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Stirring Battle Between Seasoned Veterans Was
Best Spectacle of Year—Graves Did Brilliant
Work—Contest Extremely Rough, But Clean.
By O. B. Keeler.
CCORDING to the traditional
Spartan dope, the club five came
home on their shieids Tuesday
night. But they were the livest look
ing dead heroes 1 ever saw. And as
for their victoriouns foes, all I have to
say is, it ought to be pretty soff for
Birmingham tonight.
No—not that exactly. But that cel
ebrated Illinols aggregation was fair
z well taken over the jumps, I think
still {s able to trim the Alabama
quintet. The eclub played the best
r.-! in the world Tuesday night, and
wasn't xod enough to head the
Yankees. d I'll be hanged if 1 can
see Birmingham doing much, even
against the remnants.
You have to hand it to the 1. A. C.
M you didn’t they would take it from
you, goblbly on a criss-cross, or
what I'd call a “guards forward” com
bination. Class? That bunch reeks
of it
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BU’l’ Im going to hand it to the
Club, and especially I am going to
hand it to Johnny Graves. I held
off of Johnny after the Georgia game.
1 rated him the star of the contest,
but he works for the same paper that
1 do, and—well, you know. But not
this time. That little bear-cat is go
ing to get what 1s coming to him, if
the typewriter holds out.
The score, it may be well to men
tion, was 28 to 24, the visitors on
the long end, but not very long on
the long end. And fairly lucky to be
there, at that.
1 don’t see a lot of use telling the
detailed story of the trouble. Nearly
everybody in town saw it. The same
kind of crowd was there that attend
ed the Georgia game. The crowd
thought the Georgia game was the
limit. So did I. We were all wrong.
. - .
NUI’ trusting to my own alleged
judgment at all, but to that of
such worthies as Coke Davis, Joe
Gregg, Al Blanchard and the totally
unreliable Sis Falvey—judging by the
expressions of these and other case
hardened fans, there never was an
other basketball game like it any
where. It was anybody's game when
the first half ended. It was anvbody's
game until 40 seconds before the last
gong clanged—and it was the Illl
nois eombination that kept velling at
the timekeeper to know “how much
more?"*
There ig no denying that the Yanks
had the goods. I was born a South
erner—that is, on the south side of
Chicago—but I'd be the last to ques
tion the fact that the Yanks had the
goods.
All T have to say is, they had one
hellacious time delivering them.
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I'!'HOUGHT the Georgia game was
fast. I still think it was fast.’
But this one made the Georgia game
look as if it was backing up. If the
Club had played the same ball
against Georgia that it played against
Nlinois—but we won't monkey with
comparisons.
The Club scored first, as usual. The
Clhudb can score the first basket on
anybody. Then the Northerners
started something. If vou will look
at the box score you will see that five
baskets were collected by the Illinols
guards and none by the Ciub guards.
This conveys an idea of what hap
pened. I
It was a Yankee trick—but, Lord!
it was pretty to watch. I don’t know
enough basketball to name the play—
T'd call it a eriss-cross or guards for
ward. They worked it half a dozen
different ways. The center would Up
the ball to a forward, playing back a
bit, and one of the guards would be
shooting down the floor at the same
time, and then it would be flip-flip
and-a-basket. Just llke that.
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wm-b. the visitors had the town
boys running around in circles
with this clever plece of ingenuity.
They got a lead of half a dozen points
before the Club began to regain con
sclousness. It was J. Graves who got
his head above water first. Johnny
suddenly discovered that following his
opponent got him nowhere except
away from what happened. He adopt
ed the very sensible plan of relens
ing his man and waiting for the ball
instead. After that the play did not
work so well, because Johgny or Car
ter would be all tangled up with the
misplaced guard of the opposition
who was trying soulfully to shoot a
basket,
Btill, the big boys from Chicago
managed to hold their lead until near
the end of the half. They outweighed
the town boys, and were desperately
fast. The Club played a rough game,
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' How A. A.C. Five Lost
;. After Winning 29 in |
! A Row on Home Court
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| OLLOWING is the line-up |
3 F and summary of last night's |
} struggle, showing the A. A, |
g C's first defeat on their home |
{ court, after winning 29 straight: |
.A. C. (28). AL (), |
é Griesle (6).....R.F..... Westmore- |
land (12) |
% Elliott (12).....L.F. ... Lester (8)
¢ C0chrane.......C...... Dußard (4) |
3 Frieling (8)....R.G......... Graves
3 Pressier (2)....L.G......... Carter |
¢ Field Goals—A. A. C.,, 10 (Waest
. moreland 4, Lester 4, Dußard 2);
I. A. C,, 12 (Griesle 3, Elliott 4,
Frieling 4, Pressler).
