The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-15
BITTERLY CONTESTINC
EVERY inch, LEGION
IS Defeated, $3.50

Battling every inch of the way, the
Legion basketball team went down
to defeat at the hands OF the fast X.
OF C., ex-service mems school of In
dianapolis on the Coliseum floor Wed.
nesday night by the score of 81 to 80.
The teams fought on practically even
terms the entire contest. but a rally
in the second half gave the visitors
lead that the locals could not quite
overcome
With the score 81 to 20 in favor of
the visitors, they Immediately put up
a stalling game, which finally won out
for them, the Legion men tried hard
TO break up this stalling but to no
avail. The entire team would lineup
in the Legion's territory and pass back
and forth without advancing the bali
whatever
The game was hard fought and fast
throughout, and on many occasions
the crowd was brought to its feet by
some neat piece of work or sensation
al shots for baskets. which the visit
ors made several times. Rice and
Secrest contributed some pretty shots
from the center of the floor that
started the rally put up by the visit
ors.
Lead is Lost.
After getting away to a good start
in the first few minutes of play which
gave the wearers of the Old Gold II
10 lead, they were unable to take ad-
vantage of this and maintain it, al
lowing the X. of C.'s to slip UP on
them and finally tie the score at II
apiece. But just before the half end
ed Mcbride slipped one through the
netting from the center of the floor
that gave the locals a 10 TO II lead,
for the half
Immediately at the beginning of the
second half Hank Stevens, the star
forward on the visitors began slipping
the ball through the basket and a com
Portable lead was obtained. The Leg
ion fought hard to overcome this lead
and was gradually closing the gap
when the game ended.
Coach Move used every man on the
squad the limited number Of times per
Missile Substitutions were occurring
continuously during the contest but to
no avail. The Old Gold are showing
much improvement with every game
played and put up much better game
lads than they have played all season.
Fast and Exciting
The game was fast, exciting and IN
usually clean, with the visitors de-
pending mostly on long shots TO get
their baskets and the Legion playing
the short passing game. The Indian
apolis lads possessed some uncanny
eyes for the basket from the center
of the floor, dropping in several pretty
shots at long range.
There were no particular stars on
the Legion team, all the men playing
q good game of ball and working hard
every minute they were in the con-
test. The scoring was evenly divided
with Little carrying the heaviest end.
making eight points. Simmons. who
has been carrying the heavy end of
the scoring in the previous games, did
not get into much of the contest as he |
is bothered with a boil on his arm.
Stevens Carries Brunt
Hank Stevens carried the brunt of
the scoring for the visitors, making Z
of his teams points. He also played
a good floor game and the locals found
him very hard 10 stop. Born, who was
substituted for Underwood at the close
of the first half, also played a good
game. Secrest and G. Stevens put upI
a strong defense.
The next game on the Legion card
will be the strong Shelbyville indie
pendents on the Coliseum floor next
Monday night. The Shelbyville team
is composed of former high school
and college stars and have met and
defeated several of the best Independ-
ent teams in the state