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Halted at46 in RowThe end of an era came for San Antonio schoolboy basketball Thursday night but Joe Cortez, coach of the finally-beaten Central Catholic Buttons, was realistic enough to know it had to end sometime and optimistic enough to say “we’ll just have to start another one.”‘‘Another one” would be a winning streak. Maybe nothing like the 48-game string that ended with a 62-60 loss to the Lee-Volunteers at St. Mary’s University Thursday evening but a modest little streak that could , usher the Buttons to another Texas Catholic Interscholastic League championship in the upcoming state tournament.“We’ll just have to startBasel)For BaDESPITE A KOLING tI again,” a bone-tired Cortez'^ that the Braves1 marked after the hair-raising M“Waukee, Braves ; loss to Lee. “We won’t have to win a lot of them in a row to 'win the state title, And after we’ve just been through, it doesn’t look too difficult.”PACKED HOUSEThe loss to Lee before a jam-packed crowd estimated at 2,300 by St. Mary’s Brother Eugene Glttinger showed Central Cath-I °lic at its very best, bunding a 130-15 lead over a fine Lee team |and rallying for 57-53 and 60-57 I leads . after big Roger Bowden fouled- out, and it also showed the Buttons at their worst, twice blowing 15-point leads.But more than anything it , showed what one lad with a hot 1 pair of hands can do. The warm one was Lee’s Bruce Kemph,buii-necked fullback on the Volunteers’ state finalist football team, who started his first game of the season and pumped in 24 points to prove the difference.“Kemph was loose, so loose,”Cortez said wonderingly after the game. “We didn’t expect him to hit like that and more Tmportnat, we didn’t expect him to keep hitting like that.”UNLIKELY CANDIDATE Kemph,'who made third-team jail-state in football, was an unlikely candidate for basketball stardom at the game’s outset.UadfAplfd to to ,llwauw Drewers lnc£2 f ee’ -had scored a Brewers, a group of 10 wctotal of. six points, and hadjWisconsin merchantsS InZri^st. UV°-pm SnMILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) Baseball, caught in an evei ghtening legal squeeze over planned shift of the Milwau Braves to Atlanta, appet today to be edging closer to bargaining table.Reliable sources said 1 day night that unofficial indirect negotiations wereready under way, and had 1 since the day Milwauke Co Circuit Judge Elmer Roller fused to dismiss Wiscom antitrust action against Braves and the National Lea MET WITH GILESThere were also reports New York where baseball ( ers are_ gathering for their nual. winter meeting that Milwaukee businessmenmet with National League F ident Warren P. Giles Thun night.This was denied by both G and a spokesman for the I nessmen,’ representatives Milwaukee Brewers Inc.But it was Kemph and his un- replace the Braves.i .....ing a major league franchiSo far, sources said, baserring accuracy, from the top of ............ oam, ult;uthe circle, combined with the ag-;has said nothing that wouk gressive rebounding of skyscrap-j isfy the Brewers and h er Steve Niles and a couple ofjWisconsin to drop its suit \ !critical field goals by Zane Shu-'*s threatening to snarl jlanberger which proved the dif- ball’s plan to take its prodi jference. the South in April.Kemph, maneuvered into the HOLDING OUT top of the keyhole by Lee coach' The Brewers reportedlyjBobby Roberts who wanted to1 bolding out for a definite ; exploit Central Catholic's tighiMtment on a franchise j .zone, connected on II of the l6;sPecified season with art it j shots he took from the field and; —j during the second half connected:j on nine of a dozen to score 20! |points. He had only four points; |in the.first quarter and none ini jthe second quarter when the But-! tons dominated for all but the! final three minutes. jLOST IT TWICE• »■ “We lost this game twice,-, i Cortez analyzed. “We lost it! The Lee Volunteers when we had a 30-15 lead withinestled m a C02y §lovv jthree minutes to go in the first!one them d*d what the half and couldn’t get the balljdidn,t order-down court. And we lost it when Lee derai!ed Jhe Centra we led by four points with three!°lic exPress 62-60 Th land half-minufss to go and put!n*®^t t0 end the But to-jthe ball on the backboard. Withigame winpdnS streak, Ion -a lead and not much time left iSan Antoriio schoolboy.had to piay basketball, not:bail annals- And a majt i shoot” ;tribmor to that stunninaJTl' If olic's inabilUy Si tget the ball do™ court stemmed;stav away from the „amefrom a press put on by Lee in Kempi, has had a l£te, mmutes ot, m A1*!all winter,” Lee coach” ' .,j‘T ® press resulted in a:Roberts said today. “Thcouple of stolen balls a couple;tor told him not to play ' of bad passes and added up to ball but Bruce is a dei six ^ consecutive points to cut;kid and after he watcl'^nnSThi1CIti° lntermi5*;PIay a couple of games. jSion. Then the Volunteers, tak-.cided to come out anvws:Jng over a portion of the game! HiT generally dominated by the! KPnmh whI «■ poised and peerless Buttons ran r-w ,1 mne °f! 11 consecutive points at the start tallied */ r^n ^ tTw the second half for a 4^36 Ibe'clrpe't aTLi°u^ I ' ■ . |tral Catholic.aPSn!«\t VithDUt repIy lt;lt;He’s hitting likegainst any team is a remark-'practice for us.” Rober able performance. Doing it marked. “But we could?rlth^r a-t8am as Central W0l{ stick hirp »n a cCatholic is incredible but that game and take a chan was what Lee had to do to re-* him ”/T, a r0C^ start andl Thursday nighfs game i wIm-i c with precision, jthe first Kemph has star Bi Niles Scored It points for year and onlv the fiftlLee from inside and after the played. His total ba- f. tS' ?n in!° f0ul season UP “til his heroitrouble, other Buttons nad to formance against the I {» ° 5f-ut0 JelP Km contain;was six points, juries. When the Buttons sagged,; “Kemph was a letter*i /r, . ^ ““ a sop^more,” Roberts re(Continued on Pasa 23. r.nT 4
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Fri, Jan 28, 1966
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