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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1958)
BELKO SCOUTS BEARS Oregon Slates Drills WEBFOOT FORWAUD (iwrge Padovan is ntilf on the doubtful list for Monday night’s game against California at McArthur Court. Padovan was injured in the Idaho game two weeks ago and has been corking out lightly, hut probably will sit out the Bear contest. Franklin Presses Simmons, Smart Gary Simmons of Idaho has a 20 point lead over Washington's Doug Smart with each having five games remaining in their battle for the Pacific Coast Con ference basketball scoring title, figures from the PCC Commis sioner's office showed. Stanford's sharp-shooting duo of Dick Haga and Gerry Theusen lead in field goal and free throw marksmanship, respectively, and Smart in rebounding for all PCC games through Monday, Feb. 17. Simmons has scored 250 points in 11 games for un average of 22.7 points per outing to 250 and a 20.0 for Smart. Charlie Franklin, Oregon, has moved into challenging position with a 20.1 average, followed by Dave Gamliec, Oregon State, 17.3. Haga has scored on 41 of 79 field goal attempts for 51.9% to lead in floor shots over teammate Thuesen, a 6-7 sophomore, who is shooting 48.2%. Hal Damiano, Idaho, is shooting 46.7%; Con rad Burke, UCLA, 45.8%, and Jim White, Southern California, 44.2%. Thuesen has the top mark of 90.3% from the free throw line on 28 points in 31 attempts. Don McIntosh, California, is shooting 85.8%; Gambee, 83.7% ; Paul Neu mann, Stanford, 82.1%, and Sim mons, 79.6% Smart has attained the top rebounding percentage of 16.6% by recovering 142 of 858 total Washington opportunities. Gambee is rebounding 15.6%; Ilal Duffy, Oregon, 14.3%; Franklin, 13.1%, and Haga, 12.2%. Other top scorers include Ken Nansen with a 14.1 point game average; McIntosh, 12.4; John Maras, Washington State, 12.2; Haga, 11.8; A1 Buch, California, 11.5, and Whaylon Coleman, Idaho, and Walt Torrence, UCLA, 11.2. Idaho's free-scoring offense and the tight-checking defense of California dominated the Pacific Coast Conference team statistics. Idaho has averaged 69.3 points per game in its li games through Feb. 17, for a substan tial lead over UCLA, which is averaging 65.6, to 63,6 for Ore gon and Oregon State. On defense California has al lowed foes but 50.7 points per game, and a margin of some four points a game over Oregon State, which has allowed 54.6. Wash ington is third with 60.1. Best shooting team from the floor is Oregon State with 235 field goals in 612 attempts for 38.4 %. Oregon is shooting 37.6% and Stanford 37.4%. From the free throw line Stanford has the best mark, 72.5%, havin gmade 186 of 257 free throw attempts. California is shooting 70.8% and Oregon State 68.9%. Oregon State is the top re bounding team, having recovered 433 rebounds to its opponents’ 307 for 58.5%. California is re bounding at. 52.9% and Oregon, 50.8%. UCLA leads in field goal de fense, having allowed opponents but 32.2% (240 field goals in 747 attempts). Southern Cali fornia has allowed 33.3% and Oregon State 34.3%. Ducks, Cal Vie In Monday Tilt A weekend practice session : faces Steve Belkos’ Oregon bas ketball squad as the Webfoots prepare for their rugged Mon | day night test against the Uni ; versity of California’s Pacific Coast Conference leaders. Belko will scout Pete Newell’s Bears tonight when they meet Idaho at Moscow and Kirsch will handle the Duck workouts this afternoon. Belko will return Saturday to run the squad through practice Saturday afternoon. The Webfoots are still shy on manpower. Belko said Thursday that forward George Padovan is still on the doubtful list for Monday’s game. Padovan was in jured in the Idaho contest two weeks ago. That leaves just 11 men to meet the rugged Bears, but it was these same 11 men that de feated Washington 87-83 in over time a week ago. Cal is noted for its stingy de fense and leads the PCX! in that department, but lately the Bears have loosened their ball control tactics and Monday’s game could be quite a free wheeler. While the Bears will go into ; the game favorites and hold a definite defense advantage over the Ducks, Oregon has a superior offensive threat. Conference sta- | tistics through February 17 bear out this point: Scoring G TP Ave. Oregon .11 699 63.6 California .10 573 57.3 Field Goals FGA FG Pet. Oregon .693 260 .376 California .590 204 .346 The Bears, on the other hand, hold the edge in rebound and free throw figures as well as in defense: Rebounds Own Opp Pet. California .395 352 .529 Oregon .454 439 .508 Free Throws FT A FT Pet. California .233 165 .708 Oregon.282 