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"Want Ad" service KI. 5-4000 14 THE DAILY HOME NEWS, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1956, villi I i I VlV'-V HiL rv vf ill VI Rv' sA I 4 -V I 11 I 'Krv WHO, ME? Bill Connery (17) and Bill Leppert (11) of th HELP! George Richvalsky of St. Peter's of Jersey City, kneel Cardinals and George Blaney of St. Peter's of Jersey City seem to ing on floor, desperately looks for teammate to pass the ball to be debating whether to pick up loose ball.

as Dick Staggard of the Cardinals tries to tie him up. OOPS! Oick Staggard of the Cardinals slips while trying to drive past Blaney of St. Peter's of Jersey City in first period of game on Princeton University court. OUCH I George Blaney's face registers pain as his nose comes into somewhat violent contact with Bill Connery's elbow as the Cardinal eager snatches rebound in title game. St.

Peter's Trounced, 65-48, in Catholic A Title Clash Union Hill to Play Trenton Bill Russell St. Peter's (J C) Wins Sixtli Straight Crown Logart Looks For Welter Title Shot Just Stops High Tonight at Rutgers Gym St. Aloysius Cagers And Holy Family Win State Catholic Titles Them Dead With Last Period Drive NEW YORK "The way to By The Associated Press Bill Russell, the iron curtain of get a chance at the title is to fight for it and I'm willing to meet the best," said Cuba's Isaac (Kid) Ltf- the Golden Gate, may not be a one-man basketball team but he certainly is a one-man defensive pla-i St. Aloysius of Jersey City and Holy Family of Un gart today in suggesting an elimi ion City captured the Catholic and championships PRINCETON St. Peter's Prep of Jersey City used a leech-like defense and a slick fast break manipulated by a trio of magicians to knock over SL Peter's of New Brunswick 65-48 in the Catholic Schools Class A championship game here last night.

nation tournament among welter of the 38th annual New Jersey State Interscholastic Ath toon for the University of San Francisco. weight contenders." letic Assn. basketball tournament at Rutgers University While the gangling all-America is The Cardinals stayed with the.niavpr,. fpa TarHinaU nil last night. A crowd of 900 fans saw the twin bill.

straight year by ousting Belvi-dere, 80-52. John Calabrese, North Arlington star, scored 29 points to establish a new Bergen County career record of 1,149 points. Bordentown moved into its first championship game by virtue of a 51-41 victory over Rumson in the semi-finals. A capacity crowd of 2,800 is expected to witness the double-header at Rutgers. At Princeton University's Dillon gymnasium tonight the State Group II and III finals are on tap.

Palmyra meets Roselle Park in Group II at 7:30 and Penns Grove tiffs Cranford in Group III at 8:45. Penns Grove will carry a 20-game win skein info the skirmish. Union Hill, defending champion in Group IV, takes on Trenton High, the South Jersey title-holder, tonight in the feature game of two NJSIAA tournament contests to be played at the Rutgers University gymnasium. The Hudson county cagers, with 6-5 George Ramming leading the attack, polished off Orange High to reach the tourney finals. Trenton, sparked by Wally Colender, defeated Atlantic City in the pen-ultimate round.

The Group IV struggle will start at approximately 8:45 o'clock following the Group I final' between North Arlington 'and Bordentown which will get under way at 7:30. North Arlington gained the championship round for the third Fresh from a decisive victory over Mexico's Gaspar Ortega, Logart and his manager Eddie Mafuz agreed to an April 27 fight with nontc miffht ae upll nnt shnnt frnm 31,0 classy Jersey UHy team St. Aloysius wore down St. Rose of Belmar, 78-63 and Holy Family gained its second straight title with a the outcirtp iparnprl tn until the middle of the third period. 56-48 victory over Wildwood Catholic.

ex-champion Tony DeMarco in its dismay in Corvallis, tne PreP Schoolers broadened ignt their man-for-man defense into an year, or guard Jim McDonald would swipe the ball from the flustered New Brunswickers and then all three would roar downcourt to a certain basket. In that last period, the Jersey City team butscored the Cardinals Miami. The Uclans manaeed to hit oni311011" Press 1031 mroiuea tne i attack and laid its de inst fivf fiplrl coals in fhp firsf iarainai Matchmaker Billy Brown of the International Boxing Club said he had to iron out a few details with DeMarco's managers before clos half and were frustrated complete fenses wide open for Prep's vaunted fast break. 6-11. They took 21 shots in tha Schneider, Kelly Lead Holy Family With its victory, Holy Family holds two straight championship game decisions over Wildwood Catholic.