Field goals shot In first half—
A.A.C,B; 1.LA.C,8. Score end of
g first half—l. A. C,, 19; A, A. C,, 17.
3 Field goals shot in last half—
AL A.C, 2; I, A. C, 4. Points scored
{ in last half—A A. C., 7; 1. A. C, 9.
‘ Fouls committed—A. A. C, 5; I.
tAC.B
fi_ Foul goals shot—Westmoreland,
) 4 out of 5 trials; Elliott, 4 out of 5
! trials. ’
5 Referee — Albert Blanchard.
) Timekeepers—Williams, Atlanta;
! Pressler, I. A. C. Time of halves—
% 20 minutes.
but you can’t rough that much ton
nage to do any good. Still, it both
ered the visitors a bit, and when the
Club shot two goals in rapid succes
glon and the half ended with the score
19-17 against the locals, the crowd
fancied hopefully that another Geor
gia finish was due,
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BUT it wasn’t college lads the Club
was fronting. You can say all
you blame pleagse about youth being
served, and sometimes it may be true,
but when it comes to a grueling fin
ish on a basketball court, Friend
Youth is served rough, and that's a
fact. The youngsters play with a
wonderful dash for the first half and
part of the second. For the last fif
teen minutes I'd pick a team with
wrinkles in its face—the fine wrinkles
drawn by hard training and many
campalgns. There's gomething back
of the wrinkles that comes to the top
when the wind is gone and the legs
are sagging.
That was what beat that wonderful,
flashy squad from Georgia Saturday
night. And that was what made the
game Tuesday night a grand battle
between prime athletes, seasoned and
fit; with brains in their heads and
something back of their belt-buckles.
Youth was no great figure in the
game. They were vets, man for man.
And how they fought for it!
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THE visitors, with all their weight
and speed, played a singularly
clean game. I am told in the North
referees do not permit as much rough
work as they do in the South. It ls‘
a fact that when the lid came off for
a few minutes in the second half, and
the Yanks got to roughing it, they
were not as apt at that part of the
game as their olpponents. They were
penalized more in that half, and prop
erly so. It looked once as if they
had lost their heads a bit.
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AND this calls up an odd thing I
have noticed about Johnny
Graves, especially in these last two
Fames. Johnny when in a hard battle
g so wild that he'd make the Wild
Man From Borneo look like the con
duetor of an Epworth League straw
berry festival. He is so full of fight
that it is running out of his ears.
There are times when he can not stay
on the floor—he behaves like a grain
of popcorn on a hot shovel.
But that same J. Graves is playing
basketball all the time. Don’t let ‘em
tell you different—J. Graves ls play
ing basketball all the time. I can
point you to a number of six-foot
athletes and pastmasters of the game,
from Athens and from Chicago, who
will take a paralyzed oath to this
effect.
Johnny Graves, captain of the Club
team, was the smallest man on the
floor. But he had something on his
inside that made up the difference in
pounds and inches-—and then some,
Johnny Graves was the star of the
hardest and fastest and most brilliant
game ever played in the South—that's
all Johnny was.
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THERE is plenty to be gaid for all
the boys. They were up against
the clasa of the world, and they knew
{t-—and all it did to them was to
make them play better than they
could. Westmoreland and Lesgter had
it on any of their opponents when it
came to accuracy of shooting, Dubard
played his regular game, and added
something. Carter was a fair mate
to his ecaptain. I don’t know a better
definition of the elusive term, ‘“class,”
than to say it is the ability to do
more than yeu can when you have to,
The Club did th:n..’l‘uesduy night.
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"l"l{[i mnst brilliant shot of the
evening was made by Pressler,
who gent one through the bagket from
the center circle, A good deal of the
wonderful passing of the visitors was
wasted hecause of an inability to get
the ball in the basket after working it
|down the floor, They Just missed
shot after shot—and the furious work
of Graves and Carter left little chance
for return engagementg with the ring
until the ball had been worked an
other furlong or two,
Al Blanchard refereed a thoroughly
satisfactory game. 1 consider him
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‘NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Joe Lynch, Go
| tham's foremost contender for the
bantamweight title, wil ineet Jack
Sharkey, his West Side rival, at the
lqugeer Sporting Club, tonight. Johnny
Dundee was originally scheduled to fight
Jimmy Duffy, but Dundee is suffering
from a heavy cold and reaquested the
management to postpone the bout until
March 6.
