Evening star., 1951-01-07
Colts Upset Eastern,
Tech Trounces Volts
In Inferhigh Series
By Brion Bell, Jr.

Led by big Jim Gradijan who
tossed in 81 points, a hustling
Coolidge basketball team upset
Eastern, 50-42, in the second game
of an interhigh double header
played before TOO spectators at
Uline Arena yesterday. Tech won
as expected, 71-43. over Chamber
lain in the opener.
Coolidge's success from the foul
line and especially that of Gradi-
jan, who made nine free shots,
was the determining factor. East
ern outshot the Colts from the
floor, 18 goals to Is, but Coolidge
made good on Is out of 81 from
the foul stripe while the Ramblers
tossed in only six of Is.
The Colts dropped behind at
the start Of the game and Eastern
led, 14-9. at the end of the first
period, but Gradijan began to hit
from both the floor and the free
throw line and Coolidge went
ahead. 30-19. at the half.
| Eastern Is catfought.
A third-period Eastern rally cut
the score to $3.50 to start the
final quarter. but Coolidge out
hustled the Ramblers to pull far
ther out in front and win going
away.
Herman Littman, Eastern coach.
experimental with the two-pla-
toon system. sending in five fresh
men when the Ramblers went out
in front early in the game. He
soon abandoned the idea whea
the Colts rallied against the re-
placements.
Eastern had one of those after
moons when very few shots it
threw at the basket would go in
and once the Ramblers missed,
Gradijan usually was there to
take the rebounds. The Ram
blers' big men, and they are few,
did not show too much finesse
and were outfought under the
boards by the Colts.
Coolidge used the fast break
to great advantage and in the
second quarter pulled ahead by
running Eastern into the ground.
The Colts tossed in three straight
in rapid fire length of the court
dribbling to destroy the Ramblers'
early advantage.
Gradijan Is Outstanding.
Again in the closing minutes
when it looked as if Eastern
might catch the fast moving
Coolidge five, the Colts again
turned on the steam and relied
on the fast break for three more
two pointers-enough to clinch
the game.
Dave Keys led Eastern with 10
points and D. Torbett was right
behind with nine. Gradijan was
outstanding for the Colts, not only
in scoring, but for his great work
under the boards and alert play
lGllIOuSIlOut GIle game.
Eastern, runnerup in the Inter-
high League last season, will be
hard pressed to gain a playoff
spot this season. Still on the
schedule are strong Teach, dark
horse Western and a hustling
Wilson team.
Tech. defending interhigh IT,
tlist, showed it would be tough
to beat for the crown again this
season. The Trainers tall smooth
working boys had little trouble
with a Chamberlain team that
was not as bad as the score might
indicate.
Breen Stars for Tech.
/ Snookie Herman, Techs highest
scorer this year, was held to seven
points-way below his usual 20
by the alert guarding of Jack
Ferrari, but the Volts couldn' t
stop Bill Breen, who tossed in
20 points.
Richie Gaskell, out for several
games with a twisted ankle, did
a good job on the rebounds and
tossed in eight points despite
spending good bit of the game
on the bench because he had four
personal fouls called early in the
play and Coach Dutch Usilander
kept him seated as precaution.
Chamberlain fought the favored
Trainers valiantly and held Tech
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