Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-23
MOLINE Defeated
IN A ROUGH CAME
Rock Island High School Basket
ball Five Cleans Up Old
Rivals in Hot Contest.
FINAL COUNT IS Ie TO II
Pio~ City Boys Given Surprise Of
Their Lives at Remarkable
Showing ~ Locals

In game marked OF both sides with
unusual rougnness. the Rock Island
hiEh school basketball Eve wsiioped
the Moline quintet o. the Moline I. n
g. A gym floor last night. the mai
score being 10 20 H. AL the way
through II Was some fight
On account OF the late arrival o.
the Rock Island bunch. the contest did
not start until $3.50. The M0lineTs
forged in the lead az the start on
field goal b. Weiderquist- The Is-
ianders soon struck their stride and
b. great teamwork and agEresssvenesE
worked the ball up the floor aad under
their basket where Morris scored a
fcld basket This marked the begin
cling FOR the islanders During this
half Reeves secured three more goals
from the feld while Butter EOt one
Moline seemed unable % EuaEc dis
lance. missing many easy shots The
locals displayed champiouship form in
this period. Butler getting the jump
On bis man Weideruuisr. every time
and holding him down Co only three
field goals during the entire game
Star Guards Held.
Wefsrrpuiat aud ShallIerg. che two
uiue all trrir games were held power.
iess ty Butler ant Rinck OF OBJ" locals
Hfrcs r1sI ed sf af"Icrz Oh DTS feet and
Pep. hiu ftera making point for Dis
team Reeves played brilliant
GENE. usils GREAT headworE .l calling
bis signals. while le and Morris work
81 me bsli up and down che fcpr EEe
veteran Norris won himself .l--
lowing by uis work of last uiea-, work
jos In unity u.tH che rest uf rle squad
and making three dcid baskets. OF
witch only one was counted on ae-.
count Of fouls ceued uy the referee
lus a. tbs baskets uere made leT
u1rE OF the Rock Island guards. Gles-
sou and RincE. vas the feature Df the
contest. Molins'r two forwards. Lyons
and s1rirberz. succeeding lu mak.z-
CufF Two pol1ts between them. thet
happcu'rg ou lucEy shot bv Lyons.
lf vas easily seen from Tire ..t.lusa
thaf the Islanders had Mu'ir-'e -E0af.
the Piow city bunch pi4yiuE wild
game. TIE whistle blew for tlr first
period witl the Rock Island squad
eight points in fle Head which they
kept for the remainder % the same.
Moline Gets Laein8-
The score for tli- half was I- DO &.
Nioiiuo's being 400 made b. Weider-
luisf. uhp counted with feli coal
and Two free throw uuriu- t.e Il-
PERMISSION. the 1foilucrs were given "a !
severe IacinR by Coach slough and
.ame back In the second period with \
he determination 90 win AZ ail llz- b
irds. Twice ar many fouls we're COM
uitted iu this half by Moline as made q
he first half while the Islander com r
uitted only three fouls to their f0ur p
committed during the Grst period six
loiuts were made by Reeves and Nor
a. this period which were not counted q
.u account OF Moline foui.ue Both
cams played hard In Che last stage az q
he game. and the score for the second o.
elf resulted 90 90 3 tie.
For Moline. Welderquist. ShallbcrE l.
nd Williams played a fast and hard @,
me. and 90 was 10 three mel that 4
lost % 1iollus's good work could be
ttrlbuted. Il
Big Crowd. d.
The "Y~ sym was packed by en-
lusiastic rooters OF both teams. 40 "
ne % course having an unusually big B
-owd. and n roofing could win a u
anne. the Piow CITY boys would Ger
tiaAy nave NatNe4 AlFVAAA tle 4ptat--
here was a fairly large crowd OF
ock Islands rooters present and good 3"
brit was shown on both sides. each Ga
lcticu giving yel1s for the other bI
The result OF last nights confab vi
gain shows the Islanders disregard "a
r the dope The Rock Island root Ga
- believe that their school will val IN
D Moline In AZ branches Of athletics ne
lis year. and to date r. certainly looks a.
" this would be the ease. The form 10
own By the Islanders las; uiEht can M
. laid 10 the coaching % Coach VIII IN
sbb and TO thar % former Coach r sr
Cook before him. the locals looking ga
So champions while they worked last
enirE- The slogans which the local ca
~ have adopted arc Beat Daven- AZ
TT aud Win the State Tourna- o.