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* D. D. POOL GAME * T.I. Basketballers Trounce Coast Guard,

48-30; Ducich Scores . 18 Points

Like Old Man River, Treasure Island keeps on rolling, this
time overpowering the Coast Guard Pilots, 48-30, in a free-
scoring basketball tussle at the new Treasure Island Gym.
Lift thy sodden head, Although neither team showed
look to the new year that is upon anything outstanding, it was sides in the play was definitely bet-
you. obvious after 10 minutes' play that ter.
It can now be told. Treasure Island's height advantage Coast Guard started right out to
The Christmas and would be the deciding factor.
holidays have seen their last piece A slow starting bali game that make a fight of it, sinking a mid-
court shot by Tunnell. Bertolotti
of mistletoe for another year and was scor-eless for the first six min-
followed up with a set-up basket
along with it went the annual 12th utes found the Pilots drawing first
Naval Boxing tourney. blood with a free throw. T,easure and Ruble ended the scoring spree
with a free throw.
Men were trained, taught and re- Island responded to the challenge A wave of Treasure Island sub-
warded if they made the grade, with Phillips, Zunic and Alston stitutes swept the floor, giving the
while favorites fell by the wayside, sinking a trio of field goals. tired first stringers a baclly needed
giving their press clippings an At this point, the game got a bit rest, but their play was short lived
awful pasting. wild and wooly with neither squad as the gun sounded a few minutes
Coache!) strained their lungs with being able to do much except lose later.
advice, yelled a "we were robbed" the ball on sloppy play. Scoring:
if the bout ended with t he least pos- Cool generalship on the part of Treasure Island ( 48)
sible doubt. But somebody had to Tunnell settled the Coast Guard Position FG FT TP
win. After all, that's what judges team enough to score a basket and Alston, f . . . • . . ....... 1 0 2
are for. a free throw, while the Treasure ,Phillips, f ............ 0 4 4
Some pr9mising prospects were Island basketballers were still Rokosh, f ... . ..... .. . 3 0 6
revealed in the heated scrambles, gathering their wits. Zunic, c ............. 5 0 10
two rri.en standing a couple of hairs Danny Ducich, string-bean cen- Ducich, c ............ 8 2 18
above the rest. ter, was injected into the game at Clark, g ..... . ...... 0 0 0
'-...,
Take Nathaniel Huskey of the this stage, scoring a quick basket Haines, g .... ....... . 2 0 4
Frontier Base. Here is a lad with and passing to Ed Rokosh for an- Morse, g .. . . ..... ... 0 2 2
plenty of savvy and a pair of in- other tally. A. Bartolotti, Coast Britton, g ............ 0 2 2
structive mits as able helpers. He Guard forward, intervened here
got no breather in Benny Calla, A NEAR HIT .. . Believe it or not the ball did not go in. An immediate with a fancy underhand shot, add- Totals ......... . ... 19 10 48
tip-in by Schriener (14) of the D. D. Pool was necessary to score the
but the way he handled the cagey two points. ing to this with a free throw to Coast Guard (30)
veteran, stopping him repeatedly in shorten the gap between Treasure Position - FG FT TP
his tracks with stinging left jabs, Island and them. H ere Rokosh, Kirwan, f "" ... . ".0 0 0
and an incessant body attack, cer- most, at the game's end. Zul).ic and Ducich ran wild with Stout, f .. ... ........ 0 0 0
tainly told a convincing story in T. I. Trims Cal. Phillips was exceptionally un- baskets, turning a rather close Duncan, f ........... o 2 2
the end. Varsity, 45-39; canny with the pig-hide, looping 17 game into a near rout. Spencer of Richardson, f .. .... .. o 1 1
Huskey is a former Chicago points through the basket. Mota of the Pilots sank a center court shot Bertolotti, C ......... 5 3 13
Golden Gloves champ, having piled Support Lacking the Bears ended up with 16 digits just as the gun sounded, leaving Spencer, C . .......... 2 1 5
up an enviable record and the way to his credit. the score 27-14 as the half ended. Tunnell, g . . ......... 2 1 5
in which he handled himself Friday Treasure Island's basketball Treasure Island support was Inspiring pep talks must have Ruble, g . .. .... .. .... 0 2 2
night, certainly proved it. "spoilers" did another thorough job lacking, so few white hats being put the boys in the right state of McKay, g ........... 1 0 2
Unheralded Gene Ronstad came Saturday night, pinning a 45-39 sprinkled in the stands that they mind for the second half because
through very nicely for the Armed loss on previously undefeated Uni- were hardly noticeable. the enthusiasm showed by both Totals .. . . ... . . ... 10 10 30
Guard, living up to pre-fight expec- versity of California.
tations even more than expected. To make matters worse, they did eludes the following:
Base, t he smooth-punching Ron- make it a one· team affair, running .. SPORTS .. Fred Scolari and Trude Sperry,
Dancing a circle around the highly it in Cal's own -back yard.
touted J. Alexander of the Frontier
California started right out to
San Francisco Athletic Club, for-
stad hardly mussed his hair in up a 13-4 lead on a series of bas- wards; Art Burris, Armed Guard;
Herman Fischer, Armed Guard;
coasting to a victory behind a kets by Mota and O'Farrell. Kevin O'Shea, Coast Guard Sea
screen of lefts and rights. Treasure Island grabbed the in- Anet, directing defense and play- Lions, guards.
