Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-11
SemiFinals OF Tournament
Start This Afternoon At z,
NORWOOD Meeting Lang
don; Grand Forks And
Grafton To Decide Issue
Late This Afternoon.

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S in the opening game Of the fifth
district tournament held at the uni
verxty armory Friday afternoon and
Northwood defeated Hatton So to IT.
In the play of the evening Grand
Forks won from Mimic 81 to Ia and
Grafton defeated Mayville IT to 4.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon Ilangdon
and Northwood will play the first
game of the semi-tinals and this game
will be followed by one between Graf
ton and Grand Forks. The latter con-
test is expected to practically decide
the district championship unless
something very Unforeseen happens.
The final contest between the two
winning teams this afternoon will be
played in the evening.
Best Contest
The-best game Of The opening play
of the tournament was staged Friday
evening between Ma willie and Graf
ton. The southern aggregation show
ed unexpected strength and forced
Murphys huskies to extend them
selves to win
MayviTle was fully as fast as the
The strong Grafton defense, however,
precluded any open attempts from
the field.
Close guarding by the Mayville
players and the especially good work
OF Gr1naEer and Hanson held the
Grafton offense in check time after
time when the ball had been advanced
to shooting distance. ALT, diminutive
forward for Hayville, alsc~played a
strong game.
The southern team was unable to
secure a field basket, but at the same
time held Grafton to but two during
the first half, which ended 5 to /.
Neither team could make use of the
tree throws. The Mayville players
secured but four out Of II, while
Grafton negotiateddthree out Of 10.
Formidable Defense.
Grafton presented a formidable Of
tense as well as a strong defense. but
w2s wild when it came to shooting.
In Geston and Popowski. forwards.
Murphy has two mighty high school
athletes. Geston is a tower of
strength to his team and the Grafton
coach removed him from the game
after it had been tucked away.
j. Mach started h scoring with a
field basket after but a few minutes
of play and it was several minutes
before Geston AIDED one more point
from a foul.
Mayville's lone noint came three
minutes before the end Of the first
period.
The summary:
Grafton ,iayville
Murphy ncnaas
Geston ALI
J. Mach 4. anderson
F. Mach T.. ii. Grinager
CAr1uthers l.. G. Hanson
Field goals-Geston /; j. Mach /;
Free throws-Wenaas 3; Ander-
son I.
Subsitutes-Popowski for Murphy;
Stewart for Geston: Murphy for j.
Mach: Oslahd for Hanson: Hanson for
Grinagcr; Grinager for ALI; ALI for
Wenaas.
Mimic Scrappy.
Mimic put up a scrappy game
against Grand Forks, but were out
played in every department. The
locals showed worlds of speed and a
steady shooting eye, especially Lxough-
lin,4who threw eight field baskets dur
ing the course ~ play. Central had
cry smooth teamwork, but it was
spoiled time after time by fumbles
caused by two hard yassing. The
score would have been much larger if
he passing had been more carefully
done
81. Minto's whole game was defensive
with small chance to shoot on ccoun
of the locals guarding.
For Mimic Rolzinski probably play
ed the best game, while there was nc
9 %a ing, sta %sot, on On Central ;s,s5 Bot Both
defensive de a,,s+s game s;+ while sl Roe o and Leug sh;