New Ulm review., 1921-03-23
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
WIN SECOND PLACE
LOSE TO MINNEAPOLIS CENT
RAILS IN FINAL BATTLE
AT CARLETON.
DEFEATED FossToN, HIBBINc
AND MANkATo IN PRELIM-
INARIES.

In one of the hardest fought battles
ever waged for. the state championships.
the New Ulm high school basket ball
qullnt went down to defeat before the
Minneapolis Central High School team
IN the annual tournament at Carleton
College, Mortified, MINI. by the score
OF - to Is. New Ulm won the right
to play in the finals by defeating,
1Fosston, Hibbing and Mankato. The
Minneapolis quint defeated Faribault.
Sandstone and st. Cloud before enter
ing the finals.
Local Quint Handicapped.
A little hard luck was one Of the
causes for the losing of the Champion
ship by the New Ulm quint. Herzog,
one 5oe OF the teams steller forwards
wrenched his knee in the Mankato
game and was unable to participate in
the final game with Minneapolis, thua
lmpairing the team work of the locs !
basketeers. To add to this m!
fortune, Schueller, our star cents
who by the way was chosen as cents
on the mythical all-state second teaml
was put out of the game in the firsh,.
half on four personal fouls, He was j
replaced by young Kretsch, who
played with slit tongue, having bitten
that instrument of articulation IN the
game with Hibbing. Six stitches had
to be made to sew it together, but in
spite of this handicap the youngster
played with vim. To add further to
our misfortunes, John Graf, star
guard and captain of the New Uln
team was also put out on fouls early
in the second half, he being replaced
by Hugo Schleuder. But the never
say-die" spirit was with the local boys
and altho Minneapolis was playing our
substitute team they found harder
sailing than they had with any of
the other teams they played. The fans
who witnessed this game from New
Ulm, (and they were about 100 in
number) feel certain that if these two
teams would meet with their full line
up, the New Ulm quint would easily
come out victors.
Game Fight Thro ug hout.
The game, which was witnessed by
approximately 1000 people, was hard
fought throughout Minneapolis
started the scoring in the first quarter,
when Norton, their stellar guard, who
was picked as forward on the all-state
team with Hamann of New Ulrn as his
running mate, dropped the ball in the
basket from the foul line Hamann
tied it few minutes later with free
throw. Then both Norton and Ha-
mann secured a field basket while
Norton secured several free throws,
the score at the end of the first quarter
being Z to 4 in favor of Minneapolis,
At the end of the first half the Mime
apolis rooters thought their team would
have a walk-a-way, the scoreboard
showing IL to Z in favor of Minneapolis.
But in the third quarter the New Ulm
boys completely outclassed their OPP
ponents, getting points to their three,
with the score at the close of that
period Is to Ia in favor of the Mill
City quintet. A few minutes later
Hamann Of New Ulm tied the score
with free throw and for the next five
minutes neither team registered
point, altho both had chance to
break the tie from the foul line. In
the last two minutes of play, Norton
Iof Minneapolis broke away from his
guards and registered two field baskets.
thus putting his team in the lead by
four points which was too big for the
locals to overcome.
Good Clean Fight.
The game was a good clean fight
and both teams played in a manly
manner. Minneapolis has stellar
man in Norton, who registered II of
the 19 points made by his team.
Hamann was the star for the New
Ulmites getting 13 of the Is points the
locals made. Graft at guard also
played very strong game and it was
due to his close guarding that Norton
was unable to run up the scores that
he ran up in the other games that
Minneapolis played. New Ulm has
every reason to feel nroi1d of their hoUs
and altho the state pennant does not
rest in the local high school, we have
every reason to believe that we have
the strongest high school team in the
state.
Vanquish Fosston First.
The New Ulm five took the Fosston
team into camp Thursday morning
defeating them by the score of SO to
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