Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
TOSSERS SHOW IMPROVEMENT TECH
TECH TOSSERS WINNERS IN
FAST SCHOLASTIC GAME;
HOUSTON SHOWS HIS HEELS

Defeating Reading by AZ to 81
score on the Chestnut street floor
last evening, the Technical High
school basketball team took sole
possession of first place in the Penn
sylvania Interscholastic Basketball
League. The team has copped seven
out of eight starts in the series of
games that it will play, although
three of the games were not league
contests. The Reading management
stated the Maroon aggregation look
ed to be the pick of the league.
Coach Miller started the game
with Lingle and Huston at forward;
Wilsbach at Center; and Neck and
kohlman at guard. This quintet
played rings around the Berks coun-
ty crew, keeping the ball for several
minutes at a time, Gaping the eli
max with field goal.
Nyquist Big Star
The much touted Captain Nyquist
was the heavy scorer for the visitors
with four field goals and fifteen
fouls. Yet his play was no match
for Carl Beck, who opposed him.
The local lad himself rang in five
field goals, four coming in the drst
period. Keeping "Buddie" Lingle
on the side lines for most of the
contests until the second periods,
seems to have done this star lot of
good. In last evenings contest he
played most of the game, and show
ed whirlwind of speed. He drib
bled through the entire Reading
team, scoring five field goals and
taking part in many assists.
Huston showed great form from
the fifteen-foot mark, scoring nine
out of ten. lie also tossed in four
field goals. The Tech guards in
creased their total of field goals TO
twenty-five, for the season. All of
| Techs opponents together have
made but twenty-seven two-pointers.
Tony" Wilsbach used his weight
! to good advantage, often securing the
| ball during scrimmage, while at cen
ter he jumped both Smell and Fried
man. He tailed four field goals. AS
| in the York contest, only the visi-
! tors foul goals kept them at all in
the running. Nyquist shot fifteen
| out of twenty-eight. Instead of
banking his shots, he tossed them
| in clean. Referee Mcconnell called
twenty-eight penalties on Tech,
| while the visitors were penalized
! just ten times.
With the score 80 to 15 in Techs
| favor and five minutes to go, Coach
| Miller sent in Miller for Lingle, and
Smith for Kohlman. The change
gave the Reading players a chance,
as the entire Tech squad relaxed, and
| the visitors had a squirt that car
ried them to twenty-seven points.
The Game in Detail
Nyquist sent Reading into the lead
by shooting his first foul. Huston
| scored Techs first field goal. A
moment later Nyquist sent Reading
into a tie with a foul. Lingle's
! goal gave Tech the lead and from
/ then on they We're never headed
! Huston's three fouls and Beck's goal
| sent the total to to 2. Nyquist made
it to 8. The Reading captain then
missed four straight trials from the
! fifteen-foot mark. Wilsbach scored
| again. Nyquist scored his first field
| goal. Tech, IL; Reading, 5. Lingle
! tossed in another. Nyquist made a
foul. Beck too Huston's pass that
the latter received from center and
scored a pretty field goal. Huston
brought the total to 16 to 6. Beck
scored two in rapid succession. and
shortly afterward the half ended
with the score Is to 6.
With the beginning of the Sec