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i w a ' t " 1 - j - f A otters Westside Lions Falter in Opener as Springfield Wins Springfield knocked off its second Cass county foe Tuesday by stopping Louisville 52-31 on the Lions court. The Sarpy county crew pulled away in the final period after being held close by Coach Darrell Bran denburg's crew for three periods. Springfield took a 10-9 first quarter margin and held a sim ilar one-point lead, 22-21 at half time. Springfield's Treadway, hish game scorer with 17 points, hit ten points in the first half. During the same period Bruce Ilirsch hit 9 for Louisville. The invaders moved away from the Lions in the third quar ter and going into the final pe riod led 33-25. Ten free throws in the final period helped swell the total. Hirsch and Jack White led the Lions with 9 points each, both getting all their points in the first half. John Workman add ed seven more. Behind Treadway's 17 points. Springfield scored with 14 by Meisinger and 7 by Neilsen. First game of the season for the Lions. Coach Brandenburg's crew hit 11 of 19 gift tosses and lost two men on fouls as the Lions were charged with 24 fouls. Springfield hit 16 of 20 free throws and had 15 fouls. Louisville's next game will be a home engagement against Weeping Water in,a Cass County Conference clash on December 9. Bowling: Standings TEAM W Ernie's Tavern 21 Alamito Dairy 17 Platts. Paint St 16 Conoco 16 Eagles 16 Woster Shoe St 15 V. F. W 14 Timm's Tavern 14 Marge & Elmer 14 Legion 12 Donafs 12 Bradley Groc 11 Firestone ll Western Auto 10 Myers Grocery 9 Art & Minnie 8 L. 6 10 11 11 11 12 13 13 13 15 15 16 16 17 18 19 Ahrens, 55-28 Beverage Conference Win Shooting into an early 12-0 lead, the Plattsmouth Blue Dev ils were never in danger as they roared to their second win of the current basketball season and opened defense of their confer ence crown as Omaha Westside fell 55-28 Friday night. Baskets by Dick Beverage, John Ahrens, Jim Jacques and Tom Conis accounted for the 12 0 early lead as the charges of Coach Merle Stewart took its first cage win in Ak-Sar-Bcn Conference activity. Plattsmouth led 14-2 ailer one period and held a 30-14 lead at half time. The count stood at 43-20 going into the final pe riod. Beverage and Ahrens set the scoring pace with Beverage con necting for 12 of his 14 points during the first half, while Ah rens rhit 8 of his 15 during the same two periods. Jacques found the baskets for 9 points, while Schuetz potted 7. Reserves saw action through out the final three periods, as I Stewart sent 14 players into ac- tion. Reserves played much of j the second period, most of third j period and the early part of the ! final canto, before a full starting j : team went back into action. I The win was the 7th straight j ; in conference play since last j ; year, when the Blue Devils went i undefeated in East Seven Ne braska play. They currently lead Ak-Sar-Ben conference Coal traffic on the Mononga- teams, and will attempt to move hela River into Pittsburgh out . larF in front tonight . . v. , V against Valley, amounts to between 22 and 2o Heckenlively was the main of- fpinsivo lvpnnnn fnr 14 . . GAMES THIS WEEK . . . Monday Plattsmouth at Valley Tuesday Weeping Water at Louisville Dunbar at Avoca Friday Eagle at Elmwood Murdock at Avoca Greenwood at Nehawka contributing 11 points. Plattsmouth F FT F Beverage, f 6 2-4 2 Dasher, f 0 0-0 0 LNoell, f 0 0-0 1 iRhoades. f 0 0-0 0 Jacques, c 4 1-5 2 j Nielsen, c 0 1-3 0 i Finnefrock, c 0 0-0 1 iCcnis. g 2 1-4 2 I Cundall, g 0 0-2 0 'Graves, g 0 0-0 0 ; Schuetz, g 3 1-1 0 Wood, g 2 0-0 2 :Blotzer, g 0 0-0 1 CHIEF POWER SOURCE There are close to 3,900 elec tric utility plants in the U. S., and while only about 27 are powered by steam from coal, their electricity output accounts for seme 70 of the total. Totals 23 9-27 14 Westside McGinnis, f