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The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., February 25, 1943 PAGE THREB Terror Five Seeks Fourth Straight Victory In Last Horne Came Of Current Campaign Tesl American Eagles Four Seniors To Play In Gym Tomorrow In Fin,1 Fray Western Maryland's 1943 basket- forward, has finally thrown off a knee ball team will make its final appear- injury, and Mansberger's broken leg ance in Gill Gym tomorrow night also has healed sufficiently to war- when they are hosts to invading rant trouble for opposition in the next American University from Wa~ing- few weeks. ton. The two teams met earlier this This year the Terrors conclude one week, and the Terrors walked off of the most successful seasons in with a 54 to 40 win. quite a while. While finishing only Playing in their last college home third in the Mason-Dixon Conference, game of the year will be Frank Suf- the Green and Gold team hung up an fern, Lee Lodge, Captain Nemo Rob- impressive outside record to take sec- inson and Manny Kaplan-all ond place honors in the state. A win seniors. Suffern, the veteran of the' tomorrow night will givc the Big Green their eighth league win and the thirteenth victory in eighteen Among their year. Number Twelve Frank Suffern g-ames fOl' the triumphs was a verdict most prized I For Locals quint, four has been playing varsity bull over Gettysburg College by a 40-30 count. and this for years season has up to and including' the In games reached his peak as a defensive ball Baltimore University contest, With a first-half rally that netted player in addition to his old talent of Terrors had scored 683 points against {he 31 points, Western Maryland's bas, outside shooting. Lodge, Robinson, the opposition's 606, giving them nn ketecia took American University's and Kaplan have had three years of average of 42 points II game against cagurs into camp on Tuesday night varsity competition and, along with the enemy's 37. by a 54-40 count. The win was the Suffern, were members of Bruce Fer- twelfth of the season for the locals, guson's championship team in 1941. This season the Terrors have had the. eighth league victory, and the Bowing out frn- the duration will streaks of five straight victories and, third in a row. Played in Washing- be Ed l\1ogowski and Arlie Mansber- numerous - times, three straight. At ton, the Eagles will return the visit ger-c-two boys whom the Terrors are present they have a three-game streak tomorrow night when the two teams counting 011 heavily in the coming and hope to make it foul' tomorrow square off in another conference tilt. tournament. l\1ogowski, elongated night and eight by March 8. Western Maryland started off fast, Ed Mognwski taking a foul' point lead but found the score tied moments later at 6-6. 8achelor Five Takes 18' League--- Cagers And Ringmen Tourney At this juncture thc Big Green team time. lA' Loop To Play On Friday really spurted and had a commanding just before Conscious As Seasons Close 29-7 lead then rallied and half cut the Alpha Gamma Tau's five continued shots from the outside by Jack Butt- American mark. to 31-14 at the half-way score lead for the remain- ed a comfortable Western Maryland's boxing and being counted on heavily fur- the The Terrors were led offensively by their winning streak by downing Del- ner and Warren Cook, they maintain- ta Pi Alpha's quint, 30-17, in the de- basketball teams will both seek tour- tourney. Ed Mogowski and Frank Suffern, ciding tilt of the Interfraternity del' of the encounter. The halftime nament honors on the weekend of Harry Jetfra will take only three while the two Eagle scoring threats, Minor League Basketball Campaign. score was 19-9 in favor of the Bache- March' 5 and 6. The Terror court- or four boxers to the championships Bart Fugler and George Zures, were The affair was rather loosely played Iors. men will seek the Mason-Dixon Con- at Syracuse. They are Chuck God- held in check by Lee Lodge and Suf- throughout and was never close In the second half, Harry Bucking- ference title at the Loyola College win, 155 pound luminary, Frankie fern. Manny Kaplan continued his enough to be very exciting. ham attempted to close the gap with Gym in Baltimore, while the mittmen Faughman at 135, Howard Hall at fine floor game, and Arlie Menaberger • Brooks Scores three 2-pointcrs, but the Preacher Coffman both saw plenty and Curly will attempt to carry off several in- 145, and gerhaps Art O'Keeffe for the spurt was only momentary as Paul dividual titles at the Eastern Inter- 165 pound class. of action. Paul Brooks broke into the scoring Brooks and Snuffy Smith ripped the collegiate Boxing Association tourney By the win, the Terrors clinched column first with three successive cords with twin counters to retain Godwin is believed to have an ex- at Syracuse, N. Y. eellent chance of carrying off honors third spot in the Mason-Dixon Con- field goals for Blue and White. Eleree their team's advantage. Jack Butt- Much of the current basketball ference and in the play-offs will be Dayton and Jack Buttner, then, each ner's eagle eye, which made him high campaign has been an in-and-out pro- since he has remained undefeated af- seeded in the 10}Ver bracket with added a two-pointer for their team, scorer of the game with 11 points, cess for Western Maryland's team. ter the first bout of the year. Both Washington College. In the first before Dick Patten came through with and his good defensive play, along They have risen to heights on several Hall and Faughman have had winning round the Terrors will meet Catholic a field goal for the Preachers' initial with Paul Brooks' early game scoring American seasons fighters University, University, and are experienced occasions and played very mediocre tally. This early lead stood the spree, contributed much to the Bache- ball on others. All in all, however, it and could easily grab the crown with Delaware, or Gallaudet. The pairings