The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-01-20
MIN0T WINS FROM
LOCAL QuIN1
One of The Nest Sensational Games
Ever Seen In tho Magic City,
According 70 Report.

Minot Optic Reporter: Botti-
neau lived up to her advance
and gave the Minot
quint great fight in the game
last night at Central school.
The final score was 1915 in
favor of the locals and at no
time did one team lead their
opponents by more than four
points.
1t was with a feeling of relief
on the part of the large crowd
present when the timekeepers'
whistle announced the close,
for the game, throughout, kept
the spectators in a frenzy of
The ball would
be worked from one end of the
floor to the other with lightn-
ing speed only to be gained by
the opposing guards and car
ried back. Neither team was
able to get many shots, so
tight was the guarding and a
large part of the chances OBJ
tained were missed because
they had to be hurried.
Credit should be given the
visitors for excelling the locals
in floor work, their passing be-
ing more accurate and handl-
ing the ball somewhat cleaner.
But this slight advantage
on the part of the visitors was
more than Offset by the close
guarding of Nichols and Sher-
man. To their defensive work
goes considerable of the credit
for the victory of the locals for
Bottineau's team work was a
hard matter to break up. The
guarding of the Bottineau
backs was also of the tight
kind for any pair of guards that
can hold two forwards like
Hayes and jacobson to five
baskets throughout game are
certainly in the contest should
ers deep.
Bottineau's forwards, Vikan
and Gorder, made all the visit
ors' field baskets, Vikan with
two and Gorder with four. Civ
ing the losers twelve of their
fifteen points. Some idea of
this part is shown by the fact
that these two outscored Mi
not's forwards and local en-
thusiasts are accustomed to re-
gard Hayes and jacobson as the
bes, pair of forwards in this
neck of the woods. Ruelle
made the visitors remaining
points from the foul line.
Some idea of the speed of the
contest may be had from the
fact that during the first ten
seconds of play the ball was
worked back and forth the
length of the floor twice and
each team had taken shot at
the basket without result.
After two minutes of play
Ruelle made the first score in
a shot from the foul line and
some four minutes later Hayes
put Minot in the lead with a
field basket. Sherman follow
ed this up with a foul and a
shot from field by Vikan even
ed the score again. Bottineau
soon took the lead on shot by
Gorder but Minot on a shot by
Hayes and two fouls goals by
Sherman had increased their
total to seven. At the end of
the half the visitors were going
strong and shortly before time
Gorder had tied the score with
a shot from field. The half
ended with a score of ~.
Both teams came back strong
in the second half. Soon after
play began jacobson by a shot
from field had again put the
locals in the lead and from this
position the locals were never
thereafter dislodged. But al
ways a shot by Vikan or Gorder
would cut Minot's 8 lead of three
or four down to one or two and
then back it would go to three
or four points on basket BY
either Lynch, jacobson 81
Hayes. The last three or four
minutes Of this half found the
visitors working desperately to
overcome the locale lead but
close guarding on Minot's part
kept them from scoring.
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