THE ANCHOR-Dioc~se of Fall.River~Thurs. Mar. 28-, 1963
Eastern Catholic Tourney. Now Playing at 'Newport Leads Team to New Bedford eyO Title By Jack Kineavy A fitting climax to a notable tournament season is the 26th annual Eastern States Catholic Invitation basketball tourney slated to get underway today at 3 :15. P.M. when Canevan High of Pittsburgh, Pa. taps off agamst Bergen Catholic of Oradell, N.J., in highlight is the Saturday the first of a brace of after luncheon· which this year will be noon quarterfinal round con .held in the Enlist~d Men's Mess tests at Rogers High, New at the Naval Station. port, R.I. The sequel matinee brings together Trenton Catho lic, a perennial ESCIT power, and St. Mary's of Manhasset, L.I., New York. Tonight's pairIngs find DeMatha High of Hyattsville, Md. opening defense of its 1962 title against Central Catholic of AI lentown, Pa., in a 7:30 game to be followed at 9 by the quarterfinal finale f~aturing a not her long-standmg ESCIT participant, St. Peter's Prep of Jersey C~ty, N.J., an~ St. John's College HIgh of Wash~ngton, D.C. There are no seedmgs in this year's competition. The tournament once again is being conducted under the gen eral chairmanship of F .•Herman Rathkamp who with th!,! assist ance of a dedicated veteran com mittee has fashioned a tourney program which is in keeping with the finest traditions of ESCIT. A great deal of prepara tion is required in an under taking of this scope and the Tourney Committee is to be commended for its long and un tiring efforts to insure the smooth functioning of the pro gram. Proving Ground ESCIT is demonstrating high school basketball at its best. A perusal of the All-Tourney teams down through the years is replete with young men who went on to greater heights on the court in collegiate and pro fessional ranks. Tom Heinsohn and Tom Gala are included. Vin Ernst, John Tho m p son, Joe Kelley of Holy Cross and Nick Werkman, the nation's leading llCorer this past year at Seton Hall are a few of more recent vintage. John Austin, who led the Boston College Freshman to an undefeated season this win ter, was ESCIT's Most Valuable Player last year. The Tourney is a must for many of the nation's leading college coaches and among them this year is expected to be a rookie by the name of Bob Cousy who next year will take over the varsity reins at Boston College. An invitation has been extended Mr. Basketball and barring conflict with the NBA playoff schedule, we wouldn't be surprised to see him on hand. The semifinals will be played tomorrow night,the first game starting at 7:30 and the consola tion and championship finals' are set for Saturday evening, March 30. During the interim hours away from the court, the visiting players will be treated to- conducted tours of nearby Naval Installations, historic sites and buildings and Newport's famed Ocean Drive. An annual
Asserts Ecumenical Approach Unclear RECKI!'~GHAUSEN (N C ) Despite the "surprising openness toward other Christian believ ers" shown by the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church's approach to ecumenism is not 'yet clear, ac cording to a German Lutheran theologian who served as ob server-delegate of the Evangeli cal Church of Germany at the Council. Dr. Emund Schlink, professor of dogmatic theology at the Uni. versity of Heidelberg, feels final judgments on the part of non. Catholic Christian churches must be reserved until actual deci. sions are reached and formally promulgated by the Pope. .
Local Officials Ray Ready of Somerset is area representative for ESCIT and ticket reservations may be ar ranged through him or his aides, Raoul Gagnon of Swansea and Ike Robinson of Somerset. A member of the referees' staff for the tourney is Nick Cariglia of Warren, R.I., who is well known in Southeastern Mass. athletic circles, a former coach at Westport High and a veteran college and high school official. In projecting finalists in New England hockey and basketball competition last week was men tioned, not seriously, the pos sibility that each might result in an intra-state affair. This is pre cisely what hap pen e d and though Burrillville reaffirmed its superiority over Hope by a one-sided· 5-1 victory to annex hockey laurels, Stearns of Mil linocket reversed the outcome of the Maine LL tourney to edge Morse High of Bath by a 58-56 count. Cinderella Team For Stearns, only the second Maine team ever to achieve New England honors, the victory marked the culmination of an uphill tourney struggle. They gave away height to spare against both Rogers High of Newport, R.I., State champion, and Rindge Tech of Cambridge, Eastern Mass. Class A titlist. Led by senior Terry Carr, who has a style all his own, and sophomore Jon MacDonald, the Maine runnersup quickly captivated the Garden fans with their speed and aggressiveness. Uncanny accuracy from the outside discounted their height disadvantage and they appeared completely oblivious to the fact that they were playing before a crowd that was considerably larger than the total population of the It."'orthern Maine mill town which they represented. Veteran basketball observers expressed the consensus that the All-Maine final was one of the best· New England finals in many years. And what can be said that hasn't already been noted re garding the fabulous Friars of Providence Co11ege who last week captured their second N.I.T. championship in three years? Recognition of Captain Ray Flynn's tremendous perfor mance with his selection as MVP was richly merited, though as coach Joe Mullaney observed in a post game comment, the suc cess of the Providence College team was due to the fine efforts of five MVPs.
