Ducks, Cougars Split Series
Sowers Paces Oregon;
Conley Pots 39 Points
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Ailing Paul Sowers came off the bench Friday night to score
15 points, and rally the Oregon Webfoots to a spine-tingling 51-48
basketball victory over highly-touted Washington State at Mc
Arthur Court. It was Oregon’s conference opener, and the second
loss in three loop starts for the Cougars.
His back laced in a corset to pre
vent aggravation of the injury
which has kept hi niout of action
since the second Stanford game,
,-Bowers never passed or set up plays
more brilliantly than in the first
WSC game.
Gene Conley, easy moving Coug
ar pivot man, tossed in 21 points
for the top scoring performance of
the evening. WSC Guard Ted Tap
pe meshed 9 counters for Cougai
runner-up honors.
Eddie Gayda, much publicized
Washington Stater, accounted for
only six of his team’s points, four of
those coming from the free throw
line. Gayda’s shooting seems to
have been limited, his main role be
ing to feed the ball in to Conley, the
G foot, 7 inch sophomore who pot
ted 11 of his 21 points in the second
half.
Little Bob Lavey, who dunked .>
points during the tilt, took a mas
terful pass from Sowers and pop
ped a layin with 2 minutes 45 sec
onds remaining to play.
This knotted the game at 48-48.
the eleventh and last tie of the
night, and set the stage for Dale
Warburg's game-clinching gift toss
on a foul by Cougar starting for
ward Bob Gambold.
Fifteen seconds laler, Gambold
fouled Lavey, and the little scooter
missed his free throw. Then for one
minute and fifteen seconds, the Ig
loo crowd went wild as the Ducks
froze the ball.
A Cougar tie-up, a mid-court
jump, and a long, long pass from
Powers resulted in an anti-climatic
layin by Jack Keller, deadeye Web
foot guard.
Oregon held a 28-23 lead at half
time.
In the second game, Oregon trad
ed the cool-working Cougars by
only 27-24 at the half, and a "pat
ened" one-hander by Sowers, with
less than three minutes gone in the
second period, knotted the score at
30-30. The Ducks tied again at 34
34 on a layin b yMel Krause, but
that was the last time they were
within easy sniffing distance of the
Cougars.
Two buckets by Conley, one by
F.d Gayda, and four consecutive
personal fouls by Oregon, which re
sulted in five points for the Ifiill
,miui visitors, piled up an 11 point
WSC bulge with slightly less than
five minutes remaining.
Washington State coasted in
f.-om that point for a final score of
C4-46. '
The Webfoots, who lost 18 bas
ketball games last season, have
i ow dropped to in 13 times out.
•irheir Northern Division record
flands at one and one.
OSC Hard Hit
The tragic death of Football
Captain-elect Stan McGuire in a
toboggan-auto accident on a snowy
Corvallis street Tuesday night
leaves a hole in the 1950 Oregon
State football team that will be
hard to replace.
After a brilliant campaign as a
junior the past season, McGuire
\ as considered a sure-fire bet for
all-America honors next fall. He
tanked 13th in the nation in con
\ ersion kicks for 1919 with 29
out of 33 for a high .879 average.
DALE WARBERG, rugged Ore
gon forward who “found him
self” during the Washington
State series.
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EyeWitness Unravels Tale
Of Cal Woe; Bucks Gave
Celeri Bums Rush at Bowl
By TOM KING
Ohio State came up with a super
charged outfit last New Year’s
Day, which is precisely why the Big
Ten whacked out its fourth Rose
Bowl triumph in a row and why
California’s not-so-golden Bears
went under 17-14.
Now, there’s a 'big gulf of opinion
’twixt whether Cal lost the game tor
Ohio State won it. That off-angle
field goal that Jimmy Hague boot
ed eertainl ylielped matters from a
Wesley Fesler standpoint.
But many sideline wiseacres fig
ure Bob Celeri pulled a skull by
gambling in his own territory and
giving the Buckeyes the break that
spelled the difference.
Well, Celeri did gamble. Too, it
didn’t pa yoff. But—wasn’t the
gamble itself that actually cost the
Cals the ball game. It was a combi
nation bad pass from center and a
case of dropsy by Celeri that did
that. If that kick had been gotten
off, then the game in all probability
would have gone into the books as a
14-14 tie.
A legitimate gripe against the
California way of doing things in
those very last moments is that
just prior to the end of the game
the Bears had the Buckeyes deep in
their own territory. Deep ? On their
3 yard line, in fact.
