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.
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