Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-02-23

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A hard fought game of basket ball
last Saturday evening, in the high
school gym resulted in a victory for
Willmar over Litchfield, the score be-
Ing 80 to 10. There seemed to be
something radically wrong with the
machine like precision, with which
the local team is wont to work, but it
was rather the vast improvement in
the play of the Litchfield team, than
poor playing by the local boys. They
lacked the necessary pep" however.
and played a lifeless game, with the
exception of the first five minutes of
each half.
Litchf1eld entered the game instruct.
ed to keep Severinson from gaining
possession of the ball, and Ryan, with
the aid of Dart, saw to it that this or
der was carried out. They were
little off on their figuring there, tho,
as Erickson with eight and Bob John
son with six baskets counted enough
points to win the game. The first
half found Willmar jumping into the
lead, and running up a score of 16 to
6, before Litchfield got fairly started.
Then, however, Willmar slumped, and
the visitors added to their score, I'M
til it stood IS to II at the end Of the
half. A little shift in the tactics of
the local teams defensive play in the
second half, worked like charm,
with the result that Litchfeld count
ed but one field basket. Limperich
and Osmundson broke up many plays,
the former in particular intercepting
pass after pass, and keeping the ball
under the Willmar basket.
For Litchfield Dart was the indiv-
idual star, playing a good game OIL
both offensive and defensive.
The score:
Johnson ...F............ Dart
stevenson .F....... Hammer
Erickson .........C. ........ Kruger
Osmundson ......G..... Christensen
L1mperich .G.......... Ryan
Baskets: Erickson 8; Johnson 6;
Severinson 2; Osmundson 2. Ham
mer 3; Kruger Q; Dart 2. Fouls:
Erickson, four out of six; Dart, five
out of five. Officials, Amidon and
Hengstler.
That the Seminary basket ball team
lost to Belview some time ago, seems
utterly impossible after watching the
exhibition put up by the team last
Friday evening. In this game the
Seminary took the lead in the first
ten seconds and we're never headed
The local bunch outclassed their op-
ponests at every turn, and were SEEM
ingly able to shoot baskets whenever
they so desired. Norling in particular
had a lot of points in his system, which
he disgorged for the benefit of the
crowd, caging the ball only thirteen
times during the melee. Canton shot
seven, Kanikkeberg six, Gordhamer
two and Christian two baskets from
the field. In addition the latter man
shot two fouls. Fish of the visitors
shot eight baskets. and he might just
as we'll have had at least that many
more, for all the good he did to his
team, never going beyond the foul
line. That may be basket ball, but
we can't see it that way in this day
and age. One fault stood out very
strongly in the work Of the Seminary,
dribbling. Kanikkeberg and Chris
tian, time after time sacrificed team
work that they might dribble the
length of the floor and shoot. The
score:
Canton ..........F. ........ MOnSOn
GOrdhamer F.. .......... Fish
Norling ..........C..... "A. Nelson
Kanikkeberg C. ........ MOlger
Christian ....... G. 20. Nelson
Baskets: Norlng 10; Canton z;
Kanikkeberg g.; Gordhamer 2; Chris
tian 2. Fish 8; A. Nelson 2. Fouls:
Christian 2; A. Nelson 5. Referee,
Harsted.
The Dassel high school basket ball
team will postpone their visit to
Mortified for this year at least. They
met the Willmar team on the local
floor Saturday evening the latter it,
orally "ate 'em up alive" The final
score was somewhere around 52-14.
The truth of the matter was that the
locals were very much Outclassed and
have nothing to cry over the showing
that they made against worthy op-
ponent- Willmar has not been de-
feated for two seasons and are faster
than chain lightning in handling the
ball. They are gentlemanly lot and
do not seem to be in the least con-
ceited over their fine showing of the
past two seasons. The game did our
team lot of good in more ways than
one, altho it is hard to see them go
down to defeat under any circum-
stances. The Willmar team members
gave some of our team great credit
for individual play, stating that they
were easily the best that they had en-
countered for a long time. This may
be the last game on the home floor
unless other teams not already dated