The Union City five, ly by "goalie" Russell. As a result, what shaped up as a battle between two of the Pacific Coast towers of ing the match. When the final buzzer sounded jperiod and made nine. St. Peter's there was hardly a murmur from; made only, three out of 12 in the "Let the winner then fight Vince last session.

strength turned into a routine 72-61 Martinez of Paterson, N.J., for the me z.uuo Drave customers wno naa beaten snowy trails to the inviting victory for the Dons over a team right to meet the champion," said Mafuz. "The Kid is ready for any gained the Parochial title last that had won 17 straight. UCLA'silights of Princeton University's last defeat was administered by'gymnasium. For one thing, nearly Robin Roberts Looks Good year with a triumph over Wildwoodjone and we're ready to take on Catholic, San Francisco in December. all the onlookers were New Bruns- any one in the way, An indication of the havoc wrought by Prep's terrific defensive play can be found in the shooting statistics.

Prep made 25 field goals in 60 attempts and St. Peter's hit on only 16 out of 51, one of their poorest shootings of the campaign. Further, Prep got off nine more It was San Francisco's 52nd i wick rooters. And for those few Corbalis Standout For St. Aloysius St Aloysius "possessed too much speed for St.

Rose in the feature game of the double header. The Jersey City five captured its 22nd victory in 24 starts by combining some good shooting off the fast break and accuracy at the foul line. Fred Corbalis turned in a tremendous job for the winners, scoring 32 points and directing the fast break attack. The game started off as if St. Aloysius was going to walk away with it as it took a 9-0 lead on a pair of baskets and a foul by Dick Kaminski, a layup by Corbalis and a set shot by Bob Ernst.

John Saxenmeyer and Vince Logart, fourth ranked welterweight behind champion Johnny Saxton, ex-champ Carmen Basilio For 20 Wins for 7th Year straight victory and an important one because it advanced Phil Wol- visitors from Hudson County a State Tournament title is some- The Ocean County team couldn't put together two good quarters otherwise it might have had a better fate. After falling behind 14-5 and DeMarco, racked up his fifth pert's lads one step closer to a thing short of stimulating this be pitches in working for scoreless in at the close of the first quarter, straight victory with his unanimous successful defense of their coveted jng the sixth straight year they've shots than the Cardinals despite nings against the Cincinnati Red-NCAA championship. The game was decision over Ortega last night. won the crown. the fact that Coach Jake Born- a western regional and tonight the Wildwood battled back to trail by a single point, 26-25 at the halftime intermission.

Dons are favored when they meet St. Peter's of New Brunswick, onjheimer's lads commanded a 40-31 the other hand, was looking for its 'edge in rebounds. Prep got the first state title in 17 years. Imost shots because it forced the Martha Byl's. The Wildwood five, after its fine! Utah in the quarter finals.

The winner, along with the vie And up until the third period blitz Cardinals into tactical errors that showing in the second quarter, just about lost the game at the foul legs. He held the Reds to three singles as the Phils won the exhibition game 8-4. Robin has been one of the few bonus players who's been worth his weight in money. He was plucked off the Michigan State campus in 1948 and given $25,000 to sign by the Phils. Since then he's tors at three other sites tonight, heads for Evanston, 111., for the By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There is one thing almost as certain as death, taxes and the common cold.

Robin Roberts will win 20 games. And why not? The strapping righthander of the Philadelphia Phillies, who normally winds up with the most "everything" among National League pitchers, has been a 20-game winner the last six years and he's (looked better than ever this spring. Yesterday, Roberts, who had a by Prep, there was good reason to believe that the Cardinals might claim that elusive crown. Their resulted in steals or poor passes. Crotty, who proved he can play defense by holding Connery to three line in the third period.

