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Emerald Sports Writer
What everyone connected with the saga hopes is the last chap
ter in Oregon’s own “on-again, off-again, gone-again Finnegan”
story unfolded Friday with Chet Noe’s restoration to the ranks
of basketball’s scholastically pure. I'he struggles Chet has had
to win and keep eligibility have
far outstripped in news value
anything he has accomplished
so far during the season on the
basketball floor.
Loscutoff Sparkles
The six foot, seven inch Cali
fornian, whose 226 points for
the frosh last season set a Duck
ling record, was tabbed one of
the top ten prospects on the
coast by a prominent authority
in his pre-season basketball
dope book. Up until now Noe
has had little opportunity to
^ye up to these expectations.
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ST.ATS GILL
standably hesitant to bank on somebody who might at any time
go down the drain of ineligibility, turned to newcomer Jim Los
cutoff.
Big Jim, another immigrant from the sunshine state,
promptly nailed down the center job with a series of splendid
backboard jobs, not to mention a point-getting prowess which
after the weekend series in San Francisco has led him to the
top of the Duck scoring column. Noe will have to be better than
good to win back a major share of the pivotman’s job.
After making the Pullman people rich in recent weeks with
their jaunts hither and yon, the Ducks will get back on their
home court this weekend for a brace of battles with Idaho's sky
scraping Vandals. Warren's crew is now halfway through a
strenuous 31 -game schedule with an eight-won, seven-lost mark.
Of the IS played so far, 11 have been in enemy territory where
the Webfoots have scored five wins against six setbacks. In their
four appearances before the home folks in the Igloo, they have
come off on the long end three times while losing just once.
Ducks Home to Roost
Fourteen of the next 16 games will be in Northern division
competition, eight in Mac Court. The other two will be against
the Oakland Blue and Gold quintet, once at Portland and once
here. The big “if” for the Webfoots now is whether or not they
can extend their winning ways on home ground when Chuck
Finley’s Vandals come to town Friday and Saturday. If they can,
there is still hope for something better than the fifth place Ore
gon was voted in the pre-season ND coaches poll. If they can’t,
chances are they will make the mentors look like prophets.
Personally, we think the manpower is there to do the job.
But whether or not it will be clicking seems to be a question
mark every time the Ducks take the floor. There have been oc
casions, notably in the second UCLA game and the opener
against Santa Clara, when they looked capable of anything,
^ftit then there was the second Santa Clara game in which ev
erybody appeared to have ten thumbs and two left feet. Admit
tedly, though, there is no real basis on which to judge the
Ducks from their few home stands so far.
Probably the brightest spot in the box scores of the games over
the weekend was Curt Barclay’s 39-point effort. The Missoula,
Mont., forward garnered 22 to lead the pack against St. Marys
and came right back against USF with 17 to share the honors
with Jim Loscutoff. An in-and-outer up till now, if Barclay con
tinues to hit he can be an invaluable help, especially if Will Ur
ban's ankle fails to come around. Capable of getting away with
his shots from any angle, Barclay is all but impossible to stop
when he's on.
Gillmen Blast Husky Myth
The wise-money boys who were saying Saturday morning that
Washington and Southern Cal could cake-walk to the respective
Northern and Southern Division titles may be revising their es
timates in the wake of Saturday night’s scores. Slats Gdl’s OSC
Beavers picked up where they left off Friday night to blast the
Husky invincibility myth 46-41 Their late rally in the opener fell
just one point shy of a tie and one field goal short of a win. The
win Saturday wound up a great day for Gill, who is this year in
his silver anniverasry season at the Beaver helm and who earlier
in the day was present at the dedication in his name of the Ore
gon State Coliseum.
It looked for several anxious moments after the Beavers had
b^-n all but one point of a 17 point lead as though the Huskies
were out to show that they possessed that true hallmark of
champions, the ability to come from behind and \\ in..
Positionsf Open
For Y Fun Fest
Petitions are available for com
mittee chairmanships of the Inter
national Fun Fest, to be held Feb.
24, Carolyn Oleman, YWCA inter
national relations chairman, an
nounced Sunday.
The annual event brings togeth
er foreign students from all Willa
mette Valley colleges and univer
sities for a festival of entertain
ment. This year, the event will be
sponsored by the University YM
YWCA.
Petition deadline is 4 p.m. Wed
nesday. They may be submitted
at the YWCA, Gerlinger, or the
YMCA, Student Union.
Positions are open on the follow
ing committees: invitations, pro
grams, registration, coffee hour,
dinner, dance, arrangements, pub
licity.
Y Membership
Drive to Close
The winter term membership
drive of the University YWCA will
draw to a close this week, with
solicitors in living organizations
distributing the second issue of the
YWCA Newsletter.
Activities in freshman commis
sions, the sophomore commission
and upper-class commission are
available to women joining the or
ganization this term.
The drive is unaer the direction
of Lois Ann Smith, membership
co-chairman. All University wom
en may contact the YWCA, Ger
linger for membership applications
or information.
“Melvin! Melvin!”
“What Ma?"
“Are you spitting in the fish bowl ?
“No Ma—but I’m coming pretty
close.”
Show Features
Groth, Philan
Featured soloists on the KOAC
Campus Recital at 8:15 tonight are
Robert Groth, violinist, and Iren©
Philan, soprano, both juniors in
music.
Accompanied by Geneva Ide,
senior, Groth will perform Bloch’s
‘Baal Shem,” with three move
ments entitled “Vidui (Contri
tion),” "Ninun (Improvisation)”
md “Simchas Torah (Rejoicing.)”
Jeanette Holloway, senior, will
iccompany Miss Philan in her
pieces: Rosa’s “Selva Voi Che Le
Esperanze,” Monteverdi’s “Lascia
re Mi Morire,” Veracini’s “A Pas
:oral,” from the opera “Rosalin
ia”; "Nina” by Pergolesi, “Mah
Lindy Lou” by Lily Strickland;
‘Slumber Song” by Gretchaninoff;
ind “The Sleep That Flits on
Baby’s Eyes” by Carpenter.
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