Sammies Cop Fourth Title; Chi Psi Wins By CLYDE FAHLMAN Tuesday’s Schedule Basketball 3:50—Stan Kay B vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon 3:50—Theta Chi B vs. Hunter B 4 ;35—Sherry Boss B vs. Tau Kap pa Epsilon B 4:35—Sigma Alpha Mu B vs. Cherney B 5:15—Sederstrom B vs. lambda Chi Alpha B 5:15—Sigma Alpha Epsilon B vs. Alpha B Two “A” matches and one “B" tilt were on Monday’s basketball slate, but the big headlines origin ate from handball courts “42" and “44" where the Sammies tipped ATO 3-0, and captured the IM “mit and tuff ball’ crown for the fourth consecutive time. In the initial handball singles . match Sammie Alan Lippman took two out of three over Ramsey Fen dall. The scores read 21-16, 10-21, and 21-11. Jerry Barde cinched the win for Sigma Alpha Mu with 21 JO and 21-12 wins over ATO Bob Harrison in the second match. Sammies Itz Horenstein and Marvin Horenstein made it a clean sweep in the doubles match with 21 14 and 21-15 victories over ATO men Frank Rauch and Frank Bocci. Chi Psi crossed the tape ahead of Pi Kappa Alpha with a 19-15 cage ■win. At half time the winners led 10-7. Chuck Strader and John Cha ney paced the winners with nine and seven points respectively. Ray Brackett scored six for the losers. Westminster spilled Hunter 21-11 in spacer rough house clash. West minster led 10-1 at half-time and 17-9 at the third quarter mark. Maynard Meadows paced the win ners with eleven points. Brian Tel > ler had six for the losers although .Westminster forward, Hal McIntyre had runner-up honors with eight. (Please turn to pa,</»’ seven) Smooth Boh Payne BOB PAYNE, smooth working forward from San Francisco, who rolled in 26 points in the recent Idaho series to knock Dick Ballantyne Out of top spot in the Beaver individual scoring race for the first time since the start of the conference campaign. rf-ettneUJl SKI SALE Vs OFF sps BOOTS VISORS BINDINGS WHITE STAG SKI CLOTHES STARTS WED. —OVER SAT. DON'T MISS THIS BIG SALE ALL SKI CLOTHING — ALL SKI EQUIPMENT EaiSSDiE Aggies Battle Oregon In Weekend Series Conley, Evans Wage Personal Cage Warfare It will be sophomore against sen ior this weekend when Gene Con ley, Washington State College’s sensational sophomore from Rich land and leading scorer of the Northern Division battles it out for high point honors with Rich “Mr.. Points” Evans of Gonzaga in a two game series Friday, February 24, at Pullman and Saturday, February 25, in Spokane. Conley as Northern Division scor ing ace, has scored a total of 337 points to date during the 1949-50 hoop season. Evans, on the other hand, is ranked as 19th in the na tion with 398 points and 17.3 aver age per game. Evans, is finishing his hoop car eer at Gonzaga University this sea son in a blaze of glory. Every point he scores in the WSC series will break a scoring record at Gonzaga. Evans has scored a total of 1418 points to date since starting his hoop career in 1947. Conley, as a sophomore, is just starting his intercollegiate basket ball career. Big Gene is the current WSC scoring leader as well as the top scoring ace in the Northern Di vision. All-American candidate Ed Gay da, of Hoquiam, will probably have a great deal to do with helping tfammate Gene Conley in the battle of the giants. Gayda, who is the besfe defensive man on the Cougar squad, will probably draw the rugged as (Please turn to page sevenJ Back in the thick of the torrid 1950 northern division basketball as a result of two convincing vic tories over Idaho here this week, Oregon State’s basketball team is making all-out preparations for the final two-game series with arch rival Oregon next week. The Beavers will entertain the Webfoots next Friday evening in the final game of the season in mammoth new Gill coliseum. Sat urday night the clubs will switch