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Faces Idaho Vandals Tonight
IPancho Segura Story:
! Strictly Rags to Riches
Oregon students will have their
v regular downstairs seats for the
, professional tennis matches in Mc
Arthur court Wednesday night.
Tickets for the matches, which
. - start at 8 p.m., are on sale now at
f the Athletic Ticket Office, McAr
y thur court. Student ducats are 50
cents, general admission 90 cents,
and reserved seats $1.80.
All women reserved seat ticket
holders will receive free orchids,
courtesy of Flowers Unlimited,
, when they enter the court.
One of the colorful net stars will
/ - be Francisco “Fancho” Segura. 29
year-old Ecuadorian flash, famous
for his two-handed forehand. Se
,f gura’s rise to* world tennis fame is
, a Horatio Alger-type rags-to-riches
, ntory.
He got his start in his native
Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1938. The
town of Quito had challenged the
tennis club of Guayaquil to a match
v for the Pichincha Cup, the richest
athletic prize in the country.
Started .As Underdog
This particular year, however,
Guayaquil had no first rate players,
and all the secdnd rate players beg
ged off from meeting the strong
• . Quito team. The chairman of Guay
aquil’s selection board nominated a
caretaker's son, a near-cripple cal
. led Parrot Foot. The tennis club of
aristocrats had to resort to a care
taker's son for an entrant.
Parrot Foot, so called for his phy
sical pecularities, was Francisco
Segur a. He promptly captured the
Pinincha Cup for his club, and then
went on to win the South American
championship. He then moved to U.
S. tennis fields.
Segura captured many U. S. am
ateur titles. He held third place in
the national amateur ratings for
three years. He won the National
Intercollegiate title three years in
a row in 1943, '44, and '45 as a
•student at Miami University. In
1946 he grabbed the United States
FRANCISCO SEGURA
Lawn Tennis Association title.
Later he turned professional.
Strangely enough, Segura's best
shot, the two-handed forehand, de
veloped when as a weak child he
was unable to grip the racket with
one hand. This style made every
one laugh in his early playing days,
but is the main reason for his suc
cess.
Segura will meet Frankie Parker
in a single match, and team with
Pancho Gonzales to play Jack
Kramer and Bobby Riggs in a
doubles game.
Webfoots Take
To Water Today
In Aggy Pool
Despite the recent sickness of
several varsity men, Oregon’s
swimming squad is well-prepared
for the Northern Division opener
with Oregon State at Corvallis to
morrow afternoon.
Dick Ruckdeschel, who is suffer
ing from a severe cold, might not
be able to participate in the meet,
but it is believed that the remainder
of the team will see action in the
OSC Dads’ Day battle.
Team Is Cold-Weakened
However, Bill Vannatta and Stan
Hargrave have not yet completely
recovered from their bouts with the
cold germ and might be at a dis
advantage when the action begins.
Another cold victim, Rod Harmon,
has missed valuable practice time.
On the other side of the ledger,
Joe Nishimoto, George Balch, Louis
Santos, and Wade Hanson are in
perfect condition and have been
looking very good, while Divers Jim
Stanley and Harry Ladas also have
been staging excellent performan
ces.
Ray Staub Eager
According to an official release
from Corvallis, Beaver Coach Reg
Flood is “still in a gloomy mood
concerning the meet,” and he fur
ther maintains that Ray Staub, a
diver, is his “only sure hope.”
However, Staub will have a tough
battle when he faces Oregon’s Jim
Stanley, who won the Northern Di
vision diving title last year. Stanley
demonstrated that he is ready to
defend his crown last Saturday
when he captured first-place hon
ors in the intra-squad meet.
Van Dijk Ineligible
Coach John Borchardt’s Ducks
will miss the services of Pete Van
Dijk, w'ho has been declared ineli
gible for Northern Division compe
tition.
Van Dijk was almost a one-man
team last Saturday when he took
Bud Covey Draws Warren's Praise
By JACK LANDKUD
“Sure, he’s small, but his speed
.••■and drive more than make up for
v • the lack of height, and I consider
7* liim an excellent varsity prospect
v; for next year.”
Thus spoke Oregon Head Basket
'll; hall Coach John Warren when quiz
• red as to the potentialities of Bud
Covey, sparkling guard on the
Freshman basketball team.
Bud, who stands 5 feet 9 inches
in height and pushes the scales to
tlie 168-pound mark, was born in
Seattle on March 24, 1931, and
, moved to Portland four years later
where he attended grammar school
and high school.
Went to Jefferson High
While attending Portland's Jef
fetson high. Bud first became in
terested in sports and was out
standing enough to letter for three
years in both football and basket
eball.
