St. Joe Spanks Eagles 29-17 to Cop Title O'Neill Wilts in 2d Half as Mr. Scott Boosts Total to 22 O’Neill’s Blue Eagles wilted in the second-hall here Friday night as the strong Bluejays of St. i Joseph’s, of Atkinson, poured on the heat to win the 10th annual Holt county tourney finals, 29-17. There was standing-room-only j in the public school auditoriiun as the Josies, headed by Forward Ed Scott, befuddled the Blues With their second-half surge, The customers defied subzero temper-1 atures and blowing snow to come from every corner of the county for the title bout. St. Joe started strong with four under-the-basket buckets by Red headed Scott. O’Neill recovered and trailed 9-10 at the rest per-; iod. In the second, the Eagles j took a one-point lead on some fancy comer shooting by For —-.-. ward Dick Tibbetts, who proved to be O’Neill’s only scoring hope. At intermission the count was 13-all. , . The Josies bounded back in the third to score five points com pared to O’Neill's none. The final stanza was all St. Joseph’s with Mr. Scott upping his evening’s total to 22. O’Neill bothered the Josies by working the ball slowly. O’Neill’s usually high scoring Ike Saindon was boxed up completely and neither he nor Bob Matthews ac counted for themselves in the scoring department. It was the second title in the week for the Josies. They copped the state Catholic prep chamion ship at York in the finals Tuesday night and entered the Holt meet the following night (having been issued a first-round bye.) They blasted Page 33-19 and spanked Stuart 43-33 to gain the finals. The Josies’ only loss this season was a one-point decision to ♦tettiiiiiimgmagKaoniUtgiUOt i BASKETBALL! In O’Neill... Sunday, Feb. 9 SACRED HEART of NORFOLK — vs. — ST. MARY’S of O’NEILL PUBLIC SCHOOL GYM. 2 P.M. | iPI0NEERS/^30 TEARS omi riN loadtof tb way with Amort ea'» hart farm oaf raocft boat For 30 years, every great improvement in the terms of farm and ranch loans has been pioneered by the Land Bank Co operative Credit System. Lug term—low interest rate—liberal pre-payment privi leges—Future Payment plan ... all these and many more were introduced FIRST by the Federal Land Bank Sys tem. TODAY you get everything that is best in a farm or ranch loan when you get a LAND BANK LOAN through your ELKHORN VALLEY-NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION LYLE DIERKS. Secy-Treas. O'NEILL Creighton Prep of Omaha. The Eagles failed to connect on 27 attempted fielders during the second-half and sank only one gratis flip all evening. O’Neill’s only previous loss had been a 33-36 setback to the Atkin son high Balers. The box score: ST. JOE (29) fg ft pf Pts Scott, f -10 2 122 Collomer, f -- 0 0 0 0 Miller, f_ 0 10 1 Shorn, f_ 0 0 0 0 Berigan, c- 2 2 0 6 Kokes, c —-- 0 0 0 0 Judge, g - 0 0 2 0 O’Malley, g_ 0 0 0 0 Mack, g_0 0 10 Troshynski, g - 0 0 0 0 Totals_12 5 4 29 O’NEILL (17) f« ft Pf Pts Saindon, f-0 13 1 Erwin, f_ 0 0 0 0 Tibbetts, f_ 7 0 0 14 Ven Every, f --0 0 10 Hungerford, f --10 3 2 Otsbome, c- 0 0 0 0 Matthews, c _0 0 10 Hartman, g - 0 0 0 0 Elkins, g _ 0 0 0 0 Calkins, g_ 0 0 0 0 Totals_8 1 9 17 Balers Take 3d Place Honors Third place laurels in the Holt county meet went to the Atkinson Balers, defeating the Stuart Bron chos 35-27. Atkinson had dropped a 21-36 decision to O’Neill and Stuart had been bounced 33-43 by St. Joe in the semifinals. The Balers stayed in front all the way with Forwards Kirk patrick and Schultz collecting 25 points. The individual star of the show was Stuart’s Forward Shaf fer, whose timely buckets kept the Bronchs in the game. He scored nine points. Sluggish second and third quar ters cost Stuart the game. Stuart wasted numerous field attempts. The boxscore: ATKINSON (35) fg ft pf pts Schultz, f- 5 5 4 15 Kirkpatrick, f-- 5 0 1 10 Braun, f - 0 0 0 0 iorner, f -0 0 0 0 Dierks, c-0 12 1 Keating, c -3 15 7 lossman, g-0 " 0 0 rooker, g-0 111 itetke, g - 0 13 1 rarvis, g - 0 0 0 0 Bayes, g - 0 0 0 0 Katliff, g-0 0_0_0 Totals _13 9 16 35 STUART (27) fg ft pf pts Shaffer, f - 4 1 4 9 3atenhorst, f - 0 0 0 0 fallen, f _0 12 1 ienderson, f - 0 2 0 • 2 Davis, c _ 2 3 4 7 Dodd, c _ 0 0 0 0 Irish, g _ 0 0 3 0 Stuart, g -3 2 1 8 Rezac, g - 0 0 0 0 Totals - 9 9 14 27 ( CHRMPLIN ^ {**[j* OIL . FOR "ON TIM GROUND..Oil IN TIM IKY” TRACTOR TRUCK BUS*. CAR..! ' _ • > 1 * Available at your friendly Champlin Service Station. v.;.