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PAGE SIX THE ROCKLAND COONTT TIMES, HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., MARCH 6, 1952 Caseys Play Paradise Five in Tournament Semi-Final Sat. Top-Seeded Teams Win Opening Games; St. Peter ’ s Loses Teams seeded in the upper bracket of the Rockland County invitation basketball tournament lived up to their form during the weekend at Kirkbride Hall, Letch- worth Village. As a result, in the semi-final games at the same place Saturday night, the Nyack Legion will play the Rockland State Hos pital Blackbirds and the Haver- straw Knights of Columbus will meet the Paradise Five of Nyack. The four top teams were so superior that there was little ex citement except for a flurry of tempers Saturday night when Eno Cantonc of the Blackbirds jumped on Fred Ricker of St. Peter ’ s Alumni in the last quarter and almost started a Pier 6 melee. This was iiTelevant in the turn of affairs, however, because Cantone ’ s team won easily, 61-46. St. Peter ’ s was eliminated in the second of the evening ’ s contests. In the first game the Legionnaires stopped the Lederle Gentlemen, 54- 37. Nyack had been seeded ^ird and Rockland State second. The Paradise quintet, seeded first, enjoyed a spectacular after noon against the Hillburn A. C Sunday, winning by a 92-48 score that probably will not be dupli cated in this year ’ s tournament. Fans had hoped to see a much closer game in the afternoon ’ s final between the Caseys and Shanks Village, but Coach Butch Feeney ’ s team was never better and turned in a 70-49 decision. The Caseys, seeded second, had lost once to the Villagers this year. The tournament, sponsored by the county ’ s newspapers and the Letchworth Boys ’ Athletic Asso ciation, undoubtedly will furnish some closer basketball before the final whistle is sounded Sunday afternoon, when the title game will be played. None of the top seeded teams was pressed in the elimina tion round, but there were some fine individual performances to make up for the one-sided action In trouncing Shanks Village, the Caseys used their full roster of ten men and allowed their big guns to take it easy after the Villagers' failure was established. Rocky Marano was high scorer with 15 points and Hawk Jacobs supported him with 11. The Hawk did all his scoring in the first half and did not see much action thereafter. It was that kind of game. Nat Hickerson threw in 13 points for the losers and his team-mate, Chuck Doolittle, who was used sparingly, had 12. The Caseys were in no hurry to get started and kept their foes on tenter hooks in the first quarter with some fine ball-handling. At the end of this period they led, 18-12, and their margin at half was 33-17. Most damaging to the Vil lagers was Haverstraw ’ s 10-point string in the third quarter that provided an insurmountable 45-21 bulge. Marano and Sham Feeney fashioned this with 5 points each. Drescher ’ s Last Game While Rocky and the Hawk took scoring laurels, they were not the whole attack. There was some pretty feeding by Feeney and Bill Drescher, who played his last game of basketball of the season in these parts. Bill left this week to join the Syracuse baseball team of the International League. St. Peter ’ s, the eighth-seeded team, played badly for a half and lost the game during these 20 minutes. In the first six and a half minutes the Alumni could not score a point and they trailed at half, 34-14. They made a fine re covery after intermission, out- scoring the Blackbirds, 32-27, but they had been too far behind to make the resurgence count. Ricker was the game's high scorer with 16 points and Dick McNichol had 14. Gerry Holstein scored 19 for the winners. This was a rough contest, largely of the Blackbirds ’ making. They played “ cute ” when the officials were not in a position to see their tactics and Ricker was subjected to treat ment that infuriated him. When the Alumni gave tit for tat, the Blackbirds burned. Cantone, usually a mild-manner ed guy, who may not have known what was going on, blew up with a game almost over and straddled Bicker near the Alumni basket. Cantone and Ricker squared off but they were separated before any blows were struck. Cantone went to the showers immediately after order was restored. Schwob. Kane Pace Nyack Nyack and Lederle battled closely for a half but the Gentle men clearly were no match for the Legion. Eddie Schwob and Leo Kane, exceptionally talented for men who are not too tall, paced the Legionnaires with 12 points each. Post and Ken Snow hooped 8 apiece for Lederle. Nyack s lead at quarter was only 13-9, but by intermission the Legionnaires were well on their way at 25-17. Post cut this to six points as the third quarter opened and then Kane fired a set and took m a iay-up. Lydecker Tillinghast and Johnson 0 ^ 01 ?