The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-04-17
SQUARE DEAL FOR
TONOPAH GIRLS
Winnemucca, Nevada,
April 16, 1917.

We notice by the Nevada State
Journal of April 12 that the Tonopah
basketball girls are complaining that
| they have not had a fair chance in
/ the matter of the State championship
/ Well, If they have not had a square
| deal it is their own fault Both Reuo
and Winnemucca have tried by every
means conceivable to get them to play
| for the title, and they would not do IT,
What do they want? Perhaps they
wish us to give the honor to them.
They certainly have refused repeat
edly to play for it.
The facts in the case are as fol-
/ lows:
After our first victory here over the
Reno girls (score 16 to 81, on Decem-
ber 9, we wrote to Tonopah and had
a game arranged with their student
manager. Miss O'Connell, but the
game was called off" by their super
/ intendent. Mr.. Dilworth, and we have
never been able to arrange for an
other, though we have tried repeat
| edly.
! BY reference to our letter files I
note that on February % | said to
Mr.. Dilworth: Let us fix upon Satur-
/ day, March 8. as the date for the
game" etc. Again, on February "a.
I said: 81 believe we had better go
! ahead with our own plans for game
as originally intended" etc. Then,
having no reply. wired on February
/ 27: "Are you planning to play us at
Reno, as suggested in my recent 1et-
/ ter?" Again on March l / wrote: "I
suggest that we go ahead with our
original plans for the game at the
University on the basis you suggest"
Complete compliance with his own
wishes, as you see. Four efforts upon
my part within ten days, besides
others previously made by our stu
dent-manager. Frances Hoskins, and
yet no resultst And so it has gone
throughout the season. At one time
we thought they really would play
and we secured our half-fare rates,
but at the last moment they failed us
again.
Then on March 9 we played the
Reno girls in Reno. winning from
them again; and we all felt that that
should close the season, for ii was
getting very late for basketball and
| time for tennis. But Tonopah wrote
asking for a game. so we suggested
that they play Reno girls and Winnie
mucca girls and thus pay the expense
of a trip to this part of the State.
This proposal in one form or another,
was repeated several times during
the month of March. So if they have
not had opportunity to play for State
honors it is their own fault, for they
have steadily refused to do so.
Our financial offer to them was on
a "50-50" basis. That is what we
gave Reno when they came here;
that is what they gave us when we
went there and that was about the
basis of all the other games we have
played And that proposition has
never been withdrawn by us!
We kept in practice for two weeks
in the hope that they would see fit
to play, but having never had even
an answer to our last correspondence,
; the team has disbanded and we have
started tennis.
I notice they claim an unbeaten
team. But how did they do it? BY
good teams of the State, such as Reno
and Winnemucca, and confining their
; efforts to only one high school team
in the State. For by their own state.
ment, the little team at Goldfield is
the only one they have played. The
; scope of their winnings lies within a
} radius of about thirty miles and in
} cludes but one school. Ours. directly
} or indirectly, reaches from one side
of the State to the other, and includes
over ten schools.
In the last paragraph of the Ne
vada State Journal article they said
This puts the matter squarely up to
Winnemucca." We certainly feel that
the matter should be put the other
way. The matter has been put
"squarely up 10" Tonopah repeatedly
by both Winnemucca and Reno. And
was continued to the end of the sea-
son and never withdrawn.
Our girls have met every team thai
has offered itself; they have never
. Cancelled a date; they have never
missed an appointment in the entire
year; they have played away from
home as we'll as on their own court
without hesitation; and they have
outpointed their opponents almost two
to one for the entire season. We dc
not believe there is another team II
the State with a record that begins tC
equal it. Surely our girls have VIII
their laurels squarely, and they are
resting on them.
C. A. JEWELL,
| Principal Humboldt County High