Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-13
BEATRICE HIGH WINS The CUP
South Omaha Second in Interscholas-
tic High School Tournament,
LOSES OUT BY TWO POINTS
Both Teams Are Matched Mt Basket
Ball and Play TO n Tie in
First Half of the
Game.

LINCOLN, Neb., March 12-(Special Tel
egram.) 1.-Two minutes OF additional play
was required to settle the Interscholastic
Hieh school championship Of the state in
tasket ball. A beautiful basket by Dick
rutherford, the right guard of the Beatrice
High school bringing the Iaurels to his
team, with the final score OF 10 to Il.
South Omaha vas the loser.
i was a game which either team could
well have lost Worn with the tremendous
strain of a previous game earlier in the
evening, the two teams fought with des-
peration. but the superior play OF the
Beatrice five more than offset the brilliant
Individual play OF Shields. the giant cen
ter for the South Omaha team. Two men
shone brilliantly in the Beatrice play,
Stockton and Rutherford, but to the for
meT rightly belongs the real honors of
the tournament. The Beatrice captain was
a wizard at shooting goals from the field
Such team play as was shown by the
Ecatrice five naS rarely been seen in Lin
coin. even ir collegiate contests. The
Beatrice players were in the finest condi-
ton with the exception Of Stockton, who
was kicked IN the groin earlier in the
evening. The Beatrice men took the lead
in the first half and were apparently easy
of Beatrice with the Beatrice guards
smothering every attempt Of South Omaha
to score.
south Omaha Ties score,
Upon the resumption of play in the sec
ond half South Omaha fought with
desperation that aroused the admiration
OF the crowd. Shields was i'm every play
and soon tied the score by pretty field
goals. Beatrice again took the lead with
two goals but Shields again rushed the
ball down the field and scored the neces-
| sary points to tie the score
/ with twenty-five seconds OF play left. the
! announcement was made that the score
/ board was wrong and instead OF the score
being II to Is in favor of Beatrice, It was
tie. The Beatrice adherents raised a
1 protest, but II was to no avail, and the
game ended II to II. Under the rules the
| team making the first two points won the
! game and Rutherford, by a wonderful
piece OF work. scored a goal after about
two minutes The Beatrice delegation went
wild for five minutes and took possession
Of the university gymnasium.
The big silver cup offered by c. a.
Tucker becomes the property Of the Beat
rice High school The team members each
receive medals. South Omaha received a
banner for second place
Tournament IL Success.
The close games Friday night, the thrill
ing finish of the tournament in the game
between Beatrice and South Omaha, and
the two pretty games earlier in the evening
Between South Omaha and Lincoln and
Beatrice and Lincoln combined to make
the tournament a remarkable success. The
Beatrice team has an undisputed claim Il
the championship OF the state. twenty-ont
teams having entered the tournament, rep,
resentative OF every section. The cham
pions from all OF the divisions were present
Captain Stockton, Rutherford. Reicker
Hobbs and Luse are the members OF this
championship five.
The game between South Omaha ant
Lincoln resulted in victory for the stool
yards boys by a score of 20 to l6 souti
Omaha played a number of second team
men and the game was slow. Shields mad,
most OF the points for the South Omahl
team. Lincoln could not play consistent,
and while the work OF Hartman was
feature OF the game, other players were n,
match for their opponents. Hartman
scored "a out Of the Is points for Lincoln
Beatrice Defeats Lincoln.
In the opening game OF the evening
Beatrice defeated Lincoln, o to II. Beatric
took the lead at the outset and clos
; guarding prevented Lincoln from scoring
only one field goal during the entire game
The first half ended q 10 4 In favor o
Beatrice. The Beatrice five eased up Il
the second and Lincoln managed to hole
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