The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-01
FASTEST GAME OF
SEASON ON LAST
SATURDAY NIGHT


ence the contest for supremacy in
the local basket ball worlo was re-
sumed Saturday night at the Union
hall, when a double header was
staged with the Nenana boys facing
the soldiers of the 14th Infantry
stationed here, and the two girls
teams, the Midnight Suns and the
Northern Lights, lined up against
each other. Both games went with
snap and were by far the best
played on the local court to date.
Incidently the contest between the
ladies, besides being one of the
regular series, carried with it as
part of the spoils, the privilege of
eating a big chicken spread donated
to the winner by the management of
the popular Tavern cafe. AS en-
enlargement to the ladies in their
game and also to spur enthusiasm
in the local sport lovers the dinner
was given. 1t accomplished all that
was hoped for it. From the drop
of the hat the game was crowded
with fast, snappy play and that the
ladies meant business throughout
the contest is proven by the box
score. After four regular periods
of play the low score of eight to
six was piled up in favor of the
Northern Lights.
From the first the game was re-
markedly free from fouls consider
ing its nature. Miss Kobe, captain
of the winning team, played a
strong game at guard, but could
show nothing to her team mate, Mrs.
Schaeffer. Mrs. Alderman and Miss
Foster, forwards on the winning
team, each shot a field goal and a
goal from foul, and the remaining
goal of the winning score was drop
ped into the basket after a running
battle by Miss McCray, who played
center At times in the heat of
the argument, the rules of the Bas-
ket Ball Association were slightly
mixed up with those of the Marquis
of Queensbury, but this detracted
nothing from the interest of the
audience.
The work of the winning for
wards was greatly hampered by the
excellent guarding of Miss Russell
and Mrs. Lund, who stuck like burrs
! to their opponents. Three goals
from field were scored by Mrs. Hall,
captain of the Midnight Suns, and
her work was hardly less brilliant
than that of Mrs. Lawrence, for
ward, who played in hard luck. At
center, for the Midnight Suns, Miss
Thora Slippern played strong game
throughout. The audience went
away thoroughly satisfied with the
exhibition
The score being so close, Mr..
Rodigkeit has decided that both
teams worked hard enough to win
dinner and for that reason plans
to invite the losers as we'll as the
winners to the big dinner. He says
that as soon as there is sufficient
green goods on the market to enable
him to get up a regular dinner"
he will set the date and the big
eats will be on.
In the mems game the soldiers
sprang a surprise on the Nenana
boys by their remarkable team work.
This was vast improvement over
their previous showing and leads one
to believe that they ar. taking ad-
vantage Of every chance to prac-
tice. That is the winning spirit.
Throughout the game was good, but
the goal-shooting ability of the Ne
mana boys enabled them to pull out
on the long end of a Al to II score.
If the soldiers can learn, in the
near future, to throw goals from
the field to the same degree that
they have improved on their team
play, they will be hard to beat. The