The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11
The
Fifth
Quarter
The Sportlight
On Diocesan
Grade Schoolers

The Grade schools Presentation
League which opened last Friday
came up with some interesting
games. The most exciting game
of the day was played at Holy
Rosary's gym where the little
Crusaders were stopped by the
fighting Blue Jays of Our Lady of
Victory in a close low scoring
game. For a while it appeared as
though the Victory boys were 60
ing places against the much taller
East end squad but Rosary's fast
break in the last part of the game
changed the scene. They didn't
have quite enough, though, to over
come the Blue and White. Any
one who watches the Victory team
in action this year will marvel az
the antics and the playing ability
of Little Biscuits Biscotti, or PC,
as he is called. BiScotti, the bro
ther of Bob Biscotti the former
Grandview great and later of Vic
tory High when that school had
cage teams, isn't much bigger than
minute but he plays great
game of basketball and is outstand-
ing.
The most thrilling battle in the
Assumption leagues opening round
was the st. Johp-St. Leo fracas
which followed Sacred Hearts
humping of st. Thomas in the
first game of the afternoon. The
low scoring game ended with St.
John on the long end of lilo
count. The south-siders from st.
Leo's started out to make a rout
of the game holding at one time
a 9-3 lead. The Ohio Avenue team
came back strong in the second
half however and evened things
up. They finally squeezed over
the winning point.
All three of the leagues showed
good teams this first outing and
there doesn't seem to be any real
weak outfit among the schools -
but time will tell. We might men
ton however that number oi
eyes were turned towards Sacred
Heart and Immaculate Conception
as being a bit strong. We were
well pleased with the new plan in
the Assumption and Presentation
leagues of the teams playing al
in the same gyms on Saturday
The advantages seem at present tt
far outweigh the disadvantages o.
the program. The boys on tht
teams are given the opportunit!
to play on good floors at st. Char
les and Aquinas; the game itsel
is bettered by the use of competen
officials and the electric clock ant
scoreboard. II is also good from
the spectators standpoint as wa
evidenced last week.
The announcement that the ele
: mentary school swimming NEE
will definitely be held this yea
, will probably cause lot of az
plause but it will undoubtedl
J make number of people unhapp
too. This last will be from tn
, fact that ii is to be held in th
/ Knights of Columbus Pool whic
! unit has no spectator space. TIL
. meet was formerly held at the OSl
Natatorium on double bill wit
, the Central Catholic High Schoc
, meet. The latter however, ha
/ been discontinued and the chanc
/ that the meet may not be to
/ large because of lack of entrie
has caused the move.
! Chuck Swartz, former Our Lad
of Victory cage star, and we
known in Columbus amateur eli
cles, is acting as head official an
supervisor of the Presentatio
League at Aquinas. Chuck pla,
ed with Victory the last year ths
school had a team. The squa
was the leading team in the cit,
i coached by Cammila Cenci, 10,
only one game during the season
Ken Grimes and Charlie Griffith
both of st. Charles College, ar
teaming up to handle the Assuml
ton League at st. Charles.
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