Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-28
LOCALS LEAD IN
WEST ILLINOIS
Monmouth Is Edged Out in the
Basketball Tourna-
ment.
BONFIRE TO CELEBRATE
Rock Island VIII Now BE a Con-
tender for the State Cham
pionship.
BONFIRE TO CELEBRATE

ball team is champion of western ILL
nois and will be a contender for the
state title when the tournament is held
March IL and IL.
Rock Island won the title in a pref
ty contest Saturday evening at the
high school gymnasium by defeating
Monmouth As to %. The game was
one of the cleanest exhibitions seen
here this year. From the beginning
it could easily be seen who the near
champions were. At only one time
was Monmouth close to the local stars.
They succeeded in the first half in
running up Is points, while the local
boys made II. The score at the end
of the first half stood 81 to 16 for Rock
Island. In the second half the locals
walked away from the visitors and
piled up "a points against 6.
All of the locals played a fine game.
Strecdus made 81 of the points for
Rock Island and Lift 20. Steenburg
and Young held their men down to
three baskets.
The enthusiasm throughout the con-
test was intense. The gymnasium was
filed with supporters of both teams
and the roofing was exciting. After
the game the local players were hoist
ed on the shoulders of the high school
students and carried to the dressing
rooms. The rooters then marched
downtown and quickly gathered some
boxes and built a bonfire at the foot
of Eighteenth street 1t is the first
time in the history of the school that
there has been a bonfire to celebrate
a basketball victory
How Teams Lined Up.
Rock Island-Liitt, center; Streck-
fus and Richie, forwards; Young and
Steenburg, guards.
Monmouth-Bawker, center: Hoy
and Schultz, forwards; Henderson and
Stewart, guards.
The points were made as follows:
Field baslIets-Liitt. 6; Streckfus,
10; Steenburg, 2; Banker, 4; Schultz,
2; Hoy, L; Stewart, /. Foul baskets,
Lift. s: Streckfus, /; Hoy, 6.
Moline Falls Before Monmouth.
Monmouth won from Moline in the |
afternoon. The final score was 81 to |
%. Moline presented a patched up
line as most of the regular players /
were in poor condition following The !
two hard contests of the day before, !
when they defeated Mt Carroll and /
lost to Rock Island. The first half !
of the game in the afternoon was but /
10 minutes in length because of the /
condition of Moline The second half |
was 20 minutes. The officials did not |
hot hn
length of halves. The Moline team |
made a pretty good showing against |
the Monmouth boys. They are to be |
admired for their gameness in stick /
ing throughout the tournament with |
out much chance of winning. The /
lineup:
Moline-Walch, Payton, Parkhurst
and Livingstone, forwards; Walker,
center; Mandt and Bergstan, guards.
Monmouth-Bawker. center; Hoy
and Schultz, forwards; Henderson and
Glover, guards.
Field baskets-Payton, 1; Welch, /;
Parkhurst, /; Walker, 3; Bergston. 2;
Hoy. 6; Schultz, 4 BANKER, Il; Clio
yer, 1. Foul baskets-Hoy, z; Walker,
9.
Local Second Team Defeated.
Captain Weir Riches scrubs lost to
the Moline scrubs in a curtain raiser
Saturday evening. The final score
was 25 to %. This is the third victory
for the Moliners over the high school
and the Moline STUDIES" are
joyful. The absence of Wilcher from
the local line had much to do with TEe
result. He was held in reserve by
Coach Gray to be used in case Of acct
lent to the regulars The lineup Of
the teams was:
Rock Island-Tremann, center; Nc
Lntyre and Richie, forwards; Taylor
and Olson, guards.
Moline-Johnson, center; Payton
and Livingstone, forwards; Bergston
and Mandt, guards.
ImprOmptu Entertainment.
A vaudeville sketch was staged be-
.ween the halves of the Rock Island
Monmouth basketball game Saturday
evening by three of the high school
The performers wers ..
Butch" Tremann, Squash" Mcintyre
md RAT" Richie. RAT" who meas
Tres less than five feet, appeared as
he father of Squash" and the hus-
,and of Butch" Butch" and
Squash" are anything but small and
he combination was good. Squash"
vas dressed as a baby with long white
Iress. He was moved in before the
audience by papa In a wheel-barrow. q
lie carried a beer bottle with hose
ttached. Mamma was dressed in I
'retty blue dress with long flowing l
rain. Her beautiful black hair was
one in the latest fashion. The act 8
vas suddenly terminated when the I
arriage became unmanageable and L
he baby was rolled onto the floor {
he actors made hurried exit to the
ressing room
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