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By Jerry CUussen
Emerald Co-Sport* Editor ■■
The Northern Division basketball race is all over as far as
first place is concerned, and Oregon State has successfully
defended its championship. The Beavers desejve plenty of
respect for their 12 straight wins without a defeat, although
_they had to put on last-minute rallies to come out on top sev
eral times.
The old master. Slats Gill, deserves a lot of credit in bring
ing a mediocre Oregon State team back from a 4-6 pre
conference record to a championship with still a fourth of
the ND season remaining. He has shuffled the OSC bench
in and out at just the right times to stop opponents’ rallies
and win games.
Of course, the return of Wade Ilalbrook to the OSC lineup
didn't hurt the Rea\ er cause any. although the new champions
stopped second-place Oregon two straight the weekend when
the Swede was suspended. lie is a probable certainty to be
named Afl-Conference for the second year in a row after his
great performances within recent weeks, including a new re
bound record.
Beavers Take Ninth
OSC's championship closes 33 years of Northern Division
play before the merger in the new PCC schedule next year. It's
OregTm State’s ninth title since 1923. with Washington having
won the most. 14. Oregon has won live pennants, WSC has
three and Idaho two to their credit.
So now the coast playoffs will have Oregon State as the
northern entry for the second straight year, with UCLA the
probable southern representative. Playing at home in Cor
vallis. the Beavers should be a slight favorite, although Los
Angeles writers think not.
Only two questions, three counting the individual scoring
title, remain to be answered in the next two weekends of play.
The one in everybody’s mind is whether the Beavers can ex-!
tend their unbeaten string through four more games for the
first unscathed record in the ND since it adopted its 16-game
schedule.
Cougars Next Opponents
The champions have two games with WSC. at Pullman
Friday and Saturday-, which shouldn’t prove too difficult for
the tall and talented warriors from Corvallis.
If Gill’s Orange-and-Black squad wins that pair, it will
give them 14 straight and tie the all-time winning streak set
by Washington in 1953. The Huskies lost to Idaho in their
15th game that season but won the next to become the sec
ond team ever to win 15 out of the 16 conference games.
They also did it in 1944.
The last weekend finds OSC and Oregon mixing it up in the
final series of the year for the Ducks. And this gets into the
other important question. Can Oregon hang onto their present
second spot in the league? It will depend somewhat on what
they do against Washington this weekend.
Washington Senes Important
Two wins by the Huskies will put Washington and Oregon
into a tie for second with two games to go. Oregon would
probably have to beat OSC at least once to keep from falling
into third since Washington plays cellar-dwelling Idaho in its i
last series. A split between the Huskies and Ducks will assure'
Oregon of at least a second-place tie, while two wins this
weekend will give the Webfoots second place before facing
Oregon State. Most likely the final Oregon-OSC series will
still mean a lot to both clubs, even though the ND race is al
ready finished.
A note from the University of Washington reveals that
Dean Parsons, the Huskies’ great center from Eugene, is
the fourth player in the school’s history to scpre 1000 points
in his career. The 6’-8” star dropped in 47 points against
WSC last weekend to run his total to 1009 for less than four
years, 974 since his freshman season.
The three Huskies who have crashed the magic hi ark in the
past include Bob Houbregs, 1951-3, 1374; Frank Guisness,
1950-52,1070; and Jack Nichols, 1944, 1947-8, 1067. The Husky
captain also seems certain to become Washington’s second
best all-time scorer in the conference behind Houbregs, who
set an all-time record in 1953 with 406 points for the season
and 855 for three years.
SAE, Phi Delf Fives
Advance to IM Final
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi
Delta Theta swept past their
semi-final opponents Wednes
day and will square off to meet
each other next Monday after
noon at 4 on intramural court
40 for the championship in the A
bracket.
The SAE's hit consistently
from the free throw line to down
the Straub Erosh, 29-22, and the
Phi Delts took over in the second
half to drub Alphu Tau Omega,
41-24.
