Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-03-17
OGDEN MUTES DEFEAT
PARIS CHAMPIONS

Between 400 and 500 basket ball
fans saw the games in the pavilion
last Friday night. Seldom has a
more noisy and enthusiastic crowd
been brought together. Cheer after
cheer went up for every point added
to the score, or for every clever play
made on either side. At times the
referees whistle could not be heard
above the din. The first game was
between the Montpelier M. l. A. and
the Fielding first years. The Mont
pelier boys, besides being new at the
game, had been able to practice to-
gether only the last three nights be-
fore the game, and having overdone
themselves were too sore and stiff
to get into the game in the first half,
which ended IL to 3 in favor of Field
they took brace and during the
twenty minutes of play scored 20
points to 10 for their opponents,
making the final score % to 81 in fav-
or of Montpelier. Though all the
boys played hard, Swensen scored
more points than any other for the
home team. The game was fast and
hard fought from start to finish, esr
pecially the second half. There was
good deal of roughness on both
sides, and many fouls went unealled
though THESE were due to hard play,
and undoubtedly were not intention
al, yet clean snappy game without
SO much scuffiing is to be preferred
AS this was the first game Montpe-
lier team has won it is natural to feel
iubilant over it. It points forward
to the time when Montpelier will
have team equal to the best of
them.
The second gameS between the
boys of the school for the deaf at
Ogden, and Fielding's first team was
u revelation in basket ball to those
used to the rough and tumble sort of
game. The deaf boys showed team
work that would be hard to beat.
When they got the ball, the way
they carried it from one end of the
floor to the other looked as though
they were the only team on the floor.
They moved over the floor $50 easily
and noiselessly, and the ball darted
so quickly and with such ease and
precision from one TO another that
their opponents were bewildei /.
Their playing was quick, full of snap
and vim, and almost entirely devoid
of the roughness aud scuffiing SO Of
ten found in the game. Their alert
ness is little less than marvellous,
considering that they are totally nn-
able to hear sound, and almost en-
tirely deprived of the gift of speech.
That they had the sympathy of the
spectators was shown by the un-
bounded enthusiasm, and the contin-
uous cheering they received. The
game ended with score of AZ to q
in favor of the boys from Ogden.
Saturday in the Fielding gym al
IhIlh GWO AlOIo AHOCNOp1iuk kaiiiSe
were played. The first between the
Ogden boys and the Paris Mutuali
1.-THE best team they could get togeth
er in Paris) was hard fought from
: start to finish and resulted in vic.
! tory for the Ogden boys by the clos.
score of "a to 81. Owing to the ex
ceptionally large crowd in attend,
ence and the gym not being yer.
large, but little room was left to pla.
I in. On a larger floor undoubtedl,
5 the Ogden boys wonld have run up
e bigger score.
n The second game was by the En-
erson school of Paris and the Mont
peiier high school and resulted in
U ssoreof "a to 81 in favor of Emerson
The teams were evenly matched, th