River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Highs Win Another Double
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The way that high school bunch
is getting revenge on the teams that
rubbed it into them in the early
part of the season is caution.
Last Friday night it was the Bald
win high school team that was the
victim-and victim" is right.
Thelander's hall was packed to
OVERLOOKING with enthusiastic fans
we'll hardly. There wasn't a cor
poraps guard out. And it was a
shame, too, for it was one of the
best basket ball programs ever
pulled off here. The efforts the
local high have made to make
creditable showing in their first
year at the game, and the success
of those efforts, certainly deserves
more encouragement in the matter
of patronage.
The first game of the evening was
between the high school second and
the Woodmen teams. The Wood
men seemed to have it on the highs
at first, and held the lead during the
first half, which ended with the
score IL to 9 in their favor. In the
second half both teams began to
rough it and there we're several
"near-pugilistic" encounters-
rather good natured affairs, and
more humorous than serious. But
the highs had the Woodmen "agoin"
and kept the lead till the finish, the
final score being 80 to 81.
+ Referee Steiner's whistle had
barely announced the start of the
River Baldwin game before
the former had landed a basket.
Bennett tipped the ball to Sylvester
on the first toss-up and Sylvester
passed it to Bennett, who dropped
it neatly into the basket. And of
course that sent the local fans "a
fannin!" But they were soon forced
to applaud some splendid team
work and basket shooting by the
visitors, who ran up ten points be-
fore the locals could get into the
game again. Then the locals came
to the front and tied the score at IL
to IL. Baldwin scored next, IA to
IL; Richards made it IA to IA; Syl-
vester put the locals in the lead, 16
to IA; two free throws by Baldwin
tied the score again, Is to 16; Ros
enquist threw grandstand shot
from near the side lines and it was
Is to Is in favor of Baldwin; Syl-
vester made couple and Richards
another in rapid succession, and
then each team added another
basket and the half was over, with
the score 20 to "a in favor of River
Falls.
The scoring alternated as in the
first half for the first five minutes of
the second session, but the visitors
could not gain the lead. And then,
all of a sudden, the locals got a sys-
tenn of team work started that took
the visitors off their feet and River
Falls scored almost at will. Ben
nett got the jump on his man almost
every time and tipped the ball to
one of the guards, who passed it to
a forward-and in one or two more
passes il was in the basket. Mean
while Baldwin had scored but three
field baskets, and the game ended
with the score "A to 26 in favor Of
River Falls.
The lineup and individual score
for both games was as follows:
HIGH SCHOOL 2ND WOODMEN
Wigen, 4. OD-2, % forward Bergh, "a
Symes-O
M. Sherburne, %, (2) C. Sherburne,
[O-O, q
Kay, 2-1O center WilcoX,-2
| Randall 1st half guard Owens.-O
Truesdell, 2nd half,-2 "
Buckley Stewart
r. f. HIGH BALDWIN HIGH
Sylvester, ca forward Wahl, 2
Richards, PA Rosenquist, t. (D
Bennett, GO center Bornikhof, 8, Q)-3
Ensign, guard Rose, 2
Lowell Moe
Steiner, of Baldwin, and Nelson,
of this city, acted as officials for
both games.
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