Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 10

40 Service Boxers Ready for Reno Card Wednesday Some 40 of Uncle Sam's fighting men will converge on Reno this coming week and Wednesday night climb through the ropes to belt it out in an all star all service boxing card Reno's civic auditorium in the State Building downtown will be the site of the ring show AH pro ceeds through (dollar) contribu tions at the door to the March of Dimes will help the Washoe County polio drive The entire card is being sponsored by Stead Air orce Base Personnel at the local base has been busy lining up top fistic talent from Air orce Base making ar rangements for the auditorium ring and equipment and airmen will handle chores of ushering doormen etc Secretary Dick Taylor says Ne vada athletic commission with in spectors referees timers judges etc will all donate their services Matches will be completed Wed nesday morning at Stead at the of ficial weigh in being lined up by Sgt Bernard Prescott with aid of rank Ward commission inspec tor and Ty Cobb Pacific AAU vice president There will probably be about 15 bouts emerging from the match making procedure after a screen ing of the records and weights Some of the finest ama teur boxers are to appear includ ing a number of champions Hamilton ield is sending a team of nine Hawthorne Naval Ammu nition Depot will have nine sailors and marines McClellan ield will be represented by four ringmen Castle AB of Merced is sending up 10 fighters Nellis AB of Las Vegas will have at least four and host Stead AB has four ready for action Top local attraction is popular Ray Kozlowski the action fighter from Stead who has been the hit of recent Reno Gym cards a novice 147 pounder has had eight service bouts losing one last year and then winning the other seven by Darwin Nation 124 Leon Dreadon 129 and Bob Wines 122 are the other Stead boxers Nellis is led by Pedre Palismo a NEVADA STATE JOURNAL SPORTS 10 Reno Nev eb 7 1954 nside Stuff By TY COBB The other day we gave the needle to the student body for in different support of the Wolf Pack basketball team and to the local fans for sitting On their hands in stead of doing some rooting Today pleased to hand a little praise to the same people we criticized Because things were certainly dif ferent at Chico Nevada tilt The students were out in force their band and cheer leaders were active and both student and towns people weren't a 1 about making a little noise know if it had real effect on the play ers but the fans were rewarded with two of the most exciting frosh and varsity contests ever seen in Reno! Rex Layne wras quoted after his latest knockout loss that he was far from through with the ring But the other day in Wells Nev the oft drubbed Utah heavy con fided to a friend Rod Knight that he was seriously considering quit ting the fight game Carson City basketballer Ken Longero was in double jeopardy a week ago Painfully injured in a player col lision during the Carson Yerington game he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance En route the am bulance was involved in a wreck Las Vegas has now raised $244 486 in the drive to build a new YMCA there NCAA official small college basketball statistics not including this games lists Nevadan John Legarza as na tional leader again in free throw percentage Ineligible for the Chico series Legarza may drop out of the national picture now however be cause the minimum for listing is 40 free throws John tanked 40 out of 44 for a 909 per centage Chuck of Nevada is listed as fifth in the nation in this department with 40 out of 47 Bill Graham of Reno has a new heavyweight for his stable of fighters which includes Howard King The prospect is Bob Albright a 205 pound white boy who has scored seven straight six of them in the first round in Los An geles rings He's a Nevada too raised on a ranch in Clark county Chico State has signed nine football games for the 1954 sched ule including Alameda Navy (Oct 2) Pepperdine Whittier Sacra mento Humboldt State Southern Oregon California Aggies San rancisco State