The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-03-04

ed that they will stand a good chance
of winning it. The Poplar boys GER
tainly did have the advantage of the
luck that went with the drawing, be-
ing paired for the first game with a
team that failed to appear. This
left them fresh for the one hard
game they had to play, the one with
Wolf Point on Saturday afternoon.
On the other hand, Wolf Point drew
one of the strongest teams for its
first game and Saturday afternoon
was forced to play two games in Sue
c~ession. Our boys gave Poplar the
s%tiffest contest of any Montana team
they have met and held them to IA
points, making Z points themselves
and four more that did not count be-
cause of the whistle. The young
Wolves played for every ounce that
was in them and made a splendid
showing, winning all their other
games. Their friends were very
proud of them and are looking for
ward to what they will do next year.
Wolf Point Players.
On the Wolf Point team are Yam
dell and Carr, forwards; Young, cen
ter; Dezell and Foster, guards; Now
att, s~ub-forward; Randall, sub
guard. The five first mentioned
played in the Chinook and Poplar
games. Mowatt and Randall played
in the Malta game. In the three
games in which the Wolf Point team
actually were engaged, Yandell scorl
ed A goals from the field, Carr 8,
Dezell 2, Young 7 and three from
free throws from fouls.
Because they played the winners
in the final game, the Glasgow team
must be considered technically as
ranking second, but the friends of
the Wolf Point team are confident
that our team easily ranks next to
Poplar and could have taken the long
end of the score with any other team
on the floor. Glasgow has a we'll
trained team with some clever indi-
vidual players, but comparative
scores showed them much weaker
than Wolf Point against Poplar.
Havre has a good team and it was
much regretted by the whole crowd
that their coach forfeited the game
than meet Wolf Point Satur-
day evening. To be sure, Havre had
played one game, but on the other
hand, Wolf Point had played two
games that afternoon. After the
strong claims made in the Havre pa
per when their team left for the
tournament, it looked like poor judg-
ment to decline to play. If the mat
5er had been left to the players they
would undoubtedly have gone on the
loor to try conclusions with the
Wolves, but Coach Chittick had the !
asst word. .
The Only Complaint r
The only dissatisfaction worth
mentioning was voiced by the Havre
coach who claimed that the floor was
100 smooth. Coach Chittick is one
If the players on the Havre Bear
Cats and he probably has a lingering
,ecollection of the defeat he and his
cam met on that floor at the hands
If the Wolf Point city team. In !
of the tournament and other I
at Wolf Point, the Havre Pro- :
has harped t~ediously about
Slippery floor" Slippery floor" {
The fact is that none of the players {
Who participated in the tournament
lad played on the floor before, so {
hey were on even terms. Many +
basketball floors are just as smooth E
S that in the Coliseum. Obviously, {
number of teams could not expect {
0 gather at a commo point and e
md a floor and hall exactly like they {
ad been used to-. 1t is to be re- {
that any dissatisfaction :
yhatever should arise from the tour E
ament, but that expressed by Havre Z
) not taken seriously. Havre's z
zach was overconfident and the 8
Ialta boys clipped ove the feed 5
ag'' in their very first game. Nat s
rally they were disappointed. E
Taken all together, the players of E
ne contesting teams were a splen- z
i'd lot of sterling young manhood, z
God athletes, good sports, Montana 5
len in the making. If