Whizkids Finally Win One
Over Kangaroos As Base
All-Stars Trounce City
By HERB WILLIAMS
The big doubleheader basket
ball games held last Friday at the
High School gym concluded the
1952-53 season as the Whizkids
upset the Kangaroos 18-13 and
the Base All-Stars downed the
City All-Stars 43-31.
Williams’ Whizkids, after losing
the first five games to Kangas’
Kangaroos, managed to salvage a
little glory from their current
series in a low scoring game.
It was only 3-2 at the first
quarter and 5-3 at the half, fav
oring the Whizkids. The third per
iod ended up at 9-9 and in the
final quarter both teams found
their shooting eyes as the Whiz
kids came through with the 18-13
margin.
Korky Kost paced the winners
with 8 points, Doug Cabinboy 7,
A1 Aukon 2 and Jaxon Muller 1.
For the Kangaroos, Willy Willoya
8, Robert Summers 3 and, Dave
Bell 2.
Coach Lou Fulton’s power
packed Base All-Star team troun
ced the City All-Stars 43-31 to
wind up the season play. The base
team was never threatened lead
ing at the quarter 9-6 and increas
ing the margin to 15-9 by the half.
In the second half the base fel
lows, wrho had the taller team,
controlled the backboards and
led 29-20 and the final 43-31.
The city players could never
get a sufficient attack built up tG
make any serious threat to the
opposing team. Ivan Baumgartner
-was high for the game with 13,
Byron Walton 9, Carol Deket 8,
Bill Lazar and Lennen 4 each,
Mike Litman and Beales 2 each
and Andy McCarty 1.
For the city team, Chug Willoya
6, Milt Willoya 5, George Bell and
Pete Hahn 4, A1 Sahlin and Herb
Williams 3, Isaac Larsen and
Vince Ahkolik 2 each. Durham
and Grosso'ehme were the referees
for the tilt.
By MARY E. PRIM
AP Newsfeatures
NEWTON, Mass. — Tenley Al
bright, the courageous 17-year-old
girl who overcame polio and re
cently won the world’s figure
skating title, has a burning ambi
tion. And it’s not connected with
skating.
The pretty blonde daughter of a
surgeon wants to become a doctor
like her daddy.
When Tenley was 10 years old
she contracted polio but licked
the dread disease. Her ambition
to become a doctor is strengthened
by her recovery.
Dr. Hollis Albright was sure
Tenley would never skate again
after her infantile paralysis at
tack in the fall of 1946. She was
not paralyzed but she couldn’t
control her muscles.
However, she was back on
skates within a month. She wob
bled around the rink and often
sat down hard. By Christmas she
was skimming over the ice.
In February, 1947, she captured
the Eastern Girls figure skating
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Wants To Become Doctor
THEN AND NOW — Tenley Albright is pictured, left, at the age of 12 practicing for the "Ice
Chips" show of the Skating Club of Boston. At right Tenley, now 17, goes through a routine at
Davos. Switzerland, where she recently won the world's figure skating crown for women.
title at Philadelphia. But she
couldn’t stay around to receive
the prize. Awards were made af
ter midnight, when the 11-year
old champ was on her way back
to Boston with her school home
work all done.
Tenley started skating at eight
j on a home-made rink in the back
1 yard. Her father, mother and
| younger brother, Nile, all are ar
| dent skaters.
She won the National Junior
title at 14. Last year she won the
National Senior crown and placed
second in the Olympics: Hard luck
struck again just before the finals
of the 1952 world championships.
Tenley suffered a serious virus
infection just when she appeared
to be a certain winner. Her father
rushed her aboard a plane for
home.
The first American girl to cap
ture the world figure skating title
put in a strenuous training sched
ule.
She has been spending from
three to four hours each morning
practicing figures.
Then she would go back to the
Boston Skating Club after school
and “do 30, sometimes 40, fast
runs around the rink to build up
speed.”
Dick Button, former world king
and Harvard Law student, said
“We’re all proud of Tenley.” But
he wouldn’t hazard a guess on
whether she will fellow his ex
ample and turn pro.
Woman Gives Birth to
Two Boys — Not Twins
NEW YORK, UP) — Motherhood
came twice last Feb. 19 to Mrs.
Eugene Kupferstein, 25, of Brook
lyn—but her sons are not twins,
medically speaking.
A rarity, the births resulted
from parallel conception in dual,
separate wombs, according to the
attending physician, Dr. Isaac Di
amond. Twins normally grow in
one womb.
The boys were born 16 hours
apart, the first 4 lb., 8 oz., then
one of 4 lb., 13 oz.
Both now weigh more than five
pounds and are doing fine, Dr.
Diamond said Friday, in announc
ing the unusual case.
The physician said Mrs. Kup
ferstein first came to him two
years ago because she was unable
to have a child. Examination dis
closed she had a double set of
^female organs—twin vaginas and
! twin wombs.
Dr. Diamond said that an oper
ation corrected the vaginal area.
In such cases, he said, conception
usually occurs only in one womb.
Mrs. Kupferstein, however, con
ceived in both, at about the same
; time.
Both mother and father, a 29
year-old factory worker, are very
happy with their first children,
the physician said.
Eskimo Mother and Four
Children Win $37,000 Suit
Against Penna. Promoter
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
BOSTON, Feb. 27, UP — An
Eskimo mother and her four chil
dren have won a $37,000 suit
against a Pennsylvania promoter
for whom, they said, they worked
105 hours a week for a little as
$30.
Municipal Judge Daniel J. Gillen
made the award in the suit against
David Irwip of Milford, Pa., who
was not present and has until
March 6 to remove the default.
Mrs. Seelock Mayokok, 40; her
sons, Wokona, 20; Argutuck, 16,
and Ongoona, 14, and her daugh
ter, Tusruk 12, complained they
had to work from 9 a.m. to mid
night seven days a week at sports
men’s shows throughout the UJ5.
Their pay, they said, was as
little as $30 a week and sometimes
they do not collect at all.
In addition to long, arduous
work, the Eskimos said,, they had
to wear heavy furs in the hot
halls where they appeared.
Woman Forces Man to See
Nude Dance in Moonlight
LONG BEACH, Calif., Iff)—Police
werfe skeptical of Ray E. Reed’s
story that a woman held him at
gunpoint, then danced in the nude
among the tombstones of a grave
yard in the moonlight.
But, checking on Reed’s infor
mation, they found it was all too
true.
Reed saw a pretty brunette in a
stalled car and went to her res
cue. But she displayed a gun and
advised him: “Be a good little
boy and you won’t be hurt.”
She marched him to the Loma
Vista Cemetery and there did her
dance. When she finished she told
the 24-year-old Reed he could
leave.
Officers traced the car’s owner
through license plates but Reed
declined to prosecute. The woman
said only that she was “celebrat
ing.”
Board of Regenis of U. of A.
Advance Commencement Dale
The Board of Regents Executive
Committee at their recent meeting
in Juneau voted, on recommenda
tion of faculty department heads,
to advance the date of. commence
ment this year from Monday,
May 18, to Monday, May 11, it
was announced last week by Pres
ident Moore.
It was explained that this is
being done in order to hold com
mencement before most students
have left campus, to give them
the maximum opportunity to par
j ticipate.
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