The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-01-28
go, Tioerenes Defeat the oca'a
.,,ab school Girls in a Splendid
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rx,;h;.ion of Basketball
rhe ocala High school girls basket
- ,eam accompanied by a number
e cbaperones and rooters HE'D tnem-
800 - the home town of the Duvai
~;aeranes last Saturday with every
;ntantion of lining up a second deIeat
.gainst the fighting Tigerenes' Wnom
tsov had defeated the previous Satur-
d.v at Ocala. However, the best Oh
;rtentions sometimes go wrong ana
although at the end of the flrst nan
- the game it looked. with the score
. TO 8 that they were going to oes
successful, in the second half the
4 T;oerenes "got in the game with
vengeance and got their revenge Tor
the good walIoping administered 20
them in Ocala so the games now stand
one for ocala and one for Duvaf The
final score was "a to Is.
The Duval girls play much rough
o. game than do the Ocala girls, and
for considerable lover guarding and
holding the Ocala players they had g
great many fouls called on them tandi
iustly) by the referee, Miss Louise
4 Spencer. which the Tigerenes and the
Duyal fans seemed to resent severely
hut Miss Spencer's decisions to one
not unbiased were correct and quite
& impartial.
The Times Union gives the follow
ing excellent write-up of Saturdays
4 game:
Both Tigers and Tigerenes placed
their teeth into the basketball last
nigh at the Duval county armory and
defessed Waycross and the ocala
"Wna Cats in two rip-roaring games
of ball
The first engagement Of the even
ing was between the Tigerines and
wild Cats, and both names are very
appropriate for the sextets. The
Tigerines finally emerged the winners
by tire rather close score of "a to Is.
The Tigerines had few fouls call
ed on them and the writer is frank
] in stating that the Tigerines play
basketball more on the order of the
mans game and this, while not detri-
mental to their knowledge of the
game, does hurt them to certain ex-
tent in having fouls called on them.
The entire first half of this heated
battle was Qcala's, all the way. The
Wild Cats, haeded by Miss Christine
Close, the sextet's star guard, waded
through the first half by score of
Is to 8. Everyone must admit that
Ocala has a good team and if there
rests doubt about their fine. machine
I'd like to know where the doubt is.
The sensational work of Mary
Stubbs for. the Tigerenes brought
home the bacon for old Duval-with-
out her presence in this game the
Ilgerenes would have been humbly
defeated.
Inere never was such large crowd
q Ians present at a basketball game
IN this city as last night. Fully eight
hundred rabid fans walled and rooted
Tor the Red and White teams. and for
while the hopes of victory for the
llgerenes looked mighty slim. but
dark clouds which hung high over
head readily disappeared and bright
ray OF sunshine came creeping in as
the Tigerenes were making their game
upniii struggle The fans waited
patiently and all of sudden the
speedy Tigerenes started to get into
real action, and during the second half
OF play the Wild Cats were PLAYED
completely off their feet. Something
must have struck the building during
the second half for the fans and
Iigerenes were certainly raising some
thing more than "cain.,
ocaIa as sextet
ocala, as a sextet, is most effec.
tive machine, and to their coach. who.
ever she may be. certainly deserves
words Of credit for the fine team
which she has developed.
Estelle Wilkes. at forward for ocala
= q real star, and the machine which
sne plays on can thank themselves
TOT this PLAYERS presence in the line
up. 80 ny
Christine Close. at forward for
Oeaia- featured for the wild Cats.
Inls young lady threw four field goals
ana had five foul goals to her credit
m'ss Close is particularly star. at
basket throwing and as for her guard
NOrS' better could not have been ex-
pected OF her.
ISIS Dehon, at standing cenfor fo,.