Dickenson, f Vcss, f Garloch, f . . Mayberry, c Peterson, c . . Stacker, g . . Price, g Hunt, g Baird, g F .0 0 .1 0 0 .1 0 2 0 .0 COAL IX U. S. CAPITAL It would take a 55-mile-long train, consisting of 6,717 coal cars, to carry the average amount of coal burned yearly by government heating plants in the area of Washington, D. C. Heckenlively, g 5 Brewar, g 1 FT 1- 1 0- 0 2- 5 1- 2 0-0 0-2 0- 0 1- 3 0- 0 2- 4 1- 6 0-0 l million tons annually. tensive weapon Westside, RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE - DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 Four Devils On Loop All-Conference Team Selection of an all-star confer- ; ence football team, drawing for ; the conference basketball tour nament, awarding of the confer i ence grid trophy and a decision : to conduct a junior high school ; basketball tourney were com- ; pleted Saturday at a meeting of : Ak-Sar-Ben conference coaches ' and school officials. 51 ISrt c t" Br 601 Main Guaranteed Vitch Repairing Diamonds 0 Gifts Elgin Bulova Hamilton Watches We Give S & H Green Stamps E Jewelry Watch Repair Phone 223 f i '--v W Four Plattsmouth gridders were named to the offensive and defensive teams selected by coaches and officials on the basis of grid activity during the past season. . Listed on the offensive eleven are Tackles Dick March and Back Jon Schuetz, while John Ahrens, end, and Tom Conis, Back, rated the all-conference defensive eleven. Team selections, completed S.l'nrriav on n v?t(im nntlinH tee including Coach Merle Stew art, are: Offensive Ends Bockman, Blair and Edwards, Wahoo Tackles March, Plattsmouth and Fujan, Wahoo. Guards Eaton, Ash land and Sands, Bellevue. Cen ter Ehlers, Blair. Backs O' Hanlon, Blair; Schuetz, Platts mouth; Johnson, Valley, and Lanik, Wahoo. Defensive Ends Ahrens, Plattsmouth :I I Proctor. Ashland and Alexander, and Benal. Wahoo. Center Take a Tip from SANTA CLAUS! Get DOUBLE STAMPS EVERY WEDNESDAY! YES Get EXTRA VALUE with your Christmas shopping! Every WEDNESDAY is Double Stamp Day at Feldhousen s . . . Select your gifts and decorations from our beautiful assortments. - I ft ft ft ff fa ft ft FELDHOUSEN DRUG "Your Friendly Drug Store Dial 6117 ft ft! tTSt I ! 3? ! ipl 6: Morn, Blair. Backs Conis, Plattsmouth; Oaks, College View; Lindgrcn. Wahoo; Baird, Westside, and Murdock, Blair. Blair, conference king, and Wahoo, runner-up, each placed five men on the two teams, one more than third-place Platts mouth. Blair was awarded the conference grid trophy. In other conference activity, coaches drew for positions in the conference cage tournament to be held at Wahoo on January 21. In the drawine, Plattsmouth will play Ashland at 6:30 on opening day. With Plattsmouth in the lower bracket are Belle vue and Wahoo, who will meet at 8:45. Valley and College View will open the tournament at 3 p.m., followed by the Blair-Westside game at 4:45. The other two games will follow. The winner of the Valley-College View game will meet the Blair -Westside winner in the semi-finals and the winner of the Plattsmouth-Ashland game will meet the Bellevue-Wahoo winner. on is Initials In GOLD . . his GIFT BILLFOLD from Smith's A Wonderful PERSONALIZED Gift that costs only $3.50.up See Smith's for 'Sure-to-Please Gifts" for Men and Boys Also Open Wednesday Evening FREE mm sf-'M ' ' 'X.d. - J ' v wmmmm v.. 1 VII ft II ini .J 501 MAIN -PHONE 5 1 18 ft ft ft a m ft ft ft Totals 10 8-23 16 Nehawka Edges Yankees 32-29 in Overtime Tilt Jed Snyder and Raymond Mayfield combined scoring tal ents to pace Nehawka to a 32 29 overtime win over Union in a Cass County Conference clash at Union Friday night. But Coach Ted Schiessler's crew had to come from behind to tie the game in regular time and to pull the game out of the lire in overtime. Mayfield hit 16 points and Snyder 13, including the decid ing goals as the Indians captur ed their