he FAST, HARD FOUGHT action lHWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHMNHMHHHHHHH , . ’ _ prevailed throughout the third annual Illinois Tech Prep Basketball tourney held during the Christmas holidays. In this bit of play from the final game, Don Rigonl (49) of CVS and Noah Marmcl of Marshall grapple for the ball as Lou Scott of the Commandos figure out what to do next. Marshall, Marshall, Marshall . . . that was the story in the third annual Illinois Tech Prep The Commandos, led by little Eddie Goldman, steam-rollered Taft 60~53, Amundsen 58-47, Austin, 66—35, Senn 6156, and Vocational 74n64 to take their third straight title. This year’s tourney saw one record tied and five smashed, a new high in Basketball Tournament held during the holidays. attendance figures set, a ten-man all-star team named, and a sopho- more declared most valuable player of the six-day marathon. Ell Goldman, Noah Marmel, and Al Sherman were instru- mental in leading the maroon and gold to a flock of records. The champion Commandos tied their own record for points scored in one half (set against Englewood in ’48) when they pumped in 41 mar- kers in the first half of the championship game with Voca— tional. The CaValierS combined with Marshall to set two new marks. The single game high score total for two teams, 113 points set by Harper and Farragut in 1947 (Harper 60~Farragut 53), and the most field goals in one game, 44, set by the same teams was raised to 138 points and 56 goals by Mar- shall and CVS in the final game this year. The gentlemen from Adams and Kedzie also rewrote two of their own records; 325 points total for a 65 per game average eclipsed their previous mark of 278 set by the ’48 team. Senn, third place winner, erased a former Marshall rec- ord by scoring 27 points in the second quarter of their Farra- gut game, a new high. Attendance at the tourney went way up over last year-43,709 patrons an increase of 58 per cent over 1948), presented hard cash to Watch the contests. The total attendance reached over 20,000. Ten players were chosen to the all tournament team. At forwards were Sammy Esposito, Fenger’s prolific point getter; Herb G011, scorer of 53 points in three games for Hirsch; Noah Marmel, six feet, four inches of the Commandos’ By Larry Shapiro «a: alts Wise By Don Anderson Track coach Roy McCauley issued equipment to 40 aspirants last Tuesday in preparation for the coming indoor sea- son which starts February 18. About half of the candidates are veterans from last season, although most of the new men have grcn, Senn’s rebounding ace. Russ Nystedt of Calumet and Ken Mauch of Taft were the choices for the center post. Eddie Goldman, Marshall’s sophomore field general; Len Bruno, ball handling genius from runner-up CVS; Tom Halloran, midget from Semi; and Johnny Mudd of Lindblom manned the guard posts. Individual scoring honors went to Russ Nystedt of Calumet with 36 buckets and 23 charity tosses for 95 points. Goldman of Mar- shall tallied 88 points for second, and Eddie Flatt of Senn was third with 73. Something new was added to the meet when Ed Goldman joined Jim Skala of Lindblom (1947) and Irv Bemoras of Marshall (1948) as the recipient of the most valuable player award. The five foot eight inch guard played throughout the tournament as if Naismith had invented the game solely for him and had been playing it since 1892. Leading scorers: Player and school G fg ft in Nyswat, Calumet ...... 5 36 23 93 Goldman, Marshall . .. 5 36 16 88 Flatt, Senn ......... .. 5 39 9 73 rmel, Marshall . . 5 28 11 67 anallina, Calumet 5 21 22 64 acott, VS ...... 5 27 9 63 wherman. Marsha 5 24 14 62 vEsposrto, Fenger 3 21 19 61 Bruno. CV8 ..... . 5 26 7 59 Berggren, Senn 5 21 16 58 oil, Hi h .. 3 21 11 53 Donahue, CV3 5 2D 11 51 Halloran, Senn .. . 5 20 8 48 Newman, Marshall ..... 5 20 4 44 Babctch, Von Stueben.. 2 14 12 40 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllll lllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll (59) and Len Bruno (45) of CVS and AI Sherman (23) “a A it», 1 « a: i“?- liiilllllillililililiilllll t l ‘~ slut a. did” a. a] track had previous experience. At a meeting held recently, Coach McCauley discussed the functioning of the team, training schedules and divided the men ac— cording to events. He also made public schedules for both the in- door and outdoor squads, making it clear that there was not a single casy meet to look forward to. Elections were also held, at which Bill Baumg‘artner and Wa1~ ter Kohler, veteran Tech cinder— men, were elected coocaptains for the coming season. McCauley will be looking to several outstanding prospects for success this season. ‘Vet— eran miler Al Ashurst, lrving Gottesman, a pole vaulter and a newcomer this year, and Wendell Campbell, a new half~ miler are expected to turn in stellar performances. McCauley also emphasized that no definite positions have been as- signed as yet and anyone inter— ested in track or field events who missed the meeting may still sign up by seeing him in his ofiicc in Room 233 MC, or in the varsity locker room any Tuesday or Thurs— day at 1.00 p.m. , The 1950 Illinois Tech track ; team is in vital need of an assist- ant manager . . . anyone inteiu ested should contact co-captain Wally Kohler any day after 4 , p.m. in the gymnasium immedi— ately. alosdoy 1y “ stylists lily By Marks Levy The Techawk cagers will undertake a