The Bangor Daily News from Bangor, Maine • 10

HAiNvJ iV -FOR NEWS WANT ADS DIAL 61 -THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS BANGOR MAINE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17 1QM- MR HARBOR 44 CASTINE 53 DEER ISLE 32 fj PEMETIC 47 HARRINGTON 57 BLUE HILL 83 ELLSWORTH 41 BROOKLIN 28 PENOBSCOT 47 MT DESERT 29 WINTER 32 I BROOKSVILLE 30 Normie Roy Signs Braves Contract Colby SIlOlVS CldSS III Defeating Pale BlllC 7 -TALKING IT OVER I Your Servicemen Might Like This By JACK MORAN BOSTON Jan 16 (API The Bouton Rravr said tonight that Pitcher Normie Roy who had a 4-3 record in his freshman season last year has signed his 1951 contract Roy is the fourth Brave to come to terms Contracts have not yet been sent to the full 40-man squad The others already sinned are outfielder Sam Jethroe Pitcher Jim Wilson and catcher Fbbs St Claire By JACK MORAN ORONO Jan With effortless court grace and a pc shooting aye aaptrlarbabW Tedij Shiro ai to for the Univeraity of Maine last night aa Colby clicked off it a 11th triumph of the season alartltng to ST verdict before an awed audience in Memorial gymnasium The unfamiliar scene of rows of defense Shiro kept the pressure icger Mules and the aptrtwifi re- empty seals in the slightly more on the earnest young Ber or placements quickly put th game than half-filled gymnasium was every advance He turned almost out cf Maine reach few the ret the background before which the every careless pass or mistake into the night It tit to 2 at the talented Shiro made his final Me- a Colbv play which account in half-time monal Gym appearance of his part for the 97 chance the Hg The bej were hrp enough in i star-studded career Mules had at the Maine bark- the second half however ret it GETS OVATION board took the Mule about minutes I But the llttle-bv present-day cage SHOOTS WELL to settle for all ronremefl Shim stand ards-Colby guard left an In- Shim wax equally effective on the et the pace and Nagle and Lal-delible mark on the minds of all drive or from outside In fact hi her the squad two lag tm jrr- those who sat through the pro- set shooting early In the tided tanelr asairtar-e with their readings and the spirited ovation game Jutt about broke rebound game I he received when Coach Leer'll- heart at a time when the Bear 1 Jack Christie and the premising THIRD WIN Waterville Takes Revenge On Bapst Itiya fallows Little Beals high school way down in Washington Coufity is the big noise in basketball this week There are only 11 boya in the school and 10 of them are on the basketball squad but begn brewing some potent cage medicine Against both Class 8 aid beams this season Beals has clicked off ten straight victories avenging (slightly better than 93 points per game! Anything better that your areas? Three times the team has been oyer the cCntliry mark once beating Cherryfield 141 to 86 In 10 games they havl tallied 93 points! Wiley Bill Hanscom in Presque Isle is fast dievnopiag into the surprise coach of the season But little considered at the outset of the season his Presque Isle teams already haye tumfled Fqrt Fairfield and Caribou two of top runners and 'list night rolled over Portland at the Exposition Building Thaf win Recalls that his last Portland victory was the year he cap- minutes of play was stirring In each of those first half surge ita trouble The Clnwlk ei hrt tribute to the poker-faced little Shiro sealed Maine doom Three star hit for 1 pomi mart of fellow who aked no quarter and times It was arching 25-footers which were made at long rang let his playing do all the talking and three times it was effort! while Churchill hit the ret for necessarv lav-upe the result of solo drives It points demon almost anv An unnamed fan in the crowd Warren Ftnegar the MUr By BUD LEAVITT WATERVILLE Jan 16 A vengeance-steeped Water- time he takes that was A double digit the hardwood put hi finger on Shim' all-around tain wa th orJr plsyer or the turef the state school crown by defeating Portland 16 to 12 In the early ville high basketball squad stinging from a going over handed sbiro was that and more last efforts when late in the game he aquwd who see aetke 30 yelled: The be kicking one in Ted COLBT Maine stayed In the contet for AG AF mod of the first half or exactly Nagle IS 5 13 minute Then with the Bear trailing 26 to 19 Coach Lee Wtl- Ptacenitai IS 2 2 Hams yanked most of hU somewhat Johnson 2 I I Tim