East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-01-05
Cards Holiday
Trip Nets One
Loss One Victory

A holiday vacation trip to Lima,
Ohio, proved to be so per cent
successful for the improving Car
dinal cagers who split even in a
two-game card at Lima Central
Gym last week.
The Black and Red basketeers
won their fourth straight game last
Thursday when they defeated the
host Lima Central team, 51-46, in
the first game of cage double
header. However, it took a fourth
period rally to turn the trick since
the local quintet trailed most of
the way. Dick Henderson reversed
his usual procedure by tallying 13
points in the second half to take
scoring honors with 10 markers.
The human dynamo" had hereto
fore Gagged most of his points in
the first two periods slackened to
a scoring halt in the final pair
of stanzas.
Uncanny accuracy at the foul
line also was a contributing factor
to the Cardinals success since they
sunk Is out of 19 charity tosses.
Lima held a 1911 advantage at the
end of the first quarter and were
ahead 1927 at halftime. Paced by
Henderson's accurate shooting,
Shaw narrowed the gap to 1888
at the three-quarter mark and
authored 13-point squirt in the
final canto to annex the victory.
Dick Fort, after chalking up Is
points in the first half, couldn't
hit after the intermission and could
register only three more tallies for
an 18-point total.
Meeting a tougher opponent the
next night, the Cardinals lost
thriller to Cincinnati Western
Hills, 47-45, in a ding-dong battle.
Evenly matched, both clubs played
at furious pace right down to the
wire with Cliff York, Western
Hills left forward, dropping in
field goal just as the final gun
sounded to win the game for the
Crescent City five.
! Shaw's starting team played the
entire game and, according to
Coach Wisecup, turned in their best
performance to date despite the
heart breaking loss. Guard Tom
Meinhardt and Duane Gerasimos
were especially effective in de-
fensive roles, controlling prac-
tically every rebound off the Shaw
backboards. Dick Fort, playing his
usual game, racked up 18 points
for the second straight night while
Don Sexton was also "hot" regis
tering Is markers, II of them in
the first half.
Shaw took a 1910 first quarter
lead and maintained that pace by
holding a 1922 half-time margin.
However, the Cincinnati boys
began to find the range in the
third period and rallied to tie the
count at 35-35 going into the fina
stanza. 1t was unfortunate that
although the Cardinals made gooC
on 8 of IA fouls, four of then
five misses came in the fina
period.
I'm sure that parents, friends
and fellow Shaw students will be
proud and happy to know that the
members of the Shaw varsity
basketball squad who made the
trip conducted themselves in a
manner which would do credit to
their families, school and COM
munity. So often, when high school
athletes take out-of-town trips
they seem to lose sight of the fact
that strangers are quick to con-
done any misconduct on their part.
Coach Wisecup and Mr.. Robert
Louis, who chaperoned the trip,
were we'll pleased with the way in
which the boys conducted them
selves and reported that East
Cleveland may we'll be proud of
them. Hats off to a fine team and
a splendid group of boys.