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...Yardling basketball team will play Andover away this evening in what should prove to be a fairly easy game for the Freshmen. Led by Captain George Harrington's scoring ability and backcourt play, the Crimson has lost only one game this year...
Coach Floyd Wilson will start his three big men, Ike Canty, Phil Haughey, and Dick Manning, and backcourt men Captain Roger Bulger and Bob BARNETT. He will probably also use Bob Hastings for a good part of the game. Hastings scored 14 points against Princeton in the first game...
...Fort Wayne Pistons, who at week's end led both divisions with a .773 percentage and had won nine of their last ten games. The Pistons' owner, Fred Zollner, a millionaire piston manufacturer, has spent gobs of money for playing talent, including Captain Andy Phillip, a backcourt ace, and for his coach this year hired Charley Eckman, an N.B.A. referee with no previous coaching experience. On the bench. Novice Coach Eckman comports himself like a cross between a whirling dervish and a man with the seven-year itch. He says he wins games not by telling his proficient...
Perhaps some of the best tennis of the entire tournament was unveiled in the Rauh-Wilson battle, even though in the opening rounds. Tall, rangy Wilson had the reach on his opponent, and dealt long forehands with deadly accuracy at the backcourt of Rauh. Rauh, however, refused to be shaken, and doggedly broke through service several times to overpower his slowly tiring...
...handle the guards positions, Berg has nominated Dick Covey, from Ridgewood (N.J.) High School, and Dick Relifanyder, from Penn Charter, down Philadelphia way. Both boys play the steady basketball characterized by Eastern backcourt men, with Covey specializing in play-making and Reilfanyder in set-shots...