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Five Beaver Trouble-shooters Here Tonight : . .1 BILL TOOLE Guard l l e TED ROMANOFF Forward TONY VLASTELICA Center TEX WHITEMAN Forward JOHNNYJAKBOK Oimril CONFO Oregon Releases Sports Schedule For Springtime University of Oregon and Hay ward field will host the Pacific Coast conference Northern division track meet May 23—for the first time since the war. Since 1946 the five-team meets have been limited to the University of Washington stadium in Seattle and a lone meet at Rogers field, Pullman, Wash. The prize cinder meet highlights Oregon's 1953 spring PCC sched ule, released Thursday by Art Uitchman, Athletic News bureau chief. Coach Don Kirsch's base nailers get the opening league dates, April 15 and 16 with the University of Idaho at Howe field. Following is the complete spring ;-ports schedule for 1953: BASEBALL Wed. and Thurs., April 15 and 16, IDAHO at Eugene; Mon. and Tues., April 20 and 21, WASHING TON STATE at Eugene; Fri. and Sat., April 24 and 25, WASHING TON at Eugene; Fri. and Sat., May 1 and 2, Washington State at Pullman; Mon. and Tues., May 4 and 5, Idaho at Moscow. Thurs. and Fri., May 7 to 8, Washington at Seattle; Sat., May 16, OREGON STATE at Eugene; Mon., May 18, Oregon State at Corvallis; Fri., May 22, OREGON STATE at Eugene; Sat., May 23, Oregon State at Corvallis. TRACK Sat., April 18, IDAHO at Eu gene; Sat., April 25, Washington at Seattle; Sat., May 2, Washington State at Pullman; Sat., May 16, OREGON STATE at Eugene: Sat., May 23 NORTHERN DIVISION meet at Eugene; Fri. and Sat., May 29 and 30, PCC meet at Stan ford. TENNIS AND GOLF Fri., April 24, WASHINGTON at Eugene; Sat., May 2, OREGON STATE at Eugene; Fri., May 8, Idaho at Moscow; Sat., May 9, Washington State at Pullman;' Sat., May 16, Oregon State at Cor vallis; Fri. and Sat., May 22 and 23, Northern division at Seattle. Webfoots Boast Paper Edge As Civil War Rivalry Resumes Civil strife in the Willamette valley again. University of Ore gon's unsteady grip on second place in the Noithern division of : the Pacific Coast conference is | on the block tonight and Satur ! day when the locals square ofi j with Slats Gill's Oregon State I college Beavers. !-— Frosh Quint Slates Rooks, Linfield JVs j Freshman basketball Coach Don Kirsch ran his hoop charges through a rugged practice session Thursday afternoon stressing Sat urday night's encounter with the OSC Rooks, but not leaving out consideration of the Linfield col lege JV’s, who play here tonight. Kirsch pointed out that the Lin field outfit could be tough, remem bering the upset loss handed Ore gon by the same team last year. Kirsch put the emphasis on smoothing out the fast break and improving the ball handling in Thursday’s drill. The team also worked at polishing up the zone ; defense. I Figuring out a way to stop the Aggies’ 7 foot beanpole, Wade "Swede" Halbrook, appeared to be the biggest problem for the Duck ling mentor. Kirsch, realizing Hal brook will get some points, may throw a zone defense in an effort to stop the rest of the team. The starters for the Linfield game will be Gary McManus and Don Porter, forwards; Max Ander- ■ son, center; and Bob Hazel and! Dick James, guards. The lineup for Saturday's contest will be the same except that John Foster and Ken Dorwin will open in the forward slots. i O'Brien, Houbregs Ranked Third, Fifth In National Collegiate Scoring Race NEW YORK (d?) —- Seton Hall’s lanky center, Walt Dukes, is still the scoring leader among major college basketball ■players, but two well-known stars are bidding to take over the top spot. Through games of "Jan. 24, Dukes had averaged 27.7 "pbints per game. Ernie Beck of Penn sylvania is second, only one-tenth of a point behind. Seattle's little big man, Johnny O'Brien, is third at 27.1—only six-tenths of a point back of the Seton Iiall star. A hot spurt has moved Frank Selvy of Furman into fourth place. Selvy scored 119 points in his last four games to boost his average to 25.5. Bob Houbregs of Wash ington is fifth with a 25.3 average. Cas