City All-Star Basketball Champions, 1939

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Title

City All-Star Basketball Champions, 1939

Subject

Sports and Recreation

Description

Pioneer Press photograph of the All-City Basketball Team of 1939.

Publisher

Pioneer Press

Date

1939

Contributor

Fletcher Jr., Readus

Format

newspaper clipping
black-and-white photograph

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Welcome Hall Wins Cage Championship

Welcome Hall defeated Central Presbyterian, 32 to 26, Saturday night for the championship of the Central District Y.M.C.A. Church League.

The champions will meet the winner of the Midway Y Church league for the city church championship. Rhedus Fletcher, a former Mechanic Arts player, was outstanding for the winners.
St. Paul's All-City high school basketball players selected by the Pioneer Press met each other formally in the Pioneer Press studio Thursday afternoon when the above picture was taken and talked the past cage championship over. Eight men were selected this year instead of the usual five to give the team added strength which would carry through the stiffest of opposition without weakening the club at any position. With the fast break featuring almost every team's offensive drives, few if any clubs depended on five men to carry the brunt of the work and in most cases reserves played and important part in the season's campaign. Therefore an eight-man team was selected. The eight players are pictured above. Left to right, they are Ralph Pariana, [?] Johnson, guard; Harold Beck[?] of Johnson, forward; Rhedus Fletcher of Mechanic Arts, center; [....]
The team representing Welcome Hall Christian Center won the Central Y.M.C.A. Church Basketball League championship this past season. On the champions' roster, left to right, were: front row--John Nelson, Harold Goldstein, Donald Jackson and Rufus Carson; back row--Physical Director Leslie Warren, Maurice Bellamy, Mike Lipgot and Rhedus Fletcher.

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