White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-31
East Ely Wins
At Basketball
SPEEDY WORK ON THE PART OF
RAILROADERS . IN SECOND
HALF RESULTS IN HUMBLING
OF STARS FROM COUNTY SEAT

Little else has been talked about
in athletic circles since the unknown
hopefuls from the railroad town
fighting for and snatching every op-
portunity. succeeded In bringing grief
to the crack quintet from the city of
courthouses in bitterly waged
struggle due to an excessively torrid
chili-con-carne finish which the game
had toward the rear end of 1t. The
fna1 score was 81 to 81. The game
was played at the county high school.
East Ely's victory came In the sec
ond period of the clash. The hoop
ers from the metropolis were az
biithe and gay as any gazelle that
ever bounded over the lea when hos
tilities we're resumed, the score being
q to IL. with Ely In possession of
said 81 This part OF the game prov
ed all that 1t assumed to be full of
life and funny enough to even make
man from Philadelphia laugh.
Then the unexpected happened. The
moving panorama of ten men in ae-
ton tells a unique story, fraught with
fear on the part of the we'll trained
crew from Ely and with ecstacy by
the enemy who were slowly oyercom-
ing the tremendous lead that their
adyersarias gained during the first
half of the contest The encounter
at first resembled the see-saw of song
and story. but speed. accuracy and
teamwork began to tell until the jew
els from East Ely began to outdis-
tance the select crowd. When the
tailenders started TO sprint, the sway
ing score sheet began to register
more points for the strangers and
they were in command by 10 points
before any realized that their squirt
had brought victory in its wake
Ely seemed to be suffering from
NAL de mere and what caused them
to lose interest Ia life SO suddenly is
not known. Now their fame and
glory is swept into the memories of
an irreyoeable past. and the quintet
have the buoyant air of men who ex-
pect to be electrocuted next March.
They have dropped all championship
aspirations. and are murmuring un-
der their breaths Please send us TO
Poland where the fighting is the
thickest and give us wooden gun"
Long. lean and lanky. an animated
bean pole. capable of thinking, quick
as flash on his spindle like legs. and
arms that work like piston rods
that's Birge. the hero of the even
ing's encounter. A head which is fill
commonly called brains tops a long
fraii body: but the frail body is one
of the deceptive things about Birge.
Though he looks like he might have
to drop anchor from the windward
side in order to keep from blowing
away he has a strength in those lean
itSS anu dlihs " Hftu SttifS W ne Won
derful. Early In the game he began
to cut lose with the real Grimm fairy
tale stuff Birge had Villa of
time. He shattered the record for
making baskets bisecting the rim on
twelve different occasions with long
and short distance heaves.
With the two auintets fighting to
the final ditch interest in basketball
has become extremely keen and en-
thusiasm has been famed 10 holo-
caust. Other forms of amusement alb
sorb the undergraduates no longer
The game was marked by its clean
ness and lack of unnecessary rough
play
The teams lined up as follows:
Ely Brinton. center; Wetherbee.
forward; Peters. forward; Zobernick.
guard; Doughty. guard; Mcdonald.
guard.
East Ely Birge, center: Doughty.
forward, King. forward; Ford. for
ward; Sullivan, guard: Carroll guard
w. A. Terry. referee.