179 .610 Defense G TP Ave. California .10 507 50.7 Oregon.11 740 67.3 Field Goal Defense FGA FG Pet. California .490 175 .367 Oregon .706 279 .395 A contrast-type ball game is in store for McArthur Court fans Monday night. Game time is 8:00 p.m. JAY WHEELER, Oregon heavyweight wrestler, works out in preparation for tonight’s “Meet the Champions” at Corvallis. Wheeler joins 123-pounder Ron Conner and 157-pounder George Krupieka in the match which draws many of the state’s top collegiate wrestlers. Matmen Schedule Match of Champs Webfoots George Krupicka, Ron Conner, and Jay Wheeler zipped through light workouts Thursday afternoon in prepara tion for the "Wrestling Meet of Champions” in Corvallis Friday. Krupicka, Conner, and Wheeler were the only Ducks to be in vited to the tourney which is pit ting the top grapplers in the Northwest against one another. Oregon Captain Krupicka is slated to go up against OSC Rook standout Fritz Fivian, who has had several years of wrestling experience and run up an im pressive win string. Conner is paired with Beaver Bob Kennedy and Wheeler will go against Don Conway of the Rooks. The above matches will all be in the morning with the winners to move forward into the finals, which will be held Friday after noon, after the state high school meet. The rest of Oregon’s squad went through a hard drill Thurs day, getting lots of running and conditioning in for next week’s AAU meet. Dave Fish has worked out for two days now, after an early season injury forced him out of the line-up. Also back, but not working hard on his injured leg yet, was middleweight Jim Beaton, who broke the tibia bone in his leg several weeks ago. Beaton was thought to be lost for the season, but the tough Duck junior pro mises to be readv for action in the PCI meet. Grelle Races Indoors In A Ail Tournament Jim Grelle, fit and ready, will make his final 1958 appearance on the Madison Square garden board track, Saturday in the big National AAU indoor champion ships. The speedy Duck junior was third last week against approxi mately the same field which he will be racing this time out. But Grelle said he learned much from his first experience on the board oval, and after a week of working out indoors at Yale, and conferring by phone twice with Coach Bill Bowerman, Jim feels he is capable of running faster this time. The ever-optimistic Bower man feels that Jim may fool his last week's conquerors and wouldn't be surprised by a Grelle win. The big competition for Jim will come from the two sub-four minute men who edged him out last week, Irishman Ron Delany, and Hungarian Istvan Rosvoelgyi. Delany, the Olympic champ, has never lost an indoor mile be fore, and the 28-year old Hun garian has at one time held out door records for the 1000, 2000, and 3000 yard runs. The return of these two vete ! rans has greatly brightened the wrestling outlook, and the Web foots figure to be tough in future meets. Ducklings Meet Harbor Monday For the first time in a long i time Oregons Frosh cagers will have a three-night weekend, that is, no contests tonight or to morrow evening. Monday brings with it the Ducklings’ next-to-last game of 1 the current campaign, a 6 p.m. ! preliminary tilt with Grays Har bor JC. The McArthur Court bat tle preceeds the Duck-University of California Golden Bears’ fray, slated to start at 8 o’clock. Should the Ducklings repeat an early-season win over Grays Harbor, they will sport an un blemished record for the cur rent season against junior col lege foes. Don Kirsch’s Frosh have an overall won-lost mark of 10-3, with two of the trio of setbacks coming at the hands of the Ore gon State Rooks, who invade Mac Court a week from tonight for the fourth and diinal game of the Frosh-Rook “little civil war” series. The game will be the Ducklings’ last of the 1957-58 season. UO’s Medical-Dental School won a one-point decision from the Frosh early* in the campaign for Oregon’s third loss. Oregon may go into Mon day’s game without the ser vices of Butch Kimpton. The Klamath F ails sharpshooter missed Tuesday’s game at Longview, Wash., with a pair of badly blistered feet. Kimpton’s absence may have cost him the Frosh scoring lead, which he has held most of the season. Denny Strickland has been pressing Kimpton from the runner-up spot for quite a while, and turned in a 14-point effort Tuesday which may put him in the top spot. CHINA’S PALACE RESTAURANT and KITCHEN Order Chinese or American dinners to go from our kitchen.... they’re kept I steaming hot in foil wrapped aluminum trays. Call DI 5-2012 today for these low-priced tasty meals. 33 6th Ave. E.—Ph. DI 5-2012
