Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-03-21 | Page 18 | Oregon Winner over Longhorns

Oregon Winner Oyer Longhorns BAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (INS) Hobby Hobaon's impressive Giants from the University of Oregon Ore-gon should capture the western N. C. A. A. basketball championship from Oklahoma tonight, a consensus consen-sus of experts, coaches and plsyers disclosed today. With tha western championship will go the right to face Ohio State for the 13 collegiate title In the east vs. west play-off at Chicago. As eOOO fans at the golden gate International exposition cheered Oregon enured the finals by pinning pin-ning a M to 41 defeat upon tha University Uni-versity of Texas Loaghorna, pride of tha southwest. Urgsl "Slim" Wintermute, the S foot S-inch all coast center, and John Dick, tha foot 4 Inch forward, for-ward, were the heroes in Oregon's triumph. Wintermute tallied 14 pointa and Dick IS. Oklahoma adherents claimed that both Wintarmut aad Dick would be put to shams tonight by Jimmy McNatt and Garnett Corbla, a flashy pair of forwards who garnered gar-nered 24 pointa between them-eehrea them-eehrea as they ran over a hard fighting Utah Aggie Ave. In conquering Texas tha Oregon Webfoots displayed the same spectacular spec-tacular fast breaking offensive tactics tac-tics that won the Pacific coast conference con-ference title for them.