Bachelors in good stead for the rest lor victory. For the Preachers, Har- has been a successful season thus far a break or two. will be picked by a neutral team. of the gamc; and with some timely ry Buckingham was high scorer with and quite reminiscent of the cham- 6 points, and John Hancock aided his pionship record of two years ago. Gbdwin And O'Keeffe Win In Last Match; team's cause with some good defen- • Remember '41 sive play . That season, in 1940-41, thc 'I'er- .A League this Ferr'isKnocks Out Coast Guard Heavy rors lost four conference games; they In the A League in which the should lose no more than three Preachers and the Black and Whites year. That year a fair 'Western were to have battled it out in the fir-st Maryland team had to beat a superb By Earl Schubert Thus ended another boxing season game of their respective bids for Loyola College t;>lltfitto take the hon- After outclassing Indiana Teach- at Western Maryland, probably the championship honors, the Purple and ors and did it. This year a good ers two weeks ago in the last home last for the duration. Coach Harry Gold forfeited to their opponents. Two Western Maryland club will have to match of the season, the Green rl'er- Jetfra has done a good job with lim- impor-tant absences in the Preacher beat an equally good Washington Col- 1'01' ring team went down to a sur- ited but willing material. Ever-y starting lineup prevented them from lege aggregation and may certainly prisingly close defeat at the hands dual meet of the season was closely going into action. Thc deciding gamc do it. of thc strong Coast Guard Academy fought with the exception of the In- for the A League title will be played The westminster- boys will have squad at New London last Saturday diana match which the Terrors won between these two clubs on Friday more than the undefeated Shoremen night, 5 to 3. with ease. The team lost heavily in evening at 7 o'clock in Gill Gym. to reckon with in the play-offs. Ran- The Coast Guardsmen presented the lighter weights when John Alex- dolph-Macon is assured of a spot in one of their finest teams in years, ander, a winner, and capable Frank the "big four" and is also the posses- and especially in the lowcr weights Ziegler wcnt into the armed forces. I Terror Hope ... sor of an outstanding record. They were they superior to what the Ter- Carl Mendell also was lost ncar the remain, however, an unknown quanti- rors had to offer. However, from the end of the season, and George Nor- ty since they did not play the toug-her middleweights on, the Marylanders man was forced to hang up the gloves conference teams during the regular took three out of four. after a convincing win at Penn State. Charlie Godwin got our first point Jimmy Green, a promising Ireshmun . at newcomcr was also 120 pounds, • ~ho'men Tough by cutting down Scalabrini of the forced out of the ring. Still it i's Washington College, al- Coast Guard and carrying off the de- However, a real prospect was dis- ready twice victor over the Terrol·s. cision. Art O'Keeffc, Terror newcom- covered in Otts O'Keeffe, and this bal~ that Weste:rn Maryland will find the er in the 165 pound class, took his sec- anced the losses somewhat. most difficult. The Shoremen have a ond straight win in easily downing It has not been decided 110W many fast-breaking, sharp-shooting outfit Ed Tharp of the sailors. men will be sent to the Intel'colle- that is tough to stop under any cir- Heavyweight Hank Ferris added giate at Syracuse, if any, but the finc cumstances. F:rank Samcie, Lou another to his victory string in end- records of Charles Godwin, Howard Ycrkes, and Jerry Voith are all dan- ing his collegiat.c boxing career fOI" Hall, and Otts O'Keeffe justify their gerous and will bea:r watching. the duration. Hank has been called being sent to the ring tourney, Hank' One big factor in the Te:rrors' favor up in t.he Enlisted Reserve and fought Harry Jelfra Ferris was definitely a title contend- is that of playing under pressure. his last scrap Saturday night. It was er but the Army stepped in. Only Ed Mogowski, who was a fresh- quite a disappointment to lose Ferris Coast Guard veteran and captain, and West Point, Maryland, Virginia, man at the time, was not a member at this time with the Eastern Inter- ran into a haymakel' along the ropes. Penn State, Coast Guard, and Syra- of the championship teamj and he is collegiate Tournament coming up He was knocked down for a count and cuse, the host, are expected to send now completing his second varsity next week. He would have been a got up off the floor. But at this point full teams to the annual tournament, campaign. Frank Suffern, Nemo Rob- sure bet to place, at least, if not to the referee stopped the bout, and with Syracuse and Virginia the fav- inson, Lee Lodge, and Manny Kaplan come off with the title. Hank finished awarded Drury the bout by a techni- al·ites. However, Coast Guard has a will be playing in their third tourna· up in great fashion by knocking out cal knockout. well-balanced aggregation and must ment; and when the chips are down, his opponent, Dale Stayton, in the In the Indiana match held in Gill be considered the serious threat. this may prove the deciding factor. second round. Gymnasium, Jimmy Green, Howard Maryland, Army, and Penn State .Bad News In the other bouts, Willie Kerbel', Hall, Chuck Godwin, Otts O'Keeffe, have been riddled with losses in key Only had news for the situation is Frank Faughman, and Bill Penning- and Hank Ferris won easily, with positions. However, the presence of that the Army is taking Stan Kula- ton were outclassed by their sailor Carl Mendell getting a draw, to down three or four Green Terrors will kowski before the playoffs. Kula- opponents. Howard Hall got off to a the Teachers 6lh~llh. Frank Faugh~ greatly influence the drawings, and it kowski has had'a fine season and was slow start against Rufus Drury, man lost with a cut eye. may result in anyhody's tournament. Chuck Godwin