Gene Evans has been reappointed Nevada state semi pro baseball commissioner for 1954 Dates and site for the Ne vada tourney been listed yet but the state champ will meet No One team in a playoff the winner going to the semi pro nationals at Wichita August 20 National Golf Day when all golfers in the country a round and match their scores against that of Open champion Ben Hogan has been set for June 5 The Empire town team wants basket ball games either away from home or in the Empire Gerlach gym Townie managers should contact Walt Coughlin at Empire ort Warriors who beat the Wells Cargo eagers in Reno recently ex tended their win streak to 24 straight before being nipped by San YMI team 63 61 Next Nevada Portland series here will be the last Reno ap pearance for the Wolf Pack hoop sters San rancisco's Olympic Club billed in Reno eb 22 23 has folded up and the dates be filled Visalia worried about the future of its California League baseball team last week is now definitely assured of entry for 1954 A one day ticket drive put more than $8000 in the bank Basic High School of Henderson will have a new 1500 seat gym nasium plus a complete new ath letic field which includes a football gridiron and a 220 yard straight away for track This area is quite the gathering place for big hame athletes lately Jackie Jensen Red Sox outfielder and wife Zoe Ann Olson ex national diving champion were re in Reno for the March of Dimes telethon Doak Walker star back of pro football champion De troit Lions was a recent visitor at Hotel Mapes in Reno Bobby Gar rett quarterback and end Sam Morley the famous Stanford pass combination spent last week at Squaw Valley Eddie LeBaron QB of the Washington Redskins was also a visitor at Squaw Valley ski resort Ted orbes will not be at the helm of the California Ag gies football squad this coming fall season The Davis coach is taking a leave of absence to take a 15 month course at Columbia Univer sity Chico State College is get ting into the skiing picture though not yet on a competitive basis by opening a physical education course (one credit) for ski instruction been wondering if the re organized ar Western Conference is going to begin all new with various records etc or will retain those made over previous years Definitely the league will keep the long established marks Chico ath letic director Art Acker tells us In track they include heights scaled by Walter one time world high jump champion and by Dutch Warmerdam greatest pole vaulter of all time miss Wednes day fight card in civic auditorium (State Building) Nearly 40 of the finest amateur boxing stars in the armed forces will be here to swap leather for the March of Dimes Martin Takes Bowling Title Pete Martin fired in a 211 226 172 633 handicapped series last night to best Bob Schneider and win a special roll off to determine the 1954 Reno Sparks Bowling Association senior single cham pionship Schneider came in with Sparks 20 30 Cops Victory Sparks 20 30 Club of the Rail City basketball league riday night handed Capucci Weaver of the al lon city league a 58 50 setback in the Sparks Intermediate school gym The winning clubmen tied for second place in the Sparks civic cir cuit held a 10 7 first period lead fell behind by 23 18 at the half then came back for a 38 34 advan tage at the three quarter mark Harold Barker Sparks 20 southpaw pivot man left hooked the Capucci Weaver squad into submission after the halftime inter mission accounting for 21 points for game honors Eighteen of those points came off his southpaw pivot shots from the key Del (Jugger) Steve former al lon High School athlete recently re turned from service topped the vis itors from Churchill County with 17 points followed by Darrell Phil lips with 12 counters Lou Mat teoni and rank Lepori followed lead for 20 30 with 10 and seven points respectively 20 30 CLUB (58) I CAPUUCCI Player fg ft tp' WEAVER (50) Lepori 3 1 7 Player ft tp Ruiz 0 5 5 Graham Oil Barker 9 3 STPhllllps 5 2 12 aker 10 2 Perondl 0 0 0 Pulz 10 2 Button 113 Da Byington 2 2 6 Steve 4 9 17 DalByington 1 3 5 Tidwell 