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.
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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
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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.
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