Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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M'00L!gl'l Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute proved to be a breather to the jasper Five and the Green had little trouble downing them 63 - 40. Honey Russell started his first team but yanked them after only eight minutes of play with the score 18 to 8. The second and third stringers finished the game as the Jaspers won their ninth game in twelve starts. Scoring honors went to Johnny Murphy, six foot five third string center who gathered fifteen points. Cl Cl,l'lt0l'l. Scranton University had the distinct honor of being the only team to lose two games this season to the Green. After beating the Tomcats at the Fordham Gym, the Jaspers traveled to Scranton and defeated them on their own court. Blowing a huge fifteen point lead built up in the first five minutes, the Green had a tough time defeating Scranton in the second game. Sensational set shooting by Bob Kelly during the opening minutes paced the Iaspers to their early lead. VV ith the game only seven minutes old, Manhattan led 16 - l and Kelly had made eleven points. Then the Green be- came ragged and allowed the T omcats to close the gap to 24 to 20 at the half and then tie it at 26 all after two minutes of the second half. T he Iaspers finally pulled away again with a lead of eight points but Scranton again started to close the gap. Timely baskets by Jack Byrnes kept Manhattan ahead and the hnal score was Manhattan 46, Scranton 42. The all-time record between Manhattan and Scranton now stands at four wins and four defeats for each school. 2 CLl'Ll'l0l'l. Leaving Scranton, the jasper Five traveled on to Buffalo to meet Gannon College in Buffalo's Memorial Auditor- ium. The Manhattanites completely out- classed the Gannon Five to gain their fourth straight victory by a score of 43 - 32. The defeat spoiled the debut of Gannon into the big time as the small school from Erie, Pa. showed little ability to score. The victory was the Iaspers eleventh in fourteen games. j0l'6!LCl.l'l'l February lst was very nearly a night of mourning for the jaspers when they barely nosed out their traditional rivals Fordham. The last time these two teams met on a basketball court the .Rams handed the Jaspers one of their two de- feats of that season. That game took place in the 1942 season, at the end of which both teams were contenders for the National Invitation Tournament Champ- ionship. The Manhattan fans who ambled over to the Rose Hill Gym, expecting to see the Jaspers blow over the Rams with- out difficulty, were unpleasantly sur- prised. ln a highly spirited contest, in which Fordham refused to concede a thing, it took Manhattan right up to the final whistle to gain a decision. The final score was 40 - 39. The game was tight from the very start, with the score tied eight times. The Iaspers were unable to click from the beginning, while FO1'Clll31ll,S long shots just couldn't stay out. Manhattan tricky plays which had bewildered more experi- enced fives, did not show themselves at all. In the first half it was the bucket shooting of Jack Byrnes which kept Man- hattan ahead in the scoring column. The half ended in the Ram's favor 22 - 21.

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