Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 24

              PIONEER  Sports
January 26, 1944__________________Page 7
TWO   TILTS  TONIGHT
MANJIETTES   FACE   SEPOL;
BUTCHERS  MEET  FINANCE
   Al Kato's title-bound
Ramblin' Ramblerettes and
the up and coming Manjiet-
es will put up another
casaba tete-a-tete t hi s
evening     in a  7:15  o'clock
curtain raiser.  The Sepol
sextet is well on its w ay to
the championship and should
encounter little trouble
from the Manjiettes.
   Coach George Fujimitsu's
backcourt trio will have
a tough evening with the
Ramblerettes' point-garner-
ing triplet and his offen-
sive threats--Amy Miyano
and Katie Taketa-will fare
no better with alert Janet
Kubochi and Empire  State-
like Mary Yokoyama setting
up  a   tight  defense.
   In the second tussle the
Finance cagers and the
Slaughterhouse five, tied
for the league leadership,
will battle it out in their
second round match. The
Financiers nosed out the
Butcher Boys in the first
Encounter in a two over-
time game but this fracas
promises to be a tough,
hard-fought  "toss-upper."
   As  an added attraction,
arrangements are being made
with the Swink quintet to
meet the speedy Yoores in
a feature game.
BRONCO-ZEPHYR
GAME  REPLAY
   The athletic department
appointed board to consider
protests by the Broncos
and the Royal Flushers
against the Zephyrs re-
leased its decisions Satur-
day as follows: Broncos-
Zephyrs game to be re-play-
ed. Royal Flusters-Zephyrs
game forfeited to the Royal
Flushers.
   Harry Shironaka, athletic
director,in disclosing the
board's decisions stated
that the Royal Flushers
were allowed the  forfeit
on the ground  that the Ze-
phyrs carried eleven (11)
players on the roster in-
stead of the allotted ten
(10) players. Shironaka
failed to state the reason
for declaring the Bronco-
Zephyr contest a re-match
FLUSHERS GAIN
CLOSE VICTORY
   The Royal Flushers kept
pace one step behind the
Firemen by edging out the
up and coming Mustangs 34-
32 in the second tussle
Monday evening.
   The “unconscious" Mus-
tangs pulled away from the
baffled Flushers in the
first canto with uncanny
ease, but the winners re-
taliated to forge ahead at
the half-way mark, 16-14.
The third period saw the
Flushers increase their
lead to 29-23 and stave off
the  Mustangs'   late rally.
Summary:
   FLUSHERS  (34) Kashiwa-
bara 8, Makimoto, Sakamoto,
3,Yamazumi 3, Inaba 7, Ni-
shijima 2, Watanabe 5, Naka-
togawa  1,  Iseri   4,     Imai
1.
   MUSTANGS (32) Murata 11,
Wada 10, Miyoshi 5, Tsuji-
moto 2, S. Kihara, Tanaka,
One 1, Y. Kihara 1.
ABNERS  TACKLE  ZEPHYRS;
STARS-TOPPERS  TO  CLASH
   After a heart-breaking
defeat last Sunday at the
hands of the Ramblerettes,
the Delta Shooting Stars
will take the floor again
in tomorrow night's pre-
liminary game against, the
Toppers. The Stars high
scoring forwards should
pile up enough points to
give them an easy victory,
while Sadayo Washino is
expected to lead the Top-
pers'   scoring.
   The Lil' Abners dwind-
ling in the cellar of the
single-A circuit will find
hope none too bright of
climbing out in meeting the
flashy Zephyrs in the sec-
ond tilt. Touted to be the
team to beat in the "A"
league, the Zephyrs ran
into difficulties by hav-
ing their victories over
Broncos and Royal Flushers
nullified due to rules in-
fractions.
   Altho without the ser-
vices of their star center
Joe Hamaguchi, and Shiro
Yoshiwara,speedy Jack Hama-
hashi and sharp-shooting
John Nishimura make the
Zephyrs still a formidable
quintet and topheavy favor-
ites to trump the Lil'   Abners .
   Preliminary game is
slated at   7:15   o'clock.
DUSTERS  OUTCLASS 8-BALL
TAKE UNDISPUTED “AA" LEAD
   The Eight-Ball quintet
went "down and under" as
the high-riding Dusters
thoroughly trounced their
black-clad opponents to the
tune of 60-30 in the Sun-
day afternoon's feature
game. In scoring their
second "AA" triumph, the
Dusters had no trouble at
all with the bewildered
Eight-Ballers.
   With Soapy Miyashima's
tip-in in the opening min-
ute of the tussle,the Dus-
ters never relinquished
the lead and stayed in
front 30 to 20 at the half-
time. In the second half,
taking advantage of every
opportunity,  the Dusters
kept up their blazing scor-
ing spree to completely
outclass the veteran Eight-
Ballers. The smooth-work-
ing brush Arai's basketeers
stole the ball time and
time again to break in for
easy shots.
   Johnny Niizawa's 17
points gave him high scor-
ing honors.
   Summary:
   DUSTERS (60) Sugano 8,
Niizawa 17, Miyashima 13,
Hamada 3,Kato 11, Shiro 2,
Nakano,  Nishijima 6.
   EIGHT-BALL (30) Shimizu
4, Tsuruta 6, Furuye 6,Yo-
shida 4, Aoki 4, Kawamura,
Okabe 2,   Yokoi 2, Nakahara
2,   Nishimura.