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i THE ANCHOR Thurs., April 3, 1958
SPORTS CHATIER
Catholic Tourney Splendid
Exhibition of Basketball
By
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Select AU Star Hoop P~ayerS
Kineavy
Somerset High School Coach
19
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High school basketball at its best was in evidence last
weekend at Rogers High gym in Newport, the site of the
21st annual Eastern States Catholic Invitation Tournament.
The official title is actually a misnomer in that a state as
far removed as West Vir- 20 points against the skYScraping
ginia was represented in the Carroll outfit in a 63-61 losing
competition, but ESCIT it's cause. That, as it turned out,
called and that it will be. was-the only time the Caps were
College coaches were a dime fully extended in tourney play.
a dozen at Rogers. Among those A lad that captured the fancy
present we r e of the fans was red-headed
Din 0 Martin, Kevin Reilly of All Hallows.
Boston College, Reilly, built more along the lines
coach of the last of a running guard (5'8", 170
De La Salle Ibs.), was a demon on defense.,
ESCIT Cham-' What he lacked in height, he
pion eight years made up in hustle and aggres ago, and himsiveness. On one occasion he
self a member missed flying connections trying
HUNGARIAN PRELATE: Mter giving the opening of the first All- to intercept a Manhattan pass, prayer at the morning session of the U. S. Senate, Msgr. Tourney team skidded almost to mid-court, in 1938; Matt regained his feet and hustled Bela Varga, President of the Hungarian National Council, Zunic, Boston back to take the subsequent at right, chats with Vice-president Richard Nixon, President University; Roy Leeming; Holy rebound. of the Senate, and Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, Chaplain Cross; John Bach, Fordham; Ed Become Collen Sian of the Senate. NG Photo. Markey, St. Michael's, Vt.; Al Leafing through the tremen-
Grenert, St. Anselm's; Ernie dous ESCIT program, we paused
Calverly, R. I.; Bud Miliken, at the section which listed the 0 ICS Maryland; Frank Power, B.C. previous All Tourney Teams, freshman coach, and J~~ Gib- and' going down the rosters I~
bons, yearling mentor 'at Notre through the years we encounNEW YORK (NC)-The inROME (NC) Hungarian Dame. tered the names of many young creasing activity of Catholic or- Catholics greeted the Vatican's The beautiful and spacious men who later went,on to excel ganizations represented at the"" excommunication of three Hu~ Rogers High gym, modern in in the collegiate and professional United Nations' in promoting garian priests with "deep feel every respect and housed in ranks. Perhaps the most notable humanitarian measures along ings of relief and respect for ,the Newport's multi-million dollar are Jack George, Tom Gola, and lines of Christian social doctrine Holy See." , secondary school plant, provided Tom Heinsohn, 'former Allwas emphasized in talks given The Italian Catholic Action an ideal location. Its seating Americans, who are active in here to a Catholic young people's news service said first hand re capacity of 1800 proved more pro circles today. ' group. ports from. Hungary indicated than adequate, but only because Offhand it would seem that Miss ~atherine Schaefer, of that Catqolics in that country. most area basketball fans are Holy Cross has been most sucthe NCWC Office for UN Af welcomed· as "timely" ·the ex evidently unaware of the calibre cessful in attracting, these young fairs, traced the origin and communications of Fa the r s of ball exhibited by the particip- men to its campus. The names growth of non-governmental ac- Richard Horvath, Miklos Beresz ating out-of-state teams. Heinsohn, Earle Markey, Joe tion at the UN and stressed the toczy and Janos Mate. The Washington Team Wins 'Early, George Waddleton, Joe increasing work being done by priests V\[ere excommunicated, New York City was repre- Liebler, Matt Forman, to menCatholic organizations. with absolution reserved in a sented by two fine teams, All tion a few, had more than a Dr. Gary McEoin, Catholic au special'manner to the Holy See, Hallows and Manhattan Prep; little to. do with the Crusaders' thor and representative at the for refusing to heed a decree of from New Jersey came Qefend- rise to national prominence in UN of the International Catholic the Sacred Congregation of the ing champion and first seeded basketball. Earle Markey, St. Press Union, described the Council, issued last July, forbid Trenton Catholic and St. Aloy- Peter's, N. J., '49. Holy Cross union's role in advancing the ding priests. to accept or hold sius, Jersey City; La Salle, Cum- '53, is now Rev. Earle IVJ;arkey, cause of freedom of information governmental posts in Hungary. berland, Maryland, Archbishop S,J., doing missionary work in in.. religious matters. Hungarian Catholics were re Carroll, Washington, D. C.- the Philippine Isla·nds. ' UN representatives of other lieved by the excommunication, tourney champion--St. Joseph's, Coaehes Attend ,.Catholic groups discussed t!te· the news service said, because Huntington, West Virginia, and A host of prep and high school activWes of their offices in fields "for some years past whenever host school De La Salle of New- . coaches were in attendance durof.. interest to Catholic women a 'progressive' priest celebrated' port rounded' out the list of ing the tourney's 'three ,day run. and girls, Catholic workers and Mass, ,the faithful as a sign of protest did not attend and did entries. Those seen by the writer. in-Catholic students and intellec not apply to him for the admin In annexing the title Arch-' eluded the'Rev. Bede Gorman tuals. istration of the sacraments." bishop Carroll High became the and Brother Stephen, PortsA first schooi from 'the Capitol to mouth Priory; Brother Michael, • take top honors. T~e Caps. had .. Coyle; John Harrington; Durfee; , BUFFALO (NC)~ Nearly 600 a relatively easy .hme of It in . H~mLane, Taunton:" J oh n librarians and educators' from COLOGNE (NC) - The num the finals, defeatmg. A~ Hal- , O'Brien, 'Somerset,' ari«ci'Nick the United States and. Canada ber .of Sisters 'in Germany has lows, 66-45. For the BIg Ci!y 'Cariglia, Warren. , a r e expected atte~d the annu grown from 60,000 in 1920 to al school it was the, fifth time 10, ' , CYO C l i ; , ' · a l meeting of the Catholic Lithe finals 'but All Hallows is, ,. ~mplon~, ' . ,"brary, .ASsOciation here from, most 100,000 now.
