The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-04
ALEDO QUINTET
TAkES0PENER
OF TOURNAMENT
New Boston Wins Second Game
Played Last Night-Gym Pack.
ed With ROOsers.

In the first game of the Mer-
Ger county basketball tournament,
which started last night, Aledo's
quintet Of basket shoot
ers walked away with the long end
Of the score from their opponents.
the Seaton aggregation. The Sea-
ton players, who put up a fairly
good game, seemed dazed at the
Of the gym and were
unable to withstand Aledo's fast
work. During the first half Of the
game the Seaton men held their
end of the score well. for when the
whistle sounded the score stood IL
to 10 in favor Of Aledo. In the
second half Of the game, when reg
ular members of the Aledo team
played, the score soon began to
roll up for Aledo, and the final was
"a to IS, with the local team as
victors.
The college gym, where the tour
nament is staged, was filled to Ca
pacity with enthusiastic roOters,
students from every competing
high school, who We'd with each
other in delivering their yells.
keithsburg's aggregation. which
was to have played in the tourna-
ment, did not show up, SO that only
five teams are now in the battle
for county honors: New Boston,
Seaton, Viola. New Windsor and
Aledo. Next to Aledo, New Boston
sthaught to have the strongest
team in the tournament. though
Viola is expected to show some
good playing when it meets the
Aledo team tomorrow.
Following is the lineup for the
Scaton-Aledo game and the scores
by quarters:
-Duffield, lg; E. Wells, re-;
Cooke, C; C. Stephens. RI; Boult-
inghouse. If. Substitutions for Ale
do: Morgan for Duffield. Bardwin
for Boultinghouse, G. Stephens for
Morgan.
Seaton-Graham, II: Greer. #;
Flynn, C: Olson, lg; Anderson, re-.
Game by quarters: First quarter.
Aledo 2, Seaton 2; second quarter,
Aledo 10, Seaton 10; third quarter.
Aledo "a, Seaton 16; fourth quar-
ter, Aledo "a, Seaton Is.
In the Aledo-Seaton game the
outstanding stars for Aledo were
Cooke, clearinghouse and S. Ste
phens. The entire team showed
excellent team work, as did the
Seaton aggregation. The stars for
the Seaton team were Greer and
Flynn.
In the clash between the New
Boston and New Windsor teams,
who played the second game last
night, the spectators viewed a fast,
rough game and one that held the
interest Of the crowd at all times.
Both teams showed fighting spirit,
with the result that the score was
close, New Boston winning, % to
%. In the last half of the game
Petrie of the New Windsor team
was put out for fouls. Prouty of
the New Boston team was easily
the outstanding star Of the game,
playing right forward on the team.
Excellent guarding marked the
playing Of the New Boston men.
Stars on the New Windsor team
were Anderson and Josephson.
The lineup for the New Boston
New Windsor game was as follows:
New Boston - Prouty. C; Bruce,
IF; Mattson, If; Hartwig, lg; Liv-
ingston, re-.
New Windsor - Josephson, #;
Hemborg, If; Anderson, C; Swan
son. re-; Petrie, lg.
Game by quarters: First quarter.
New Boston 10, New Windsor q;
second quarter, New Boston 13,
New Windsor II: third quarter,
New Boston 20, New Windsor 16;
fourth quarter, New Boston %, New
Windsor %.
The second session of the tourna-
ment was scheduled for this after
noon at 2 o'clock. The final session
will be played tonight at 6:45.
Two games will be played this aft
ernoon and three tonight. While
it is not certain, it was thought
that New Windsor and Seaton
would meet in the first game this
afternoon and Aledo and Viola in
the second.