The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-03
CONFERENCE GAMES
ELIMINATES TEAMS

The county basketball tournament
opened at II a. m. Wednesday with a
game between Noltimier and Green
land Consolidated schools. The two
teams have met at various times dur
ling the past season and it was gener-
ally expected that Noltimier would
win the game. But the plucky Green
township boys turned the tables on
Noltimier and won FL to 7.
At 1870 D. m. the tournament start
ed off with game between the Model
School of the Normal and Nome. Nome
was handicapped by the fact that they
had never played on as large a moor
as that of the high school gymnasium;
The Model School on the other hand
seemed quite at home and played a
snappy consistent game. They de-
served the victory indicated by the
score 20 to 4.
Following this game the Wimbledon
Girls team eliminated the Greenland
girls by defeating them in decisive
victory of 20 to 7. From the specta-
tors point of view this game was one
of the interesting games OF the tourn-
ament. The Wimbledon girls espe,,
cially showed the results Of careful
and efficient coaching. They were
perfectly at home on the floor and
kept their opponents easily in hand
throughout the game:
Following the girls game, the
Greenland boys met the Plllsbury
BOYS with score of % to Z. The
Greenland Boys were much larger
than the Pillsbury five and were more
experienced in the tricks of basket
bail. Greenland by the way has one
of the strongest teams of the tourna-
ment. Those who have not seen the
Greenland team in action were treat,
ed to a surprise when they appeared
on the floor. The last game OF the
afternoon was one between Grand
Prairie and Raritan. Grand Prairie
had it's roofing force there as usual
to contribute very much to the inter,
est and enthusiasm that prevailed
during the contest. While the score
would indicate, that it was all one
sided, such was not the case. Raritan
is made up of beginners and boys
who are in the grades. There is not
a high school pupil on the team. In
spite of their inexperience and youth
they put up snappy defense and kept
Grand Prairie from running up even
larger score than that given as to s.
A rather interesting incident OF the
game is that Mr.. Ralph Scudder who
has coached the Raritan team this
season coached the Grand Prairie team
The first game of the evening was
between Darcy and Valley City. This
was real basketball from start to nm
ish. Darcy was present in large
numbers. The people of Darcy are
boosters. This is characteristic OF
them and they were here to see their
bows win and urge them on inthe con-
test. Valley City had their rooters
there and they were equally deter
mined that Darcy should not win. AT
the end of the first half the score
stood 9 to II in favor Of Darcy. The
Darcy team seemed to slow down a
little during the second half and Val
ley City was enabled to roll up score
Of 21 to 13 in their favor. For real
school and community spirit there has
not been such a game played during
this eventful basketball season.
After this game Sanborn and VIM
bledon, two old rivals met on the floor
of the gymnasium. This promised to
be battle royal but it was easy for
Sanborn from beginning to end. This
score does not indicate the compara-
tive strength Of both teams. Those
who have seen both teams in action
during the closing season were quite
uncertain as to the result. The two
teams were pretty we'll matched. San
born, however carried away the vic.