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DUCK TRACKS By GLENN GILLESPIE Basketball is all but wound up here in the Northwest, with only four more games remaining on the ND schedule. This week end, Oregon State travels to Seattle for a final series with Wash ington, and WSC and Idaho play a split series at Moscow Friday and Pullman Saturday. If all goes as expected, the champion Cougars meet UCLA Mar. 10, 11, and 13 on the tiny Bruin floor, in the Pacific Coast Conference playoff. In last year’s PCC playoff, these same Bruins came to Corvallis and lost a two-out of-three series to Oregon State. Most observers pick the Southern champs to beat Washington State this sea son, figuring that the Gayda Conley team is no match for UCLA’s superior manpower. Bruin Coach John Wooden has quite a collection of stars, including George Stanich, Alan Sawyer, and Carl Kraushaar, and UCLA managed to win the SD crown without too much BILL BOWERMAN irouDie. vve re puinng ior me cougars, ana tney mignt mane it. ND Swimming Championships This Weekend Sports action is rather slack here at Oregon right now, with only the swimming team seeing action this weekend. Coach John Borcharclt will take nine Ducks to Pullman tonight, for the Northern Division championships Friday and Saturday in the Cougar tank. The strong Washington Huskies are favored to win their sixth straight swimming championship, although the Cougars are figured to give them a battle. Oregon swimmers making the trip are Joe Nishimoto, Rod Harman, Louie Santos, Wade Hanso, Bill Vannatta, Dick Ruck deschel, Stan Hargrave, George Balch, and Jim Stanley. Frosh Cagers Made Oregon Athletic History Biggest highlight of the local basketball year was the per formance of Oregon’s Frosh team, ably coached by Don Kirsch, The Ducklings completed a 19-game schedule with only one loss, to the OSC Rooks, and was the highest-scoring frosh team in University athletic history. The Ducklings averaged 59.5 points per game, and can be compared with the strong 1936 and ’38 freshman squads. Five men scored 100 or more points, with Center Chet Noe leading the list with 225. That’s a new frosh scoring record, , shoving Laddie Gale’s 1936 total of 219 off the books. Guard Bud Covey was second high with 151, followed by Nick Schmer with 130. If some of these boys work out as sophomores next year, and a few ineligibles transfer back to Oregon, John Warren will have plenty of material to work with. Warren has the backing of the press—R-G included—now all he needs is a few breaks next sea son. Spring sports seem to be starting all at once, with track, baseball, spring football, golf, and tennis activity soon to be in full swing. Prospects in all five sports aren’t too bad, but track seems to be the most promising. Coach Bill Bowerman is working with what may be the strongest Oregon track scjuad in years. Conference competition opens at Hayward Field April 8, with an Oregon-OSC relay meet. Bowerman Revives Interest in Track In his study here. Bowerman has done a lot to revive interest in track. Things like the Bowerman-sponsored intramural track meets do a lot to uncover unknown tSlent and boost general spec tator interest in the cinder sport. We look for plenty of local sup port for the Webfoot trackmen, and watch the team respond with meet victories. Baseball practice is also gaining headway. Coach Don Kirsch has announced a tentative eight-game pre-season schedule, with games against Linfield, Willamette, Lewis and Clark, Portland U, and Vanport. The preseason schedule opens Mar. 31, against Linfield at McMinnville. The first home game for Oregon is Apr. 4 against Portland University, and the Northern Division season opens here against Washington State Apr. 14 and 15. Robeson Bailey, Oregon’s new tennis coach who doubles as an English professor and short story specialist, has scheduled several non-conference matches for his tennis men. The var sity season opens here Apr. 21 against Idaho. And Oregon’s golf team opens against OSC Apr. 15 at Cor vallis. Coach Sid Milligan expects both the varsity and fresh man teams to be strong this year. Football Coach Jim Aiken starts the first of 30 spring practice sessions on Apr. 3. Watch for the signing of two new coaching assistants before spring practice starts. Nelson To Leave For Portland Meet Lyle Nelson, director of informa tion, will leave for Portland today to meet with other Oregon and Washington college public relation representatives. They will discuss preliminary plans for next fall’s district meet ing of the American College Public Relation Association. Nelson is president of the Northwest divi sion of the association. He is also a member of the national constitu tion and policies committee. Schools to be represented at Fri day’s discussion are Linfield, Pacif ic University, Reed, Lewis and Clark, Willamette, Vanport, Lower Columbia Junior College at Van couver, and Multomah Junior Col lege. While gone, Nelson will also visit Oregon alumni groups in Albany, Dallas, McMinnville, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, and Portland. Foreign Placements Open to Teachers Candidates for elementary and secondary teaching positions in Japan, Germany, and Austria will be interviewed at the University of Washington Apr. 7 and 8. Interviews will be conducted by an army recruitment team at the Adult Education Center at 2208 Eighth Ave., according to Charles C. Furman, chief of the Army Re cruitment Section of Civilian Per sonnel. Further information may be ob tained from Furman, Overseas Af fairs Branch, Civilian Personnel Division, Department of the Army, Washington, D. C. Graduate Named to Job Merrill E. Samuelson, who has completed work for his master’s degree at the University, recently was appointed an instructor on the Kansas State College journal ism staff. Samuelson’s appointment was ef fective Feb. 1. He will receive his degree in June. 3nP: erson THE TEN TALENTED FINGERS Of JACK fi n h AMI HIS ORCHESTRA WILLAMETTE PARK Friday, March 10—9 p.m. to 1 a.nr. Tickets on sale at Thompson’s Music Stores, Down town, 29 East 8th Campus, 768 East 11th Students $1.00. Adults $1.50 plus tax Wengert to Discuss Tonight University's Role in Cold War How a university may function as a defensive weapon in the cold war, will be discussed by E. S. Wengert, political science head, tonight at 8 in 207 Chapman Hall. Wengert’s lecture, “The Univer sity, Ivory Tower or Watchtower,” is the fourth presentation of the current University Lecture Series. The lecture is designed to explain the role the university should play in modern society and its function in political problems, such as the current U. S.-Russian diplomatic conflict. Wengert plans to compare two schools of thoughts concerning the university’s place in the world. He will emphasize the dangers of the “ivory tower,” or remote scholastic attitude and the consequent advan tages of a “watchtower” attitude. He defines the latter as a state in which the university is actively interested in external affairs and acts as an informer for the general populace. Current controversial issues, such as the employment of com munists in state schools, will be discussed. A question period will follow the lecture. Wengert received his college ed ucation at the University of Wis consin, taking his Ph.D. there. He joined the University faculty in 1948. 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