The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-02-26
THE HOME, TEAM WINS.
Minneapolis South Side Independent
Basket Ball Team Goes Down
Before Princetonians.

Basket Ball Team Goes Down
81 Before Princetonians.
Visitors Made Some Good Plays But
Proved to be Too Light for
the Home Athletes.
The South Side Independents of
Minneapolis proved to be easy pick
ings for the Princeton basket ball
team at the armory last Friday
night. The visitors came here
highly recommended as experts in
the basket ball line, and so they
proved to be--in their own class.
But their class was the high school
brand, for the visitors were all South
Side high school athletes and no
match for their heavier and older,
opponents. Notwithstanding the fact
that the visitors. realized they were
up against an older, heavier and
more experienced team, the young
STEERS went into the game with plenty
OF spirit and determination, and de-
clded to make up in speed and
agility what they lacked in weight
and experience. They got the jump
on the locals right at the start of
the game and scored two clean field
goals almost before the crowd real
lied the game had started. Prince
ton seemed unable to follow or locate
their lighter opponents in the first
minute or two of play, but this soon
wore off and the local machine soon
started its scoring and, in the first
five minutes of play, had overcome
the opening lead of the South Siders
and scored enough points besides to
give a comfortable lead, and left
little doubt in the minds of the
spectators as to whom would be re-
turned victors in the contest.
In tine first half Smith, playing
right forward for Princeton, did
some deadly basket shooting and
succeeded in dropping the ball in
the visitors basket with startling
regularity. Vondemier and Heinz,
at left forward and center, respec-
lively, also sandwiched in basket
oecaai onally, although the bulk of
their work in this half was getting
the Gall to Smithie, who played a
waiting. game directly under the
South Side goal. In this half the
visitors showed strong tendency to
leave their goal unprotected and all
rushed down the floor in attempts to
score on their opponents. FIRE.
quently the whole South Side quint
would be down around the Princeton
basket, and so when the Princeton
guards finally got possession of the
ball, all they had. to do was to heave
it down to the waiting Princeton
forwards, and they would then have
an unmolested chance to score
basket.
Morton and Doane played the
guard positions for the locals and
had little difficulty in breaking up
most Of the offensive play of the
Minneapolis quint. The visitors did
fool them, however, on their ability
to shoot baskets at long range, and
this department. of the game seemed
to be their long suit, as most of
their points came from long shots
and difficult angles, where a guard
would ordinarily have the right to
presume that basket couldn't be
made from such great distance or
such difficult angle. The visitors
also played a fast passing game, but
their poor guarding more than offset
their fast passing and deadly long
distance basket shooting. At the
end of the first half the score was II
to a in favor of the home talent.
In the second half the. South Siders
changed their tactics somewhat and
played closer guarding game, pay
ing especial attention to Smith. who
had done the bulk of the Princeton
scoring in the first period. Their
close attention brought about the
desired result so far as Smith was
concerned, and he failed to register
as often in the second half as he had
done in the first. But while Smith
was keeping thesvisitors occupied in
watching him the other Princeton
ians got busy and kept the scoring up
throughout the second period of
play. The final count was 81 to 10,
and this score is a fair criterion of
the relative strength of the opposing
teams.
NOTES.
R. NJ. Cooley refereed the game to