The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-03-17
Liberal TEAMS GO
TO LAWRENCE MEET
Boys and Girls Won Enough Games
at Pratt To Attend The
State Meet
TEAMS LEFT THURSDAY ON NO. z

The boys and girls teams Of Lib
eral won the right to attend the state
meet at Lawrence at the district
tournament at Pratt last week. The
boys won two games and lost the
third one while the girls won their
first and lost their second. To be eli
gible to the meet at Lawrence the
teams had to be one of the last four
teams lin the district meet.
The boys played their. first game
with the Cullison team. Cullison had
very good team, having won the
championship of Pratt county only a
few days before the tournament.
This game was too close for comfort
and Liberal won with q score Of 20
to 18. At the half the score stood
IL to 10 in favor of Liberal. With
only few minutes to play the score
was tied and then Liberal secured the
lead and held it until the close Of the
game.
The girls won their first game
from the Sawyer team with a score
of 40 to 81. This game was a fairly
good game s the Liberal girls had
heard considerable about the Sawyer
bunch and for this reason they play
ed hard for the first half and then
loosened up to save themselves for
the Kiowa game. There was num-
her Of fouls on the Liberal team in
this game and had the Sawyer team
been better at shot in free goals the
score might have been closer.
The boys played their second game
with Lake City ten o'clock Saturday
morning. The boys seemed to think
that they had hard game on and
Lake City team were confident that
they were going to win. .'The execel-
lent defense of Liberal left their
scoring machine helpless and the
Liberal forwards dropped the ball
thru the basket almost at will. The
game ended with the score 40 to IL
in favor Of Liberal. The feature Of
the game was the defense work Of
Engel and Moore as Lake City was
only able to make one point on the
last half.
The girls after winning from Saw
yer drew Kiowa. This team was
cracked up to take the tournament
from the start, and the Liberal girls
realized they had real game sched-
uled before they started to play. AL
so the Kiowa team found they were
not on picnic when they met the
Liberal five. The game started with
Kiowa leading by several points. The
Liberal team pulled together and
started playing their old game and
things frightened up for Liberal. The
teams played even ball the last half
as both teams made the same number
of points. The Liberal team, how
ever, was unable to overcome the
lead that Kiowa had made in the first
half. The game ended with the score
81 to 45. The Liberal team seemed
to be the second best team up there
although Minneola won the the pen
nant for second place. The Kiowa
team beat Minneola 55 to 25 in the
finals and were only able to win
from Liberal by eleven points.
The boys third game was with
Spring Township. 1t seemed that this
team materialized out of air as no
one had heard of them before the
tournament. However, they were
there and they had a real team.
Spring Township is a large CONSOLE
dated country school south of Anth-
ony. They eliminated Fowler with a
score of 80 to II in their first game
and Plains 81 to % in the second
game. Liberal and Spring Township
played at three o'clock Saturday.
The game was between the defense
of Liberal and the offense Of Spring.
The game was exceedingly fast at all
times and the score was even for
about the first quarter and then
the Spring township quintet began
hitting the goals from the center Of
the court. The final score was 35 to
"a in favor of Spring Township.
The finals in the evening was be-
tween Minneola and Kiowa girls
and the Kingman and Spring Town
ship in the evening. Kiowa won their
game in walk with score of 55 to
25 and the Kingman five won from
Snring township with score of 36 to
27. This gave the tournament to the
Kingman boys and the Kiowa girls.
The two teams went to Lawrence
tn the state meet Thursday where
they hope to win some more honors
for Liberal. The fact that Liberal
did not win the cups should not dis
courage the Liberal people as both
boys and girls were beaten by real
teams. The Liberal girls should have
won second but the luck in the draw
gave the place to Minneola.