The losers 691 Features Pin Action semi-finals and finals of ihe tournament next Thursday and Friday. In other quarter-finals tonight, Temple meets Canisius in Phila shooting was off throughout the while guarding him in the first half, mainly because Prep re-: first half, topped all scorers with fused to be set up for picks and missed six of six foul tries at the outset of the quarter which enabled Holy Family to gain a 32-25 bulge. Ted Fitzick's layup with 3:30 remaining to play in the quarter gave Wildwood its first points of the period. Martha Byl's tremendous pinning featured the week's action in the Recreation Women's Bowling compiled 160 victories against 102 defeats, a commendable mark con made them earn every basket, but Gepp led the shore team back so that it only trailed 16-11 at the close of the first period. Corbalis and Mike DiLonardo each hit for two baskets in the second quarter as the Hudson County crew took a 31-25 halftime advantage.

St Aloysius, using a double screen to perfection against St. 19 points, one under his game average for the season. Richvalsky tossed in 17 and McDonald and delphia, Kentucky goes against Iowa in Iowa City and Oklahoma City tangles with. Southern Metho still they hung on to the Jersey City sidering that his team hasn't ex League quintet. The Cardinals held leads JPedone each made 12.

23-14 record in 1955, threw only 38iactly been a ball of fire since 1950. dist in Lawrence, Kan. The Squibb kegler crashed the sticks for a 691 series, the best Holy Family, holder of a 14-9 season record, had much the bet set rolled by a woman in' Middle' of 8-6 and 19-18 in that first half, Connery made 17 points for the and were trailing only 26-23 at the! losers and Criss and Bob Cone intermission. scored 12 and 10, respectively. St.

Peter's Prep, which entered Cone pulled down 16 rebounds. Rose's 2-1-2 zone, hit on 10 of 13 ter of it in the rebounding depart- sex county tnis season and one of the highest ever recorded in the iuuu Kou iium ulj wUh Jim Roche an(j 5.3 the game with the identical record one more than Richvalsky collect- Curt bimons, a 17-game winner in 1950 and on whom Manager Mayo Smith is depending to help make the club a contender this season, hurled three innings against Cincinnati yesterday and gave up two runs. Jack Meyer, the crack reliever of '55, nailed down the triumph with a final two-inning stint. Meanwhile, the champion Brook Ahepa Pinners Sjveep Hughes, Ahepa increased its lead in the A Hawks Triumph In Playoff Tilt The Hawks won the championship of the Lafayette School Leaders Club League by trouncing the Scorpions 36-17 yesterday in the county. She rolled 234, 245 and 212, all games being clean.

as the Cardinals, 13-2, and a 75.4 ed. He also accounted for all three rS rial 25 7Lr to am Kel controUinS boards I ll iT leatms until Roche had to leave the game traded three baskets to open the fa the second iod with four quarter, St. Rose made its lasti ate Rav game scoring average, had only a Perso, which leads the league minimum of success with its fast break against the Cardinals zone threat. Lou -Carr serious defense in those first 16 minutes Division of the McGarry" Recreation Major Bowling League to four games by scoring a sweep over uiu, ieuy aim imii vcii uau enabled the winners to stretch their final game of the playoffs. The Prep, to, was struggling for every advantage to 11 points, 41-30 as the lyn Dodgers got back on the beam, edging ihe Chicago White Sox 10-9 Polka Dot Five defeated the Spark with a 15-9 mark, had its margin over Squibb shaved to a single game as the result of a two game loss to Johnson Johnson.

Squibb blanked Permacel Tape and Carter Products took two games from Bond. Joan Baumann rolled 195, Gloria shot. Cardinals Take Lead Plugs 16-12 in the consolation game. two free throws and Saxenmeyer hit on his fourth straight jump shot of the quarter to narrow the deficit to two points, 37-35. St Aloysius however, led by Corbalis' two baskets, ripped off eight straight points for a ten point spread, 45-35.

