The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-15
RICHMOND TAKES
OPENING CONTEST
High School Lads Trounce
Randolph County Boys By
81 to 10 Score.
PLAY TEAM w DIRK
Winchester Guards Unable
to Keep With Fast Local
Forwards.
PLAY TEAM DIRK

Before a crowd that speaks well LOT
the success of high school basketball
this year, the Richmond high school
team opened its session last night by
trouncing Winchester So to 10.
The visitors were lighter than the
Richmond boys and lacked both the
experience and training that seems
destined to make Director Nohr's quin-
tette of young huskies a formidable
outfit this year While the game was
the first Of the season, the many
weeks spent in preparation for the
opening of the season placed the team
in good fighting shape.
For the first few minutes Of play,
the Red and White mixed things up
rather badly but before the first half
was far advanced the machine was
working smoothly and the players
were running rings around the Ran
dolph county bunch.
Team Work Good.
There seemed no tendency on the
part of any individual player to play
the game alone, the idea Of team work
apparently being we'll drilled into the
squad.
Both teams were weak at shooting
foul goals. Ball got one out of two
trials, and Hart missed all four of the
remainder. Winchester was quite as
bad, however, getting but seven out of
il trials.
The first half was at times rather
dull due to the frequent fouling COM
mitted by the Richmond players. The
game was much cleaner in the second
half and some really brilliant work
was executed,
r. n. S. Not Guarded
A good share of the blame for the
one sided score was the inability off
the Winchester guards to keep with
their men. Hoover and Meranda were
many times left standing under the
goal without a man to guard them
and were sometimes able to take two
shots at the basket before their guards
could endeavor to break up the play.
Captain Davis of Winchester was
able to get into the game for only a
few minutes in the last half, having
Just recovered from a serious Illness.
Even in his weak condition he proved
the best scrapper on his team and had
the others been players Of the same
calibre the score would have been
much closer.
Both teams made changes in their
1ineups in the latter part of the Sec
ond half. Quigg replaced Meranda and
.
place. Both worked well, putting up
equally as good a game as the players
they supplanted.
All Played Clean.
There were no particular stars in
the Richmond line up, but word of
commentator is due to each member
Of the team. Hoover played hard
game throughout, and while he did not
handle his guard as gently in the first
half as he might, he played a clean
game. In the first few minutes of the
last half he distinguished himself by
shooting four field goals in quick
succession.
Meranda played a swift clean game
and could always be relied upon to
advance the ball when 1t came his
game. He was in almost every play
both defensive and offensive, working
the floor from one end to another and
finishing the game strong. He threw
eight field goals.
While in the nature of things the
guards could not make the spectacu-
lar showing permitted the forwards
they played their positions in a man
ner that reflected credit upon them
selves. Where time and time again the
Richmond forwards took unobstructed
tTlaIS at the basket. the winchester
players were always sewed up by
either CAPTAIN Thornhurg or Hart
Line Up and Summary.
Winchester. Richmond
Forward
Templfn Observation-Disclosures. Hoover
Forward
Bales, Mcdaniel ......... Meranda
Center
Stonerock, Mendenhall .., Ball
Guard
Davis. Capt ... Thornburg, Capt
Guard
coats Hart BaiSuan
First Half-1S to s. Final score So
to 10.
Foul Goals-Winchester: Bales, 8:
Stonerock. 8; Richmond: Ball, J.
Filed Goals-Winchester Stone
rock, 1: Coats, 1; Richmond: Hoover
s: Meranda, 4; Quigg, 8; Bali, s;
Thornbure, 1; Hart, l.
Fouls-Richmond. "A; Winchester
s.
Observation-Disclosures