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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1951)
/%<zck& - ‘&<VltOK KmrfaM SfXjrtH Krlif/ir Il’> all over. Oregon ha - finished its best basketball season sim e 1045 and incidentalb saw it- lie I revenue from basket ball since the 1945 season. I hat s not official, of course, but the si/<! of crowds in McAr thur court this season and the short range of pre-season travel indicate it. The games this past weekend showed Oregon at its worst Friday night and at its sparkling best Saturday night. The game Saturday with OSC was probably more representative of the strength of the two teams than any game in the league this season. Typical comment after the Sat urday win wan, "How in the world did the Beavera ever bent the Web foots Friday night ? Kven by Juat two [joint*?" From the standpoint of an ob aerver, it looked like u combination of many things that beat Oregon Friday night. The coaching ability of OS("s Slats OH1 had plenty to do with it. Gill .sent hi* Beaver* out In the fiiHt half to play "keep away" ball control ba*kelball. Oregon had a 24-15 lead at the Intermission with out half trying. The game was ho slow they didn't have to try. In the first three minutes of that fir*t half, a total of three shot* were taken by both team*. That'* slow basketball, And then In the second half, the Aggies came out and ran. (Cither that or something else threw Oregon completely off. In the first 7 minutes and 25 seconds, Oregon hit S for 13. Oregon passe* went astray. The Beaver defense was probably at its best of the season. And the most im portant factor Oregon State bet tered its shooting percentage, while the Webfoot figure drooped sadly. Saturday night, as you prob ably notleed, (till tried the same trlek, but he ehanged styles a little earlier. The Aggies began the game with the same style of keep away and "I’m gonna hold the ball, you can’t have it!" stuff. Oregon ruled the backboards powerfully, hit shots with a good eye i .428 in that first half) and allowed OSO just about one shot each time the Orange got the ball, if that many. With U minutes gone In the first half, and the score standing 17-15 in Oregon’s favor, the Beav ers took time out und Gill gave them tin* word. The word must have been "run.’’ Because they came out and went into the same routine they began in the second half of the Friday game. But it didn't do much good this time. The somewhat faster type of play (more noticeable in the second half, bv^nri resulted only in OSC losing the ball more often. And each time the Aggies dropped the ball, the Ducks shot into their high-geared fast break. So the change of pace didn’t help Oregon State Saturday night. As for the Friday night Peterson incident, nothing need be said here - enough has been written and said already. We have just one addition al comment: Any person or organization who would capitalize on the Incident, merely to dumuge the name of the individual or the school in volved, is malicious and cruel, ♦ ♦ ♦ Basketball fans are a strange lot —but so are fans in any spectator sport. Officials of the Saturday game in Mac court, Hal Lee and A1 Lightner, took their usual share of hard knocks during the game, or maybe more because of the high amount of partisan feeling in the crowd that night. One spectator developed dur ing tlie game a particular dislike for one of the officials. Every move by this striped-shirt against the W'ehfoots was a dastardly deed without parallel in history —according to the cries uttered l>y this fan. - He summed up his feelings pretty well by regarking in a bewildered way to a friend next to him: "How (.’an he live? How does he .stay alive? How does he live with no brain? It Just ain’t possible for a man to go on through life with no brain!" ♦ ♦ ♦ In the last few minutes of the sea son's final game, the Oregon team presented an intereating lineup. Four guards and one forward were j on the floor. Oregon Coach John Warren finished the victory with all j his graduating seniors, of course. They were Will Urban, Mel Krause. Jack Keller. Hal Webb and i John Neeley. These are five who havi- done a lot for Oregon basket ball. use Hit_ (Continued frinii fane jour) basketball betting ring in New York. District Attorney's Investigator Adolph Alexander did say, though, that betting markers were found In Scroggins’ hotel room along with narcotics equipment. The markers, Alexander said, indicate that Scroggins had deal ings with the Sica gang and other West (toast gamblers. Scroggins denied any attempt to fix the game. Police quoted him as saying: "You guys know I gotta dummy upon I'll get my head blown off. I've been arrested atoout 40 times but I’ve always beat the rap." Flower told officers that Scrog gins contacted him in a hotel lobby, ostensibly to buy game tickets. Flower said the man told him that Southern Cal was supposed to lose by 4 '/-i points, but that We would pay $1,100 if the team lost by 12. Claims Other Fixes Scroggins claimed that arrange ments had alieady been made with other team members to throw the game, Flower related, adding that he was offered *1,000 for himself and *500 for any teammate he might ring in on the deal. Alexander questioned the rest of the players and said he is satis fied that none had been approached. Scroggins, who walks with a limp, was jailed under *50,000 bond. Frosh Trip (Continued from paye jour) Yearlings 54-49, 41-38, 49-36, and 42-33 in 1949; 40-34 in 1950; and 48-43 this season. Although Coach Paid Valenti's Jiaby Beavers ruined three conse-, eutive undefeated seasons for the Ducklings, the three Oregon wins over the Rooks last season and seven more this year did not mater ially aid the cause of the Corvallis cagers. The price of coffee has cut down j » lot of drinking on the old home i grounds. i_ Frosh Swimmers ( C ontinued from pope fovr) cek (O) Dewitt (S) Time: 1:03.6 Diving. Charlton (O) Walker (S) 120-yd medley relay. Baldwin, Placek, English (O) Time: 1:21.0 160-yd freestyle". 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