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PAGE TENTHE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS, LUDINGTON, MICHIGANmMONDAY, DECEMBER 23,. 1957Waikerville Hands Shamrocks 4th Straight DefeatBy PAUL S. PETERSON Dally News Sports EditorWALKERVILLE — If the St. Simons Shamrocks never see Walk-erville’s Clyde Winfield again —-and they may not •— it won’t be too soon for the Green and White Tide.Winfield was practically the whole show here Saturday night as he led the Wildcats to their first triumph over St. Simons in 25 games and a span of 28 years. The score was 66-50.Big Clyde not only set the pace for Waikerviile's scoring, he had 26points, but he was his usual superb self in ball handling and under the backboards ^here he gave the Wildcats a decisive edge In rebounds. Even if Winfield hadn't scored a point his floor play could have been enough to keep the Wildcats on top.Jt was a hard defeat for the Shamrocks to suffer. The loss was their fourth straight of the season, their longest losing streak since the 1950-51 season. The setback also just about eliminated the Tide from any hopes of repeating as West Michigan D league champions.! Despite the 16-point deficit. St. Simons played one of their best games of the season. The Rocks never slowed down and never quit fighting but in spite of it they just simply didn’t have the fire-power 1 to match Waikerville.Besides Winfield’s 26 points. 12 of them on free throws, the Wildcats had the sharp shooting of Dick Malburg to fall back on when Winfield wasn’t, connecting. Malburg hit on 10 field goals for 20 points.St. Simon* had good scoring balance with three players hitting in1double figures. Dave Layton, who playeti his usual steady, go6d game, led St. Simons with 15 point*. Bob Bowne and Lee Fellows each had 10 points.Waikerville took a 2-1 lead early in the game and kept a lead that ranged from one point ,fo three points until halfway through the first period. At the four minute mark Bownc sank a corner set s'hot to make it. 11-10 with the Shamrocks out in front.The lead was short lived though when Phil Gordon dropped in a dog.shot 1o make it 12-11. That was the last time St. Simons enjoyed the lead and by the time the end of the first period rolled around Waikerville had built a 24-13 lead.St. Simon’s six points in the second period and the space between each two-pointer was pretty wide. Winfield scored 10 straight points in four minutes time as the Wildcats moved to a 43-19 halftime lead. Bowne. Fellows and Mike Potter scored St. Simons only points.In the third period Winfield was removed from the game by CoachStanley Stanley and during the time that he was out of there the Tide outscored Waikerville 17-9. They trimmed the margin down from 50-25 to 30-36 and it looked like a possible rally that might swing the balance of the game. However, just as the quarter ended Malburg connected on a jump shot to make it 52-36.The Rocks cut the lead down to 54-40 early in the fourth period but Winfield returned to the game at that point and before the Tide scored again Waikerville was inpossession of a 60-40 lead.St. Simons outscored Waikerville 10-5 in the final three minutes of play but it wasn’t enough to do any more than chop down the final difference between the two teams.Waikerville outrebounded the Rocks 38-27 but the Rocks took a 15-14 edge in jump balls. The 29 jumps were needed to help keep what was already a rough game from becoming a wild melee. The officials did a good job in taming down over-enthusiastic play byboth teams.St. Simons will be in action again Saturday night when they play host to the Free Soil Pirates at the junior high gym. They now have a 1-4 record and Waikerville has a 5-2 mark.In the preliminary game the Little Shamrocks went down to their fifth straight loss of the season in a hard played game that saw Waikerville come out on top 28-27.Don Yeck and Dave Yeck, with eight and six point respectively, paced the Shmrocks. Bettys led Waikerville with 15.
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Mon, Dec 23, 1957
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