Locally Bangor climbed to the top of the schoolboy cage parade bvldrfraUing unbeaten John Bapst 65 to 58 before a frenzied crowd of imore than 2000 fans last Friday night Dick Russell was the big reason with 18 points from the pivot and a beautiful rebound gajjne I As a result of defeat Westbrook remains the only ungftefeateA major high school cage team in Maine Led by big Bfijb Mr Hardy who scored 30 point In his last outing the Blazes hake waliked all over western Maiae opposition this year A fourth ynar man Mcllardy is the big reason Lewiston inaugurated its brand new indoor hockey rink last Sunday A crowd of tndre than 4000 jammed the structure for the opening games ivuin h(ird work a lot of money made it all possible eaHier this seasoo at Bangor squared accounts with 5tT John Bapst high school here tonight when it won a wig-raising 64-59 match It was pure and simply a matter the second period when Jimmy of a Wally Donovan-bossed aggre- Gillis passing and rebounding like gation catching up on the opposi- a veteran instead of a rookie get- tion the second time around The ting his first real chance to show win boosted Waterville to a mark fed Phil Day who connected for of 3-7 for the season a woeful four goals from the floor record in comparison to other The halftime score found i years but tingler took a ville holding sway 37-35 and Bapst i litle sting out of a season which showing definite signs of regaining 1 has heaped pitfalls before the i its winning touch The Crusaders1 fleet panthers (bolted to a 37-37 draw 26 seconds SECOND LOSS (after the start of the third quarter The defeat was the second In on Gillis' hooker from beneath the ftemrmjber Tony Jabar Waterville's great little cage leader last winter? Tony is playing sensationally well for the Colby Freshmen this Irinter Needless to say the little Mules are undefeated Cari- John Bapst starts The Cru- boards Phil Day splashed a foul enrlfier fsisle 4 1 i I 1 i saders finished tonight melee try through seconds later to puh looking back on two straight be- the Bangorians ahead 38-37 The feats in the face of scoring 118 lead then exchanged sides seven points in 64 minutes of competition times before Simpson plunked a Nat Crowley's able crew dropped brace of buckets to push the Panes' first test against Bancor last thers ahead at the end of the Friday rolling up 59 points the third stanza 53-49 identical juncture in the scoring SIMPSON shines columns which saw Bapst stumble It was Simpson's ability to ball-in the face of a win which seeming- handle and pass off in the fourth lv awaited them had they been period fireworks which saw Water-able to stage one of their powerful ville clinch the count The Panclosing game bursts thers ere on top 59-56 with 4 59 Waterville got a lot of mileage unplayed and then it was a mat out of its knack for speed and ter of ball control Thev protected success in the opportune moments I the edge nobly ard outdistanced Blkir I Haley is another member of the unbeaten squad Remember Bijlv Porter the talented infielder for the Augusta Million-airesjln 194(8 and '49? He was at Denver last year Batted 373 and otherwise distinguished himself ticketed for a trip south withal the Blraves this spring unless of course Uncle has other ideaw jtalph Branca the Brooklyn pitcher has had an operation which chariges the apeararee of his nose As one of the boys quipped Brooklyn pitcher's schnoz was a generous affair but now jiis proboscis has been reduced to an amateurboscis Tfhe Associated Press rates Oklahoma A and as the best college basketball team in the nation Last week it was Bradley This week they are third Gardiner has displaced Winslow high ischodjl as Central Maine's leading' tournament prospect at the moment ki Hadkett of Derby Maine sophomore is hobbling around on a ipraiied aiikie Johnny Norris of Bangor plans to enter Maine in February IF the guy with the whiskers doesn't change his mind Main started an informal hockey team last week and the boys opened laedefenMieh ackHtlow6 DiVnsnnw gun whlIf ap wjth victory over a Gardiner team Larry Henom of foot- tn rrrnr and thn nvPrfak(Pthi ball fame was one of the lick skating stars of the sextet I -a- vuu a XI lO er to error and then overtake the men dissipated scoring chances Oi 'enl ConfV owe Panthers JOHN' BSrST A NEW With a new court new uniforms and new school Mt Desert high school beckettaB lee of Northea-st Harbor is