The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-02-17
Chickasha Basket Ball Boys are A.
sauIted by ROwdies Follow
ing Game in Which They
Won Victory
PUGILISM new FEATURE
OF HIGH SCHOOL SPORT
Local Warriors Were 0utnumbered
and Badly Beaten Up-Eggs
and Iron We're Used
in Battle

When tho Chlckasha basket BAH
team stepped from the train Sunday,
upon their return from Lawton, they
more resembled the returning delo-
gates from ward healers meeting in
County Cork than a mere basket BAN
team returning from a game with a
neighborlng school where only friend
" rivalry" is supposed to exist.
That the * o. had been dealt free.
" and without discrimination was
plainly evident Whittakers face and
head We're bruised, Gowdy face was
swollen, Heffner had his nose side.
tracked and Cochran's jaw still shows
where someone, filled to the brim wish
the Lawton brand Of sportsmanship.
had gently laid a gas pipe. Also the
entire crew were besprinkled with
eggs, and Prof Banks, who refereed the
game, bears a cut on the side Of his
head which the boys maintain orig
mated from a knife in the hands OF
another of Lawton's hopefuls.
Regarding the hostilities that started
in 191O' a Ia the Lawton News and
Star, there was really nothing to It
but near riot and not very near 1t
that Lawton was hopelessly beaten
and their coach kicked on a decision.
straightway calling his men from tho
field. True, a portion OF the crowd
became infuriated at his action and
for a time il looked like there would
be something doing, but wiser heads
prevailed and the "hostilities" did not
eliminate
Considering those facts, it looks like
pretty hard lines when the chickasha
lads travel to Lawton in good faith and
defeat the Lawton aggregation 81 To
ls in straight, clean basket ball, and
after they have been rendered recep-
tion at Lawton residence, to be out
numbered six to one and beat almost
into insensibility while returning to
their hotel Certainly the Lawton
sportsmen are strong in the belief that
there is safety in numbers"
Nothing Ike it has ever been re-
corded in the ANNALS of interscholas.
tic sports in Oklahoma. From the ac-
count of a spectator it was not a fight,
!. it was a massacre. He said at least
d five Lawton men surrounded Gowdy,
which condition was true Of the other
o seven Chickasha men, and though the
If Chiekasha lads fought to the best oi
their ability, they We're speedily crush
y ed by the overwhelming numbers.
The Lawton basket ball team did not
e. participate in the scrap. the band be
~ ing composed Of high school and towr
rowdies. The incident viii probably
IF mark the close Of all athletic events
m between Lawton and Chickasha. Thi
n game was stopped twice on accoun
Of the rowdyism Of the crowd Th
IS Chickasha boys deny emphatoally tina
w anybody from ohiekasha introduced
of pair Of "knucks" into the argument.
es The Lawton News and Star sunda
morning contained the following:
ss- THE 81 TO IS score in the baske
en- ball game between the ehickasha an
Lawton high school teams last nigs
nd furnished the smallest part Of th
ior amusement, for the merriest kind OF
fight took place shortly afterwards
ra- front of the Gross residence, 61s
nts A renewal Of the hostilities started
rol Chickasha in 1910 in which the Lay
es. ton players are said to have be.
given the worst end Of the bargai
resulted, it IS stated, in the vanduls
e. ment of the visitors from the neighbe
ing city
Against the protest Of the 9th
mi three classes, the juniors last mig
DIV rendered q reception to the visitors
mi. the residence Of William Gross and
,ra. number Of the Lawton boys are sa
ard to have gathered IL front Of the ie
dence and to have sent boy insi
the to invite the chickaaha boys on
ing outside They failed TO appear ht
"a. ever, until the reception had end
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