Heats East, 3224, in' Sectional Tourney i 1 rr A. i i ket, preparing to shoot as the Indians' Jerry Oberle (11) throws up a restraining arm. Awaiting developments at right are Cecil Grignon (5) of the Indians, Rand, and Shawano's Fred Weeman (7) and Scheider. At the right, Bob Wolf ord (20) 'and Ronnie Bero (extreme right) of East close in on the Indians' Don Damrau, dribbling in "possession" maneuver. The Indians, after gaining the lead late in first quarter, refused 32 free throws in a "control" exhibition.
Trail Ends for Red Devils These three scenes were recorded at Menasha Friday night as the bid of East High's Red Devils to advance in WIAA state tournament competition was stymied by Shawano, 32-24. In the panel at left, the attempt of East's Terry Rand to tip the ball basket-ward appears to be missing fire. Bob Scheider of Shawano (facing away from the basket at left) seems disinterested. In the center panel, the Red Devils' Bob White (22) drives toward the bas- jo. Knights Shared First Cage Title, Set Record Indians Battle Neenah Five for Meet Title at Menasha Tonight Press -Gazette Holron Missed Kosnar Point Mark by Only 13 With 391 Total By JACK YL'ENGER The Green Knights of St.
college overcame pre-season ranks of team manager to all-conference status in football, showed the same tendency to overcome hardships in basketball. The fiery guard with the deadly potshot was in his best form of four years of competition. The freshmen eyed so quizically Tourney Roundup Possessed' throws along the way in order to control the ball. Whenever possible, East resort Tribe Refuses 32 Free Throws; Bad Passes Hurt Devils By LEE REMMEL ed in Ihp Knmn tactics in the G. BAT EAST 'Tosa Quintet by Skat in the opening phases of Lnlf 4V.
1 .1 1 1 iierrnl Ofi-flQryiOi SHAWANO Clf Wrtman, f-e 0 2 Kchrldrr, 3 4 1 1 5 1 0 3 Moeirtl acriuiiu nail wiui mc icnun 111 'Clarke I 30 of 50 FTs awarded were re-jThiier, fused. Shawano alone declined 18 in the fourth quarter, East five. litand, This came of "keen-a-wav" re- Hohinon, i. th, hPite ide of a 'the season developed sufficiently 15-nUreecord aJd 5 SSed ri to play an important role through-oar of" conference championship he season. Several key games ever grabbed by a St.
Norbertluld hale the opponents mipsSheboygan Weber, Grignon O'Hrien, MENASHA, Wis. The long and treacherous trail to the finals eei 4 it 2 5 2 3 Green Bay, Saturday Noon, March 15, 1952 but for the ability and spirit of basketball team. suited in what may be a record the neophytes. rS. VtiCentral, 64-56 Oberle, 16 0 of the state basketball tournament, Coach Al Skat, entering his sec Nflsun, An indication of the ability of oero, i which leads to Madison for eight Wisconsin high school teams next ond year at the Knight cage helm, saw only four East Not 'Same Team; Total! 112 33 Totals IS 0 14 ft 24 week end.
came to an end for Kohler Also Beaten; Tomah First Winner Green Hay Eatt 7 7 2 freshmen to compete with veterans in inter-collegiate basketball is given by the performance of stocky Jim Ritchay. The all-stater Green Bay East here Friday right. Nick Ponders Possession Shawano 13 12 2 ii Free throw mixed: Green Bay East 5 Clarke 2, Rand 2, Trarv; Shawano 4 Weeman, Scheider 2, Weber. Officials: l. Kerkenbnh, Mon- dovl, and Leonard Ellison, Whitehall.
from Wisconsin Rapids ranked scoring low ior sectional competition in the third quarter when but four points were scored, two by each team. Don Damrau, Shawano's brilliant guard, counted the Indian's lone basket in this period on a long shot just before the four-minute mark and East's George Clarke shortly retaliated with a hook shot, ending scoring in that quarter. Grab 5-0 Lead Dissipating leads of 5-0 and fourth in the St. Norbert scoring 7-2, the Red Devils ultimately lettermen i i opening drills. Added to the veterans was a crop of untested fresh-m which needed guidance, molding, and experience.
