The White Falcon - 07.03.1964, Blaðsíða 5

Saturday, March 7, 1964
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All—Stars Avenge Previous Setback To Nats
Bracey, Horvath, McCarty
Pace Locals To Victory
The Defense Force All-Stars, playing before a crowd of
approximately 300, defeated the Icelandic National basket-
ball team Wednesday evening, February 26.
The All-Stars, winning by a score of 86-74, were never
seriously threatened and at one time had run up a lead of 20
points.
During ceremonies before the®1 2 3 4 5
COACH AND CAPTAIN — Bogi
Uorsteinsson, coach of the Iceland
Nationals, and captain I'orsteinn
Hallgrimsson congratulate each
other on winning the three out
of five trophy.
BASKET BOUND — Bill Bracey drives past Nationals Birgir Birgis
and Porsteinn Hallgrimsson. All-Stars in the action are Matt Rechtoro-
vic and Pete Horvath (10). The local squad was victorious 86-74.
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Vikings Finish Season,
Close With 10-12 Slate
Alfred T. Mahan’s Viking cagers closed out their 1963-
64 season in good fashion last week with two wins in three
outings. The Vikes turned back Reykjavik High School 54-52
in overtime February 26, lost 55-49 to Supply February 28,
and crushed Medical 54-28 as their final act of the season.
Mahan’s season statistics are impressive. They scored 402
field goals in 22 games against'**1
458 for their
opponents. Viking
shooters attempted 373 free
throws and converted 212 for a
56.8 average. Opposition attempted
290 penalty shots and counted 147
for a 50.6 average.
Stan Ellison topped the Vikings
in scoring. The big center tallied
162 baskets and 104 foul shots
for 428 points, a per game aver-
age of 19.45. Tom Starbird scored
an even 200 on 80 goals and 40
penalty conversions. He averaged
9.09 per contest.
Others, in descending order, are
Wally Rice (98 points; 6.12
average), Bob Canaperi (128
points; 5.40 average), John Din-
widdie (79 points; 5.23 average),
Henry Thornhill (42 points; 2.55
average). John Sparks (25 points;
1.38 average), and Dave Birdsall
(8 points).
The Vikinvs also selected an
all-opponent team for the year.
Their selections are as follows:
FIRST TEAM — guards — Pete
Horvath, Admin and Bowen,
CommSta: center — Einar Gunn-
arsson, Junior Nationals; for-
wards — Rex Ritter, CommSta
and Ron Cameron, Supply.
SECOND TEAM — guards —
Glenn Martin, IDF and Stefans-
son, Junior Nationals; center —
Andy Anderton, Admin; forwards
— Ed Smith, IDF and Joe Mar-
afka, Supply.
Coach of the Mahan quintet is
Bob Williams, HM2, of the Naval
Station Hospital. Williams has
done a tremendous job with the
Vikings, bringing them from a
first game 69-19 loss to a fine
season. Fans will have to get used
to missing his towel-wringing
snirit on the prepsters bench. Wil-
liams departs in May for Camp
Lejeune, South Carolina.
MAHAN SEASON RECORD
Junior Nationals 69 Mahan 19
Ten Old Men 42 Mahan 37
Supply 59 Mahan 41
CommSta 55 Mahan 51 (OT)
IDF 42 Mahan 31
Supply 55 Mahan 51
IDF 59 Mahan 35
Mahan 43 Public Works 31
Mahan 51 Admin 50
Mahan 41 Supply 38
Mahan 62 Public Works 39
Reykjavik H. S. 52 Mahan 46
Mahan 62 Keflavik H. S. 31
Mahan 62 IDF 48
Mahan 52 VP-24 50
Junior Nationals 64 Mahan 39
Mahan 50 AFRTS 39
Admin 64 Mahan 48
CommSta 41 Mahan 36
Mahan 54 Revkjavik H. S. 52 (OT)
Supply 55 Mahan 49
Mahan 54 Medical 28
Final Record (10-12)
Fieldhouse Closes
The Naval Station fieldhouse
closed its doors to all customers
on March 2 and will re-open
in approximately 3 weeks.
The closing down was done
to permit workers to re-surface
the floor, re-do the basketball
courts, add shuffleboard courts,
paint locker rooms and floors,
re-wire the massage room, and
to re-organize the supply syst-
em.