Tom Goghan's two runnerup Hughes Manufacturing. Ahepa is setting the pace with a record. In other matches Meirose blanked St. Peter's CWV, the Sacred Heart CWV pinners took the The Hawks outscored the Scor- Cardinal baskets in the final period. After winning the city title from New Brunswick High School and downing Camden Catholic and Trenton Catholic in their three most recent games, the Cardinals were due for a letdown.

But St. Peter's Prep's able crew of opportunists isn't the sort of team that will let another enjoy this privilege. Once the gates opened late in the third period, they were gone, and so, for another year, were the Cardinals' chances for a title. The lineups: St. Peter (S St." Peter's a.C.1 Then, with the third period half finished, the Cardinals put together their best run of the night.

Art third quarter ended. Led by Fitzick and John Phipps, Wildwood scored the first three baskets of the final period for a 43-36 score. Fred Schneider netted four fouls sandwiched between Dions in each period and held a Dougal 179, Mathilde Thoresz 174 and 171, Ruth Brinckman 171 ede second half' Criss drove out of the corner for a odd game from 111 Liquors and layup, and Bill Connery hit twice Dee Powers 171 diuwh pdteu uie vitiuts wiui it New Brunswick Restaurant and on drives to put St. Peter's of New on a three run rally in the eighth inning. Larry Doby of Paterson, N.J., obtained from Cleveland this winter, slamed a pair of home runs for the Sox.

It was only the Brooks' second victory in seven games. The Indians got excellent relief pitching from Ray Narleski in the last four innings and came from behind to beat the New York Giants 5-4. Narleski gave up only one hit as Cleveland tied tfie game in points. David Darman was high for the The standings: Recreation Women W. I-.

Brunswick ahead 33-31 with 3:35 Peanut Bar rolled to a IVi-lV stalemate. Pet. Polka Dts with eight points while to play in the quarter, Perso 15 9 foul tosses for the losers broke the string but the Jersey City team then tallied eight of the next ten points for a 53-39 lead. Saxenmeyer was the whole St. Rose show in the final half, hitting on eight of 16 shots, and he finished with 23 points.

Leading 69-59 mid- Richard Tretsky tallied 11 of the Twenty Grand, the pace-setter Jerry Halligan, young, first-year a layup by Frank St. John for a 45-38 Holy Family lead. Two-pointers by George Roth and Phipps narrowed the count to 45-42 but Gill came back with a jump shot for a 47-42 lead. Fitzick's pair of fouls again cut the deficit to three points but Holy Spark Plugs 12 points. in the Division with a 42-33 rec Squibb 14 10 Boird 13 11 Permacel Tawe 12 12 Johnson Johnson 11 13 Carter Products 7 17 mentor at the Jersey City school, ordered a time out here, and when 2 13 Hawks Scorpions .458 .282 Connery Cone.f r.

reaone.r, 5 17 Norton 10; Crotty 6 12; Potyrala ord, scored an odd game victory over Furmicks. The Knights of Columbus blanked Dotty's, Cali Prep returned to the court it went Brown. Cnss.c F. P. 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 r.

p.i g. 7 14 Linzer.f 0 4 0 8 Fuchs 3 2 8 Dolorhick.f 0 0 0 0 North 0 3 0 1 0 Riganta valsky.a the sixth and picked up the winning Freund.c into the all-court press that had Keefe Buck Freeman ts back assisting 0 5 19 0 2 7 17 0 12 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 run in the next frame on a triple Aloysius dispelled all thoughts of jnnly. then ran off a string of a St. Rose comeback by ripping Points for a 52-44 advantage Coach Frank McGuire with paid off with an 80-76 victory over Seton Hall in the North Jersey Lynch 0 0 0 Smith.g 3 1 7 by Al Smith and a single by Rudy 0, Qr 4 Duffy 0 0 Hannan 3 3 Blaney 2 2 Halligan Loturdo fornia Speed Shop took two from Mengel Box and American Kitchens won a pair from the Eagles. Mike Newman of the New Bruns North Carolina basketball team jBefiezra.i 3 0 6 Bekus off seven consecutive points UU'TCU finals last week.

