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...Pivot Shot Score...
...Australia rolled easily with these blows, but not the Labor Party. It swung back. Although there are plenty of jobs in heavy industry, official figures now show 35,000 unemployed. Labor says there are far more and, forgetting its own enlightened postwar policy, has made immigration the pivot of its attack on the Liberal-Country Party coalition government. Said Laborite E. J. Ward last week: "More immigrants simply mean more unemployed...
...Elis, with a decided height advantage and three pivot men, forced Kirkland into a defensive game. Chan Cushman and Tom Everhart scored 14 and 13 points for the losers...
...next year's prospects, Dick Manning, the six foot, four inch center, probably has the best chance among the freshmen to start on the varsity. Wilson completely revamped Manning's game this fall, teaching him to shoot from the outside instead of from the pivot where he played in high school. Manning's greatest ability lies in his rebounding, as shown by the fact that he took the ball off the boards 193 times this season in 16 games, several of them against taller opponents...
...other freshmen, Captain Rollin Perry and Harry Sacks, also scored over 100 points this year. Sacks made only ten points less than Shaw during the season, hitting frequently from the pivot position...