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Show South Surges Ahead in City Casaba Race 'A' Clash Ends Initial Big Three Series , Coach Jimmy Gilbert's "A" squad will open its bag of plays tonight against West high school when it inaugurates league play in the top division of the local casaba loop. Good showings in the latter , games of the Cubs' heavy preseason pre-season schedule have established the Southerners as favorites for tonight's tussle. Their prestige began be-gan to grow with wins over B Y high school and the touted Logan quintet, games which saw the South varsity rated as the underdog. A 32-57 loss to the college-experienced Ecker studio quintet, a game South wasn't expected to win, failed to dent their reputation. While the Panthers cannot boast of a record comparable to their Southern rivals, their advantage in height may provide the mainspring main-spring which may catapult them to an upset of the first magnitude. Mentor Bert Ballard has at least three tall boys, Ralph Olsen, 6 foot 3 inches, Jack McArdle, 6 feet 3 inches, and Jack Wilbur, 6 feet 7 inches, to throw against the Cubs. According to reports received re-ceived from West, these hoopsters are being groomed to work together to-gether as a single unit. Upon the basis of past performance, perfor-mance, Gilbert's probable choice to start for South in the initial tussle tus-sle will be Ray Ecker, center; Fred Weidner and Frank Davidson, David-son, guards; Glen Earl and Dave Cooper, forwards. Ecker, in addition to being tallest tall-est man on the team, has consistently consist-ently been one of the team's high point men, hitting the hoop often enough to follow closely on the heels of Glen Earl. Earl, himself, looks good in every department of the game, and has already been touted as a probable all-city choice. , Cooper will have a run for his money in the person of Mark Schwendiman. A possible alternating alternat-ing of the two men in the forward position is not an unlikely move. |