LVNGH, according to New York grit
ics, holds a popular decision over
Johnny Ertle, and if he wins tonight‘
he will be signed to box Kid Williams
at the Pioneer Club on March 13. Shar
key's most recent victory was over
Johnny Coulon, former bantamweight
champion., Benny McCoy and young
‘““Red” McDonald, also bantams, wiil
meet in the other ten-rounder,
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Bennie Leon
ard is to get another crack at
Freddie Welsh's llfhlweism crown.
Billy Gibson is preparing to make Welsh
a big offer for a championship match.
On Wednesday the Gibson entry will
take on Johnny Clinton at the Manhat
tan A, C.
808 DEVERE, who recently beat Sam
Langford and went ten rounds with
Jim Coftey, will meet *“Fireman Jim”
Flynn in the ten-round wind-up at the
Clermont Sporting Club, New York, next
Thursday night.
CARL MORRIS, who Is scheduled to
meet Joe Bonds at the Harlem
Sporting Club, New York, Friday night,
has protested against thy Moore act
ing as the reteree. Commissioner Wenck
wiil be asked to name an official to
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—~Jack Dillon, of
Indianapolis, outpointed Al MecCoy,
claimant of the middleweight champion
ship, in ten rounds here last night,
Dillon led in seven rounds.
ST. PAUL, Feb., 28-—Battling Levin- |
sky, of New York, surprised local
fans by defeating Billy Miske on points
in ten rounds here last night. Levin
gky kept his left hand in Miske's face
during most of the route. ‘
BOSTON. Feb. 28.—Young Britt won
on a foul over George Chaney in the
third round of a scheduled twelve
round go here last night, |
pROVIDENCE. Feb. 28,—~Al Schubert
and Terry Martin went twelve
rounds to a draw here last night.
not only a good referee, but a lucky
one. If he has any life, aceident or
health insurance left this morning
it is because none of the companies’
special agents saw him in that mad
whirl the night before. They'd can
cel it, sure. But then Al won't have
the chance to refereé many more
games like that. They don't have 'em,
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l RECKON the better team won, It
is not very hard to say that, You
see, the Yankees were playing on an
unfamiliar court, after a game the
previous night, and a long train jour
ney. Also, the heat bothered them a
lot. They looked more hauled in than
the Bean Boys at the finish. But they
had the goods—no denying that. They
had the goods. But (as previously
suggested) they had quite some time
delivering the same
"HEISMAN DISCUSSES CANDIDATES— MANY PLAYERS ALREADY LOPPED OFF LIST |
PROSPECTS BRIGHT FOR GOOD TEAM AT TECH
By J. W. Heisman,
Coach of Tech Baseball Team.
HE baseball candidates for the
T forthcoming spring season at
Tech have been working out
several weeks now, and already one or
two heavy cuts have been made by the
coaches.
At the outset the list of names
handed in by applicants amounted to
over ninety; but about half of these
have been lopped off. The competi
tion between the remainder, however,
is 8o keen that it is going to be more
difficult by far to make further cuts.
Thus far the boys have been work
ing out mainly in the cage, for the
weather has been the very worst for
February, in a baseball sense, that
the writer can recall. In fact, the
squad was only able to get out on the
field a couple of times during the en
tire month, and then it was very dif
ficult to get in any effectlve practice
because the fleld was covered with
wagons and workmen who were re
modeling it and constructing a new
quarter-mile track.
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T ECH is rather fortunate this year
in her retention of a goodly num
ber of veterans from the 1916 squad.
Captain Jim Senter, of last year's ex
cellent team, will not bggon hand this
spring, and as he was an All-South
ern hurler his loss will be keenly
felt. On the infield Tech does not lose
a single man, Preas, C. Smith, Hill and
J. Smith all being back and out for
‘the team. Catcher Morrison is also on
‘hand, though Paul Beard, second
string catcher of 1916, is among the
missing, having graduated last June.
In the outfield but one of last year's
trio of regulars fails to answer to the
roll call, and that is Wooten, who cu-‘
vorted in center. Burghard in left
and Spence in right are both back in
harness. |
The veteran pitchers to return are
“Pug” Bryant and Ralph Puckett. |
Thus we see that a total of three
players only are absent from roll
call, and if all old men are able to
win back berths there should be but
three new faces on the 1917 team.
