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Gaels9Mel At Home Friday;TigersSt. Philip and St. Mol weroboth hopoful this work that they might regain some of the ground they lost last week in their respective sections in the Catholic high school basketball league. Both the Gaels and the Knights will be at home Friday night, the Gaels entertaining Mt. Carmel and the Knights acting as hosts to Lovola. Twin bills atweach gym will start at T:la p.m.Of the four local quintets, only the St. Mel juniors were able to come through with a victory last Friday night, and they were stretched into an overtime game against Weber to do it. Biggest star in the Knight junior triumph was Willie Abbatacola who dumped in IS points on six baskets and six free throws tolead his triumph. Whileleaguesthroughteam to a 49 to JStheir j u n i o r col-were a hie to come with a neat victory, the St. Mel seniors ran into all kinds of difficulties against the Red Horde and dropped their game by a convincing ft2 to 42 score. The setback gave the Knight seniors a .5110 rating with four wins and four losses, the same as that held by the Knight juniors in the# North section race.Neither the St. Philip juniors nor seniors wore able to stop the sharpshooting attack presented by lam great fixes, leaders in both the junior and seniordivisions of the Catholic loop’sSouth section. The Lion juniors, paced by their great center. Ray Topolski. outscored the Gaels in every quarter to chalk up a 70 to 50 triumph. Topolski was unstoppable and pumped in 32 points on 13 baskets and six freethrows.The Gael junior attack was led by Bernie Mix who pushed in 16points on seven baskets and two free throws. Chuch Hirth was second in scoring with 11. John O’Connor, who was unable to practice all week prior to the game because of Illness, was able to eome through with nine points, far below his usual quota. The Leo junior victorywas the seventh straight inleague play and the 20th in a row for the season. The Gael loss, only their second in seven starts, placed them in a second place tie in the South section with Pe La S.ilV.The Gael seniors, handicapped by the absence of I bill Callahan, dropped their scrape to the Lions by a 54 to 36 margin* Callahan Has involved inAimFlayThere It Is. TedTed Loomis, center, 4621 Adams, co-captain of Austin High school's senior track team and one of the squad's crack hurdlers, get some superfluous advice as to the location of the hurdle from two of his teammates, Ted Fishman, 1500 S. Karlov, left, and Don Bukowskl, 2333 Superior, right. ( Staff Photo)Directors X ote TomorrowFootball PIffsIRepresentatives* from 13 Chicago public high schools willvote tomorrow afternoon on the city league's proposed nexv football plan which xvas designed toequalize competition*Preliminary polls indicate that the new plan will le accepted. Scattered opposition has beenvoiced bv a few schools in the*North section hut the dissenters seem to lie much in the minority.Athletic Directors Charlev Sit I-*-'Jhan of Austin and Ernie Wills of Marshall have indicated that they will vote for the new setup,I as have the other West sectionPREP STANDINGSI“l IU.IC I KAliCK WEST SECTIONSeniorsW.I *Pis.OP.MXRSIIAU, .•*••••••»••«040n262Well* ...................61414294At SUN...........5■p*i* ■ w3.X .1287Stelnmetz ..............a•»m**HI333Mvkmlev...........A3203271kelvyn Park .44314051 ore* man4321351Crane .......4230325Washburn*5210337Manley ............62*3374Tuley .......7258401JuniorsW.L.Pi 8.or.Mt Kin lev01013 10U lshburne ..1* ’» * 37 H« V w WW320M \RSIf \I I, ..1377227Foreman .....210!336Steinmetz ...3366321USTIN .....3273310W ells ........4318330kelvyn Park .5379410Austin’s up and coming senior and junior cage teams, apparently undaunted by the loss of key regulars by graduation at the end of the first semester, ap-! pear bound and determined to get into the playoffs this season. Their next test comes to-morroxv afternoon xvhen they journey to . McKinley for a i couple of tough scrapes. On Tuesday afternoon they’ll be hosts to Wells.C oach *foe Murphy's Tigerseniors, enjoying one of theirbest seasons in years, have dropped but one of six West section contests all season, and that came at the hands of the unbeaten Commandos who as of I lie beginning of play this week were riding on top of the heap. They have chalked up victories over Kelvyn Park,Foreman, Tuley, Steimnet* and Crane and are in third plaee, just a half game behind Wells which hail played and won one more game.Coach %Charley Sweet s Tiger juniors have b o u n c e d back uieelv after a disastrous start to xvin their last three games and now have a .500 rating. They dropped their first three contests to Kelvyn Park, Marshall and Foreman in that order but then settled down to win from Tuley. Steinmetz and Crane. In tomorroxv afternoon’s game they xvill be facing an unbeaten foe, the McKinley eagers having taken six straight without a setback to lead the section.The Tiger seniors chalked up their fifth victory last week by staging a fourth quarter rally to edge out Crane Tech,16 to 45. The final quarter spree netted the Tigers 16 points while the Cougars wererestricted to 10. Selwyn tier-sin pushed in the winning basket with Just a minute toKO.Leading the senior attack xvas Herb Binder with 11. Barry Widen with 10 and Ralph War-man with nine. Crane's Williams. a forward, led all scorers with 19 points on fixe baskets and nine free throws.InaftoSOOPohtoheHlt;mlt;yeinprCoanis he xv ikroanE.Aiap • • fe Plt; te;k’ffePiA1foAiriicrniviC OMMANDOS WIN FOR LEVINBoseo Levin’s dehut last week : as Marshall High school cage coach was a happy occasion since both Commando squads turned in victories over Kelvyn i [e Park. The? new Commando men-'I tor hopes his proteges continueuiviP;Bi
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Chicago Garfieldian
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Wed, Feb 13, 1952
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