The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-11
FIRST OF ALPHA
SICMA-LION CAGE
SERIES TONIGHT
FLORIDA SOUTHERN FRA
TERNrTY PLAYERS FACE
STIFF OPPOSITION: MID
GET CLUBS I'm pRELIM II I

Key West basketball followers
tonight will be given an oppor-
tunity of learning what makes a
three-time championship team
tick. The occasion will present
itself when the strong Alpha
Sigma cagers of Florida Southern
College march on the court at
High School Gym for the first of
a three-game series with Lions
Club.
The fraternity basketeers, who
arrived here last night, placed
first the past three years in col
lege intramural tournaments. Be-
sides. several members of the
squad have won individual cups
for their accuracy in foul-shoot-
ing contests. The team as a
whole ranks high in the latter
department.
| Forward-captain Floyd Lay,
three-year varsity player led
1.-THE college team in action the
past season. In free-throwing
tnatch he netted AS out of so, rum
ming off with top honors. Guard
John Young, who has been high
ly acclaimed for his speedy drib-
BILE, was runner-up to Lay in
foul-shootnig. Center Duanne
Deem is rated the fastest man on
the squad.
Starting lineup of the visitors
was announced last night by Chas.
Ketchum, business manager and
guard. Lay and Young will be
the forwards, Deem the center,
Charles Berkstresser and Art
Harrington, guards.
Other members of the team
here include Ketchum of Key
West, Fred Caison, Roddy Dug
ger and Richard Spivey, guards,
and ]. B. Prickett, Bob Barnett
and Albert Holmes, forwards.
Jack Denmark, scheduled to ac-
company his teammates here, was
left behind with an attack of
measles. He was replaced by
Caison, who halls from Clinton,
IS. c. Digger is a Floridian.
Lions are. undismayed at this
array of talent and are calmly
awaiting the opening whistle.
Veterans of tournament play,
they expect trouble from the in
vaders but will enter the fray
with utmost confidence.
The locals breezed through the
city legaue a year ago to claim
the championship and were bare
ly nosed by the Marines in
playoff for the 1871 title two
weeks ago. They will probably
stack up like this at game-time:
| Chester Knowles, forward
| Charles Smith, All-Star for
ward.
/ Waldo. center
/ Ignacio Carbonell, guard.
| Bob Saunders or Gene Torres,
gaurd.
/ Joe Pinder. an All-Star for
ward of the Lions. will be absent
tonight. He is attending bank
ers' convention in Hollywood,
Fla. I'm all probably, Joe will
join his teammates tomorrow
night for the second game of the
series ..s5s. sfI.e
| A preliminary scrap win fea-
rture two Junior High School
clubs. the Colgates and BARRIERS;
lin the first of a 28-gan1e second
half tournament schedule. First
hall. concluded last night. was
won by the rockies under Ralph
/ Arnold. varsity forward.
Eight teams COMPRISED of Junior
high pupils are competing in a
tourney to decide championship
of the lower grades. The players
are coached by members of the
High School varsity and are learn
inc rudnnents of the sport in
sctfve competition. Friendly rfv-
airy between the youngsters has
produced a number of close con-
tests.
Curtain-raiser tonight gets I'M
der way at 7:30 O'Clock and the
feature fight will go on ten min
utes after termination Of the pre-
linn.