Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
PREP SCHOOL BOYS
WIN GREAT CAME
DEFEAT MAR00NS IN BASKET
BALL FINALS
TURNER SQUAD TRIUMPHANT
Second Batch of Deciding Matches
for Southern California Cham
pionship Productive of
Fine Playing
TURNER SQUAD TRIUMPHANT
Turner's. 90: Whittier. IL.

l.. A. H. S., %; Maroons, 81.
The second set Of games to decide
the championship Of the Mems Amateur
basket ball championship Of Southern
California was played last hight at
Temple auditorium. The Whittier team
and the crack Turner five played the
first game and they put up lively
contest.
The Whittier boys surprised their
clever opponents by playing a close,
hard game. The Whittier team
showed signs of marked improvement
since their last game when they were
defeated by the Turner bunch. They
stick to their opponents closely and
scattered team work right and left.
but when it came to throwing baskets
the Whittier lads were not there, while
the Turner's seemed to be able to land
a basket whenever they thought they
needed one.
Fritz" Walters played a game for
the Turner's all by himself. Fritz was
all over the floor at the same time
the floor was full of Fritzes, getting
the big sphere from his opponents,
making sensational baskets from the
center of the court and doing various
acrobatic stunts to the amusement of
the crowd. That was Fritz.
At the beginning of the second half
the Turner's waded into the lads from
Whittier and almost took their breath
away by the speedy way they kept the
ball going up and down the court and
tossing 1t into the basket in one, two,
three order. Towards the latter part
OF the half the Whittier tossers came
out of their little slumber and ho1sted
their score was to an unlucky 13,
where it remained until the final
whistle. The final score stood Turner's,
32 Whittier, 13.
The High School Maroon game was
the faster game of the two and left
the crowd on it's feet cheering en-
Enthusiastically and waving their parti-
zan banners.
The score at the end of the first half
was to g. From the time the ball was
tossed up for the start, the game was
close and exciting. The team work of
the Maroon five, which has always
been a pretty sight for lovers of the
game and large thing for opposing
teams to bump into, was shattered into
small bits by the lads who play undeE
the blue and white colors.
They kept hammering that team
work whenever 1t showed up until at
the end of the game the Maroons were
away up in the air and the referee
called several fouls for two men on the
same side playing on the ball.
The school boys took the big leather
into their territory and kept it there
during most of the play, but did not
connect with the basket in any kind of
shape. Loomis, the Maroon forward,
showed up in fine fettle. His eye was
true and when the high school lads
were getting too far in the lead Loo
mis- would plant the ball in the basket
and close up the gap.
When time was called at the end of
the game the books showed the high
school had won by the narrow margin
of one point, the score standing % to 21.
The lineup:
Turner'S. Whittier.
Noble ..,....,.....F...." Osborne
Elkeles F..........." Adams
Holden, sub.
Golding ,.....,,.. ...C........,.u Brown
Walters ...........G........ Marshburn
Karstens ..G............. Todd
Welsh, sub.
l.. A. II. s. Maroons.
Hussey ......,....,F.,, Retznegar
S. Mitchell Loomis
M. Mitchell .......C....".... Bostwlck
Cortelyou ...G............ Torrey