The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-02-24
LEANS BUNktD OUT
OF SECOND GAME BY
AGGRESSIVE FATS
CHANGE OF REFEREE MADE
BOTH TEAMS COME TO THE
SCRATCH AND PLAY. FINAL
SCORE. 8 TO 1.

The second act of the fat and
lean session under the title of basket
ball was staged last Thursday even
| ing and was a continuation of comedy
Jack Wunder was drafted to serve as
referee and did a coed job of it. AS
the scorekeeper has rot furnished us
with a copy of that valuable record,
nor for the first game, we may not be
able to give full credit to all the play
ers. Last week the Echo was read
under protest by Frank Hennessey,
as he claimed we had failed to give
him proper credit. Frank, it seems,
claims TO have made several elegant
| shots at the BASKET. Whether he did
or not in that first game, he did not
in the second game.
Well, the second game started out
with heave and a shove by the fats
and it looked for time like they
would shut the leans out Finally,
however, when the fats had made two
baskets, they were overcome by the
weight of circumfelences and the
leans edged in and shot a couple bas-
kets, tieing the score at to 4. The
fats then insiste upon rest. They
perspired and puffed for fifteen or
twenty minutes and when the whistle
sounded they went in with a bang
and fought like rhinoceroses until
they scored another basket-and then
quit They insist that time was up
and the leans say it was not-so that
settles that.
Buck Ewing was easily the star of
this performance. When Buck opened
the throttle for a run down the floor
he evidently did not know the leans
had been monkeying with his sand
and before he could effect a stop ne
threatened to have a headon collision
with sundry spectators. This hap
pened several times until finally his
steam got so low that he could not
get under dangerous headway.
Clarence Campbell was still good at
! football tactics ard must have been
| star quarterback in his leaner days,
Judging by the distance he carried the
/ ball. Bert Rutherford evidently was
too stiff to make any punts in this
game. Constable played a scrappy
Pame and as a guard Buck Ewing was
a scream. Nothing could get by him
and he tore through whatever oppo-
sition develoDed. Butler Sampson and
Hennessey showed up classy. OIarey
was there with the weight and speed.
and Al Hoffman. who writes lots Of
good bills and makes a dandy report
er, starred at center,
We neglected last week to give
Harry Maston due credit for his part
in the first game. He apparently was
the youngest man Of the fat team and
was placed at Ger ter to do some high
stepping Fortunately the foundation
under the center of Il e room is pretty
good and even now there is not much
sag to the floor.
Among hte leans it is pretty diff
cult to say Just who did the star act,
for R. B. Field Harry Krollpfeiffer
and Guy Hamilton moved about so
rapidly-when butted into by Buck
Ewing or OLarey-that one needed
more than two eyes to see all that
happened. Harry Geerds was some
line-bucker himself his experience in
bucking snow on the road standing
him in hand He avoided Buck and
| OIarey. Tom Mckenzie had several
close shaves. He had trimmed sew
eral Of the fats in a professional man
ner and this was their chance to fall
on him. Jarvis found that the ref
cree on this las evening would not
permit such high-handed playing ana
he did not make so many baskets. Lee
was permitted TO play, being too sore
and used up to he dangerous, not
withstanding his reputation back
east"
So the game was a to victory
for the fats. If the players recover
from their stiff joints and sore mus
cles in time, We shall have another
exhibition about this time next year