The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1917-03-01
TRINIDAD BOYS AND
GIRLS WIN BASKET.
BALL GAMES HERE

Talk about basket ball. Saturday
night was about the fastest games
that ever happened around these dig
gins.
The girls game started about eight
o'clock, the Trinidad girls playing ac-
cording to boys rules and Tucumcari
playing girls game. Time and again
the Trinidad girls would take the ball
away from Tucumcari forwards. They
overguarded and underguarded while
Tucumcari's team tried to play as they
had been trained. The game waxed
warm and new players were added
but Trinidad had some team and were
allowed to get away with most any
thing they attempted. The Tucum-
carl girls were the largest and could
have beaten the visitors at their own
game if they had been turned loose,
but for some unknown reason the lid
was not lifted and both sides turned
loose to fight it out. The score of the
first half ended 10 to in favor of
Trinidad. Rosa Tarpley- -Routh, who
had been out of school several days,
but is now a member of the Senior
class, was put in at forward in the
second half and with Madge Campbell
az the other forward, they showed
Trinidad few things about basket
ball. They continued to play accord
ing to girls rules, and if Rosa had
been in practice at throwing baskets,
they would have given Trinidad run
for their money. This game ended
with Trinidad 40, Tucumcari "a.
The boys game was a surprise TO
even Tucumcari's most loyal support
ers. Trinidad sure had some team.
II was coached to perfection it would
seem at times, but the local boys were
playing fast and hard. Jacobs and
Wayne were playing star games. They
Kept their men covered all the time, and
most of the points were made by one
of the visitors guards. The big CEN
ter coming in for his share. Cusack
played well considering the hard op-
ponent he had against him, bat he
threw number of goals. Shaft did
not play as well as he has played in
Other games, and Fausnacht was not
in his usual form.
"S iiHiiuad DoyS put Oh llLtle
rough stuff and found they were out
mached when they ran up against ia
cobs. Time and again it looked like
bronc busting roundup, but jacobs
never failed to hold the ball in the
mlXups and his opponent was dumped
over his head. No sooner was he off
until another would try to stop Ja-
cob'S passes toward Tucumcarl's goal
but he was in the game to win and it
was not his fault because Tucumcari
lost. Wayne was playing nearly as
hard, and had 1t not been Tor the bas-
ket tossing OF the big center and one
oi the guards for Trinidad, Tucumcari
would not have lost the game.
The first half was disheartening for
Iucumcari Us the Trinidad lads sue
ceeded IN caging l3 baskets ana max
one score on Il free throw, netting
them p while Tucumcau only scored
six. The second half was not so bad,
but Tucumcari was unable to gain
enough TO overcome the lead gained
by Trinidad. IucumCari made % to
% for Trinidad. The game ended with
the Colorado boys holding the big end
of a score 80 10 81.
The games were well patronzed and
were highly enjoyed although the
home teams lost. If the management
will train the girls team to play like
1t seems other girls are accustomed
to playing there is little doubt about
the outcome of most of their games