Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 17

              Page 12__________________PIONEER Christmas EDITION__________December 24, 1943
HI  SCHOOL
        oOo
===SPORT NEWS===
   Last Friday night during
the final hectic minutes
of the varsity tilt between
the visiting Granada Bob-
cats and the Amache Indians,
the local cage fans acted
in a very unsportsmanlike
manner. The score was close
and the fans, naturally,
were on edge with every
toss of the ball. And the
officials left much to be
desired. But all this was
no excuse to take it "out"
on the opposing players--
our guests.
   The play in question was
the howling and yelling by
the fans to distract the
Bobcat cager while he was
attempting to convert a
pair of free throws. The
fans' disapproval or dis-
agreement with the play as
called by one of the office-
ials not withstanding--th e
Granada player was entitled
to a fair play.
   Yes, Amache won the game
but it also “won" an embit-
tered rival. Let us have
more care about sportsman-
ship lest our school’s well
prepared athletic program
end up "in the rocks."
-HS-
   Amache hi rooting section
of about 60 is a poor show-
ing for a school boasting
700 students.   Wake up,
students, and give your
teams your full support.
-HS-
   Latest information to
trickle into our ears is
that the members of the
high school band  were re-
quired to pay admission fee
to play at the interscholas-
tic games, (perhaps they
lacked activity cards.)
   Gosh, "tooting" your
own horn isn't so c h e a p
after all.
	-HS-
   It has been brought to
our attention that the Ama-
che high school rooting
section has been extremely
"tight”  about giving visit-
ing teams  courtesy yells.
Come to think of it, not
one yell was given for the
McClave cagers during Tues-
day night's games.
   Let’s show  our future
visiting teams a little of
that famous Amache hospi-
tality. It costs so little
but means so much.
YOKO   NAKANO  TANKS   17   DIGITS
TO   LEAD   FLUSHERETTE   VICTORY
   In the Sunday afternoon
curtain raiser, the flashy
Royal Flusherettes easily
dumped the newly-organized
Manjiettes by a lopsided
36-7 score.   Manjiettes
were held scoreless in the
latter  half.
   Flusheretts' bespectacled
Yoko Nakano was outstanding
with her 17 tallies, while
Katie  Taketa     scored  4  for
the   losers.
   MANJIETTES (7) -H.Hata-
naka 1 1, Taketa 4, Hamada,
Matsushita 2,   Miyano, Mori-
ta, M.Hatanaka,Ogata, Miura
Nakano, Fujimitsu, Sakogowa.
   ROYAL FLUSHERETTES  (36)
-A.Makino, Y.Nakano 17, A-
sakawa 9, Yamasaki 2, Ata-
gi, Yokote, Yahiro 1, M.
Makino, Ogawa, Kashiwabara
7,   Hatamiya,  A.   Nakano._____________
    P I O N E E R    Sports________________
THIRD  TIME  JINX
YOORES STOP LAS ANJMAS
35-31; ELMO SAKAI NETS 15
   The ol’ "third tine charm"
bounced on the smooth-fight-
ing Las Animas cagers Sun-
day afternoon and the fast-
breaking Yoores took ad-
vantage of the "breaks" to
nose out the visitors by a
thrilling 35-31 score. One
of  the largest crowd o f
the season saw the Animas
quintet lose a heartbreak-
ing tilt to the last of
the center's AA aggregation.
   From the opening whistle
the game showed promise of
being a close contest with
both sides playing tight,
flawless ball.  At the end
of the   initial  quarter the
locals had a   scant   8-7 lead.
  With Las Animas frontal
attack fading badly in the
first half with Bob Kuwatani
and Ted Maruyama sporting
goose-eggs, big Elmo Sakai
had to do a "Long Ranger"
to keep them in the game.
His timely tip-ins and ac-
curate shooting accounted
for visitors' 10 out of 11
points, while the Yoores'
combined efforts gave them
a comfortable 17-11 advan-
tage .
   In the third canto the
Animas lads thru rejuvenated
spirit forged ahead 26 to
22 with  Kuwatani  and  Sakai
pumping in under-goal shots.
And the game really hit a
high pitch in the last stan-
za with the lead getting
dizzy riding on the see-
saw. Kashiwabara opened up
with a bucket, followed by
Menda’s free-throw conver-
sion to bring score up to
25-26 count. But Uyesugi's
field goal and Haruyama's
only digit of the game gave
the visitors a four-point
lead. Then Yoores’ Kash
came back with two buckets
to knot the score and shot
ahead on Ito's hook-shot,
Animas' Kuwatani tallied
again  to  a  31-all   tie.
   Again Ito came thru with
a basket followed by Honda's
game-clinching net-swisher.
From there on for the last
3½ minutes Yoores"stalled"
successfully to protect
their four-digit lead t o
hand the Las Animas cagers
their first defeat in this
center.
    Scoring     honor     of     the
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HURRlCANES BLOW
OVER LIL’ ABNERS
   The Hurricanes, one of
the     late   league   entrants,
went on a last quarter spree
to down the Lil' Abner ca-
gers by a 32-20 margin in
last Sunday's second affray.
Hitting the hoop with reg-
ularity in the second half,
the Hurricanes "blew" the
Lil’ Abners all over "Dog-
patch" to win with compara-
tive   ease.
   Lanky Franky Komatsubara
of    the  Lil 'Abners with  12
points     and  Goro  Sasaki   of
winner with  11  markers
were the   leading scorers.
   Summary:
HURRICANES   32   LIL’  ABNERS 20
Nogawa   8       f       C.Otsuka     1
Joe   2 	           f           Furuta     2
Kurita 7             c Komatsubara  12
Kunisaki 2         g           J. Otsuka 1
Sasaki   11         g     Fukumitsu    0
   SUBS: Hurricanes-Kawa-
saki 2, Kanda, Natsumeda,
Saito.    Lil' Abners- Kimu-
ra,   Sake  4,   Kurihara.,