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By Don Dewey
This probably isn’t the year for Bob Peterson, Oregon’s
all-star bench warmer during the just-concluded St. Mary’s
series, to walk off with All-American honors or even national
headlines. But he did get some pre-season recognition on which
we have yet to see comment.
During the first week of the Northern Division chase the
Christian Science Monitor out of Boston came up with the
following conclusion to a story on the hoop hopes of the Wash
inton Huskies:
“Despite Washington’s publicized basketball hopefuls, prob
ably the best player in the Northern Division this year will be
Oregon's Bob Peterson.”
Borcher Lays Down Law
l-orlunately the Monitor failed to by-line the dispatch.
1‘rankic fiuisness’ and Bob Houbregs’ fans would be gunning
^for the heretic if they knew who he was. Think of it: A Seattle
resident by-passing the two Husky greats in favor of “that
gu\” front Oregon. The Monitor had better keep an eye on its
Northwest sports correspondent or he may turn up missing.
And while we’re speaking of Peterson, we’ll take our hat off
to Webfoot Coach Bill Borcher for his resolute handling of
Big Pete last week-end. When Pete failed to show up for prac
tice Borcher laid down the law by demoting the great re
bounder and scorer to a bench position. That’s not so unusual.
Lots of coaches have made similar threats. What is surprising
is to find a coach with the guts to stick with his convictions in
the face of defeat.
More Than Just a Loss
Friday night the Ducks won without much trouble and
even thing was just dandy. But things went differently 24 hours
later. St. Mary’s won 51 to 45 and the gallery gods shouted
tor Peterson. They didn't get him, and the Webfoot record
received another mark on the losing side. Big Pete might have
proved the difference between v ictory and defeat.
But there's more to consider than just defeat. Much more
important is the fact that Borcher must have gained in stature
in the eyes of his younger players, it lie is to he coacli he must
be ju>t that—not one of the boys. This week-end Borcher
proved that he plans to l»c boss; that he won't take any foolish
ness, even front his greatest star. Furthermore, the varsity ex
perience gained by Hawes, Covey, Page, Rogers, et al, should
prove of value during forthcoming games.
Peterson has made the national sports sheets, but one ex
Webfoot has outdone him. Clint Agee, who tried out for—but
didn’t make—the frosh basketball squad in 1949, is spread over
nearly half a page of a recent Life magazine.
-^.♦-Agee has moved to Pacific university to display his hoop
talents. In a recent encounter with Lewis and Clark college,
Agee and J-C’s John Fctiz indulged in a hit of court acro
batics that was immortalized by the camera of the Oregonian’s
Kirk Braun.
Ex-Webfoot is Good Dancer
The camera stopped the two basketballers in an action that
left them looking as if they were halfway through a strenous
waltz. Despite the fact that Lewis and Clark outscored Pacific
and l'enz outscored Agee, we note with pride that the former
Webfoot is by far the better dancer.
Just when is the Pacific Coast conference going to get
squared away so that the teams who are supposed to be un
disputed leaders will start running away from the rest of the
league. The University of Washington, the powerhouse of the
Northern Division, is finally back in top spot. But it has lost
two of its eight games, one of them to the Cougars of Washing
ton State, who have been tabbed as doormats of the ND.
Things are even worse in the southern half of the conference.
The Stanford Indians, who were supposed to collect the champ
ionship hardware, have spent most of their time in the dingy
confines of the Southern Division cellar. The team that has
been doing the winning down there is from UCLA. And the
Uclans are supposed to be cinch last-placers.
Slats Headed For Cellar Spot
But perhaps the biggest surprise of the season involves Slats
Gill and Oregon State. The Gill-coached Beavers are apparently
headed for their first undisputed last place finish and their sec
ond consecutive dip into the cellar (they tied with Idaho for last
in 1951). Slats Gill in the cellar ... truly a season of strange and
bewildering occurrences. ,
Oregon Swimmers
Set New Records
'I he I niversity of Oregon swimming team set four new rec
ords as it annexed the state AAU indoor championship for
men’s teams.
'I’lie Ducks were not seriously threatened as thev totaled 92
points, garnering 7 out of 11 first places. The second place Aero
Club had 62 points, the host Multnomah Club had 36, and Col
umbia grabbed 7.
Cordon Edwards broke the 440-yard freestyle mark of 4:58.2
wmun ne nau sei in me prelimi
naries, with a sizzling 4:53.3. The
300-yard medley relay team of
Yosh Terada, Milton Kotoshirodo,
and Jim Allen clipped :6.2 off the
record as they splashed home ip
3:07.6. Terada, a triple winner, re
corded the best time ever made in
the state as be copped the 300- 1
yard individual medley in 3:30.1.
Edwards, Alien, Terada, and Koto
shirodo combined to crack another
old state rdfcord in the 400-yard
freestyle relay. Their time was
3:45.5.
Pete Chariton won the high
board diving event with a total of
274.8 points. Terada's two other
victories were in the 100-yard back
stroke and the 220-yard breast
stroke.
