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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1963)
__'Mr. T'_— 'Basketball's Bully' By JOE BERGER Emerald Sports Writer There mav be some fun at McArthur Court Friday night. The Washington Huskies will be in town that night to toss basketballs with Oregon's Ducks, and. to liven up the show, they'll bring Coach John Grayson with them. Grayson has long had a reputation for “explosive” con duct on the basketball floor and. if you. remember, was the subject of a feature article by retired Salem referee A Lightner in the Saturday Evening Post a few weeks back. In the article, entitled “Basketball’s Bullies,” Lightner made it plain that he had not particularly enjoyed his ac ouaintanceship with the Huskies' hoop boss and implied that a number of his whistle-tooting colleagues felt the same way. “The fact that Grayson does not like referees is well known on the Coast. We officials call him ‘Mr. T’—for tech nical foul." According to Lightner, Commissioner Bernie Hammerbeck, in charge of assigning referees, had instruct ed him to nail Grayson "the first time he causes trouble. I've had enough of his pyrotechnics.” Lightner then dished out the sordid details of his ex periences during a Washington-UCLA game at Seattle's Edmundson Pavilion. According to Lightner a Grayson incited riot directed against him left him with “a welt on my jaw. scratches on my face and a bandage covering a cut scalp.” Grayson’s answer to the charges?—"1 was amazed that A! would write such an article.” We're amazed he's amazed. Go Ahead john But a temper tantrum by Mr. Grayson might be just what the doctor ordered to add a little interest to the proceed ings Friday night. The consensus of the fans who have watched college basketball in Mac Court so far this season is that, for excitement, it’s a toss-up between Oregon bas ketball and an accounting assignment. It’s a sad state of affairs when half the fans who attend their school's games keep their ears glued to portable radios tuned to the Oregon State game and look up only during the performance of the rally squad. (Some things take prece dent over even Oregon State basketball.) But Oregon's winning now. That's what the record books say. But fans who were there for last weekend’s games with Washington State in Pullman claim it just ain’t so. They feel it would be more accurate to say that the Cougars are still losing and leave it at that. Both teams were so cold up there that the guy who runs the score clock showed up fifteen minutes late one night and nobody even noticed. But that's basketball—or is it? Oregon Mermen Ready for UW A battle of the titans is shaping up this weekend as the Washing ton swim team, defending Far Western champs, entertain the Oregon mermen, Far Western re lay kings, in a dual meet. This is the encounter Duck coach. Van Rossen, has been pre paring for all season. The Huskies are the only obstacle standing in the path of the Webfoots in their quest for an undefeated season. Van Rossen says, “Everyone is whole, there are no injuries. An operation to remove a growth from diver Bill Theuriet's leg has been postponed until the end of the season, so we're all set.” The Ducks will go into the meet as slight favorites as they defeated the Huskies in the relay championships 89-70 earlier this season. Last season at Leighton Pool the Webfoots upset Wash ington 52-43 in a dual meet. That was the first loss the Seattle squad had suffered in the last five years. Van Rossens big worries are freestylers Dick Jochums and Ed Cazalet Both swim the 100 yards consistently around 50 seconds. Cazalet is a former member of Canada's Olympic swimming squad Another Washington neme sis will be defending Big Six div ing champion. John Deininger However. Van Rossen rates Ore gon's Rill Theuriet •. the best in the conference. The Oregon coach feels that if his boys can "take the medley .•fctay and the 200 yard freestyle. Washington will have to fight from behind to win.” However, the Huskies are favored in these two events. "All the events will be close." Van Rossen said "They will be won by the team that makes the least mistakes and is in the best condition.” IM Schedule Basketball January 23 3:50 Court 40 Young A vs Dy menl A 4:35 Court 40 Hawaiians A vs. Counselors A 5:15 Court 40 Phi Gamma Delta A vs. Phi Delta Theta A Handball Beta Theta Pi vs. Sheldon its recent feud, it was said that. "Old soldiers never die. Some of them don’t even fade away. You just lose track of them.” A press release just down trom Seattle says in effect that Wash ington center, Dale Easley, has a lot to live up to. According to j the release, since 1951 "the pivot man for the Purple and Gold has yet to fail to make the All-Coast team at the completion of the > season.” ‘‘Easley, who had virtually no1 preseason buildup like the others, i appears eager and able to keep the record intact.” The release goes on to list Washington’s "All-Coast centers of the past dozen years—Bob Houbregs (1951-1953), Dean Par sons (1954-1955;, Bruno Boin (1956), Doug Smart (1957-1959), and Bill Hanson (1960-1962). It would be a fantastic accom plishment for any school to pro duce the All-Coast center 12 years in a row. Especially so consider ing that other coast schools dur ing this period graduated such standouts as Darrell Imhoff and ’ Bill Russell. Our question for the sports1 publicity director at Washington is, “Who picks your All-Coast j teams, anyhow?” Ha! Well, here they