UO swimmers finish season
with two more victories
Orcgon’H rapidly improving
swimming team closed out the
regular season with Its fifth and
sixth straight victories, sweep
ing past the University of Brit
ish Columbia 50-39, Friday, and
the College of Puget Hound, 70
21. Saturday.
FRED McGINNIS led the win
ning Duck splashers In both
matches with double victories in
the new home waters of Leighton
Pool,
Friday night against UBC, Mc
Ginnis recorded the Ducks only
double win when he picked up a
first In the 440 yard freestyle,
then tied for first in the 50 yard
freestyle with teammate Dick
Grover.
Overall, the Duck swimmers
picked up six first places and
generally dominated action.
OTHER WINNER* for the vic
torious Webfoot splashers were
Dick Moody in the 220 yard free
style. Ron Nukata in the 200 yard
individual medley, Rich Frldberg
in the diving competition, and AI
Takashimu in the 100 yard free
style.
In the Saturday contest the
Ducks garnered an even more Im
pressive win as they extended
their current victory string to six
stiatght. Ali told, *he Webfoots
captured eight of the il events in
the ladghton tank, Saturday af
tetnoon, en route to a convincing
70-24 victory over the College of
Puget Sound.
MclilNNIH led the way for the
Ducks again with wins In the 220
yard freestyle and the 100 yard
freestyle. The versatile Oregon
splasher thus achieved victories
in four different events over the
weekend.
McGinnis got plerty of help in
the winning effort from six other
teammates who also grabbed con
vincing wins.
The 400 yard medley relay
Sports Briefs
(from I'PI reports)
THE DISTRICT 2 N.A.I.A.
Basketball tournament Beta un
derway in Salem, Tuesday night,
with four teams entered in the
single elimination tourney.
The winner wall go to the na
tional tournament at Kansas City
next week.
Entered are defending cham
pion Linfield from the Northwest
Conference, this year's N.W.C.
champ Willamette, and Portland
State anti Southern Oregon, co
champs of tho Oregon Collegiate
Conference.
Tuesday night at South Salem
high school, Southern Oregon,
plays Linfield In the first game
at 7 p.m. and Portland State goes
against Willamette in the second
game at 9 p.m.
ARNOLD PALMER, already
the leading money winner on
golf's winter tour, fattened his
bankroll by $2,800 yesterday.
That’s how much he picked up
for winning the Texas Open Golf
Tournament at San Antonio. Pal
mer posted a 72-hole score of 276,
two strokea better than runners
up Prank Stranahan and Doug
Foid. Ford and Stranahan split
$3,BOO.
WARREN 8PAHN, the peren
nial ace of the Milwaukee Braves
pitching staff, reported for his
15th spring training Sunday.
Spahn didn’t let the fact that he
had undergone an operation on
his left knee during the winter
stop him. He pitched 15 minutes
of batting practice and even took
part in a sliding drill.
The ace left-hander reaffirmed
his intention of pitching on three
days rest, despite statements to
the contrary by Braves manager
Charlie Dressen.
team crime up with another win
us did Jerry Reece in the 200
yard backstroke, Tom Herman In
the 440 yard freestyle, and Ron
Nakata In the 200 yard individ
ual medley.
Bobby Watts grabbed a win in
the three-meter diving competit
tion, and the 400 yard freestyle
squad won also.
This closes out the regular dual
meet season for the Duck swim
mers. They host the Northern Di
vision meet here next Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday, and will
participate in the NCAA finals.
Duck freshman cagers
clip Western Veneer
By HON Bl'KL
Rnwralil Sports Writer
Tlie Oreg.-m Ducklings unleash
ed their powerful offensive which
‘h averaging over 70 points a
'fame, and ran to their fourth
straight win. an easy 89-70 de
, feat of Western Veneer and Ply
wood.
TIIK FROSH were at no time
m any serious trouble against the
AAU team from Lebanon and
held a 48-37 halftime lead. They
! Played the reserves for most of
the second half.
High scorer for the contest
was Bob Dailey of Western Ve
neer who dropped in 28 points.
Scoring for the frosh was quite
! evenly spread, with ten of eleven
. men in the scoring column, and
I no one scoring over 17 points.
GORDON 8COTT was the
Duckling to hit that figure, and
he was closely followed by sur
prising substitute Jim Blanton.
The short, 5-6 Blanton hit for
| 16 points on set shots, Jumps, and
layins. His highest single game
' total before the contest was four
points.
Coach Phil McHugh's Duck
lings resume the "little civil war”
next weekend when they close
out the season with a pair of bat
tles against the OSC Rooks.
These are the games the frosh
have been pointing for all sea
son, and could "make or break"
their season.
Wrestlers string ends
against OCE, Portland
By JERKY LIVINGSTON
Emerald Sports Writer
Oregon’* injury riddled wrestl
ing squad had its win streak
snapped at four straight as they
lost two weekend matches to
Portland State Saturday up in
Portland, and Friday to the Ore
gon College of Education.
FRIDAY, OCE turned the trick
by downing the Oregon wrestlers
19-9 in a hard fought contest.
Portland State used two pins
Saturday to raise their point to
tal beyond the reach of Mike
Reuter’s undermanned matmen
and won 18-11.
There were a few bright spots
for the Ducks over the weekend.
Double winners in the two week
end matches for Oregon were Joe
McFarland at 123 pounds, and
Garry Stensland in the heavy
weight division.
LANNY HOLMES, Oregon’s
137 pounder, managed to gain a
draw Saturday afternoon against
the Portland State crew.
Other than that, there was lit
tle to cheer about.
The Friday night defeat at
Monmouth against Oregon Col
lege of Education was in the na
ture of an upset.
The OCE wrestlers sprung
some experienced talent against
the favored Ducks and managed
to capture five of the meet's
eight matches. Among the Duck
losses was the defeat of Torn
Bryant, the Webfoots previously
unbeaten 167 pounder who had
his string snapped by OCE'a
Frank Tresler.
SATURDAY afternoon in Port
land, the Ducks were expecting
the tough opposition of the Port
land State squad and were de
finitely hurt and outmanned be
cause-of the recent rash of in
juries. They lost 18-11 after put
ting up a considerable fight with
what they had.
The Ducks were able to gam
only three wins. •
Coach Mike Reuter has had his
troubles this season with injuries
hampering his squad: John Park
er is still in the hospital with
broken neck; Ron Connors has
reinjured his knee in practice;
and Don Hoiness is still out with
a bad case of boils.
THE WRESTLER'S record is
now 6-6. Wednesday, March 2,
they leave for the Pacific Coast
Intercollegiate Championships in
San Luis Obispo, California.
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