ALBERT HILL, from Washington,
Ga., is captain of the team. This
will be Ns!{ourth and last season on
the basehafl team. He has won an
All-Southern berth in times past and
only a fall-offfin his batting prevent
ed him fromg repeating in'l6l6. He {s
one of t.‘i\wrmm‘college players
of the da) nd.shoul‘ have a fine year
of i{t. This is the*same boy who
manages to shine in each football
game he enters.
1t may as well ba admitted that the
student hody is expecting every one
of the old men back to show improved
form this spring, and it is not at all
unlikely that they will. 1f they do, it
will prove a hard task for the new
men to unseat them for places.
. . .
H()WF:VER. among the remaining
30 men still on the squad there
are some good-looking ball players,
and it is far from certain to the
writer that some of them will not
crowd out some of the old boys. Of
course, the three vacancles from last
vear are coming in for a lot of at
tention from new aspirants. Then,
too, it ls possible that the coaches
will decide to shift one or more of
last yvear's players to new positions
with a view to strengthening the
team generally by forming a new
combination,
It is well known that J. Smith
could go to the outfield and make
quite as effective an outflelder as an
inflelder. Preas can do likewise, while
Hill can play third equally as well as
short. On the other hand, Spence
put in an entire geason and with un
qualified success playing at second
base instead of in the outfleld, as last
year, and during the summer of 1916
he worked out at short. These possi
bilities may come in handy in shifting
men about in case of injuries during
| road trips this s‘pring, to say the least.
. .
; OF course, it is too early to my{\
| much about new materfal; it has'
| not been tried out sufficiently. Nearly
|a dozen names are still on the list
| comprising the pitching staff. Of these
| Puckett, Bryant, Hightower and Pope
were in college last year. Among the
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Heisman Stories Will |
Be Regular Feature of
Georgian Sport Pages
OHN W. HEISMAN, wizard
J coach of the South, today
writes the first of a number of
stories on the baseball outlook at
Tech for the coming season.
These articles will be a. regular
feature in The Georgian and Sun
day American from now until the
close of the college baseball sea
son.
Heisman needs no introduction
to readers of The Georgian sport
pages. His stories during the past
football and baseball seasons have
been read by thousands of college
sport enthusiasts, among whom
Heisman is considered peer of col
lege coaches.
It is the aim of The Georgian
and Sunday American sporting
department to have all branches
of sports covered by experts. Heis
man is surely without an equal
when it comes to writing and dis
cussing college athletics in this
section of the country.
new men are Toole, Pruitt, C. E,
Johnson, R. C. Johnson and Ivens. ‘
Beveral of these look as though they|
might have something, and it is|
strongly hoped that one or two of
them will show enough ability to fill|
the gap left open by Senter's gradu
ation,
About the same line of dope goes for
the catching staff. Morrison, Guill, |,
Malcolm, J. Ward and Fife were here
last year, while new aspirants are W,
Ward and McMurray, both from Cas
tle Heights; Daves, Vickers, Mcßey
nolds, Murrah and J. W. Brown.
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AT the present time Howden and
Colling look as though they
would push Preas the hardest for first
base. Butner is also a first baseman,
but it is not thought probable that he
will be eligible. Howden is a new
man, while Collins was here last year
and was assistant football manager.
At second, besides “Red” Smith,
there are McNell, from last year's
serub team; Willlams, from West
Point; Stearns and Whitely, both new
men. When the smoke has cleared
away we should find the position well
fortified. s
.
‘QUITE a number of good-lookin;'
youngsters are out for the hot
corner. Aside from the veteran, Jay
Smith, we find Turner, from Birming
‘ham (a product of the Iron City's City
League); “Wallie” Smith, of last
year's Tech High (and brother to
Red” Smith, of the Braves); Scott,
‘of jagt year's scrub team, and Brew
ster, of Gordon Institute, There are
others, but most any one of these
should work out to satisfaction,
For Captain Hill's place there are,
naturally, not so many candidates,
Two of the newcomers look promis
ing. One of them lis Arnold, from
Newnan, while the other is Whiteley,
a Middle Georgia product,
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AT the outset there were over 30
candidates for outfield berths,
Of the new men Kellers and Rudiell
look as though they might be heard
from.
