Cañon City record., 1899-02-09
CANON HOLDS CHAMPIONSHIP
In Hard Tussie With the Colorado
Springs Team Local Basket BAH
Players are Victorious Six
to Eight the Score.

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Players are victorious--Six
to Eight the Score.
The Tigers ran up against hard
game last Friday night. In their ef-
forts to regain lost prestige the Y.
M. c. A. basket ball players from the
Springs put up a fight that took the
Canon boys more than half by surprise.
1t was expected that the vanquished
team would make determined effort
to remain in the field for the State
championship, but it was not thought
possible that it could hold the Canon
team even through an entire game;
but they did. And what is more the
Tigers" were forced to resort to all
their original manoeuvers to success
fully combat their aggressive oppo-
nents. The Springs players were
overmatched in many particulars. For
instance, there was not man among
the visitors who could have made the
goal with the accuracy and ease with
which Captain Bob Amick put the ball
through the basket at the decisive
moment when the result of the game
depended upon it distance not con-
sidered.
Again, the Canon team outclassed
its rival in guardianship. This was
fully recognized, as was indicated by
the tenacity with which Mcclure and
Jameson were followed and pestered
from the beginning of the game to its
close. Then, where is there another
player who could have made the grand
stand play successfully performed by
Harry Alden in carrying the ball half
the length of the court and back
again? He did not come over from
Colorado Springs, else Harry's little
play would have been frustrated. But
this is no discredit to the Y. M. C. A.
at Colorado Springs. They played a
good stiff game, and were constantly
recognized by the audience, which
was large and enthusiastic. The
playing was spirited and determined
on both sides, Colorado Springs scor-
ing the first point.
At the expiration of the allotted
time the game stood six six, necessi-
tating the extension of the game until
one side or the other scored a goal.
The ball was thrown up and captured
by the Springs, rapidly passing down
the line until it reached the man at
the goal who threw and-missed. A
breathless silence prevailed while the
contest for repossession ensued, then
a deafening cheer smote the rafters
Of the old opera house, fell to the
floor in ragged fragments and rolled
out through the street door onto the
frozen night air. The Tigers had the
ball. 1t quickly fell into the hands
of Robert Amick, captain of the team,
who executed one of his marvellous
long-distance throws. True as an ar
row from the bow of an Indian chief
sped the ball, forming a graceful
curve and dropping through the goal
as smooth as it could if the player
had stood directly over the basket.
Score, six to eight.
1t was the straw that broke the
camePs back, and practically gave the
State championship to the Canon City
basket ball team. The Tigers may
have to play the Pueblo team another
, game before the championship ques.
tion is fully settled, but it is quite
probable that Pueblo will concede
without a battle.
The tumbling by Physical Director
Van Arnam, of the Colorado Springs
} association, and two associates is very
highly praised, those capable of judg.
ing placing them at the head of the
list of amateurs.
At the close of the ball game the
visitors and as many of the audience
as cared to join the party were es-
corted to the Y. M. c. A. rooms
where speeches, toasts and fruit
punch were indulged in until a late
hour.
John Hogarth Lozier A. NJ, chap.
lain 9th Ind. Inf, chaplain First