By The Associated Press Tomah won a sectional title last night to become the first team to qualify for the finals in the state race, made every oan game dox score, and was a dependable re lost to the possession-minded Shawano Indians, 32-24, in WIAA sectional competition at Menasha High school gymnasium. Neenah NKF.NAI1 Met, 1 1 go into possession "as soon as we got a two-point lead." And the Indians did a little more when Thnmsen, I outclassed Gillett, 69-40, in the placement at the guard position. Center Strictly Frosh Issue The battle for center assignments on the Knight squad was strictly a first-year man fracas. Mel Peterson 'Plays' Rand; Braisher for Change in FT Rule By ART DALEY East wheeled into the lead atUorcertKen, night's first game, earning the high school basketball champion-2 3 slship. The elimination of two rated gentries marked the beginning of 0 3 4 six other sectional tournaments.
1 lj Tomah shot into the eight-team g'finals which begin at Madison next GILLETT 6 6 3 Schultz, I 7 5 Kal. 6 2 3 Peering, 3 14 Kuehl, (-C 2 12 N. Zahn, I 2 4 Kklund. 5 13 KruMhkf, Moe'ber. tierzog, 0 2 24 15 27 Totals the outset on a rebound by Rand.
Seconds later Bob White drove in it. Kyn. right to meet Shawano for the championship tonight. East plays Gillett for consolation honors in After a shaky start in which Knights bumped head- they took a lead late in the first) quarter; they took their free throws out of bounds. Owen said he wouldn't have gone into possession had he been for another two-pointer and, foul- wf 1 111 All 1 hursaay oy wnipping tsangor, MENASHA, Wis.
"Wasn't the Koehn, ed in the act of shooting, added the free throw to make it 5-0. the first game at 7:30. on into mree 72-57, in the championship game llolton same team tonight, was it?" Big Phil Creten and Bob (Bugs) Bugalski same along well in the pivot slot and should be on tap for a great deal of use next year. At the forward position (where a starting berth will be open be- 11 18 21 Totals Tense and over-anxious, Coach in Dallich's boots despite that 7-2; name op- Scheider ended the drought for of the Tomah sectional. Nick Dallich's Red Devils invol That brief quote from Coach Bjorne Wrolstad of Two Rivers Shawano with a rebound but Dick eoge.
Kuss- Denei was mat (Marquette Allen-Brad-the Skatmen wemu iijigni nave uetn auie and DePaul), Falling out in the semi-final stage of the battle for the state cage crown were previously un untarily played Into the hands of the inspired Indians with one of High tells Green Bay unfortu Tahlier came back with a side shot, restoring East's five-point overcome sucn strategy wiin lis showed a surprisingly strong'cause of Holton's graduation) nate experience with Shawano in the sectional basketball tourna lead. Skat will have the services of Bob bounce, moving on to take 15 of beaten Kohler, which lost to Shorewood, 59-48, and Menomo- Then the Indians revised their faster boys and superior all-around shooting. The consensus around the locker their least efficient performances of the season. Bad passes, particularly into the pivot where Terry Rand was "double-teamed" the remaining 23 ball games. During the 1951-52 campaign, ment here last night.
Wrolstad found it "hard to believe my eyes" that this was the same club that ripped off 172 room before the game was that all the Knights tied a 98 point one- nie, beaten by River Falls, 44-43, after two overtimes and a round of free throws. Menomonie was Last Night's Results AT WHITFFISH BAY Shorewood 59, Kohler 4. Wauwatosa 64, Sheboygan Central. AT BELOIT South Milwaukee 67, New Glarus 36. Kenosha 66, I'atch Grove 46.
AT MENASHA Neenah 63. Gillett 40. Shawano 32, Green Bay East 24. AT WISCONSIN HAPIDS Amherst 48, Stratford 37. Stevens Point 67, Wittenberg 47.
AT MENOMOME Altoona 59, Osseo 48. Kiver Falls 44, Menomonle 43 (Double overtime and one round free throws.) five Indian starters and three orlgame scoring mark, set a new in throughout the evening, contri buted most to their downfall. Rand In Lowest Total f6ur on the bench can shoot with 'dividual one-game point record, points in scor ranked 6th on the WIAA's final listing of high school basketball and defeated arch-rival Loras col i three straight victo- ho*rning, Corky Hoeft and Charlie Hellem. ho*rning started almost every game of the past year but, should Hoeft and Hellem continue to improve, may be pushed for a starting job next winter. Many ball games are lost at the free throw line and it is interesting to note that only one ball player on Skat's squad fell below a .500 mark on charities.
