Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-30
AGOOD CAME MADE
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REPRESENTATION
Editor Daily Reporter"

Editor Daily Reporter.
( Dear Sir:-The Stevens Point
Daily Journal in its issue of January
%, 1913, quotes from the Grand Rap
ids Tribune of January %, 1913. to
justify what its impartial 90 and fair
! 81 reporter stated concerning the re
cent basket ball game between the
Stevens Point Normal School and the
Grand Rapids High School teams.
Bravo, Journal, Looks like the sym
pathy the whine of the whipped cur
calls forth. We suspect that the i'm
partial % reporter of the Journal
| was one of the crowd of Stevens Point
T0oters who had gathered at the bach
CT the Grand Rapids bounding board
during the first half to see CD the
game. Their insolent attitude when
asked to please step aside to where
the game could be better witnessed
betokened them no gentlemen, much
less men capable ofw riting a fair and
impartial report of the game.
The article quoted from the Grand
Rapids Tribune. reads like a tale by
a gossip .monger.
To quote:
Grand Rapids Wins Game.
The local high school team played
a game with the Stevens Point Nor
NAL team on Friday evening, the score
being % to II at the end of the gam
Some of those who saw the game
claim that it was the rankest steal
they ever saw perpetrated on Wis
iting team of any kind; in fact that
the visitors We're literally robbed of
the game.
If the men who have charge of
our athletics in the public schools al
low cheating in contests of this kind,
how can they expect the pupils to
be honest i'm more serious matters y
That is the way a gossip monger
always reports a tale to escape re-
sponsibility of proof Some Of
those like the Stevens Point Daily
Journal reporter for instance! 1t
strikes us that the Grand Rapids
Tribune set up straw man
and then bravely and thoroughly de
melished him. Not a very difficult
thing to do, but which is a play to
the Galleries filled with the morbid
and those VINO plead an excuse for a
beating fairly administered, like the
Stevens Point Daily Journal.
The Stevens Point Normal team
was completely outplayed in the game
Of basket ball reported. The bali was
in possession of the Rapids boys a.
bout three-fourths of the time. 1t
was due to the excitement of the Ra-
pids boys in their first game that the
Stevens Point team was saved from
an utter rout. The Stevens Point
team came here with the evident in
tention of playing the Intercollegiate
game bordering on football, but were
Taught Ilit u. a. u. 1uiGS. Hell
training vas lacking, for after the
first ten minutes of the game their
attempts at field baskets were wild I
shots aimed at nowhere. The Rapids
boys were too speedy for them and
were in better condition for a fast
game. We have yet to hear of
ir1oa VTb thn Ctnunncs Dnint
took their defeat in a real sportsman
like manner.
The Rapids boys made ten field
baskets to the Points seven and
each team made three points on free
throws in consequence of fouls call
ed. We rather suspect that Nash of
the Rapids stole(?) the game by get
ting four field baskets, and Hill aidet
the robbery CD by shutting out Full
ton and shooting field basket him
self. By the way, the Stevens Point
they used the bounding board behind
which Grand Rapids rooters were sta
according to the Journals
impartial reporter, and only one whel
they used the bounding board guard
ed by the Stevens Point rooters. Wht
kicked the bounding board?
1t is the policy of those in charge |
of Athletics at the high school to
see that all teams are treated square
ly and that the games are played
strictly according to rules. That
is the instruction the Off
cials receive and they carry
them out to their best Judgment. It
is rather odd that the SteVnes Point
teams always come here prepared ]
20 kick. 1t seems that some of them
are incapable of approaching square
Shame be on such, and
Benedict Arnold died alone and for=sI
gotten.
We trust that you may give us
some of your valuable space to pre-,
sent Clt, side Of an unpleasant mat
ter made much more so by the re-
grettable presentation of the
game by the Tribune.
Very sincerely yours,
c. w. SCHWEDE. i