operations to Oregon’s , McArthur court for the series finale. Reserved seats for Friday’s “civil war” battle were sold out more than a week ago, but several thousand general admission tickets will go on sale at the gates at 6:45 the night of the game. The Beavers played their best ball in recent weeks in whipping the dangerous Vandals, 48-44 and 60-46. Coach Slats Gill was particu larly pleased with the work of Bob Payne, who scored 26 in the two games; and Guards Tommy Hol man and Jack Orr, with 19 and 21 points for the series, respectively. Remainder of the combination that worked well gainst the Vandals had Glen Kinney at center; and Ray Snyder in the other worwai'd slot. Gill’s men now sport a record of seven wins and five losses in league play. After the Oregon series, the Orange travel to Seattle for their final regular games against title contending Washington on March 3 and 4. That series could possibly decide the championship. Oregon State posted the amazing ly high shooting average of .460 on 23 field goals in 50 shots in the sec ond Vandal contest. If the Beavers can keep on their shooting caps, they will be tough to beat the rest of the route. Sigma Chis Break Two Records In Capturing IM Track Meet Sigma Chi ran over Phi Gamma Delta by a 40 to 19 count in an in formal track meet yesterday. The 13th Street flyers broke two records in notching the win, and tied another. “Coach” Dave Henthorne set a new broad jump mark of 19’ 5” to surpass the previous high, 18f!t. lOin held by Joe Tom. Fred Turner ran the % mile in 3:42 to clip four seconds from the standard set by Johnson of DU. The Sigma Chi re lay team passed the baton at a 16.2 clip to tie Sigma Nu in that depart ment. , The results: Shotput—(1) Davis (SC), (2) Sanders (SC), Vanatta (Fijis) Distance 40 ft. 8 in. High Jump—(1) Kolden (Fiji), (2) Monteith, Ralston (Fiji), Stelle, Young (SC)—Height— 5 ft. 4in. Broad Jump—(1) Hentltorne (SC), (2) Edwards (SC), (3) Haycox (Fiji). Distance—19 ft. 5 in. 40 Yard Hurdles—(1) Lunt (Fiji), (2) Ralston (Fiji;, (3) Richardson (SC). Time—5.9. 40 Yard Dash—(1) Edwards (SC), (2) Stelle (SC), Wilkins (Fiji). Time—5 flat. " Ya Mile—(1) Turner (SC), (2) Cuffel (SC), (3) Smith (Fiji). Time—3:42. Relay—(1) Sigma Chi (Ed wards, Henthorne, Stelle, Rich ardson). Time 16.2. National Cage Ratings BY MARTIN MEADOWS The positions of the nation’s top basketball teams remained almost the same in this week’s ratings as the hoop season began to draw to a close. Holy Cross held firmly to the top i ung after winning its toughest game of the season. The Crusaders notched an easy 67-50 win over Dartmouth, but were hard-pressed to defeat Rhode Island State, 70 62, in an overtime struggle, for their 22nd straight conquest. Bradley replaced St. John's in the funner-up slot with a 23-3 record. The Braves ran their latest streak to eight in a row with impressive 59-46 and 68-56 decisions over Ok lahoma A&M and Wichita, respec tively. Powerful Duquesne took over the number three berth after its sur prise 60-54 victory over Long Island. The win gave the Dukes a brilliant 20-1 slate and virtually assured them of a tournament bid. As a result of a 70-64 upset loss to Fordham, St. John’s dropped to fourth with 20 wins against three defeats. Fordham, losers of ten tilts this season, pulled out the win in an overtime period. Another tournament-bound squad, the Ohio State Buckeyes, moved up to the number five position after edging Missouri* by a 47-46 count and whipping Northwestern, 68-46. They now own a record of 17 and three. LaSalle held on to sixth with 16 triumphs in 19 starts. The Explor ers handed Loyola of Baltimore a 71-59 setback and poured on the steam for a convincing 87-60 win over Muhlenberg. They were followed by the North (Please turn to page seven)