^ buted 2-pointers in order, so that with SIX minutes left Nyack was in front, 35-19. Lederle took a back seat after that. Undoubtedly, the Paradise team provided the most stylized attack of the first round. The Nyackers led by 15-11 at quarter and by half had the game well in the bag, ^5- 23. Howard hooped 28 points for them 16 in the last 20 minutes — Brown had 23, and Webb 18. De- Freese of Hillburn also had 26, and his team-mate, Watson pro vided 16. SPCRTSCOIPE By Joe MAHONEY Red Raiders Defeat Piermont^ Tie Suffern for League Title AT THE 1951 GRAND iSLE.lAyTARPON RODEO. AN ARDENT ANGLER WAS TROLLING FOR THE SILVER KINGS WHEN A PELICAN HIT HIS LURE ! IT WAS QUITE A TUSSLE BUT THE BIRO WAS BROUGHT TO gaff ! > QUIZ CORNER DO YOU remember IN HOW many CON SECUTlve games joe 01 MAGGIO HIT SAFELY IN (Ml? WAS 41,56 OR 61 ? •9S SVM 11-19 aoi^ iNSVM BRICKTOWN SPORTS By GRANT JOBSON It is interesting to reflect on the self-righteous characters who have come to light in Haverstraw High School ’ s now famous - eligibility case. We are not speaking of the Board of Education or of Supt. of School ’ s now-famous eligibility it was to act and clear up the pre vailing atmosphere. We are speak ing of those who slapped a hair shirt on Ralph Cordisco and be came his judges when judicial mein was not their forte. Ralph, of course, was wrong. He admits it. He knows he hurt young Arthur Millen badly. The question is: Can he live it down? We see no reason why he should not be able to. The judges whooped it up when they had Ralph crawling. Her4 was their chance to find a scapegoat. The treatment might not have been half that bad if the Bough- man case had not been brought to light a few months earlier. The coaches railed against the New Jersey importation and spoke their piece. The school executives also got into it. Naturally, there was a division of opinion that produced enmity. The bolt fired against Cordisco was that he tried to pull a fast one. But what had Suffern done in the Boughman case? By allowing Boughman, who will attend school less than two semesters, to play, hadn ’ t Suffern pulled a fast one on a bona fide resident of the school district wanting to play var sity basketball? There are only five men on a basketball team, and Boughman ’ s arrival meant that one local boy had to be content to play periodically or not at all. Is a school district organized for the benefit of taxpaying residents or a johnny-come-lately who pays tuition for the express purpose of playing basketball and gets into the act after the football season is over in his own bailiwick? May All Go To Suffern Boughman is supposed to be pre paring for a career as physical in structor. His mother said she want ed him to have the advantage of playing basketball in high school rather than knock around during the winter with town teams. There are probably a lot of mothers in New Jersey who feel the same way. Their sons may yet wind up in the cultured, ethical, and man icured atmosphere of Suffern. It is not an impossibility. It has been going on now since 1948. This is a long way from the Cor disco case, but you can ’ t deal in judgments that approve wrong in one instance and damn it in an other. This is the laughable aspect of the whole situation. It was quite improper for Cordisco to play Mil len under an assumed name, but it was perfectly legal to use a Ram sey hotshot and push a four-year Suffern student out of the picture. AND IN THE SAME HANDBOOK THAT MAKES MILLEN INELIG IBLE THERE IS NOT ONE WORD THAT SUGGESTS OR RECOM MENDS THAT TRANSFERS (Continued on page 8) SchasslerNamed Unanimously To Coaches ’ All-County Team Robert (Butch) Schassler, 17- year-old Haverstraw High School senior, was one of two P. S. A. L. players named unanimously today by the basketball coaches to their All-County team. The other iman- imous choice was Jack Boughman, 19-year-old Suffern senior. The Haverstraw and Suffern teams are the 1991- ’ 52 co-champions. Five schools placed a player each on the first team. The