Approximate opening of the
renovated fieldhouse will be
March 19, 1964.
game, Rear Adm. Paul D. Buie,
Commander Iceland Defense
Force, presented the Nationals
with a trophy representing the
winners of three of a five-game
series with the All-Stars. Going
into this game, the Nats had won
three out of four.
With Bill Bracey clearing the
boards, the All-Stars ran up a
10-point lead with 2:08 remain-
ing on the clock before halftime.
At the half, the All-Stars were
leading by a score of 46-31. With
eight minutes gone in the second
half, the All-Star lead had been
increased to 20 points.
Bracey proved to be the big
man for the All-Stars with a
game total of 24 points, while
Bill McCarty and Pete Horvath
chipped in 20 and 10 points re-
spectively.
The big gun for the Nationals
proved to be Porsteinn Hallgrims-
son who contributed 17 points for
his squad. ViSar Olafsson and
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VP-24 Stops IDF
For Volleyball Title
VP-24 is the new Naval Sta-
tion volleyball champ. The Patrol-
lers came back after a first-game
loss to IDF to win the last two
and capture the championship.
In consolation play, in the double
elimination tourney, the Terminal
downed Marines (Admin).
The Patrollers, who were 9-2
going into the tourney, beat
Marines (Admin) 15-7 and 15-5
and stopped IDF 15-9 and 15-8
to move into the finals. The Staf-
fers downed the Terminal 15-11
and 15-10 for their finals berth.
In finals play, IDF ran to a
15-9 victory in the first game, but
dropped the next two in the best-
of-three series by scores of 15-4
and 15-5.
Following the final game Capt.
Stanley E. Ellison, Naval Station
Commanding Officer, presented
Glenn Heistand, ATC, of VP-24 SPIKES AND SERVES — Members of the VP-24 volleyball squad are
with the championship trophy and shown with their team and individual trophies after they defeated IDF
Ed Smith of IDF with the runner- for the Station title March 1. The Patrollers also copped the regular
up trophy. season title with a 9-2 slate.
Holmsteinn SigurSsson dropped in
12 and 10 points for the Nats,
while Birgir Birgis and Einar
Stefansson both supported the
team effort with eight . points
each.
Horvath once again proved to
be a ball of fire with his ball
handling technique and his pre-
sence everywhere on the court at
one time.
Other All-Stars who contribut-
ed a few points toward the team
effort were Nunn with six' and
Reid, Taylor, Lieb and William-
son counting four points apiece.
Ron Cameron completed All-Star
scoring with one bucket.
All-in-all, February 26 was a
good day for the NavSta basket-
ball teams. Mahan High won their
game with Reykjavik High School
54-52 in overtime.
Navy Man Scores
Fastest Knockout
The world’s record for the
fastest knockout in boxing history
— exactly one second — is claim-
ed by a Great Lakes sailor and
the Atlantic City Press.
The sailor is Edward N. Bates,
DK1, an ex-prize fighter from
Atlantic City, N. J. Better known
as “Kid Bates” during his 15-
year boxing career, he established
the world’s record when he decked
an ouoonent in one second at At-
lantic City’s Waltz Dream Arena
on August 4, 1930. Bates enlisted
in the Navy on January 15, 1946.
If this is hard to accept, then
read what the Atlantic City Press
had to say about the fight the
next morning: “Kid Bates, 116,
of this city, scored what is un-
doubtedly a record knockout when
he flattened Artie Moore, 118,
Philadelphia, in ONE second.
Bates hit Moore with a right to
the iaw and Moore hit the floor.
That’s all there was, there wasn’t
anymore. Referee (Harry) Ertle
did not find it necessary to count.”
This piece of information was
clipped from the sport pages of
the Atlantic City Press by Ed
Nichterlein, sports columnist of
the newspaper, who had seen
Bates in action.
In the March 22, 1962 edition
of the Atlantic City Press, Nicht-
erlein reminisced that Bates went
into the bout as a last-minute sub-
stitute for Bobby Rutberg who
had suddenly taken ill.
Bates himself recalls the fight
and relates exactly what happened
that August night in 1930:
“In those days,” Bates explained,
“a fighter didn’t have to go to
his neutral corner when the re-
feree finished giving fight instruc-
tions. After Refereee Ertle had
completed his say, I stood fast
and when the bell sounded I threw
a right at Moore who fell to the
canvas from the blow.