beginning whet it hopes will be a new era Members of the aqtutd are front row left to right: Bob Fernald Peter Smallidge Gordon Gray John Smallidge John Walls Burnham Wallace Rodney Smith and Coach Bill Redmond Back row Manager rank Manchester Sheldon Darrein Bob Doritty Ray Smith David Hyde and Assistant Manager Dick Kelley (Staff photo by Webb Purple squad 6ummry made the most out of a lot which i was handed to them on an open spencer platter OPENS FAST The contest opened with a wild Day Russell Blnnchard Hat burst firehorse style and Water- ville finished off coming down tVie reinor Gillis Totals Sports Results slate of Maine is readying an elaborate fish and game exhibit for display at the Boston and New York sportsman's shows thl winter Drop around if you're in the vicinity the boys will be glad to see you and get a good smell of balsam-scented Mane I Colby is commencing to run away with the state series CAg race although technically Bowdoin hold a half share of the lead at the moment The towering Mules have rattled off 10 winls 115 starts and last time out slugged Howdoin who beat them In a previous game Our old friend Teddy Shiro is the plajt -making hero of the Mules Boh Carpenter i rated high among the collegians too He's dbne a great job at Babes stretch like a herd of Texas stake horses The Panthers will have to dedicate tonight's triumph to Piourrie a superior performance on the part of Gene Simpson Based in the steVen backcourt Simpson swished 22 points through the hoop on ten shmpon buckets and two foul completions Rov Hockey Refs To Carry Numbers MONTREAL Jaa 16 The National Horde tew an now weed toda that Ita ret ere- and ltrvemea will rare number on thetr eweater In the fatorr A league Petal aakd referee will be 4gned perwtaneo I number from one to Dee white llneaanen til bare 11 22 except for number 1L The ofIVtal ui4 the ntahn will make It ratter far port tort to Identtf the af Dr tala Thetr number wttl be bated along with the team la pee -grama of the MX Hockey Learur rtnka TEAM TO Rt ARJdlSCH Oermae Jant if i will have the (oar-ms bntwvioe beam IS the a-ftrld rhompioritdupa ic Franc aT? a Llyud Fitinwlimii id Maftiann cbpLkir id the 96c iair rhanpec puarn i may and aid learc add lake par the WM raw at Ar Dr Hue 10 DO IN ROW DURHAM Jar If AF New Hajak-v hnnket tatr wne aernrd far the ecam mtrutwnng Breemle 9-4 "SEt" Be-ri led Oie atram fog goal The uun aenref l--ee me sr me ag New HawBaTUff Rewnie KJng tallied twice Snr the loner Totals 8-ore John Rap Waterville Officials Keefe Crcrler LaRosa Winner Of Mat Match NORTHEAST HARBOR Jan 16 Mt Deert high school' basketball team and its many followers are in hopes a new era is in store for them Sfems ajl we can talk about is basketball efi? Try and talk ef arf thing else in this cage-crazy state at this time of the year Al His was the top individual offens-Nichqlson great track star of a year ago has been named ive show of the evening -Maine's Amateur athlete of the year Norm Parent the Bates grid Simpson's play let off a chain stalwiirt of (just a year ago has been granted a leave of absence at like explosion of Waterville cheer Lew ion high school where he is a member of the poaching staff sb seconds before the clock ran nut on that he can! make the European trip with the American team in the tired perspiring contestants Worlq Amateur Ice Hockey championship will be repre- Trainer though only hitting for senteil lSy the Bates Manufacturing company team from Lewiston i one tucket and five fouls stood The ijutid 111 play 30 games in Europe and will be in the Interna- heads and shoulders over Bapst-tkjmalj championships in Paris in March Don't forget to drop in ment Jimmy Gillis was another beys If you are in the area Meanwhile don't lose that sense 1 anc if tonight's showing is a yard- one that will put the Blue Wrestling returned to Bangor last Streaks back in the running Of hupior attd if you run across any wandering sons of the Pine Tree £tick Crusaders followers will prob- ht of State give us a ring ably see a lot of him in future Bna ou Montreal for title and championhip games celebrated the occasion by taking but a lot of hnrd work iiei Sincerely Jack Moran John Bapst supporter can right- two straight falls from Slim Zim-fully place their bows in the direc- merman of Chicago in the feature tion of Leo Trainor's spectacular event at city hall ahead For tears handicapped with IF