Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-01-28
duke CITY Team
EXPECTS TO Win
ALBUQUERQUE aoss ARRIVE FOR
FIRST GAME IN WEEKS TOUR
or THE TERRITORY.
Contest OF SEASON
U. of N. "a. Girls Defeated by Girls cf
Agricultural College. Trinidad
Worsts Haton.

The Albuquerque basket ball team
from the University of New Mexico
arriveds In the city this afternoon on
No. 10 for their game with the T. Il
c. A. team Of Las Vegas tonight at
the Duncan opera house. The young
fellows are all husky looking and ex,
pect TO walk away with the local
bunch. They are now on a weeks has.
ket ball tour Of the territory and in
tend TO take home a string of victor.
les, The lineup of the visitors is AZ
follows:
L. Clancy, forward: w. Mcmillan,
forward: X Head. center: J. Bronson,
right guard; j. r, Tascher. left guard (;
substitutes. II. Bryan. Light and c.
Lambke. W Berger. referee; X. Bry.
an. manager.
The Las Vegas team and substitutes
are: J. Van Got. captain: J. G. Sharp,
manager: Milton Hawkinson. 4. e.
Littler, Herbert Gehring, Ray Upper
and Lawrence Clark. Physical Direc.
tor Newly of the Y NJ. c. A. will act
as umpire for the locals.
A preliminary game will be played
by the juniors and seniors this even,
Ing as a curtain raiser for the main
event. The two teams. which will give
the first exhibition. are composed as
follows:
Seniors: Webb. center: Burns. right
guard; Berhinger. left guard: Trip.
captain. right forward: Pritchett, left
forward: Kingrey.
Juniors: r. G. Head. center: Fred
Lewis, right guard; Frank Sosaya.
left guard: Prentice White. right for
ward; Harry Lorenzen, left forward: :
Earl Herzog sub.
The first game will begin at y
O'Clock. The foyers and galleries Will
be used to seat the audience and the
stage will also he filled with chairs
for High school and Normal students
and members Of the Y. NJ. c. A.. who
wish to Join the rooters. The High
school girls will run homemade can
dy stand during the game and there
vii he candy for everyone. 1t Is ex-
pected that the game tonight will be
the athletic triumph of the winter.
Trinidad Defeats Ration.
Tho basket ball BOYS of Trinidad
high school trimmed their contem-
poraries OF the Ration High school In
the latter city Saturday night, in a
fast and exciting game, to the tune
of 9 to s.
Before and after the game. the vis''
tors were treated like princes by their
rivals from over the range. After
the game all the boys of both teams
donned roller skates and skinned
around the slippery floor of the Ration
rink. where only a few minutes before
they had so strenuously contested for
first honors with the circular pigskin.
The Ration team will play return
game In Trinidad two weeks from Sat
urday night. February 9th. in Packer
hall ON North Commercial street
Albuquerque Girls Beaten.
The girls basket bail team of the
Agricultural college at Mesilla Park
defeated the girls of the University of
New Mexico at Albuquerque Friday
evening by a score Of IS to II. For
three years the two teams had been
irving to get a game together and the
casino at Albuquerque was crowded
to the doors when the game began.
heing the largest audience ever seen
at a. contest in that city. proving that
haskell ball is favorite with the peo-
nile. The girls of the University of
New Mexico twice defeated the girls
team of the local high school by small
scores.
Local Girls Practice.
Il was rumored in the city after
the last game with the girls of the
University of New Mexico at Afou.
aueraue that the local girls team had
broken up and would play no more this
season, but this Is evidently untrue as
the young ladies had a hard practice
on Saturday afternoon. The young la
dies were greatly disappointed and dis
couraged over the outcome Of the Duke