The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-25

| do their best that was in them to put
up as fast and interesting a game as
possible for the people who were loyal
enough to come out and give them
their loyal support in getting as ia
nous a team as the Chicago Crescents
here to play.
The work of Mr.. Finn and Howard
Gray as officials in this game was of
the very highest order, and it is one
of the features that made the game
so very interesting. Everything moved
with precision and speed from the
first toss of the ball until the crack
of the pistol at the end of the last half,
in which the final score was % to Al.
The fairness of both PARTIES to both
teams could not help but be noticed
by the visiting team as we'll as by all
of the spectators, and the visiting team
took special pains in making the state
ment that at no game that they had
played, in their entire route, were they
given fairer decisions or a game han
died by the officials better than the
game with the Athletics, in which
Howard and Gray officiated.
Time and score keepers-G. H.
Bernard and Mr.. Randlev.
In the worlds championship contest
Tuesday night, January %, before
house of about $50 spectators, was play
ed very interesting and exciting game
in which the T. T. boys, after steady
ing down at the end of the first half
showed considerable training and skill
in handling, passing and effective
blocking of the ball.
The boys at the beginning of the first
half, from the time the ball was first
put in play, showed that the fast work
that they had witnessed the evening
before as put up by the Chicago Cres-
cents, had clearly made them feel that
it was a style of basketball that they
could not cope with and that they had
lost their confidence in their own style
of playing and their ability to make
goals and prevent the other fellows
from doing likewise. From watching
them in play it just seemed as If they
had forgotten what their feet We're for
or that their hands were to catch the
ball. and that they had misplaced their
heads. and Chicago rolled up score
of % to at the end of the first half.
After getting together and advising
each other that the Chicago boys were
only men and had only two feet, two
hands and their ordinary allowance
of brains to play the game with, the
boys steadied down and put on as
pretty and effective work at basket
ball as was ever seen in the hall. Their
work was a little rough, but extremely
fast and very effective naturally to
person who has seen the game played
or has played in the game. They know
that in playing it cannot help but be
rough.
The work of Otto Knapp at guard.
must be highly complimented as it was
the pest that was ever witnessed IN the
hall, and the Chicago players said
themselves that his work at guard was
the best of any man they had played
against on their entire trip.
Howard Gray at guard made many
neat passes and some good clean bas-
kets from difficult positions and the
playing of all the boys was of the high
est order even though the Chicago
team as whole was considerably
taller, heavier and had longer reach.
1t looked very much before the Sec
ond half was through as If the boys
might pull a game that appeared to be
entirely lost, out of the fire by their |
fast furious and effective playing, but |
the run that the Chicagos had got On |
them in the first half could not be over !
come in the last half.
The T. T. boys in the last half made |
one more point than the Chicagos, and |
the one feature of the game that the |
supporters of the home |
team deplores, is the fact that the last |
half could not have been played first.
The final score being 81 to %.
The work of Martin and Finn as
officials is deserving of praise, as it |
was a game replete with fouls on ac-
count of the fast work, and made it
extremely difficult to give decisions that !
would seem fair to all parties. But
that is one point that Glasco has al
ways had praise for in her athletic I'M
dertakings, as giving to the visiting
team every chance of having it entire
ly fair and her own support in making
it that way.
Score and timekeepers, G. H Bernard
and Mr.. Randley.