The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Hot Contests Loom on
Basketball Horizon
ELY TO OPEN
SEASON FRIDAY
Jaysee, High School Hoop
Teams Facing Plenty of
Competition.

Coach Edward T. Buckley will be
on the receiving end of plenty of ner-
vouS strain and excitement when he
takes both his Junior College and high
school basketball teams to Eveleth Fri
day night for the opening encounters of
the season.
With the Eveleth Jaysees showing
plenty of potential power in downing
an alumni team, 60 to SO, last week, and
with the local high school aggregation
a brain racking problem of who to play
where and for how long, we don't envy
the job confronting the gentleman re-
sponsible for building basketball teams
that will bring home the bacon for
E. j. G. and E. H. S.
If it is possible to read between the
ITO points scored in the Eveleth Junior
College alumni encounter, it might be
said that Coach j. j. Malevich conSid-
ers the best defense is a strong offense.
Coach Malevich's charges poured in "a
field goals, and that's whale of lot
of field goals. They tossed II counters
from the free throw line to run their
score to point that must have made
it very easy for Coach Malevich to get
into the spirit of the season, since the
game was played but three days before
Thanksgiving.
While the hopes of the Eveleth Jay
see coach scared skyward, those of his
colleague, Coach George E. Lee of the
high school, headed for the bottomless
| pit, when at Mountain Iron his team
took a 20 to 20 licking Thanksgiving
eve. Coach Lees turkey didn't taste
so good next day. He used nine players
in an attempt to find winning COM
bination. They were able to drop in
but six field goals as compared with
IL garnered by the winners. Eveleth
scored free throws to for Mountain
Iron.
There's birdSeye view of Coach
Buckley competition Friday evening.
Now let's take look at ElyS material:
The Junior College team numbers
some pretty good ball handlers in its
ranks, besides having seven seasoned
veterans from year ago on deck. At
the present moment they probably rate
as being one of the toughest aggrega-
tons in this territory.
The forwards on the squad are short
but the rest of the boys are rangy
enough to cope with the tall men they
will be called upon to oppose.
Coach Buckley has announced that
William LouShin, center on last years
high school team or Matt Mayerla and
Milton Stenlund get the call at the
guard positions when the game gets
under way Friday night, Steve Grahek
will be in there at center with Jack
Gianotti and John Pechek as reserves
and Joe Fink, Joe Novak, John Mix
laucich and Stanley Sustercich will al
ternate at the forward posts.
The high school team presents a big
ger problem. Small and fast, members
of the first string at times perform
brilliantly but at other times don't look
so hot.
| A tentative starting lineup for the
Eveleth game, as announced by Coach
Buckley lists Ed Golob and Andrew
Luthanen at the guard posts, Forsti
Franti, center, and Albin Grahek and
Leonard Tomsich, forwards. John zaic
and William Mills are available as re-
serve guards, Grahek may be called
upon to fill in at center, and Tony
Markun and Albert Banks are reserve
forwards.
A year ago in the opening games of
the season, Ely Junior lost to Eveleth
Jaysees, SO to II, while the high school
won, 33 to II.
Don't be over-enthusiaStic over Ely'S
chances of winning both these games.
Coach Buckley isn't, and we're inclined
to trail along with him. The Jaysees
have veteran aggregation that will
give the Eveleth Tigers real workout
You can depend on that. And just be-
cause the Eveleth high school squad
lost to Mountain Iron doesn't make
them setup for the Ely high quintet
Eveleth has team of four veterans
who undoubtedly will cause Ely plenty
of trouble before the evening is over