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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1950)
DUCK TRACKS By SAM FIDMAN Emerald Sports Editor Some people worry too much over who is going to win which basketball game. During the first Washington State game a tele graph editor, who was working in the athletic news bureau at the Igloo, received a long distance phone call, from Louisville, Kv. The Southern party wanted to know the score of the ball' game, so, m line with the tamed hospitality of the Northwest, our hero peered out at the big electric-clock, saw that Oregon had a 24-17 edge, and related that fact to the jittery soul at Louisville. The jittery soul heard the roar of the crowd in the background, and asked the good Samaritan if he wouldn’t trot back out and see if some one had just scored. This done to the satisfaction of the dixieland correspondent, our belabored hero made a TEX OLIVER liiuvc luwaiu getting oacK ro worn—out ne never made it—the crowd roared again—and the man in the old Kentucky home re quested another check. This went on for a quarter of an hour— imtil the hospitality of the Northwest weakened. The Kentuckian was presumed to have bet a big enough wad of cash so that his winning would cover the phone call but Fear not Mr. Lemons—the call was not collect. Beavers Lurking at Home John Warren, the honest man with a heap of trouble, is searching for some way to keep the Ducks going against Oregon State. He pulled them far enough so that they made a respect able showing against the Cougars—but Oregon State—lurking _ in the recesses of their home court—offers a more formidable barrier. The 500 ducats that Oregon students are permitted to gobble up can't be converted into much racket—especially when there will be about 9500 vocal cords working full time against them. Gill Coliseum is expected to hold the largest basketball crowd in the history o fthe state of Oregon this weekend. A lad by the name of Pete Van Dijk has already cracked the standing Northern Division record for the 1500 meter mark—he did it in practice though. With Joe Nishimoto, Louis Santos, Stan Hargraves, and Pete, the aqua Ducks look like one of the hottest articles to splash H20 out of an ND tank in several years. For Whom the Whistle Toots An item that appeared on page four of Tuesday’s Emerald, concerning reasons for the inconsistency—or what has been called the inconsistency—of the local basketball officiating,vwas written by Marty Weitzner, Brooklyn’s contribution to the local Political Science department. Weitzner, who is familiar with Eastern basketball via a multitude of Madison Square Garden double headers, noted an outstanding difference between East ern and Western basketball which might be traced further as the cause for the inconsistency in reffing and the reason why so many ifhistles are tooted at Western quints when they visit the Gard en and other Eastern courts. A fellow named Gerald (Tex) Oliver has popped up again as the football coach at Fullerton Junior College, in California. Oli ver, who guided the grid destiny of Oregon’s Webfoots for near ly a decade, has been in the real estate business in Tucson, Ari zona, since 1947. Inside, Uutside, USA Gene Conley, a lanky lad who has been drawing plenty of ink, and the best defensive men in the conference to guard him, took the top rung in the Northern Division, Pacific Coast Conference hemp-searing parade. The big, easy-moving Cougar, who had both the Webfoots and their rooters cringing at the wrong end of his deadly hook shot, has connected for 71 points in four Washington State games. In second place is Oregon’s darling of last week, Paul Sow ers, whose 31 markers in two games leaves him with a 15.5 per game average. Conley is moving along at a modest 17.8 point per game averge. John Warren, the coach with a five man squad and more than enough woes to stretch out through two basketball seasons, would like to know of a way to beat Oregon State this weekend. Ide should use a tight inside defense and leave the outside com paratively open—or he could use a strong outside defense and leave the inside comparatively open—or he could just pray. Greeks Control Courts; Phi Delts Set Scoring By PETE CARNACCHIA Tuesday Intramural Schedule -Basketball 3:50 Sederstrom A vs. Sigma Nu A 4:35 Alpha Tau Omega A vs. Alpha Hall A 5:15 Sigma Chi A vs. Cherney A -Handball 4:00 Pi Kappa Phi vs. Phi Delta The second round of intramural basketball play Tuesday night, put twelve teams into action, with only two of the six games being what you might call a contest. MeChesney A rolled over the YMCA A, 35-6, in the opener. T/hc winners used a fast break which found more holes in the YMCA defense than could be found in all of Lane county’s roads. Woods and Pierson led the scoring with 10 and 8 points, respectively. Nestor A gave the Greeks their only defeat of the evening as they edged out Tau Kappa Epsilon A, 18-14. Miller dropped in 11 points for the victors, who held a 9-8 half time edge. Anderson, Pope, and Lacy each got 4 for the Tekes. PHI DELTS ROLL A smooth Phi Delta Theta five slaughtered the Yeomen, 48-2, which is as big an understatement as you could hope for. Towering Bob Taggesell and Rod Slade con trolled both backboards with little trouble. Two very fast guards, Chamberlain and' Nelson, continu ally broke loose for loy-ins, with Chamberlain topping the scoring with 12 points. The perennial intra mural powers ran up 40 points be fore Koppe sunk the only Yoeman basket. PHI SIGS VICTOR A slightly closer contest was the Phi Sigma Kappa-French Hall fray, in which the Phi Sigs came out winders, 20-14. The winners held a 10-7 half-time margin which was narrowed to 14-12 at the end of the third quarter. Jerry Kelly, lanky Phi Sig center, paced a final canto drive while the losers could get but one more bucket. Phil Abrahams topped French Hall Frosh Battle j Varsity Crew Coach Don Kirsch sent his Ore gon Freshman Basketball squad against QJohn Warren’s Varsity hoopmen in a lengthy scrimmage yesterday afternoon at McArthur Court. No actual score was record ed, but the Ducklings kept their older brothers on the run all the while and pulled several sparkling floor plays in so doing. The starting five for the Frosh consisted of Henry Bbnnema and Ken Torgerson at forwards, Chet Noe at center, and Harland Mickey and Bud Covey at guards. Later Nick Schmer, Sam Con chetti and Fred Mueller came in and were particularly impressive with their tricky ball-handling. Top pointmakers were Covey, Schmer, and Jack Sherman, who sank several long shots. The Frosh have a slight vaca tion this wekend with no games scheduled for either Friday or Sat urday nights. On January 21st, they will meet the Oregon State Rooks in a night game at McAr thur Court, with a second contest following the next evening at Cor vallis. Population of what is now the state of Oregon grew from ap proximately 10,000 in territorial days a century ago to an estimated one million, five hundred thousand today efforts with 6. Bowman and Provost led Sig ma Phi Epsilon to a 37-4 rout of Omega Hall. Half-time count of the rough fracas was 19-2. Lambda Chi Alpha dropped Mer rick Hall, 26-10, in another rough go. The gold-shirted men held a 10-2 half-time lead in a game that was never close. Doolittle paced the evenly-distributed scoring for the winners with 6, while Durbing got 4 for Merrick. Theta Chi swept all three matches from Tau Kappa Epsilon in the only hadball action. 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