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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1957)
Emerald Ailments Plague Duck Wrestlers By TOM HOWSKK Knit*raid Spurt*. Writer Injuries ami colds s;>ell out a rough time for Oregon's unde feated wrestling squad this weekend as they take on the powerful Oregon State College team this Saturday afternoon at Mac Court. While winning their last match with OSC. 14-13. Coach Bill Hammer is faced with the pos sibility of having to forfeit one weight to the Beavers, which would mean giving them a five point advantage before the match even begins. Hammer's concern is over the severely injured shoulder of 123 pound Bob Stevens, who won a 5-1 decision against the Beavers at Corvallis. Stevens had hi.-; al ready injured shouldet badly hurt in an exhibition match against Washington State last week, au.d his doctor sees little hope that he will be able to com pete this weekend. Stevens has been working oat this week, bat has not had any strenuous practice, so there is a slim possibility that he will be ready. Two Vnder Weather Veterans Ken Kesey and J. C. Wheeler are also under the wea the., Kesey with a three-week old shoulder injury, and Wheeler with a bad cold. Both men are slated to go Saturday, hut whe Tar Heels Keep Cage Poll Lead By the Associated Press Collecting 82 per cent of the first place votes. North Caro lina's unbeaten Tar Heels re mained the top club in the Asso ciated Press weekly college bas ketball poll today with the Kan sas Jayhawks a close second. Winners of 20 games in a row, the Tar Heels picked up 806 points on the usual basis of ten for first place, nine for second, etc. The nation's sportswriters and spoi-tscasters gave Kansas 17 first and 756 points. The Jayhawks. who lifted their season's mark to 17-1 by beating Oklahoma, had 48 second place votes to 17 for North Carolina. Kentucky, which squeezed past Vanderbilt 80-75 last night, held on to third place with 474 points. The Wildcats are followed by Se attle, Bradley and Southern Meth odist. Louisville’s Cardinals moved up a notch to seventh place and UCLA to eighth. Iowa State and Vanderbilt round out the first ten. Vandy was tied for the No. 18 position a week ago. The top ten teams with first place votes and won-lost records through Saturday. Feb. 1G in pa rentheses : 1. N. Carolina (55) (20-0) 2. Kansas (17) (16-1) . Kentucky (2) (18-4) ..... Seattle (4) (19-2) . Bradley (5) (17-3) !So. Methodist (17-3) 7. Louisville (2) (17-4) . 8. UCLA (18-2) . Iowa State (15-5) . Vanderbilt (15-4) ....:. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. 10. 806 .756 ..474 401 387 .341 .289 .238 .130 . 99 tlier or not they will be able to deliver their usual top perform ances is still doubtful. The rest of the squad, how ever, is m good, physical coin?* tton, and according to Coach Hammer are "up" for the match. Olympic wiestler Lee Allen will be looking for his seventh consecutive victory this week end, as will Jim Beaton and Dave Newland. AH three of tlte men have gone undefeated this year, and should provide Oregon with a little insurance. Kesey. at 177. is also undefeat ed, although he was held to a I disputed tie at OSC two weeks ago. Wheeler has lost only one match this season, that a deci sion to John Dustin oi OSC. as has George Krupicka. who also was uecisioned at the Stale match. J.D. Griffith and Stevens have just about broken even on then matches this year, but both boys are coming along rapidly and should come out on the winning side of tiie leuger before the , year is over. There is a possibil ity. however, that Stevens will be sidelined for a good part ot the remaining season. l O Out t<> Improve Show inn Practice this week has been brisk, with emphasis on condi tioning and getting mentally ready for the match. The general opinion of the squad after the last match against the Beavers was that they should have done better, and they are going to be out this weekend to prove it. Oiegon State's recor d this year has been marred only once, that being the defeat handed them by the Ducks. They have won a to tal of seven matches against the one defeat. The Frosh squad will not com pete as a unit Saturday, since half of the team Is out with a skin infection, and another mem ber of the squad is having trou ble with "his back. They will, however-, take part in sevetal exhibition matches with mem bers of the Rook squad as a pre lude to the varsity match. Hammer Exresses Concern Hammer expressed some con cern over the fact that Kesey, Wheeler and Stevens might not be at top condition, but said that “my boys know enough to take care of themselves, and I know they’ll be out doing then- best. We never like to lose to the Aggies." Team reaction was best put