MAC'S Pete Van Dijk broke two
records as he captured the 100
yard freestyle in :54 flat and the
220-yard freestyle in 2:16.4.
Summary:
The summary:
100-yard freestyle—Won by Pete
Van Dijk; Milton Kotoshirodo, Ore
gon; Jim Allen, Oregon; Roy West
ward. Aero; Harry Fuller, Oregon.
Time—:54. New record. (Old rec
ord set in 1934 by Jim Hurd, Ore
gon, :55).
100-yard backstroke—Won by
Yosh Terada, Oregon; Dan Cra
mer, Aero; Jack Palmer, MAC;
Tiaver Campbell, MAC; Pete Van
Dijk. MAC. Time—1:05.8.
100-yard breast stroke—-Won by
Bob Gregson, Aero; Charles Gray,
j Aero; Milton Kotoshirodo, Oregon;
; Allen Wakinekona, Oregon; Dick
Ruckdeschel, Oregon. Time—1:06.8.
440-yard freestyle—Won by Gor
don Edwards. Oregon: Bob Greg
son, Aero: Gilbert Westwall, Aero;
Dick Slawson, MAC; Don Sullo
way, MAC. Time—4:53.3. New
record. (Old record set in 1951 by
Edwards, Oregon, 5:05).
High Board diving—Won by
Pete Charlton, Oregon; Jim Sparks,
unattached; Hal Davis, Oregon. ■
Winning points, 274 8.
300-yard medley relav — Won by j
Oregon “A" (Terada, Kotoshirodo, :
Allen); Aero "A"; Oregon “B";
MAC “A”; tie for fith betw-een
MAC "B" and Aero “B". Time—
3:07.6. (New meet record).
300-yard individual medley —
Won by Yosh Terada, Oregon; Gil
bert Westwell, Aero; Kress Lock
ridge, Columbio; Dick Slawson,
MAC; Allan Wakinekona, Oregon.
Time—3:39.1. (New state record).
220-yard freestyle — Won by
Pete Van Dijk. MAC; Gordon Ed
wards, Oregon; Bob Gregson, Aero;
Jim Allen, Oregon; Harrv Fuller,
Oregon. Time—2:16.4 (New state
record).
200-yard back stroke—Won by
Dan Cramer, Aero; Kress Lock
ridge, Columbia; Gilbert Westwell,
Aero; Henry Kaiura, Oregon; Jack
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OREGON
Player KG FT
Streeter, f . 1 1
Farnam, f . 2 0
Noe, c . 5 5
Covey, g . 0 0
Hunt, g . 5 5
Vranizan, f . 1 1
Hawes, g. 0 0
Wegner, g. 1 0
Holland, g.. 0 0
Page, g . 0 0
Rogers, f. 0 1
Bottler, g . 0 0
Phillips, f . 0 2
Total 15 15
SAINT MARY’S
Player KG FT
Turner, f. 2 0
Steinkamp, £ . 1 0
Gibson, c . 3 0
Flores, g . 2 2
Higgins, g. 3 0
Bagley, f . 0 0
Getris, f. 2 1
Pidoriano, g . 6 5
Halley, g . 0 5
Geissberger, c 0 0
. "....19 .13..
TP
3
4
15
0
15
3
0
2
0
0
1
0
2
45
TP
4
2
6
6
6
0
5
17
5
0
..51
Total
Palmer, MAC. Time—2:24.5.
220-yard breast stroke—Won by
Sfo3h Terada, Oregon; Chuck Gary,
Aero; Allan Wakinekona. Oregon;
Dick Ruckdeschel, Oregon; Dick
3Lawson, MAC. Time- 2:58.9.
400-yard medley relay—Won by
Oregon "A" (Edwards, Allen, Ter
•da, Kotoshirodo); MAC “A”; Ore
jon "B”; Aero ‘*B". Time—3:45.5.
(New state record).
Today's IM
Schedule
1:50 Court 40—Delta Upsiloo B vs.
Chi P»1 B
3:50 Court 43—Hunter hall B vs.
8ederstrom hall B
1A5 Court 40—French hall B vs.
Cherney hall B
t:S5 Court 48-Phi Gamma Del
ta A vs. Theta Chi A
5:15 Court 40—Sigma Alpha Ep
silon A vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon
5:15 Court 43—Phi Kappa Sigma
vs. Alpha Tau Omega A
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Both class "A" and class “B”
games were played last Friday in
the Intramural Playoffs. In the
A division French hall stopped
Chemey 35-15; Campbell Club
trounced Yeomen 40 to 15; and the
Philadelphians edged the Legal
Eagles 18-13. In the B division.
Minturn looked like a champion
ship ball club as they downed Mc
Chesney 42-12; Phi Delta Theta
won easily as they held Beta Theta
Pi to four points in a 29 to 4
rout; and Sherry Ross-Omega took
a win from Stan Ray by a forfeit.
Minturn Bs looked very good in
their 42 to 12 win over McChesney.
Minturn used the platoon system,
for substitution and they checked
the ball all of the way down the
floor.
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