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«%FVwßoWcit(ftoT> WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7, 1942 PAGE6 Royal Oak Blasts Mountaineers, 57-18 In This Comer Romeo Drops I FORDSON COACH HAS TURNED OUT TOP Twelve Bouts Big Six Tranquility Disturbed Lack of Height TEAMS IN STATE DURING Opening Loop 1 PAST DECADE Set in Prelim by Phog Big Handicap I BT DENNIS BROWN Shrill Cries of Allen Game, 26-21 I If'there is any one school Mount Clemens fans like to see Peachmen squads, pow- Romeo’s lost their I whipped by their city high athletic it’s Fordson’s Tri-County league in any sport. Ring opening for always league contenders Matches Hart Team I erful teams, game night in thrilling past, have had to content themselves last a I In the the Bathers battle which Romeo's star Victors Established . winly knocking off the Tractors in football, but this Finals Naxt Thursday; saw I with forward lost on fouls and a last- I year, they may have the stuff to do it in basketball when they os Fovoritss to Cop Tomorrow's Fights minute victory for Oxford. I meet Coach Russ Catherman's team on Jan. 16 and again on to bs in Aftornoon With the score at 22-21 in Catholic Loop Crown I March 6. of in closing . Ibey'U a tough time, though, since Catherman’s teams favor Oxford the I have With preliminary A rangy, veteran St. Mary’a I have been among the most consistently successful teams in the 12 bouts minutes, a pair of baskets by scheduled, Mount Clemens Bud Bossardet Pippet iced of Royal Oak team walloped state. and I high’s fourth annual boxing the game for the home team, St. Mary’s of Mount Clemens, TRACTORS ARE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS 57*18, last night to become a I The Tractors are the defending Border Cities League tournament will get under way 26-21. tomorrow at the city heavy favorite to cop the champions, winning the title outright last year after sharing afternoon LICHT PACES ROMEO J I high gym. Catholic loop crown. I honors with Grosse Pointe in 1940. In 1934, 1937, 1938 and John Licht paced the Peach- they won the title—a record which looks like that Finals in the tournament, Coaches of at least three 1939 also men throughout the first half in hung up by teams. at which a crowd of 1,000 is schools the parochial league [ Minnesota’s football but was lost to the game mid- set in Although the Fordson team has never won the state Class expected, will be held a week on the stands at Royal Oak way of the third quarter last night mounting A championship, Catherman’s squads have reached the semi- later, the evening of Thursday, personal after having with fever fouls and in they finals ten times in the last 11 years—a mark slightly better Jan. 15. up nine points. Bos- heads hands as marked watched big than par. During the past 11 seasons, Fordson has won 154 Three new the pre- Jim Seldman, a the outfit—which bouts for sardet and averages 6 feet I—pour in 26 games and has been beaten only 29 times. liminaries announced this guard, had 10 points apiece for only have roll- were field goals And five free Sixty-six victories against four defeats been morning by Athletic Director Oxford. throws. competition during the past six years. It was the opening game for ed up in loop Ernest Buckholz, two in the FOUR Romeo meets Imlay City Fri- both schools and one look at 'AVERAGE' SEASON OF LOSSES 140-pound class and one in the “only an average’’ at day on the Romeo the Royal Oak was all Coach Catherman predicted season 160-pound class. Fights tomor- floor. crew the practice this year, but here’s what an East Detroit, a victim of Port coaches needed. I the start of basketball row will be held in 110, 115, For the worst record marked Huron in its opener, whipped average season is: Sensational. 125, 130, 135, 140 and 160- HANDICAPPED UNDER past 11 years is 14 victories against four ¦¦ Roseville in a low-scoring game. by Fordson in the round divisions. JR ifflHIv!¦§ BASKET losses. His average season, foreseen for this year, will prob- ml 23-12, on the home floor last Handicapped by There willbe no preliminaries lack of ably have two or three losses—one of which has already been night. Fred Rehahan of the height under the basket, in the weights under 110 in a the marked, when the Tractors lost to Saginaw, 27-23. Shamrocks was the top scorer. locals saw a rain of rebound few middle classes and in Although such a magnificent record stands as a tribute to the and pivot shots hit the hoop the heavyweight class. as Catherman's ability, rival coaches are quick to point out five veterans 20 ONE TICKET GOOD FOR the marked fact that a half-dozen junior high schools—all with basketball fcHM my£ Brazilian points in the first half and 37 teams—feed Fordson High. f BOTH CARDS 5 m ; in the second on their home reporting Catherman year, Admission charge for the '..