The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-03-12

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.KENMARS. ( \ WINS DIS
TRICT TOURNAMENT
After going through the season
with one of the poorest showings
that a. team has ever made the
Kenmare basket ball aggregation
sprung a complete surprise on eV-
eryone last Saturday by dereating
the fast and noted Donnybrook
quintet, thereby winning the eighth
district basketball championship.
4 Donnybrook's defeat can no doubt
be attributed to the injury of two
men,: one guard and one forward, !,
who were two S%of the fastest play
lers on the team, who 4 had been
hurt week previous in game at
Bottineau. This, coupled with the
lucky basket shooting of Paulson
Of Kenmare, enabled the poorer
team to walk off with the honors. !
The score at the end of the frs,
period stood at a II to II tie. In
the second half sDonnybrook made
q desperate effort to ward off de-
feat, but King, the star long dis
tance basket shooter seemed un-
able to make his shots true, while
the aggressive work Of Kenmare
continued throughout the half. The
Z final score was "a to 18. The
. lineup was as follows:
Donnybrook- Forwards, A. Pet
erson and. Sherman; center, King;
Guards. O. Peterson and Norlander.
ss5 sKenmare- Forwards, Hammer
ickson and Miner; center, Paulson;
guards. Enochson and Bertleson.
- Kcnnare 3O-Portal 70
5s The first game4of the. tournament
was played Friday afternoon pc
tween Kenmarea and Portal and
proved a very easy, victory for the
Ward county team. x Portal seem
ed unable to get their team WORK
going and worked at a disadvant.
age continually with individual
playing and poor passing.
III DonnybrOOk 29-BOwbells IL
The feature game of the toufna-
ment was that between Bowbells
and ii3Donnybrook Friday evening.
! With two men out Of condttion'
Bowbells went into the game deter
mined to win, and for thlrty-hVe
minutes of play the contest was one
6 the most thrilling that has been
played on the local floor this sea-
son, and easily the> best game OF
the tournament. Captain Lund for
Powbells tossed in the first basket
and the crowd went wild with en-
sthusiasm. The officials declared
after the tournament that this was
the prettiest basket which was shot
throughout the two days playing!
The teams were evenly matched,
and ct the end Of the first period
! The score stood IL to 10 In favor OF
Donnybrook. Both teams started
a desperate fight lin the second half,
aeeming to realize that this game
would determine the final result OF
/ the title clash. Neither. side SEEM
ed able to penetrate their oppon-
enta, defense and get the ball un-
der. the basket. so the game work
ed into a long distance shooting
contest. Neither seemed to gain
any particular advantage. as up to
the last three minutes of play the
I u sscnre was II to 19. Then Larsen's
ler, which had been hurt a few
taays before the tournament, SEEM
ed to 70 down on him. and before
the crowd could hardly realize what
had happened, the visitors had
registered four more baskets ana
won the game
ssss me lineup: DonnybSook: Sher-
man and Peterson. forwards; hlns,
center; Peterson N and Norland = er,
"a BoWbells: Lpnd and Schultz,
forwards; Wiper cente taTsen ,'t n
. Kenmarc 20 FlaxtOn =
55 sFlnxton one Of the byes, played
the Winners Of the afternoon pre-
limfnary. The game at first start
"a out as though = mightbe real cal
contest, neither side scoring IoI .oll
eve minutes. Then Kapmare got
started and by the end OF the hrst
half! had made ten points TO incl.
nnnonents 8. The second, period.
was quite listless, as Flaxton seem seem
al unable to connect with the goal:
while Kenmare ran up q total OF 10
lI5lsonnybrook So Portal 21 73stit
ne winners Sof the second pre-.
ifn1fnary were to have played MO g.
haM who had been given the tirst
shye on account of their sup pposed1y;
]: missing train ctions, but they
failed to nut III appearance and g, g
drawing ofi the e two losers was vas
ade. which result ted in; Portai go
Ing ii wit Dom ybrook This [t' y
S5sama was fast through the first
haifsr and at several times Portal M
ameceeded, in tieing the score, farss a. J
al, -, ,Inassing the work Of tho team IN
Stfasday8 before ag gainst KenmaTe.
TnayssWeres u9ab Bile TO break the q 9
taam. work Of the more experte 60 !.
n sas1r AYERS. however, nile they were
gAs;s a. tS5sI haakat by lose