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Show Champs Show Ecide Faculty Real Game in Potbelly Battle The old boys lost a lot of speed since their younger days, but they showed this "smart - alecky" younger generation a thing or two in the way of basketball. Yep, mates, when you laughed at and cheered for the "Champs of '16" when they played the Leopard faculty at South January Janu-ary 20, you probably ushered out the old era of basketball, with its two-handed chest shots and check me if I'm wrong its six-man six-man teams. But though they had six men and often seven on the floor at one time, the old boys showed plenty of punch in losing to the Eciders by a score that no one remembers or even cares about. The whole affair was part of a P-T A drive to raise money for eyeglasses for needy children. From the looks of the fouls the referees let slip by in the champ-Ecide champ-Ecide game, the glasses should have been given to them. Ernie (Swede) Hanson, better known as Ernest M. Hanson, assistant as-sistant superintendent of schools, played a stellar game, as din "Bunny" Clark of the original champ five which took the National Na-tional AAU championship 27 years ago. Harold Johnson tanked 19 points for the East faculty. In a preliminary feature, the South faculty trounced West soundly, even though "Ike" Isaacson Isaac-son went "shot-headed" and tossed a couple over the backboard. Ike and Jimmy Gilbert were the big guns for the Cub faculty, though. Every time Gilbert swished a point, he walked away looking pleased as a Cheshire cat. He got a lot of cheering, and razzing, razz-ing, from, his own five. Problem of the day: Who were the other three bald-pated bas-keteers bas-keteers supposedly representing the South five? |