opening game. Meanwhile the Yankees, ex hibiting fine team play and balanced scoring held small quarter leaders throughout. The Yankees were in front 7-6 after one period, and held a 19-14 margin at halftime. Nehawka cut the margin to 24-23 after three periods and tied it up in regulation time. Larry Hathaway paced the ; Yankees with ten points while i five of his teammates entered Ithp srnrincr rnlnmn T?ifViari i Attebery hit 6, Harold Gobel- connected for 4. Dick Draper hit three and Jim Attebery con tributed two. Also entering the scoring col umn for Nehawka were Alvin Turner, 2; and Billy Mather, 1. Neither team was effective from the free throw lane. Union hit 7 while Nehawka connected on 8. Union had 30 free throw attempts while Nehawka took 33 tries. The Yankees were pick ed for 13 rule violations while Nehawka was guilty on 16 occa sions. Nehawka will be host to Greenwood in another confer ence test on December 12. HE PCATT3NIOUTH. NEBRASKA. EEMI-WEF.KLV JOURNAL Monday, December 8, 1952 PAGE FIVE Plailsmouth to Face Valley in Loop Go Tonight Plattsmouth will seek its sec ond conference win and third straight of the season tonieht, Monday, at Valley. The Blue Devils hold wins over Glenwood and Westside, while Valley has a win over Bennington. The Devils turned back Valley in an interesting conference clash here a year ago. A win at Valley would give the Devils a two-zero record for the season in Ak-Sar-Ben confer ence play and would put them in front of the race. Plattsmouth is defending champion in the cage sport. Drawing starting assignments tonight will be John Ahrens and Dick Beverage, forwards; Jim Jacques, center; Tom Conis and Jon Schuetz, guards. Reserves will also see action at Valley tonight. Paint Store Bumps Pin Leaders; Sell Hits 201 Plattsmouth Paint Store came back after forfeiting three gam es a week ago to nip Ernie s Bar two games to one and cut the leader's margin to four games. The Painters captured the second and third games after dropping the opener. L. Eledge, Lee Applegate and Bob Aspedon paced the Painters to the win, while M. Hodge and Dick Fisch er were leading the Bartenders. For the first week since play opened nine weeks ago, no clean sweep was registered in league activity. Conoco took two from Art & Minnie; Eagles bumped Myers Grocery twice; Donafs scuttled the Legion in two gam es; Marge and Elmers won two from Bradley Grocery; Fire stone nipped Woster twice; Ala mito took two from Western Auto and Timm's took a pair from the V. F. W. Carl Sell of V. F. W. posted the only 2C0 game during the week. He hit a 201 game and had a 458 series for the Veter ans, but Bob Gall took series honors with a 497 series. High team games posted dur ing the week included a 766 game by Ernie's Bar and a 777 Have you ever listened to a ; game by Marge & Elmers. Al- nprson who has i hobhv that hp ' thoun one of the highest games person wno nas a nobby that ne , Ernie-S Bar lost on it5 766 game thinks you ought to know j as the Paint Store added a 30 about? I pin handicap to a 745 game. Bowling: Results Conoco 688 639 605 Art & Minnie 563 646 605 High individual game, J. Dietl, 173: high individual ser ies, Jack Reno, 433. Eagles 616 546 555 Myers Groc. 522 617 548 High individual game, Dale Reckard. 166; high individual series. Dale Reckard, 440. Donafs 657 554 657 Legion 616 615 615 High individual game, Cecil Karr, 159; high individual ser ies, Joe Case, 427. Paint Store 682 775 671 Ernie's Bar 726 766 638 High individual game, Dick Fischer. 182; high individual series, L. Eledge, 468. Marge & Elmer 651 777 716 Bradley Groc. 704 687 613 High individual game. Norma Mrasek, 180: high individual series. Oon Williams, 468. Firestone 705 664 681 Woster 556 694 678 High individual game, J. Win ter. 167; high individual series, Bob Wever, 413. 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