The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-02-28
HATTESBJRG TUESDAY, AFTERNOON
A CLOSE GAME
OF BASKET BALL
Played Between Hattiesburg and Wig
gins High School Teams
Locals Lost.

On Saturday night the Hattiesburg
high school boys played the Virgins
at Virgins. The boys have not much
to say about the game, but they frank
ly admit that the score was 40
against them. Yet, something should
be said in their favor to explain the
close shut-out which they received at
the hands of the local team at Wig
gins, though the boys themselves ask
not for pity, and are willing for the
score to tell the tale. On account of
the condition of the grounds at Wig
gins, (the court was on a hillside,
rough and badly lighted, and the goals
were not official, having no back
boards) a lot of good hard work on
the part of both teams, which might
have resulted in good game had the
goals been fixed properly, was turned
| into a slow game, painfully uninter-
esting to a true lover of good basket
ball. The fact that there were no
! backboards to the baskets was even
great hindrance to the Virgins
team, the members of which, although
they had practiced all the season on
the grounds, out of several attempts
at goal, made only two. Much more
was this a disadvantage to the Hat
tiesburg boys, who had never played
on such grounds before. Although
they outplayed the Virgins boys in
passing and their team was acknowl
edged by the Virgins people to be
superior to the Virgins boys; al
though they succeeded in keeping the
ball on their territory most of the
time, the Hattiesburg boys out Of
many throws were unable to place {
ball in the baskets fixed as they were
Yet in the face of this serious obsta
Gle they did their best from the frs
to the last, and when the whistle wa.
blown for the end of the last half
Smith, a guard on the Hattiesburs
school team had to be caught and hell
before he would stop playing. Will,
the local boys believe that the resul
would have been some different OF
better grounds, still they acknowledg,
that the Virgins boys have a gooC
team.
Although the season is about over
the boys have hope to play two o.
three more games before the season
ends. This is the first year they hav,
had boys basket ball team, and the,
are anxious for practice against al
kinds of teams. The main hindrance,
to the progress of the game here are
Few people know the game wei
enough to giveit the proper support
there is no other team in the city foi
the high school to practice against
and there is no place to play at night
The few enthusiastic and spirited
boys of the high school who are in
terested in athletics and desire t.
promote school spirit, hope that will
the support of Prof. Woodley and. tn,
friends of the school, these obstacles
will be overcome in a season or two
The boys are also preparing to en-
gage in other kinds of athletics, es
pecially track and field sports anC
baseball.
Much credit should be given to tn,
= few boys who are gritty, game ant
spirited enough in the face of man,
great obstacles to go ahead and, al
: though they get defeated now anC
then, to hold out and work for ath
Ietics in the high school, which means
greater school spirit, manlier boy
and training that is needed. They ar,
the seven boys who at present com
pose the basket ball team: Nathal
, Gordon, Bert Williams, Columbus
| Ramsey, Smith, Cephas Anderson
Henry Siebe and Curtis Welborn.
, EX-GONERNOR VARDAMAN