-v Jj Eighty-seven boys are to this Girl Marks floor. Bud Buchanan and Bill however, will prelims is 10 cents or a including a number of veterans. Four lettermen, ticket Krest paced St. Mary’s of Royal .30 be lost at mid-semester, leaving only two monogram winners— for the finals, which costs World Record Oak with 14 points apiece. Capt. Mike Farnyk and John Geftus. and .40 and is good for both Dr. Forrest C. Allen is a basketball man. DETROIT, Jan. 7 Coach Lee Hart’s Mountain* MARK OF DECADE MAY BE BROKEN events. All bouts are four Twenty-year-old Maria Lenk making no predictions about the minute a eer club has been coming along Coach Ernest Buckholz is rounds long, one from Brazil left another shatter- game with Fordson but he and every other mentor in the round. LAWRENCE, KAS., Jan. 7 “Oklahoma,” Allen charged, fast in recent days, but not fast first ed swimming record in her league is looking forward to the second-semester meeting with for matches (A>) —O klah om a University, “is developing more profession- enough to meet the tough op- Referee the final wake last night when she trim- position, of the Tractors—with a strong possibility that Catherman et al will be Johnny Hack, who which started out defending elig- als than amateurs.” class the league Sports Allen also asserted Lawrence med 16.4 seconds off the Am- Capt. Jimmy Petitpren led the may that record of four defeats as the “worst” mark worked Joe exhibition ibilityof Gerald Tucker, its star { fall below Louis’ erican mark n the 440-yard locals from his position, of a decade. fight at Selfridge seve ra 1 basketballer, wound up today (Jap) Haskell, Oklahoma ath- guard months ago. Judges will be defending its amateur standing letic director, was a baseball backstroke. but could rack up only six Brazilian, Bill Heldt, Eddie Dubay and as of ten years ago. scout for the Boston Red Sox. The young mem- points. One happy feature for Roundup- Drake, of a touring group of South Hart was the fact that six of Brown. Bernard Bal- storm raged over Tucker, present at the rally, did ber Dennis The made the lantine will timekeep- absent last night as his Oklahoma not answer Allen’s charge, but American swimmers, his* seven players got in the serve as in in race scoring At the Alleys er. BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR. teammates took a 52 to 34 lick- got permission to explain his distance 6:35.8 a column. contention an eligible against time during a meet Winners of preliminary bouts (Wide World Bports Celamnlst) ing from Kansas. He transferred Tucker is TWO LOST ON FOULS night player. sanctioned by the Michigan A. Meldrum last with the re- where there is only one match NEW YORK, Jan. 7—(Wide from Kansas State to Oklahoma The locals suffered a severe that the Clemens without obtaining NEEDS KANSAS A.U. The listed American rec- loss late in the game when Ken sult Mount scheduled will meet last year’s World)—Jimmy Johnston, who a year ago M. C. Rose Garden Rose Garden, sweeping the permission of the PERMISSION ord of 6:52.2 is held by Patty guard, and Palmer champion or a last year’s vet- never is at a loss for a few written former Vernier, Michigan 2 Team, grabbed Big Six conference faculty Aspinall of Indianapolis. were lost Bell eran in the finals. thousand words, sends out his school. Hudson, center, on Team Takes Lead first place. members have ruled Tucker may record-breaking perform- fouls. Matches tomorrow: own heavyweight rankings with ACCUSE COACH The last week’s Only other sweep by the Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen, out- play the second semester if Ok- was Lenk’s second in Batkin's Radio, was 110-POUND Bob Pastor and Abe Simon ance Miss Hart indicated this morning league, drop- Products five over the spoken Kansas coach, lahoma gets written permission nights. She cut 23.6 leader in the B>2 Metal Emory Rosso vs. Richard (managed by Johnston) listed Basketball as many that he might give the Moun- pair games to Jock and Bath City Garage. carried the discussion back into from Kansas State. Mike Ahearn, seconds off the 400-yard world ped a of Baxter as challengers 1 and 2 for Joe taineers a day off from their the early thirties at a pregame* athletic director at Kansas State mark Kathryn G.