Evening journal., 1912-01-11

KEEPS HIGH
FROM WINNING
PluCky Delaware Freshman
Factor in Locals Defeat
20 to II
CHARLEY HORSE HOLDS
TEE HIGHLETS BACK

The Wilmington High School basket
ball team met its first home defeat
of the season yesterday at the hands of
the Delaware Freshmen. The game
was as pretty a struggle as has been
seen on the local floor this year. The
collegians led at the end of the first
half by an TO Z tally, and when the
final moment was up they had gather
ed twenty hard-earned points to
Highs seventeen. Delaware kept i'm
advance of TIE school boys during the
entire second half. Wickersham's
proteges, however, made garrison
finish during the last few moments,
and came within an ace of nOsing out
Benchy Foulkes aggressive cOmbina-
tion. Coke and Rimlinger Gagged two
goals in rapid succession with but
few minutes to play and Highs
prospects frightened. The Delaware
the locals from then on did nothing
in the scoring line.
From the start indications pointed
to a close struggle. Neither side
scored for a brief period, but Jones
"a
1 High then proceeded to feed Jones, but
in vain. He received passes from
every member of the team during this
half. but fell down on the simplest of
shots. He had at least twelve chances
from underneath the basket with no
one near MIN during the session, but
! the best he could do was two lone tai
| lies. Jones is usually the most ac-
curate goal tosser on the team, but
yesterday his lamps needed trimming.
! IL the greatly abused ''if' were to be
brought into the story, High School
would have won.
Bench Foulke, the small. but expert
guard. was the chief offender in the
/ locals downfall The diminutive
captain tore off three exceedingly long
shots and tossed six fouls in fault
less manner. Benchy was Delaware's
one best bet He leaped in the air on
several occasions and grabbed Highs
! long passes. Foulke was charged with
twelve of his teams twenty points.
/ Eberhart also was a prominent fac
tor in his former teammates defeat.
He held the high scoring Wickersham
to one lonesome eld goal and also
managed to slip in a two pointer him
self
Roy Schilling, the lockwood ath-
letc. also played a consistent game
at forward. He was conspicuous in
I all Of his teamls passing, but or ac-
count o. Blickle's close guarding he
managed to toss i'm only ono tally,
, Taylor guarded Coke I'm grand style
l. and gathered two goals. Taken man
! for man the Freshmen have the best
team that ever represented Delaware
as a first year quintet. This was
their first game Of the season and
before the basketball days are over
they should be away up I'm team work
, They are an exceedingly fast tribe
and the hand writing on the wall
seems to point to the 1915 class rs
, college champions.
Without detracting an iota from
Delaware's great work it is no more
than fair to say that High was not
i'm its bes' form Something seemed
to go wrong somewhere or other. T.
! might have been that the visitors in
terpreted the locals method of A.
tack. Anyway they did not play the
same kind of ball that they hav-
displayed all season. Each player
was faulty IN some manner or othet
!, Rimlinger shut his man out but his
1 foul shooting was of the weirdesi
! order. He fell down fatty on sever
I out of ten fouls.
Wickersham seemed to have beer
passed by by Dame Fortune. Wicky'i
|, one-hand shots did not work and h'
failed to run up his accustomed hug
t0,al. Jones' work was too pathetic
to mention. Blickle covered his op
ponent fairly we'll. but his shooting
did not come up to his standard o
e the last few practice days Cox
o Jared no better than the rest of hii
y teammates. He Gagged hard chance
j. from the middle Of the floor but thi
was his only goal of the day. Sum
VI ming up the boQuets. favored will
j. lemons, which have just been pre-
: scented to Highs representatives tn
s whole blame can be placed on Jones
II failure at goal tossing and Rim
linger's helpless attempts at fou
/, shooting
Y Highs next game will he witt
Norristown on the latters floor am
,, II is hoped that the local boys vii
~ proft by yesterdays calamity an
4, 20 in and win. A large and excite
NJ gathering witnessed the game yes
Is terday and tried their best TO urg
rs their favorites TO victory. So far tn
d Cherry and White representative
10 have captured five out of seven game
l. and they can finish in a successful
manner il they hustle a little bi
1t harder. The Lineup:
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