Ducks Host Huskies
For Dads' Weekend
Oregon get* back on the tough
Northern Division basketball
trail this weekend aa It hosts
Washington's in-and-out Hus
kies, while league-leader Oregon
State risks its perfect record in
a two-game aeries with Idaho at
Moscow.
The Ducks added to their win
column last weekend with two
victories over Brigham Young
and will be out to protect their
second-place league spot against
the cellar-dwelling Huskies. Both
the Dad's weekend games are
scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, with the Oregon Krosh
to play two prelims beginning at
5:45 both Friday and Saturday.
Coach Bill Borrher of the
Wrhfoot* expects a tough ser
ies with Washington and re
ported that he will give the
*<|iiud a thorough workout this
week In preparation for the
Husky contests. He gave the
top six of his Inexperienced
squad a rest Monday while the
reserves serlmmaged to gel a
little practice.
Borcher said the Ducks played
well against BYU but noted that
the Oregon shooting average was
only about .300 against the luck
less Cougar team. He reported
that Oregon would have to be at
Its best to take Washington In
both games here and the Web
foot coach put the whole squad
to work again Tuesday.
Huskies' Hope Dimmed
Washington, rated as a seri
ous challenger for the title be
fore the season opened, had It*
hope« dimmed in early upsets by
Washington State and Idaho and
also lost all four games to pow
erful Oregon State landing the
Huaklen In their present cellar
spot. Borcher said that Wash
ington Is tougher than its record
indicate*, however, and said the
club is very tough when ahead.
Washington Is In a very un
familiar spot In Its last place
position and Is expected to be
up for the Oregon series. The
Huskies last finished fifth In
the NIJ In 1 HI9 and that was
the only time in conference
history that Washington was
last In the league.
Two of the league’s big men
will meet for the first time in the
series as Oregon's Jim Loscutoff,
the loop's top scorer and re
bounder, faces the Husky scor
ing ace, Dean Parson*. The Hus
ky center is third in the confer
ence in both scoring and rebound
ing and the battle between the
Ducks’ smiling ex-soldier and
the former Eugene high star Is
expected to provide an extra at
traction for the important scries.
Itoss to Start
Borcher said that he will start
Loscutoff at either forward or
center, depending on whether
Ray Bell or Max Anderson takes
over the other front-line position
along with much-improved Jerry
Ross. Anderson will probably get
the call after his fine showing
last Saturday when he dumped in
24 points to tie Loscutoff for the
game's scoring honors.
LIKE SWATTING FLIES
Lanky Bill Russell
Stuffs USF Basket
By Harold V. Streeter
SAN FRANCISCO (API-San
Francisco, ranked second only to
Kentucky among the nation's col
lege basketball teams, has the
stuff and Bill Russell Is the
stuffer.
The 6'10" Negro center scores
a field goal much like a harried
traveller crams the last bit of
luggage into an already bulging
trunk.
Bill stuffs it in.
Swats Opponents' Shots
On defense when an opponent
breaks free, say 10 feet out, and
takes dead aim, just as the ball
nears the rim, Bill’s big hand
swats . . . like a housewife going
after a pesky fly. And the ball
bullets up into the stands.
(iolng down the court, looks
like a pretzel. Ills long legs
churn like pistons and he’s so
doubled up thut his knees
seem to lie about even with his
shoulders. But don’t let that
deceive you.
Bill runs the 440 in just over
50 seconds. And he has high'
jumped 6-feet-7*4.
Antics Please Crowd
The crowd loves him. In Friday
night’s game against Stanford,
one teammate was off in a cor
ner even with the basket. His
shot, too hard, was going over
tlie l ing. But Bill's long arm shot
IM Schedule
Wednesday
Basketball
3:50 Nestor hall A vs. Straub
, Frosh A, court 40.
4:35 French hall A vs. Cherney
hall A, court 40.
5:15 Dorm Counselors A vs. Bar
rister Inn A, court 40.
Handball
4:00 Dorm Counselors vs. Delta
Tau Delta, courts 42, 44, 46.
up like a human backboard. He
arrested its flight and slapped it
through the hoop.
Another time Stanford, co
leader of the Pacific Coast e«»n
ference Southern Division and
one of the fastest fast break
teams in the West, sprang a
man free. It looked like a cinch
layup. Bill was several strides
back going down the court.
At the last minute he propel
led himself Into the air like a
human canonball. Out went the
arm. It knocked the ball away.
And the momentum hurried
lanky Russell sprawling into the
crowd.
Coach Lauds Effort
"Greatest defensive play I've
ever seen," commented his coach,
Phil Woolpert.
On almost any night, Bill will
come up with enough rebounds to
total two-thirds of those achiev
ed by the entire opposition.
The lithe, 210-pound junior
forces the opponents to put
more than one man on him at
times. That often springs the
Dons* outside man, Jerry Mul
len, free for set shots.
Russell is as relaxed as gela
tine and so is difficult to foul
out.
