The Redwood gazette., 1917-03-14
Redwood Defeats
Morgan's fast Team
Basket Ball Fans See Classy
Game on Armory Floor
Friday Night
SCORE 16 TO %
Best Exhibition Seen on Local
Field During Entire Season;
Large Crowd Present


ket ball seen on the local floor
for many day the fast Morgan
High School team last Friday
night went down to defeat un-
der the rush of the Redwood
High School team with score
of 16 to %. Compared with this
| game for real basket ball skill
the Franklin game of March 2
was an amateur affair. Thrills
were a-plenty at the long shots
and splendid guarding of the 10
cal boys.
The game started promptly at
eight twenty-five. Redwood
started in with a rush deter
mined to wipe out the 81 to 8
defeat which they suffered at
Morgan just one month before.
Morgan. succeeded in getting the
first basket. The ball was put
in play again at center and the
fans then saw an exhibition of
real basket ball. The Morgan
forwards were so closely guard
ed by Winter and Mckay, the
clever Redwood guards, that
they had no opportunity to shoot
for baskets. The ball was kept
in Morgan's territory most OF
the first half, and by good shoot
ing by Darrell and Welch, the
Redwood forwards, the local
BOYS succeeded in running up a
total of 10 punts to Morgan's
six at the end of the first half.
Second Half
The second half was nobody's
game. Three times the score
was tied. On free throw by
Darrell Redwood raised their
points to II, but were dogged
by the Morgan aggregation with
an addition of three points to
their score by field basket and
a free throw. This gave Nor
gan a chance to tie the score
with field basket and within
the next few minutes they sue
ceeded in doing this. Spirit ran
high. Fans whooped and yelled
and crowded close to the side
lines. Morgan, with victory in
sight, fought desperately. Red
wood bucked up and drew ahead
by a field basket, but failed to
increase their lead by failing on
a zee throw. Then Morgan
with fine exhibition of team
work tied the score for the sec.
ond time.
With the score at 13 to 13
Redwood plunged in to win. The
bail was rushed to Redwood's S
basket. In the scramble Al
berts' got it near the middle of
the floor and with one of his
characteristics left handlers
speared the ring for a perfect
basket. Morgan failed later on
foul but tied for the third time
immediately after a field basket,
making the score Is to Is. From
then onthe gamewas Redwoods.
The Morgan forwards were
rushed off their feet and had no
chance to score, while the Red
wood forwards evaded their
guards and scored Z more points.
Morgan got one more point on
free throw, making the score
at the end of the game 16 to %
with Redwood on the long end.
Classy Work
There were no stars in the
game. AS whole it was the
classiest bit of basket ball ever
staged on the local floor, with
every man on the job every min
ute of play. Alberts at center
was at his best. He got the ball
nearly every time on the jump
and kept his man busy following
him the rest of the time. Dar-
rell and Welch played an A No.
/ game at forward. But the
Morgan scoring machine was
most seriously hampered by the
excellent guarding of Winter
and Mckay. Mckay pulled a
boner by throwing the ball
through the open window dur
ing the first half, but later re-
trieved himself by making a
basket off his forward.
This score represents the rela-
Z tive strength Of the two teams
much better than the lop-sided
score of tha game at MORGAN