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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1952)
‘Duc&*7,tae&& By Don Dewey As the Winter Olympics went into tlicir sixtli day the l nited States had dropped from it* unofficial team leadership. Hut still the Americans were performing in a manner that would have been thought impossible only a few years back. Some complain that bad breaks for the Americans played their part, but it was chiefly a collection of top-notch Austrian skiing and skating performances that put the Austrians ahead of the U.S. in team totals. Andrea Mead Lawrence, already a gold-medal winner in the giant slalom, fell twice Sunday in her second outing; but so did luearly everyone else on the treacherous 'Oslo/ Norway, course. |Krn Henry, who placed first in one of the'specd skating events [earlier, was weakened by influenza ami finished- a poor 30th 31ut it s most unlikely that !«• would have provided serious1 fompetition to Norway’s world record holder, Jljalmer Ander cn. (>ur final "had break" came when Paul Wegeman suffered a slight 'brain concussion and leg injuries while jumping on famed Hnlmenkollen hill. Wegeman was not considered as a likely u inner, anyway. Americans Pull Winter Olympic Upsets Totaling our three hard break-, of the week-end, you have to conclude that we’d probably haw dropped into second place even with good breaks. Despite our lapse in team points, the Americans are putting ion a remarkable performance at Oslo. Ih 1948 the United States winter Olympic team won three gold medals and was much feted for the accomplishment. With less than half the cham pionship medals awarded this year, the Americans have two (Lawrence's and Henry’s), are rated a cinch in the men’s figure tkating and still have strong hopes for their women skiiers |nd skaters. | The greatest satisfaction from the Olympic competition has hot been the performance of favored Americans; the Americans entered in events already conceded to Kuropc have provided the most excitement. American bobdedders took a second and a fiftli place in one race. I Hut the biggest surprise was the victory of Ken Henry in ■lie 500-meter speed skating race. Americans just aren’t sup Bused to win at speed skating in Kuropc. In races held in r ttrupe, skaters race against the clock rather than against each other. This has always tended to baffle American speedsters. [Their tears of experience at fighting through an American style mob of skaters is to no avail in Kuropc. Henry’s victory pnd Hon McDermott’s close second marked the first American Victory in an Olympic speed race held in Kuropc. The Yanks' Only previous victories in these events came when the races Were held American style at Lake Placid, New York. Slalom or Salami—Who Knows? The Winter Olympics can usually be depended upon to con fuse a large amount of the American sports-conscious popula ted People in areas that don’t even have snow will have tn.»uWe .trruislaling such terms as slalom, compulsory figures, Nordic or Alpine cumbined-^-but they can understand the dif ference between winning and losing and they can take pride in |he Americans' performances. Our team is doing pretty well at sports that are the national sastimes of certain other countries—as, for instance, hockey s almost strictly Canadian sport and skiing and skating were practically invented by the Scandanavians. But before we »ound like we’re complaining we should point out that the ilmost exclusively American game of basketball is included in ;he Olympics. For the Americans to play basketball in the Olympics is about as fair as it would be for the Cubans to jisist on jai alai being included in the Olympic repertoire of Jthletics. On the Local Scene . . . The American Olympic team has a rough week ahead of it; md so do three University of Oregon athletic teams. The Ore run basketball, swimming and skiing teams are coming up to vhat will probably be their toughest week-ends of their respec ive seasons, 1 Coach Hill Borcher’s basketball team will make their annual uicide swing through the Inland Kmpirc to play four games in vc nights. Now standing in third place, even at the board with vc wins and five losses, the Webfoots can consider themselves >rtunate if they win as many games as they lose in Pullman nd Moscow. The Oregon slatmen travel even farther for their competi on Friday. They'll be near Reno to take part in the Univer sity of Nevada’s “Winter Carnival.” Last year Oregon’s queen •findidate was a winner, but that was this institution’s only najor accomplishment at the carnival. Student Union Recreation Tips (To better acquaint students •vlth the SU recreation program, ill events sponsored by the SU recreation committee will henee [ forth be covered in this column every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.) Dancing Winners of tonights’ SU dance contest will have their names en graved upon a trophy in the rec reation basement’s trophy case. Scheduled for 7:00 In SU rooms 213, 214, and 215, the contest will replace this week's dance lessons. Anyone interested in entering the contest may come in couples or pair off after they arrive. Recre ation committee chairman John MeAloon invites everyone with, “Conn* out tonight and prove what a good dancer you are.” Judging the contest will be Mrs. Edith, Jacobs, counselor for wom en, Dr. John James, professor of sociology, Gloria Barry, member of the recreation committee, and Bill Owen, junior in architecture who has been instructing the dance lessons. Ping Pong Winners of the current SU ping pong contest wilt be determined today at 4 .00 as the finalists meet In the last round. Games at 3:00 will decide the semi-finalists. Rosemary Hampton, who has been guiding the tournament, re minds participants, "All matches tnust be played at the time they are scheduled or they will be for feited.’’ Bob Shaw has been assist ing Rosemary Hampton. Gam*** scheduled for 3:00 are Rose vs. McDonald and Mecklem vs. Moore. At 3:20 Vlrtaner will play the winner of the McDonald vs. Rose match and Nakhal will play the winners of the Mecklem vs. Moore match. The results of the latter game will determine ! Ekstrom’s opponent. Read ana use e-merald classi fieds. Ducks Slated To Meet Washington's All-Star Sprinkled Swimming Team By Ron Ricketts The University of Oregon swim ming team will entertain its tough est competition of the season when it meets the defending Northern division champion Washington Huskies at the men's pool Friday. The Huskies, coached by Jack Torney, are undefeated in all meets so far this season and are spear headed by three All-Americans: Pete Salmon, Dick Magnuson, and Merrill Hodges. The squad’s ten lettermen scored 99 points in the 1951 Northern division meet, 26 points more than the total points of our second place Ducks. Six of these men were placed on the 1951 Northern division All-Star team and three are on the North ern division All-Star aggregation. This gives a good idea at the tough row the AquaDucks will have to hoe this weekend. 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