Cath' I·
Busy ,I n U ..... Work
nnual' Meeting
Holy See Action Grand Jury Charge~. Wins Approval Banned Film Obscene
W.H.RILEY
&~SON
Inc.
PHILADELPHIA (NC)"':"Th( controversy here over the sho;" ing of a movie cond'emned b~ .'the National Legion of DeceJ1(:~'
took a fresh turn when ih(·
March Grand Jury charged the
film is obscene. '
Managers of two center-cit~' theaters were indicted' 010 charges of possessing an'd dis playing an obscene motion pic ture, "And God Created Worrian," Indictments were returned after the grand jury, composed of ninf women and seven men, viewe<~ the film.,
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BishQp McVinney Trophy. last Thursday night bydefeat,ing
,Few VioJations Santo CliriStos, 62~61, in CYO
Hall, Fall River. The 'victory
We weJ;'e particularly im- gave the New Bedford area its
pressed with the poise displayed second successive·' crown, :St. ,. '
by not one, but all of the teams Mary's of Fairhaven hav'ing
'. ,. I in the competition.' They played taken top honors last Year. Dave
the game with a "savvy" that Duarte,', lanky OLOA' pivotman,
CITIES SERVICE could have been inbred only led the New Bedford contigent
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through years of experience. It with 27 points,. high for. the
was mentioned Plat New York game. He had plenty of, he~p.
City schools don't play much however, from John Silveira and
Gasoline football which, no doubt, tends Diniz, who posted 15 and ]2
to place greater emphasis on respectively. Tony Avilla tossed
Fuel and Range basketball. But whatever the in 20 points to spearhead' the
reason, those boys really knew Christos' offense. Len 'Nicolay
their way around. . with 11 and Ron Avilla, 10, were
Seldom was a ball thrown other Fall Riverites to hit double
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The high school' "gunner" was
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height was something each team possessed. Champion Carroll
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Taunton Everywhere Neither was awkward despite
his youth. And both boys had
good weight which made them
that m u c h more effective.
Thompson scaled J98 and Hoov
er, the tourney's Most Valuable
Player, a mere 235. The boy
thnt made the team go, however,
was sophomore guard George
Leftwich, a speedy 6' operative,
who with Hoover was an All
Tourney selection.
Proving that there's still room In basketball for a talented small '
FALL RIVER .
316 FIFTH ST. man was Vin Ernst of St. Aloy
lIius. A diminutive 5'8" guard,
, OSborne 4-5698: Ernst had his best night in the
openiD.jj: round r - he tallied
BROOKLYN (NC) Notre
Dame's Johnny Jordan has been
picked as coach-of-the-year anC:
Seattle University's Elgin Bay
lor as player-of-the-year in thf
Brooklyn Tablet's ninth annua:
Catholic College All-Americar.,
basketball team.
The selections for the Brook
lyn diocese new/lpaper wert
made by 60 Catholic college
coaches throughout the nation
Teamed with Baylor on the
major college first team wen
_ Tom Hawkins of Notre Dame, M~!te Farmer of San Francisco, Jim Cunningham of Fordhau. and Dayton's Don Lane. Hank, Kuzma of the Colleg(' of Steubenville (Ohio) waf chosen the small college coach of-the-year and his own Jim Smith was selected as small col lege player-of-the-year. AlS{, voted to the small-college firs', team were St. Peter's Hank M 0 ran 0, Ed. Kazaka~ich 0: Scranton, Ken Leslie of Sal' Diego and Dennis Boone 0: Regis.
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