The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-04
Marion Defeats the Mans
field Leaders.
GREAT CROWD ATTENDS GAME
Locals Easily Display Their
Superiority.
Every Athlete Enters With u do or
Die Spirlt-Click and Others Star
I'm Point Making and Bring Home
the Bacon-Hopcs. for Pennant arc
Brighter.

There is new leader in the Ohio
state Basketball league today, Ma
rion having attained the right to oc-
cupy the place by defeating the Mans
field leaders last night i'm one of the
hardest fought and therefore the
Iroughest game of the season. The
final count was Marion 81 to Mans
field Is.
| 1t was little wonder that everyone
was Keyed up to the highest pitch
for so much depended upon this con-
test. The largest crowd Of the season
was there to witness the fray The
balcony was not large enough to hold
| the crowd and the moor of the gym
was lined with spectators.
Each was anxious to rain a slight
| advantage early in the sti 1ggle visit
| ors and locals went at IL hard right
off the reel. 1t was nip and tuck for
about ten minutes of play when Ma
rion, quitting the rough play and
adopting q more open style at which
it excels, began to pull away from
the callers. There was some grand
work done in accomplishing this and
it was far from easy.
Principal among the point makers
early i'm the period were Gloomy
Hume and Click. Both were demons
on offensive play and then Rice,
whose lightning work was one of the
features of the contest came along
with two of the prettiest goals OF the |
game toward the close of the period
When the first half ended the score
stood "a to 8. the Mansfield attack
IN ui OF nj
field energy devoted to holding down
the locals instead of making attempts
to count.
The whole game was played I'm the
first half. 1t was here that Mans
field was beaten. While the callers
could get the locals to rough house
I around the Marion scoring machine
'ould not do much, but when the open
style of play was resorted to. there
vas a result that set the rooters wild
With enthusiasm.
1t cannot be said that Marion
played up to Its standard last night.
Is this true of the floor
work.. which though brilliant at times,
lid not have that class that the To-
,als are capable of. Had the rough \
work been cut out and Marion been lo
BILE to execute its lightning play on II
he floor, Mansfield would have been 4
moved under. Surely no one who /
las seen these two teams In action I
an think for minute that Marion I
5 not Mansfeld's superior in every III
apartment. II
The second half was all Marion s
ntil fourteen minutes of the twenty I
ad elapsed. Then Mansfield started [
nd displayed its best work of the M
ontest. The pass work was good,
nd goal shooting accurate. In the +
pace of three minutes the visitors "
oiled up ten points, and there were n
hose in the crowd who feared Mans :,
eld's squirt would last long enough m
D overhaul the Marionites. But the n
ortic was hort lived. Marion came =
ack strong, and while unable to
core many during the remainder of .
he period easily held Mansfield
coreless. ~
In defensive play Staub was once y
lore hero. Staub only got one bas- .
ct, but that was a beautiful shot y
rom the middle of the floor. Fosters y
oor was good although he was u
lightly off when 1t came to making
is shots at the basket stick. Hume. i
lice and Click. especially the last
amed composed the principal parts
T the point making machinery and
Dme brilliant things they did, too.
his Click Is tower of strength to ~
le Marionites. Though playing ?
uard he generally eecures most of
le goals and where he is supposed to y y
atch forward 1t Is generally the u
lse that the forward Is too busy
atching Click to think of trying for
le goal himself.
Marion still has n number OF u
ames to play and the only one In ~
hlch there is much doubt Is a con- u
'st with Mansfield that must be u
ayed on the Mansfield floor. Victory r'
that game will give the locals the OF
alden pennant. 1t Is certain that
ley will not let up until the pen
ant is either won or lost. @
line up:
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