The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-03-24
SCOUTS RUN INTO HEAVY
WEATHER
Suffer First Defeat on the Home
Floor.

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means to be decisively licked, when
the team from the Boys Athletic Club
of Ashland, ran up score of % to
IL on them, at the Y gymnasium.
The game was fast and hard-fought,-
and did not start getting one-sided
until the second half was well Under
way; in fact, the Scouts led in the
scoring in the first half, scoring 9
points to their opponents Z. But
after the Ashland, boys had become
thoroughly accustomed to the floor,
and had overcome the trouble they
had at first, they started running up
lead, and the Scouts couldn't hold
them down.
The B. A. C. team is by far the
best team the Scouts have tackled
this year. Their average weight is
30 lbs heavier per man than the
Scouts, and they are fast, and use
excellent team work. The fact
that they are heavy is no reflection
on their s craftsmanship, as the Scouts
knew they were heavy, and challeng-
ed them anyway; and the team that
played is their regular lineup. They
sized up like a high school team in
fact, one of their players is man
who played on the Ashland high
school first team up till February,
when he graduated; and he was by
no means better than the rest of
their tean-in fact, Scoop Haglund
slid six field goals past him. These
thinge are simply cited to show what
kind of team the Scouts were up
against, as they are not making any
claim that the result was a mistake
These little things are bound to hap
pen to any team that takes on all
comers, regardless, as the Scouts
have done this year. 1t doesn't
hang any bouquets on their percent
age column, but it certainly develops
their basket ball ability, and in that
way it does them more good than a
dozen victories.
Haglund's uncanny snap-shooting
accuracy was much in evidence,
though he had hard luck on two or
three that looked like sure counters;
if you want this boy to shoot bas-
ket, you don't have to tell him so a
week ahead of time. Alton played
his usual floor game in beautiful
shape. Morgan, Cease and Shores
man put up a wonderful defense.
Morgan played the best game of his
life SO far, in this respect, until he
went out with a sprained wrist; and
all three proved a stumbling-block to
Ashland until the latter began to
bring their weight TO bear.
Nelson, at center and Welsh, at
forward, starred for Ashland. Both
were able to pop out of the scrim-
mage and get under the basket at
just the right times. The lineup:
B. A. C.--28 17--Scouts
Lindstrom R. F. Alton
Welsh, Capt. IF. Capt Haglund
Nelson C. Morgan
De Braie r. G. Cease
Guniard L. G. Shoresman
Substitution: Sheridan for Morgan.
Goals from field: Nelson 6, Welsh
5, Guniard 1, Haglund 6, Alton !,
Cease /. Goals from fouls Welsh 4,
Cease1. Referee, Richey.
The preliminary game brought a
new team to light, namely, the Girl
Scouts, who took the Washburn High
school girls second team into camp
by the score of IA to IL. This team
has been trained by Miss Florence
Manning, and certainly looked as il
she had put in S ONE hard work on
them, with plenty of results. The
game was fast and exciting all the
way through: in the first half, the
Girl Scouts swept their opponents off
their feet, and ran up score of z to
3; the second half saw a desperate
uphill fight by the high school girls,
which brought the score to a tie,
IL to IL, at the end of the second half;
and in the five-minute overtime period
the Girl Scouts got field goal and
a free throw, winning the game.
On account of the fact that the
High school girls had no regular
center, Elizabeth Lampson, forward
on the first team, was used in this
position. She seemed to feel sort
of maternal solicitude for the whole
team, and tore from one part of the
floor to another, .helpig out first one
of her teammates, and then another,
and getting in some few licks on her
own job, If hard work could have
won the game, she would have done
it. In addition to her own field goal,
she contributed a lot to the success
of Eva Erickson's three baskets in
the second half, and Eva herself was
not at all slow in carrying out her end
of the program. RuGh Anderson
showed good accuracy from the 15-
foot mark.
On the Girl Scouts side, Grace
Manning was at something of dis
! advantage, in floor-work, against her