The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-12-10
ONE MORE FROM LAMAR.
Tigers Upset "Dops" by Winning
With Crippled Team.

Of the Lamar team as usual, though
everybody who knew tho condition in
which the team made the trip rroph-
psied defrnt for them. Various injuries
to the players had kept the team from
practice for week. Hatfield had a
bad knee that made fast work on the
court impossible, Thomas had lame
back and one of Stricker's hands was
ont OF commission because of boil on
the back thereof. When it was also
considered that Orvi)c Kyle hadn't
seen basket ball for a month it look
ed like the wisest thing would be to
send in n hospital report and call the
game off, especially as it was known
that the Lamarites were practicing their
heads or for the game. However the
hoys wouldn't quit, and surprised even
their most enthusiastic followers by
winning ont, &c to Ii, or just two to one.
The Tigers made poor showing in the
FIRST half, owing to their crippled con-
dition, and Lamar outplayrd them,
though they managed to finish the
half one point to the good, IL to 10, by
superior goal shooting. The play was
nearly all under the basket Jasper was
guarding and things looked pretty bad
However, things changed in the second
half with the suddenness of a cold wave
in June. Jasper had the ball almost
continuously and silenced the Lamar
rooters with basket after basket, while
their opponents barely escaped shut
out for the half by squeezing one in.
Crawford whopped 'em in from all over
on the court and shot one nearly the
length of the court that made him
easily the most unpopular person in
Lamar. lie totaled six baskets for the
game. TAbler got three, Hatfield one
and Thomas one. Kyle easily outplayed
Gallagher, the Lamar center, and had
dozens of easy shots, but the old "sure
death" accuracy wasn't there aud with
the exception of one goal which was
disallowed be didn't get the ball into
the basket.
Thompson and Cromwell, the Lamar
forwards, made three baskets each, and
Cromwell threw one basket out OF eight
tries from foul. Crawford had four
shots from foul and made them all.
The Lamar players evidently had a
wholesome dread of Charley Thomas,
Jasper's basket-making guard, and got
after him in q swarm everytime he play
ed up the court. Charley got one, Just
to keep up his record.
The boys played good game, but
showed tendency to disregard team.
work that may cost them dearly in
hard work with nobody else on the
court would accomplish a much-needed
improvement in this respect.
On the way home Supt. Moon match
ed two games with the Webb City team,
who were returning from Nevada. where
they crushed the team there by a score,
of AZ to II. Purchaser, shot eleven has.
kots. That makes Webb look stronger
than jasper, and they have all fheir
old team back, but they'll have to show
US they can beat our "kids." The
games are a long way off yet, however,
one in January aud the other in Febru.
airy The "dope" may be atog ether
different by that time.
X c. CENTRAL WANTS GAME.
Supt. Moon has challenge from Di-
rector Of Athelrtics w. o. Hamilton OF
Kansas City Central for game to be
played on the Jasper court some time
during the Christmas holidays, at
which time the Central team hopes to
make another trip to southwest Mis-
souri,, playing Carthage, Webb City
and Joplin and endeavoring to even up
for their defeat last year by Jasper,
which was the only game they lost 10
three years. AS one or two OF the Jas.
per team were planning to spend the
holidays away from home there is no
certainty that the game can be arrang-
ed, but in all probability it will.
In postscript MIR. Hamilton adds
that his boys still talk of the fine visit
they bad here last year.
The NEWS unprecedented Office of
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