The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-01-12
Some Local Sport Chatter

: : i re- ~ r :
Wash-Jeff has finally announced
her football card for 1920. II follows:
September 25, Bethany at Washington;
October 2, West Virginia Wesleyan at
Wheeling; October 8, Kalamazoo at
Washington; October 16. Geneva at
Washington; October 90, Lehigh at
Washington; October 30, Westmins-
ter at New Castle; November 6, SYRIA
cuse at Syracuse; November 10, Pitt
at Pittsburgh; November 20, Carnegie
Tech at Pittsburgh; November 25.
West Virginia at Washington.
The Parkersburg High team con-
tinued its habit OF dropping games on
the road by falling before the Clarks-
burg team Saturday 1912. The boys
will be glad when they can get back
on the Parkersburg floor for a few
games.
We really should offer some sort Of
an alibi to our readers today On ac-
count of the prediction we made about
The West Virginian basketball team
in regard to the game with the Jim
mic Knights" Saturday evening. AS
we remember we made some pre-bat-
tie statement as to what great fight
the printers were going TO give tn.
wire pullers-and the printers went
out and played so weS that the wire
.pullers made 81 points while our stars
gratDed off IL. The Electrians made
so many points that the check up boy
in peanut heaven who hangs out the
markers as the game goes along ran
out OF markers. He stopped at 3D.,
while the Electricians stopped at 81.
Boehm and Erwin saved the printers
from the whitewash brush, Boehm
making five field baskets and Erwin
one. DOC" Garrett had 4S shots
more or less az the basket and the
nearest he came to making a score
was when the ball did a few laps
around the rim Of the basket after one
shot, before it fell back on the floor
without going through the net. How
ever, our team got plenty of exercise
and perhaps they needed that more
than victory. We 10 lite to look at
things in the brightest possible man.
ner.
Jimmie knight made 10 baskets
Saturday. AS we remember he made
six with one hand and six with the
other. However, this is simply mat
ter of detail.
1t is too bad those Ley Co. lads could
not get going before 1t was about time
for the final whistle, as they sure did
hit her up in great shape in the final
minutes.
This fellow Erwin who was among
those present in the lineup of The
West Vssxinian Saturday night is a
pocket edition Of Robert (Tiny) Max
well, the famous football referee, and
every time he would go racing dows
the floor, the South Side bridge and
the gymnasium and everything did the
shimmy.
Mills, who plays center for the Min
ing Machine team, is good shot when
1t comes to getting baskets from diff
ficult angles. He Gagged several Sat
urday night.
Every player on the Koppers-Mo
rongah Glass team made at least five
field baskets Saturday night, except
Mason Wood. He got but one. How
ever, Mason says he is saving his un-
TIL some evening when they are in
greater demand.
Schimmel for the Watson Building
tried to get little pep into the OPEN
ing game by starting a little rough
house now and again, but the contest
was such a matter-of.fact affair that
his good intentions to bring some OF
the players to life failed in its pur-
pose.
The Ley Co. had several coaches on
the side-lines and between the halves
the players were given a heart to-
heart talk in the dressing room. but
despite all this the fine rally the,
made in the final stages fell few
points short.
Referee Toothman had a rather
easy session. There was not a single
Kick registered all evening. After the
last game Toothman had to 20 around
and wake up bunch of spectators
and tell them it was time to go home
they expected to be at Sunday
school in the morning.
Frank Moran and Fred Fulton will
have a little boxing match in Newark
N. j., this evening. All the PITTS
burgh sporting editors are going down
to the frolic, so that there will be