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Ducklings Schedule Series With Rooks Duck Coach Kirsch throws his once-beaten Ducklings against a squad fresh from their fifth victory in a row tonight at Mc Arthur court. Slated for 5:45. the preliminary battle will pit the Oregon Frosh against Oregon State's Rooks, who whipped Clark junior college. 66-63, Wed nesday for their fifth win in as many starts. Dave Gambee, 6' 6" ex-Corval lis high star, paced the Staters with 22 points to bring his five game total to 106. Gambee is the man who the Frosh will „ be at tempting to hold down, but Kirsch has also expressed worry about other members of the Rook squad. Haynes Hits for Rooks Gary Haynes, standout guard from The Dalles, has been pep pering the hoop regularly, and Frank Zaniker and Bill Freder icks are top-notch rebounders. Zaniker performed at West Linn. and Bill Fredericks was all-state for Milwaukie’s state champs. Kirsch has been drilling his crew hard on their defense, and has "addl'd a couple of things to the offense which should improve post play.” According to Kirsch. the Ducklings still need to coordinate tlielr offen sive patterns before they cun realize their full potential. Forward Bob Farris won him self a starting spot through his great improvement both offen sively and defensively. In his first starting role against West fir Athletic club, the 6’ 2” ex Lakeview performer dropped in 18 counters to lead the team's scoring. . Wanaka to Start Starting at the other forward post for the Ducklings will be Dave Wanaka, second in both scoring and rebounding only to Paul Tuchardt, the team's spark plug at center. Wanaka has 31 points and 27 rebounds in three games to big Paul's 60 and 36. Guards will l>o Wendy Kn sor, whose deadly outside shot lius piled up 22 points ill! on field goals, and Wimp Hust ings, bull-hawking sharpshoot er from Bandon. The Ducklings have a record of two wins and one loss. They whipped the Portland Police and the Linfield Jayvees easily, then dropped a 65-63 decision to West fir. Saturday night the squads re peat in Corvallis. Scoring through first games: Tuchardt .. 25 three 10 Wanaka Kasor . Hasting* I'arris ... Ayre . 1 Jrlhun Huffy . Swan Williams Slick . Duldork . l.iiullancl 15 11 .... 8 . 8 .; . 5 ..... 3 . 2 . 0 . I ..... I . t 7 12 7 9 2 S 7 $ 2 J 2 i o 60 31 22 20 20 19 11 6 6 4 3 2 36 27 6 4 4 2 I 9 | 21 12 15 0 3 1 UOShacratsSet Crucial OSC Tilt By Jerry Claussen SDX Publicity Men The biggest contest of the winter sports season will be fought Saturday at Corvallis when Oregon’s Sigma Delta Chi team of upstanding journalists takes on the lowly SDX’ers from the Northern Branch in a rip snorting basketball game. Keturn Match Slated The clash will be the first of a championship series of two games between the ancient rivals 'DucA*7'MIC&& By Jerry Claussen Emerald Sports Writer It's the big weekend of the season for the Oregon Ducks tonight and Saturday as they face the league-leading Oregon State Beavers. The outcome of this series will pretty well decide what kind of race is in store for the last half of the Northern Division in the next five weeks. Both teams are as ready for a vital pair of games as any two clubs could be and. discounting their rather so-so season’s record they are two of the best teams in the coun try at the moment. Together, they have won 10 straight games in tough conference play in the last two weeks. Although a lot of different situations could develop in the last half of the season, as witness Oregon's two losses to Idaho plus one to WSC last year to drop out of titlt conten tion late in the season, here’s the significance of this week end’s games. First of all, we’ll look at what will happen if the two teams split, a likely possibility because of the similarity of the clubs. This would give Oregon six wins and two losses with Oregon State retaining the league lead with five wins and one loss. In this event Oregon would be faced with the task of winning at least three from Washington and the two from Idaho here to keep up with OSCs likely last-half performance. The Beavers figure to take at least one out of the two from Washington at Seattle, three out of four from Idaho, and the remaining pair from WSC. Counting the split this weekend, the Orangemen would then have an 11-3 record going into the final series with Oregon. The Ducks would have to play exceptional ball to roll up better than a 10-4 by then. The Webfoots would then have to take both of the final games from OSC to win the title, a tough assignment for anybody. Of course, if the Beavers manage to win both of the week end's games, Oregon would be faced with the near impos sible task of winning at least five out of the six games they have before the next OSC series to even stay within one game of Slats Gill’s defending champions. The improving Webfoots could do it by beating Idaho twice, a strong proba bility, but would also have to take all four from the slow starting Washington Huskies. But don't forget that the Ducks could beat the Beavers in both games this weekend as easy as not. Man for man, Ore gon has every bit as good a starting five as the