After a patchy start, Hatcher was Youled by Eldrige and he became the first io score. The Sixth Marines, however, sped up their, game for Miller to counter an under-the-basket shot. This was followed by Nittinger who sank his &rst goal. After Welborn had tallied a long shot, Nittinger continued with a second basket, Lewis scored and the Reds were ahead by 7-4. Here the trailers substituted Bradley for Eldrige and the recruit went into immediate action to make the count 7-8. Then Eldrige came in again, replacing Welborn, The margin went along to 12-9 before Nittinger sprang up for the second time with two successive shots "which put the Fourth in the lead again. However; with barely one minute left in the opening period, Miller's foul throw and Bradley's field basket enabled the advantage to change hands once more, marking a 15-13 score during the interval.
After having crossed over, Nitting-er set his team rolling garnering the opening goal which deadlocked the count ft 16-all. Miller netted a free toss but Christensen and Lewis retaliated in quick order to bring the Fourth to the front. Nittinger scored and the margin at this stage was 20-10. Nevertheless, the threat of defeat brought the ultimate losers back to earth and Bradley went great guns in hanging up three beautiful shots, Chris-tenson and Steele each converted a foul goal, Then in this moment of stress, Nittinger flashed forward once more to tie the score "at 99-all. Before long, the Sixth players had regained the -leadership through Steel and Eldrige and it appeared as if the latter group were going to have clear sailing.
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