The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-03-06
Fast Games Ticketed in Windup OF
County Basketball Contests;
Play of Semi-Finals al c. II.
s. this Afternoon.
TUTTLE BEATS VERDEN IN
PRELIMINARY TILT TODAY
Junior High Wins Second Engage
ment in Glass 8; Entries Busy
as Elimination Process Con-
tinues; Crowds Big.

The last Of the preliminary games
in the Grady county basketball tour
nament were played in the senior
high school this morning when the
Tuttle high boys, A class took the
Nerden five into camp to the tune
of 33 to 20. This game was follow
ed by the defeat Of Richland by
slaton by score Of Is to in the
semi-finals this morning. This game
was played between class d boys.
At one o'clock this afternoon the
junior high boys, class B, wrested
their second victory of the tourna-
ment by defeating Pioneer, the score
being "a to 27 and at the time or
going to press two girl teams in
class A, .Tuttle and Pocasset, were
competing for honors
Four fast games are scheduled to
be played in the finals tonight, the
teams to play being dependent up
on the outcome of the semifinals
this afternoon
What fans believe to be the larg-
est crowd ever assembled in the
local high school gymnasium was in
evidence last night to watch the
preliminary battles between eight of
the class A teams entered in the
Grady county basketball tournament
which has been in progress here
since yesterday morning and which
will end near midnight tonight.
The activities began last night
with a game between the Pocasset
high girls and the feminine twirlers
from Minco In this game Minco
held her own during the first half
but near the beginning of the sec
ond period Of play Pocasset gained
a satisfactory lead and maintained
it through the rest of the game,
the final score being % to IA.
Pocasset Licks Bradley.
When the Pocasset and Bradley
boy quintets shook hands before the
starting whistle blew spectators
knew then. that there was to be
some real court work when the ten
evenly matched men got into action.
Pocasset set the score machine in
motion by registering a ringer dur
ing the first two minutes of play
Bradley retaliated with a counter
and it was a case of nip and tuck
and neck and neck during the re-
mainder of the first half when the
score stood a tie, 16 to 16. The
second half was characterized by
both teams striving hard to get
safe lead but that was the one thing
that neither of them could do. Po
casset would register couple OF
counters and Bradley would then
cage the sphere and vice versa.
When the final whistle blew the
score stood a tie again, % to 20.
The real scramble, however, took
place during the additional five min
ute period in which the tie was to
be "played off" Within ten sec
onds after the bail had been tossed
up in the center it passed through
the ring that belonged to the Po-
casset aggregation, and again Brad
lev seconded the motion by throwing
a goal from play. 1t was then that
Pocasset threw three more goals in
rapid succession and Bradley went
down in defeat by a margin of six
points. The score was 3S to 81.
The most evenly matched girls
game played last night was the con-
test between the Tuttle and Verden
high schools. Neither team was able
to get lead of over two points and
when the timekeepers called "time
up" the score stood to in favor
of Tuttle.
Ninnekah Victor Over Amber
The Amber male exponents of the
court surely play a credible brand
Ct BALL. Nobody denies that. But
the Ninnekah twirlers play a more
successful if not a faster game. if
the brittle last night can be used
for an example From the first part
Of the game Ninnekah showed a
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