DUCK TRACKS
By TOM KING
Oregon's ever-lively athletic scene is always watered clown
with a smattering of questions, sound or otherwise. Here’s a few
of them just tostart the weekend hibernation.
How will Honest John Warren’s bunch of basket bombers
do against Oregon State in ■Corvallis the next 8 p.m.?
\\ ho is the Webfoot most likely to capture All-ND glory—
and why?
Just how good is young, gangling Gene Conley, the WSC
center. And how did this Mr.
Conley hold his own last
week against the Webfoots.
How important is the OSC
game tonight? And how more
important is next week’s two
gamer with Washington.
Will Ken Hunt make his way
into the starting lineup again
or will Warren permanently re
move him from the regulars ?
How about the two-minute
rule and what Oregon will do
about it.
SLATS GILL
And the Big Question
1 hat s a goodly number of questions. All of which makes for
a goodly number of answers. Here's a rundown on a few of them.
Warren throws in a spurred up outfit against the Beavers in
spacious Gill Pavillion tonight. However, Honest John doesn’t
expect either Paul Sowers or Will Urban to be at their peaks-.
Both haven't quite fully recovered from their layoff. Sowers is
still wearing a brace. Which is precisely why he was caught
traveling so much against the WSC Cougars last weekend. He
couldn't stop, step and in general, mobile.
Still, as long as fellows like Mel Krause, a stickler for condi
tion and a ball player’s ball player, are in there, the Ducks will
do all right.
Incidentally, Warren is looking forward to playing in Gill
Stadium. Those traditional cat-calls that always resounded from
the rafters of that old “match-box” were anything but pleasant.
Urban the Man of the Division?
Urban is the gentleman who is the most likely to succeed in
so far as KB honors go, according to Warren. And here’s the rea
son why:
Urban combines plenty of that ol’ spark plus the knack of
taking the rebounds. He’s unadulterated dynamite off the
boards. Witness what he did against Gene Conley Saturday.
Urban pulled in 17 rebounds and Conley 11. That’s pretty fair
pulling in.
Along with everyone else who has seen him play, Warren
thinks Conley “can't miss.” He’s got grace, poise and sheer abil
ity. John believes a big man might be able to stop him now, but
by next season Conley should be unsurpassed. The only short
( coming Conley apparently has is his ability to take a beating,
^e's not overly strong and his shoulders are not overly broad.
This, says Warren, is a definite handicap.
Hunt Will Return
Tonight’s game certainly is a key one. And you can double
that in spades since it’s a one and not two-game series. Next
week’s pair with Washington will be even more important. A
sweep by either team would put it far out in front in the ND
race.
Warren says that although Ken Hunt has been lifted from
the starting lineup now, he’ll probably return to it in the near
future. Hunt is having typical “sophomoritis,” which is not
uncommon. Most folks say they haven’t noticed any slacken
ing in Hunt’s performance, but Warren figures it differently.
Now about the controversial and muchly brow-beat two
minute rule. Last Friday, when trailing Oregon by a puny mar
gin. Washington State rolled over and played dead. They didn’t
attempt to rassle the ball away from the Lemon-and-Green, pos
sibly figuring it rvouldn’t do them any good.
However, Warren has different ideas. He thinks that method
is of the “everything to lose, nothing to gain” sort. So he’ll bank
on scrappers like Bob Lavey and Jack Keller to go in there and
get possession of that ball.
Eugene Baseball
Business Manager Walter Nellis said yesterday that the Eu
gene Baseball dub of the Far West League has signed a work
ing agreement with the Boston Red Sox of the American League.
The agreement promises Eugene “seven key players” through
San Jose of the California League, Nellis said,
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Sammies, Theta Chi Butcher Foes;
Stan Ray, SAE, Chi Psi Pi Kaos Win
IM SCHEDULE
Basketball
3:50 40 Phi Delta Theta A vs Phi
Kappa PsI A
3:50 43 Lambda Chi Alpha A vs.
Phi Gamma Delta A
4 :S5 40 Alpha Tau Omega A vs.
Kappa Sigma A
4:35 43 Sigma Chi A vs. Delta
Upsilon A
5:15 40 Theta Chi A vs. Beta
Theta Pi A
5:15 43 Chi Psi A vs. Westmin
ster A
Handball
4:00 Sigma Nu vs. Phi Sigma
Kappa
Some close and some wide was
the order for intramurals in the P.
E. courts yesterday, as one game
went into an overtime period and
another so called “contest” ended
with the winners holding a 37
point margin.
In handball for the day, Omega
Hall won a 2-1 victory over Pi
Kappa Alpha tb move up the
elimination ladder one step.
The overtime contest of the day
featured Sigma Alpha Epsilon ver
sus Sherry Ross Hall in an A game.
SAE finally got rolling after the
final whistle and the count read 14
9 with Sherry Ross on the bottom
when it was all over.
On the other extreme, Theta
CIVIL WAR
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If, on the other hand, the Bea
vers have any trouble combat
ing the Oregon fast break, War
ren will probably insert Keller
and Lavey, the twb race-horse
runners, into the game.
Speculators are also pondering
| what chances the Ducks will have
l under the basket on offense. Here,
the job will be heaped on Urban,
Vranizan, and Streeter. Bob Ama
cher may also see game time if the
going under the hoops gets rough
against the taller Farm team.
Oregon is figured to Hse a
straight man-to-man defense, Or
possibly a shifting man-to-man if
the OSC floor plays become too
deadly.
The opening tipoff for the game
will be at 8 p.m. on the new Beaver
court.
Weather conditions permitting, a
capacity crowd of some 10,000 fans
is expected. Reserve seat tickets
were sold out Tuesday. Only a
thousand general admission ducats
remain and they will go on sale at
the gates at 6:45 P.M. Friday. To
enable as many fans as possible to
see the game, three sections of
bleachers from the old gym have
been added on the sides of the huge
plant.
After breaking- even with
Washington State in the initial
conference series last week, the
Beavers must win tonight to re
main in a strong position for the
successful defense of their north
ern division championship. Ore
gon likewise split with the Coug
ars and wants to win Friday as
desperately as the Orange. All of
which adds up to the usual red
hot battle when the arch rivals
meet bn the maple boards.
The Beavers should be in their
best physical condition of the sea
son with the squad at full strength.
Coach Slats Gill will probably open
with Bob Payne and Jim Padgett at
forwards; Hay Snyder, center; and
Dick Ballantyne and Bill Harper in
the guard slots. Snyder moved into
the starting pivot job this week be
cause of his speed and aggressive
ness.
Jim Nau, 6 foot, 5 inch sopho
more from Santa Ana, Cal., prob
ably will see his first varsity action
Friday. One of the top men on last
year’s strong Rook club, Nau in
jured his back early in the season
and is just rounding into form.
Chi romped to an easy field-day
win over hapless Gamma Hall by
a score of 40-S.
Another run-away game saw
Sigma Alpha Mu win from Sigma
Hall by a 30-9 score. Jerry Ginz
berg and Hal Light ran wild to con
tribute the one-sided count for the
Sammies.
In other games of the day:
Stan Ray Hall beat Pi Kappa Phi
23-8.
Chi Psi defeated Hunter Hall 27
10 in a near-rout.
Pi Kappa Alpha ran over Stitzer
Hall to the tune of 27-6 to complete
the annihilation of the hall teams in
the day’s games.
Oregon State’s 1949 football team
ranked seventh in the nation in
point - after - touchdown effective
ness.
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