Alexander was a willing mixer, itiative from the Golden Bears with Anet of Armed Guard ing. an extraordinary game on the First 10 leading scorers in the
but had a great deal of trouble in a pair of field goals from mid-court pivot post for a lad just five feet NCBA for the week ending De-
finding his slippery foe with by Phillips and then tied the game Gets Cage Honor nine, led the Armed Guard in its cember 23:
punches. Ronstad is definitely one up with a free throw by Zunic. A victory over the Coast Guard Sea
Bobby . Anet, small but clever Name G FGFTTP
to watch in the future. tip in by Phillips left the blue- Lions. Bobby played for the Uni-
guard of the Armed Guard, was Scolari, SFAC .... . . 2 14 2 30
jackets with a 20-16 lead as the
NCBA Basketball Tournament . . . chosen player of t he week of the versity of Oregon against Stanford Kramer, Fleet City .. 2 9 6 24
half ended.
Unpredictable St. Mary's Pre- Northern California Basketball As- and "Hank" Luisetti in 1938. Anet, Armed Guard .. 2 9 4 22
Flight and the Coast Guard Sea Five points were the most that sociation by the basketball writers. Team of the week named in- Sperry, SF AC . ...... 2 9 3 21
Lions have made the NCBA cage separated these two evenly matched Burris, Armed Guard 2 9 1 19
teams at any time through the sec-
tourney a jig-saw puzzle with their Connelly, SF AC . .... 2 4 9 17
ond half, this being when it counted
stunning defeats to the San Fran- Wolfe, St. Marys .... 1 7 2 16
cisco Athletic Club and the Armed Mathewson, AG ..... 2 7 2 16
Guard, respectively. Mortola, SF AC ...... 2 5 6 16
Both rode the crest of an unde- D. D. Pool Drops Cox, Hamilton Field .1 6 2 14
feated season and were expected to
do so until they met in the finals, 4S-32 Cage Setback
_ but they were keeled over by un- T. I., Alameda Air
expected competition from their To Coast Guard Supply
.plucky foes. Although Jacob Meyer scored 18 Clash In Double
Now r unning neck and neck in a
points for the D. D. Pool, it wasn't
four-team race, Treasure Island, St. Header at New Gym
enough to stave off the 45-32
Mary's Pre-Flight, Armed Guard defeat suffered at the hands of the
and the Sea Lions are all vying for Coast Guard District S u p p 1 y Basketball titans of both the 12th
the hoop crown, with no big name basketball quintet Friday night in Naval and NCBA tourney headline
player · like Luisetti or . Pollard to a double header here on Treasure
the Treasure Island gymnasium. Island, Wednesday, January 10, in
lead any of them. Instead the After a neck-and-neck battle the new gymnasium.
struggle has turned into a team- through three sessions, the District
work affair with different names Supply men poured on the steam Alameda Air Station, present
giving sparkling performances with a bit of razzle dazzle in the king-pin of the 12th Naval District,
week in and week out. Paul Na- final quarter to smother the tin will risk its perfect 'record against
politano of the Sea Lions seems can men in a barrage of baskets. . the efforts of Treasure Island, while
in the second place Armed Guard
to be the most consistent hardwood Playing a bang-up game for the will tangle with St. Marys' Pre-
performer, with Fred Scolari of pool were Schriener at guard and H E Y, MAC, Q U IT SHOVIN' .. ... Flight in the other half of the
the San Francisco A. C. and Jack David, forward. two teams playing " razzle-dazzle" double bill.
Haines of Treasure Island doing an are seen as they try vainly to push Play is scheduled for 1930.
above average job. the rubber ball in the right direc-
tion. The game off.ers excellent
Upsets occur so · frequently in
basketball and bad nights can come ATHLETE OF THE 'WEEK body conditioning to those taking
a n active part.
so unexpectedly that it is practi- Bakers Down D. D.
Comely Phyllis Parsons, PhM2c,
cally impossible for your sports grabs this we,ek's sportslight for making her debut before a critical
analyst to choose a winner ahead her ,outstanding performance in the audience. Pool Keglers, 2349-
of time. "Razzle Dazzle" Game
Waves Pin tourney. This is "razzle-dazzle", a game 2251, in Pin Fest
P-ot Sho·,s. Taking the play Like Bargain Day at played with a rubber ball, 19 feet
Frontier Base certainly keeps its away f r o m t h e in circumference and weighing Galley K Bakers added another
fighters under a veil of secrecy. stronger sex with Macy's Basement about 30 pounds. There are 12 men candle to their victory cake with
And very wisely so, because they her achievements on on a side, and the ·object being to their 2349-2251 win over the D.D.
surely did surprise the bunch of the bowling alleys, Just a bunch of guys pushing the push the ball to their opponent's -Pool in a bowling contest.
optimists that had the Armed the versa ti le Phy I I is "ball" around and not getting goal line. The Navy has adopted Pin boys had a field day in the
Guard pegged and Alameda Air nabbed high indivi- plaees fast . . . this game as part of its tremen- respect that both teams were quite
Station pegged from the start. . . dual honors with a They shove and push and push dous body building program. wild with. the ball, guttering a sur-
The Rugby-Football League is now 153 average a n d and shove some more ... prising amount.
in the offing and it is hoped that completed her d-omination with a And the huge r ubber ball steps Men are urged to form teams Any team wanting competition
Treasure Island can scrape enough high series run of 503 to grab top across the outstretched hands of for participation in this excellent with the above mentioned should
men together to get a winning honors for the Doc-ettes. the players, as a ballarina of the body building pastime. The game contact V. Kozanecki of the D.D.
combination. Ballet Russe steps across the stage is played at Gym No. 1. Pool.