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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1951)
Middlecoff Swings in Open Play UR. CARY MIDDLECOFF, notert golf expert, finishes the 18th hole on the second day of play in the Lake wood Open Golf Tournament at Long Beach California. He shot a respectable 64 in this round and finished the day one stroke behind Julius Borns, who had a two-day 133. Ducks Organize Billiard Artists For First Meet Oregon will compete this year with other universities across the nation in the Inter-Collegiate Tele phonic Billiard Tournament, spon sored by the Billiard Congress of America. University men who either play pocket, three-cushion, or straight rail billiards may sign up by 5 p.m. Saturday at the Student Union rec reation area. Women Eligible University women may apply for a coed team which will compete in the pocket billiard division. An elimination tournament will be held Monday under the super vision of the SU recreation com mittee. Three men’s teams for eacli of the three different types of bil liard game teams will be formed from those making the highest •score. According to the Billiard Cong ress, to be a participant in the bil liard competition the player must be scholastically eligible and must bfe an undergraduate. Notice to l>e Given Notice of the University's par ticipation in the touatament will be announced by Feb. 1. Between the time of announcement and April 20, When the intercollegiate face-to face billiard championship will be held at Ann Arbor, Midi., the col legiate teams will hold play offs. This playoff type of tournament Mill determine the national college championship squad. Top Notional Hoop Honors Are Not Always Desirable -•-— Bowlers Active, Jets Easily Win Sam Nicolopulos turned in a high score of ?26 in Student Union bowl ing action last week for the best men’s performance. Nelda Vogel was high scorer for the women with a 195. In Faculty Bowling League play last night, the Jets zoomed to a 4-0 win over the Vitamins as Major Hanes of the Jets polled a 565. The Jets had a high series score of 2712. Other high scores were made when the Flying Saucers tied th6 Draftsmen 2-2. Herman Gelhausen of the Saucers had a high series score of 514, while Dick Williams, another aerial disc, rolled a seevn ten split. Draftsman Gaddis bowled a 197 game and a 510 series, while a teammate, Andrews, also had a 510 series. The Grenadiers bombarded the Stack Hats 3-0. Today’s bowling will feature Women’s Athletic As sociation games. Oregon plays 10 of its next 16 games at home after having played 11 of the first 15 on the road. One of the games will be against the Blue and Gold Nuggets of Oakland, led by All-American Don Barks dale, and is scheduled for the Port land Ice Arena February 9. WE MAKE SWEATERS LOOK LIKE NEW INSTANT PRESSING/ NEW YORK—CP) — Become the country's No. 1 basketball power— and have your winning streak shat tered! That’s been the strange pat tern which has plagued the nation’s leading teams this season. First Kentucky, winner of six straight games, was the leader. St. Louis took care of the Wildcats in the Sugar Bowl Tourney. Then Bradley rode a 15-game winning streak to the top. St. John’s derailed the Braves. Aggies Upset Now it’s Oklahoma A & M's turn to feel the pressure. The Aggies, ranked No. 1 in last week's Associ ated Press Poll, were upset Satur day by Oklahoma, 44-40, thus end ing A & M’s 16-game run. That left these questions to be answered: 1. What team tVill be put on the “spot" as leader this week? 2. Will it suffer a similar fate ? At the moment, Kentucky and fourth-ranked LIU look like the best bets to take over. Wildcats Bounce Back The Wildcats, No. 2 nationally, have rebounded from the St. Louis setback and now boast another six game streak and a 21-1 seasonal record. Long Island, with a 14-0 slate, is one of the two major unbeaten teams in the land. The other is Columbia, winner of 12 straight. Oklahoma A & M, leading the Missouri Valley Conference with a 4-0 mark, also faces an important week. The Aggies play at Bradley Friday night, then entrain for Chi cago for a tilt with DePaul on Sat urday. Meanwhile, other conference races also began taking shape. Seventh-ranked Columbia beat Dartmouth 74-48 Saturday to run its Ivy League record to 5-0. The Lions have two-year victory string of 22 consecutive games. Indiana Leads Indiana whipped Purdue 77-56 to ( strengthen its Big 10 lead. The six th-ranked Hoosiers are 4-0, com pared to Illinois' 5-1. NC State, No. 9. edged LaSalle 76-74 in a non-conference tilt. The Staters are far ahead in the South ern circuit with an 8-0 slate. The other conference pacesetters are Texas (4-0) in the Southwest; Kansas State (3-0) in the Big Sev en; Brigham Young (4-2) in the Skyline; Arizona (6-0) in the Bor der; Montana State (6-0 in the! Rocky Mountain; Washington State (4-2) in the Northern Divi sion of the Pacific Coast and South ern California (3-1' in the Southern sector. Manhattan College, playing its fitst game since the