Evening star., 1948-01-18

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In Third Period
By Bill Fuchs
By Bill Fuchs

Taking advantage of New York
club which appeared half-asleep in
the opening minutes of the game,
the Washington Caps ran up q
quick 100 lead and went on to
whip the Knickerbockers, 1852, last
night at Uline Arena.
After slow start by both teams,
the Caps scame to. life first with
Bob Feerick breaking the ice at the
two-minute mark.
Feerick dribbled all the way down
court to make his shot. John Nor
lander, Freddie Scolari and John
Mahnken took their cues from Feer-
lex, each scoring field goal and
the game was four minutes and
twenty seconds old before Bill Van
Bredakolff threw in New York's first
two points. .,s
Caps Increase Lead.
The Caps kept on going, with
Feerick pacing the attack, and led,
17-2, after nine minutes and five
seconds. At this point Sid Tanen-
baum and Dick Holub collected
eight points between them, four
from the charity stripe, to pull the
Knicks a little closer The first
period ended with Washington out
front, 1910.
The Knicks made a strong bid to
catch the Caps in the opening min
utes of the second period. Tanen-
baum, high scoring ace from New
York University who signed with
New York only recently. started the
rally with a set shot. Carl Braun,
who tailed Al points in game
against Providence last month, and
Johnny Palmer followed suit to pull
the Knicks to within three points
of the Caps.
Sid Sonny Hertzberg, former
Knickerbocker star who joined the
Caps last month, entered the game
at this point and dazzled the 1858
paying customers with his sensa-
tional long distance two-handed set
shooting. Feerick, Norlander, Mahn-
ken and Scolari all contributed
points to give the local five COM
Portable 41-27 half-time command.
b Hertzberg Closes Curtain.
Johnny Palmer, who shared in
dividual scoring honors with Scolari
with is points; Braun, Tanenbaum
and Tommy Byrnes, again brought
the Knicks almost within reaching
point of the Caps in the third
period. Hertzberg closed the cur
tain on the period with another
of his long specialties and the
visitors trailed, 56-47. ...
The final quarter was lust for
Imality, for II the Knicks. who now
are tied for the Eastern Division
lead had any idea of catching their
hosts, they promptly forgot about it
as the Caps strengthened their ad-
vantage to 13 points in the opening
minutes. Holub and Palmer each got
two field goals for the Knicks and
put in all the Knicks' scorces for
the period except for two free throws
by Tanenbaum.
The Caps were limited to only
five foul shots in the entire first
half and made all of them. Hertz
berg's IA points included four free
throws. He has made IL of his last
IL attempts from the free throw
line and II of his last 18.
Caps Up To $50 Mark.
Last nights victory pulled the
Caps up to the $50 mark for the
season, one and one half games
behind the front-running Stays in
the Western Division standing.
The Caps started out the season
by losing of their first II games
but since have come back to win
10 of their last IA.
The st. Louis Bombers, leading
the Caps by a half-game, come into
Uline Arena Wednesday night and
the Providence Steamrollers, who
have won only 8 games out of %,
will be here Saturday. The Caps
were one of Providence's victims.