The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-05
FIRST TIME In TWO YEARS.
Defeat for DAG Basket Ball Men
Immense Crowd and Great Playing.

Defeat for DAG Basket Ball Men
Immense Crowd and Great Playing.
In game last night, the 0AC
basket ball team was defeated by
the Crescents of Evanston, Illinois.
The score was "a to %, attained at
the end of game which was re-
1narkable for the swiftest play ever
seen in Oregon, probably on the
Coast. and after the two teams had
played evenly throughout the great
er part of the exciting game. While
the struggle was on, the tension of
| those who looked on was at
fever pitch.s and the alternate
death like silence and the sudden
spasm of applause when the OAC
defenders made point was wond
erful manifestation of human ma
ture and the hold sports have on
both the youthful and mature
| America.
More than thousand people
watched and held their breath while
the play was on. Some estimate
tie attendance at 1900. It was a
monster gathering of people. Every
nook and corner where a human
could be sandwiched, was occupied.
Standing room was precious. Sew
eral vehicles of people drove up
from Albany to see the struggle.
People in Benton from a dozen miles
the southwark, were in the audience
driving home after the game was
over. Harold Rumbaugh who re-
sides on farm near Wells, drove
up in the evening and faced a fierce
north wind on the homeward trip.
for the purpose of seeing the game.
For time in the early part of
the play OAC led. The first bask
ct was thrown by Foster of OAC
in seven seconds of play. Then
the Crescents scored foul and
quickly afterward a basket and the
score stood 3 to 2 against OAC.
Foster made another basket giving
OAC a lead of one, and Swami
drove foul raising it to FIVE to the
| visitors three. The latter follow.
ed with two baskets in quick sue
cession shifting the score in their
favor seven to FIVE. Throughout
the rest of the half the relative
scores remained the same, Cres
cents maintaining a lead of one to
three points, closing the half 1o to
II. ..
The story of the second half was
practically the same. Crescents
led off with the first basket, but
OAC quickly repeated the per
Torrance. Both sides struggled
like giadiators. and the play was
as lightning. Swami missed two
baskets that his friends were sur
prised at but he did the remarkable
stunt of throwing 10 out of IS fouls.
The hopes of the OAC supporters
never drooped until the call of time
for the lead of the Crescents was
always so small that a victory for
the Orange was constantly within
reach. The end came however.
with the score "a to 28.
i The Crescents are larger men.
and are rougher in their style of
play then are the collegians, They
are however, very fine players, and
are gallant enough to say that the
OAC men are the strongest, aggre-
CATION they have met on their tour
In which they have PLAYED 50
games. Of eight defeats they have
/ sustained, all were suffered in the
early part of their trip and at times
when they were not in prime con-
dition.
The Crescents went to Dallas to-
4 day to play Dallas College to-
1 night, and tomorrow night they are
to play another game in the Armory
/ with OAC.
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