Orangemen, even if it’s generally hard to tell who OSC will start at any given moment. If that happens, the Webfoots will be in the driver’s seat and the Beavers have the pressure on them to come back in the second half of the season. A lot might depend on whether big Wade Halbrook will be persuaded to mend his ways before the game tonight. The big OSC center got susupended for not going to classes earlier in the week and has remained a question mark since. This has made Oregon Coach Bill Borcher’s planning for the series difficult since he had to work on a varying defense depending on whether Swede plays or not. But the Ducks are ready for anything after their unusual series with Idaho last week and Oregon State will have to play its best possible game to win even one. Good luck, Ducks! Pi Kaps Rally To Take IM Win m Kappa Aipna naci 10 come from behind to nip Lambda Chi Alpha in a tight A league game Thursday. Lambda Chi held a slim one point lead at the third quarter mark, but it couldn't hold in the fourth quarter when the Pi Kaps broke through for their 20-17 victory. Lambda Chi (17) (20) Pi Kaps McKenney 2 ..F. 2 Loennig Rasmussen 4 ..F.... 2 Bach Wilson 2 .C 8 Rlpke Marsh 6 .G......J. Steele Casey 3 ...G. 7 Weber Subs: Lambda Chi—Hartman, Maxwell. Pi Pappa—Hample 1. Chi Psi's Lose Despite a twelve point effort by Bill Wiswall, the Chi Psi lost a 26-20 decision to Phi Kappa Sigma in Thursday basketball action. Pete Mundle led the Phi Kaps with a nine point output, j It was a tight game through out the first half with the sec ond quarter ending in a 13-13 deadlock. The Phi Kaps moved ahead to stay in the third quar ter. as they controlled the back boards. Chi Psi (20) (26) Phi Kaps Lawson .F. 9 Mundle Reeves 6 .F .. 3 King Wiswall 12 ...C. 6 Nobriga Stonerod 2 ... G. 6 Beck Lovell .G Winkelman Subs. Chi Psi—Galluzzo. Phi Kappa Sigma—Engstrom 2. Phi Psi's Fly Phi Kappa Psi downed Delta Upsilon, 32-20, Thursday with Harvey Woods leading the attack by pouring in eighteen points. The Phi Psi's led throughout the game and were never threatened. DU’s (20) (32) Phi Psi’s Kent 2 .F. 18 Woods Ordeman .F. Barnard Swanson 2 .C. 9 Sommerville Smith 6 .G. 3 J. Smith Danchok 2 ....G. Johnston Subs: DU—Beck 8. Phi Psi— Starling 2. SAE's Swamp Sigma Alpha Epsilon scored an easy 60-17 victory over Tau Kappa Epsilon in intramural basketball play Thursday after noon. The SAE’s took the lead from the opening tipoff and the result was never in doubt. SAE’s (60) (17) TKE’s Savage 13 F. 6 Hawley Davis 9 .F. 4 Gubrud Tennyson 11 ..C. 3 Madden Dahl 21 .G. James Hardin 6 .G. 2 Olson Subs: TKE’s—-Harrison 2. Kappa big s Kun Kappa Sigma had an easy aft ernoon Thursday aa it downed the Sigma Alpha Mu team 47-9. Kappa Sigma took an early lead and at the end of the half led 35-5. The Kappa Sigs continued to build the lead up throughout the final two periods on shots from close in under the basket. Kappa Sigma (47) (9) Sammies Talbot 10 .F 4 Rotenberg Tucker 4 .F .1 Ross Murray 12 .C. 2 Blavek Richter 11 .G .. Caplan Galleon 2 .G Weinstein Subs: Kappa Sigs -Bowles 2, Shanahan 4, Allen 2, Ramsey. Sigma Alpha Mu -Seidcnvorg, Asek, Bonime 2. Nestor Nipped Hunter hall edged Nestor hall 22-21 in a very hard fought A league game Thursday. Hunter (22) (21) Nestor Berg 2 .F- 2 Minkler Fisher 7 .F. 3 Urneas Burge .C . 2 Reiter Mark 6 .G 2 Pifher Livingston .G . 10 Miller Subs: Hunter—Craig, Jensen 2, Gregg 5. Nestor— White 2, Waldrop. from the Oregon uaiiy tsmeraia and Oregon State's four-day, four-page rag. The second game will be played In February when the Brass Hallers sneak down to Eugene the day of the OSC Oregon game In McArthur court, Feb. 26. The local Rhacrats have been working hard in preparation for the headliner tomorrow, thetr biggest problem having been to find enough players to go against the toughics from Corvallis, coached by Fred “Clasp Her" Zwahlen. .Since the senior mem bers of the organization have come up with the best excuses, The Oregon club will have to go along with a Junior-dominated lineup. Rice to Star The Shacrat teams will be composed of such sterling ath letes as stringbean Gordon Rice from an unknow-n town in South ern Oregon, leading scorer; Sam Vahey who gets more activity points by playing the married and out-of-condition pair of Jerry Claussen and Bob Robinson at guards, the flashy Gordon Jones at forward, and Jerry Harrell, the new editor of the local scan dal sheet. The team has no coach, all the player* being stars. Expected to represent the Ag gie aggregation who were hit hard by the loss of five-year vet eran “Kupie'’ Davis, are Clifford Y. Kuhlman, Jackson R. Rickard, James Z. Lattie, Johnathan X. Callarman. Tamlson Hampton Moore. Duane I. Bodtken. Dick "Dimples’' Coyner, and perhaps a certain center recently re moved from the OSC varsity. Kirsch Calls Meeting Of Frosh Baseballers There will be an important or ganizational meeting of all fresh man baseball players on Tues day, Jan. 25 at 5 p.m. in room 101 of the PE building, accord ing to Coach Don Kirsch. • • • monogrammed writing papers book matches paper napkins ideas lor 0% (^UNIVERSITY CO OP^I . : J H*N| * *^* -j
