Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-11
EXTRA WINS HONORS
At TOURNAMENT
Extra Next to the Last Team
To Be Eliminated at In
dianola Tournament

Extra High School basket ball
team, one of the twenty teams adj
mitted to the tournament, was
placed against Waukee in the up
per bracket. The game being
called at 1:20, Friday, the boys had
chance to see Abba eliminate Ell
lison by a score of "a to 9; Emer-
son eliminate Attica by a score OF
80 to l; Perry eliminate Lorimer
by a score Of IL to 8; Clarinda
eliminate Casey by a score of 80 to
ID, and Fairfield eliminate Dallas
Center by score of 80 to 8.
The Waukee- Extra game coming
sixth in the schedule, showed our
boys what to expect if they did not
do their best. Waukee was fast
and proved to be the hardest game
we had to fight but the boys
stepped on them hard IN the nfst
half, making a score of l6 to 3.
Basham starred for Extra with
some clean long shots. G. Snyder
starred for Waukee with four field
goals. With a lead of ten points
the boys felt safe to conserve their
energies and the substitutes were
used during the latter part of this
game to save our better men for
the next contest. This caused our
team to slow up during the last
half but the spectators could see
from the first that Extra could play
basket ball, and showed it by their
cheers when we left the court with
a score Of % to II in our favor.
Immediately following this game
we witnessed Centerville eliminate
Grand River by score of 2l to IL,
Knoxville eliminate Blockton by
score Of 81 to 81; Anita eliminate
Osceola by q score of 80 to L: Clar-
india eliminate Perry by score of
So to l3. Then we witnessed the
exciting Drake-Simpson game
which gave the boys some excellent
ideas on how to play a defense
game and work the ball down a
long floor Following this indians
ola eliminated Corydon by a score
of % to 6.
Thus, summarizing the situation
as a result of Fridays games, we
still find Extra listed among eight
others, viz: Abba, Emerson, Cen
terville, Knoxville, Indianola, Clar-
inda, Anita, Fairfield, all of these
teams outweighing and being taller
on the average except Emerson.
Beginning at 8 a. M, Saturday,
Emerson eliminated Abba by a
score of Is to IL; Centerville elm
inated Knoxville by a score OF IL to
s; Indianola eliminated Clarinda
by a score Of 20 to 20. At LOO
p. m. Extra eliminated Emerson by
q score of 2l to Z. Our boys
showed themselves superior from
the start as Emerson only secured
two field goals to Extras ii. Shan
4 nen, of their team, starred with
those two field goals during the Sec
ond half. Gault was our best man
for points in this game having
Gagged ten points, all in field goals.
Following this game Anita elimi-
mated Fairfield; Indianola elimi-
mated Centerville. Then followed
our first defeat which we received
from Anita. During the first halt
our boys seemed to play in very
poor luck. Our forwards tried
many times for baskets but were
unable to hit. Our guards held
their forwards to two baskets and
William Larsen held Holloway to
no points but Fickle seemed to run
wild, securing IA out of the Is
points they scored in the first half.
Nelson secured our only points in
the lst half with one Of his ex-
tremely long shots. The second
half our boys went in to win Sc