others named were George Kelly of Ny ack, P. S. A. L. high scorer with 266 points, Emil Willis of Spring Valley, runner-up to Kelly with 210 points, and William Church ill of Pearl River. Kelly and WiU lis are 17-year-old seniors. Church ill, 16 years of age, is a junior. Six boys were named to the sec ond team. They are James Schie- kofer of Suffern, Richard Swart- out and Philip Wahlstrom of Con gers, Griffith McElroy of Haver straw, Louis Kliewe of Pearl River and Hubert Nealy of Piermont. Mc Elroy, Kliewe and Nealy received the same number of votes from the coaches. Schiekofer, Swartout, and Mc Elroy are 17-year-old seniors. Wahlstrom and Kliewe, juniors, are 17, and Nealy is a 16-year-old sophomore. Winning honorable mention were Charles Clark, Vincent Kovalsky and Joseph Picarello of Haver straw, Donald Conklin of Pearl River, Gerry Ellsworth of Suffern, Robert Kopenhaver of Nyack, and Mike Rotundo and George Voorhis of Piermont. TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE CONSOLATION ROUND TONIGHT 8 p. m. — Lederle Gentlemen vs. St. Peter ’ s Alumni 9:30 p. m. — Hillburn A. C. vs. Shanks Village CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND — SEMI-FINAL GAMES SATURDAY NIGHT 8 p. m. — Nyack Legion vs. Rockland State Hospital 9:30 p. m. — Haverstraw K. of C. vs. Paradise Five SUNDAY AFTERNOON 2 p. m. — Consolation Final. 3:30 p. m. — Championship Final. \oW' a-Mmi .lEAN PETERS Willi Anthony Oulnn ’ -4^ WoiJuceo liy DARRYL f. CANUCK . OirBctedJiy ELIA KAZi' Wiitten by JOHN STLlNDLnK NOW! ROCKLAND SHOWING THRU SATURDAY THEATRE NYACK By ROBERT WEISS Haverstraw High School is pull ing out all the stops this year. It waited 16 years for a football championship, and, until Friday night in the Grant street gym, had to endure a seven-year drought in basketball. Coach Ralph Cordisco ’ s senior- studded squad became co-cham pion of the 1951-52 P. S. A. L. campaign with Suffern as it wal loped the Piermont Taps, 60-46, while the Mounties were edging the Nyack Indians, 55-50, at Suf fern. It was Haverstraw ’ s first cham pionship, partial or other wise, since 1945. Suffern last received laurels in 1949. The records of the teams were 9-3, followed by Pearl River, which had 8-4. Haverstraw Controls Boards Haverstraw could do no wrong in this battle. Except for a few moments in the fourth quarter, when Mike Rotundo of the losers began to get frisky, Haverstraw completely controlled the back- boards, Dugan Kovalsky and Butch Schassler doing yeoman work in this capacity. Charlie Clark, Haverstraw ’ s sure-handed playmaker, set up numerous baskets with his pin point passing. Griffy McElroy sneak-footed around underneath the Piermont basket and with Ko valsky was a big gun for the Raid ers. Dugan scored 18 points and McElroy 14. The locals broke the game wide open in the second quarter and kept it that way until 1:28 of the fourth period, when Piermont cut their lead to 9 points. Haverstraw halted the Taps ’ progress with the entrance of the “ riot squad, ” Don ald Jones throwing in two free ones and Jack Drescher a lay-up. Haverstraw ’ s margin at the end of the first quarter was only 10-8, but Nick Mottola ’ s crew took a long dive in the second session as the Raiders scored 21 points to Piermont ’ s 8. Piermont Shoots Poorly Piermont was shooting poorly in this quarter and with Schassler and Kovalsky devastating under the hoops, it ’ s no wonder the Dutchmen fell so far behind. Ko valsky and Schassler scored 8 and 7 points, respectively, to lead the way. Schassler couldn ’ t produce much more thereafter, however, and finished with 9 points for the night. Piermont finally hit the 2(>-point mark at 3:35 of the third period, but by that time Haverstraw had boosted its 31-16 half-time bulge to 36-20. Piermont outscored Hav erstraw, 10-9, in this quarter, and both teams scored 20 points in the last quarter. Four boys hit double figures for Haverstraw ’ s junior varsity in the opener as the team ended the sea son with an 8-4 league record. Gene Zippilli, Sal Peluso and Jim Ducey all had 11 points and Fred Adler 10 as the Raiders romped, 53-36. Art Millen did not play. Tom Hogan topped the losers with 10 points. ; JUNIOR VARSITY Haverstraw (53); Adler, 3-4-10; Ducey, 4-3-U; Peluso, 4-3-11; Stokes, 1-3-5; Gamboli, 0-1-1; Zip pilli, 4-3-11; Getty, 1-2-4; Klein; Green; Dippre; Schoonover; Browning. Totals, 17-19-53. Piermont (36); Dinnocenzo, 0-2- 