Heading the free toss percentages is Biesen-thal. Art collected on 37 out of possible 50 for a .740 average. Had they been accurate, it is reasonable to assume there might power the "Sweet 16." Kohler, which had a 21-0 record, was ranked 10th. 3 ries over Mani have been a different result. Such was not the case, however, and The River Falls-Menomonie towoc, Two Rivers and Luxemburg at lege at Dubuque for the first time in St.
Norbert cage history. In the process, the Norbertines dropped but two home contests. Chuck Holton, the veteran senior forward from Milwaukee, led the scoring parade with 391 points, just 13 short of the all-time one- battle won all honors for bull- AT TOMAH Rand, who went into the game with a plush 25.7-point per game coring average, finished with the dogedness. Menomonie came from offense. Weeman slipped into the pivot and Cecil Grignon moved out to the side.
In less than a minute, it paid off with two successive buckets on Weeman hook shots, shaving the Red Devils' advantage to 7-6. Grignon followed with a tip-in and Damrau swished from the side, sending Shawano ahead, 10-7. Damrau added two more on a long from mid-floor just ahead of the quarter buzzer and it was 12-7. The Red Devils labored unsuccessfully the balance of the evening attempting to eat up the deficit. Once they pared it to 14-10 early in the second period but Shawano counted eight straight points for a 22-10 lead that withstood assault the rest of the wav.
i Two Rivers from behind to knot the count just last week. Tomah 72, Bangor 57 (Championship). Dodgeville 65, Gays Mills 53 (Consolation Final.) lowest total of his two-year var before the gun ended regulation It was par sity career 10 points. As it was, The scoring table: season scoring record established AT SI'OONER ticularly cliff i cult for Wrol though, he shot at a .500 pace last season bv Romie Kosnar. Hoi- piaver FG's FT A FTC PF TP A v.
tftr' -131 noint total rave him a i Holton 159 lis 7a 79 31 1507 Superior Central Rib Lake 52. Thorp 53, Shell Lake 41. play. In the succeeding two overtimes neither team scored. So free throws decided the contest in favor of River Falls.
Tonight's Games AT MENASHA stad and his group of associates, standing 7 Beis'thal ....109 AO XT 40 neat 15.1 per game average. Kos-jpirman 73 82 nar had the beriefit of two 79 50 68 ball games in setting the all time; 75 with five baskets in ten attempts. These items, combined with the "fact that Shawano's strategy was well-conceived and equally well executed, of necessity spell South Milwaukee, rated the big Shawano vs. Neenah (Championship). Green Hay East vs.
Gillett (Consolation). Peterson in the cold outside the school gun by the WIAA, walloped New Glarus, 67-36. Other ranked teams 34 49 equal ability. That ability actually won the game in the face of East's poor play in the first half when the Indians hit a hot 35 per cent of their shots. The rest of the game was mostly possession.
Shawano drilled all week against "Terry Rand" in the person of big Mel Peterson, the six-foot, five-inch former Shawano and Marquette star. Yet, when the high passes to Rand were accurate and Terry was hanging onto the ball it was a simple matter for Rand to score. At least eight field goals were "lost" by either low, easily-intercepted passes to Rand or Terry letting the ball get away in the first half. DAD BRAISHER, veteran coach at De Pere High, remarked after the game, "they gotta change that rule on taking the ball out of bounds after fouls." Dad feels that the teams must be made to take their free throws to "stop all this stalling." Braisher said "the game was actually spoiled" by this practice Both clubs took their gift tosses out of bounds 255 12 14 249 9 58 9 15 172 7 82 1.12 5 28 J20 5 0 73 3 6 45 2 04 36 2 40 26 1 44 19 158 8 1 14 4 08 ed defeat for the Devils. With AT BELOIT to come through were Stevens after the game, to believe that mark.
The present 4.) 63 High school coach banged 414 in iHellem 18 19 28 games for a 14.4 average. ...13 14 Holton ranked in front of theiBruha 7 24 Cecil Grignon, Bob Scheider, Kenosha vs. South Milwaukee. East could undergo "such an off Point five over Wittenberg, 57-47; Fred Weeman and Chuck O'Brien AT WAl'Pl'N 15 24 9 22 20 12 19 5 fi 6 15 2 .1 2 7 Pro Roundup 7 and Shawano (15) over Green Bay East, 32-24. Madison East vs.