Thomas, formerly of Tech Hi, is
back in college agaln after a year's
absence, and looks good; but he did
not enter until the opening of the sec
ond term, and so 'will not be eligi
hle. Joe Guyon is another good-look
ing outfielder who will not be eligl
ble,
Among the list are several men who
tried out last year and made good
showingse. J. H. Johnston, Settle,
Price, Mathes and Lyndon are among
them. Possibly some of these may
show enough general improvement to
land a regular's place. Fincher, for-
By Tad
merly of Tecn Hi, ia also among the
outfleld candidates. Most of the rest
are clearly too young or too small, or
show the need of further seasoning
before they may entertain high hopes,
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OWING, then, chiefly to the pres
ence of tried veteran material and
to the fact that a considerable quan
tity of it can be successfully shifted,
it seems as though there should be no‘
great difficulty in turning out for this
spring a strong and particularly well-‘
balanced aggregation. If no satisfac
tory outflelder appears to fill Woot
ens’ shoes, J. BSmith could easily be
sent out, or Preas could step oul
there, while BSmith went to first. This,
of course, is on the assumption that
a satisfactory third baseman can be
found from among the rest of the hot
corner candidates.
If, on the other hand, a plethora
of outfield talent should be discovered,
while an unexpected weakness pre-|
sented itself in the infleld (a contin
gency that does not seem likely at the
present time), Spence could be pulled
in from right, and thus the strength
of all departments kept on a par and
the ship on an even keel.
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FRANKLY. the pitching stafr looks
good to me. I believe it will be
stronger than it has been in years.
As for the backstopping work, I ap
prehend no difficulties, as there are
among the new men several who look
to have the goods, while Guill, of last
yvear's scrub team, would do first rate,
also.
The team should be a pretty hard
hitting bunch, and should exhibit
steady — perhaps brilllant — flelding
proclivities. While, as a whole, the
men who are likely to make the team
are none too fast in Individual speed,
their base-running experience should
make them reasonably good base run
ners, and they should also be able to
Iplay a heady, inside game of ball.
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AAA A A A I
WITH Jos Bush and Amos Strunk
now in the fold Manager Connie
Mack, of the Athletics, has only one real
star unung(nrd. He is Frank Thrasher,
the “Watkinsville Walloper."
JOHNNY DOBBS, the Pelican pllot,
has arrived in New Orleans to take
rhuer‘?e of the 1917 team. Johnny or
der the Pel battery squad to report
for spring practice today.
M ANAGER MATHEWSON and some
of his Redlegs, will pass through
Chattanooga next Saturday evening, on
their way to Shreveport, La., the spring
camp.
iIN 1915, Bobby Watt, the young In
\ flelder secureq by Chattanooga, went
through the season without an error,
'He was then captain of the Columbia
University team.
GEOHGE CUTSHAW, second base.
man for the Brooklyn Nationals, has
agreed to terms with the Robins and
will sign his contract in a few daysg, ac
cording to report.
T HOBE who have signed with Brook
lyn are Marquard, Cheney, Coombs,
Dell, Ax?)leton, Malils, Miller, Msyers,
Enyder, Daubert, Getz, Cutshaw, John
ston, Merkle, Myers, Hickman, Smyth,
Fabrique, Cadore and Durning.
G.K ID"” ELBERFELD (s hot after
“Doc’ Johnston, of Birmingham.
The Klg wants to put Hyatt back (n
the outfield and use Doc on first base,
RAV CALDWELL, the tall telegraph
operator-pitcher, who has been a
member of the Yanks for several years,
did not ecome South with Maneger Bill
Donovan and the rest of the first squad
the other day.
P RESIDENT FRED SHEPHERD nrm‘
Secretary Foster, of the Chatta
nooga team, returned to l.ookoutville
from the tecent m:-nflng in Birming
ham, wofi pleased with the 1917 lchefi
ule.
EDDI! PLANK, the star left-hander
of the Bt. Louls Browns, says there
are only 80 many pitched balls in the
arm of a flinger, and that he tries to
conserve hls.
Tech High Practically Sews Up Prep Title in
Rousing Game by Seant Margin—Thrilling
Finish Is Witnessed by Enthusiastic Crowd.
By Ed Danforth. T
ECH HIGH never defeated a bet.
ter basketball team than that
Boys' High aggregation. And
when Frazer and Hamlett led that ter
rific drive in the last minute of the
game Tuesday, which earried them
over the scanty margin held by the
enemy, they didn't realize they had
done a big thing.
Out in the corridors of the Marietta
street school Wednesday they were
playing over that game and thinking
of the flag. Over in Boys' ngh,l
glooms were walking sentry outside
classrooms, where five lads were gaz
ing out the window, *way beyond Cae
gar and chemistry, and playing over
the same game with hearts that were
too heavy to see they had won in
losing.
