Show rabbits win from tigers for jr title last week in the high school gym the rabbits defeated the tigers 22 to 20 to win the championship pion Plon ship of the junior league basketball for ath and ath grade teams the crows defeated the hawks TO 1111 to 3 to grab the top spot in the ath and ath grade division team members of the winning upper division team were robert fearn frank bowman dean duncan mark wilkinson al morgan blaine sparrow rex wilkinson and warren clements ants the tigers won the first half and a 11 d the rabbits took the second thus bringing the two teams together for the final game last week the game was a close affair al all I 1 the way with both teams taking turns pulling away from each other the rabbits fell apart in the second half and trailed 13 to 8 at the half lo in the second half rex wilkinson Wilkin soh and warren clements started to hit ana an d pushed the rabbits ahead the tigers could nl match the passing of the winners but in all other areas th the two teams were as closely matched as possible and it if butch sommers ers and lyle ron could have kept up the sensational sat ional shooting they showed in the first half it ithe game would have gone the he ot other r v ra yi i I 1 I 1 butch sommers 1 was vas high point man in in the ganel nurith birti bl a total of 13 points in fait f ift he made the first 10 for his team i lyle waldron was second highest scorer with six points for the winners their s scoring coring was spread out with dean duncan al Mor morgan karr rex wilkinson and warrert Warr err clements each making four points the game wa was s afine finish to the league play and both teams displayed a great deal of ability and should feel proud of their performance I 1 winning lower division players ath and ath grade were royal lamb barney chapman terry heiner scott nielsen herald try jan turner and john harames the crows marched through their season losing only one league game in their final championship game against them the hawks they displayed display ea a d fine passing game plus some near sensational shooting scott alel sen was high point man in the game as he dropped in two nice baskets for four points barney chapman hit for thoas two as did terry heiner and herald fry the game was won by team play however horev er because it was the fine passing of john harames and jan turner that made the baskets possible the losers had a hard time making the ball drop through the hoop as they had shot after shot that just go in they played a fine game but just could r n t mafa maccri tle the shooting of the crows george wright made a nice basket at the early part af of the game but find the range after that the rest of the team played very good basketball and will toe be tough to handle next year the ne junior league basketball lids has been cori conducted ducted under the sponsorship of the recreation recreation department and has enroll ed approximately to 75 boys athe in the ath ath ath and ath grades th the games have been held on saturdays and have been bonig on oil for the list last three months baked squirrel HARTFORD conn UP A fire that originated in an electric motor caused minor damage to a house basement the blaze was started by a squirrel which had bad crawled inta the motor tor and touched off a spark the squirrel died an oil tanker can carry barrels of residual fuel oil or orthe the equivalent of tons ou of coal al |