Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 20

              SPORTS
		PIONEER
January 12, 1944________________Page 7
johnnie
    presents
          by tsuruta
ALTITUDE  26  DIGITS
   C ool clever-shooting
Chizu Kanda,a former high-
scoring Starlette cavorter
from Alameda,Calif., wear-
ing the Ramblerette colors,
hit a new high Monday eve-
ning in individual scoring
performance by dumping in
26 markers. Tanking 12
field goals and cashing in
two charity tosses against
the highly-rated Royal Flush-
erettes, Chizu swept over-
board Skookum Ikky Iwana-
ga's  23 point record es-
tablished couple of weeks
ago. She also erased easily
girls' high-point mark of
21 set some time ago ay
Teruko Miyano of the  Spurs.
   This new record is still
3 points shy of peerless
Tosh Shimizu’s 29 markers
made last season, but for
the local gym Kanda's 26
is the tops. Well, who's
next? We're vaitin'.
FANCY,   EH?
   The "AA” league opened
Sunday with the Eight-Ball
and the Yoores clashing in
the opening tilt. The most
eye-catchinq thing about
the whole affair was the
basketball the Eight-Ballers
(plug) used during the
warm-up. They had their
casaba polished black with
a white circle enclosing
a black 8 resembling an
eight ball right off the
pool  table.   It was master-
minded by Harry Ioka’s
(Harioka to you) bright
idea.
   And     clad  in their  all-
black suit, the Eight-Ball
quintet, in our opinion,
is the neatest and smartest
outfitted  cage  crew  in  the
center.  (Another plug.)
Too    bad they lost.  Seem
like   they “scratched” every
time they “pocketed” the o
oval.
PLAYERS  OF  THE  WEEK
   From week to week--if
we stay that long--we shall
choose the outstanding
player of the week.  This
is the first ''picking" of
the season and it seems
the lassies have the nod.
Guess, it's ladies before
gentlemen.
   On this week's honor
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A NEW SPORTTRAILER…
DEAR SPORTS  FANS:
   Well, as you all have noticed, Jim Otsuki took over
sports duties as of last week. Over half a year ago,
due to man-power  shortage, we took over temporarily.
Only  for a little while, our  "boss"   said.     Grrrr!
   At last good ole Jimmie came to your rescue. What
a  relief!     Now, we’re just a plain cub reporter running
our “beat.”  But   take   it   easy,   you  aren't   rid
of us yet, 'cause  we promised Jim to write a column
once a week till further notice. Until then, we'll
be  appearing weekly.
 Well,guess that's all for this time. Jim is a good
man so we're sure he will produce a very interesting
sports section for ye fans.
   Sincerely,
JOHNNIE  PRESENTS
THREE  TILTS  ON  TAP  TONITE:
8-BALL, PIRATES TO CLASH
   In the main event of
tonight's    triple-header,
the Eight-Ball cagers will
face the invading Granada
Pirates at the local high
school gym.  Dropping a
heart-breaking fracas at
the hands of the Yoores
Sunday, the Eight Ballers
will face an equally formid-
able quintet in the Pirates,
who already hold a close
one-point decision over
Brush Arai's Dusters. The
Granadans, rated as one of
the   top     aggregations     in
this section for many sea-
sons, have another strong
five led by Rice, Silva
and Tyner, and it promises
to be a high-searing thrill-
ler.
   Opening the evening's
casaba menu will be another
girls league tile, the
Spurs versus the Toppers,
slated at 7 o'clock. High-
scoring Teruko Miyano, who
was throttled ia the open-
ing     league     against
the Ramblerebtes, is ex-
pected to lead the Spurs'
come-back scoring attack,
while the Toppers will be
counting on Sadayo Washino,
Jane Nagai and the Kochi
sisters.  Although both
sextets dropped their lea-
gue openers,the Spurs hold
a practice game verdict
over the Toppers and will
enter the fracas as slight
favorites.
   The second tilt will
pit together  the Royal
Flashers and the Fire De-
partment i n a single -A
circuit clash. The Flushers,
one of the chief "A" crown
contenders, paced by a
couple of floor-burning
forwards in Tom Kashiwabara
and Flu Inaba,along with
center Shig Sakamoto, are
rated as favorites. But
don't count the Firemen
out too soon for with ver-
satile Rusty Uratsu in the
line-up, they're no push-
over for any aspiring quintet.
HURRICANES   TO  FACE  MUSTANGS
INDUSTRIALS  TANGLE  IN  OPENER
   The rough and tumble
Hurricane quintet will at-
tempt to blow over the Mus-
tangs in the second round
of the single-A league
Thursday evening at the high
school gym.The Hurricanes,
who dropped their opening
tussle to the Royal Flushers
by a narrow margin, led by
Tomizo   Joe,   Sam Nogawa and
Goro  Sasaki will be out to
break into the win column.
The up and coming Mustangs
lost a close one in their
opener too, and will enter
the fracas as the underdogs.
   In the opening tussle
7:15 o'clock,the Screw-
drivers and the Finance
five,both first round vic-
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