Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-17
BIRNAMWOOD TRIMMED.
Local High School Team Easily Victori-
GUS at Wittenburg Forty
High School EnthI siasts Accom-
panied The Team.

Last Friday afternoon the Wausau
high school basketball team wersA TO
Wittenburg, ghere to play an elimi-
nation game with team from
Birnamwood, Shawano County, Wis.
Because of dispute between Wau-
sau and the Lawrence atheletic
directors in regard to the local team
entering the State preliminary game
held at Oshkosh last week and in
which Wausau was not allowed to
participate, it was decreed that the
red and white would have to play an
elimination game with Birnamwood,
which also contested its right of
entrance to these preliminarles.
Wittenburg was selected as the place
to stage the game and following
medicine show which lasted until
$50, the contest which proved to be
':othing but n runaway, was pulled
off, The dispute in regard to Wau-l
sau's.entering at Oshkosh. seems to-
have arisen over the fact that Wau.
sau made a mistake in sending its
record of the past season to Oshkosh
instead of to Appleton.
The local players were in splendid
form, but because of the fact that
Birnamwood was lighter and nowhere
near as well trained in the details of
the game there was not much need of
any strenuous exertion on their part.
The team worked splendidly together
and play after play went through
perfectly. The Birnamwood players
did not seem to have much knowledge
of the inside points of the game or if
they did, they did not put them into
practise. They resembled the Toma-
hawk teain in that they played under
our basket and did~not seem to be
able to get near their own, but on the
whole their work was not as good as
our northern neighbors. Possibly
some of Birnarnwood's playing can be
accredited to the fact that they were
scared because of Wausau's past
record. Every local player made his
share of baskets and there was no
one player who stood out above all
the rest. Wallsau has been playing
very consistent, steady game and
with the team working together the
way i: is there will be some pretty
hard contests before the high school
will give up it's chance for the state
tournament. During the first half of
the game. Wausau was credited with
twenty-six scores or thirteen baskets
to Birnanlwood' one free throw.
The second half was nothing more
or less than a runaway. The boys
started right from the beginning and
the baskets were made one after the
other. And even with the thirty-fiye
points totaied during the half, hard
luck was encountered. Had every
play worked, fifty scores would have
easily been made. Birnamwood did
not play altogether in good luck
there were times when they had nard
luck in misjudging basket or in
missing tie ball The opponents of
the Red and White we're able to secure
two free throws, this giving them
three points and then the lone field
basket made Il total CT five points.
The players or both teams seemed to
be perfectly satisfied with the floor.
The Wausau five had made prepa-
rations for playing on slippery floor
as they had nc, desire to encounter a
team on such. a floor without any
thing on their feet to prevent slip
ping as happened at Marshfield. The
final score of the game was sixty-one
to five.
/ 1t is remarkable TO us how Bi.nsm-
wood defeated Amigo, and how they
claimed that they had right to en-
ter the. Oshkosh preliminaries- Fol-
lowing is a summary of the game
Il Wausau. Birnamwood
Otto 'Eggebres:ht r. g.....-B. SlepYan
Albert Mohr and
i Clyde Smith,. Il. g....... Bruinm
Joseph Pope and
Il Chas- Pond. C. -.------ -Canlon
Herman Riebs and
Harry Swanson. i. I. f.----.... ROchke
Charles Pond and
i Alfred CraIxiall I. f..---.N. Ssepyan