The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-01-20

Ration had large well-trained team
Of boys and for n time the home boys
were not so sure whether they world
come out victorious or not. The team
work was far better than usual aud
Fausnncht played star game at
guard and IL is said his forward did
not throw a goal, while Fausnacht
succeeded in caging two. Gentry had
a hard man to hold and only two or
three times did he succeed in worl.ing
away from his guarding although the
boy from Rator lowered head aiJ
shoulders above Gentry. jackson and
Wharton played their usual star pame
and were there at all times ready to
meet their opponent, AMI threw bas-
ket after basket, being responsible fer
mest of the scores of the home tenn
n:nn was better taa1 ualial and see
cecded in throwing several goals. The
Visitors were fast and well drilled in
passing the ball from one to the other
and carrying IL across the field toward
their goal but could not find the
basket when the opportunity present
ed itself, but every man on the team
was in the game all the time fr IN
the beginning to the end and the home
boys earned every score they secured
Although the home team won by IL
goodly margin of o points, il looked
like IL was 'anybodys' game until the
final whistle blew calling time for
the finish of the last half
The standing Of the score at the
end showed Tucumcari had 28 while
Ration had but 10.
The following night. the greatly her
aided teams of Portales arrived with
victory as their watchword, and when
the Tucumcari fans saw the Portales
girls they felt the same way. II is
evident that Roosevelt county does
not only raise the largest agricultural
products of the state but she also has
a banner crop Of great big young la
dies IL all the rest down that way are
as large as the samples sent up here
TO play our little girls. We thought
one or two in Tucumcari's team were
pretty fair size, but they looked like
migets when they lined up for the first
game and this alone shows they had
nerve to tackle the Job
The first half was fast but Portales
out-played the local team and took a
good lead. Tucumcari forwards had
little chance to try for goals as the
ball was in Portales territory most of
the time. and those forwards from the
capital city of Roosevelt could certain
ly put the ball in the basket.
Tucumcari shifted her lineup for
the second half and il looked like Por-
tales was in for a beating after all.
The Portales coach who was referee
ing, evidently thought the same way.
After cautioning the local team for
overgarding, she was blind to the fact
that Portales guards were fouling at
every time the Tucumcari forwards !
tried for a goal. They not only push
cd and interfered but they would de-
liberately knock the ball out of our
forwards hands. Those along the side |
line protested but their protests were
unheeded and the game ended with |
Portales holding about the same lead |
they secured in the first half, defeat
ing Tucumcari by IL points, the score |
standing IL to 20.
Those girls are basketeers and 1t
was no dishonor to let team of that |
kind win, but its not fair to let one |
team play by the boys rules and make
the other play by the girls rules.
The boys from Portales undoubted-
ly learned quite "A bit about the game |
when they mixed things with the Tu-
cumcari boys. The first half was very |
tame because the referee was trying |
TO make the boys play u ladies game,
hut the second half there was some
thing doing all the time and the bali |
travelled SO fast the spectators could |
hardly see il. Tucumcari'S center, |
Clyde Jackson, would throw the ball |
from one side Of the court 60 the 9TH
er and when things quieted down for
second, he still had the ball, He
played the fastest and best game of
any man on the floor, although during |
the last half the home team played
like clock works, but did not take time
when trying for goal therefore miss
ed time and again when It looked like
sure goal. On of the most amusing |
events of the evening was the play |
ing of Jacobs as guard. He is pow
erfully built young man and all Ell
forts TO take the ball away from him
were of no avail. lie east his oppo-
nents aside as though they were mere
babes and, threw the ball wherever he
pleased, except in the basket, but he
recovered the ball from the opponents
and the forward who played against
him was surely glad TO hear time call
cd in the last half. Jacobs did not
pay much attention TO anything but
the ball and did not use rough tactics
only such as a broncho would use to
free itself from "A would-be rider, and
this Is what happened several times
when the Portales men would try to !
block Jacobs from throwing the hall.
During the first half Portales made
IL points, only throwing one goal, the
others were made on free throws. In
the second the visitors succeeded in !
caging Ave goals from the field and