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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1950)
Baseball Practice All varsity baseball candidates will report to the dressing room n McArthur Court at 3 p. m. to day, Coach Don Kirsch has an nounced. Regardless of weather, candi dates will meet for practice. If the rains hold off long enough, Kirsch said yesterday, a workout will be held on Howe Field. Duck Swimmers Take Third In ND Championship Meet Cougars to Meet UCLA For Title in Los Angeles Briuns Play... By NORM ANDERSON UCLA’s Bruins captured their second southern division title with a smashing 74-57 victory over second place Southern California last weekend in Los Angeles. The Bruins and Trojans met in the final two games series of the season. Although the Trojans took the Bruins in one game, UCLA had already clinched the conference title the week before when Stan ford and California combined with victories over SC to knock the Tro jans out of the running. The Bruins, with a 10 and 2 rec ord in southern division play, will go into their scries with Washing ton State with a better team than the one which fell before Oregon State in Corvallis last year. In addition, the Bruins will have a psychological weapon at their ,.ands which has paid off dividends id season. The playoffs will be held in the small Bruin gymnasium in West v.eed where UCLA has lost only three games in three years, and ail to its cross-town rivals, Southern California. Bruins Arc veterans UCLA will meet the Cougars with a veteran squad, all the first fring having opened against the Beavers last year. Their sensa tional forward, George Stanich, recently named to the United Press All-Conference team, has displayed even greater versatitlity this sea son.- Outside of their defeats to a strong band from SC, the Bruins pulled out of two tough scrapes with California, with wild, last minute scoring sprees. The su perb backboard control of lanky Carl Krausha has contributed a lot to the Bruins success as a defensive team. LmensiviMy, uv.un umj U better than second place USC. They lead the Trojans, who have lest five conference games, by only LJ points in total points scored. And defensively, the Bruins have had only 25 less points scored on them than Southern California. UCLA Wants Revenge But this year, UCLA will be out for revenge. Many in the South land feel that this year’s team is even greater than last year’s, v. liieh was one of the best in Bruin hhstory. With experience gained from two year’s play, and the Knowledge that they controlled the play in thi' southern division from j about the second week, outlasting! v 'tli ease better than average] series with the other three schools, ] UCLA has its eyes on the nationals just as it did last year. Coach Johnny Wooden, locally Known ns the “Miracle Man of y. estwood," is still trying for the FOC title he promised the alumni v. non he arrived three years ago. And UCLA, which will lose most i f its stars, including Stapich, after this year knows it’s this sea mi or none. So Washington State u d get a good reception when it •pears on the “invincible Wes wood floor. Cougars Washington State College won the championship' of the Northern Division basketball race during the weekend. The Cougars traded wins with Idaho while the University of Washington Huskies scraped by Oregon State twice. And so the Cougars will meet the UCLA Bruins in Los Angeles to de termine the Pacific Coast represen tative in the national college bask etball playoffs. Friday night, WSC edged out Idaho, 39-38, but the Vandals fin ally came through in Saturday’s Pullman game and took three over time periods to beat their rivals, 50 45. In Saturday’s contest, big For ward Ed Gayda came within one point of tying Oregon’s Dick Wilk ins’ ND four-year scoring record of 643 points. Gayda finished his ND career Saturday night with 642 points. He got 15 in his last game and only 7 Friday. The Cougars must now head south to face UCLA in the tiny Bruins gymnasium at Westwood. This court is reportedly compar able to the old Oregon State Men’s Gym. It will seat only a small per centage of UCLA’a student body. In the Westwood gym, UCLA has lost only three games in three years. Gamma Leads Dorm Bowling; Sherry Second League Standings Won Lost Gamma. Sherry Hoss. Omega . Merrick . Stan Hay Aces Sigma . Stan Kay Bees. Minturn . 49 11 84 26 83 27 31 29 81 29 28 37 21 89 18 42 The Stan Ray Bees took over Hunter hall’s doormat position in the University Inter-Dorm bowling league last week, and their first action was to trade places with Minturn hall, shoving the latter in to the cellar with an impressive four-games-to-none win. The Stan Ray Aces upset Sherry Ross 3 to 1, Gamma widened its league lead by bowling over Omega four straight, extending its win streak to 19 games, and Merrick ex tended its win streak to eight games by winning four from Sigma by forfeit. Pete Darlington of Gamma re sumed his high single scoring with 213, and a high series of 552. Gam ma took both high team single of 528 and high team series with 1177. Leading scorers: Moekley, Merrick 27 176 Darlington, Gamma 42 l(!9 K.nglund, Stan Hay Aces 39 165 Thomas, Stan Hay Bees . 