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children here have embarked on a joint venture--the collection of 2,894 books of trading stamps to obtain a bus to serve both schools. Cosponsoring the· campaign are the Parents Guild of St. Anthony's school and the North vale Parent-Teacher Association. The bus will join two others al Ieady being used to transport rhildren to and from the two public schools and the Catholic schools in this New Jersey com· munity.
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Tedd·y Mogilnicki, OL,PH Sparkplug By Lynn Kennedy Mogilnicki mig h t have played basketball at Bridgewater S tat e College where he's a freshman math T~ddy
major, but' he chose not to. In l'tead, he cast his lot with Our Lady of Perpetual Help's New Bedford CYO champions. And it . is probably because of his de. cision that OLPH captured loop lrturels. Captain of the team, the 5-6 Mogilnicki led a fantas. tic comeback that gave OLPH tne city title. Down one game in their best of-three series with St. James, Ted personally sparked his mates to two straight wins, the finale a spinetingling 52-50 win. All Ted did was score 15 of his team's last 17 points in that ('lincher on a variety of one hand jumpers from the· outside and the corners. Veteran courtside observers called it one of the most fantastic shooting displays in playoff action. While he and his mates bowed to St. Anthony of Padua from Fall River in the Diocesan semi final round Mogilnicki was a tower of strength despite his less than skyscraper dimensioIUl. In the losing opener, .Teddy again lell a spirited comeback that almost paid off· for OLPH. They were far behind, trailing !l1-15 in the second canto, when Moglinicki got a hot hand that eventually catapulted OLPH into a 63-62 lead with 20 seconds left. Two foul conversion gave st. Anthony its final victory mar gin, 64-63, but Mogilnicki's 'field 'try olmost won it at the end. It rimmed the hoop and fell away just as the final buzzer sounded. In the second game Moglinicki hit for 25 points, but stronger St. Anthony's won going-away TEDDY MOGILNICKI 96-77. , Despite the i r elimination, on to. post a 9-1 second round coach on the side. It's obvious Moglinicki and Company went mark and earn the right to that math and sports are his much further than anyone ex :neet 81. James in th.e playoff. main loves. But :le also s pected them to, least of all Coach that English, history, chemistry If Mogilnicki was not tall, David P. David. The genial Dnd biology are keeping him David lost a veteran squad, a' neither were his mates. Joe DUSy. A good student, Ted is Patykiewicz was the tallest team that for four years had ex maintaining a B average in all perienced bitter frustration. For . starter at 5-11. Henry Stasium subjects. . (our seasons in a row David's came next at 5-10. Steve Wojt When school's out he'll be hoopsters had trailed Our Lady . konski 5-9 and Mike Swintak at back playing with Coach David's 5-6, along with Mogilnicki com. ot Assumption's perennnal Dioc OLPH baseballers, losers last esan kingpins. And his teams had pleted the .starting cast. Chief Summer to Immaculate Concep been top-notch. There were some reserve Joe Augustyn was actu tion for the right to get into the close one:>, but OLPH never ally the tallest on the team at playoffs. He's hoping they can 6-1. At a distinct height disad quite made the ployoffs. go all the way this' time. Mogilnicki son of Mr. and Mrs. vantage, OLPH had to use scrap and good shooting to earn a spot Eugent Mogilnicki of 78 Penni man Street, had played for in the Diocesan playoffs. With the season now over, David's baseball team (city CYO l'hampions in 1961) but had Ted can now look forward to never joined the hardwood baseball. He plans on trying to forces. Instead. Ted, now 18, carn a place on the Bridgewater played his basketball at New nine as an infielder. Normally a Bedford High (where he also third baseman, Mogilnicki has played baseball and soccer) .. played just about everywhere, Never a starter because of his including catcher. A good base Southeastern Massachusetts'
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with it, and, by dint of hard trouble winning his way onto the Bears' roster. work, has become a solid back court operator. As far as the future is con He coul<. always handle the cerned, he hopes to become a We Give Gold Bond Stamps ball· well, but more important, junior high math teacher and he'" developed the outside shot. In high school, he hadn't been too consistent a scorer. This also worked to his disadvantage. When he matriculated to Bridge atorWater, Mogilnicki was tossed between reporting to the Bears' basketball call or joining OLPH. at A fast friendship he had devel oped with the OLPH mentor 'urned' him to CYO ball. With Mogilnicki, a cool oper ater. directing the new look OLPH squad, it compiled an 115 WILLIAM ST. excellent 23-5 mark. OLPH did NEW BEDFORD, MASS not win the first half crown. Losses to OLOA, the old nemesis, and St. James gave the latter the round and again it looked lIke frustration. But OLPH went
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