Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-03-11
DALLAS WINS CHAMPIONSHIP
CIinches Basketball E1Onors in Holly
Contested Game With Will
Iamette Team.

On Tuesday evening of this week,
Dallas College, in by far the fastest
and most brilliant basketball game
of the season, defeated Willamette
University by score Of 16 to A. The
championship of Oregon, If not the
entire Northwest, was at stake, and,
with six hundred people cheering like
mad, the men in crimson rose to the
emergency, and with display of
skill, science and endurance seldom
equalled on any athletic field or court,
won the most glorious victory of the
year. The defeat Of two weeks ago
seemed to have endowed the entire
team with that determination that
knows no defeat, and, realizing that
now or never their honors could be
retrieved, and backed by the bowling
enthusiasm of that great crowd, Dallas
clinched the honor coveted by score
of rival institutions. The game was
not walkover, but an athletic battle
between Oregon's two foremost repre-
sentatives Of Americas great winter
sport.
For the first two minutes OF the play,
the contest ragged from one end of the
field to the other without visible ad-
vantage gained by either side. Dallas
then threw foul. Willamette follow
ed Immediately with field basket
negotiated by Miller. This was the
only field basket scored by the visitors,
and, save for two points scored from
fouls-one late in the first half and |
one early in the Willamette's
scoring was ended. The Dallas boys
had struck their pace, and the pace
was terrific-from Hoffman to Gates, |
from Gates to Wilson-and the score
was to 2. With never slump, never |
a falling away from the irresistible
endurance and speed, the collegians
bounded the ball for those first twenty |
minutes, and when the half ended the |
score was s to 8, with Dallas leading. |
Could the crimson hold her own |
pace, was the anxious question upper
most in the minds of the home crowd |
The visitors were larger and more
powerful, the locals speedier and more |
scientific-where lay the greater en-
durance? The question was soon
Dallas held her pace and
literally wore out her husky opponents.
Old Willamette, represented by one
hundred loyal rooters, saw her team
defeated by the largest score in it's
history-16 to dor four to one.
The home men were in the pink of
physical condition, having fully re-
covered from the effects Of bruises aud |
wrenches that have so long handi-
capped them Willamette was also in
perfect form. The individual work of
the men on both teams was of the
highest order, and the team work of
Dallas has never been equalled on the
local floor.
Gates and Hoffman, for Dallas,
played the most consistent game at
guard ever put on in this place. Both
scored baskets from the field, and to
see their passing was worth the price
of admission. Gates held his man
down to no baskets, and his work
game was phenomenal.
The basket throwing Of Wilson was
the most brilliant Of the year. Five
times, with unerring judgment, he
landed the sphere for field goals. His
work was confined to no one section Of
the field, but was evident over every
square foot of playing space. Teats,
gritty as Of old, was in every play,
and his passing at critical times net
ted several points Although guarded
by man far outweighing him, he
was always where most needed. Pol
ing played strong game, and held
down WilIamette's big center in good
shape.
The work OF the officials was highly |
Morris, the referee, kept |
the game continually moving, and
as umpire, was fair and
The game with Willamette
closes the season as far as games on
the home floor are concerned.
Tonight Dallas will play the last
game Of the year with o. A. c.. in |
Corvallis. A special motor will run
from this place, carrying the loyal |
Of the crimson. A large
of tickets have been sold for
the excursion.
The season now closing has been |
the most successful in the history Of
Dallas College, both financially and |
athletically. The people of Dallas
have had the privilege of seeing the
best basket ball games played in the
Northwest this season. The splendid |
work Of the college boys has been a |
great advertisement for Dallas as an
athletic town, and the loyalty of the
citizens to their college basket ball |