Madison West. He squad in many departments Aubrey 7 Mazanro 1 Arjfntatl 1 12 4 AT WISCONSIN HAPIDS Dick Gasciogne's team lost b. Amherst vs. Stevens Point. 3 4 OTHERS 1 he was the night's high point man.
6fW 617 3H0 572 1772 68 garnered the top scoring honors, scored the most field goals, the most free throws, and cracked the all-time one game scoring record. AT MENOMOME Totals Opponents pooling their talents, at various times, to encircle Rand, the Indians Intercepted numerous passes and, amazingly, controlled the boards throughout the first half. It was during this span that they built up the 10-point lead that 720 655 3B7 560 1827 70 21 He dumped in 32 points as Shore- River Falls vs. Altoona. AT WHITEFISH BAY The latter fell against LaCrosse! LA Trades Zilly to Eagles for Myers; Bears Sign Tackle LOS ANGELES UP) The Shorewood vs.
Wauwatosa. Dayton, LaSallc wood beat Kohler. Next highest scorer was Bob Kunstman who hit 26 points for Sheboygan Central in Central's 64-56 loss to on the Knight's home court with AT 8POONER was to subsequently spell vie tory Thorp vs. Superior Central. Tonight will see completion of As matter of fact, future events were to prove, the issue was virtually settled in the first Arizin Fattens champion Los Angeles Rams of play in the even remaining sec ine iour year varsity ace WIIT t.t 13 field goals and five charities CIV I Of IN I I I IllC for a 31-point high.
Biesenthal No. 2 Scorer NEW YORK (U.R) A crown Two Skatmen veterans played; and revenge will be the twin tar-runner-up to Holton in the point; gets of both La Salle's explosive producing. In the number two Explorers and Dayton's sky-hif4h slot, although he missed five ball, Flyers tonight in the all-unseeded the National Football league have tionals, setting up the field for the state tournament finals. quarter when, after East had con trived a 7-2 advantage, the In Lead Over Mikan traded one of the game's greatest defensive ends for the fellow they dians scored 10 straight points to believe is footballs greatest night and everybody on the squad." Wrolstad's Two Rivers club lost two narrow decisions to Shawano; yet. East walloped his team, 62 to 45.
Wrolstad wasn't the only "wondering" individual. East Coach Nick Dallich, trying to unwind after the game, couldn't help but say: "They tried so hard, those kids of mine, but they just weren't able to do anything the way they can." Dallich motioned to the dressing room, "the boys feel terribly bad but this just wasn't their night. They did wonderful all season and I'm proud of them." Dallich Congratulates Owen Nick, whose Red Devils finished with a highly respectable 16-6 record, debated with himself after the game about "not possessing after we had a 7-2 lead right off the bat. Maybe we could have forced Jhem to come out after us and commit a lot of fouls trying to get the ball." Shawano Coach Russ Owen, who was congratulated warmly by Dallich, said his strategy was to blocker. Sports Mirror final game of the national invi games from injury or sickness, was The swap, announced yesterday, assume a 12-7 margin at the quarter.
Cut Deficit to Four Points The Red Devils, producing a rally, later crept up to within four points, 26-22, midway in the fourth quarter but a basket by EAST HIGH went into the game with the well wishes of Green Bay West, the East student body and faculty and Oshkosh High school the Valley conference's champion A wire from the West cagers was read at the East pep assembly yesterday afternoon and a special telegram was received from West Coach John Biolo just tation basketball tournament. Odds-makers called La Salle a 21'2 points favorite for the title battle, which is expected to lure a capacity crowd of 18,500 to Madison Square garden. Art Biesenthal. The Chicago star had 255 points to squeeze ahead of Cicero favorite Frankie Pirman. Pirman ended the campaign with 249.
Pirman, who rose from the sends Jack Zilly, who played his collegiate football at Notre Dame, to the Philadelphia Eagles. In return, the Rams get former UCLA fullback Jack (Moose) Myers, plus the Eagles' first choice in next Scheider again put Shawano By The Associated Press Paul Arizin, Philadelphia Warriors' sharpshooter, entered the final two days of the National Basketball association's regular season today as the second player in league history to score more than 1,600 points. The Villanova graduate dropped in 22 last night as the Warriors defeated Milwaukee 85-82 to run his total lor the season to 1,614 and a 108-point lead over George Mikan of Minneapolis. Arizin has two more games to nlsv and Mikan one. year's draft of college grid talent.