SAE's Roll
SAE's triumph was a tale of
fouls and free throws. Straub
was whistled down 15 times
against only three on SAE, and
the winners took full advantage
of the situation by dropping in
15 of 29 attempts, to only 2 by
Welsh, Bragg
Near Mark
A spectacular shooting battle
between Southern California's
Dick Welsh and Don Bragg of
UCLA threatens to shatter the
all-time Southern Division rec
ord for accuracy, it was disclosed
Thursday by figures from the
Pacific Coast Conference com
missioner's office.
Welsh, who ranks third in total
scoring, and Bragg, 13th. are
only one percentage point apart,
60.6', to 59.6"r, on their field
goal shooting as they head into
their final four games of the
regular season. Their pace is far
ahead of the Division record of
48.9'; set by John Hickson of
California in 1953. Welsh has
scored 43 field goals in 71 at
tempts and Bragg 31 in 52 tries.
Hon Tomsic of Stanford holds
a 10 point lead in total scoring
with 168 points and a 21.0 game j
average to 158 and a 19.8 aver
age for Bob McKeen of Califor-1
nia. Welsh has a 16.9 average;
John Moore, UCLA, 16.4, and
Willie Naulls. UCLA, 14.3. Tom
sic needs 70 points in his four
remaining games to equal the
Division season record of 238
Stet in 1950 by Bill Sharman of
Southern California.
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Dave Shelby of the Frosh. By
contrast, Straub sank 10 field
goala to only aeven for SAB.
SAE led at every quarter-atop,
9-8, 14-12 nt halftime, and 24-20
going into the final period, Rex
Davis sank a pair of free thrown
for a 26-20 SAE lead, but Shelby
pulled Straub gaek within four
points with his two gift tosses.
SAE went into a stall with about
3 minutes remaining, and con
tinued building their margin
from the charity stripe until the
game was over.
and 8 out of 15 free throws for
10 points to lead the SAE scor
ing. Tom Hale's accurate jump
shots brought in four field goals
and eight points for high honors
for the Krosh.
MAE (29) (22) Frosh
Davis 10 . P 6 Wheeler
Savage 6 .F.. 4 Jarvis
Tennyson 2 .... C . 8 Hale
Hardin 7 G Blanc
Dahl 4 G McCoy
Subs: Frosh — Bigelow 2.
Speers, Blevins, Shelby 2.
Phi Delta Theta's defending
champions again reached the fi
nal round of the intramural play
offs, by powering their way to a,
41-24 win over Alpha Tau Ome
ga
The ATO'a caught the Phi
IM Schedule
4:00 Sigma Chi B vs. Sigma Al
pha Epsilon B. court 40.
4:45 Sigma Phi Epsilon B vs.
Phi Delta Theta B, court 40.
ATO's Crushed
Thursday
Basket ball
fl
Dell's off guard, and jumped to
h 9-4 lend In the first minute,
of the game, but Bob Wagner
and Dick Rchlosatein bit baskets
to close out the first quarter with
the score 9-8. In favor of ATO.
The Phi Dell's settled down In
the second quarter and led by
halftime, 20-17. In the second
half ATO turned Ice cold, and
failed to score a field goal. They
dropped In three free throws to
trail 20-20, at the end of the
third period, and could muster
only four more free throws In
the last quarter,
ATO (24) (41) Phi I»e||,
Shaw 4 F 10 Wagner
Blodgett 2 K 10 Powers
Blck 3.C .. 5 Johnson
Keller 6 G ft Garrett
Basham 5 ..... G 1 Hastings
Subs: Phi Delta Schlossteln
4, Williams 0. ATO Huggins 4.
Beta s Win
Handball
Beta Theta Pi won Us second
straight Intramural handball
title Monday afternoon with a 2-1
victory over the Dorm Counselor -
ors.
Beta Jim Barlow topped Bill
Johnson of the Counselors, 21-19.
1.1-21, 21-1H and Ken • • :
clinched the crown with his vic
tory over Jack Morris in the sec
ond singles match. Scores were
21-19, 18-21, 21-18.
The Counselors got their only
win the doubles, where Ted
Schopf and Dong Whittle won
21-19 and 21-17 over Bruce Pur
vine and Russ Manncx.
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