by J. D. Griffith, the only Oregon man who fell victim to a pin in the last match. Faced with the prospect of having to compete again against John Owings, who placed in the West Coast Olym pic trials, Griffith said, “He may have got me once, but I'll be ready for him this time, and he'll •have a surprise coming may be.” The match has been moved up to 2 p.rn. for the varsity en counter and 1:30 p.m. for the Frosh in order to avoid a con flict With the Dad’s Day lunch eon. They had previously been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. THAT'LL BE THE PAY ... Bailey's Rugged Workouts End Rumors He s Through It> I’llll. KN'ItiHT l iiirr.il.I Sports Writer They say Jim Halley is through. For the past two (lays, papers around the Northwest have ran stories militating that it's doubt ful whether Oregon's great miler will ever run a gooil rare again These stories explain that Bailey is suffering from a sore nreh on his right foot, which, according to the Oregon. Jour nal. "may put him in the ranks of the also-ttins " These stories are true In (hat Jim does have a sore foot. I he se< oiul metatarsal hone on tiis right foot is too long, and it gouges into the flesh when hr thrusts off uitli that foot and causes pain. This is the same foot ilial lie broke in Vancouver, B.C.. in the 1951 British Knipire games. Bailey inis sc. n a doctor sev eral times about tins condition. I.ast week came the verdict that it will not get any better. But Jim refused to be upset by the news and decided all there was to do was to begin working hard again. Me hud Ik on taking things easy and pumpering the foot, hoping it would get better, since his re turn from An iraha. But last week serious naming began. His woikouts have been con fined to the gia.se. which pro vides a softer surface for the injured foot than the cinder track. Monday he ran for ten miles, and again Wednesday Jim zipped through a tough workout. After Wednes lay's run Bailey reported that lie was beginning to feel better. It is likelv that 1956’s fast est miler will run the XXO In Rask Maintains Frosh Point Lead Chuck Kask, star guard for the Oregon freshman basketball squad, maintained his individual scoring leadership with 173 points in 12 games, latest statistics re vealed Tuesday. know Bailey, that Jim doesn’t credit and has connected on 39 of 54 free throws to lead the team in both totals. Center Dale Jones is tied with Rask with 39 free throws, but has hit on only 56 shots from the floor for 161 points and a second-place 13.4 average. Guard Doug Lundstrom is third in scoring with 153 points and leads the Ducklings in free throw accuracy, missing only eight of 34 attempts. The Ducklings currently hold a 12-0 record this season and have averaged 71.9 points per game compared to their oppon ents' 56.9. Next games scheduled for the Frosh are against Oregon State’s Rooks on Friday night and Sur roz Motors from Salem on Sat urday night. This will be the third Ducklings-Rook meeting with the Frosh winning the first two. k:i-k. K l.umMrom. x l-V, FT |*K Tl’ Av 67 39 .15 17.1 14.4 56 .19 35 161 13.4 63 26 16 153 12.9 47 38 38 132 11.9 52 IM 30 122 10.2 31 8 II 79 5.9 7 6 7 20 2.0 Anderson, i Kolnrrtsoii. f Springer, f Holman, c 0 4 1.6 14 1.3 6 1.2 2 0.6 2 0.3 Marsh. « (’reaifer, x Syrinx, X lOlux. f Allen, c 7 0 5 .3 0 2 I 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.3 0 0.0 3 3t) 162 187 862 71.9 .244 19.3 166 683 56.9 t % JIM ItAII.Kt, li'ft, unit Oregon truck ro.i.-li litII lloucrir'tn talk tilings over. Kiiiunr* that Kiiilrv’i bail foot iiiav ••ml his truck rari-i-r were scotched Ihli week os Australian mllr ui c turned in Kriirllni; workouts Mondu> unit U c lm sclii>. Northern Division nw-i Tin, ho iCViT, is not hecausc if tin* injured foci, lilt Iiimuu-i- the Decks possess mail) fin** m”i ers mid two-mllers, but are somewhat weaker in the half. To till outward appearances Webfoot track born Bill Bower* n.an is as ui’excitable as ever about the whole thing. He knows, a do others who I '.ask has 07 field goals to his like to lo-". Jtm't* been ut tip top. Hi- K'<t there through lot i <>t hunt v. -k. ami a tfemen<!'. dr.iif to win. Halley null jw- • at it.-s t!u-. «• i haracterinticn n 1 they wilt carry him to the top a^Itm where he will May un til hr i.f ii.i-.i to hunt; U. aplk > for *{t>» »«l They any Jim Bailey n through. That II be the day. Confession! We’d like to admit right here and now that the main reason we run advertisements like this is to get you, dear reader, to drink Coca-Cola to the virtual exclusion of all other beverages. The • sooner you start going along with us, the sooner we’ll both begin to get more out of life. SIGN OF GOOD TASTE COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF EUGENE