A y
‘Tm‘l{ practically cinched the pen
nant Wednesday by virtue of the
‘'most brilliant plece of generalship you
could wish to see on a basketball floor.
The boys who staged it did not know
they were doing anything like that; it
was instinct or the call of the wild or
something that brought it about
It was like this: The score was
teetering at 28 to 27, with Tech on
the small end. And there were about
80 seconds t{ play. A large and com
fortable foot belonging to one of the
sweating playvers slopped over the rim
of a tennis shoe that was too small
and time was taken out. Then Tech
learned how the score stood. They got
together and concentrated on just one
thing. That one objective was one (1)
basket, and they were working for
just that one. Of course it had to
happen, and with Tech driving In
just one direction and High trying to’
defend five gates at once, the inevita
ble happengd. Frazer grabbed the
leather out of a heap of straining
youth and slung it far down the
floor to Hamlett, who rolled an easy
one. The fact that this happened once
more before the whistle blew means
nothing. That one basket was worth
the whole game.
ITHERE was a lot more to this game,
as has been sald once before,
This particular scrap was the sub
stiute clash for the late combat
which wound up undecided in a
battle royal. Which now forgotten
hostilities were all right, for it}
couldn't be helped at the time. But|
when the substitute game was agreed
upon it became the storm center of a |
prep school row that quit on dead
center. Both sides had good conten- |
tions for not playing; each thought|
itself right and held on. It was at
noon Tuesday that by a vote the Boys'|
High team decided to waive their}
claims of date and place of playing
in order that the game might be de
cided. It was a sportsmanlike thing|
to do, and likely if they had not Tech
would. For it's the big man who can
surrender in the interests of good
sport.
- . -
; THE serap was staged outdoors on |
the Tech court. The day was full
cf spring and sunshine and the
“house” was packed—and on two
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Here Is Summary of
Great Prep Contest
Played on 'l'\.le«ltyi
OLLOWING is the summary
F of the Tech High-Boys
High game:
7. 05 Position. B. M. 8 1
Hamlett (21)..L.F...W0mb1e (10) |
Fraser (6) <
Gaston .... R.F.....Hubert (8) |
Doyal (2) :
Fraser (2)....C......5taten (8) .
Lyle, |
Shofheld .. .08 ....;... Davh
Bancker .......R.G...- Owens (2)
Time of halves—2o-20.
Fouls called — Against Tech
Hl‘ph, 4; against Boys' High, 5.
oul goals shot—Tech High,
1.:1.m?.!."' 1; Boys' High, Wom
9, £.
Field goals—Tech leh, Ham
lett 10, grnor 4, Doyal 1; Boys'
High, Womble 4, Hubert 4, Staten
4, Owens 1.
Score at end first half—2o-14.
A A AR
hours' notice. To the visitor from
up beyond the snow line, it looks
funny to see basketball played out=
doors. It was my initlal experience,
thataway. I'd like to try it some«
times outdoors—you can pass as high
as you want to, and never hit the
rafters or a light globe,
The game was a regular hose races
Tech got away 10 a flylng start, High
closed up the gap and both were neckd
and neck at the dozen mark. Along’
about three three-eighths pole, Tec
drew away and at the half was sis
lengths ahead. With daylight show
ing between the two, High moved
steadily forward under urging and at
the last turn was on even terms—
-22 to 22. Down the stretch they came
and Staten shook out the wraps that
sent High to the front. But then
they weakened right at the wire and’
the fast-coming Tech team nosed ouk
a scant win,
.
Tech High Has Not
.
Yet Won Prep Title
Tech High School has not yet wom'
the local prep basketball championship,
Coach McLarty, of the Junior Sq‘lth
jes, stated today. He sald that Tech
High has two more games to berPhyod.
one a postponed game with Marist Cole
lege Friday afternoon, at Tech leh,
and the other with the Boys' Hfi
q':llmet next Monday afternoon on the
Wesley Memorial floor.
Boys' High I 8 now one {:m. and
a half behind Tech High, but still has
a chance to cop the championship, pro=
viding Marist defeats the league leads
ers tomorrow afternoon, and the Gile
{ mer street bunch downs them next
i Monday.
i DR.J.T.GAULT
3 SPECIALIST (for men)
-~ ESTABLISHEDI4YEARS
, Ath,:t.:. INMAN IUILD‘IN.
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