2; Coscntino, 1-1-3; Hogan, 5-0-10; B. DeLoatch; Smith, 1-2-4; Speigel, 2-0-4; C. DeLoatch, 3-1-7; D ’ Auria, 2-0-4; Clark, 1-0-2. Totals, 15-6-36. Score by quarters: Haverstraw 16 16 10 11 — 53 Piermont 6 2 15 13 — 36 Officials: Festa and Dunnigan. VARSITY Haverstraw (60): Kovalsky, 8- 2-18; Drescher, 1-0-2; Fox, 3-1-7; McElroy, 6-2-14; Schassler, 3-3-9; Treglia; Clark, 2-1-5; Picarello, 1- 1-3; Jones, 0-2-2. Totals, 24-12-60. Piermont (46): Pierson; Melia, 4-0-8; Cosentino, 3-0-6; Nealy, 1- 0-2; Pagliaroli; Van Cura; Rotun do, 7-4-18; Mcrcurio, 5-1-11; Voor his, 0-1-1. Totals, 20-6-46. Score by quarters: Haverstraw 10 21 9 20 — 60 Piermont 0 8 10 20 — 46 Officials: Bollerman and Stein- hilber. North Bergen Defeats St. Peter ’ s Big Five St. Peter ’ s Big Five enjoyed its most productive evening of the season Friday night at North Ber gen but the Marcy five was even hotter and downed the Bricktown- ers, 86-63. Nine players hit double figures, including Jack Woehrman of St. Peter ’ s, who scored 21 points, lead ing both teanis. North Bergen bolted into a 22-8 lead in the opening period, led by 38-24 at the halftime intermission and by 56-44 at the close of the third period. Pat Kohut was runner-up to Woehrman on the Haverstraw squad with 12 points and Spicci and Clarence Horan contributed 10 apiece. Dolan paced the North Bergen attack with 19 points. The line-ups: North Bergen (86): Murray, 4- 0- 8; Mastorelli, 7-0-14; Ciecrelli, 7- 1- 15; Dolan, 9-1-19; Florio, 7-0- 14; Najarian, 8-0-16. St. Peter ’ s (63): C. Horan, 5-0- 10; Toscano; Martello, 4-0-8; Mar ino; Woehrman, 9-3-21; Keefe; Spicci, 5-0-10; J. Horan, 1-0-2; Ko hut, 6-0-12. STONY POINT WINS. 23-19 Stony Point topped Orangeburg, 23-19, in the semi-final round of the Rockland County Grammar School Invitation basketball tour nament Saturday morning at Pier mont. The Blue and White faces Palisades in the finals this Satur day morning at Piermont. Csernecky, with 7 points, was high scorer in the team ’ s triumph over Orangeburg, Coskey had 6, Jones 4, Harris and A. Cooler 3. BUSTER ’ S ADDS TO 5-MAN LEAD; KNITTERS GAIN Buster ’ s Tavern increased its lead in the Haverstraw Five-Man League to three points last week at the Hub alleys in Spring Valley. Although winning only one game, the Busters collected three points from the Town Shop while second- place Mastromarino ’ s was losing four points to the Garncrville Mar ket. Buster ’ s got its credits with a victory in the middle game, 891- 816. The Shoppers won the others, 880-816 and 835-831. They had a handicap of 106, the 34-pin spot pulling them through in the finale. Hale DeChelfin of Buster ’ s had series high of 581 on games of 169, 202 and 210. His team-mate, Jack Baldassarc, rolled 528, and Gefie Fox of the Shoppers 525, showing a 202 in the second game. Mastromarino ’ s won the opener by a scant two pins, 787-755, then fell before the Marketers, 828-816 and 784-750. Garnerville, spotted 48 pins across the board, pulled the second one out with a handicap of 16. Frank Smith of the Lumber jacks had high series, 493, for the match. Tom Walker, Market boss, was runner-up with 482. Hirsch ’ s, missing a sweep by only two pins in the second game, crawled to within three points of Mastromarino ’ s as a result of its match with Flash Radio. The Knit ters won their pair by scores of 748-699 and 816-761. The Flashes' edge in the middle effort was 799- 797, a 15-pin handicap making the difference. Dino Morelll of the Radiomen had top series, 520. Gramps Gizzi turned in 484 for the Knitters. Simkin ’ s won the first two games from D. A. Motors, 811-793 and 803-798, and took three points. The Motormen won the last, 915-818. Felix Lisewsky of the Toy Kings rolled a pace-making 529, with a 219 middle, and M. Koch of the same team and Ken Babcock of D. A. had 527. Babby finished with 208. COMMUNITY LEAGUE 'Standing of the Teams L T Pts. Buster ’ s Mastromarino ’ s Hirsch ’ s Flash Radio Simkin ’ s Garnerville Mkt. 34 Town Shop 33' D. A. Motors 31 75>A 72% 69 60 57% 56 56 53% SKATING AT ST. FETER ’ S Roller skating in St. Peter ’ s gym nasium will be resumed Friday and Saturday evening. Young people ace welcome to use the facilities of the gym for this recreation. COHEN ’ S Shoe Store AGENCY FOR BUSTER-BROWN SHOES “ OFFICIAL” BOY AND GIRL SCOUT SHOES 5 NEW MAIN STREET HAVERSTRAW For*52-Another Ford First ! 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