0 0 0 Matteonl 3 4 10 Weaver 0 0 0 Hage 0 0 0 Moeer 17 9 Williams 2 0 4 I Richmond 2 0 4 Totals 20 18 5s Totals 15 20 50 an 182 176 156 558 in the three game series The special roll off became last week when at com pletion of the minor events of the city tournament both Martin and Schneider had posted 653 series in the singles competition for the senior division Regulations set down by the American Bowling Congress for bid co championships in such cir cumstances and the roll off date was agreed on by the two The tie was the second in tour nament history of the Reno Sparks Association Last year Dania Society and Pony Express Motels tied for junior team divi sion honors with Pony Express Motels winning the resultant roll off Last singles roll off netted Martin a scratch series of 609 which with his handicap to taled the nifty 633 Schneider meanwhile ran into a bad eve ning and came up with a 514 scratch 558 handicapped series in falling to second place on the list for tournament results PROS AID AMATEURS LOS ANGELES eb 6 Amateur and professional tennis will join in an effort to aid amateur tennis when five professional tennis players take part in a $10000 tournament sponsored by the south ern California tennis association it was announced Georgia 1953 grid squad had 17 married players ASTHMA COUGHS let difficult breathing coughing and wheezing due to recurring spasms of Bronchial Asthma or simple Bronchitis ruin sleep and energy without trying MENDACO Usually quickly helps loosen and remove thick strangling mucus Thus allays coughing and promotes freer breath ing and aounder aleep Get MENDACO under back guarantee at druggist Nevada rosh Tip Chicoans In 40 38 Mix Ball Clinches Win With 2 Seconds Left to Play University of Nevada rosh eagers last night shaded the visit ing Chico State freshman team 40 38 to sweep their two game series with the Kittens The game was rough most of the way and again as riday night when the Nevadans won by 63 62 the times 26 seconds and two seconds left to play were all important The 26 second mark was a big factor in the win for the Nevada yearlings for at that point with the score reading 38 37 for the visiting Chicoans hustling Mose Mastelotto was called on a techni cality charged with a technical foul and ejected from the game Guard George Nelson of allon who last night and again tonight appeared in both the rosh and var sity games took free toss and plunked the ball through the rim to knot the count With possession of the mall the Nevada rosh took their time in setting up a shot inally guard George Ball from Las Vegas dead eyed Ms only goal of the night from about 25 feet out on the left side of the court The goal put Nevada ahead by 40 38 with two seconds left and the Chico reshmen were not able to get the ball away in a further attempt at knotting the score The loss for the visitors stemmed from a deep freeze tactic they put into use with five minutes of play remaining At that time the Kittens held a slim four point advantage 38 34 The resulting slow down in the game netted the visitors a total of only four points in the final session while Coach Hugh Nevadans were getting 13 to overcome a seven point deficit Both squads were slow starting the scoring with three minutes even gone in the opening period be fore Chico Don Laffin hit a free throw for a 1 0 lead ifteen seconds later Glen Piretto hit from the field for Nevada and the race was or a time the game fol lowed the pat tern of game when the count never varied by more than three or four points but the Kittens pulled out to an 11 8 lead at the end of the quarter Laffin Top Man During that session Laffin had potted seven points for the Chi coans He finished with 17 for game honors The second period was an exact copy of the first for scoring and the halftime count was 22 16 Chico rosh Things picked up a in the third which closed at 34 27 for the visitors Three minutes into the final stanza the freeze went on and the eventual end started when George Nelson who hit for 16 points ri day suddenly came to life and hit two quick goals