New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-22
FACULTY TEAM WINS $50.
Close and Exciting Game Featured
by Unique Decorations and Class
sic Stage Setting.

Oy unique DECORATIONS anu NAdS.
sic Stage Setting.
The Near-Faculty basketball team,
composed of four teachers and several
other players who are below grade, won
a decided moral victory over the Zoegling
Seconds last Wednesday night at the
High School Gym. The game was
tremendously planned and executed
from start to finish. jeff Irrgang, the
physical giant of the school, refereed the
the slaughter until lack of enthusiasm
forced him to desist; he performed in a
very creditable manner, but his injuries
are not expected to be fatal. The
Zoeglings put up a hard fight but they
were entirely outclassed by the more
exhuberant poetic imagination of the
"schoolmarms" They showed a very
sober and serious attitude toward the
superhuman task which was set before
them, and this contrasted strangely with
the rest of the landscape.
To Lord Algernon Hutson, a member
of the British Peerage, who played right
guard for the faculty team, should be
given the credit for a carefully planned
and masterfully executed climax. With
wonderful finesse he waited until his
expectant admirers were thoroly aroused
and then perpetrated basket from tie
middle of the floor. The over-exact
referee objected to this as three cushion
shot, but he was finally overruled and the
score was allowed to stand. In the
meanwhile Mr.. Hutson had tainted and
was being brought back by the efforts of
the attending physicians.
The faculty team made their dramatic
entrance three minutes before the game
started. They were received with vo-
ciferous cheers. Not content with their
normal attributes of beauty, the whole
team had adorned itself with green
sashes and ribbons; the only discordant
notes in this color harmony were the
yellow suspenders which Mr.. Hutson
used to sustain his knickerbockers and
the scarlet band which surrounded Mr..
Kerzek's dome.
Ernest Schleuder led the parade,
playing the Dead March of Saul on a
bugle. He was followed by Referee Irr-
gang carrying a selection from a pipe
organ which was to officiate as referees
whistle, then by Timekeeper Viergever
with Big Ben alarm clock, then by
Ludwig Hofmeister who acted as chief
physician and surgeon, then by the team
led by Armin Goedtke, the diminutive
representative of the Freshman class.
Their reception by the spectators was
awe-inspiring. Armin Goedtke made
the first basket, and then the game
started.
The first half was nip and tuck affair
resulting in tie Of SO. After the first
basket which the Zoeglings made, Hut
son promptly tainted. Doctors Schleu-
der and Hofmeister performed the
operation on him with a chisel and
mallet, pumped wind into him with a
bicycle pump, and then powdered his
face, and combed his hair with a saw.
Olson scored once for the faculty and
Kierzek three times during that half; the
fact that the man who made basket
was promptly awarded a spoonful of
Mellen's Food by an impartial jury was
without doubt the cause for this wonder
full showing.
Between halves some of the Senior
G rls, dressed as nurses to harmonic
with the rest of the scenery, served tea
and waters to the faculty players. George
Mayors excruciating efforts at cheer
leading we're beginning to bear fruit
about this time, so that the frantic yells
Of the faculty could readily be dis
above the sizzling of the
radiators.
The second half was desperate battle
for slight advantage; it was featured by
Mr.. Haynes approximation of the swan
dive at his opponent and Mr.. Kierzek's
attempts to indent the southern wall OF
the gymnasium with the heads of his
guards. The repeated doses of Mellen's
Food were beginning to take effect also
so that in the last quarter the Faculty !
players is desperate squirt, Gagged
several baskets in succession and secured
a slight lead of five points. The royal
travesty ended with score of $3.50, in
favor of the Faculty. Even T. Schei-
derich admitted that in the palmiest days
of New Ulm sport such desperate play
ing was seldom seen.
Both Hutson and Haynes played a
splendid game at the guard POSITIONS
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