Woolpert tabs him as "very
mentally alert—you seldom out
wit him."
Bell, however, in one of the
league’* top defensive men and
would la; a big help to the
Wehfoot * tar ting five a>< a
guard over Parsons. Howard
Page and Phil Meflugh will
hold down their usual starting
guard a pot* against the Hus
kies with Ed Bingham sure to
see a lot of aetion as a reserve
forward.
Washington's starting lineup
will probably include dangerous
Karl Voegtlln and Jim Coshow
at forwards, Parsons at center,
and Doyle Perkins and Jerry
Johnson at guards. Johnson in
jured a knee two weeks ago and
was out of the Husky-OSC series
last weekend. Ron Olsen will take
his place if Johnson can't make
it.
Bennink Gains,
But Loscutoff
Still Tops ND
Oregon's big gun, smiling Jim
Loscutoff. was still the North
ern Division's leading scorer and
rebounder in this week's aver
ages although Washington
State's Ron Bcnnink took a big
lead in points scored so far.
The big Duck forward was
Idle in conference competition
last weekend as Oregon romp
ed to two easy victories over
Krigham Voting from the Sky
line conference. He still kept
his lead, however, as his 18.8
points-per-game stood up un
der the barrage of baskets
scored by other top scorers of
the league over the weekend.
Only one new name appeared
in the top ten list of scoring as
Idaho's Bill Bauscher got hot
against Washington State in the
weekend series between the Van
dals and Cougars to rack up 31
points and move into tenth place.
His 10 points-per-game edged
Oregon's Howard Page out of
tenth place and the Duck guard
dropped to 12th. Bauscher also
paces the conference in free
throw accuracy with an .870 av
erage on 20 out of 23 from the
foul line.
Bcnnink continued his hot
pace for the Cougars against
Idaho Friday and Saturday as
he rolled in 41 points to in
crease his average to 17.5
points-per-game. This was still
more than a full point off the
pace being set by Loscutoff
with Dean Parsons of Wash
ington keeping his third spot
with 38 points against Oregon
State over the weekend.
Loscutoff continued to pace
the field in field goals and re
bounds with the Ducks Max An
derson in second place in swipe
production. Bennink is far ahead
in free throws with OSC's Jay
Dean having more than four
foule per game and Washington’s
Karl Voegtlin having only seven
fouls in the Huskies' eight con
tests.
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t By Phil White r+JL-l tl C>\ l
• Emerald Sport* Writer >—I'Ve/ J
Before the turn of the century men thrilled to the whistling
wings of the millions of ducks and geese that darkened the
-kies. Now we have a legitimate excuse for staring open
mouthed when a large flock of geese whispers overhead.
About 15,000 pheasants were killed on the opening day
of the Oregon hunting season in 1892. These days when
we shoot our limit of two or three birds, we can feel justly
proud.
Passenger pigeons once were the most abundant bird on
this continent. Where are they now? The reasons for these
astounding changes in our wildlife resources can best be
shown by a few examples.
Three Sisters Area to be Reduced
I he 1 hree Sisters Primitive area will soon be reduced ap
proximately fifty thousand acres. Influential lumbermen
want these acres for their timber value. We maintain that
the value of this area as it now stands will soon be worth
many times the value of the lumber.
Oregon’s population is predicted to increase 2,800,000
people in the next twenty years. Along with the thirty-five
hour week that will come in those twenty years, a need
for more recreation will arise. More people than ever be
fore in our history are turning to the woods and waters
of our states to supply their leisure time activity.
1 hat s why we’ll need those acres in the Three Sisters
area. From the Sisters it will spread to the other timbered
areas of the state. Soon our wooded area will be reduced to
a couple thousand acres here and there.
Game Will Disappear
As the forests diminish, so will the game. Just as the moun
tain sheep and mountain goat have disappeared from Oregon,
so will the elk and other woodland game.
With the need for more land for the increasing hordes
of civilization will come cries for “reclamation” of land.
These reclamation projects tonsist of swamp and marsh
drainage, reducing them from areas of great abundance of
fish and game to areas completely void of fish, furbearers
and fowl.
These reclamation projects end in failure time and time
again as the unknowing owners find their land unsuitable for
farmng purposes.
As much game is being killed illegally each year as that
which is being killed legally. Don’t people realize that thev're
helping to bring on the end of hunting every time they
break a law?
Wildlife Officials Repeat Warnings
'I hose statements are not just wild predictions on our part,
they have been stated time after time by the best men in the
field of wildlife management.
Have we learned our lesson by the extinction of the
passenger pigeon and the near extermination of our once
innumerable waterfowl? Will our sons and daughters ever
thrill to the distant honking of a flock of Canadian Geese?
Only time will tell.
Since there has never been a successful system of public
hunting in a heavily populated nation, the odds are greatlv
against us. Can we be the first nation to succeed? IT’S UP
TO YOU!
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