8 161 Gardiner, Merrick 27 159 Ivreuger, Stan Hay ltees 8 1.58 Naapi, Sherry Ross 45 157 Allen, Stan Hay Arcs 21 156 .Morrison, Sherry Res* 27 153 j Led by Co-Captain Joe Xish imoto. Coach John Borchardt’s University of Oregon Ducks captured third place Saturday afternoon in the Northern Divi sion championship swimming meet at Pullman, Wash. Nishimoto won the ND 200 yard breaststroke crown, set two new records in that event, and took third place in the 100-yard breast stroke and the 150-yard individual medley. Doug Gibb's Washington State Cougars scored an even 100 points as they smashed their way to the first Northern Division title in Cougar swimming history. The WS C triumph marked the end of the 29-meet winning streak of the Washington Huskies, who had been undefeated since 1942. Huskies Finish Second The Huskies, who routed Wash ington State 61-23 earlier this sea son, dropped to second place Satur day and finished the meet with a total of 88 points. Oregon scored 35, Oregon State was fourth with 21, Idaho was next, and Montana trailed in sixth place. Nishimoto highlighted Friday’s activities when he set two new WS C pool records in the 200-yard breaststroke. In the preliminaries, he finished with a time of 2:34.3, breaking the old mark of 2:35.9, which he had set during the Ore gon-WSC meet earlier this season. In the finals, he shattered his short lived Friday morning record by fin ishing in 2 minutes and 34.2 sec onds, one-tenth of a second better than the other tjme. Stan Hargrave of Oregon placed fourth in the 100-yard backstroke, and he added a fifth place in the 150-yard backstroke. /ui-Biar riissiuimics All-time all-Oregon team mem ber Louis Santos finished third in the 50-yard freestyle while Jim Stanley seized second-place honors in high-diving. Stanley and Nishi moto will be considered when the 1950 All-Northern Division swim ming squad is chosen. The Oregon splashers took third place in both relay events. The 300 yard medley relay trio consisted of Rod Harman, Dick Ruckdeschel, and Wade Hanson. The Ducks were represented in the 400-yard free style relay by Stanley, Hanson, Bill Vannatta, and Santos. Coach Borchardt was elected president of the Northern Division Swimming Coaches’ Association, replacing Eric Kirkland of the Uni versity of Idaho. The Ducks will close the season on March 25, when they participate in the state AAU meet. The Oregon high school cham pionship meet will be held in Eu gene on April 1. Duck Baseball Slate For Pre-Season Set March 31—Linfield College at MeMinville. April 1—Willamette University at Salem April 4—Portland University at Eugene April 5—Lewis & Clark College at Eugene April (i—Vanport Junior Col lege at Eugene April '—Willamette University at Eugene. April 8—Portland University at Portland April 11—Onfield College of Eu gene. Northern Division Conference play opens April It and 15—WS S at Eugene. ♦ ♦ ♦ Intramural Bulletin Representatives of men’s or ganizations are urged to turn in their entries for spring sports of softmall, tennis, and golf at the intramural office. Tlie deadline for IM entries is March 28, but living organiza tions are being asked to get en tries in early. Chi Psi Leads IM Race As Spring Sports Near Standings in men’s intramural sports have been posted by the in tramural office of the physical edu cation department. Clii Psi, by virtue of a fall term football championship and the re cent “A” basketball title has a firm hold on first place with 587 points. The Millracers have taken 253 of these counters during winter term. Phi Delta Theta is riding in sec ond place with 536 points. The Phi Dolts went to the finals in “A” lea gue basketball and took the “B" hoop title. Minturn hall, because of a volley ball championship and high ratings in other sports, is in the number three position at the end of winter term. Spring term intramurals will in elude softball, tennis, and golf. En try blanks for these sports have been mailed to all men’s oragniza tions by the IM department. They, are due in the office before 3 p.m. March 28, but officials have asked that they be filed as soon as possi ble, to make easier the job of mak ing out contest schedules. The top ten organizations and their scores are: Chi Psi . Phi Delta Theta ... Minturn . Sigma Chi . Beta Theta Pi. Alpha Tau Omega Sigma Alpha Mu ... Theta Chi. Kappa Sigma. Sigma Nu. 587 536 491 475 439 426 417— 417 412 411 Intramural 'A' All-Stars Chosen “A” Intramural All-Stars as chosen by the Emerald’s Intra mural staff are as follows : Daryle Nelson, Phi Delt..G.Chuck Rtifner, Chi Psi A1 Chamberlain, Phi Delt.G.Gerard Ginzberg, Sammie John Chaney, Chi Psi.—• C.Bob Taggesell, Phi Delt Chuck Strader, Chi Psi.F.Dick Salter, Sigma Nil Bill Clausen, Kappa Sigma.F.Emery Barnes, Minturn Honorable mention: Joe Tom, Minturn; Dick Bairtle, Sigma Nu; Jim Hayden, Chi Psi; Dale Jolly, Nestor; Perry Holloman, Sigma Chi; Dewey Keller, Beta Theta Pi; Max Vincent, Beta Theta Pi; Arnett Johnson, Kappa Sigma; Harold Mink, Sam mie; Wade Hanson, Delta Tau Delta. positively psychological what COLOR can do for you! Introvertive?.. .Frustrated?...Full of complexes?... Van Heusen prescribes color! Pale tints, bright pastels, he-man shades—every color to color your personality! 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