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Big Day for Jo And More Actiplin Cagers; on for TonightThursday was a great day for Joplin basketball teams and coaches Russ Kaminsky, Doug Landrith and Benny Lawson hope today will be equally as wonderful.Three Joplin roundball aggregations went lo the post Thursday and all three came home winners. Joplin Junior college’s Lions raced past Haskell hvV*-* Institute of Lawrence, 99-84, in an Interstate Conference game at Lawrence.East Junior high’s once-beaten Bulldogs turned back Pittsburg Roosevelt, 41-26, and undefeated South Junior high’s Cardinals tripped Carthage, 66-52, for their fourth straight.Landrith's Lions will complete a two-game conference road trip tonight, meeting AI Heider’s Kansas City, Kan., Blue Devils in a 7:30 o'clock game at Kansas City. Kansas City is the defending conference champion.Kaminsky's Joplin high school Eagles journey to Springfield t*Pro BasketeerThinks Big MenKilling GamerrBALTIMORE, Md. lt;AP -Gene Shoe of the New York Knickerbockers, a nine-year veteran of the National Basketball Association, thinks it's about time to rejuvenate the professional game.“Big men are killing the game,” Shue said before Thursday night’s game with the Syracuse Nationals. “We ought to take the game back outside from under the basket.”Shue, who at 6-foot-2 is one of the smaller players in the league, scored 18 points as the Knicks held off a last-quarter rally and defeated Syracuse 123-115.To help unclutter the traffic under the basket, Shue advocates taking a cue from the defunct American Basketball League which awarded three points for field goals of 25 feet or longer.Shue also proposed several changes to help cut down on thenight for an 8 o’clock game with Parkviews Vikings. Both squads will be striving to better their 9-1 records.Lawson’s McAuley Warriors will meet Liberal at 7 o’clock tonight in a semifinal game in the Little Eight Conference basketball tournament at Jasper. Liberal is second-seeded while McAuley is third ranked.Joplin high will be without the services of center Vince Nord-berg, a 6-7 senior, for tonight’s game at Parkview unless his injured ankle is much improved by game time. “I doubt if Vince will suit out,” Kaminsky said this morning. “If he sees any action at all. it will be only briefly.”Joplin's reserve center, Jim Deckard, a 6-5 senior, will gel the starting call. Deckard, however, suffered a gash over an eye in practice this week and throe stitches were required to close the wound.Landrith, contacted in Kansas City this morning, said his charges played one of their better games against Haskell Thursday night. “We made our share of mistakes, however,” he pointed out.Bruce Hammett, Kenny Bowman and Sam Knight hit long jump shots from outside to riddle Haskell’s zone defense at the outset. The Indians later switched to a pressing man-to-man defense, but the Lions were able to score against it.Hammett fired through 35 points and Bowman added 33 in Joplin’s romp past Haskell. The Lions' high-scoring duo received a big assist from Knight, a 5-10 freshman from found the range Bowman boosted point total to 254 a 23.1 average. Hammett now has 191 points in 10 games—a 19-1 average.McAuley will he bidding for its tenth victory in 14 games against Liberal tonight. The Warriors bowed to Liberal, 62-58, in an early-season Little Eight Conference game.The Warriors reached the tournament semifinals with a 52-42 decision over Jasper in the opening round Wednesday night. Liberal advanced on the strength of a 58-38 victory over Diamond.Granby, who for 14 points, his seasonal in 11 games
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Jan 04, 1963
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