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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1950)
DUCK TRACKS By TOM KING iN ow that the unsorted remains of the 1949-50 Northern Divi sion basketball campaign have virtually been salted away in cold storage, packed in moth balls, clamped under the proverbial lid ciuu uuici wise uisposect or m tne proper manner, it is only appro priate that we draw up a chair, a retroactive crystal ball, and formulate an All-ND team. This is something that every ' campaigner from Walla Walla to Wilkes-Barre does when the all-mignty rain-God, Jupiter Pluvius, comes around with his early-March sleuthing. Jupe is supposed to be a worldly char acter but the great expanse of the Northwest seems to be something the old guy can’t re- | sist. So he hies up here most of * the time. mmm® EDDIE GAYDA Y\ hich is why we have had a splattering of heavy mists of late. Which is only why today is All-Northern Division day. Omy we had to blame it on the weather first. Anyhow, we figure there are five gents in this section of the States which are as pure an AU-ND breed as any blue-blooded ^"thoroughbred in the Kentucky hills. ' ND's Classiest Have Plenty of Class And then theie s a few other honest-to-good fellows who are light handy with a basketball too. Piled one atop the other, they compose a three-team scjuad that would g’ivre any ball club in the nation a stiff test. To wit: Player Ed Gayda . Louie Soriano . Gene Conley . Frank Guisness . Jack Keller. Second team Pritchett,'Idaho. Payne, Oregon State. Enochs, Washington. Urban, Oregon. Mangis, Washington State Position Team ■ forward.Washington State • forward . Washington center.Washington State •• guard.Washington guard . Oregbn position Third Team - forward.Henson, Washington - forward.Tappe, Washington State center.Kinney, Oregon State ■ guard . Reed, Idaho .. guard.Krause, Oregon Now, this is a pretty healthy hunk of cage class. Some of the picks were hard to make—but then in a few instances they were rather automatic. Arbitrary changes in positions were made in several cases . A Gayda Is a Gayda Is a Gayda Gayda is without dispute the division’s ace of spades. The big blonde can make like magic with a basketball and when some well informed observers said earlier in the year that Gayda was the equal of Southern California’s fabulous Bill Sharman, they evi dently weren’t talking through their fedora. Mr. Gayda is ND’s JVIr. Basketball of 1950. His Cougar teammate, Conley, has lots to learn but plenty of time in which to do it. They say his floor play sloughed off near the end of the season, but he’s leading the division in scor ing. And no sophomore need feel ashamed about that. On sec ond thought, Gene should be downright happy. Long-shot Louie Soriano, the guy with the inflated mid-sec tion and a million-dollar push shot, is too dangerous a threat to lump off. He’s a scrapper and like many of that ilk, he mkes his quota of mistakes. But Soriano is third in scoring at present with 166 points and what with his eye and his razzle-dazzle hustle— lie’s deserving of a first string berth. His teammate, Guisness, is a comer who has really come. He may be better than Conley (they’re both sophomores) before their respective and respec table careers are concluded. Figures, Contenders, and Ulcerated Stomachs That fifth position was hard to figure. Will Urban and Bob pritchett were both hot contenders. But after weighing the case it seems that Jack Keller holds an ever-so-slight edge. Jack came fast at mid-season and his ultra-smooth floor play and reliable shooting put him up there with the big boys. He’s got another year yet—which should be strictly okay by John Warren. Chances are that rivals will have to prepare for an epidemic of ulcerated stomachs, though. Too, we must not neglect Bob Payne of OSC, who was also a clever gentleman with the casaba. But then there were a lot of clever gentlemen that played basketball in the Northern flats this past winter. That’s why that first five could give any team in the country a full 40 minutes of good, solid basketball. And now for the moth balls, the cold storage, and the prover bial lid. ft. ATO Runne Sigma Chi F A well-balanced ATO track squad won the Bill Bowerman in ter-organization track title Thurs day afternoon by edging past Sig ma Chi, 34-25. The meet was close all the way, with the fleet ATO relay team de ciding the outcome in the final event. Sigma Chi piled up an early lead in the field events but the winners came back to dominate the hurdles and dashes. This, coupled with a first in the high jump, gave the ATO crew a 29-25 lead before the relay. Henthorne Makes Bid The ATO men gave anchor man Brainard a four-yard lead and the speedy lad pounded home to settle the issue. Dave Henthorne made a grand bid to over haul Brainard but couldn’t quite close the gap. He was less than a yard behind at the tape. Results: Broad jump—Edwards, SC; Hen thorne, SC; Brainard, ATO. 19’8” Chi Psi Cagers Grab (Continued, from page four) the hoop. Morse, former Astoria ace, canned a basket for the lead ers, and at the quarter whistle his team led 11-2. Big Halftime Margin Jack Parsons made two free throws, and Garrett sank a fielder, while they held “the boys from down under” to a lonesome foul shot. Joe Caufield put in a two pointer for the bottom-enders, but top-enders Johnson and Farnam tacked on three more counters to the Phi Delt margin before the half, which made it 18-6. The second half was all down grade for the blue-jerseyed Phi Delts, as the Kappa Sigs never threatened. Midway in the third quarter, Johnson hit for six in a row, and a crew of substitutes en tered the fray. Noel laid one in, and Jack Countryman swished for two points for the losers just before the gun. Heads Named For WSSF Drive Committee chairmen for the cam pus World Student Service Fund drive Apr. 3 through 7 were an nounced Wednesday night by Co chairmen Willy Dodds and Ed Pet erson. Ann Darby was named chairman of elections: Nancy Pollard, fly ing speeches; Fred Dodge, letters; Ann Gillenwaters, posters; Nancy O’Connor, promotion; Marjory Bush, publicity; and Bill Carey, special events. John Cole, national traveling secretary for WSSF, arrived on the campus Thursday and will re main until Sunday. He will help the committee plan the drive and give pointers for a successful campaign. rs Defeat or Title High jump—Cudahy, ATO; Cal derwood, SC; Young, SC. 5’8” Shot put—Davis, SC; Shaw, A TO Moshofsky, ATO. 40’2” Hurdles—Marvin, ATO; Cald well, ATO; Stelle, SC. 5.6 Dash—South, ATO; Parker, A TO; Moshofsky, ATO, 40’2” 3A -mile—Turner, SC; Bentley, A TO; Cuffel, SC. 3.33:1 (new rec ord) Relay—ATO (Parker, South, McKay, Brainard) 16. 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