The White Falcon - 25.03.1944, Síða 7

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Blue Devils Top Marines
For 2nd Half Hoop Crown
After battling their way through a week of very tough com-
petition, the Infantry Blue Devils last night defeated an ag-
gressive Marine quintet, 50—31, to cop the second half IBC hoop
championship. In the semi-final game yesterday afternoon the
Blue Devils upset the same team, 59-40.
The MP Mustangs and the Jay minated the Ack Acks, 53-39, and
Hawkers got the tourney under the Blue Devils again hit the
Monday aftenoon, with the
Police showing too much power
and racking up a 52-34 victory.
Buck led the winners’ attack
wHh 20 points. In other after-
noon games the Zig Zags, led by
evine and Droesch, edged the
Hoopsters, 39-34, and the Mari-
nes defeated the Giants, 29-23.
In evening skirmishes the
.ms easily disposed of the Tro-
ians, 52-19, the Red Raiders pou-
red it on the Raiders, 38-16, and
|ke Infantry Blue Devils bowed
m With a convincing 62-42 vic-
l°ry over the Ack Acks. Speicher
ol the Ack Acks was high man
0r the evening tilts with 19
Points.
Tuesday’s opener saw the Mu-
stangs back in action again,
against the Zig Zags. They chalk-
ed up their second triumph of
Ihe tourney by a Score of 42-35.
The Hoopsters downed the Jay
Hawkers, 47-36, in the second
Battle, while the Marines came
through again in the third after-
n°on game, defeating the Troj-
ans, 42-34.
The Rams didn’t even have to
Pull on their sneakers to win
Ike first evening tilt as they ac-
CePted a forfeit victory from the
Giants. But there was plenty of
action in the two tilts that fol-
lowed, as the Red Raiders eli-
high figures in howling over the
Raiders, 68-36. Hickerson of the
Red Raiders was high man for
the evening with 18 points.
The first two Wednesday gam-
es were won by identical scores,
the Mustangs downing the Hoop-
sters, 38-31, and the Marines re-
peating against the Rams. In the
third battle, the Blue Devils bop-
ped the Red Raiders, 54-35. High
scorers were Homa of the Ma-
rines and Maylan of the Blue
Devils, each with 19 points.
It was the same old story in
the evening, with the three after-
noon winners scoring again
against different teams. The Mu-
stangs rolled over the Rams, 47-
29, the Blue Devils buried the
Hoopsters, 65-48, and the Marin-
es were too much for the Red
Raiders, 50-37.
In one of the best battles of
the tourney, the Blue Devils
handed the Mustangs their first
setback Thursday afternoon, IS-
IS. Staolarzyk was the big fly
in the MP ointment, scoring 20
of his team’s points. The issue
was left squarely up to the Blue
Devils and Marines following the
final Thursday tilt, in which the
Marines eliminated the Mustangs,
60-48, as Homa of the winners
ran wild to score 25 points.
Radio
Schedule
SUNDAY
1300—Grace Moore; Metropoli-
tan Opera.
1630—Sunday Music.
MONDAY
2200—Dinah Shore; Mail Call;
Contented Hour; Your Hit
Parade.
TUESDAY
2200—Bing Crosby; Paul White-
man; Hour of Charm; Down-
beat.
WEDNESDAY
2200—Jack Benny; Paul White-
man; Hour of Charm; Down-
beat.
THURSDAY
2200—Command Performance;
John Charles Thomas; The
Family Hour; One Night
Stand.

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Fancy teamwork was the keynote of Monday’s game in which
the Blue Devils drubbed an Artillery unit, 62-42. Shown wait-
ing for a receiver (above) is FritzVogt of the Blue Devils.Left,Typ-
ical under-the-basket action in another Tourney battle. Who’s
who? It’s anybody’s guess.
IBC Eagles Batting .500
Against Quintets In Britain
The Air Corps Eagles, champs
of the first half IBC basketball
race, got away to a good start
last week against the best quin-
tets in England and hung up two
straight victories, but ran into
trouble this week as they drop-
ped two, the latter by a one
point margin.
The Eagles were hot in the
first engagement on their tour
of the UK when they showed
too much all around power as
they defeated an Infantry Head-
quarters team in London, 51-21.
In gaining their second victory
a night later, the Eagles over-
came a 27-19 lead going into the
final quarter to defeat a team of
Navy Bomber Pilots, 40-37. Sgt.
Thurman Hopper, Eagle center,
scored ten points in the final
period to lead his team in scor-
ing in this second win, while
Cpl. Jim Shields turned in a
spectacular floor game.
Playing in an East Anglian
town Monday night, the Eagles
Cleveland Ace
Threatens To
Join Army
, Jeff Heath, star Cleveland In-
dian outfielder, has joined Jim
Bagby, Redskin pitcher, in re-
belling against the Cleveland
management.
Heath told reporters this week
that as long as the Indians re-
fused to trade him or pay him
what he was worth, he would
not play but instead join the
Service.
Both Bagby. and Heath have
announced willingness to play
for less money if Cleveland
would trade them to another
club. They were said to have
stated they would pay for the
privilege of playing against
Cleveland.
staged a strong finish, only to
lose out, 32-31, to a Bomber
Group quintet. Failure to con-
vert from the free throw line was
costly to the Eagles in this one.
Sgt. Hopper stepped to the foul
line 12 times and connected on-
ly once.
Cpl. Jim Shields, veteran lead-
er of the IBC hoopmen, led his
mates in the Monday game with
seven baskets.
The other Eagle loss was at
the hands of an Infantry quin-
tet by the lop-sided score of
49-21. It was the 29th straight
win for the Britain-based hoop-
men.
American Scene
If a Dallas, Tex., thief had not
stopped to play the pin ball ma-
chine in a place he had just
robbed he might have gotten
away. The thief was caught by
police, when he paused long
enough to play several games on
the machine at three o’clock in
the morning.
•
The last vote is the hardest
one to get, Arthur H. Froelich
of Lake Zurich, Ill., has decided.
Last year he lost the election
for village trustee by one vote,
and this year he ran again. He
lost—by one vote.
•
In Cicero, Ill., Fire Commis-
sioner John A. Raleigh, pleading
for funds to repair a fire truck,
told in graphic detail the hor-
rors of a huge fire. “What a
speaker,” whispered one mem-
er. “He’s so convincing I can
actually smell smoke.” At that
moment, the health commission-
er ran in from a room next door.
“Fire! Fire!” he shouted. All
hands adjourned to put out the
blaze. The issue of repairing the
fire truck was forgotten.
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