are, folks. Our nomination for the worst sports jokes of the week. Did you hear that the San Fran cisco Giants sent Willie McCoyey to visit Aunt Jemima during the j winter? They want to make a j batter out of him. In reference to the fact that it i was mainly through the efforts of; 82-year-old General Douglas Mac Arthur that the AAU and the; NCAA reached a settlement in Save Your Packs IN THE COLLEGE BRAND ROUND-UP SAVE YOUR PACKS Rules to be announced by College Rep. Bob Sari, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Get on the BRANDWAGON ...it’s lots of fun! Ducklings Prep For Gideon Stolz Quintet Oregon’s highly regarded fresh man team, its live-game winning streak snapped by strong Claudi a’s of Portland, will attempt t" get back on the winning track Friday against Gideon Stolz of Salem at McArthur Court. Tip-off time is set for 0 p m with the Oregon-Washington game to follow. Duckling coach Don Kirsch is hopeful that guard Rick Potter will be back in action after sit- , ting out the last two games with a bruised knee. A probable starting lineup for Friday's game lists 0-5 Mill Jon nim>s, from kiinn. Wash., and 6-5 .John Franz, from North Eu gene high, at forwards, (> H Gene Brockincyer, from l-u Canada, Calif., at center, and !l-3 Jim Mar nett, from Riverside, Calif., and 6 0 Dave Kafonry, from Portland s Cleveland high, at guards. The Duckling's scheduled Sat urday encounter with the Port land Frosh has been reset for Feb. 2 on the Pilot campus. Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone DI 2-1411, Ext. 1818 ^ On Campus A™ (Author of "I Waa a Teen-aar Uwarf', “Thr Many Lovea of Uabia OiUia", ale.) CALPURNIA, HERE I COME Now, as the college year approaches its rni<!-|»>int, oiie fact emerges clearly: you are all going to Hunk everything. There are two things you can do alxiut it. First, you <an marry money. (I don't mean you marry the money it*<t(. I mean you marry a person who has money. Weddings U-tween people and currency have not Ijcen legal anywhere in the I uit<d States since the Smoot-Hawley Act. Marlboro Cigarettes, on the other hand, are legal everywhere and are, indeed, smoked with great pleasure and enthusiasm in all fifty states of the Union. I bring up Marlljoro Cigarettes because this column is a I sin.so red by the makers of Marllsiro, and they are inclined to brood if 1 omit to mention their product.) Hut I digress. I was saving you can marry money but, of course, you will not because you are a high-minded, clean living. pure-hearted, freckle-faced American kid. Therefore, to keep from flunking, you mint try the second method: you mu-t learn how to take lecture notes. According to a recent survey, 12.'5.tJ% of American under graduates do not know the projier way to take lecture n*»ti- Io illustrate thi- shocking statistic, let us supjioso you are taking a course in history. I at us further suppose the lecturer i lec turing on the ruling houses of Kngland. You listen intently. Visit w rite diligently in your notelmok, making a topic outline a- you have Ishui taught, l.ike this: I. House of Plantagenet. II. House of Ijmcaater. III. House of York. Then you stop. You put aside your pen. You hlink hack a tear, for you cannot goon. Oh, yes, you know very well that the next ruling house is the House of Tudor. The trouble is you don't know the Roman numeral that comes after III. rw /Jf * <d Tf\ev Got to imm~ (It may, incidentally, be of some historical interest to rx»int out that Americana are not the only people who don’t know Roman numerals. The Romans didn't know them themselves. I suppose they could tell you how much V or X were or like that, but when it came to real cuties like LXI or MMC, they just flam? away their styluses and went downtown to have a bath and take in a circus and maylx- stab Caesar a few times. (You may wonder why Rome stuck with these ridiculous numerals when the Arabs had such a nice, simple system. Well sir, the fuet is that the Emperor Vespasian tried like crazy to buy the Arabic numerals from Suleiman the Magnificent, but Suleiman wouldn’t do business—not even when Vespasian raised his bid to 100,000 gold piastres, plus he offered to throw in the Colosseum, the Appian Way, and Charlton Heston. (So Rome stuck with Roman numerals—to its sorrow, as it turned out. One day in the Forum, Cicero and Pliny got to arguing about bow much is CI)L times MV1X. Well sir, pretty soon everyone in town came around to join the hassle. In all the excitement, nobody remembered to lock the north gate and —wham!—before you could say pecca firrtiter, in rushed the Goths, the Visigoths, and the Green Ray Packers!) Well sir, that’s the way the empire crumbles, and I digress. Let’s get back to lecture notes, loot’s also say a word about Marlboro Cigarettes. The makers would be so pleased! And is it not fitting that we should please these honest tobacconists— these fine men, fond of square dancing, water sports, protein, and tattoos—these tireless perfectionists who spend all of their days trying to please us—searching everywhere for the best of all possible tobaccos, aging them with patience, blending them with tender, loving care? Marl boros art* available in soft pack and flip top box. You will find XX cigarettes in each package. (Q) IWO.'l Max Hhulmaa * * * Marlborum amo, Tom Marlborum aniat, Dick Marlborum amat, Ilairu Marlborum arnal, June Marlborum amat, Joan Marlborum amat, Jean Marlborum amat, Jane Marl borum amat, quique Marlborum amant—et Marlborum quoque amabitin.
