The Snowflake herald., 1913-11-14
NORMAL SCHOOL BASKET
BALL TEAM VICTORIOUS
IN The VALLEY

Of the series of six games that the
girls and boys basketball teams of the
Northern Arizona Normal School played
in the valley, they won four.
The first game of the series was that
played by the Normal girls with the
Mesa High School girls. This was a
lively interesting game. The Flagstaff
girls put up good fight and played the
ball but were not accustomed to the
low passes of their opponents or the
excessive heat, to say nothing of the
fatigue from an all night ride to Phoe-
nix, with only sandwich and a glass
of milk for breakfast before taking the
train for Mesa. Daze and Hanley did
good guarding but try for the goal
was almost certain to be score on the
part of the Mesa girls. The result of
of this game was Is to 10 in favor of
the Mesa High registering the first de-
feat of the Normal School.
The second game was between the
boys of these two schools (which was
the second defeat met by the N. A. N.
So it was clean game, but the Flag
staff boys were greatly affected by the
heat and did not really know what they
could do in an encounter with a good
team. All who witnessed their games
attest the truth of this statement that
they didn't do themselves justice. The
score ran up spasmodically first for
Mesa then for Flagstaff till at the end
of the first half the score was 10 to 9
in favor of Flagstaff. The last half
was a little faster and the game closed
with the Mesa boys just one point ahead
the score being Fl to 20. The greatest
credit for this defeat is possibly due to
Mesa's rnnning guard, Brown. A few
minutes more playing would undoubted-
ly have thrown the score in favor of the
Normal, because they had awakened
and were scoring fast at the end of the
game.
With downcast countenance but eyes
sparkling with determination the Flag
staff teams went into the field for the
next double header of the series against
the Tempe High School. The crowd
was large and enthusiastic and the root
ing in keeping with the spirit of the
eame The girls game was character
/. bV quick snappy passing and good
4 R4ln N0Kk On the part of Flagstaff.
Roberts and Diamond just could not
help throwing goals in spite of good
guarding by Tempe. The ball was only
in the territory of Tempe's goal four
times in the last half and long enough
for them to score one goal in the first
half. The whistle stopped Flagstaff on
81 while Tempe boasted that one score
of 2 points. Flagstaff's luck had
changed when their boys entered the
court against the team that had never
been beaten in two years.
This is the game that showed the
skill and worth of both teams. To
quote from the Republican, ''The boys
game was one of the prettiest exhibit
tions of basketball ever seen In Tempe.
1t was clean, free from accustomed
fouling and speedy" During the first
half Tempe played the ball first class
but they lost their team work in the
second. Flagstaff ran the second score
from at the end of the first half up
to "a at the end of the game while
Tempe scored only points in the sec
ond half making a total of IL. The
second victory hangs over Flagstaff.
The third double header registered
two more victories for the Northern
Normal the defeats being sustained by
the Tempe Normal. The boys game
was first as we'll as being the first game
in which the score ran parallel all
through the game The excitement
was high while the boys strained every
nerve to swing the balance which hung
on IL at the end of the first half. The
second half tottered as the first half
had done till toward the end when the
Tempe boys began to fatigue, one man
having to be replaced. Then it was
that the Flagstaff boys with renewed
off fA,.tH H11a 10 rr,soof0I~ 0pHI1ron0n r11chQH
ahead but only by one point. The
whistle called the close OF the game
with the score standing "a to %.
AS is right, the last game was the
hardest to settle for although the first
half showed the Flagstaff girls one
point ahead, the last half weighed them
in the balance sides counted
13 points. The play off was hotly con-
tested amid the deafening cheers of the
anxious spectators who had gathered
to see the relative strength of Arizona S
rival pedagogical institutions. Tempe
had met their greatest reverses at the
hands of Flagstaff's centers all through
the game but in the play off the ball
went straight into Tempe's territory.
A goal was saved only by foul on the
part of Flagstaff's s guard on which
Tempe scored one point. The struggle
ended when Flagstaff made free goal
landing the last victory only by one
score; the total IA to Is.
The boys are resting up and training
for the game to be played with the
Snowflake Stake Academy team on
Saturday, November 18th.
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