The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-03-08
N|NNEKAH BEATS
P0CASSET CLASS
A BOYS FOR CUP
Old Rivals Battle to Finish in Wind
up Of County cagine Tourney
With Once Vanquished Team
Winning.
RUSH SPRINGS GIRLS IN
CLASS A ARE VICTORIOUS
Meridian Boys, Class B, Win over
Junior High Boys, While Junior
Girls Beat Friend; slaton
Wins in Class D.


In string of four whirlwind final
games played between teams OF
both boys and girls of classes A and
b, the Grady county basketball tour
nament, which was begun here Fri
day morning, came to a successful
close at a late hour Saturday night.
finals in class D having been played
Saturday morning. The cups in class
A went to Nnnekah high boys and
the Rush Springs girls and the win
ners of highest honors in class B
were the junior high girls and the
boys from Meridian, while the Slaton
boy five copped the goblet in class D,
no girls having been entered in that
class.
Nnnekah Beats Back"
Within two minutes after the ball
was tossed up in center between the
Ninnekah and Pocasset high male
warriors who competed for honors
in class A, rooters for the former
aggregation began to scratch their
heads rather obviously and whisper
sinister predictions to their neigh
bors while the Pocasset fans be
came exutant with the bright pros
poets for reason that their favorite
five had piled score Of six
points in an extraordinary display
of teamwork and skill while the
Ninnekah aggregation stood scoreless.
The game progressed with Pocasset
holding lead Of as high as eight
points until near the end of the
first half when Ninnekah retaliated
in demonstration of unusual indi-
yidual work and Gagged several coun
tiers. The half ended with the score
standing 23 to 10 in favor of Po-
casset. The second half was charac-
terized by renewed pep on the part
of the Ninnekah warriors and a
gradual breaking down of the skillful
scoring machine of their opponents
Ten minutes before time was called
the score stood a tie 27 to 27. One
lone goal from play and a success
full free throw was all that Pocasset
could add to her score during those
spectacular ten minutes while Min
nekah threw ringer after ringer
through the hoop and at the end Of
the pickering superior endurance had
won a decisive victory over science
The score was As to 80 III favor of
Ninnekah.
Rush Sextet Near Losers
When the two winners in the semi
finals of the class A girls, Rush
Springs and Tuttle, walked to their
positions on the court the opinion
of the spectators was very much di-
vided as to who would be the ulti-
mate winner and as the game pro
pressed the predictions of fans were
more and more at variance for rea
son that in spite of the fact that
Rush Springs could at times gain
a lead of three points over her oppO-
nents, the latter would invariably
cage the sphere for a counter soon
after the gain was made. 1t was
simply case of follow the leader
with Tuttle playing the part of the
follower until the game ended when
the score board registered II to II
with Rush Springs in possession Of
the long end of the score.
Junior Boys Fight Hard
What was termed the fastest and
hardest fought game played in the
finals was the one in which the
junior high and Meridian boys fought
for the bunting in class B. 1t re-
quired several minutes for members
of the junior high aggregation to
gain their balance in the early part
of the battle during which time
their much larger opponents in a
mixture of speed, Drawn and science
tossed several counters. Toward
the end of the first half, however
junior rallied and was successful in
Englishing the sphere through the
loop three times from play. When
the first period of play ended Me-
ridian had ten points to its credit
and junior high six. 1t took junior