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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1951)
Ducks Defeat Cougars 57-55 Frosh Trounce Rooks, Score 62-38 Victory, Lead 6-1 In Series The Oregon Freshmen routed the (tregon State C ollege Rook* 62-38. Wednesdav night in .McArthur Court, scoring victory number 20 in 2l'starts, ami their sixth win m seven games in the eight-game series with the Kooks. The Kooks jumped to an earlv 7-6 lead, but a combination ot 1'aby Heaver errors and deadly Duckling jump-shooting was too much for the OSC lads. Led by Forward Barney Holland and Guard Kenny VV egner. \ tie UlVgOIl ) t*ttUUlgs uravuvv nv u the score at 7-7 and pushed ahead to » 17-9 lead with 10 minutes remain ing in the halt'. The Ducklings increasedthe mar gin to 30-14 before a Kook rally, fairly successful against the Frosh substitutes, narrowed the lead to , 3-21, the haftime score. A F.ook comeback was launched midway through the second half. Forward Thompson of the Kooks initiated the rally as he dropped in i two-pointer to cut the Duckling advantage to 42-33. Rook Guard Ron Fundingsland nibbled into the key. ducked under rhe arms of a defending Oregon yearling, and put up a lav-in for another Baby Beaver field goal, to make the score 42-35. Frosh Break Away The Ducklings then broke away j for six quick points, abruptly term inating the Rook rally. Guard Bob Hawes led the Frosh with 14 counters, and Forward Bar ney Holland followed with 12. The next encounter for the Duck lings will be against the Salem powerhouse, which has lost only to Central Catholic and Eugene this year, Friday, Feb. 23 in McArthur Court ptior to the opening Oregon Washington Northern Division en counter. The Frosh will close their season the next night in another Duck Husky preliminary when they meet the Rooks in the last of their eight game series. IM Hoop Champs Meet Today for Drawing Representatives of all champ ionship teams of intramural bas ketball will meet at 11 a m. to day in 106 Physical Education to draw for positions in the playoff games. Kirsch Calls Meeting Of Baseball Prospects Varsity a n d Frosh baseball prospects will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in 101 Physical Education. Coach Don Kirsch has asked that all prospective bhll players at tend the meeting. 'Trotter, Star Hoopers Vie At 8 Tonight i nr ii iv *•* ... . tionally and internationally famous great barnstorming team, will meet a collection of former University of Oregon and Oregon State College hoop stars at 8 p m. tonight in Mc Arthur Court. The Globetrotters will feature such greats as the one-armed, high scoring Boyd Buie. Tom Seuly. the fabulous Ted Strong, who has the largest hands of anyone in basket ball the great "Duke" Cumberland, and other masters of the cage sport The players are exceptional bull handlers and put on quite a show of basketball wizardry and clowning in their exhibitions. Two All-Star IMutoons Coach Bob Hamilton of the alum ni "all-stars has named the follow ing first platoon: Erland Anderson and John Mandich, OSC. forwards, Roger Wiley. Oregon, center: and Lew Beck, OSC, and A1 Popick. Oregon, guards. The second platoon, all of Oregon, will include Dick Wilkins and Jim Bartelt. forwards: Ken Hays, cen ter, and Hamilton and Stan Will iamson, guards. Since the beginning of the Origi nal Harlem Globetrotters i no other i team has the right to use their name) 23 years ago, the fabulous team lias piled up, before this sea son, 3,421 victories against a com paratively Infinitesimal loss total of 24f>. for a more than tremendous average of .933. These Court Wizards Will Perform Tonight THESE TWO BASKETBALL WIZARDS, Tom Sealye left, anil one-armed Boyd Buie, will lie two of the Harlem Globetrotter hoop team which will literally perform against the Oregon Collegians, a collection of ex-University of Oregon and OSC hoop greats at 8 p.m. tonight in McArthur Court. Scaly is another one of the classv-performing ’Trotter stars, and Buie, despite his handicap, is a high-scoring cage star. Oregon Increases Northern Division Lead to One Game By John Barton (tregon's I hicks took a firmer hold on first place in the North* ern Division basketball race last night in McArthur court witti a 57-55 narrhw win over \\ ashiugtoit State college. (Oregon now lias a full game lead over second-place \\ ashinglon. Compared to Tuesday night's Oregon win. the game was rag ged. Both teams were off in their shooting, t )regon finishing w ith a -’It) and \\ SC with a .294 average. The cool play of Guard Ken Hunt put the game on ice for Oregon in the last seconds. Hunt entered the ND Standings OREGON Wash WSC Idaho OSC W L 8 4 6 4 5 5 5 7 4 8 Pet .667 .600 .500 .417 .333 .... . • umi in . ! mg The sure-shooting guard poked 8 points through the hoop in those last nine minutes, 4 of them free throws. He took a total of 12 points for the evening. It was anyone's game until the final seconds when a helil-ball under the Duck basket made it virtually certain that the Cougars wouldn't be able to reach their hoop with the tieing points. WSC Ahead at Half Half-time score was 26-25 for WSC. The Cougars put through 4 points in the last minute and a half to gain the lead. After the second period got un der way, the lead changed hands several times, and with 6 and a half minutes to go the count was even, 40-46. Jim Loscutoff and Hunt took free throws to make it 48-46, but WSC came back with two points by Seymour Stuurmans for the tenth and final tie of the game. Mel Krause, high for Oregon with 14 points, was fouled by Cou gar Lloyd Schmick and potted a gift shot; Loscutoff hit took a free throw off the foul of Pete Mullins to put Oregon up, 50-48. Hunt Hits Both Then cool Ken Hunt went for a shot, was fouled by Leon Mangis and calmly pushed through two more points from the gift line, as the partisan crot^jJ of 8,058 per sons screamed its approval. WSC stayed in the game, how ever, when Bob Gambold, who play ed the best game for the Cougars, made n lay-in and a free throw from Mel Streeter's foul. That put it to 52-51, Oregon still on top. Hunt came back and pushed through a swlsher from the key to widen the margin to 8 points. Kile Roberts returned with a long set shot to put things back to a ojjg [joint Oregon lead. 1 ,(IHCIItoff IlltS That was with a minute and a half remaining. Oregon began its final stall, the Cougars came out, after the ball and Webfoot Center Loscutoff sneaked away from his man and under the basket. He took the pass and very deliberately pushed through a cripple lay-in. That put the Ducks three points on top, 56-53. WSC Center George Rosser hooked through the final Cougar threat. The Cougars really went nfter the ball at that point, with just one point over their heads and 50 seconds to go. Krause was fouled by Mangis and took the ball out of bounds. Barclay let Gambold drape him self over the Duck forward, and Oregon again took It out. Hunt was deliberately fouled by Mange-, made good the first free throw and took the second out of bounds. That was all. Oregon*, Hold Hall Mere tight Oregon ball control followed, the hold-ball came and WSC won the jump, but it was too late to do anything about it. A wild Cougar 90-foot heave went high over the backboard with the sound of the gun and landed in the middle of a delighted Oregon crowd. For about two minutes, Mc Arthur court was a wild, scream ing mass of jubilant fans. The final figures showed Oregon with lk field goals and WSC 20 but the Ducks picked up 21 gift shots, while the Cougars took only 15. 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