By The Associated Press One year aito today Davton defeated St. John's, H9-62. and Brig-ham Young defeated Seton Hall, 69-59. in semi-linals of the NIT at Madison Square garden. N.
Y. Five years mo Larry MePhail, then Yankee owner, requested that Commissioner Chandler investigate charges made by Branch Rickey, then Dodger prexy, that gamblers were being entertained by MePhail at exhibition games. Ten years airo New York Rangers beat Chicago, 5-1. and clinched first place in National league. Twenty years ago Del Bis-sonette, Dodger first baseman, was forced out of action for at least three weeks because of a pulled tnndnn Zilly has been Ram since 1947.
Rights to quarterback Bobby Thomason, who played for Virginia Military Institute and was the Rams' first draft pick in 1949, go to the Eagles. ahead, 28-22, and the Indians lengthened their lead in the final minutes as the Devils threw caution to the winds in an effort to steal the ball As anticipated, Shawano initiated Its now famous "possession" rontlnw rk nnn as the Indians moved into the lead late in the first quarter. And from this point on, they followed the pattern to the final buzzer, declining 32 of a possible 36 free Myers played with the Eagles trom liHtf through 1950 ana last season was backfield coach with College of the Pacific. Thomason played with the Green Bay Pack Sent in Your Jay Bullpen $1 Yet? ers last year on a year's trial, with the Rams retaining rights to him. before last night game Osh-j kosh sent its "best" in a letter: signed by the principal, cage coach; Ed Hall and his assistants, and members of the squad.
TOURNEY BRIEFS: Cliff Fa-gan, new secretary-treasurer of the V.TIAA rnd orrfr" rnCT's coach at East High, watched the two: games Before the game Cliff said he was "happy that East is doing so well in the tournament" fa*gan will watch action at Wisconsin Rapids tonight The' official East High delegation was led by Principal S. M. Current Al Reed, East High football was pulling hard for the Red Dev-' ils despite the fact that he played i with the first Shawano High bas-1 ketball team back in '17 "We used to play in the old building, with a post in the center of the I court," Al laughed Ole Jor-j genson, coach of the Neenah High! PES MOINES Ken Reiden- bach, 260-pound Drake tackle from Kenosha, said yesterday he Reminder: Sent in your Bluejay Bullpen club membership yet? This week end would be a goodi time to place a dollar bill in an' ilii had signed a professional football ADKICSS contract with the Chicago Bears. No terms were disclosed. Wisconsin Boxers '51 PLYMOUTH Beat Miami, 6-2 YES! I WANT TO JOIN THE BLUEJAY BULLPEN CLUB! Enclosed is $1.00 for my membership Send Membership Card to Address City (Send This Application Blank to Sports Department, Press-Gazette) MADISON, Wis.
U.R) Wis team which won the opener, didn't have much to say about Saturday 4-DOOR SEDANS EXECUTIVE CARS consin scored three technical knockouts and three decisions to whip Miami University of Florida, 6 to 2, here last night and extend the Badger boxing win streak to five. envelope, fill out the application blank accompanying this story and send it to the Press-Gazette, WJPG or WBAY. The three organizations sponsoring the club campaign to give the average fan an opportunity to assist in keeping baseball in Green Bay have received well over 300 membership applications already thus far. The membership cards, which will be placed in the mail by the middle of next week, will carry the name of the member and the Wisconsin State Baseball league schedule. Attached will be an admission ticket to one Bluejay game at Joannes park.
It will be good for any game except Booster nights finals "Wait'll I see I what happens with East and Sha- wano," he said Neenah and i Shawano split their two confer-jence meetings Rand was bumped around under the basket The visitors took the first two Stone Motor Co. Chrysler Plymouth 1508 S. Broadway Phone Adams 3830 bouts at 125 and 132 pounds. Mickey DeMos, Miami, decisioned Tommy Zanuow and Archie Slayten ran his undefeated string this year to six as he decisioned Dave Miyagawa. Then by two and sometimes three Indians but the lanky one never retaliated with a show of anger or plea to an official And one Shawano fan commented after the game, "that Rand's a real good with members of the St.
Joseph Athletic club, added three extra dollars as a donation. He will nights and opening night May 1. A number of families are doubling up by sending in two dollars for the mister and missus. L. "It's terribly depressing the international situation is grim, inflation is unchecked, and the Senators still need hitting and pitching strength!" receive three extra membership Wisconsin took over and won all the rest of the bouts.
cards. Isport." H. Kraft, who contributed along.
