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EAST SET BAGK

First Place Battle in Interscho-
lastic League Won by North-
i east, 18-17.

A THRILLER FOR THE FAN

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Taking Lead in Second Quarter,
the Pirates Hold On to Slim
Margin at Finish.

‘A Technical Foul on Omer Hart
for Failure to Report Costly
to East.

BEARS IN LATE RALLY

Ten Points Are Made by the
Losers in the Final Quarter—
Paseo Beats Westport.

A flaming finish that
netted ten points in the
final quarter failed by a
point and the East Bears
bowed to the Northeast
Vikings, 17-18, in yester-
day’s first place battle in
the Interscholastic league

basketball race.

In the opening afternoon
game at the Auditorium, the
Paseo Pirates broke into the
victory column for the first
time with a 30 to 25 triumph
over Westport’s Tigers, the
defending champions.

Rally by Southwest.

Southwest and Manual kept pace
in the nocturnal engagements, the
Indians making a great comeback in
defeating Central, 38 to 30, and
Manual leading all the way in a 35
to 29 decision over Southeast. Vic-
tories kept Southwest and Manual in
a third-place deadlock, one game
back of East.

Southwest, lagging by 4 to 13 at
the end of the first quarter, bom-

-parded the goals, particularly. in the
third ‘period, to sound a definite
warning to Northeast’s pace-setting
Vikings. The Indians clash with
Northeast a week from today in the
sixth series.
Northeast 18, East 17.

The battle between the undefeated
co-leaders of the league was a drama
packed with joy and heartbreak for
the players, their coaches and the
rabid rooters. The East Bears, a cool,
methodical aggregation, fought a
gallant battle in the final quarter to
score ten points, but were stopped by
the final gun ten seconds after Joe
Baker had swished a 1-hander to

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RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Northeast 18, East 17.
Paseo 30, Westport 25.
Southwest 38, Central 30.
Manual 35, Southeast 29.

GAMES NEXT SATURDAY.

4:00—Northeast vs. Southwest,
5:30—Paseo vs. Manual,
7:30—Southeast vs. East.
8:30—Central vs. Westport.

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Officials—Warren and Dorney.

Half score—Paseo 19, Westport 8.

ae free throws—Paseo 13, West-
port 8.

Southwest 38, Central 30.

Connecting on an amazing per-
centage of their shots, the Blue
Eagles opened with a rush against |
Southwest and after six minutes, |
Central held a 10 to 2 lead. The)
margin was 13 to 4 at the end of the |
first quarter, but the Indians began
to move in the second chapter and
by half-time their deficit had been
reduced to 19-13.

Admitting he was “thoroughly dis-
gusted” with the performance of his
team, Coach Mel Bishop of South-
west refused to join in the huddle
during the intermission, walking
away after he had barked: “When
you fellows want to. start playing
basketball, let me know.”

The Indians started playing bas-
ketball-right away. ‘They cut loose
with such ferocity that nineteen
points dropped through the hoop in
the 8-minute third quarter. Central,
ahead early in the third quarter,
20-13, was behind, 20 to 32, when the
final period got under way.

Andres, showing a real scoring
punch for the first time this season,
featured the offensive along with
Saizow. Bill Huggins also played an
important role, until he was forced
to the sidelines with a knee injury
two minutes before the third period
ended. Bill’s left knee popped out
of position and it pained him so se-
verely he had to be carried off the
court. But minutes later, the knee
taped firmly, Huggins was pleading

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in the milling.

heed ge tench. ace_of the Central
shooters, and Cramer, regular center,
did virtually all the scoring,for the
Eagles, the former hitting sixteen
points to Cramer’s twelve. But they
would have scored even more, with
fair success at the free throw line.
French missed six of eight tosses;
Cramer converted only six of twelve.
It was a rough, fast game, but once
Southwest's attack began to function
the Eagles’ rooters saw the hand-
writing on the wall,