Running wild in the second half, the Second Battalion handed the Headquarters Troop their third consecutive defeat in the Fourth Marines Inter-Battalion Basketball League last night at the Navy YMCA, by decisive score of 41 to 25.
Play was very close in the first half. When intermission arrived sides read 19—18, with the ultimate winners holding a hair-line margin, The second halt saw the trailers fall to pieces and were unable to check their opponents from locating the basket, The Second nine played peerlessly in the last part of the game, The guards were specially fine, showing that they could attack as well as defend, With the exception of Johnson, who played only a part of the game, each man on the winning teami stored at least a pair of goals, For the losers, Rozier was the chief 7 goal-getter, gaining half a dozen.
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