short and murderous road trip tonight when they journey to the beer city to face the Mil— waukee Teachers’ quint, one of the three teams they have man- aged to decision in their first six contests. Then they will limp home, to play the Chicago Teachers five Tuesday night on the Tech floor in an effort to regain their recently lost winn uing ways. The glory of a nice big 15 and one season went right out of the gym window one sad night before the much needed Christmas vaca- tion; Thursday night, December 15 the boys throw one away to Navy Pier, losing- in the last two min— utes, 48-45. Leading all the way, somebody evidently wanted to pile up a few more points and proceeded to throw the ball right into the lllini’s hands—«resulting in a rain of Illinois baskets. As if that wasn’t enough, Saturday night, December 17, the Lake Forest squad, paced by Kenny Wolf’s 14 points, downed the fading Hawks 49-43, proving that any team that plays basketball for four quarters can beat one that plays for only two. Twice they had commanding leads of over ten points, only to have the Illinois Tech cagers come perilously close near the end of the first half, and even going ahead by one point with two min— utes to play. But after a little scuffle under one of the baskets, Gem-go Scalamera was awarded his fifth foul of the nightwtaking out all of the height. The Forest— ers then pumped in seven quick points to go on to win, 4944. The possibility of going un— der a .5th percentage is a stark reality tonight. Milwaukee has a tall, accurate shooting squad with plenty of reserves; the last game with them was one of the finest exhibitions of basketball ever seen in the Elli- nois Tech gym. An uphill fight all the way, the Teach- ers were downed 65-59, but the ’l‘cchawhs had to go into over- time to do it. A breather, if any game can be u u I --- Wtblfml ”'1' Lake Forest EFT Fl BFTF‘ Goralka 3 1 alWolf 6 2 5 Leiser 3 2 Zldoor 4 0 0 Scalamera 7 2 5lJones 4 1 2 c as 3 a 4|Ernstlng 0 2 2 Maazman 1 0 2| Katzler 2 1 3 Hey 1 O Ochrnlund 5 1 1 Gardner 0 0 O. isia 0 0 1 Matson 0 0 0 Pet‘re'n. P. 0 0 0| Pet‘re'n, Fl. 0 0 01 Urasky 0 0 0" 1s 8 161 21 7 15 i l l l l l l l l “leach schedule oiyon INDOOR: , Feb. 18 Quadrangular (Den Paul, Loyola, U. of C., HT) Feb. 25 North Central, Loyu ola, HT Mar. 4 Midwest Intercol- legiate Track and Field Meet Mar. 11 Tech Relays Mar. 18 Milwaukee S t ate Teachers, Northern Ill. State Teachers, llT Mar. 25 Morton, HT, 3rd team undecided. OUTDOOR: Apr. 1 Northern Ill. 8 t a t c Teachers, HT Apr. 15 U. of Chicago, HT Apr. 22 Elmhurst, llIT Apr. 29 Rose Polytech Relays May 6 Beloit Relays May 13 Elmhurst Relays May 20 Open date May 27 U. of Illinois (Navy Pier), “'1‘ Why not get on the bandwagon and join the crowd of Tech motors that are going to Milwaukee for the game tonight and an evening of fun; if you want to go, get over to the gym immediately, and see Ed .Glancy, who is handling ar- rangements for share-expense rides. called that, will be played against the Chicago Teachers team Tues— day. They were downed by Navy Pier by a big score, and if compari- tive scores mean anything the cag~ ers should be able to take them without too much effort. Starting lineups for tonight’s game: ll 1 '1‘ Milwaukee Gardner F Ryerson Leisor F Gunderson Scalamera C Bolz McCuo G Lemmer Maatman G Morris ..... Thrown away IIT Navy Pier 13 FT F' B FT F Matson 0 0 3 Bohrens 4 1 Urasky D 0 4 Beilfuss 1 3 Pet'ro n, P. n 0 1 Gainer 4 3 ¢ a Ice: 6, 4 4 Koziol 3 1 .ucalamera 6 1 3 Woxler , 0 1 Hardner 1 1 1 -DuForc 3 0 VloCue 3 1 5 McCarthy 0 1 nulloa'tman 2 1 1 Gllclzmon 0 1 ao‘<’n~s'n,Fl. 1 0 2| Wolinsky 2 3 Gorallca 0 0 0‘ 19 7 24 17 14 15 dietitian ”lg; By Sid Donnell; The G-Mcn of Theta Xi did it again Tuesday. Grimes and Gentzel scored 24 points between them as they plastered Sigma Alpha Mu by a 41—21 score. The loss dropped the curtain on the Sammies’ hopes for the cup while it stamped TX as a veritable cinch for top honors. The Sammics were leading 5-3 midway through the first half and the game looked as if it would set- tle down to a tight defensive battle. Then lightning struck. Theta Xi poured. in 20 points while holding the losers to 3 and they pulled up at the half with a comfortable 23-8 lead. The second half was more of the same with Gcntzcl and Grimes and everyone else on the squad pouring in the shots from every angle. Their attack was helped plenty when Sher- win Small, giant pivot of the losers, left the game on fouls halfway through the period. Not to ignore the great perfor- mances the entire squad has shown this season, we still must give an extra portion of the credit to Bob Grimes and Charley Gentzel. Big: Bob has been a mainstay of the TX attack for the past- several seasons. Mending 6'7” tall, he has been used in the pivot position to take advan-, tage of his unusual height. This is the last basketball season with Theta Xi for Bob since his graduation date is coming: up in June. Gentzel is a junior and is a more pledge at the present time. He sparkplugs the team from his guard position and although his small stature should be quite a handicap it certainly hasn’t stopped him yet. Speed and deception have enabled him to become one of the leading scorers in the league. VJith' an- other season of eligibility remain— ing, Charley should leave quite an impression on the interfraternity basketball picture both this year and next.