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n the Lake drawing theira .New Year’s■ies from Ca-u Ottawa Uni-the invitatioti will play a 3-» Red Shirtsnuary 1st andEye and Jan-be called tor s New Year’s uled to follow ce Stow listed Friday affair the semi-final chool tourney.RONGLegionthe Saranac Lake American Legion Basketball team return* 16 fiie Harrietstown Town Hall court tonight, facing an aggregation lt;* former high school and present college hoopeters on the Ideal boaivLat 8:15, . . ■The Post 447 Legionnaires opened their season December 19, anddefeated Tupper Lake 100-84. Adding the initial win this aeafton to last year’s record gives the local five an 18-7 Slate since togpfdieftatt.Opposing the high-scoring Blue and Gold tonight wiH be Beak VanOrman, present Potsdam State Teachers scocteg ace, Jerome Branch, presently in the Navy and a former regular and White, Bob Ferrari, captain of the 1951-52possibly a Clarksod College eager,Fred Beck, a pair of former highcolleges.ffthe Red Redskins, in addition to Jim SmHfa and school hoopeters nowBONNIESIIWNreplaces St.toamer sched-»at's took 2 ofH e Roam-most of _ aduation ! invitation for . Ottawa, who ; Ottawa Dist-ed the chance lacid and are 15 players, in-r college ilne-ers who play ►ttawa District present on thewith 3 of their scorers. Their ; the league in r Capello, who year with ’ St.JRSJerry Rascoe, following in his brother's footstep, led the St. Bonnies five to a 39 to 26 victoryover the Duquesne quintet in agame which turned out to be the only one played on the Town Hall court last night, due to the fact that the Senior classic was called off. Once again the Royals failed to field a five-man squad and hadto forfeit to the Lakers.Rascoe scored 14 points field goals, with Paul St. runnerup scoring 8. Johnny paced the losers with 10.In the afternoon contest.on 7 ClairSyratopped Navy 31-11, withThe previously mentioned opponents of the Legion may have added several players to their roster for tonight's game, a* it wasplanned to do to before ihe opening whistle.B0C8E Of ACTIONThe Legion will .rely on their usual array of baiet*ppQdtlciQg talent. Bucky Rochfo who wt* unableto make the opener again*! Tupper Lake, has made definite plans to play tonight, so the tons wiT find out if the former Syracuse University All-Ameriean ha* added any new tricks to Ids cour game during the oft season. Along with Roche *31 he bookshot artist Gary HObVay, who usedhis 6-4 frame to dump in 35 points against Tupper Lake 11 days ago. Then Bimet 381 E1K-thorpe, with Ms uncanny set tootaccuracy and Warren Schlicken-reider, the aouthpaw rebounding
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Saranac Lake Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Saranac Lake, New York, US
Thu, Dec 30, 1954
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