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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1951)
SPORTS STAFF Phil Johnson Tom Nt'kota If you’re 19 and a HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE you may qualify for the new OCS You'll find your chances of becoming an officer arc better in the Army. You can probably qualify for classes now forming in the new Offi cer Candidate Schools. There's a choice of ordnance, transportation, supply, airborne, armor, artillery or infantry. Your best chance of getting a commis sion is in today's growing Army. You can qualify before enlisting. Check the Army first, at your local Army Recruiting Station. THE EUGENE ARMORY U. S. ARMY and U.S* AIRFORCE RECRUITING SERVICE use Hit By Fix Attempt LOS ANGELES GP> The bas ketball betting scandal spread to the University of Southern Califor nia yesterday and n gimpy legged jockey's agent was booked on sus picion of bribery. Ken Fowler, 19-year-old sopho more woo plays guard on the USC quintet, reported that he was of fered $1500 to throw Saturday night’s game with the crosstown University of California at Los Angeles. Jailed early Sunday morning was Albert R. Scroggins, 31. who dis trict attorney's investigators say may be connected with the Sica gang. Joe Sica, Los Angeles under world figure, was a witness before the Kefauver Senate crime investi gating committee here last week and the recent object of a federal narcotics charge Indictment. The University said Flower, who is not a first stringer, reported to his coach that Scroggins had ap proached him before Saturday night’s game with a proposition to have USC lose by 12 points. As it happened, however. USC won by 43 to 41. • The game, played in the UCLA gym at Westwood, closed out the regular season for both schools. It left them tied for first place in the Pacific Coast conference's Southern Division and necessitat ed a sudden death playoff for the Jivision championship. Possible King Connection Police could not say immediate ly it there is any connection with Saturday night’s incident and the (Please turn to pege five) In Chicago, Illinois, there is always a friendly gathering of DePaul University students in Wangler Ilall on the campus. And, as in universities everywhere, ice-cold Coca-Cola helps make these get-to gethers something to remember. As a pause from the study grind, or on a Saturday night date—Coke beloties. Ask for it either way . . . both trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY ) 1951, The Coca-Cola Company COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. of EUGENE Ducks Second in ND; Beavers End in Cellar Frosh Swimmers Beat Salem/ 57-17 Frosh trip Willamette Yearlings The Oregon Frosh hoop artists' closed one of the finest seasons in Duckling history by rolling to an impressive 71-45 victory over the Willamette University Frosh Saturday night in McArthur Court. Although the Frosh probably have never encountered a schedule tougher than their 19.>l)-51 slate, they overwhelmed their opponents 15 times in 16 games and establish ed themselves as the strongest j yearling squad in the state. The Frosh suffered only one loss, j a 48-43 setback at the hands of the . Oregon State Rooks, and they de feated the same Rook quintet sev en times during the season. Duckl ing Coach Don Kirsch now has a three-year Frosh record boasting 49 wins and 6 losses. AH six losses were suffered at j the hands of the Beaver freshmen. The Rooks downed the Oregon (Please turn to patir five) Oregon s Krosn swim learn enucu an unbeaten season Saturday. out stroking the Salem high team 57-17 in the men's pool. No freshmen records were brok en but the Vikings were blanked for first plac es by Coach Tom Nekota's squad. Only double winner of the meet was Henry Kalura. Henry won the 10-yard freestyle and the 1'20-yard individual medley. Another pool record was shatter ed by Gordon Kdwards of the var sity swim team in an offical time trial Saturday afternoon. Edwards cracked Pete Van Dijk'a former 440-yard freestyle pool mark of 4:56.2 with his effort of 1:53.3. This is the second pool mark for the sophomore flash within the past week. Hesultes Listed Results of the freshmen meet: 40-yard freestyle. Kaiura (Oi Knott (Oi Knittel (Si Time: 