His third of the period brought the count to 38 37 with 1:15 remaining Nelson fin ished with 11 points to top the Nevada rosh Nevada rosh (40)' Chico rosh (38) Player: fg ft tp Player: fg ft tp Meder 0 2 2'Lafflns 8 1 17 Wilkinson 1 2 10 2 Piretto 4 1 9 Myers 0 0 0 Kendrick 1 1 31 Ray 4 2 10 Howton 1 2 Mastelotto 3 0 6 Dlanucci 2 1 51 Rideout 0 0 0 Nelson 5 1 11 Picanao 113 Ball 1 0 21 1 Total 15 10 40 Total 17 4 38 Score by quarters: Nevada resh 8 16 27 40 Chico rosh 11 22 34 38 DENY DEEMPHASIS SOUTH BEND Ind eb 6 (IP) Notre president the Rev Theodore Hesburgh said that appointment of Terry Brennan indicate an era of Irish grid deemphasis RIO GRANDE eb 6 Coach Newt Oliver said today that record smashing Clarence (Bevo) rancis develop into the greatest basketball player who ever Staters Cop Sixth Win In Row rom Humboldt EUREKA Calif eb 6 San rancisco State College scored its sixth consecutive far western basketball conference win tonight as the Gators toppled Humboldt State 80 to 61 San rancisco found it easy go ing and built up a halftime score of 44 to 23 and then tossed in 36 points in the final half to win Don ort of San rancisco State took high scoring honors with a total of 23 points Scores by periods: State 23 21 17 Humboldt State 13 10 23 ernley Drubs Coleville ive STEWART eb 6 (Special to the Journal) red hot Vaqueros tonight smashed a Cole ville High School quint 67 37 in a high school basketball game played here It was a conference win for ernley and helped cement the hold on second place in the Western Nevada Confer ence win tonight was largely a team effort with scor ing evenly divided except for Mar vin 18 point contribution All squad members were hitting well while Coleville was having tough luck on shots ernley (67) I Coleville (37) Player: fg ft tpl Player: fg ft tp Turner 1 4 6 Dick 5 2 12 Brady 2 2 6 McAllister 12 4 Shaw 6 6 181 Brown 2 3 7 Persons 2 3 7 McAllister Oil Lauritzen 3 3 SjDCmmlngs 5 3 13 Salvlnl 1 3 5' Heintz 0 0 0 Knutson 4 1 9 CCmmlngs OOO Dunn 2 0'4' Blrmlnghm 0 0 0 DavlS 2 21 rasher 0 0 0 Urizar 0 1 August 0 0 0 I Watts 0 0 0 i i i Totals 21 25 67 Totals 13 11 37 Score by quarters: ernley 15 30 45 67 Coleville 8 14 27 37 Humboldt Tops Carlin Quintet WINNEMUCCA eb 6 (Spe cial to the Journal) Buckaroos tonight scored a 53 47 non conference basketball win over the visiting Carlin Railroaders in a game which was close from start to finish Playing a major role in the Buckaroo win was the good team job of rebounding Al Gonzales was credited with an outstanding floor game for the Winnemucca crew The Humboldt five had jumped to a comfortable 12 4 lead in the first period but the gap was narrowed somewhat In that second frame with the half ending 24 17 JV team whipped Carlin in the prelim game Winijemucca (53) CARLIN (47) I Player fg ft tp Player fg ft tp Seals 4 4 12Tognlnl 3 4 10 Stoker 5 fl 161 Shumway 0 0 0 Osgood 1 0 21 Cross OOO Bankofier 1 1 3iE Cross 3 3 9 Diffee 1 1 OOO Rankin 1 2 4 McBride 5 4 14 Gonzales 0 1 llsmith 0 0 0 Rosevear 2 0 4IPruitt 2 3 7 robin 4 0 8'Goodale 0 0 0 Zabala 0 0 OiChiles 0 0 0 Player 113 Hansen 2 0 4 Totals 19 15 53 Totals 16 15 47 Score by quarters: Winnemucca 12 26 42 53 Carlin 4 17 33 47 ChiSox Land Johnny Groth CHICAGO eb 6 The Chi cago White Sox acquired home town boy Johnny Groth and in fielder Johnny Lipon from the Baltimore Orioles today in a move to put more speed behind their 1954 pennant hopes and to bulwark the third base spot In return the Sox gave up vet eran outfielder Sam Mele and utili ty infielder Neil Berry Unbeaten Men Slated With Training Squadron In City League eature Next to final week in Reno city basketball play opens tomorrow night with the league leaders in three leagues scheduled for impor tant games during the activ ities In the league the un defeated Reno Men will tangle with the once beaten Stead Train ing Squadron in the early game at Billinghurst on Thursday night competition finds the clean slate Vagabond Club meeting the strong Reno Laundry five in the late game at Northside on Tuesday Undefeated Italian Benevolent So