The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
BASKETBALL TO
Be LIVE SPORT
In TWIN CITIES.
COMING SEASON
Five Of Six Schools Defin-
itely Decided To Have
Teams
MOORHEAD NORMAL
rs ON THE FENCE
School Did Not Have Foot
ball, But Takes Up
Tossing Game

Basketball will be a live sport in
Fargo and Moorhead this winter In
spite of wartime conditions.
Five of the Fargo-Moorhead high
schools and colleges have definitely
decided to have teams, and the sixth
the Moorhead Normal school, is ION
the fence.
The normal did not go in for foot
ball this fall, and has not engaged a
coach for this year. but the normal
has always been a basketball strong
hold, and, according to the dope, the
administration has just about decided
TO hire coach and "go to It,"
There won't be very much doing in
the way of practice until a couple OF
weeks after Thanksgiving, that is
for the regular teams, though the
Fargo high school and Fargo colleges
will have class basketball until
players on the various teams will be
selected as candidates for positions
on the regular fives.
AggIeE To BE Strong.
Basketball fans close to the pow
Agricultural college. declare that the
Aggies Will be as strong this winter
Is they were last winter. Coach Paul
}, Davis has two members of last
winters championship FIVE, Heidner
and Hayes, around which to build his
team, and as promising a bunch Of
recruits as ever hit the college.
One of these recruits is Jacobs, a
six-footer from Rochester, Mimi, who
is said to be a bearcat at center, and
an even better man than Dutch"
Hauser, who is not in school this
year. which is saying a whole mouth
full,
Fargo High Looks Good.
Fargo high looks good for a strong
team. Coach l. +. Heinz. who gave
the school the best football IL has
had in years this fall, is said to be at
his best in basketball He put the
school tossers to work last Monday
evening, and will pull class games
in the AgassiZ gymnasium every Fri
day night from now until Christmas
when he will pick the best men to
battle for places on the regular team.
Coach Heinz has q host of veterans,
including the CLANCY brothers,
BUTTE" Ryan, Bartell, Camp and An
derson, and all kinds of material.
Pilots Hit BY Enlistment.
Enlistments in the navy last spring
took nearly all of Fargo colleges
veteran tossers, and Coach A. F.
Holste faces the proposition of hav-
Burns, who was on the squad last
winter, who probably will be the only
veteran to answer roll call.
Rex GRADER and Clarence Lane, who
were also on the squad last year, are
in school, but GRADER is nursing a
fractured ankle, suffered in the foot
ball game with the North Dakota
Aggies, and Lane, according to
friends, does not intend to come out.
Coach Holste, however. has a good
looking bunch of youngsters, includ-
ing Welsh, McKinstry, Clapp and
Murie, any of whom has the makings
of a real tosser.
Three Vets At COncOrdia.
Coach Ing. Satire at Concordia col
lege in Moorhead isn't doing very
much worrying. He has three veter-
ans, Halaas, Guam and Bye. and each
of them a star, for a starter in ad-
dition to a number of players that
have seen service.
Concordia will start basketball
practice Immediately following
Thanksgiving. ..
Dark AZ MOOrhend High.
Prospects are just a little dark at
Moorhead high. Enlistments in gov
eminent service has taken a big toll
of the schools veteran athletes, and
Coach Caldwell is faced with the
problem of building up a whole team.
There is, however, considerable
promising material, and the job may
not prove as hard as IL now looks.