Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-04-08

Captain Casey and other Mountain
Home basketball players returned
from Caldwell Sunday with the State
Championship pelt hanging to their
waist lines. The local boys had de-
| feated Payette Saturday might for
the state honors by margin of one
point, fact which all the more justi-
fies the boys for playing Payette.
Before going some people thought it
ludicrous to take ON the boys from
Canyon county in-as-much as the lat
ter had suffered one defeat on the
| local floor, but the players knew
otherwise for they realized that Pay
ette ran up bigger score on our
floor than any other team had done
for three years, and they also were
aware that they had more than doub-
led the score on all other teams this
year but not on Payette. So the play
ers were not so 'starchy' when the
1928 train pulled out Saturday to car
ry them to face the little giants from
the lower country.
I At 8:45 Referee Chase, blew his
whistle for the fracas, and through
out the game his work was perfectly
satisfactory to both teams. Our lads
started with whirl-wind, scoring four
points before the Payette boys got
any, but very soon Shafer located the
basket well enough to overtake our
fellows, which put his team in the
lead at the end of the first halt by
a score of Z to 6. During the sec
ond half it was a see-saw with
neither team more than four points
ahead at any time. With the last
three minutes of play Mountain
Home took the lead which Payette
came near heading off, but lacked the
necessary point. During the first
half the local lads were over-anxious
and were fouled frequently, but in
the last frame Payette was the Of
fender more often in this respect.
Mountain Home made seven and
Payette six field goals; Payette threw
twelve free throws out of twenty-four
and Mountain Home eleven out OF
tWenty.seven. In the first half Pay
ette excelled in free throws and
Mountain Home in field goals in
the second half Mountain Home with
Tye, excelled in free throws while
Payette with the accurate eye of
Center Goodwin eEened up in field
goals. Goodwin's work was the most
sensational of all the players for
he got five of Payette's six field
goals; he stuck them into the ring
from all angles. Miller had it on
him at center most of the time and
netted two baskets and played
great defensive game. Casey played
in good form ON the floor but was
not up to his standard in free |
throws so he turned his work over
to Tye who, during the last half, |
threw eight out of twelve chances.
Ottenheimer, with weak ankle, was
a tower on the defense and stayed
the whole game although 1t was
evident he suffered considerably. |
Wyatt got three field goals in the
last half and protected his goal per.
fectly at the same time.
Both teams were strong on defense.
Casey made two field goals but the
other three forwards went scoreless.
Mountain Homes guards did not allow
their opponents to make a single
basket. Wood guard for Payette,
slipped one in from the center line.
Each man on the local team out
weighed his opponent. Our team
must have had the best in this re-
3pect by ten or fifteen pounds to
he man. But those little chaps GER
ainly did spread out over the floor
and came so near getting the game
that it isn't anything to chirp about.
There is no doubt but that Payette Is
the fastest, cleanest and best team
that Mountain Home has met this