The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-26
LEGION PLAYERS
WIN FROM WOLFS
CLOSE, THRILLING GAME SEEN
BY LARGE CROWD AT THE
COLISEUM FRIDAY
REGULAR PERIOD 1925
Last Five Minutes of Play Turned
the Scale-Minot Boys Fine,
Clean Bunch of Players

Clean Bunch of Players
Considered in the mems class, i
will probably be a long time before
the basketball fans of this town see
another game that will stack up with
the one played at the Coliseum last
Friday night between the American
Legion team of Minot, N. D., and
the local city team, the Wolves. That
is not saying it was the greatest
game that ever was, or anything like
that, but it was certainly the best
game ever played in this town and
it had so many interesting peculiar
tiles about 1.-THE two teams were
so different in physical makeup, size,
style of play and strategy; and yet
so exasperatingly evenly matched as
shown by the final results.
After gaining nice lead in the
first half, IA to 8, the thoroughly
tuckered Wolves found themselves
tied by their big opponents at the
end of the second half, 26 to 26. In
the second half the Legion team put
in a sub and switched their lineup
so that practically they had two
fresh forwards. The Wolves contin-
ued to play the same five, three or
four of whom were winded and worn
out, through to the end. The play
off period was ratehr easy for the
husky veterans and if they had been
fairly accurate at basket shooting
the score would have been less close
than the final figures of "a to 29 in
favor of the Minot team.
Crowd Pulled for Victory
The final result was keen disap-
pointment to the big, loyal crowd of
rooters. During the first fourth of
the game, our boys looked better |
than the visitors in just about every
way. They kept possession of the
ball two-thirds of the time, their
floor work was faster than their op-
nents' and their tries for the basket
were more accurate. The big fell
lows from Dakota complained of the
of the floor, but the floor
was, of course, the same for all the
players.
During the second quarter of the
game, the Legion boys became more
in their teamwork. They
made some nice long passes, that ]
rave them more tries for the basket, !
md occasionally they succeeded in {
Gradually their greater s
weight and the extreme height of
3lume, their center, the man about s
whom their team work revolved, be-
an to count, but the first half ended s
With the Wolves leading by three
askets.
The crowd was confident that we
ould maintain or increase the lead, b
ut as the half progressed it became
vident that the lighter players were
ring. There was no slugging, nor, c
D far as could be seen, any un- c
ecessary roughness, yet it was a
ard, slashing game where weight, N
eight and physical condition slowly
lrned the balance against skill and j.
1eed. The Minot players looked to h
ltweigh the locals by an average t
at least fifteen pounds per man, e7
nd Captain Blume at center and e.
ick Berlin, the Wolves center-no
nall man by any means-made II
city fair substitutes for Mutt and v
if. Even at that Berlin outiumped
Iume most of the time during the
st half The locals, every one of
EN-, played to the limit of their
i'll and strength. King, Handler SC
id Berlin were each of them injur- Ci
and time was called while they ST
ere rubbed and pumped into con- TT
ton again. There were quite few tn
/ basketball heads among the spec te,
tors who were disappointed that an
ptain Frahm did not put in WI
uple of fresh men in the second an
If. If he had done so, it is reason
ly sure that Minot would never mr.
We tied the score on
Good Generalship no
The Minot players played a cool, aw
lfty, waiting game, seeming to An
i certain that they could tire and
I'd their faster opponents. In the ly
ond half the Minot captain put in are
,obson at forward and switched sue
.uard to forward position, giving tai
m practically two fresh forwards, mes
this did the business. In spite of Fl.
that the Wolves could do, the A. anc
men crept up and tied the score. Flo