The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-19
MADISON Wins BOTH
CANTON is DECISIVELY WHIP
PED IN DOUBLE HEADER
SATURDAY NIGHT.

After playing the Madison high
school basket ball team nearly even
for three-fourths of the game at the
high school gym Saturday night, Can
toms defense broke down in the final
five minutes of play and the locals
finished in front by a wide margin.
The score was 2S to IL. Fast, hard,
clean play featured throughout.
Canton put up a brilliant defense
in the first half while Madison. al
though playing fair ball in places,
lacked consistency as the team fun
bled when opportunities to score pre-
scented themselves and a number of
perfectly good passes were fooled
through the slowness of the man OF
the receiving end.
Elfert's band were up to the bas-
ket often enough TO score twenty
times, but missed easy shots right
under the net, or hesitated long
enough for the visiting guards to
spoil the throws. Yet, after much
hectic effort, the Center street tribe
managed to emerge at the whistle
with the count 10 to S in its favor.
Poorer shooting by the enemy alone
saved Madison in this period.
1t was different in the second SEES
sion. From the whistle Madison
played much better ball than in the
preceding period, but did not all pull
together until the before mentioned
final five minutes when the rapidity
of its general play, backed by ac-
curate basket tossing finally changed
a good showing into a rout for Can
ton.
The local youths played a four and
five man defense against the enemy
which was hard to penetrate. the for
mer, in this respect, presenting the
best display in this department of the
game they have rendered all season.
In this half the only field goals reg
istered by the opposing quintet were
two long range shots from hard
angles.
When Canton did break through
the Madison wall, ii was unable to
negotiate with the basket even at
short range so quick was the Madi-
son recovery and so close and hard
was the guarding. Practically every
easy chance the C%antonians had was
missed and the Madison crowd Sc
cured possession of the ball every
time and got 1t away from the dan
ger zone in rapid order.
Play was so fast. hard and fierce
that both teams were compelled to
insert substitutes in this half, but
the influx of new blood only served
10 make the battle faster. There
was hardly a let up throughout the
game. Once time was taken out to
allow Capt. Ellefson, of Canton, to
have his wrist pulled back into joint
after il was thrown out by a hard
fall.
Two long range shots by Ellefson
and Stanley, of Canton, served i'm this
period to vary the monotony of a
conventional hard game. Both were
brilliant tries that won applause from
friend and foe alike. Stanley also
made a difficult shot in the first half
which nearly pulled his team up TO
within striking distance of Madison.
In the early minutes of the first
half. the Madisonians secured a three
point lead which Canton could not
overcome. although there were stages
of the game when ii seemed almost
certain the visiting boys would over
haul the locals and take the front
position. That this calamity did not
happen was due to the brilliant de-
Tense of the second period.
Saturday nights victory marked
the fifth straight victory in six starts
for Madison. Flandr6au will be met
at Flandreau next Friday night. The
game with the Flandreau Indians at
Flandreau has been cancelled.
How they fought: