ter at St. Louis after being dis-The Chicago Pneumatic Tool com-pany’a basketball team rolled up a B5-6 margin in the first period andthen withstood a desperate rally by the Russian Boys club to cop a 45-44 verdict in the Erie Dispatch-Herald tournament last night.The narrow triumph sends theNumais into the semi-finals whereguard (left).thev will meet Meadville David Mead’s at 9 o'clock tonight. Jack Biery tossed in 21 points to lead the j winners to victory over the defending titlist.Meanwhile the C.P.T. Scholastics led all the way to defeat the Whitmore Merchants. 41-32, in the Junior , tourney at the Sharon Buhl club, tBruce Wagner, former Cochran-ton high star, led the C.P.T. “Jun-; iors” with 22 points, Fred Fetter-olf, of Rocky Grove high, contributed 10 markers and George Buck-! ham, of Oil City high, garnered five. 1