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Page 14.THE GARFIELDIANAustin RetainsTrack SupremacyAustin high school is bound and determined to stay right up on top when it comes to track supremacy in the city public high schools.Coach Johnny Gill's junior trackmen waltzed off with four straight crowns before their supremacy ended last Saturday in the city meet. That must have been the signal for the seniors to take a turn at the top spot, for that’s what they did when they annexed the city crown in a closely contested meet which wasn't decided until the final event on the program.By taking second place in the closing 880 yard relay event the Tiger seniors amassed 30'i points, two more than the second place Phillips squad.As has been customary in the past couple of years it was Austin's great athlete, Frank Ber-nardi. who played the biggest role in bringing the senior crown to the Pine Street school. Frank, team captain, won the 70 yard low hurdle event, placed second in the 70 yard high hurdles, tied for fourth in the pole vault, and led off the relay team.Austin’s other senior winner was Bill Bergmann who annexed the shot put. Incidentally, Borg-mann’s victory was his eighth straight. He has yet to be defeated this season.Other senior point winners were Mickey Gitlitz, tied for second in the shot put; llarrvOtters, fourth in the shot put, and Jerry Clark, tied for second in the pole vault. Members of the second-place winning relay team, besides Bernard!, were Red Froehllg. Tony Fer-randino and Frank Clark.Howard Schwartzbach, team captain, and Ronald Smith both turned in championship performances for the junior team which garnered 13 points to finish in fifth place. Schwartzbach propelled the shot put 54 feet9'4 inches to win that event and Smith soared 10 feet to take the pole vault crown. Three other points came from Dick Diamond's fourth in the 70 yard high hurdles and Don Harris’ fifth in the pole vault.Austin's senior relay team also competed in the half-mile relay city high school relay event in the Illinois Tech Relays last Saturday night and again finished in second place behind Phillips.FENWICK BEATSGAELS, 48-38,IN PLAYOFFSFenwick gained revenge .'or a defeat suffered at the bands of St. Philip earlier in the season■Saturday as they brushed aside the Gaels in the first round of the Catholic league playoffs, 48| to 38.The Gaels defeated the Friars,33 fn 9ft in tliA FVnu-ir’rThursday, March 16. ijj,GAIN 2NDCITY TOURNAMENTThe Condors, of Sears YMCA, won second place in the Chicago YMCA intermediate basketball tournament, losing to Division st. in the finals. 49 to 38. They will enter the area meet which opens at Sears YMCA March 24. Kneeling (left to right) Don Rhodes, boys physical director; Bob Petrienl, 3241 Congress;Jack O’Connor, 3525 Flournoy; Charles Hirth, 3104 Congress; John McLaughlin, 3231 Van Buren; standing. Bill Alyward, 3227 Harrison; Ed Ogden, 426 S. Kedzie; John DiNardi, 3140 Congress; Tony GogUanese, 422 S. Kedzie, and Elmer Johnson, chairman, basketball committee.Knight BoxersBeat BePaulfMeet St. RitaFreddie Dawson toAttend BoutsTonightPepped up by a victory over DePaul last Saturday, St. Mel’sboxers will meet their toughest test of the year tonight (Thursday) when they take on St. Rita, city champions, at 8 p.m. in the St. Mel gym.The Knights defeated DePaul, 5 2 to 2‘/a, losing one of thebouts on a disqualification. John McCormick lost to Bill Judson, DePaul's main threat, when the referee ruled McCormick had landed a blow while Judson was on the ropes. McCormick, a 135-pounder, was on the verge of victory at the time.Other results, with St. Melboxers listed first:Fred Cozzi, 95, lost to Dering Wagner.John Burke, 112, scored TKO over Jim Narcotte.Howard Wright, 112, beat Bill Gallupe.Ben Mocini, 120, beat Syl Close.Ralnli r’auKinn 133 hP'll FtflllWHAT A MANN!Ex-Austin Cager KeMann On BradleyOne of the most underrated ball players in the country,” is the opinion voiced by experts concerning Bradley college's brilliant playmaker, Billy Mann, and few. If any Brave fans will give them an argument.The six foot one inch Junior, a | product of Austin High school,when the going is toughest has consistently been Coat Anderson’s choice for game CaDtain since he was a Sopl,om„t . A l0°k.t. lhe Statistic,show that handsome Bill do! not confine himself exclusivelyto play-making. He ranks third op the high scoring Bradlevteam with 256 points and has .493 shooting percentage tiia? puts him third in the nation Zthe Braves’ recent eastern trin he hit a phenomenal .540In three seasons of in., flight basketball, he lias h,dthrills galore, but figures hi,biggest was the almost imp,,,, sible hook shot from deep jn the corner against San Francisco in the final seconds that snatched victory from defeat for the Braves. The shot Walt; especially sweet since it en-abled the Braves to avenge an earlier defeat in Peoria at the hands of the mighty Don,.On June 25. 1949, Billy maried his childhood sweetheaMarilyn, who lived across tl street from him in Austin. Ma ilyn attended Bradley as a st, dent from January ’48 until Pe ruary ’49 when she quit to b come Mrs. Mann. Now sheworking at the information de in B Hall. Marilyn is an aide basketball fan and has follow* the team to St. Louis and Cl; cago.Only a junior in the schoo of business administration, h• at
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