SPORT PEAKING Three More Packers Turn In Suits play for had it not been for the great individual showing of the LaRosa won the first fall with a tiny home hall ore which ra-bodv press in seven minute 21 ives affectionately dubbed "The (hustling Crusader backcourt buck- seconds and the second fall and the school has little ster the margin of the match with a pintail and pres opportunlv to cliplav its full abil- In a co-feature Tiger Tasker ity Then known av Gilman high by Owen Osborne SCHOOLBOY I TBAll Hebron Jiiim Merhanlr Fall 28 av Hebron Reserve S4 Waters tile John Bapat SS Sullivan 57 Mil Marhtaa 15 Junesbora IS Columbia Falla tl Meant Schenrk FaMpnrt 44 Woodland Gar Inez 44 Fairfield Ja Preque Ile 67 Washburn 47 leiton SI nnt 53 Anon 45 Jarkman It Greentille 42 Milo 39 Wintlo 51 Caribou 46 4'aatlnr 53 Brooklut 21 I uon Jatvee 52 onnna II Bar Harbor 44 Fllavrorth 41 rrmrllc 47 ML Iert 29 Patten 64 Medway 17 Bingham 43 Harmon 11 llartland 43 Clinton 42 Brewer 37 Madiwm 31 Faton 59 Mapleton 48 Bingham 43 Harmn 42 llartland 43 Clinton 42 Brewer 37 Madiaon 31 Fa ton 59 Maplrton 48 Orono 48 Ltnroin 24 Wilton 54 Skow began 49 Brook 53 Seanport 49 Blue HUt 2 Brook tile 54 Dexter 54 Brewaville JeL 15 Freedom 49 Liberty 32 Buxton 41 Corttlth 36 Lee 52 Maltawamkrag 1 herryfleld 73 Addioon 49 Ioter 54 8 11 Porter 56 Brldgton 44 Norway 58 Jay 54 Cape Elixabeth 35 Freeport 24 I nlon 48 Waldoboro 33 Mrxiro 63 Rum ford 43 8L Domlnir 39 8L Francl 2' Wella 58 North Berate 44 Livermore Fala 52 Gould 46 Water boro 38 Alfred 34 Tenohaeot 47 Deer Isle Island Fall 43 Oakfleld 42 COLIFGF BASKETBALL Holy raw 69 Rhodr Iiland State 66 I 64 Duquesne 52 estern Kenturk 89 (Fla i 47 Florida 70 Stetson 62 MUml (ANDERSON Ind Jan 16 Three more players of the AndJeroon Parker of the National Professional Basketball association turned tn their suit today Two others quit last week but Walter Vasbtnder chairman of the (Packers' hoard said the team will continue Its schedule and will meet Waterloo here Friday night The latest to quit are Leo Klier and Richie Neimiera former Nnttr Dame players and Charles Black former star at the Univer-iltv of Kansas Gates player roach and Bob Kinney quit the Parkers last week Klier had been named player coach to succeed Gates (been considerably wider Trainor's I won two straight falls from Polo school many home games were (rebounding and defensive play Carnova of Argentina Tasker won played on the court of neighboring kept the Crusaders in the ball game the fjrst fall in 19 minutes 20 sec- Pmetic high school in Southwest right up to the firehouse ending PANTHERS TAKE LEAD Waterville bounded out front with the bell The Panthers were atop the heap at the quarter leading 22-14 with Plourde Charlie Hurd Sonny Liberty and Simpson all holding a hand in the action Bapst scrambled back in the contention halfway through onds with a hammer lock and pres Harbor and the clincher in 12:30 with a But now it's new school a spread eagle hold and press 'new court and new uniforms to In another bout Chris Balkness put it on a par with all rival Tulsa was forced to quit after 21 and home facilitie better than mlrrutes of a bout with Clyde most of them Steves of Brockton Mass Tutoring the club this season Is In the opener Sonny Royal of Bill Redmond former Schenck Belfast and Eric Storm of Carmel hlRh school mentor who twice piloted the Wolverines to state i fwT' fT championship The Streaks have i gone hot and cold so far this season Says Redmond "The boys i have cooperated with me in every 1 way and are working hard Thev want to win a badly a any of a but a very young club and we have a lot to learn By young he means ahat he I says There are only two seniors i on the team so with eight men returning things are beginning to 1 i brighten up at the Harbor John Smallidge a center and co-captain and guard Sheldon Damon are the only two last-year men in Blue Juniors are Bob Dorlty combma- tion forward and center forward Bob Fernald guard Brry Wood and co-captain John Walls combination forward and guard and one of the squad's hardest worker Gordon Gray Burnham Wallace I Pete Smallidge and Ray Smith all sophomores complete the club John Smallidge a half inch over the six-foot mark and Doritty I six feet even are the tall men of I the team But considering the young age average of the club it seems a lot of "Growth" remain The team has taken on top rivals this year and