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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.
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(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.
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Frosh Swimmers
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