Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-03-03
LOCAL BASKET BALL
.'"@ I'D ~ TEAMS BUSY

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Each Of Three Local Teams Play
During the Past Week With
Good and Bad Results.
The three Willmar basket ball
teams played during the past week,
and some good basket ball was the
result. On Wednesday the Seminary
team journeyed to Cokato for a re-
turn game and altho defeated were In
NO manner disgraced, as the floor
space was small and slippery. On
Friday evening the high school team
defeated the St. Cloud team in this
city, making their eighth consecutive
win for the season. On Saturday eve
ming the Seminary and Cosmos teams
met in the first of a. series of games
to determine the city championship.
cokato SIS, Seminary "a.
The Seminary basket ball team
journeyed to Cokato Wednesday
for return game with the team of
that place and were defeated by a
score of IS to "a. The hall was con-
siderably smaller than the ordinary
basket ball gym. and the floor was ex-
| ceedingly slippery. Both these facts
| worked to the disadvantage of the Wis
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helpless, especially in the first half
The score at the end Of this period
was 20 to 9. The second half was a
little better, the locals scoring Is to
26 points for Cokato Nelson did the
best work for the Seminary. while G.
Peterson and H. Peterson, center and
forward respectively, starred for Co.
kato with ten baskets each. Canton,
Kanikkeberg and Tallakson each con-
nected for two field baskets while Mel.
son scored five times from the field
and he and Kanikkeberg each shot a
foul. The score:
| Seminary Cokato
Nelson .........F.. H. Peterson
Kanikkeberg ...F..... Hendrickson
Canton .........C.......C. Peterson
Tallakson .......G......R. Peterson
Christian ...G....:. Kreinbrung
Baskets: H. Peterson Q0); c. Pet.
erson (10); R. Peterson ~; Hen.
erickson (2); Nelson ~; Canton (2);
Kanikkeberg (2); Tallackson (2)
Fouls: Nelson, Kanikkeberg; H. Pet
erson, 8.
High School 43, st. Cloud 10.
On Saturday evening the St. Cloud
high school basket ball team played
the local high in this city and the re-
suit was exceedingly disastrous from
the visitors standpoint. The final
score was 43 to 10, and at no time
we're the locals headed. Had Will
mar played the article of basket ball
Of which they are capable the score
would have been a whole lot larger
but for some reason the whole team
seemed way off form. In the first place
they tried to dribble lot in the first
half, and this got them absolutely
nothing, and broke up their team work
to great extent. In the second place
they gave altogether too much atten
ton to following their men, instead
Of the ball. The team that is as fast as
the locals are, and one that has three
or four good basket shooters, as Will
mar has, should play the ball a whole
lot more and the men less. Then
there was a great deal of fighting
among each other for the ball. Time
and again two Willmar men would be
trying to take the ball away from
each other. In "charging" an oppon
ent with the ball, they have a ten
dency to overrun the man, making g
sidestep and shot easy for him. Ant
the foul shooting must be improved
upon, if they hope to get anywhere ir
a state tournament, as many fouls are
called in these championship games
A team possessing a man who car
drop the ball thru the net four time:
out Of five from the foul line is going
to make things interesting for any
body.
Severinson with ten baskets ant
three fouls, Erickson with five has
kets, Holt with three and Yarrov
with two, did the scoring for Will
mar, while Spiering, St. Clouds mid
get forward did all the scoring for hi
team. Hedberg, who was injured IL
the Litchfield game the week before
Twas unable to get in the game, ant
Yarrow substituted for him. He LEI
his man get loose quite bit in the
first half, but covered better in the
second period. tombstone was way of
color Friday evening, and Sather, vino
replaced him in the last period, had
but few shots at the basket. The
score:
Willmar St. Cloud
lSeverinson F. Spierine
tombstone F.. ......... Kendall
Erickson .......C........ Alexander
Holt C. ...... Warner
YarrOw ..G...... Ostegren
Subs: Zercler for Ostegren; Sathel
for tombstone. Basket: Severinson
(10); Erickson (5); Holt (3); Var
row (2). Spiering az. Fouls: Spier
ing, 2 out of g.; Kendall, 0 out of 2;
Severinson, out of Z. Referee, Nc
Enroe.
Alexandria Victorious.
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