But OSU quickly got out of that
hole through a booming kick and
the failure of Cal Passes. Soon,
things did a complete switcheroo,
and Cal was standing with their,
not Ohio State’s collective backs to
Frosh Smack Astoria
For45-25 Hoop Victory;
Batter Cottage Grove
Don Kirsch’s basketball Duck
lings ran over two more high
school rivals during- the weekend
to boost their victory skein to
eight straight.
Friday night, Astoria’s cagers
succumbed by a 45-25 count, and
Saturday saw the Cottage Grove
team buried under a 70-20 score.
The Frosh offense was bolstered
by the reappearance on Saturday
of C> foot 7 inch Chester Noe who
netted 13 points in a free scoring
affair.
Employing a two platoon
attack, Astoria attempted to
make a ball game of it. After
the Frosh went ahead 4-0 on
Court Barclay’s two-handed set
and Hank Bonneman’s hook shot,
Astoria retaliated by ringing the
bell for siv straight points. The
Ducklings came back to take a
shaky 11-7 edge at the end of
the first quarter.
At half time the game’s out
come was still questionable as the
Oregons went to the dressing
room with a 21-12 bulge. In the
third period. Guard Nick Schmer
fired four quick baskets to boost
his team to a 33-20 edge and put
the contest out of Astoria's reach.
Schmer’s 11 points, and nine by
Center Bonneman led the local
scoring, while two As*torians, Pav
lat and Jacobsen produced their
club's best effort with six count
ers apiece.
On Saturday night, height and
superior marksmanship destroy
ed a fighting Cottage Grove
quint. Scoring almost at will,
the Frosli led 14-4 at the quar
ter, 88-S) at the half, and then
continued to pull away.
Four men broke double figures
with Noe, who recently had his
eligibility restored, leading the
basket getters with 13 points.
the goal.
So strategically speaking, Cal
must be charged with having been
outfoxed.
Some age-old psychology may
have been a determining factor in
this classic—and that’s exactly
what it was. Fro mthe very begin
ning Celeri found himself fearfully
rushed on his punts. He was barely
getting them off. Then suddenly—
boom lone was blocked and OSU
converted' it into six points. Cal had
failed to shift its blockers to plug
the gap that was allowing the
Buckeyes to get into the “alley.”
This process continued throug
liot the afternoon. And when, in
that last moment, Celeri had to
kick from under the shadows of his
own goal post, it is entirely pos
sible that he—plus the rest of the
ball club—were a bit shaky about
their chances of getting off a punt.
Seconds later Hague booted his
3-pointer.
On the whole, Ohio State domi
nated play and deserved the win,
They ripped one-half of the Cali
fornia defensive line to shreds. We
say one- half because OSU ran over
the Cal left side all afternoon
through Roy Muehlberger, chifely
Again and again and again Jerrj
Krall and Curly Morrison battered
at that left side; very seldom did
they hit the other side. It was onlj
through the efforts of Les Richter
a whale of a linebacker, that the
Bears were able to have any suc
cess whatever in halting the OSU
I frontal attack on that highly vul
nerable fnalk. Ohio State scouters
apparently had spotted a weakness
and exploited it completely.
Random impressions . . . Jacl
Linninger, Ohio State’s fine center
was a veritable tiger on defens*
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Beavers Prep
For Oregon Tilts;
Full House Seen
After breaking even against
title favored Washington State in
the northern division openers here
Tuesday and Wednesday, Oregon
State’s basketball team has set
tled down to preparing for the
first meeting of the season with
arch rival Oregon at Corvallis
Friday night.
Advance ticket sales indicate
the first capacity crowd in mam
moth new Gill coliseum's short
history will be on hand for the
initial clash of the Beavers and
Ducks. This means the largest
crowd ever to witness a basketball
game in the state of Oregon, up
wards of 10,000 fans, will fill the
massive plant.
The opening series between the
powerful Cougars and defending. J
champion Beavers was one of the'j
closest and most hotly contested"
pair of league games seen here in
years. Washington State put down
a last minute Orange rally the
first night to win a defensive
battle, 42-38; and Slats Gill’s men
came back the second evening to
reverse the procedure, 54-53, in a;
speed-packed thriller.
Oregon State was way off on
its shooting the first game, con
necting on only 10 out of 47 shots
for an anemic .213 average while
the deliberate Cougars were mak
close to a .500 average,
ing 13 out of only 28 shots for
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