Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-08
REGULARS DEFEAT
FACULTY r TO Y
Teaching Staff at High School Give,
Boys Tough Game, But They
Fail to Locate Hoop.
CONTEST IS A FINE WORKOUT
Goods OF Junior and Sophomore Class.
es Play OF Tie in Tourney,
Third Year Five Winning.
(BY BOB OLMSTED.)

In a rough-and-tum free-for-ar
affair, called by courtesy basketball
game between the faculty and the higi
school teams. the student representa-.
tives walloped their instructors yes.
terday afternoon at the close of school
by the score Of 70 to %. The juniors
and sophomore girls played out their
basketball tie of the recent interclass
tourney with the result that the Inn.
iors won a decisive victory BY. the
score of to 2.
The game between the faculty and
the school might well be called good
natured fighting, everybody indulgins
in general scramble for the ball. The
high school proved superior in the
first part of the game and, when this
became evident, the instructors gave
up all effort of winning the victory
and, instead, attempted to see what
good tussle they could give the young
er players. Coach and regular player
mixed up in general brawl, rolling
over and over on the floor and getting
fun out Of it, both for themselves and
for their delighted audience.
1t must not be supposed, however,
that the faculty was an easy team for
the locals to vanquish. The great
fault of the defeated team was lack Of
team work and practice in basket
shooting. With these essentials sup
piled, the game would have been as
fast one as it was interesting. More
over, the Islanders showed up in their
best form and besides, had some re-
markable luck in placing long baskets
RObb and Musselman Shine.
For the faculty. Robb was undoubt-
eddy the individual star, making the
majority of the points for his team
and doing some mighty fine guarding.
His dribbles from one end of the floor
to the other were feature and made
the school considerable work. Mussel-
man at forward also played a good
game and made the rest of the fac
ulty's points.
For the chool. Taber brothers at
forwards and Ackley, Heimbeck and
Anderson at guard played the stellar
games. The Tabers played up to their
best form, both their team work and
their basket shooting being of the best
The guards did some wonderfully
plucky work and were by no means
afraid of tackling some of the heavy
weights on the opposing team.
The lineups of the two teams are
as follows:
High school-Al Taber. RI; Ed Tab
er, If; Barker, c.; Ackley lg; Helm
beck, re-. observation-disclosures for
Ed Taber, Wilson for Al Taber, Thorn
as for Barker, Huber for Ackley, An.
derson for Heimbeck, Robb for An.
derson.
Faculty-Musselman. RI; Achten.
hagen, If; Anderson, C; Robb, re-;
Starr, lg. Observation-Disclosures for
Starr, Tagg for Adams.
Summary:
Field baskets-For high school, Al
Taber 9. Ed Taber 9, Dempsey 5, Bar
ker l, Huber /, Robb /, Wilson .;
for faculty, Robb s, MusseIman 2.
Foul goals-For high school, Al
Taber 2, Wilson 2; for faculty, Robb 2.
Referee-Reeves.
Girls Game Curtain. Raiser.
Just before the high school-faculty
game, the juniors and sophomore girls
basketball teams played out the tie
which was the result of their clash
with one another in the recent inter-
class tournament. The juniors won the
honor OF second place among the class
basketball teams by defeating the
sophs by the score of Z to ..
The game was a hard fought one,
the guarding of both sides being re-
sponsible for the lowness of the scores
polled. Indeed, the guarding was so
close the first half that, at tn end of
that time the score was only to l..
The latter half the game gradually be-
came faster and the juniors obtained
the lead by making field baskets,
something which the sophs were I'M
able to do.
For the juniors, "Strong-arm" Carl
son and Lou" Jens at forward and
Lizzie" Swisher at guard played the
best games. proving hard obstacles
to sophomore lead. For the sophs
Fritz" Nuessli and Marguerite Morri-
son did the best work.
The lineups were as follows:
Juniors-Myrtle Jens. ri: Melba
Carlson, If; Beth Emery, c. Elizabeth
Swisher. rg; Florence Livingston, lg.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Wiggers. RI,
rrieda Nuessli, IT, Clara Arnell G.:
Stella Reid, rg; Marguerite Morri-
son, LIZ.
Summary: Field baskets. for Jun
Tors, Jens ,, Carlson /. Foul goals for
Juniors. Carlson /; for sophomore.
Nuessli, ?.
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