Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-03-08
WE WON SECOND PLACE
Lost Out BY Two Points for
First in Tournament at
Laona = First to Laona,
Third to Gillett.

Basket ball fans feel mighty
good over the results of the two
day tournament held last week at
Laona, in which the Eagle River
team came out in second place.
The teams comprising the tourna-
ment were Laona, Crandon, Pula-
ski. ArgOnne, Eagle River and
Gillett. The event was held at
Laona, that village being fitted
with splendid facilities to carry
on an event of this kind.
Eagle River came back with a
silver cup and a new basket ball.
The former was given for second
place by the tournament commit
tee and the basket ball by the
Connor Company.
Here is how one of the fans ex-
plains the situation and just how
the battle was fought:
The local high school basket
ball team made a very creditable
showing at the tournament held
in Laona March End and 3rd.
In the drawing for place Eagle
River was matched against Pola-
ski for the first game Thursday
evening. They won easily over
that down-state team by a "a to
SO score. In this game Belongy
made ten baskets and Bent threw
8 free throws out of 8 chances.
Polaski attempted to play two
ringers" but it was discovered
before the game started and the
men were not allowed to partici-
pate. These men were over 20
years of age on their own confess
sion and further, it was quite gen.
orally thought that they were not
even attending high school at Po-
laski.
Laona's fortunate match with
Argonne enabled her to play sub
stitutes against that comparative
ly weak team thus saving her best
resources for the harder game
with Gillett in the evening. With
two games disposed of on Thurs
day, Laona had but one game on
Friday and this proved to be
against Eagle River, since the lat
ter had won from Crandon by a
close margin in the afternoon.
Bent was not played against Gran
don 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 a strong contender for a
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 "a to % score. The excite
ment was intense until Belongy
dropped one through just before
the final whistle. This close score
with Crandon of course gave La
ona fans unlimited confidence that
their team would win, some even
said it would be a large margin.
The event, however, proved diff
ferent. If the Eagle River five
ever played basket ball it was in
that game with Laona- One of
the coaches remarked that Nu-
merck 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 garner
ing three baskets. which IS the
best he had done this year. With
improvement in his shooting eye
coupled with his present ability
and endurance a better forward
will be harder TO find another
year. Bent made two pretty ring
ers from the center of the floor
at a time when Laona was lead
ing. 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 posses
sion much over half of the time
but the afternoons game had
.aLan so much of the pep" out