ciety of the loop tangles with one of the tougher clubs in that league Hill and Sons Motel in the early game at 'Billinghurst Tues day Commissioner Harry Spencer an nounced that the Reno Men Stead Training Squadron game was switched with the IBS Hill and Sons game Originally the meeting was set for Thursday and the clash for Tuesday Reno Men should have their hands full with the strong Stead club this week The Training Squadron has dropped only one game in play and that was a season opener to the Nevada Bank of Commerce The Bank up set by the Men in later season play were strong favorites to cop the city crown for the second year in a row The Stead five has shown continued improvement in league play since their loss to the Bank and have taken their opponents by handy margins By the same token the Men have only been extended to their limit in their meeting with the Bank game should give both teams an opportunity to go to the limit While the Vagabond looks un touchable in play the surpris ing Reno Laundry club could give them trouble in this game In the league no one has come close to the Italian Benevolent So ciety since their opener with the Nevada National Guard The po tent Hill and Sons Motel crew should give IBS a run for their money however Led by veteran city leaguer Ed Spoon the motel club has dropped a couple of close ones in their loop while winning a number of games by handy mar gins 1954 Reno City Basketball Leading Scorers AA LEAGUE Player and team: fg ft tp Knudsen Bank of Commerce 30 19 79 Ryerse Reno Men 23 25 71 Ibarra The Stag 21 13 55 Costello YMCA 21 12 54 Vldovlch Wells Cargo 19 13 51 A LEAGUE Player and team: fg ft tp Comstock ive Dumps Gerlach VIRGINIA CITY eb 6 (Spe cial to the Journal) Virginia Hilltoppers tonight strengthened their hold on third spot in the Western Nevada Conference with a well earned 47 28 win over the Gerlach Bulldogs The game was played before a capacity crowd the best of the season The game little Bulldogs stayed right with taller outfit until the final period when the pace began to tell Gerlach had played a tough ball game the night before in beating Dayton 41 39 in an overtime game Bobby Bowman of Virginia City was the top performer here tonight playing good all around ball He tallied 13 Bob Weldon a soph from Ger lach turned in a fine game for the losing Bulldogs Elixir Cops Win In McLennan MIAMI eb 6 Elixir an 18 1 chance shot through the middle of a packed field of 16 horses today to win the $72400 McLennan Handicap before a Hialeah crowd of 26347 highest of the year Sanders The Vagabond 36 6 78 Reed Reno Institute 23 19 65 Bell Reno Gym 23 10 56 Reno Institute 3 2 600 Gardner Reno Institute 22 10 54 Lindsay Peerless Men 21 10 52 Turner Peerless Men 18 16 52 Anderson DeMolay 19 12 50 6 LEAGUE Player and team: fg ft tp Lepori IBS 58 19 135 Barker IBS 38 24 100 Robinson National Gaurd 28 12 68 Showalter Nev Air Products 24 18 56 Anderson Reno Print 21 9 51 Cooper Hill and Sons 16 19 51 Gillis The Inkspots 17 17 51 1954 Reno City Basketball League Standings A A LEAGUE Team: Pct Reno Men 4 0 1000 Nevada Bank of Commerce 4 1 800 Stead Training Squadron 4 1 800 Wells Cargo 3 1 750 The Stag 2 3 600 Rissones 1 4 200 YMCA 1 4 200 Picket Meadows Marines 0 5 000 A LEAGUE Team: Pct The Vagabond 5 0 1000 Reno Gym 3 2 600 Smith The Vagabond 21 3 55 Reno Laundry 2 2 500 Peerless Men 2 3 400 Rlssone Auto Parts 2 3 400 DeMolay 1 3 250 Garrett Realty 0 5 000 LEAGUE Team: Pct Italian Benevolent Society 6 0 1000 Hill and Sons Motel 4 2 768 Isbell Construction 4 2 768 The Inkspots 3 2 600 Nevada National Guard 3 2 600 Marine Reserve 2 3 400 Reno Print 1 4 250 Nevada Air Products 1 5 232 Reno Press Brick 1 5 232 1954 Reno City Basketball League This Schedule Monday ebruary 8 7:00 Isbell Construction vs Reno Print: 8:15 Nevada Bank of Commerce vs The Stag Northside 7:00 The Inkspots vs Ma rine Reserve 8:15 Garrett Realty vs Reno Institute 7 :00 Nevada Air Products vs Reno Press Brick Tuesday ebruary 9 Billinghurst 7:00 Italian Behevolent Society vs Hill and Sons: 8:15 Wells Cargo vs YMCA