"Duck
By Chuck Mitchelmore
Emerald Co-Spertt Editor <■*
Tlit hot commentary on officiating that usually occupies
sport fails' conversation at this time of the year seems to have
slowed greatly now. It's getting so bad that the polite word
for referees has changed from "lousy” to "fair” in armchair
di >cussion circles.
Perhaps some of the lack of criticism is due to the
absence of the Northern Division’s colorful comment-get
ter. A1 Lightner, who, we understand, is working a tour
nament somewhere in Alaska at the present.
Lightncr’s colleagues seem to have suffered by his going,
for writers and just plain spectators are forgetting all about
the officiating after they leave the game.
Dye Avoids Issue
'I ippy Dye's stock, non-entanglement remark after the
Oregon Washington series at Kugene was that "everybody
gets his share of the bad ones, but you just have to hope
that they'll even up over the years.”
After a season of college officials we were somewhat
surprised to remember how close the high school referees
call them, a fact which was evident when we watched a
pre*p game Saturday.
< )m* official, whom we had always recalled as “prettv fair"
fa good safe word, once again), seemed last weekend to
have hall-kicking phobia. This gentleman of the black and
white .spent his evening giving either team possession out
of bounds w henever anybody bubbled a pags or dropped the
hall on his foot.
Officials Have Troubles
In another instance the referees spent ten minutes accus
ing each other of blowing the whistle and attempting to iix
the blame for a foul on a different player.
At the end of the game when one team came from
seven points behind to win in the last minute and a half,
including a six point spurt in the last 35 seconds, the
officials stood back and watched rather aghast.
All of which brought the explosive comment from one
elderly spectator* “You know, they ought to put those ref
erees in cages, 'i e$. sir, they sure don't do any good running
around down there; they can’t see a thing/'
Elevated Referee Tried
We presume that the fan meant the elevated platform
which has been used experimentally several times. How
ever. some of the fans might interpret his "caging” idea more
liberally, which could he bad in the high School league where
they don't even have guards for the referees.
Incidentally the platform idea was tried once in an
inter-division game in the SOCE gymnasium at Ashland.
The result, as we remember it, was that the game was
slewed and decisions made even more trying by the
conferences which were necessary between the one official
who ran up and down th sidelines and his partner, who
pointed out offenses from his elevated vantage point
above one of the baskets.
Many things have been done in attempts to improve
officiating in basketball and all sports, but with the human
failings which have held back progress thus far, the only
conceivable step ahead is a mechanical official which would
bring complaints from fans who would have nothing to gripe
about.
Darkness Halts Game?
LYON, France (AP) —Tennis
veterans Budge Patty of Los
Angeles and Jaroslav Drobny of
Egypt decided to call the Lyon
indoor tennis final a tie Sunday
after battling 100 games with no
decision in sight.
Both men were exhausted in
the third set when the score
reached 21-21 and they decided
to call it off. Drobny won the
marathon first set 21-19 and the
second went to Patty 10-8.
The marathon match lasted
four hours and the two veterans
were so evenly matched that at
no point did one ever achieve a
good lead or demonstrate marked
snuperiority.
Records Broken
As Oregon Star
Paces Scoring
Jim Loscutoff broke two of
Oregon's conference records and
Howard Page went over the 100
point mark in basketball action
against Washington last weekend
aH the Ducks neared the end of
'■ the Northern Division season.
Loscutoff got 14 field goals in j
48 attempts to run his field goal
| total to 107 in 14 games, break- j
! ing the record of 103 set by Chet*
i Noe in 1953. His biggest achieve- '
! ment was in the rebound depart- j
ment, however, where his 37'
swipes broke both the Oregon I
and Northern Division record of!
229 also set by Noe.
IP-bound Record High
Loscutoff now has 253 re-!
j bounds in 14 games and the rec- j
| ord will probably stand both as i
a ND and Pacific Coast mark
j for some time to come. The Duck
Henior is also near the Oregon
record of points scored in a con
ference season with 270 com
pared to Noe’s 307 made two:
years ago.
Page's 26 points in the Husky I
series moved the Coos Bay guard
within one point of Center Max
Anderson in Duck conference
scoring. It was much his best
performance since the first
Teague series with Washington
State with Jerry Ross also turn
ing in a fine performance with
another 26 Duck markers.
McHugh Held Scoreless
Ross got only five field goals
in the two games but he made
16 free throws in 23 attempts to
almost double his previous 10
game total from the foul line.
Phil McHugh was held scoreless
Saturday night at Seattle for his
first blank 4,his season in any of
24 Oregon contests.
Oregon’s Northern Division
scoring:
Player
IeO*CUtOtf, f
Ander§on« c
McHugh, g
Rom, j
Hell, i
Bingham, f
C.-ii. k
McManus, f
Sherman, g
\\ erncr. c
Anderson, g
Landed, g
Mcl-aiti, i
G FG
14 107
14 41
14 46
14 34
10
5
7
10
FT RB
56 253
39 150
28 39
PF TP
.14 21
14 26
42 270j
38 121 ,
41 120
21 39 22
34 89
24 63
89
20 76 j
44 76 I
1 1 33
4 4
10 27
0 16
3
11
6
12
11
9 I
' 9 j
Oregon Totals 14 309 237 708 247 855
Opponents 14 270 262 527 249 802
Miler Forgets
New Records
NEW YORK (AP)—Wes San
tee, the lean Kansan, decided
Sunday that it doesn't always
pay to try for records every
time he goes to the post.
The short-strided collegian
I has made no bones about the
, fact that he likes to break rec
i ords in wholesale lots, but prob-'
ably for the first time in the I
| past two years, he ran merely j
i to win Saturday night in the:
National AAU Championships in '
! Madison Square Garden.
And win he did, beating off his i
, two enemies, Gunnar Nielsen and
Fred Dwyer, in the last lap in a
piddling 4:07.9.
This was the fourth meeting
of the “big three” and the sec
\ ond victory for Santee to one
apiece for Nielsen, the Danish
| pressman, and Dwyer, the little
| armed forces runner out of Vil
lanova. At least for another
year, this was the last meeting
among the three.
Nielsen originally planned to
head right back for Denmark,
i but now he is thinking of stay
ing on a while and running in
The Milwaukee Journal Games
I on March 12.
Set for OSC
JIM LOSCUTOFF, star Oregon forward, has set several records
for Duck basketball this season including rebounds and field
goals. The ex-soldier will be out to keep his Northern Division
point-making leadership this weekend In Oregon’s final series
with Oregon State.
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