Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-02
basketball Notes.

certainly was no fault of the rooters
that the team did not bring home the !
bacon Friday evening.
Arthur Wallace has been absent
from practice the last week on ac-
count OF a sore knee. His presence
was missed and the team was greatly !
crippled when he failed to show up
either at practice or at the gymnasi-
um during the week
The Grants Pass games last week
were much better and faster than
was first supposed and it is said that
Grants Pass has the best team in
years and will make a strong bid for
valley honors this season. Coach
Klum is trying to arrange two games
with them here for some time in
February.
A big apology is due the Ashland
high school girls team for mistake
in the score of their recent Grants
Pass game. The report read that
they were beaten by an, 1914 score,
while really the girls were victorious |
by the result of IA to s. The report .
was a result OF misunderstood tele- |
phone message and no offense or dis |
credit was meant toward the girls /
well-earned victory.
klamath county high plays basket !
ball here next Thursday and Friday
evenings, February and 3, and
though Ashland fans were somewhat
disappointed by the Corvallis games
the boys expect to make up for their
! humiliation at the hands of Corvallis
by taking the easterners into camp.
A team can't win always anyway, so
stick up for the boys and turn out to
root them to victory this week.
The boys club regular meeting
night has been changed to Thursday
from Friday evening to accommodate
some of the basketball boys and 9TH
ers who could not attend Friday even
ing. It was very considerate on the
part Of Mr. Vining and is much appre-
ciated by the basketball team. They
were unable to attend last Thursday
on account of such an important
game being scheduled on the follow
ing Friday which necessitated an
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use of the opportunity next week.
1t. Is rumored that the freshmen
held some kind of festivities last Fri
day evening which kept them away
from the less important football
game. Our rocks were doing so nice
" in school and have been showing
so much school spirit Of late that we
feel rather taken by surprise to think
that our verdant members should be
so unpatriotic. When a whole class
takes to devising other means OF
amusement on basketball evenings
things begin to look serious and
something has to be done. To tell
, the truth, we are sorely disappointed
in the new class.
e Basketball dope is a pretty risky
;. thing to experiment with If some OF
t the recent games in southern and
l central Oregon are examples For In
0 stance, Corvallis has beaten Roseburg
: on Roseburg's own floor, has beaten
Eugene, who also defeated Roseburg,
S by the decisive score of 52-lO, and
;. has taken Ashland into camp by a
y 55-6 result. On the other hand, Cot
: tage Grove defeated Corvallis 1920
S and Ashland took two games from
t Cottage Grove, 1914 and 1877. Again
: Cottage Grove defeated Medford 1873
g and Medford beat Grants Pass, while
Grants Pass won from Ashland by
a close score What do you make OF
r It?
! The local high school basket shoot
: ers met defeat at the hands of the
p fast Corvallis high team last Friday
y evening by the decisive score OF Do
e to s. The game was never In doubt
e from the beginning and the ball
y rolled into the basket for the north
e erners at almost every shot. The
/ visitors began scoring in the first
e minute of play and kept 1t uT
throughout the game, finally gaining
the enormous score Of 55 with but
/ very little effort. They showed up an
excellent passing game and nearly
= every time they got the ball 1t went
down the floor into the waiting hands
h of a teammate who relayed 1t into the
basket. The Ashland team on the
! other hand played very loose ball and
lost the game through inefficient de-
fensive work. Harris shot the only
two-field baskets for the home boys
n while Fraley made up the other two
points by successful free throws
Many shots by Ashland were lost by
u sheer hard luck, and especially die
the ink chase Spencer and Fraley
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