scandal, was upset 55-51. And. ironically, the j trick was turned by Springfield I College the cradle of basketball. Urban Might Not Play Against OSC Beavers “I doubt very much whether he will play, stated Dr. Howard A. Molter last night when asked whether or not Duck Captain Will Urban will see action during the weekend hoop senes with the Oregon State Beavers. . . , . ,, Urban re-injured a broken bone in his foot early in the season, and he has missed several games, including last weekend s double victorv over the Idaho \ andals. __ _ Jets, Sig Eps, Pi Kaps Capture Hoop Victories By Jim Mendenhall Sigma Phi Epsilon, Pi Kappa Al pha and the Jumping Jets won in “A” intramural basketball action Monday. The Sig Eps won by forfeit over Omega hall, Pi Kappa Alpha trounced Stan Ray in a high scoring tussle 33-19 and the Jumping Jets downed Phi Sigma Kappa 18-11. Sharpshooting by both teams characterized the Pi Kap-Stan Ray tussle as both quints tossed defence aside and attempted to fast break their way to victory. Slow Zeginning The first quarter of the game was slow with the Stan Ray men in front 4-3 at the end of the period. In the second stanza the Pi Kaps came to life and rolled up a 14-6 margin by halftime. The winners had better than a .500 shooting av erage in the third quarter as they scored fourteen counters and led 28-11 at the start of the final per iod. Stan Ray began to display scor ing ability in the final panel as they pulled up to the final score of 33-19. Top man on the scoring totem pole was Milton Reich of the Pi Kaps with 11 points. Ray Gilkey. also of the winners, captured runner-up honors with 10. Pete Quinn and Dick Graham each scored four /or Stan Ray. Jets Jump The Jumping Jets, an independ ent quint, walked to an easy win over Phi Sigma Kappa in the only other game played. The Jets held the Phi Sigs scoreless until the third quarter when the losers broke into the scoring column on a free throw. First half action ended with the Jets in front 6-0. The Phi Sigs caught fire in the quarter when they scored 10 points after trailing 13-1 at the end of the third period. Gene Favell scored eight counters for the winners while Thorn and Painter each hemped five points to lead the Phi Sigs. Campbell Club won by forfeit ov er the Yoemen in Wednesday’s in tramural handball game. The Campbell Clubbers will meet the winners of today’s Legal Eagles— Delta Tau Delta clash. Troians, Cougars Enjoy Lengthy Rest SEATTLE—(JP)— California and Washington State gain respite from the Pacific Coast Conference basketball exercises this week, and the Northern Division lead could change hands again. USC’s Trojans, who head the Southern Division in about every department there is, don’t play an other league game until Feb. 9, what with mid-term exams and all. And Washington State doesn’t connect with another conference foe until Feb. 5. This week the Cougars play only once—with Gon zaga on Saturday. UI Ua.li, <x sia Northern Division forward, led' the 1950 Ducks in both Northern Divi sion and total season scoring, tally ing 290 counters in 28 games for a 10.4 average. He is also noted for his outstanding backboard per formances. Urban’s teammates opened prac tice last night for the crucial Ore gon State series. Sophomore Re serve Center Chet Noe showed out standing improvement in the shoot ing and passing departments, and he may see some action against the Corvallis quintet. Ducks Scrimmage Frosli The Ducks are scheduled to scrimmage with the Oregon Frosh today. The Ducklings, who have won 38 of their past 44 games, are always capable of presenting termined opposition. - Oregon is now tied with Oregon State and Washington for second place in the Northern Division. The Ducks, with a 2-2 record, have suf fered' no more losses than have the division-leading Washington State Cougars, who claim a 4-2 mark. Idaho Trails The Beavers and the Washing ton Huskies have identical 3-3 rec ords, while the cellar-supreme Ida ho Vandals are two games out of first place with their two wins, four losses mark. The four weeKend tilts featured four upsets. While the WSC Coug ars were edging Washington 50-48 and 63-60 at Pullman, Oregon was administering similar medicine to the Vandals, 60-56 and 62-56, at Eugene. Bailey Unafraid Of Pro]\Raiders PULLMAN — (Special)—“Pro fessional baseball won’t be scaring colleges or universities by raiding campuses for talent’’ claims Ar thur “Buck” Bailey collegiate base ball mentor at Washington State. Bailey, fresh from the NCAA coaches meeting at Dallas, Texas where he handled a session on col legiate pitching, said that the gen eral opinion of most college coach es were to “hang tough and keep selling education to outstanding athletes.” Coach Bailey, who awtched two of his most promising athletes Gene Conley and Ted Tappe, depart foiL the professional ranks their sopho more year, said that the nation’s collegiate diamond bosses weren’t opposed to athletes signing “good contracts.” The easiest-writing portable ever built l U. ol O. CO-OP i STORE