About the only heartening comments anyone could make
after Oregon State’s wrestling squads visited Eugene Sat
urday would be something regarding the better crowd show
ing. which was due greatly to Dads' Day. and the fine per
formance of the Frosh grapplers. If anything else is needed,
we could add that both teams get another chance this Sat
urday in Corvallis.
The Beaver wrestlers got only one victory by a pin, but
generally had just enough to keep the edge over Bill Ham
mer’s Oregon matmen, a factor which made life rather
uncomfortable for the home audience each time the score
was posted and the visitors moved more and more out in
front.
Actuallv, several individual Webfoots gave Oregon State
men more of a battle than the final score, which credits only
the winner, indicates.
Old Rivalry Renewed
Roy Schlesser opened the match with a tense battle in the
123-pound class against his old rival, Gary McLain. Schlesser
missed a takedown early that cost him the match, although
he was pressing McLain so closely in the closing seconds
that half a minute more might have given him the win.
McLain now has three wins over Schlesser, one loss and
a draw. The Oregon State senior- picked up the Pacific
Coast title two years ago, but lost out-in the playoffs in
1954 and Schlesser, competing as a Portland State sopho
more, nabbed the crown. Wrestling has its last-minute
tensions and long-standing rivalries too.
Art Keith, Oregon State’s other PCC champion, got a
surprise from Dave Xewland, who used his speed and
strength to keep Keith on guard throughout the match. The
7-2 margin in favor of Keith didn't indicate the great effort
by Xewland.
Keith, a junior for the Beavers, picked up a three- or four
state titles while in high school and is seen, by many, as a
national champion this year. Xewland’s work on the OSC
star next week should be interesting to watch.
Woyat Shows Well
Another good Duck performance came from John Woyat,
who came from behind to tie Bud Geinger at 2-2 and then be
edged 4-2 despite a good battle.
Ken Kesey, an actor in his off nights and performer in
the recent University Theater production, “Captive at
Large,” used his superior weight to good advantage in win
ning Oregon’s only match. Lew Taucher, wrestling two
weights above his class, gave Kesey a few uneasy mo
ments, but not for long, as the big Oregon 177-pounder
held control throughout. Taucher, incidentally, was vale
dictorian of his Klamath Falls graduating class.
The real bright spot for Oregon in the afternoon’s play
was the flooring of the Rook team by the Frosh in the pre
liminary. Much of Oregon State’s strength this year comes
from 1954’s top freshman squad and Hammer is looking to
Vern Sterling’s Ducklings for a considerable increase in
Web foot mat power next year.
Oregon-Navy Clash for 7959
Proposed by Neuberaer
The possibility of a future
Oregon-Navy football contest
was forecast Saturday when
Oregon Senator Richard Neu
berger approached Naval Acad
emy official-,.
Neuberger, acting on behalf
of the University, disclosed that
Leo Harris, athletic director, was
“extremely interested” in adding
Navy to Oregon’s future football
schedule.
Neuberger suggested , that the
game be played in Portland Mult
nomah stadium, whose seating
capacity is over 30,000. Because
of schedule commitments, such
a contest could probably not be
played until 1959 or 1960.
In line with the Academy’s pol
icy of attempting to play in each
section of the nation as often as
possible, Neuberger pointed out
that “as far as I can recall, the
Naval Academy team has never
played in the Northwest.”
Dons Called Court Orphans;
Russell Rated Key Player
SAN FRANCISCO (API- The
University of San Francisco —
now bidding for No. I among the
nation's college basketball teams
—is an orphan of the sport.
The dashing Dons have no
gym of their own for practice.
They have no court of their own
for games.
Coach Phil Woolpert’s 15-man
squad polishes up its phenome
nal defense and deadly accurate
shooting in the gym of nearby
St. Ignatius high school. At 3
p.m., the Dons have to clear out.
The high school boys take over.
For “home" games, the
squad comes (low n from its
hilltop campus overlooking
San Francisco bay and plays
either in Ketar stadium field
house or in the cavernous Cow
Palace, site of stock shows and
rodeos.
