Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-10
LOCALS WON SECOND
PLACE AT TOURNEY
Laona First and Gillett Third In
TwO-Day Meet At Laona-
Locals Won Cup and
Basketball

In the drawing for place Eagle
River was matched against Polaski for
the first game Thursday evening. They
won easily over that down-state team
by "a to 36 score. In this game Be
longy made ten baskets and Bent
threw free throws out of s chances.
Polaski attempted to play two ''ring-
ers" but it was discovered before the
game started and the men were not
allowed to participate These men
were over 20 years of age on their
own confession and further, it was
quite generally thought that they were
not even attending high school at Po-
laski.
Laona's fortunate match with Ar
come enabled her to play substitutes
against that comparatively weak team
thus saving her best resources for
the harder game with Gillett in the
evening. With two games disposed of
on Thursday, Laona had but one game
on Friday and this proved to be
against Eagle River, since the latter
had won from Crandon by close mar
gin in the afternoon. Bent was not
played against Crandon in order that
we might have at least one fresh man
for the hard struggle against a fresh
team in the evening. Lillrose played
the guard position with much credit
to himself. He had the ability to come
up and join in the offensive at the
right time and in so doing he made
two field goals out of three attempts.
He will be strong contender for
permanent place on the team next
year.
Bent took STEMS place during the
last few minutes of play and when
Crandon had the short end of "a
to Is score. The excitement was in
tense until Belongy dropped one thro
just before the final whistle This
close score with Crandon of course
gave Laona fans unlimited confidence
that their team would win, some even
said it would be large margin.
The ssvert however, proved diff
ferent. If the Eagle River five ever
played basketball it was in that game
with Laona One of the coaches re-
marked that Numerick would not be
able to do much after his strenuous
floor work of the afternoon Our little
forward, however, played even harder
and succeeded in garnering three bas-
kets, which is the best he had done
this year. With Improvement in his
shooting eye coupled with his present
ability and endurance better for
ward will be harder to find another
year. Bent made two pretty ringers
from the center of the floor at time
when Laona was leading. Stein also
pulled down" one long one but it
cannot be said that the long shooting
broke up the team work.
These shots were taken for the most
part when every one was completely
covered and only five long shots in
the entire game. Our boys had the ball
in their possession much over half of
the time but the afternoons game had
taken SO much Of the pep" out of
them in comparison to Laone that
their rushes on the offensive lacked
sufficient dash to carry through
Taono,c fixvoyooy 5afonco NTorro,,,r
work in this game stood out especially
strong. Time after time he would rush
in, break up the Laona play, secure
the ball and start the offensive for
Eagle River Morgan's speed in inter
cepting, his lodging ability, and ac-
curate passing make him valuable
asset to the team. with more weight
coupled with his present ability and
the Improvement which will come thro
his careful carrying out of coaching
instructions, he will be unbeatable
next year as guard.
Bent fought like a tiger during the
entire game. Handicapped as he was
Ny A1o SO11OuS IlIuCSo VI 4dSC ySdI3
he has played hard and consistent
basketball the entire year. He has
a good eye for free throws having
made several records that show a
higher percentage than that held by
big team throwers. These qualities
will make him invaluable to the team
next year.
Stein, as pivot man, has had the
ability to outjump nearly ali Of his
opponents. He has ability to cover
the floor and at times shows flashes
of splendid basket shooting. In the
Laona game he held their star center,
Johnson, to twobaskets 1t was this
breaking up of their team work by
STEMS excellent guarding that bewil-
dered them
The youngest player on the team,
Belongy, has made a remarkable re-
cord considering his age, experience
and weight Laona had so much re-
spect for his shooting ability that they
kept one man on him all the time,
playing four-man offense whereas
they had played five-man advance
in all previous games. Belongy is be-
coming an adept at the pivot, quick
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