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Show Big 3 Completes First Half of League Play Midget squads from South and West, for the second and last time, battled to a 36-23 score for the Cubs to start the last half of the 1942 Big Three hoop race. Coach Nate Long's powerful Midget squad recorded its fifteenth- consecutive victory during a four-year period. The victory kept the Cubs with a clean record of seven victories and without a single setback. Big Three standings at thv3 halfway half-way mark showed the Southerners far ahead of their cross-town rivals with six wins and no losses. East's Leopards trailed South with three wins and three setbacks. set-backs. Lady Luck seems to have overlooked the Panthers this season, sea-son, leaving the Westerners holding hold-ing the bag with six consecutive defeats. Here is a brief summary of the first half of league play: Ihe South-West Midget battle initiat- t ed the Big Three cage wars which saw Nate Long's boys keep their victory streak by easily overpowering overpower-ing the Panthers, 32 to 16. "A," "B" squads chalked up victories to sweep the West series. In their second encounters, the Cubs again swept the series against the East Leopards. Scores red: "C" game 40-18. "B" game 22-19; "A" game 47-41. . Last week saw a much improved im-proved Leopard squad trounce the Weciders to make a clean sweep of the series and to advance ad-vance to second place. The respective re-spective scores read: "C" game A 43-40; "B" game 26-21; "A" game 31-12. The standings: School Won Lost Pet. South 7 0 1.000 East 3 3 .500 West 0 7 .000 |