19.9 100-yard breaststroke. Wakine kona tOi Placek (Oi Nelson (Si Time: 1:07.7 200-yard freestyle. English (O) Gilman (Si Turley (Si Time: 2:20.0 100-yard backstroke. Baldwin (Oi Dunsworth (S) Davis IS) Time: 1:10.6 100-yd freestyle. Knott (Oi Pla-' (I’lcase turn to pOi/t pvt) ATO Beats Sigma Nu in Track To Meet SAE Today for Crown Alpha Tail Omega and Sigma Al pha Epsilon meet at 4 p.m. today for the championship of intramural track. ATO Friday beat Sigma Nu in a semi-final meet, 39-29. The Tail squad ran up a considerable lead in the field events before the running events took place. Hottest race of the day was the three-quarter mile, when ATO Joe Kennedy and Sigma Nu Bill Briot ran together for the entire length. Kennedy won in a time of 3 min utes and 43 seconds, and Briot was a close second. Third was Monte Brethauer of ATO. Other events were: Broad jump—ATO Harold Brain erd won with a jump of Vi feet. 9 inches. Second was ATO Hoy Ly man, and Sigma Nu Cary Maran tied with ATO Dave Crockatt for third. Shot put Jerry Moshofski won for ATO with a toss of '39 feet, 2 . ■■ inches. Second was Sigma Nil Gene Miner and Jerry Shaw of ATO was third. High Jump—First place was a tie at 5 feet G inches between Sig ma Nu Jerry Mock and ATO Dun Cuddahy. Third place was a four way tie between John Unman and Sterling Swalm of Sigma Nu and Brethauer and Gay Krahn of ATO. Bole vault Winner with a jump of 10 feet was ATO Ron Reeves; Dick Jones of ATO took second and third wus a ide between Sigma Nil’s Joe Kiaser and Glenn Dudley. Hurdles—Swalm of Sigma Nu won in a time of 5.5 seconds. Second was Lyman of ATO and Irwin Schoonover of Sigma Nu was third. 40-yard—Mock won for Sigma Nu with a time of 4.G seconds. Brainerd of ATO was second, fol lowed at third by Sigma Nu Miner. Relay—won by Sigma Nu in 1G seconds team of Mock, Swalm, Miner and Schoonover. WATCH These Dates March 16-17-19 and 20th An Eastern buyer will be at The Co op for four days to buy your old books U of O Co-op Store OregonsHit New Mark Over OSC Oregon'* Duck* ended their 1 (>r> t basketball Beason Saturday night with a 72-4!> trouncing of Oregon State college. A 41-39 OSC victory at Corvallis Friday night kept Oregon from end ing the season In a tic for first place In the Northern Division with Washington. Oregon stands In second place with a record of 10 won and 6 lost • the highest place for the Webfoota since 1945. That's the team the "ex perts" said would finish fifth in the division this year. The Saturday win was the widest margin Oregon has ever established over an OSC basketball team. OSC’s Worst Year This is the first year that Oregon State has ever ended in a tie for the Cellar spot The Beavers have never finished in the undisputed fifth po sition. and the last-place tie with Idaho this year is the lowest they have been since the division was founded. Oregon's loss Friday night came in the second half. At half time, the Webfoots, leading by a 24-15 mar gin. looked to be in complete com* mand of the situation. But a tighter OSC defense, a changed Beaver offense, plus a sharper shooting average for Ore gon State and a lower one for Ore gon changed the picture. Oregon led through the second half until 9 minutes and 40 seconds remained. Then OSC tied it up at 32-32. Three minutes later it was 36-35 for OSC. Tight ball control by the Beavers preserved the lead. Ducks Hide Saturday The Webfoots came back Satur day night and took complete con trol of the game in McArthur court. OSC took the initial lead and had a 4-3 margin with 2 minutes and 30 seconds gone in the first half. From then on it was all Webfoots, although the Beavers rallied briefly in the beginning of the second half. Shooting superiority and back board control won for Oregon. The Beavers were outclassed in every department. High man for the game was OSC’s Bill Harper, who warmed up with ids long set shot in the second half and managed 16 points. But the next closest Beaver was Bob 4^ Payne with 9. For Oregon, Jack Keller hit 15 points, Will Urban and Jim Loscut off both took 14, Mel Krause got 11, and Curt Barclay hit 10. In Seattle, Washington clinched the ND crown with two wins over third-place Washington State col lege. 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