Northside 7 :00 Peerless Men vs Reno Gym 8:15 The Vagabond vs Reno Laundry Thursday ebruary Billinghurst 7:00 Reno Men vs Stead Training Squadrvn: 8:15 Picket Meadows Marines vs Rissones Northside 7:00 The Inkspots vs Ne vada National Guard 8:15 Rissones Auto Parts vs The DeMolay Gerlach Takes irst Victory Cops Overtimer GERLACH eb 6 (Special to the Journal) The Gerlach High School Bulldogs won their first game of the season here riday night slipping past the visiting Dayton Haymakers 41 39 inan overtime Western Nevada con ference clash The victory for Coach John Gil squad was the first since the school dropped out of basket ball competition for seven years returning only this season as part of the Western group win gave the Bulldogs a 1 6 over all record for the season and left them at 1 5 in the league where they now trail Coleville's Wolves by one half game in the standings The two teams battled to the wire during the regulation playing per iod riday with the count dead locked at that point at 37 all Ger lach had led 7 6 at the end of the first period with Dayton boss by 16 15 at the half and Gerlach back in control again by 28 27 at the close of three periods of play Gerlach scored its win despite a 29 point output by veter an Paul Nieri who now has aver aged better than 25 points a game to date this season Top scorers for the Bulldogs were freshman Rudy Torres speedster and his run ning mate red Arnold a ju nior iHEsaHHRwamaasa Electric Shavers REPAIRED quickly Mall or bring to Jack Shaver Shop 218 Sierra Reno across from SJ Sears Also sell Schick Remington Sunbeam Norelco allowing 15 toB $750 for old shavers Lighters re Hatred Phone 2 6501 va REMEMBER TO REMEMBER Vern Ambrose Real Estate and Insurance Now Associated Broker with JOHN HICKOK CO Investment Properties Business Opportunities 137 2nd Bus Ph 2 4004 Res Ph 2 4722 By EBns yS INE BEVERAGES EXCELLENT OOD and THE CLOCK NEVADA CLUB 224 North Virginia Hawaiian 165 pounder who has a brilliant record had 20 fights won the all Air orce title in Ger many in 1948 and was runner up in the all Air orce European tour ney John Stewart of Washington is another veteran boxer This 178 pounder was 1951 AAU cham pion also national winner of the Pan American Games eliminations and 1950 all Air orce Golden Sierra Skiing By JERRY WETZEL Gloves winner Earl Douglas 125 of Hamilton ield won the Air orce Pacific Coast tourney in 1953 Castle ABis sending up two heavyweights Wahl at 195 and Clark at 230 but so far no one has been found to meet these big fellows Lt Harry Hugasian former Stanford football halfback is the Hamilton AB athletic officer Cecchi Sets Sparks Loop Point Pace Skiing continues good at both the new Reno Ski Bowl and Sky Tavern despite below normal snow depths How long the snow will last under present spring weather conditions is something that the management of both Sky Tavern and Reno Ski Bowl are worrying about at present Another storm would make skiing ideal for the rest of the season providing such a storm comes soon Junior Skiing Booming The greatest junior ski pro gram day in the five year history of the program was witnessed yes terday as nearly 450 Reno youths flocked to the slopes at Mt Rose for the second Saturday of the 1954 season to participate in the wonderful youth ski day Larry Jenkins director of the program indicates that before the end of the season the program will reach a figure of 500 Reno and Sparks youths who will participate in the weekly Saturday ski day at Sky Tavern or those who are inter ested in an amazing sight we sug gest that you drive by the South side school about 8:45 some Sat urday morning and witness these young Reno slat hopefuls loading the special buses that carry them to the ski slopes Carson City Junior Ski Program So much enthusiasm has been shown in Carson City in regard to the junior ski activity that bus service has been instituted every Sunday from Carson City to Sky Tavern for all Carson City chil dren who care to participate To day 35 youngsters from the Capital City will travel by bus to Sky Tavern where they