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GPHS Basketball Team Wins
Over Parkers in Final Tilt
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~aptain Bayard Johnson ~nks Winning Basket in Thfilling
Contest; Bruce Allen ,PIc'Ys Best
Game of Career
SROS~E' POINTE NEWS
Devils .Clincll BeL
GrossePqinte High School Varsity
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fnursclay, March 9, 1950
St. Paul :'Flyers Drop Fourth
In Row to End Court Season
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After Winning Ei9htStraight Quartet,. Goes Into Tailspin;
. Twice-Beaten Annunciation 15 Last Team to Administer.
Defeat
By John Drake ,"
By Fred Runnells
The St.' Paul .~lyers .went' ho~e and packed up thelX
Surgbg from behind with a remarkable 25 point spree,
playing suits for good lastFriday,after~,a dismal upset h~nded
pa.ced by its scoring star Brue Allen, Coach Ed Wernet's
them by the same Annun.ciation' five 'which had preVIously
league-leading Blue Devils tacked the Border Ci.ties League
been twice beaten by St: ~aul. ,. .
basketball title to the championship staff with a thrilling
.'Annunciation pulled away from-,--------~---
41. to 40 victory over a surprising Highland Park quintet
a,3?-alltie mid;.vaY,in the third!'skimpy edge at the half-time, the
last Friday, March 3, before a standing, screaming, capacity
p.e~lOdand fo.rged ahe~d to a .de- 'buzzer; 'sounding over a 24-22
partisan crowd on the local'court.
CIS1ve55-41.VICtO'ry. The Paulites score., .
Johnson Sinks Winner ~,-------------
had previously conql:ered in, the . The' Fl;ers' came back strong
The winning score by the in the third peri?d and the P~l'kteam
s. two other encounters! 49, in' the ..1irst few minutes on the
to 27. mthe sea~on opener ,and, 'third'per'iod and were successful
Devils' brilliant captain Bavard erS lead was whIttled to 7 pomts
Johnson, came as the re~ult 'of a goin~ into the final stanza.
later 36-26. in catching up to the Ann':lncia-
Peter Out at End, • tion five; Bill Huetteman's basket
wild scramble under the Polar Pogliano Scores Again
The ~lyers. had nothi~g to midway in the' period threw the
Be~rs' basket and a loose ball Pogliano again pumped in a
show for the tall end of thelr 1~50 game into a 30-311 tie.
whIch was grabbed by Johnson bucket and added a free throw
~asketball seas~n., A~ter' look~~ That 'was the last score for St.
and ~unked ~even sec.onds. before to increase the Parker lead to 10
hke ~eal ch~mps w~lle wal~mg Paul in open play in the third
the fmal whIstle. ThIS cltmaxed points and the Devils cause
off wIth the}! fi~st eIght st:-alght period. Huetteman added one
one. of the grea~es~ second ~~lf seemed all but lost.
games, they Just fell apart In the free shot, but at the same time
rallIes ev~r seen In Border Citles ::.:twas a,t this point that' Allen
latter fourth of, the season .. ~t. the Annunciation five, paced by
League hIstory. notched the first of his four last
Charles, St. f Amb,'ose, -!fah?}ty DeRivers,. put six baskets and a'
The scramble'for possession. of period field goals and the Devils'
~Picture by Fred Runnells' an~ finally, Ann ~ n CIa t 1.0 n, pair from the foul line through
th~ ball saw no' less than .. f!ve victorious surge commenced.
",:h~pped the Flyers In suc~esslOn, .th h ; Th Flye s were heavglvmg
them an only faIr 75%. e oop . e r
pl~ers prone on the floor,
Grosse Pointe High School's swim team., Eecond place winners in the Border Cities Conferen.ce, ,will vie for .top
battling for the 100se ball, which Hafer connected, J 0 h n son honors at Ann Arbor next Saturday, M.arch 11, when it participates in the Class A, Michigan State High School meet. won-lost record of' 8 out of 12. lly out-pomt.ed, 20 to 9, .and ca~e
Johnson grabbed. At the time the added a free t~row and' then
Friday's St. Paul-Annuncia- ouJ.?f the dIsastrous thIrd penod
,Coach Banach is not optimistic about team honors but feels he has some boys who' have a good chance for individual
Polar Bears had an upset victory Allen pumped. m thr~e m~re
tion game hardly looked like the trallmg, 31 to 44. .