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, During' Bud's second basketball
season, the Jeff team won a berth
in the State prep basketball tour
nament which was being played in
Eugene and it was then that he
first visited the University of Ore
gon.
Jeff had a very potent quintet
that year, and was composed of
such luminaries as Duane Enochs,
now star center for the University
of Washington varsity, Jerry Hef
ty, liighscoring forward for Pacific
Lutheran College, and Clarence
Schmer, Jim Livesay, and Emery
Barnes. Schmer and Livesay are
now teammates of Bud’s at Oregon.
Football Produced Thrill
Strangely enough, Bud’s most ex
citing moment in sports came in a
football game and not a basketball
contest. When Jefferson was play
ing her deadly grid rival, Grant
High School, in the fall of 1947,
and was trailing 6-0, Bud. who was
then a junior halfback, scooped up
a fumble by Grant’s Dale Duff and
streaked from the Grant 20 yard
line across the goal line for an 80
yard touchdown run, and the Jeff
men went on to win.
Wants to Teach
Liberal Arts in Bud's major field
and he would like to go into the
teaching profession. He has both a
brother and a sister who are edu
cators and nothing would please
him more than to follow in their
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Can OSC Crack
Louie Is Question
Oregon State and Washington
will go into a two-game series to
night in Gill Coliseum at Corvallis,
and the question of whether Husk
ies Louie Soriano and Frank Guis
ness can hold up under a partisan
OSC crowd may be answered.
Both the little junior dead-eye
and the flashy sophomore ball
handler showed signs of strain and
distress last week in McArthur
Court in front <5f a noisy and some
times deafening Oregon crowd.
The new OSC coliseum is sold out
for tomorrow night, and it is ex
pected that there will be few empty
seats in the mammoth structure to
night, although some tickets were
left yesterday.
Slow-Ball
Play Used
By Vandals
When Oregon’s Ducks face the
Idaho Vandals tonight and tomor
row night, they will be facing a
team which uses a control-the-ball
type of play.
That, in opposition to the Oregon
fast-running type of game, should
make quite a pair of contests be
fore the weekend is over.
Vandal Coach Chuck Finley is
known for trying things that no
other coach in the divison will try.
These things include slow, ball
control play, with the idea that the
other team won’t score if it doesn’t
get the ball, a different type of un
der-the-basket floor play, and sev
eral eccentric methods for putting
the ball into play from out' of
bounds.
Finley also is noted for his abil
ity, according to Idaho sources, to
diagnose another team’s offense in
a few minutes, and be able to set
up a defense which is like to stop it.
Vandals Blanked to Date
To date the Vandals have not
won a game in division play, but
they are figured to be up for Ore
gon, after their two loses as the
hands of Washington State last
weekend.
~ A great deal of Oregon’s fortunes
tonight will depend on the ability of
the Ducks to hit the hoop. If they
shoot like they did last weekend,
they are figured to be sure winners,
but if they return to their shooting
of some earlier games, they may
two first and was a member of the
winning 400-yard freestyle relay
quartet in the intra-squad meet.
The Beavers will be attempting
to break Oregon’s great victory
string of 17 straight wins over OSC.
Oregon State hasn’t taken a dual
meet from the Ducks since 1938. In
16 of the past 17 battles, Oregon
has more than double’ll the Beaver
score.
have a tough time knocking over
Idaho.
In the Idaho line-up tonight will
be big Bob Pritchett, who has sur
prised many fans this year with his
below-par playing, as compared
with his 1949 record.
Pritchett Not What He Used To Be
Pritchett was figured at the be
ginning of the season to be little
short of a sensation in Northern Di
vision circles, but his performance
has been only so-so to date.
Just who else will be in the line
up tonight against Oregon is not
too certain, considering the fact
that Finley may have shaken his
ED GAYDA, star Washington
state forward, who recently re
covered his ankle and his shoot
ing eye to pot 27 points against
Idaho. He is figured to give Ore
gon trouble next week.
team up after the double WSC de
feat.
Other men who may see action
for Idaho tonight and tomorrow
night are Sam Jenkins, Dick Geis
ler, the only three-year letterman
on the team, and Bob White. Six
men on the total 15-man Vandal
squad are sophomores.
For Oregon tonight and tomor
row night, Coach John Warren is
figured to start his winning quin
tet of last week. This consists of
Jack Keller and Mel Krause at
guards, Jim Vranizan at center, and
Paul Sowers and Will Urban at for
wards. Vranizan may get help from
fast improving Mel Streeter and
Bob Amacher.
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