Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-27

The week following Christmas prom
Uses to be anything but an active one for
local basket ball tossers. The Yuletide
spirit has SO amified the contesung quln-
tets that a truce has been decided upon
until after New Years. The local teams.
however. intend to spend the brief re-
spite in good hard practice.
Several inter-league games will be
! staged at the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION court this week, but these viii
be more on the order Of practice games
than for basket ball supremacy A num-
Der of the free lance teams have arranged
games out of town for New Years. The
fast Murphy Did-Its will engage the sol
der quintet at Shenandoah, Ia, known
as Company E, and the Young Mems
Christian association Squads will play
the Genoa Indians at Genoa, Neb The
Townsends will play at Fort Dodge.
In the Church league last week practi-
cally no changes in the relative positions
OF the teams took place. So far the First
Christians have taken a fall out OF every
team in the organization. The handy
manner in which they have defeated
each of their adversartes easily marks
them as the coming champs Of the church
goers. and unless they are curtailed In
short order they will have a walk-away
with the rag What gives the Christians
supremacy over their opponents Is the
experience of their players. While most
of the church teams are made up of new
men, the Christians banded together the
most able basket tossers In the city. The
two Welgle brothers, Parrish. Hobson
and Miles comprise this leading aggrega-
ton.
MethOdists Try Hard.
So far the only quintet in the league
that has given the Christians a run for
their money is the Hanscom Park Meth
odists, under the direction of John Reel.
The Hanscom Parkers are determined to
halt the Christians and to that end have
been strengthening up their team Tor
the last few weeks.
Several unlocked for surprises took
place in the Commercial league last week.
The Omaha National Bank team put In
its appearance and at Its first game de-
cislvely drubbed the Omaha High School
Seconds, Is to 7. The unexpected strength
developed by the bankers shows that
they will have a reckoning in deciding
the championship. The students were
nosed out of a perfect record by the de-
feat.
The Nebraska Telephones failed to put
in their appearance last Saturday Tor
their game with the Council Bluffs Cubs
and as a result lost the game by forfeit
However, the Cubs played match game
with the Townsends.
Telephones May Quit.
It was rumored that the wire-tappers
had withdrawn from the organization
owing to the fact that several OF their
players had Joined other fiYes. Should
the wire-tappers break away from the
league It is presumed that the Creighton
Laws will take over their franchise.
An unusually inactive week took place
In the Tri-City league. Perhaps the
thing of greatest note was the defeat Of
the Omaha High school by the Walter q.
Clarks last Saturday. 1t was more OF an
individual victory for the Clarks, as the
goal shooting of obie Meyers was directly
responsible for the win. Coach Mills
men, while having better team work.
were unable to locate the basket many
easy shots being missed by Flotow and
Harmon. The high school players have
been putting in their vacation In practice
and expect to be In invincible trim for
their next game.
Those South Omaha packers serenading
under the monicker of the Swifts, proved
their right 20 such a name last week.
After losing two scheduled contests they
bestirred themselves and took a fall out
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