The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-05
QUINTET
WINS MERGERS
FIRST TOURNEY


Aledo's high school basketball
team last night won the honors Of
the first Mercer county basketball
tournament. The Seaton aggrega-
ton placed second and the New
Boston team third. Students of
the local high school, although
they had expected Aledo to cop
first place, went wild when the last
game of the evening was played, In
which Aledo without any effort de-
feated Seaton. u to S. This was
the first game Of the tourney
where the first team Of Aledo play
ed straight through.
Every Aledo man placed In the
all star tournament teams picked
at the close of the games last night.
The first team as picked by off,
Gals is as follows: Leslie Bald
win, Aledo, RI; C. Stephens. Aledo.
LF; G. Stephens. Aledo, LG; Jack
Prouty, New Boston, re; Cooke.
Aledo, C. E. Wells Of Aledo, the
remaining member Of the Aledo
first team was picked as a member
of the second all star tournament
team.
Crowds packed the college gym
at every session of the tournament.
Herriott and Holmes of Knox col
lege refereed the games.
The first game played last night
was between Viola and New Bos-
ton, the latter team coping the
long end of the score of 80 to IL.
Poor team work ON the part of vi
ola was responsible for the low
score of that team. Excellent ma
terial was evident in the Viola
lineup. but lack of practice pre-
vented a good showing. The New
Boston men were much heavier
than the Viola team Bruce and
Mattson of the New Boston team
were the outstanding stars of that
quintet. Frazier of Viola played
the best game of their lineup. Fol-
lowing is the lineup for the Viola
New Boston game:
New Boston-Hartwig, LG; Liv-
ingston, re; Bruce. RI; Mattsou.
LF; Prouty, c.
Viola-Frazier, LF; Winston,
RI; Greenwood. re; Snyder. LG;
Griffin, C.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for Vein
stein.
Game by quarters-Frst quarter,
New Boston s, Viola s; second
quarter, New Boston II, Viola 10;
third quarter. New Boston 81, Viola
IL; fourth quarter, New Boston 80.
Viola 13.
In the last game Of the tourna-
ment, played between Aledo and
Seaton, the Aledo men dished out
defeat to the Seatonites with a
score of u to S. The superior play
ing of the Aledo men made it i'm
possible for the Seaton aggrega-
ton to make any Roadway. Every
man on the team displayed good
form, but Cooke was easily the star
basket shooter, making q baskets
in the course of the game. The line
up for the game follows:
Aledo-C. Stephens, LF; L. Bald
win, RF; Cooke, c; G. Stephens,
LG; Wells, RG.
Seaton-Flynn. C; Anderson, LG;
Olson, re; Greer. RI: Graham.
LF.
Observation-Disclosures for
Wells.
Game by quarters-Ffrst quarter.
16 to l, favor Aledo; second quar-
ter, IS to 2, Aledo; third quarter,
46 to 5, Aledo; fourth quarter, u
to 5, Aledo.
Three games were played yester-
day afternoon. The first game OF
the afternoon. between New Wind
sor and Seaton, ended in a victory
for Seaton with a score of % to 3.
The New Windsor men, who have
had little practice this year, were
unable to stand the fast work OF
the Seaton aggregation. Following
is the lineup for the game:
Seaton-Anderson, re; Olson.
|LG; Fraham, If; Greer. RI;
Glynn, C.
New Windsor-Hemborg. LF; Jo-
sephson, RI; Anderson, C; Petrie,
|LG; Swanson, RIG.
Games by quarters-Ffrst quar-
ter, 5 to 3, favor of Seaton; second
quarter, Z to 4, Seaton; third quar-
ter, 10 to 7, Seaton; fourth quar-
ter, 20 to 9, Seaton.
Aledo and Viola met in the Sec
ond game of the afternoon session
and Aledo calmly walked away with
the tilt, the final score being 81
to 2. The Viola men, who did not
score until the last quarter, were
unable to hold the ball or to with
stand the swift attacks Of the Aedo
men. Many of the second and
third team men Of the Aedo ag-
gregation played in the game.
Cooke of the Aledo team was easily
the outstanding star, making 10
baskets during the game. Baldwin
also put up a fast game. coping
eight baskets. The entire Aledo
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