The press paid off again, and Totals 17 2 361 Totals 7 3 17 Both McGuire and Freeman formerly coached St. John's of Brook Score bv Periods: wick Restaurant rolled high single promptly. In the first minute and Regaldo. The Baltimore Orioles won their first game after six defeats, nipping the Chicago Cubs 7-6. The Pittsburgh Pirates putjogether 14 lyn.

point play for an eight point lead with less than a minute to play which proved to be insurmountable Hawks 4 8 14 10 36 Scorpions 3 4 4 617 Officials: Savad, Borden. Totals 18 1 481 Totals 25 13 63 Score by periods; St. Peter's IN.B.) 15 8 14 1143 St. Peter (J.C.) 18 10 13 2665 Officials: Jakucs, Bollerman. game of 233.

Tom Hussey hit 222, 45 seconds following the switch in Steve Gussis 222. Mike Vertucci defensive tactics, the PreD School- Spark riurs Polks Dots fi. F. G. F.

P. Mate.f 0 0 0 Darman, 2 4 8 3 atzman.f OOO Gitnes.f OOO hits, half of them for extra bases, to down the Detroit Tigers 10-5. 213 and 210, Lou Mihopulos scored six straight points to Tony Cippola Jr. 208, and Howard; take a 37-33 lead. They were never for the South Jersey team.

The lineups: Holr FimilT Wildwood G. F. P.I G. F. wrap up the game.

St. Aloyslm St. Rote O. F. P-' G.

T. P. Walsh.f 1 5 7 Gepp.f 4 2 10 Corbalis.f 11 10 32 Coghan.f 16 8 Kaminski. 5 7 17 4 2 10 5 I 11 Carr.g 1 2 4 Ernst. 4 3 ll.S nmeyer.g 11 1 23 Xhomai OOO Srael 408 IPowers OOO ISchaad OOO Totals 28 26 781 Totals 25 13 63 Score by Periods: St.

Aloysiu 16 15 23 2278 St. Rose 11 14 18 2063 Officials: Coffee, Burns. Kull 206. Maury McDermott pitched five headed again. Forward Mike Pe- Kelly.f 7 1 15 St.

John.f 3 2 8 High single game honors in the F.S'neider.f 4 7 15 Phipps.f 5 0 10 Division went to Carl Bahr of 0 1 1 Mandy 0 0 0 Pesciotta 0 0 0 Hamelsky.c 3 0 6 Rosen. OOO Gordon.g 102 5 1 11! 0 0 0 Totals 5 2 12! Totals 6 4 16 Score by Periods: scoreless innings and batted in the winning run in the 10th to give the New York Yankees a 5-4 triumph NCAA TOURNEY Second Round San Francisco 72, UCLA 61. Utah 81, Seattle 72. Southern Methodist 80. Houston 74.

Oklahoma City 97. Kansas State 93. Iowa 87, Morehead (Ky.i 83. Kentucky 84, Wayne (Mich.) 64. Temple 65.

Connecticut 59. Canisius 66, Dartmouth 58. Milwaukee Brave catcher Del Gill.c 5 4 14 Fitrick.c 8 16 Baldini.it 1 2 Axelson.g 2 0 4 Roche. 3 2 8 Rayauskas.g 2 2 6 E.S'neider OOO Roth 204 Twenty Grand with 233. Charles Brown hit 213, Buzz Boll 211, Frank Christian 213, Boots Sabo 201 and over the St.

Louis Cards and Mil Caruso 10 2 512 816 waukee and the Boston Red Sox Spark Plugs 0 6 1 Polka 4 4 0 Officials: Savad, Vanacore. Totals 21 14 56! Totals 18 12 48 Score by Periods: NBA STANDING Eastern Division W. L. W. L.

Pet. Crandall has been on the last three Holy FamUy 14 12 15 1556 Wildwood 5 20 5 1848 battled to a 7-7 tie game, called because of darkness in the 11th. The Washington Senators and Kansas City As had the day off. National League All-Star teams. NJSIAA BASKETBALL Catholic Schools (Finals) Class A Officials: Cuccinello, Fuohs.