will re ceive two hours of ski instruction The only cost to them will be the bus fare while the cost of the les sons and lift will be borne by Jim McVey and Bob Wetzel of the Carson Smoke Shop and Bert Cochrane proprietor of the Sena tor Cafe and Bar Day Great Success ifty Reno and Sparks ladies participated in last Ski Day at Sky Tavern where for $5 the ladies are entitled to round trip bus fare to Sky Tavern lunch two hours ski in struction in Bud ski school and use of the Sky Tavern lifts The program continues every Thursday and expected attend ance this Thursday should reach 75 ladies Before the end of the season it will take three buses to carry the ladies to the ski area and return All interested Reno and Sparks ladies are invited to participate Lake Tahoe Woman Heads Meet or the first time in the history of ar West jumping tournaments a woman has beennamed tourna ment director of a jumping meet Blanche Donelson of Tahoe City this year heads the Lake Tahoe Ski Club WSA jumping tournament ebruary 21 on the Tahoe Olympic Hill Mrs Donelson is do ing a bang up job of promoting this major jumping tourhey in the Sierras Nevada Jumping Championships Bill Nelson tournament director for the Nevada state jumping championships at Sky Tavern eb ruary 28 yesterday mailed 100 in vitations to 25 WSA clubs inviting interested skiers to participate in the first Nevada jumping cham pionships in a number of years Kes Ramsey of Sky Tavern has ob tained an impressive array of prizes All that is lacking is about three feetof the white stuff that will enable jumps up to 150 feet to be executed off of the Sky Tav ern jump Two Games Slated In Circuit Monday Two top games are on tap Mon day evening in the Sparks city basketball league with first place Western Mercantile scheduled to meet the Sparks 20 30 Club (tied for second) in the 8:15 headliner following at 7 opener be tween the Copenhagen Bar (also tied for second) and fourth place Sparks MIA Western Merc will put up a clean slate 5 0 record against the 4 1 record of the 20 30ians while 4 1 will be pitted against the 3 2 record of the MIA Meanwhile statistics released by Commissioner Bruno Tassone show Italo Cecchi of Western Merc continues to set the individ ual scoring pace after five weeks play with 38 field goals and 17 free throws to his credit for 93 points and an average of 186 each time out Bill Sanders of Pony Express Motel still is second 10 points off the pace with Lee Ceccarelli of Copenhagen third at the 78 point mark five behind Sanders ay Robinson trails Ceccarelli by one An oddity in scoring for the top three last week came about when each scored nine field goals and four foul shots for 22 points on the same night of play to main tain their exact comparative posi tions in the race SPARKS CITY BASKETBALL Standings Team Pct Western Merc 5 0 1000 Sparks 20 30 4 1 800 Copenhagen Bar 4 I 800 Sparks I A 3 2 600 Isbell Construction 1 4 200 Sparks Seniors 1 4 200 Pony Express Motel 1 4 200 Chuck Wagon 1 4 JOO Individual Scoring layer team TP Cecchi Western Merc 38 18 93 Sanders Pony Express 35 13 83 Ceccarelli 33 12 78 Robinson I A 32 13 77 Lepori 20 30 25 10 60 Jolnes Seniors 21 17 59 Doan Chuck Wagon 21 12 55 Vlugamore West Merc 22 9 53 Isbell 22 8 52 Mendlve Copenhagen 12 21 45 This Schedule Monday 7:00 Copenhagen Bar vs I A 8:15 Western Mercan tile vs 20 30 Wednesday 7:00 Pony Express Motel vs Chuck Wagon' 8:15 nr Sparks High School Seniors Isbell Construction Juniors Stove to Edelweiss Reno junior competitors move to Edelweiss ski area on Highway 50 today for the WSA junior giant slalom championships More Reno juniors will compete in a ski race today than ever before as nearly 20 Reno racers will be on hand for this tourney Coach Hal Codding who instructs most of these racing hope fuls pointed out that his only wor ry was how to get all of the skis waxed by starting time at 10 am CUSTOM CRAT loor length DRAW DRAPERIES MADE REg You Pay or Yardage Only RALPH TILLMANNS 107 Lake St Phone 2 9929 SyA JI and so wrong with 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