The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1951-01-17
Lotus Mercury Beats off Challengers
In AA' Game; Iwasaki, Tsuji Shine
Cathay Trips Savoys
AS E. Wong Goes
On a Rampage

Lotus Mercury appears headed
straight for the AA crown unless
something drastic happens before
the season ends February 16.
The Buddhist five finally took
the lead in the local NVC loop
with a convincing 44-38 victory
over Main Bowl Challengers last
Monday. Mercury has only four
more games left on its schedule,
with Tokuda Drug as the only up
per division club to contend with.
The others are Methodists, Cava-
Tiers and Superior Used Cars.
Mercury was out to win this cru
cial game right from the start with
Gaylord Iwasaki and Richard Tsuji
pacing the way. The victors led "a
Is at the half. and matched basket
for basket in the second period to
win 44-38. Ray Saito was high for
the Challengers with IL.
Cathay Post dumped Tokuda
Drug, 66-44, to stay in the AA title
chase last Friday. The win tied the
two teams for second place with
Az season record Eddie Wong went
on the rampage in the first half
and tailed 16 for the Chinese, but
high point honors went to Ray Ota-
nj with 20 to his credit.
Baptist Midgets stayed within
striking distance of the high-flying
U. Students in the A class by de-
feating the Presbyterians, 1925.
Yosh Nakagawa ported nine for the
winners.
In the other A tussle, Barons
Outpointed fighting MethOdists,
1882, last Monday. The Barons
held commanding lead most of
the game, but the Methodists, led
by Stanley Yamashita whitfield
this to a point shy of tying the
game before the final horn SCUM
ded.
U. w. Goods eked out 1922 win
over Lotus Starlettes in the girls
division, while the Starlettes, in
turn, finished the Lotus Jrs.. 27-17,
last Friday. Marianne Otoshi of the
Starlettes was high with Is and IL
points in both contests.
The complete Scorings follow:
Friday, Jan. IL
CATHAY POST OBJ. Wong 4,
B. Wong 5, Chin, E. Wong 16, H.
Wong 4, Mar 10, G. zee 7, D. Wong
8, r. 500 8; TOKUDA DRUG 40
Kodama, Asaba, Yoshinaka 7, Ma
kamura /, Otani 20, Shibata, Fulfil
Is, Yoshino, Okamura, Osawa l.
MIDGETS (3D Matsumoto 4,
Yasui 2, Echigo g. Moriguchi /,
Otani 2, Nakagawa 9, Kobata, Nam
ba S. Yamada, Watanabe, Yama-
guchi 4, Shibata 2, Kusakabe /;
PRESBY (26)-Tsutsui, Uomoto 8,
Anal 2, Otani 6, Kumasaka, Full
yama, Kobayashi 2, Mayeno 4, Ha-
yashi 3, Aburano.
STARLETTES (2D Otoshi Is,
Fujii 7, Toshi 4, Nakamura l, To-
moguchi, Kobata, Shimbo, Tanaka,
Uyeta LOTUS JRS. QD-Okamoto
6, Hikida 8. Namba, Nakashima,
Yamauchi 3, Ichikawa, Hyodo, Wa
tanabe, Tsuji, Nakamura.
Monday, Jan. Is
MERCURY (44 - Iwasaki 10,
Dsguchi, Saito 8, Nishimura 7. Tsu-
il IL, Suyama 4, Yasunobu 2. Ka-
wata 2; MAIN BOWL (38-Wong
2, Saito IL, Kim 9, Michihira, Kino-
shita 8, Heyamoto 8, Kurose 10, Ka-
Wamoto.
BARONS (33-Okamoto 4, Flu
keda 5. T. Tsue, Arai 2, Tokita 4,
Nakamura 4, Ohashi 10, Y. Tsue,
Kawahara Q, Ichikawa 2; METHO-
DIST (32)-Kurata, Ichikawa Q, Mi
zuki 2, Koizumi 4, IWata 2, Teraya-
ma 5, Kawaguchi. Kato 4, Y3ma-
shita Is, Kumasaka, Yanagihara,
ShimiZu.
GOODS (23)-Komorita 9, Inaba
4, Tanabe 2, Shioyama 8, Hsyashi,
Tamura, Tsuboi, Sakai; STARLET-
TIES (22)-Otoshi IL, Fujii 0, Ma
kamura, Shimbo, Kobata, Tomo-
guchi, Toshi Q.