still can't be counted out of the picture Redmond is too Mid-Week Hash 8 DOTTING There are U11 a treat many lira and coaches too vho do not understand the preaerl basketball point system Rod MrErcry a member of the Patten Academy club that ts in econd place in the race far the Katahdin Valley Leaf ve title aaks how club are ceiected for the toumamenta sc here goes eight teams will be selected tn each section (eastern and western Maine and tn Class and S) by the point system If there ts a tie for eighth place a playoff will be ordered The first step tn applying the point system ts to obtain the preliminary index of each school in the state This ts computed by allowing 10 points for each Class 8 school defeated 20 points for each school defeated and 30 points for each school defeated The tota number of prints ts divided by the number of games played If less than 10 games are played the number of points Is divided by 10 If a school ts defeated tn all its games it is assigned a preliminary index of 1 The second step is to get the tournament or index rating of the team by adding the preliminary index of each team has defeated and divi4Ung by the number of game plaved The result is multiplied by 10 giving the tournament in-Kenturk $ui si Knoviii 32 de Khools under the jurtadictioa of the MJTA are I 86 George Wahintin 71 considered To boil it down seine Class teams may not item State 56 Marqoetu 5 be worth as much a good or team Gardiner Coach Oordor Smith deserve a bow for lr-wk stalling a new starting time for home games All preliminary games get under way promptly at 6 JO and raruy games are over by 6 :30 which means the kids wtii be home and off the street long before midnight A mfty idea j- i ly for Tuesday tussles when the kids have school the following day Say hare you noticed some ol those scores In the Upper Kennebec Valley League girl a In the high sixties and low seventies Not bad for the gals Which is a reminder that a group of girls known ms the Redhead is looking for games against semi-pro clubs tn Maine basketball wtee and boy too AmCTteaa Aotamobda Aawnrtauoo nejct month Wtjh several of theta la the stx-footHdx determined tod3y vpheid tu of ac five and four area they really play for keeps and have ba'Ued I race car driver biu Holland for some of the better pro dubs in the 'country Bucksport Club participating tn an uruarctioned A nfw Hng mark wa reeenUy set by Medway (Faces Belfast BUCKSFORT Jan 1-Buek- ports undeftkted club team ear f-'om of the Ftorvla will go after tu ninth straight win rcthf broughl bout here Saturday night against the T-u-ficauer strong Belfast Merchants The game mill be played In the WANT GAMES high school rommene- The undefeated Ok! Town Pht-tng at 8 30 basketball club would like to Led by Ora Oott high scoring arrange road game or game on a center and a galaxy of ttandou home and home bazts with any player including Dick Chase Clyde teams tn Northern and Ex tern n( The western Hutchins Charlie Gravelle Dick Maine All teams interested should Sell and Paul Smith the locals contact Manager Robert Messier (have beaten some of the strongeat jOreat Work ulh or telephona Maine and Portland March and Tolland was brrrd from com- "nce rucking up SI puinU In one game That rel-petition until Nor 14 19S1 ona POPlBf em In A aRTvey being made of the I Orel pals on what they think the beet grouping for athletic context according to aarwUmeaU A good Idea However wa rtlil would Bke to nee the achool basketball teams divided according to strength and ability wot by enrollment All Clan and tourney application mun be reectvod by the chairman not Inter than na on February application mutt be In by Febrwary IS The rnvtrra and 1 tourney aet for the Bangor auditorium February tS at Wilton on the name datoa The tournament win he held at the ntrrratty of the-otate final at Orono March It MIMETIC Coach Shirley Klimavicz's Yemetic high basketball team currently boasts an unde aiedt record toppling all foes Members of the squad are front row left to right: Gloria Robbins Maryann Car-fol Rutlh Kenney Myrna Fahey Margurite Hamblen Judy Carroll and Marsha Alley Second row: Pat Wass Syl-viaii: Robinson Eliza Emerson Mary Pinkham Betty Rice Connie Clark and Miss Klimavicz Back row Manager Margery Bfnson Audrey Waas Nancy Robinson Harriet Lunt Alice Lawson and Assistant Manager Margaret Walker (Sfaff photo by Webb pD hi Town 2602 i teams in the sute.