITORY”
M£ KtNZIE®
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Starts Sunday, January 8
“PRINCE OF FOXES’
with Tyrone Power, Orson Weis
Starts Wednesday, January
“CHALLENGE TO
LASSIE”
With
Edmund Gwenn, Donald Cris
Also
‘SCENE OF THE CRIMfl
with Van Johnson
Big Jinx-Breaker
MIDNIGHT PREVIEW!
11:30 Friday Nite, Jan. 13th
SPECIAL SCREEN PROGRAM
VARSITY
W SPRINGFIELD I 7-34C
Starts Sunday, January 8
Gary Cooper in
“PRIDE OF THE
YANKEES”
Also
“BADMAN’S
TERRITORY”
Starts Wednesday, January
“HATBOX MYSTERY
and
“CASE OF THE
BABY SITTER”
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Starts Friday, January 13
“HOPALONG CASSID
RETURNS”
and
“JACKPOT JITTERS
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