Melvin Rolls Record 746 Set In County Loop Two Middlesex County Major Bowling League records for the season were set last night by the Trico Refrigeration keglcrs. Ken Melvin crashed the sticks for a 746 set, a new standard, and the Trico team had a 3165 team series, another new mark. Melvin rolled 237, 277 and 232 to attain his high total while Bill Byrne came through with a 721 set on games of 266, 220 and 235. Trico rolled 1037, 1043 and 1085 in attaining its record series. 45 27 .623 Syracuse 36 37 .493 39 33 33 38 .47 Phila.

Boston done was the big gun in this" assault with a pair of fouls and a jump shot. George Richvalsky, Prep's slended 6-4 center, started the run with a hook. Two foul conversions by Bill Leppert and a jump shot by Dick Staggard put the Cardinals in a challenging position again, 37-39, as the third period closed. But a string of five points at the outset of the last quarter gave Jersey City the cushion it needed. After that the Cardinals were waging a futile battle.

Prep's all-court'press stopped them time and Western Division St. Peter's (Jersey City) 63, St. Pe NHL STANDING W. L.Pct.l W. L.

Pet. Ft W'yne 37 35 .514 St.Louis 33 40 .452 GA JOE LOUIS TO Min'poln 34 39 31 41 .431 128 Summer Special April 1 Through August 31 WASHINGTON WV-Joe Louis, a GF 212 183 201 145 151 149 Ralph Ruocco 200. The standings: McGarry Recreation Major A Division W. I. Pet.

Ahepa 55 Vs 19 '4 .740 Hughes Co. 51 23a .687 N. B. Restaurant 45' 29Va .607 Peanut Bar 41 34 .547 Meirose 41 34 .547 St. Peter's CWV 39' 35 Vi .527 Sacred Heart CWV 37' 37Vj .500 111 Liquors 35 38Va .473 Division W.

Pet. Twenty Grand 42 33 .560 Knights of Columbus 36 39 .480 Furmioks 36 39 .460 Dotty's Sugar Bowl 33 42 .440 Eagle AC 32 43 .427 American Kitchens 27 47 .367 California SS 25 50 .333 Mengel Box 19Va 55V .260 146 193 182 213 208 ter i New Brunswick' 48. Class St. Aloysius iJersey City) 76, St. Rose i Belnan 61 Class Holy Family lUnion City) 56, Wild-wood Catholic 46.

FIGHTS LAST NIGHT NEW YORK (Madison Souare Gar- Pts Montreal 43 15 10 96 Detroit 30 23 16 76 Hangers 32 26 10 74 Boston 23 33 1 3 5 Toronto 18 39 11 47 Chicago 18 38 11 47 Tonight Rangers at Montreal. Chicago at Toronto. Lst Sight Minneapolis 103, St. Louis 97. (Playoff for second place.

Today PUr-Offs Syracuse at Boston. Minneapolis at St. Louis. Unlimited amount of car washes for any 25-day period including Saturday and Sunday. winner in his first go at wrestling, today was seriously weighing the idea of making a full-time business of grappling for pay.

Joe says prompter Ray Fabiani time again before they even had Price Only $5.00 STEVE'S CAR WASH Lincoln Hirhwtv A Snydsra At. Phone CH. -0f97 deni Isaac iKidl Log-art, 1474, Cuba, outpointed Gaspar Ortega, 152. Mexico. 10 a chance to launch a shot.

Either Argentine middleweight Eduardo Steve Ridzik, who is coming up with the Giants next season, lost his only three decisions pitching for Cincinnati in 1955. Pedone or Jack Crotty, the Prep PARIS, France Alohonse Halimi. has offered him a sure $150,000 to wrestle several times a week for the next year. Lausse has knocked out 48 of his 68 opponents. 119' j.

France, outpointed Billv Pea wheelhorse and one of the best! cock, 118, Philadelphia, 10..

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