The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-03-17
THE WESTERN KANSAS BASKET
BALL TOURNAMENT THE
LARGEST DISTRICT
TOURNAMENT IN
KANSAS

Thirty-tsTO Boys Teams and Eighteen
Girls Teams Actually Competed
The Western Kansas Basket Ball
Tournament held under the auspices
of the Fort Hays Kansas Normal
School at Hays, last Friday and Sat
urday, March II and II, was the larg-
est district tournament held in Kansas
this year. The following high shoots
were represented by boys teams in
the tournament: Ellis, Grinnell,
Quinter, Holyrood, Hill City, Scott
City, Grainfeld, Sherman County,
Colby, Wallace County, Russell,
Palco, Deerfeld, Glen Elder, Natoma,
Trego County, Sylvan Grove, Ran
som, Plainville, Webster, Bison, Viii
son, Arnold, Ellsworth, Morland, Dor
rance, Hays and Great Bend.
The following high schools were re-
presented by girls teams: Norton
County, Webster, Russell, Grinnell,
Wallace County, Natoma, Deerfeld,
Hill City, Cove County, Sylvan Grove,
Quinter, Ransom, Hays, Glen Elder
and Grainfeld.
The four prize teams which went to
the semi-fnals were: Scott City,
Russell. Glen Elder and Great Bend.
Scott City beat Russell with score
of Is to Ia and Great Bend beat Glen
Elder with a score of 25 to "a. This
put Scott City and Great Bend in the
finals. In a game that would do credit
to varsity teams, Great Bend beat
Scott City with a score of 81 to rs.
Among the girls teams Russell,
Grinne1, Hill City and Hays went to
the semi-finals. Russell beat Grinnell
with a score of so to 10, and Hays
beat Hill City with a score of 26 to 8.
This placed Russell and Hays in the
final game for the girls. Russell beat
Hays Al to 80. The final game be-
tween Russell and Hays was one of
the most spectacular and holly con
tested games ever witnessed on the
floor of Sheridan Coliseum. The
teams were very evenly matched and
the lead was passed from one team to
the other as the consistent playing Of
one team and then thesether register
ed a goal. The great crowd of almost
1000 spectators was about evenly div
ided between Hays and Russell and as
each team scored the lusty cheer was
passed back and forth from one side
of the amphitheatre to the other.
The crowd that attended the game:
this year were the bset in the history
of Western Kansas athletics. After
the expenses Of the tournament are
deducted the proceeds of the tourna-
mnt will be divide dpro-rata accord
ing to distance travelled among the
teams which took part in the tourna
ment.
The Fort Hays Normal School pre-
scented four silver loving cups to the
four teams which played in the finals
Great Bend and Russell receiving
fourteen inch cups; Hays and Scott
City ten inch cups The Western
Kansas Trophy Cup which has beer
contested for in Western Kansas fol-
the last five years was awarded tc
Great Bend as the winner of the
tournament. The big trophy cup wa:
given to the Western Kansas League
by the Fort Hays Kansas Norma
School in 1917 and will become the
property OF the high school which vii
win the Tournament three years in
succession. According to the state
rules the two boys teams and the two
Girls teams which entered the final
games are eligible to compete in the
State Tournament at Lawrence this
week. This will place Great Bend
Scott City, Russell mad Hays in the
state tournament
Coach Crook" Woodward of the
Fort Hays Kansas Normal School,
says: "This years basket ball tourn-
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