The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-02-03

warren, DuI ne also ran the team
well, and threw three field baskets.
Biddinger and Peterson, at guard
for Bemidji, were very strong. They
stopped their men every time, and
the visiting players had but two
opportunities to- attempt field goals,
and each time the Be midi guards
interfered with the throws, Warren
not getting one field goal.
The visiting players were inclined
to rough it, far more Saturday
evening than they did on Friday,
and several mix ups'' occurred.
They were determined to make
better showing than on the previous
evening and did all in their power
to ward off defeat. Satire, their
star player. worked very hard, but
was outclassed all the time. He
tried to cover Cell but the latter
was too fast for him, and threw four
baskets IN rapid succession, right
under Sathre's arm. The latter
admitted, after the game, that the
Big Bemidg" team, playing as it
did in the two games against War
rcn, was the strongest basketball
quint he had ever played against.
A. L. Cunningham of this city, an
ex-Cornell player, refereed the
game, and Boardman, member of
the Warren team, umpired- Poth
officials were good, Cunningham,
Especially, filling his difficult posi-
ton with entire satisfaction to both
spectators and players. ~
Between the halves of the Warren
Bemidji game, the Fosston girls
high school basketball team and the
Bemidji girls high school team
played a game for the champion
ship of north-central and north
western Minnesota. The game
proved to be a very exciting one,
and all who witnessed it stated that
it was by far the best girls contest
they had ever witnessed.
The two teams were very evenly
matched. They played very fast,
and at times all of the girls were so
tired thatthey were nearly exhausted
bv their vigorous efforts to win.
The teams lined up as follows:
FoSStOn- Hatleli and
Fife Lidenberg,. forwards; Anna
Nelson, center; Mabel Bostad and
Sarah Rue, guards.
Bemid ji-Eva Getchell and Hazel
Wells, forwards; Ethel Getchell,
center; Inez Cell and Nell Shannon,
guards. ,.... 800. -,..--
The first half ended with neither
side having been able to score,
although the play was in Bemidjs's
favor, the local players being very
unlucky in their attempts to throw
baskets
In The second half, the game was
again very fast, the local players
being penalized for two fouls, both
of which resulted ina score for
Fosston. Bemidji threw a field bas-
ket and the score was tied.
When the whistle blew for the
end of the game, the score was
tie, 4 to 4, and although the gir's on
both teams we're very tired, they
agreed to play to finish" ~
The struggle continued for eight
minutes, Bemidji missing many
attempts at field baskets by the
narrowest of margins.
Finally, after eight minutes of
very rapid playing, the ball got
away from the center of the rink
and was seized by Effie Lindenberg,
of the visiting team, who made a
lucky shot, placing the ball
squarely in the basket and winning
the game and the championship tor
Fosston.
There was the very best of feel
ing between the players on both
teams, they assisting each other to
arise, after a mix-up, and "jjollying"
at all times.
The efficiency of the Bemidji
girls team IS due,in large measure,
to the coaching of Mrs. ]. A.
Yo, reen of this city, who has
done much work with the girls and
pc fected many of their plays.
The fact that the Bemidji team
is practically a green one this
year, makes the showing they made
against the 3-year old team of Foss-
ton all the mo,e creditable. Had
the local girls been little more
fortunate in throwing their baskets,
they would undoubtedly have won
the game, as they carried the con-
test to the "enemy's" territory all
through the first half, and held
their own very we'll during the sec
ond half.
The two games played here, be-
tween the teams representing the
boys and girls of the Fosston high
school and the Bemidji high school
gives the Fosston girls and boys the
undisputed high school basketball
championship of north.central and
northwestern Minnesota.