within their grasp. b u eke
laurels. Left to right; front row: D. FOSMOE, WINKLER, T. LEACH, SHANNON, BARRETT, MAITLAND, SCHROEt
s which WIth JIm
upset,it turned out to be until the Too Far Behmd
Schoeck's field goal gave the DER and PEAR. Secohd row: ROGERS, LIKERT, ANDERSON, D. LEACH,' HINCHMAN, WICKING, LANDIS, third period. Up to that time the The Flyers got back on their'
Also Longest Game Devils a one point 39 to 38 lead BASSETT and McKENZIE. Back row: COACH BANACH, RICHARDSON, HESSE" HEATH, CHASE, FRIESEMA, score had been tied up six times feet in the final period, but they
This game will also go down with one minute and forty five NAY, WATSON, O'CONNELL, .STUART, LIMBERG, NOVAK, and MANAGERWITTSTOCK.' ,
and both teams had held leads were too far behind to do much.
in BeL history as the longest seconds to go.
ranging up to 5 points. Annunciation matched St. Paul's
play.ed. The final. second took Desperation SMt Hits
Locals' Lead Killed ten points' and added a free throw
twelve and a half mmutes to play .
Reserves Drop Pete Belanger opened the game to boot. The Flyers didn't diswith
a basket for the Flyers in turb, the mesh at all in the last
as the result of jubilant Pointe In desperatlon Adams let fly Five Teams Icebo~atPilot Dies at Helm
fans with a long shot and put the
. Parkers out in front again, 40 to
Last of Season 25 seconds, and his teammates 170.seconds of play .
.Af~er Johnson h~d notched th.e 39 with 40 seconds remaining.
As l\1[iIlenbach/Keeps Title
proceeded to build 'up a 9 to 3 Coach Eddie Lauer threw in
Tit? for 2nd'
wmmng bucket HIghland Park s ' ,
Highland Park's reserve basket- , lead ih the :firsffour minutes. But the towel in the last minute and
Rethmell made a supreme effort ,Th~n came Johnson.s game
Whil~ one' man was winning
with.R long shot which fell short' wmnIng score and the tlt~e. In Pin Loop,
at '.the foul circle. The loose baW Referees George Maskm and
the International Skeeter Association
Iceboat championship on
became the obJect. of, possession ~lalte~ Collins t~r.ne~ in a beauof'
nine .. players and. again a tiful pIece of offlclatmg and kept
Lake st. Clair last Sunq.ay, March
scramble en3ued. Referee 'George the hotly contested .ball ga~e Piche's Barbers Continue to
5; another skipper died at the
M¥kin tooted his. whistle for a ~nder control at all hmes. Th.eIr Raise Hob With Opponents
in Rotary League
jump ball and with that the Job was mad e, m u ~ h easier
tiller of his boat.
Pointe fans believing the game through the fme. dISplay of
Elmer Millenbach scored impres'sive
victories in four of the
to be over, ~ushed onto the floor sportsmanship and clean play by
to embrace their champions. bo.th teams. As a matter of fact,
five races in the series to retain
However there was still one thiS game was one of the clean- Continuir!g right w her e
the championship he won last
second showing on the clock. est. in ,espect to personal fouls they left off the week previyear
in "Renegade II'. this year
. called. that has been played on OUS, the Village "white coats,"
Millenbach won the title with
Crowd Herded Back , the local court in years. . A total , P' ICh' e s B ar b er Sh op t eam 0f
It took twelve' and a half mm- of 20 fouls were assessed, wlth th R t B 1" L
utes before the crowd could be each team drawing 10 apiece. I e, 0 ary ow mg eague, P G H t
herded back to their seats so the I I adc.ed another.four bagger to ace rows 0
game could resume. Fowls Tell story Itheir ever increasing total in 'I B }.
.The final second was consumed I Grosse. Pointe~s aCCpr~cy at the win column. Beaten bad~ n OVV' lng Loop
as players from bot~. teams .~he foul Im.e ,:"a~ the maJor fa~tor ly on their first two times out --
. bb d 'n! f th b 11 In the DeVIls VIctory. The Pomt- d 1 bl .' . .
gra e. val Y' or ~ a. ers ~onnected on 7 of 11 chances an on y a 7 to. WIn one pomt !he T,aXgrher~rs s1111 mam-
In wmning. the Devlls earned while their opponents missed 6 from the Mlddles all season, tal!1 thelr e~d 10 ~he Grosse
the race. He was one of the couri- Coach Harold Fisher's reserve ~
their second BeL b~sketball title of ,10 tries. the Barbers seemed to be in a Pomte Mernor,lal Bowlm~ Leae::ue,
,try's leading small boat design- quintet this year. The Parkers ~
In four years and It gave thew All' f tough spot But when the but the margm grows ever s11ma
two game edge over second Bruce en s per onn