Calls Football Meet j Coach Len Casanova has called a meeting for all freshman and varsity football players, except seniors, for Monday at 3:30 p.m., at McArthur court. The Webfoots, on paper, are tubbed to whitewash the Orange in the series, but unfortunately the league schedule calls for the Ducks and Bevos to perform on the hardwoods at McArthur court and Gill coliseum instead. Oregon entertains the Orange and Black shirts at 8 tonight in Mac court; the scene shifts to the Corvallis castle for Satu day's bout. Oregon Coach Bill Borcher, aft er a lengthy Thursday afternoon session behind locked doors, pro nounced his team fit and ready. “We'll use our regular lineup,” mused Borcher — which means Ed ► ♦ CHET NOE Stars in LA anil Oregon, too OREGON'S NOE MAN 'Nucleus' of Ducks Top Defensive Center Almost every basketball team has an old standby who has been around for a long time and who the coach depends on as the nucleus of Lhe team. For Oregon this year it is Chet Noe, the senior center from Southern California. After starring in Los Angeles piep circles, Noe came to Oregon and set the freshman scoring record with 2J5 points in his first season. Chet slowed down in his sopho more year, seeing varsity action for the first time. Bat last year he took over the first string spot and averaged 12.5 points per game on a .319 average, rhe current season has seen more improvement as the six-foot-seven inch regular has averaged 17.3 points per game so far in six con ference games. Coach Bill Borcher values Noe's defensive virtues as well as the more obvious offensive skill. In fact Borcher feels Noe is the best defensive center in the league. The only player to solve Chet’s defen sive game was Bob Houbregs with his unstopable hook shot, which no one is expected to check. Ilalberg and Keith Farnam, for wards; Chet Noe, center; Barney , Holland and Kenney Wegner. Gill will probably start the quintet that gave the Idaho Vandals a bit - of trouble last weekend; Ted Rom anoff and Tex Whiteman, for wards; Tony Vlastelica, center; Bill Toole and Johnny Jarboe, guards. There is a chance that the veteran OSC mentor will install Jim Sugrue as a replacement for Romanoff. Based on comparative Northern division figures, the Webfoots ap pear to be the better club. In six league encounters Oregon had scored 418 points to the opposi tion's 414. roughly ah average of 70 points to 69. Oregon State has tallied -302 digits in the same - number of games and the defense has allowed 342; the fourth-place GAMES FRIDAY Oregon State vs. ORKdON at M Aithur court, (iame time, X j».m. Washing ton State vv I<iah'» at Moscow. 14a. GAME SATURDAY OREGON \s. Oregon State at ( orval’is PCC Standings NORTHERN DIVISION asntngton OR KG* >.\ . Oregon State Washington State 0 1.000 3 .5'» i 4 .4_*» 4 .333 6 .14 3 3 4 entry lias tallied 50 points per con test against .57 by Northern divi sit)n opposition. Most basketball coaches agree that the homo court Is usually «. worth a six-point advantage to the locals so the dope chart would tend to favor the Web foots by I t points at Mac court and the same club by a scant bucket at Corvallis. Oregon State has been one of . the major disappointments this season, although most experts be- . lieved them a year away from championship contention. None theless the Beavers, against Wash ington in the second game of a series at Seattle and in a pair of games with the Idaho Vandals, appear to be on the way up. Slats Experimented Gill has juggled and rejuggled his lineups until he settled for a version of the two-platoon system, * with a defensive emphasis—one team that operates on a man-to man set-up, the other, a tight zone. The Beavers are one of the tall clubs in the league. In fact, whether or not Gill starts Su grue or Komunoff he will have three men who have played cen ter in their collegiate careers. Besides Vlas'telica, top Beaver seorer, Whiteman, Sugrue and Itomanoff all have played the * post—Whiteman last year at OSC and Sugrue at Placer JC in California and Komanoff at Stockton JC. (Please turn to page Ik e)