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HARLEMITESBEAT CITY OFDAVID. 47 TO 39CTSimHa viFrack Star Jesse OwensGives Exhibit Of His ProwessThe Harlem Globetrotters and he traveling City of David basket-all teams put on an exhibition ot a!l handling, clever passing and a :ertain amount of clowning last light before a good sized crowd at lie St. Joseph high school gym. ifter it was all over the Harlemites cere declared winners, 47 to 39 The evening’s entertainment, thich included the appearance of esse Owens, former Olympic track tar, and a preliminary' game be-wcen Mawhinney’s and the New luffalo Vista Phantoms, was spon-ored by the Band Boosters club of he St Joseph Catholic high school The game itself, between the two rofessiona! basketball clubs, tur-:ed out to be an exhibition of clever all handling, screening, faking and mg range basket shooting. Re-eatedly one team or the other ,*ould drive in to score, but instead f taking a shot unmolested at the asket would pass the ball out again 3r another series of passes. How-ver. it all made for good, clean en-■rtainmcnt and the crowd cheered pproval of the antics of players on oth teams.The City of David cagers rushed nt to a 13 to 4 first quarter lead as on Blanken, former Purdue Uni-irsity star, and Bob Hallisey led le attack with two goals apiece, he second period saw the Globe-otters take their turn m forging lead as they dropped m 14 points, hilc holding the bearded cagers to it seven. The City of David quin-t. however, still led by a score of to 18 at the half.Play remained exceedingly close the third period as the Harlem-?s forged out ahead on the rength of a 13 to 10 scoring ad* ntage. The colored star now led.to 30. Vertes Zelgler was the tensive star for the winners inis period as he caged three baste.The Globetrotters had the better the argument in the final period they racked up an additional 16 ints. Meanhile the Davidites were mg held to nine.Suard Cy Phelps and Forward igler of the winners posted scores 14 points each to tie for scoring nors. Don Blanken and Bill odwin each looped in five goals * the losers.resse Owens, Olympic star and ■mer Ohio State University speed*!. entertained the crowd for 20 uutes during the intermlsison of i main game. He gave an inter-ing talk on the building of char* er In youth to carry' on through Jlthood. Following this, he ex-ined and demonstrated the form used to gain world records in the ;hes and low hurdles, n the preliminary game the New ffalo Vista Phantoms won easily m the Mawhinney cagers, 50 to Dick Slater with 20 points and k Heinz with 19, paced the wins’ attack. Bob Crossman scored points for the losers.•beirolters fin 'city of DayldOTP G T Fler, f ..,.6 2 0 Hallisey, f ____2 10rc 1 too Blanken, f ...soo:**. c ....5 3 SiKarsteos. e ,.l 2 oP3. g ....7 0 0 Dodtck, g .....303g ...... 2 I 3 Goodwin, g ...5 0 4i Miller, f .... .0 o 0jHanaucr. g ...3 0 0socia rules day be n Tb sugg Bask its nTh1—act cing ij playlt;ordeiwaygoalstain free is fo a ga 3— subsiutesbeengross289.Ch£withhe tvous*‘I’l“MayMayfcLaswitheboardin pting. ' and ; tainiiJ 31 5 SI Totals .......18 3 7e by Quarters:ctrotters ........... 4 14 jj is_4701 Dftvld ..........13 7 10 9—39ricla’v Joe Rope! and Harry Koch.roscph.TOlBouhiYltfttK Mad isiIIV/
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St Joseph Herald Press
St Joseph, Michigan, US
Tue, Mar 26, 1946
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