The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-03-08


GAMES TO LAS VEGAS
The boys and girls basket ball ag-
gregations from the High school went
to Las Vegas last week and played
four games in that city, two with the
High school and two with the Normal
boys and girls. Both teams lost to
Vegas Friday night by small mar
gin, the boys 33 TO 90, the girls 10 to
l6. The Las Vegas Optic has the fol-
lowing to say about the games Satur-
day night:
Tucumcari broke even here Satur-
! day night, the girls winning over the
Normal girls and the boys losing to
the High School. The girls score
WIS Is to "a, and the boys 26 to AZ.
The Normal girls played an excel
lent game, and while they were de-
feated, it was not because the Tucum-
carl girls had anything or them. At
the end of the first half the Normals
were in the lead, and during the first
part Of the second they held their
own. But for two or three minutes
the teachers slackened perceptibly
and ceased to play with the aggres-
siveness that marked the first part
of the game. Although their defense
could have stopped Tucumcari Sat-
urday night.
Campbell and Tarpley, Tucumcari
forwards, threw goals from every an
gle, and it was the consistent guard
ing Of Guards Parnel and Blattman
that kept the score down as low as
it was. Friday night against the
. High School, Tarpley was Tucumcari's
star, throwing more field goals than
her partner, Campbell. But Satur-
day night, Captain Campbell threw
six field goals and Tarpley threw five
and two fouls.
Every player on both teams was
in the game all the time Saturday
night, and the game was said by
many to be the fastest girls game
played this season. Lena Lanston
and Mamie Smith, Vegas forwards,
passed the ball from one to the other
with great accuracy, and the centers,
Ida Harper and Harriet Tooker, were
always where the ball was. Nellie
Parnell and Emily Blattman, as
guards, did some fancy work and
kept the ball out Of Tucumcari's bas-
ket when anyone else would have Civ
en- up. For Tucrmcari, Steckman
and Emler as centers, and DeOliviera
and Gentry as guards, showed classy
playing.
The defeat Of the Normal by Tucum-
carl Saturday night did not mean in
any sense that the Normal girls are
not ball tossers, for had they played
in any other manner, Tucumcari
would have piled up a disgraceful
score against them. 1t was defeat,
but not bitter, because, until the blow
ing of the last whistle, no one knew
to which side the game belonged.
Miss Wilhemy and Coach Wesson, of
Tucumcari alternated as referee and
umpire.
In the boys game, the High school
ers started off slow, playing defen-
sive entirely, but within few min
utes, after Tucumcari had made the
first score on foul, the locals gath
cred themselves together and played
rs they never did before. At the end
of the first half Tucumcari had scored
but nine points, against the High
schools "a. In the second half the
High school made Is points and Tu-
cumcari scored II. Cparence and
George Hite, the High school for
wards, played together with their
usual brilliancy, and to them went
most of the honor for making bas-
kets, but Billy Hayden at center and
Neafus and Palmer as guards, deserve
credit for brilliant PLAYING The team
work of the High school was big
factor in winning the game. 1t was
seldom that the High school did not
get the ball from the center, as a re-
suit Of their signals. Tucumcari, how
ever, succeeded in breaking up the
plays of the High school to a great
extent, and their inaccurracy in throw.
ing baskets from the field kept their
! score down. However, there was not
} n moment during which the game did
, not belong TO the Vegas team.
r. c. Bonney, the High school coach
and manager, put out a team this
, year that has won every game or
the home floor, and that has lost only
by small margins, when II has lost
away from home.
Captain Fausnacht and Shaft, Tu,
!umcari forwards, are players who viii
be remembered as out Of the ordin
AIRY. Fausnacht's accuracy in throw
ing fouls caused much favorable com
ment here. Cusack, the Tucumcari
center, played better game Satur
day night than he did Friday. II,
made several grand stand throws fol
the basket, and while not all of then
, were successful, they We're neal
, enough to make Vegas rooters hol,
! their breaths. Jacobs, a big, heavy
2 set fellow. played guard against Clar
3 ence Hite, but his extra weight coulC
: not keep Vegas star away from tn