The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-03-10
BASKET BALL
TOURNAMENT

with scarlet fever and also due to
Slgurd Noes i'll condition prior to
the trip. In view of this it was ne
cessary to make complete change
in the lieup just before the begin
ming Of the games. Sig Moe had TO
go back TO center from forward,
where he had been shifted :lue to his
poor condition. Considering the
change of the lineup the boys nn;. Sc a
good showing. Drawing of the coaches
took place at noon on the oath and
Plentywoed drew the champions,
Glasgow. The first game ~esuited in
score Of 26 to 13 in favor of Ciss-
gov. The game was. Fast and the
score does not indicate the real fight
put up by the Plentywood boys. In the
last half Of the game the bail was
up in Psentywoods territory NEST Of
the time, but the Plentywnod basket
shooters did rather poor shooting. The
next game was played between the
losers of the first games and conse-
quently Plentywood played Saeo. win
ming over Saco, who We're defeated by
Scobey by one point, by score of
26 to 8. 1t may be fairly stated that
all played very good game without
anyone starring in particular. Plen-
tywood then was matched to play the
winner of the game between Wolf
Point and Malta Malta won ever
Wolf Point by one point and Plenty
wood played Malta as their third
game and lost by one point. In the
last game Leo Garneau and Sig
Moe were not in good condition.
II I'll f1
Sig Moe during the first few min
utes of the game and it became
necessary for him to play carefully
so as not to make more fouls and be
thrown out of the game and he was
shifted to forward Immediately af-
ter jumping at center and Alex Flick
was instructed to play the floor as
center. During this last game two of
the players, Sig Moe and Leo Gar
neau, seemed to be in poor condition.
The other players particularly Alex
Flick might be said played star
game.
Malta was not considered as one of
the better teams but seemed to have
horse shoe clear through the
games, at least everything seemed to
NC SottIIiE IliS1I way. l1S game re-
suited 22 to % in favor of Malta.
Had Plentywood won over Malta
they would have met Scobey, in their
final game for third place, and it
can be fairly stated that Plentywood
lost third place by one point If
Plentywood had their regular team
and been in favorable condition they,
would have given Glasgow a hard
fight for first place and under no
circumstances would have gained less
than 3rd place and possibly second.
The freak game of the tournament
was played between Poplar and Gull
bertson when Culbertson defeated
Poplar with a score Of 20 to. Is.
Poplar had defeated Wolf Point the
previous day by score of SO to 8
and Culbertson had defeated Malta
by a score of 80 to "a Everyone
conceded that Wolf Point had just
as strong team as Culbertson, hav-
ing defeated Culbertson a week Or
two prior to the tournament and all
"dope" was upset when Culbertson
defeated Poplar. Poplar, however,
lost their star center, who was taken
III Just before the tournament. How
ever, it appeared that the Poplar
team after losing to Culbertson lost
their head and in view Of the. fact
that they had suffered no defeat dur
ing the season they did not seem to
have ability and knowledge of how
to "come back and Poplar withdrew
from the tournament and forfeited
the remainder of the, games after
this defeat and forfeited the game to
Scobey. This caused Scobey and
Malta to play for third place and
Culbertson and Glasgow for first and
Glasgow easily defeated Culbertson
by a bigger score than they defeated
Plentywood. The opinion among the
coaches, however, was that if the
teams were properly classified accord
ing to the seasons record and ap-
parent ability with their regular
lineup that Poplar had a. shade the
best team, Glasgow second and Plen-
tywood, Culbertson and Wolf Point
were rated as equals for third place,
but according to the opinion of Coach
Moe there was no question but what
PIentvwood would have had third
place and would have been a strong
contender against Glasgow and Pop
lar for first or second place. IN view
of the conditions of the team and the
lineup that left for the. tournament
the Plentywood boys made a very
good showing and had very valu-
able trip which no doub will be of
great benefit to them in working up
a team for next season. further
more in view of the fact. that this
was the first season of basket ball
for all but one or two of the Plenty
wood bows it can be stated without
anv conceit in the matter that the
bows made a wonderful showing and
the town of Plentywood should feel
proud of their team which no doubt
has been emphatically shown by
their good support during the basket
ball season.
This closes the basket ball season
in this district, except Glasgow
who goes to the States Tournament
and battles for the northeast district
and under the conditions of the teams,
Glasgow has the best lineup with
which to go and the Northeast dis
trict will be represented by this team.
The boys who left with the Plenty
wood team were as follows: Capt. Sig.
Moe. center; Alex Flick and Quinton
Ford, forwards; Beryl Pierce and
Leo Garneau, guards, and Chester
Onstad, sub. Chester Onstad sub
sfituted part of the second game of