Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-11
TOSSERS STAGE
SWIFT CONTESTS
Stanton Upsets Dope by Beating
Bethany and Getting Into
B Semi Finals.
HOT BATTLES IN THE C CLASS


LINCOLN March 1o.--(speoial. )-ciass
A teams in the state basket ball tourna-
ment which opened here yesterday, had
their first rest today from the grind OF
preliminary games, which, owing TO the
equal strength Of the fives. proved to
DO a serious test.
The Omaha. Lincoln. Beatrice and Crete
fives. which won places In the semi
finals. spent the day quietly IN their
rooms and did not attend the tournament
for the Class b and class C games,
which continued this morning Dope
favors Omaha 20 win easily from Beat
rice In the semi-finais, while Crete and
Lincoln are evenly matched. Either OF
the two teams would force the Central
High five 70 play the best basket ball
In the finals Saturday night to cop the
championship.
Coach Muiligan II fairly confident his
five will land first honors in the Glass A
division. The University Place game
was the stlffest one we expected TO en-
counter. and when we weathered through
IL. We felt we had the hardest part OF
the road covered" he said.
stanton Upsets Dope.
Stanton by It's defeat OF Bethany this
afternoon. upset the dope and won its
right 70 enter tho Class B semi-finals.
The Bethany five had played splendid
basket ball against all OF It's other OPP
ponents during the tournament. and had
expected TO be one Of the final teams to
play Saturday night. stanton hoped
into the lead at the start and kept peg
cling away with such success that they
were never headed Tho final score in
the stanton-I,ethany game was. Ie 70 Q. In
favor OF Stanton. A. a result OF stan
toms victory. II Is now regarded as the
most likely bet for the Class y honors.
Leaders in Glass n.
Stanton, Arlington. Schuyler ana Min
den qualified for the scml-fInais In class
,. following the third round played thla
afternoon.
stanton and Arlington had an easy
ttme Of It with bethany and Fullerton.
but Schuyler and Mlnden encountered
stronger opposition. Arlington merely
rompcd away with Fullerton. Is to s. The
schuyler-Minden game was much harder
fought with close guarding keeping down
the score Minden and Grand Island had
a acrsppy battle, with Minden finally
oncrsing on the long end Of the score.
~ 70 0.
CIaas n scores.
Following are the results IN the class
b play:
stanton. 49, bethany, 8
Arlington, Is; Fullerton, &
schuyler. 3: <enesaw. q
Minoen, IL; Grand Island, g.
A mistake Of the scorekeeper in giving
a goal to the wrong team put the Omaha
liieh School OF Commerce out OF the
running IN the class c division When
The mistake was discovered tho Omaha
fiyo was allowed to enter again and cele-
brated lis return by drubbing osmond
ono point IN hard-topeht game. only
10 lose later In the afternoon BY the sams
margin to the big Dunbar team.
Class G scores. ts
Following are the results OF Glass {
games played today. &
Dunbar. Is; Palisade. ia
Wahoo. s; Tilden. 8
Humboldt, 22; fialmaee, 0.
Wausa. %; Henderson, 2
IndianOla. 10; Battle Greek, 7.
Valparaiso. 10. Geneva. q
Dunbar. 49, Palisade, Is.
Omaha school OF Commerce. 40; o.
mond. o.
Ravonna, 10; wahoo. 3.
Genoa. 10; lndianola, 8.
Dunbar. 10; Omaha School OF Com
Enfrce. i2
Humboldt, q; wausa. 4.
ThursdRy'H scores.
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