Loscufoff Nears
Scoring Marks
Jim Loscutoff's performances
against Washington Friday and
Saturday put him within shoot
ing distance of being Oregon’s
all-time high scorer and rebound
er for the Northern Division,
figures showed Monday.
The big forward from Califor
nia knocked in 47 points against
the Huskies with his usual flur
ries of second-half scoring to
near the 200-mark in points for
Oregon’s 10 conference games.
This gave him the lead in both
points and average per game for
the Northern Division as well as
for the Oregon team.
With 40 rebounds in the Wash
ington games, Loscutoff now has
170 swipes in 10 games for a 17
rebounds-per-game average with
19.7 points scored per contest.
At this pace the ex-soldier is
likely to surpass the Oregon
mark set by Chet Noe in 1953
of 229 rebounds and 307 points
in the ND's 16 games.
Loscutoff is far ahead of Noe’s
average in rebounds while he
also is slightly ahead of the for
mer Duck center’s scoring aver
age. The rebound mark is also
the conference record and Ore
gon’s scoring leader also will
probably beat Noe's conference
mark of 294 field goal attempts
since he already has 208 with six
games left.
Howard Page continued in his
second spot in Duck point-mak
ing after the Washington series
with 12 points for 84 markers in
10 games. Max Anderson is sec
and behind Loscutoff in rebounds
with 98, while Phil McHugh leads
the regulars in accuracy from
the foul line with a mark of .625.
Loscutoff is tops in field goal
shooting with a percentage of
.376.
Oregon’s Northern Division
scoring:
Player G FG FT RB PF TP
Ixwcutoff, f .10 78 41 170 12 197
Page, g . 10 .14 16 26 26 84
McHugh, g . 10 31 15 30 16 77
Anderson, c 10 26 24 98 29 76
Bell, f .‘.10 25 23 54 35 73
Ross, f .10 14 16 62 17 44
Bingham, f . 7 6 7 21 5 19
Sherman, g . 5 4 0 3 3 8
Nelson, g . 3 3 2 2 0 8
Conti, g .. 4 3 2 1 0 8
Werner, c . 3 2 3 3 2 7
McManus, f . 7 0 4 6 4 4
Anderson, g . 6 2 0 3 0 4
Borrevik, c . 2 0 3 2 2 3
Moore, f . 1 1 0 0 0 2
Lundell. g . 2 0 1 10 1
Mcl.ain, f . 2 0 0 0 0 0
Oregon Totals 10 229 157 482 171 615
Opponents .10 189 176 348 177 554
Sigs Win IM Handball
Sigma Chi edged Alpha Tau
Omega 2-1 in Monday's intra
mural handball action. The win
puts the Sigs into the semi-finals
against the winner of the Camp
bell club-Dorm Counselors match.
The Dons are home-bred. They
have to be. Dormitory facilities
are so limited at the Jesuit col
lege that most of the 2550 stu
dents have to live at home In
the bay area. The only player
from the outside is Hal Perry.
His home is Ukiah, 120 miles
north of San Francisco.
The most talked-about Don is
the fabulous Bill Russell. 6-10
center who is sure to be an All
America candidate. In a recent
game he leaped until hand and
ball were over the basket. Then
he gave the ball such a down
ward thrust that it rocketed
through the net. thudded on the
floor and bounced higher than
the hoop.
Yet when Russell was a Jun
ior in high school he was only
third string center and his
coach was considered crazy
for even keeping him on the
squad.
The Dons are a gritty lot.
Guard K. C. Jones, although in
intense pain, insisted on playing
last year against University of
California. Jones helped beat the
Bears- after which it was de
termined he played the game
with a ruptured, gangrenous ap
pendix. It cost him a season of
basketball and almost cost him
his life.
What has put the Dons on
top? Balance. They’re all good.
If you concentrate on Russell,
then Jones or fleet-footed Hal
Perry will kill you with shots
from 15 feet out. Quit concen
trating on Russell and the tall
boy. who can high jump 6-7' = .
will stuff in field goals like a
breakfaster dunking doughnuts.
The Dons have a fluid of
fense. The deliberate style Is
favored by Woolpert, who
Mims Edges
Milo Savage
NEW YORK (A P t —Staggered
in the third round when he fell
for one of boxing’s oldest sucker
tricks, favored Holly Mims of
Washington rallied to win an
unpopular split 10-round decision
over Milo Savage of Salt Lake
City at St. Nicholas arena Mon
day night.
