The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-11
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Be EVENLY
SET FOR TILT


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All Of the quad-city basketball
teams 90 into action tonight. The
Uavenport-Iowa City team Is the
lBost important game outside Of the
IeeGl battle. Al both teams meet
&xain In The Iowa University tour
ny, this game will have bearing
"a the tournament title. Both teams
~ In fine form and the Daven-
pc5terk will have to wort their
hardest to win.
East Moline plays the Little
0aintS" In the. return game Of the
Ggason. Before Christmas, the East
SUoliners were defeated 30-6, and
~ result il expected to be about
~ same tonight.
Tomorrow Davenport plays at
Wilton, Iowa. and the "Swedes"
viii met Cambridge on the Moline
Aoor.
TIE "Swedes," having struck
thelf loop stride at last, are expect
ing to exact revenge for their pre-
vioss defeat by knocking the Is
lou4eIs tonight in the local Y.
There will be a second team battle
1t 1880 before the main attraction
md the big game will start about
Sd6.
From all reports the attendance
will be about the largest that any
Moline Rock Island game ever had.
~ the Rock Island Y has rather
small seating capacity. all are
Urged to come early before the
pors are locked.
Both Lose Stars.
Both teams will have to fight
1 thDir hardest to cop tonight and 1t
WI be no walkaway whichever
team wins. The Maroon and White
squad, after its victory over Rock
! Falls, seems to have confidence in
ITSELF for the first time this year.
The men are fighting harder and it
will be q different team that meets
The locals than the one they played
against in the last game.
The two men that played prob
ably the strongest battles Of the
last Moline-R Rock Island game will
- absent tonight. Rock Island
Ut the service Of Henke, who Is
ninth semester man, and Moline
will be without Captain Lundberg
who failed to pass the necessary
studies. BY now the Islanders have
rotten used to Henke's loss and
are expecting to take the game as
Il they did before he left. Moline
showed last Saturday that they
colud do Just as well without Lund-
berg in the lineup as not.
Despite the fact that Rock Island
defeated the "Swedes" once before
n oil the dope seems to favor them
y Rock Island lost to Davenport by
"A IL points. On the other hand, Dav-
snport had hard work to even beat
Moline by four points. OF course il
must be taken into consideration
that the 1owans were playing with
out the services Of one Of Their
regular players. The "Swedes'
hsvo been playing their best games
just lately while the Rock Islant
Il vosYiors have showed poorer form
The last few contests than they evel
did this season. Moline won thu
Ayst game of the. season last weel
~ defeating Rock Falls and tn.
Saturday before that held Daven.
Dort 10 . low count The Islander
u the last two weeks have dropped
three games In q row.
Moline Shaken Up.
Because they think they have a
chance to get back at Rock Island
for several defeats that have been
handed them lately. the Moliner.
are out for blood this evening. An
entirely different lineup will go up
against Rock Island. Simpson, the
midget forward, il now starting a:
Lundberg's place. First. center
seems to be the strongest scorer on
the squad. Earlier in the week Mo-
line played Augustana and First is
reported to have tossed them in
from oil angles. Schmidt. lef,