The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-13
COLLEGE QUINT
UP AGAINST AN
UNBEATEN five
Swedberg's Men Confident of Sue
cess T0night-Arm0ur Is
Beaten Saturday.
By KENNETH CONREY.

BY KENNETH C0NREY.
With the scalp OF Armour Tech
hanging TO its belt, the Augustana
college basketball five is now ready
to hand the Illinois Wesleyan team
similar treatment in tonights con-
test at the college gym The Luth-
Grams will play Wesleyan for the
first time this season. Wesleyan Is
one of the best teams in the l. /.
A. G. conference this year, and
Augie will have to play the kind of
basketball which was displayed
Saturday against Armour, and a
little bit better.
Wesleyan has defeated every team
which it has met this year, and is
coming to Rock Island to continue
the winning streak. With such
men as Haussler, Zinzer, Mace,
Macy and Gottschalk, the Wesley
an coach has developed one of the
fastest basketball fives in the state
and followers OF the Methodists are
counting on the conference cham
pionship this year. Such schools
as Bradley, Monmouth, Illinois col
lege and De Paul have suffered de-
feat at the hands of the Wesleyan
aggregation and the Bloomington
team intends to add another vic
tory to it's string in tonights con-
test.
Swedberg thinks he has found
the five men who work the best to-
gether, in Swanson and Rosenwranz
at forward, Andreen at center and
Johnson and Rydholm at guard.
man mill nrnha hlU to
nights contest, Aronson, Anderson
and Dryers are second string who
can be relied upon to hold their
own when put into the contest
AS an added attraction for to-
nights exhibition, the newly organ
lied girls varsity five at Augustana
will play a team from the Rock Is
land Y. w. c. A. Miss Rogers, girls
athletic director at Augie, has de-
veloped a fast basketball quintet
and the Y. w c. A. is also repre-
scented by a formidable five. The
curtain raiser will start at 7:30.
the main game beginning about
Sis.
Defeat Armour.
Augustana college basketball
team came into its own Saturday.
Swedberg's men played the kind, of
basketball of which they are really
capable, and routed the Armour
Tech quintet, IS to 81. The brand of
basketball displayed by the Luth-
Grams was undoubtedly the best that
has been shown this seoson. At the
end of the first half the score stood
IS to 6, Augie on the top end of the
score. In the second period the
Armour quintet made determined
squirt and brought its score to
within 10 points of the Lutherans
Armour scored 81 points against IS
for Swedberg's men
Gus Andreen, pivot man for the
Swedes. was at his best. Gus
dropped in nine goals from the
field and made seven free throws
out of 10 tries for a total of 25
points, scoring over half of the
points made by his team He made
every point counted by the Angus
tana five in the second half, get
ting six of his nine field goals and
three free throws in that period.
Not only did the long, rangy cen
ter shoot baskets from all angles,
but his floor work was the best that
he has shown this year The Armour
coach sent a man into the contest
for the sole purpose of stopping
No. 8, but bounded or not. their was
no stopping to Andreen's effective
scoring.
Captain Swanson was next high
scorer. for Augie. making six bas-
kets for a total of IL points in the
first half. WalIy was in the game
every minute of the time, and his
fight was an incentive to his fellow
players. His floor work was prob
ably the best displayed by any
member of the Augie quintet.
Academy Wins.
The Augustana academy five also
won its game in the curtain raiser
against New Era, 80 to 26. The
academy five was on the upper end
of the score at the end of the first
half, 20 to 4, and it looked as if the
game was easily tucked away. But
a fast squirt by the New Era team in
the second half tied the score and
at the final whistle the score stood
"a and "a. In the extra five-minute
period the academy FIVE succeeded
in annexingi eight points to its
score, while New Era was able to
collect but two additional points.
Summary.