Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-12
HIGH SCHOOL RAs.k SET Ball
SQUAD DEFEAT MARQUETTE
AND DETROIT, MICH, STU
ENTs~IN MADISON CONTEST.
VAN GENT STARS
FOR HOME TEAM

BY THE oNE-StDED SCORE Or %
Tose-sEcoNp, ADVERSARY. WAS
STRONG FIVE.
The.superiority Of the Ottumwa high
school basketball tossers was shown
In its victories over the Marquette and
Detroit, Michigan, High school basket
ball teams In the midrwestern high
school championship tournament now
In progress on the Wisconsin univer-
sity floor at Madison. Wisconsin. The
local five numerically trimmed the
Marquette team by score OF 81 to 2
yesterday afternoon, while dispatch
from Principal +. M. Hammitt this
morning brought the joyful news that
the Ottumwa five had also demonstrate
ed ias basketball superiority over the
Detroit high school quintet by the
score of 20 to 23.
It was gladspme news to the fol-
lowers Of the Red and White war
riors when the results reached the
city and there was much rejoicing
among the admirers of the team at
the high school, where the receipt OF
the good news was received with
great enthusiasm among the several
hundred students Of the institution.
The team followers we're delighted
when the news flashed over the wires
OF the Inst ignominions defeat admin
istered to the Marquette five by OF
tumwa, but the enthusiasm was much
greater when the news was received
this morning that the local ave had
won from the Detroit high schooi.
one Of the fastest qui1.tets in the tour
nament
Ottumwa's chances for playing in
the final game with some of the other
teams entered for the coveted title of
'smid-uestern high school champions"
are excellent. Sixteen teams were
entered in the tournament and the
contests yesterday reduced this num-
Der down to eight The four victories
this morning cut the number to four
teams. Ottumwa will be one Of the
four teams left in the tournament and
providing It wins It's next game, it will
leave the Ottumwa five as one of the
contenders for the coveted honor.
Ottumwa Represents State.
On the shoulders Of the Ottumwa
team is the honors Of the state Of
Iowa, as waterloo, the other Iowa
team entered In the tournament, was
defeated yesterday by the Sterling,
illinois, high school five. This leaves
the local five the only Hawkeye team
entered IN the tournament.
AS the score would indicate, the
game with the Marquette team yester-
day afternoon was runaway contest
for the Ottumwa five. The Ottumwa
team ran up total Of sixty-four
points, while the Badger ffve received
only two scores. The Ottumwa play
ers had wonderful eye for the bas-
ket while the local guards, Cremer and
Wormhoudt, held the Marquette for
wards without basket. The visitors
received one of their scores on free
throw by CatIn, while the other one
point was given them by the referee
Dn account OF foul.
Big Gene Van Gent, the captain of
The Ottumwa i've, playing the center
position, was the star of the game,
throwing fifteen field goals. Suits
man was also very adept in the art of
locating the basket. securing seven
Held goals. while Stentz threw five
baskets from the field. The team
work OF the local five, the basket
throwing OF the Ottumwa forwards
md the close guarding of Wormhoudt
md Cremer were responsible for the
lgnom4nious defeat Of the Marquette
beAm.
While the details of the Detroit
game has not been secured from the
bcore OF the game the contest was
last and furious, the locals winning by
/ margin Of six points. AS the Detroit
tve was one Of the fastest teams en-
tered and looked upon to win the
championship, the locals victory was a
great one.
The First Victory.
The lineup and summary of the
Ottu1nwa- Marquette game follows:
Marunette- -Ottumwa
Byrne ..... R.F. ........ StentZ
Wilson ...... L.F Stutsm'n n Johns'n
Catlin ..C........ Van Gent
sweet -. -.. rig. ........ Cremer
Madigan ..-.... .LG. -. Wormhoudt
Sunan1ary-Field baskets. Stentz 5,
stutsnaan I, Johnson 3, Cremer 8, Van
sent 15; free throws, Catlin /; gifts,
Marquette l.
The results of other games follows:
Detroit, Mich, SO, Farfbault. Mimi, 26.
lacrosse, Wis, "a, GAINESVILLE, Wis, 13.
Appleton Wis, Is; Menominee Mich IL
Freeport III. %; LiAnse. Mich. 9.
New Ulrn, Mimi, 81; Crawfordsville,.
r-A- IL