Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-27
Fl. OMAHA five
BEATS Fl. CROOK
IN XMAS GAME
Husky BaIIoonists Play Fast
Game and Pile Up a High
Score Over Their
Opponents.

Fort Crook is once more humbled
by the balloonists. In a basket ball
game which was the fastest event OF
its kind played in Omaha so far this
season, the hippers from Fort Omaha
played rings around the Fort Crook
crs. running up score of % to II.
The humbling defeat came as big
surprise to the Sammies of the south
ern camp as they had planned to wipe
their opponents off the face of the
earth with some real style" as they
termed it. They never figured that
big, husky, six-foot Hiatt was as much
of a demon as forward on the floor
as he was on the gridiron. But that
is where they were fooled, for
the man from Oregon was so
speedy and heavy for the rivals that
all their heavy men and all their novel
Stylish formations" could not prevail.
The fight started, and in five sec
onds Hiatt had been tipped the ball
which he easily placed in the basket.
The next play was much like the sec
ond and soon the ball was once again
in the basket. The score had run up
so fast that the Crooksters could not
regain their control,
In the next toss-off, the Fort Crook
center succeeded in hitting the bali
into the hands of the waiting machine
They held it we'll by tricky team work
After little Juggling they succeeded
in locating the basket on the wall. At
this point the spirit of both teams
was aroused a little more Con-
sequently some personal fouls we're
called. The number Of fouls we're
about even on both sides, but Hiatt
had better eye for the basket than
Woods In this way Omaha added
two points to its score.
Fort Omaha gathered itself again.
The new squirt added two more field
baskets to their score. Hiatt reached
his glory in this squirt. He snatched
the ball and started dribbling it to-
ward the goal. He stopped for neither
one nor all the opposing team. He
put his foot ball center rush move
. ment into the drive and did not stop
until he had thrown fancy basket
from the side. 1t was worth the
whole game to see him break through
the rivals, who seemed to be utterly
helpless. Fort Crook made another
attempt to wake up and thereby threw
two baskets. Fort Omaha tightened
again with a gain of four more points.
The score at the end of the first hall
stood IL to in favor of Fort Omaha.
The second half brought forth
more team work on the part OF the
balloonists and less personal playing
1t looked for time as thought the
Fort Crooksters would not see the
basket any more, although their op-
ponents were not piling up a big
score. When Omaha had added IA
more points to the score. a wonderful
display of speed was put forth by the
opponents. Olson and Paxton. both
from Fort Crook, replaced Woods
at forward and Rhoades at guard. re-
spectively. The change seemed to
have placed the losers on their feet
again. They gained six points, bring.
ing the score up TO l..
On the last five minutes of the game
only two points were scored ant
those by Fort Omaha, The two team:
at this stage of the game were play
ing their best. Hiatt made the fina
score.
During this half the Fort Crooi
boys lost their heads SO completely a
times that their opponents were giver
the chance Of scoring four points or
fouls.
The game was unusually clean anc
fast. The team were SO we'll match
ed as to make it impossible to fore
tell the winner until the last few min
utes of the clash. Lineup: