The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-02-14
Vikings Topple
Methodist, 1888,
Win Cage Title

Utilizing their speed and youth,
Coach Kaz Kato's Lotus Vikings,
second-half winner, became champ
ions of the Seattle Nisei boys bas-
ketball league for the 1898 season
last night friday in the local Bud
dhist auditorium by trimming Me-
thodist, first-half victor. 43 to 33.
The Vikings, paced by Tommy Mi
yata who had blackboard control
to tip in Is points, were never in Sc
r1ous danger after the third period.
AT lf-time, the Buddhist five.
spurred on by catlike Jack Ishida.
held a slight 21-l8 edge after being
behind early in the first period.
The victory proved that youth
must be served as Methodist was
unable to catch the flying Vikings
in the second half In the third
quarter, the teen-age Vikings piled
Up a fat 10-point margin which they
embraced until the final gun.
Methodist's sharpshooting Stan
amashlta was closely checked, be-
ing limited to single field goal and
Two foul shots for four points Ia
nlgawa with 10 and Yosh Nakagawa
and Art YoShioka with seven points
apiece were Methodist's best on Of
tense The vanquished outfit sore
ly missed the service of Tommy va
maguchi who was recently indicted
INTO the armed forces
The Vikings entered the titlo pic
ture by smashing the Saints, 44-1e.
for second-half laurels on Wednes-
day night.
Following the contest, the Nisei
Veterans Committee, which spon-
'ored the boys and girls circuits.
presented awards to the winning
'eams and all-stars in the two loops.
ohlro Kashino, NVC athletic direc-
or, did the honors.
Commander Joe Nakatsu of NVC
informed those present that his
organization will continue to spon-
'or basketball leagues next season.
kallio Suguro was director of the
Two leagues.
WEDNESDAY, NIGHT
VIKINGS (44-Fujii, Utsunomi-
"a y, kobata 6, Ina, Miyata IS. j
Y oshinaka l, Ishida 10. L. Ota. T
Ota, Kobayashi; SAINTS 90 H
famaguchi, Yamada 2, K. IchikaWa |
Z, kosai, Ando 6, Tokita 3, T. Kusa-
Iabe, Yasui l, Edamura 5, Kinoshi-
"a. Half-time score: Vikings 81, |
Saints 10.
FRIDAY NIGHT
VIKINGS (43)-Ishida 9, Kobata |
: Miyata IS, j. Yoshinaka 8. Utsu-
1omiya l, Kobayashi, Ina q. T. o.
a 8, Full, K. Ota; Methodist OBJ!
& Nakagawa 7, Yamashita 4, Yo-
hloka 7, Mitsui, Mari Tanigawa
3. Nakanishi, H. Otani l. H. Yama-
"a l, kolzumi. Half time score: vi
ings 81, Methodist 18.
. GIRLS ALL-STARS
Dorothy Iwasaki, Allons
Jean Full, Lotus Starlets
Janet Okamoto, Lotus Dharmas
Marian Gamido, CYO |
Yone Kanda, Allons
Marge Tomoguchi, Lotus Starlets
honorable Mention Pauline
latsudaira, CYO; Noriko Ichikawa
'harmas; sunni Shimbo, Starlets: +,
lne Watanabe, Allons; Margaret
enda, Allons; Gloria Hyodo Angie
ernardino, CYO; Catholine China
/, CYO.
- BOYS ALL-STARS
Forward-Jack Ishida, Vikings
Forward-Jim Ondo, Saints
Forward-Tom Miyata, Vikings
Guard-Ken Yoshinaka, Savoys
Guard-Tom Yamaguchi, Metho-
st
Honorable Mention-Stan Yama-
lita, Methodist; Richard Hirano.
mai Crates; Shox Tokita, Saints;
on Arai, Savoys; John Tenma.
'hite River Bussei
. GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP
Allons-Gloria Hyodo, Yone Kan
|, june Watanabe, Dorothy Iwasa-
. Togo Kitayama, Margaret Sen
|, Gloria Hikida, Marianne IRA
IVA Coach, Ray Otani.
. BOYS CHAMPIONSHIP
Lotus Vikings-Jack Ishida, Tom
iyata, George Kobata, Jim Yoshi-
ka, Chuck Utsunomiya, Teru Ko-
yashi, Paul Ina, T Ota John
ljii, K Ota. Coach, Kaz Kato.