The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
POLICE RESERVES
CALLED AS PREPS
STAGE NEAR-RIOT
Plenty of Excitement
Seen as Central Trims
Gonzaga Quint.

Competition between the Central
and. Gonzaga High School quintets
became SO heated at one stage of
the proceedings yesterday in the
Central gym that some peace at
any-price spectator turned a riot
call for the reserves from the Tenth
police precinct.
With the cops on hand, order
was brought out of confusion and
the game was allowed to proceed
without any notapie casualties.
Though the official scorer credits
Central with a 2S-to-25 score, the
majority of sideline experts will
concede that Jimmie Lemon was the
guy that won the victory.
The Mount Pleasant leader was
spryer than usual. He accounted
for "a of the Central points and
gave an exhibition of shooting from
the l5-foot line that has not been
equalled on a local floor this sea-
son. He Gagged twelve free shots
out of fifteen chances, which is a
batting average to be proud of.
Riot over Mr.. Byrne.
But to return to the riot.
1t all began when a dispute arose
as to whether Byrne, the star Con
Eaga center, should be elected from
the conflict because of too many
personal fouls. The Gonzaga scorer
could find only three personals
against Byrne, but two of the Gen.
trail statisticians had an even four.
That precipitated an argument,
centering around the referee, in
which harsh words were spoken and
violence was narrowly averted.. The
spectators swarmed onto the floor
and 1t looked as If a free-for-a all
battle was brewing. The long and
short of 1t was that Byrne was al
lowed to remain in the game, until
he committed his next foul when he
was asked to retire. By that time
the reserves were on hand in a large
and healthy body and there was no
need to communicate with the
Emergency Hospital.
1t was the hardest fought and
most spectacular game played on
the Central floor in many seasons.
The GonZaga boys, with eight con-
secutive victories on their string,
invaded the Central gym with the
avowed determination to cop the de-
cision. They were upset, however,
by this youth Lemon. who dished
out a brand of super basketball.
Byrne. who was expected to regis
ter most of the Gonzaga points, had
a tough day of 1t. Not only was he
the storm center in the mix-up
which made the floor look like a
Bolshevik convention but he failed
40 cage a single goal. In caging
free tosses Byrne was successful on
hve out of nine attempts.
Central shows Improvement.
Coach Metzler's men proved that
| they have the right stuff in them
as their ability in passing and gen
eral teamwork far exceeded that of
either of their two inter-high games
As usual the defense was built
around Lemon, and that 1.-the young
person made good.
GoEaga Gagged ten floor goals, as
against eight for the winners, put
were practically beaten because OF
the number of fouls called against
them. Every time Lemon got a free
toss he usually did some damage,
and 1t was his Workmanship in this
respect that gave the Centralites
the margin.
O'Connor, of Gonzaga, was 'the
leading scorer for his team with
five goals from the field, only one
less than Lemon.
Central (2S) Positions Gonzaga C25)
Lemon ........L. E....... OConnor
| walker R. F.. ...... Graves
Dey Center. Byrne
Morgan .......L G......... fluffy
Duffy .......... .R. Co.,. FolIiard
Substitutions: Central - McFad-
den for Morgan. Morgan for McFad-
den, McFadden for Dey: Gonzaga-
Ryan for Folliard, O'Donnell for
| Byrne. Goals from floor: Central
Lemon CO., Walker, Dey; Gonzaga-
O'Connor go, Graves (3). Duffy
Goals from fouls: Centra-Lemon
| az out of 15), Byrne Is out of o.
Time of halves-Twenty minutes.