The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-15
TOMORROW night
=. -. u. PLAYS THE NORMAL AT
THE NORMAL COURT.

Another treat is promised basket
ball fans when the University of
South Dakota plays the Normal five
at the Normal court tomorrow night.
The Coyotes have a great team this
season, n that has beaten practic-
ally every opponent. Yankton, con-
queror of Normal Tuesday night, fell
before the Vermillion attack, 80
to IA.
According to the Yankton players,
the university is represented by a
fast, heavy, rough outfit that hits a
fast gait from bell to bell and never
lets up ever with the balance in its
favor. The vermillionites are after
the state title this season and do not
propose to lose a single game.
Normal is again going out of its
class in meeting the university team
and does not expect to win, although
the players are confident of a respect
| able showing. The team displays
daily Improvement and is just begin
ming to find itself. The Coyotes will
win, but they have the assurance that
effort will be expended to accom-
plish 1t.
Censorship is being directed
against the Normal management for
the teams losing so many games.
That is decidedly unfair. The man
agement Is trying to give the people
of Madison the best basket ball pos
sible and in so doing Is ready to ac-
cept defeats. because Ii is far more
honorable to lose to a first class team
than to win over a weak one.
Nothing will be gained by taking
on the lighter higher school teams
and registering easy victories for
condemnation from the sporting pub
lie at large would result. 1t would
say, They ought to beat a bunch of
high school kids. Let EN- beat a few
real teams" And this same public.
when the Normal loses to a good
team, Is willing to say The Normals
did well In holding 'em."
The North Dakota Aggies, while
they made Normal the goat, pleased
, the real sportsmen In the audience by
their great exhibition of playing. and
IL they come TO Madison again, they
will be assured of a crowd even IL
the Normal Is certain TO be beaten.
Real sport Is what the followers of
; the game want, even If the home
team is decisively beaten.
They are willing TO pay real money
to see a real team in action. but you
could not get a %corporal's guard TO
walk up Egan venue If the Normal
persisted in bringing in weak teams
that were easy to defeat. And the
Normal would receive no more recog-
milton from the state colleges because
II had not performed enough real
athletic feats to warrant considera-
= ton.
In bringing the university team
here, the management is simply try
ing to give local fans an opportunity
TO see the famous Coyotes in action
! without forcing them to travel to
/, Vermillion or Sioux Falls. III the
Normal was trying for victories alone
the university quintet would be the
last one to be asked for a game.
If Madison fans want to see the
best teams in the state appear here
they must cease their unfair criticism
and be content to watch the Normal
taste defeat. OF course overwhelm-
ing victories over Normal are dis.
tasteful, but better see a good team
than no teams at all. The assertion
that the Normal undertakes too am
expense for such is more than the
city and the students are able te
meet, yet the Normal will gain moth
ing by playing the high school ane
state normal teams alone; 1t mus
reach out to get recognition.
= Saturday night the high schoo
:, girls and boys take on the two quin
tets from Canton in a double header
at the high school court. Cantor
boys are strong and will make thu
Madisonians step every minute Il
win, but the girls team is not rated
as powerful enough to down the loca
misses.
: Two games between the Norma
and the high school boys team
would make a fitting finish to thu
local season. Many of the Norma
! players have expressed a willingness.
to meet the high school and a few
of the latter team have expressed
themselves the same way. The man
agements should get together and ar
range a series which would provide
for a third game, IL necessary.