Mims, a 3-1 betting choice and
the third ranking middleweight
contender, fell for the-old "Look
at your untied shoe” chestnut.
Milo ^esteured with his left
hand to Mims’ right shoe. As
Mims looked down, Savage un
corked an overhand right that
exploded on Holly’s chin and
shook him from head to toe.
Mims almost fell. He clutched
Savage and held on until his
head cleared. Then he came back
punching.
It was a better brawl after
that with the crowd of around
900 cheering mostly for Milo.
IM Schedule
Tuesday
Basketball
3:50 Alpha Tau Omega A -vs.
Sigma Phi Epsilon A, court
40.
Sigma Nu A vs. Phi Kappa
Psi A, court 43.
4:35 Sigma Alpha Epsilon A vs.
Phi Kappa Sigma A, court
40.,
Sigma Alpha Mu A vs. Pi
Kappa Alpha A, court 43.
5:15 Hunter hall A vs. Straub
Frosh A, court 40.
Gamma hall A vs. Barrister
Inn A, court 43.
Handball
-4:00 Campbell club vs. Dorm
Counselors, courts 42, 44,
46.
pin ycil on I hr Loyola I .oh An
geles tram that upset South
ern California In Itl.H*. Hut,
given un opening, the Dons go
for the flint break like a group
of frlghteneil deer.
They are sharpshooting fools.
Agalimt California recently, they
irnnk every one of the flint seven
field goala and alx free thrown
attempted for a 20-0 lend In
eight mlnutea. Then Woolpert
yanked three regularn. In many
gamea, the Dona could exceed
100 point* but Woolpert refuaea
to pour It on.
Defensively, the Dona are even
more sensational. An opponent
seldom gets two shots In se
quence. The long-armed, leaping
Russell, with perfect timing,
either deflects the ball or re
bounds it. He averaged better
than 19 rebounds a game last
season.
Coaches Protest
Elevator Shoes
NEW YORK (APi College
basketball bigwigs at first
grinned, then winced and finally
frowned Thursday at the game’s
newest gimmick elevator shoe*.
"The next thing you know'
they'll be putting springs on
shoes," wryly commented Bruce
Drake, University of Oklahoma
coach who heads the rules com
mittee.
Are Stilt* Next?
"When the 7-foot players came
In we Jokingly said they'd soon
lie equipping boys with atilt*. ”
sAid Coach Howard Hobson of
Yale.
"We didn't think they'd take
us seriously.”
"It's against the spirit of the
rules." added Manhattan's Ken
Norton, a rules committee mem
ber.
The elevator shoes were intro
duced in a game Wednesday
night by Sax Elliott, research
minded coach of Los Angeles
State college who Is renowned
for other departures from the
routine.
Pseudo flalbrcMtk
Saxton put shoe* with nix-inch
rubber Boles on one of his play
ers, Glen Abney, making a sev
en-footer of the boy of no excep
tional height.
Abney clumped around under
the goal for about five minutes.
He didn’t make a basket or do
any rebounding, and Los An
geles State lost to Utah, 77-38.
But Elliott had his fun and
proved his point, if any.
"There's no rule against these
shoes," said Drake. "Basketball
always will be a big man's game
and I guess it’s one way to get
more height. But if the thing
gets going and the shoe manu
facturers start up with the shoes
it’ll probably* take some legisla
tion.
They’ll Sprain Ankles
Both Yale's Hobson and Hank
Iba, veteran coach at Oklahoma
A & M, turned serious long
enough to express the opinion
that the elevator shoes, while
adding height, are impractical.
“It seems the shoes would
make a boy clumsy," sftid Iba.
“A boy would have to be awfully
careful or he'd sprain his ankles.”
Order of O Meets
The Order of the O will meet
at 12 noon Wednesday at Phi
Kappa Pal. Varsity basketball
Coach Kill Koreher and the
Rally Squad will be in attend
ance to discuss uays of in
creasing school spirit.
There is a special invitation
this week to all Alpha Tuu
Omega lettcrmen.