The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-02-23
GORE SPILLED
IN FARMER GAME
Houghton Boys Mop Up the
Floor With Enterprise ALI
Stars and Get Revenge for
Trimming of Week Ago.


There was no biting in clinches,
neither was their kicking when the
other fellow was down, but there
was everything else in the game of
basket ball played at the Du Pont
Club last Friday evening by the En-
terprise All-Stars and the Houghton
Athletic Club, when the farmer boys
forming these two teams played
preliminary to the regular game that
evening. 1t was battle royal with
both teams bent on cleaning up on
the other fellows, with no set rules
by which to win.
The Enterprise Club team, COM
prising boys from the Four Mile
Greek region, flush with victory, hav-
| ing defeated the Houghton boys at
the Hammond Dairy barn a week
ago, were bent upon adding more
feathers to their cap, while the
Houghton boys Nught revenge for
the singing defeat administered to
them, and had it not been for Re-
fierce Brown at least ten good farm
er boys would have been out of COM
mission.
| This was the first time these boys
had played before a large audience
and when they entered the floor they
seemed abashed because they had to
display bare knee in their uniforms,
and they appeared cautious and ner-
yous, but this passed away when the
Houghton boys dropped in the first
basket and the game was on for fair.
i There was no fooling when once
the game was underway. Both sides
/ tied in as though it meant life or
1 death to win or lose, and there was
i football, basket ball, wrestling, mix
ed up wild plunges, acrobatic stunts,
etc., all of which kept the audience
roaring with laughter.
1 The spectacular playing was done
i by Wick for the Enterprise ALI
| Stars and Hagen for Houghton. Hag-
en- was playing the position of guard
i and one would think that he was de-
Il Tending an American trench against
| an opposing army, and that an i'm
aginary line just beyond the center
of the door was the death line, for
i he would charge his opponent, wrest-
ling the ball away from him and start
Il down the floor with his head lowered
like that of a charging bull who had
Il been enraged with red flag, and
\ those who happened to get in his
way would topple over like pins in
a. ten pin alley when Charley Wolff
| is rolling the ball. A stone wall
!. would not stop Hagen and he US
ualy made the entire length Of the
;, hall and made a drive for the bas-
) lket.
i Wick, who played guard for the
). Four Mile Creek boys, adopted an
entirely different method of proceed
ure. He would charge with equal
speed, but when an opposing player
got in his way he would either hurdle
. or turn a complete somersault, land
, ling on all tours in the center of the
floor with his arms around the ball
in death-ike embrace, and to get
] the ball away from him was like
! lpulling a Missouri mule out of the
{ mud.
i Swanby and Bogenrief usually en-
: gagged in a wrestling match when at
: tempting to take the ball from one
, another, and at times all members
. of both teams charged, piling up in
. the center of the floor. Referee
! Brown was none too strict, and let
the boys have pretty much their
own way, while the audience doubled
j up laughing at the performance.
The Houghton boys had evidental-
) | ly,. been burning the midnight oil
) at the Hammond barn since the last
! contest for they began piling up a
/, score at rapid rate and the half
Tended II to / in their favor.
Il During the intermission Captain
Wick of the Enterprise All-Stars
: slipped the heavy talk to his players
{ and they came back: determined tc
turn the trick, and while they made