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TALL, RUGGED, GOOD SHOOTINGrs\mmam • IfypicalrIIv RICH MELIN\n attractive 17-game regular«HERALD Sports EditorAnother basketball season Isrhedule proceeding lhrhere again and it's the same old SteveLundbergstory for veteran coach Ove Ber- Gnmley (6-1 , ven and his Austin High eager?, Gary Hovland (6-o,defending Big 9 champions: good lt;6-01, Keith fieichel61 varsity, hut didn’t letter, al- for the cage sport, Berven com-so were No, 1 unit men for Coach merited he’d open with Miller and seasonAit Hass’ griddct '. Burk 1 at forwards, Shirk at center Dist. 2 Tournament at the HighTom'and Hardy and Ball at guards “il School Gym March 6-7 has beenwe’d han to play toniglif.” Miller bolstered by the addition of threethe only non-senior in thelt;6-3,John Baudler lt;6-4', . Tim Schmitt:height, ruggedncss and shooting Yonke (6-1) and Danny Hendrick(5*1 P, Dick group.Breaking things down further, SouthMinneapolis teams: Edison,CitvRooseveltConferenceandability.son (5-ID, all up Irom last year’s Johnson, theThe team’s only other candi* tion at present.j Six players on the varsity, head- B squad, also are footballers, j ed by returning letterwinners DonShirk lt;6-5), Mike Burke lt;6-4' and date, Lloyd Perry lt;6-0 Sr, Dave Jensen (6-3). andman. ratessquad's the No.smallestscheduled for». 6 man jkisiwhileJanAll three games,5 and 12 and Feb. 10 reSenjem, spectively, will be home games,forjuniorBruce Miller lt;6*4', match or top last year’s varsityHovland and Jensen rated the next while the lone St. Paul team on ward' was a non letterwinner on three spots in that order. Hov* the slate — Harding — will lksiland, also a junior, has shown ex the Packers’ in the season finalethe 6-3 mark, which means Ber-iHot-shooting Bill Booher and ven, beginning his 23rd season Mitch Page graduated last June,ceptionally well in early drills, j March 2.at Austin High, snoukin t have to ajong with Dick Golberg, Chuckworry too much about rebound- Draheim and Ed Vilt, but firsting powerThe ruggednessis there, too.week practice sessions give indi-Lakerscations the team won’t be lacking I I Buike and Jensen were starters a long-range sniperon the Packers' state champion-! Ba||.s.. , , , Ball probably appeared to be,, son and the same Rocs for Tom h (he ^ |ack a h(, an(J ,i,rdy ,M and Tcrry B'!l1 'Bu° I'manv of hi, tcammatt r | also monogram winners, who'll workj (o rjd of |hcir cljBaylorship football team the past sea-Gets Extensionlt;still wereBv THE ASSOCIATED PRESSVThe high flying Losof the Los Angeles-Detroit double-\ngeles header at New York, and theprobably get the starting call at ’ ••footbiill\muclesT” Hardy aiid ^a^ters breathed a collective sigh Philadelphia Warriors turnedW I f | » P . 1 i * 1 J I . . , ! » 1 A I * * A * tmgguard in Finlay's curtain-raiser Johnson a|so showed sjgnaa' uc m marksmanship, which slKjuld helpOther Footballers . . . ., ....... „ c 1 !ll° hlti b 0 ' S ^et nl0Ie nKJnla Dick Johnson lt;d-8 Sr., guard).. and Del Senjem lt;6-0 Sr., for-' , , i , , . Thus far. opening practices ward), who played on the 1960*^ of relief today at the news that back the Cincinnati Royals, 12. their scoring ace, Elgin Baylor. HR. in Cincinnati.Iwon't report for Army service un-| The Lakers, riding atop tlito work around the baskettil Jan. 2.Western Division with a 13-3 retOriginally, Baylor, the highest1have been typical,” Berven com- priced star in the history of pro-mented. “Sore feet and a little fessional basketball, was sched-1961-62 AHSCage Scheduleroughness that must be smooth- uled to report to Fort Lewis, ed out to mention two. We don’t Wash, on Nov. 26. find cut too much the first week.ord, let! most of the way and heldan 83-75 margin going into thlt;final period. For the next six m.n utes they couldn’t hit on a field goal and the Pistons went into the lead. 96-87.t fDecDec(Friday—at Blue Earth Saturday—RichfieldDec 1— Albert Lea8—at Rochester15—Red WingDec. 22—at Winona Jon. 4—at StillwaterS—- Mpls. Edison12—Mpls Roosevelt 19—Mankato 26 —at Faribault 2—Northtield9—at Owatonna10—Mpls. South16—at Albert Lea 23- RochesterMarch 2—at St Paul Hording March 6 7— Dist, 2 Tny.# here March 13-14—Region One Tny ,March 22-24—State Tny, Mpls.hut that's usual too.The shrewd coach, who’llIkBaylor, who scored 26 points for the Lakers Tuesday night al-Paees Packersassisted by Dick Seitz, shied away cision to t)M. Detroit Pistons, indiWalt Bellamy led the Packers though they dropped a 106-102 de- tTjeir victory over the KmcksJan.JanJan.Jan.Feb.FebFeb.FebFebthe Big 9 race, calling it a wide-open battle. As for his own team.Berven added: “We never start aItavlor Comment*if“I do have a wife and familyRochI. ,. .. , , „ , .with 20 points. They had to fiehtfrom_ picking a title favonto in cattd he hail appealed his call .o o(r a IaslK)itch K„ick rally spear.active service. | headed by Richie Guerin, whowound up with 47 points.Wilt Chamberlain, playing witha pulled neck muscle, paced the Warriors with 45 points. The Royals were making a runaway of the game, leading 4R-24, whenAlthough a good number of the defeated the New York Knicker- chamberlain suddenly got hot. boys are just rounding into shape backers, 109-107, in the other halfseason without having hope. • to support and I help my motherwe always hope to have a good financially, too,” he said.dub.”Probable Starter*In the other NBA games Tuesday night, the Chicago Packers'J * '.»W»II
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Wed, Nov 22, 1961
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