El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-27

a. & NJ College .29e
The Final Games.
The last games of the tournament
for 1911 were played Saturday night at
the Z NJ. c. a. gymnasium. 1t was
double headed schedule, the New Mex
leo Agricultural college playing and
losing the initial game by a score TO
the big Military Institute team. This
was not unexpected, as the cadet team
was generally acknowledged the su-
perior OF the two. The game was
see-saw proposition with but little eX-
citing play exhibited. Big Jones, the
institute center, played the stellar
game for his team and in this last
game strengthened his hold on the
center position OF the alI-Southwestern.
Hall. OF the A & NJ, played fast and
gritty. but scoreless game, being held
10 no baskets by keenan, of the Mill
tary. The important result of the A &
NJ institute game was the fact that
the military boys were saved from total
defeat, this being their only victory;
also through the fact Of the college
team losing three OF the contesting
aggregations, the College, the "" and
Institute, were tied. UP in percentage,
all being credited $50.
Schedule Altered.
The schedule as originally planned
by the delegates to the meet was al
tered Saturday afternoon in order that
the high school NJ. L A game would be
played as a closing feature.
The "" team had held the colony
to a 1911 score, playing the Mormons
to a standstill. In a later game, the
high school team had defeated the as
ISOLATION team and argued that they
could defeat the Mormons. But the
Mormons worn, 1916, they outplayed
the younger and supposedly faster
team from the jump, at every stage OF
the game, excepting only at basket
caging and through their far superior
team work and therefore great eX-
cess of trials at basket shooting they
managed to out number the interscho-
lastic champions at this end Of the
game too.
seldom before have the fans been
given such an exhibition of guarding,
jumping and fast, clever passing as
the Mormon colony team displayed
The Summing Up.
Summing up the entire games and
giving every player impartial consld-
Grafton there are five men who stand
out as pre- eminently deserving a place
on the all-star team
At center. Jones, of the Institute, has
a prior claim to any other player; there
are better 1nOlN10ual play SA AoSNOA
and better field men, but considering
his height and his basket shooting abll-
ity as displayed in the tournament ne
would be a valuable man to team ma
chine The backs are possibly the
most important positions, the two men
who stand out as the most likely can
didates for these positions are L. Rum
sew Of the " small but fighter all
through. game and heady and second
to only one guard in the entire south
west. while H. Taylor Of the Mormon
colony is undisputedly the premier man
in his position ever playing in this city.
The forwards are the most doubtIul
positions to fill in this case, several
men of almost equal ability having to
he considered c. Bowman, playing
center for the Mormon team, is con-
sidered as having annexed one position
Chenoweth of the high school, although
very light, and sometimes cratic IS
rendered the other place He is closely
pushed by Lyman of the same team,
better field man and by both Block OF
the seYs' and Hall Of the A & NJ col
lege but his unquestionable accuracy
i, basket caging. is what gains him MS