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Show First Ward Team Captures M-Men Victory Cedar First Ward M-Men team garnered the 1957-58 league championship Tuesday night in a playoff game with the Qdar Sixth, by a score of 52 to 48. The two teams finished the regular season with identical records necessitating the playoff Tuesday evening. The game was an unusual affair af-fair featuring a rather rough style of play. A total of 47 personal per-sonal fouls were called In the contest and 54 attempts were made from the foul line during the 32 minutes of play. Another unusual aspect of the game was the fact that the First Ward played the entire fourth quarter of the game with only four men on the floor. Three c( t h iavaii mmlu)r v. 1 a H harl lol f the game via the foul route. Cedar First took the lead In the first quarter by 13 to 12. Eariy in the second period the Sixth forged out ahead to take an scoring period for the First Ward with a total of 20 points to regain re-gain the lead by a score of 39 to 35. During the fourth period the First Ward, with only four men. Including Wallace Heaps, Lowell Sherratt, Jerald Alger and Bui Rhodes, forged Into a 12 point lead midway In the quarter and held onto the lead throuph the remainder of the period to capture cap-ture the league title. Heaps played a hiphlv Impo't-ant Impo't-ant part In the First Ward victory vic-tory particularly In the fourth period of play. He almost single handedly controlled the defensive defen-sive board and came through with two field goals to pace the squad to the 12 point lead High scorer for the evening was Gordon Bauer of the Sixth vho tanked 18 points. Ho w.s followed by Terrv "os'nbv-with "os'nbv-with 17 points for the Fi-t. Te;i of Rosenberg's points came in the third period of play. Ma toy Dodds of the First was credited with 11 counters. |