The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-03-31
SCOUTS WIN
CLOSE GAME

"a to %.
Go Out Of Their Class and De-
feat Aggregation From Head
of Lakes in Hard Game.-By
Close Score.
The Carpenter Junior High school
team, champions of Superior, are not
the champions of Washburn for a
little while yet. The Scouts took
them on, last Saturday night, and
after one Of the hardest fought games
ever seen here, defeated them by the
score of "a to 20. The Superior boys
showd good team work, and shot off
few extremely effective forTa-
tions, but they couldn't quite turn
the trick they were after ,and their
feeling afterwards seemed to be an
amusing combination of puzzlement
and deep grief. AS soon as they
got off the floor, they started "if-ing:'
"if / hadn't missed all those free
throws; eff our center hadn't had
sore thumb; "if Washburn
hadn't such good luck" 'etc, etc.
They possibly never heard that if
the Allies hadn't gone and won the
war, tie Germans would have licked
them.
Of course, we understand that il
is not pleasant to go through the
season with just one defeat, and
win the championship of city OF
10000, and then go to some little
squirt Of place and have a team
of little shrimps trim you up. But
the way to avoid such unfortunate
doings is to do your basket ball play
ing during the game, and not after
the whistle has blown.
The Scouts found themselves up
against their old friend, the five-man
defense. They punched through it
few times, just to prove that it
could be done, Alton dribbling right
through the whole gang, and work
ing with Haglund to chalk up few
well-earned roints. in the main,
however, the Washburn boys ignored
the defense system Of their oppon-
ents, and shot right over it for scores.
Alton, Cease and Haglund all pulled
sE very pretty long shots, Haglund's
accuracy being the cause of much
of our friends talk about 'luck." "
Ii. they were so fixed chat they could
watch Scoop doing this al 1.-The sea-
son, they would begin to suspect that
it isn't all luck; it's basket ball.
Solem, captain of the visiting team,
played a splendid game, and was al
ways dangerous, Levinson, their much
talked of center, did not show up as
strongly as was expected, possibly
because of Morgan's very effective
guarding. Shapiro got loose several
times in the last half. The visiting
guards couldn't do a thing with Al
ton and Haglund, though they ran up
a number of personal fouls trying
hard.
The game was marred by several
delays, for which Superior was re-
sponsible. The visiting team took
the full legal number of times, out
in order to practice deep breathing,
much to the disgust of the Scouts,
who like to stay with the job until
it is done. The Superior coach
seized upon every possible chance
for argument, trying to slip a VEN
erable old wreck of ball into the
game, and apparently feeling badly
because Mr.. Bell didn't seem inter-
ested. He also made quite fuss
about the time, and threatened to
pull his team off the floor if his
wishes weren't granted. He had no
doubt forgotten all about the time
honored custom Of walking back
home, which was adopted long ago
by teams that pull out of game
because they're mad. AS a matter
of fact, the game lasted 71s minutes
longer than it was supposed to, on
account of an error; at the end of
their usual 80 minutes of playing
time, the Scouts We're 6 points in
the lead.
We don't just see where the Scouts
wor by luck, at Supericc contends;
except for a few seconds after the
first basket, which Levinson rolled
in for Superior, they were never in
lead. They did manage TO tie the
score at 1S and at IL, bat if there
was any luck involved, we'6 say they
were lucky to make such a close
finish. The lineup:
Scouts-24 23-Carpenter, Jr. HI. S.
Alton r. F. Shapiro
Haglund, Capt. L. F. Capt. Solem
Morgan G. Levinson