Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-03-16
MT. PLEASANT
SLAUGHTERED
BY ALMA!TEs
MAROON AND CREAM TEAM
JUMPS ON NORMALS FOR
EASY WIN IN LAST FRAY.
Teachers NeUer
Get Into Lead

Revenge is sweet and it has prob
ably never been as sweet to the Ma
room and Cream as that which came
Alma's way Friday night when the
Presbyterians jumped all over the
highly touted Mt. Pleasant Normal
y aggregation for a IL to % victory on
the Teachers floor and then added in
suit to injury by also coping off the
reserve game 1S to 10.
Early in the year before the
Alma clan was thoroughly organized
and going in good shape the Normals
defeated the local aggregation on the
local floor 20 to -, and had every
expectation Of winning by a big score
on the home floor. 1t was one of the
most confident aggregations that AL
ma has opposed this season. Verify
pride goeth before a fall.
Not once during the entire game did
the Mt. Pleasant aggregation look like
Il winner, Alma taking the lead at the
start and holding it throughout the
entire game. The longer the game
progressed the greater became the
rout Of the opposition. Mcssrs. Brooks
and LeCronier going to pieces in the
final few minutes Of the fray, the
latter even starting TO battle in a
way not allowed by the rules to such
an extent that Coach Parker Of Mt.
Pleasant, clean-cut coach and good
sport, elected LeCronier from the
fray, in which he was no longer of
much benefit to his team. AT the end
of the first half Alma was leading IA
to u and in the second half just con-
tnucd to pile up the counters on the
hapless Normalite aggregation OF
basket tossers, which was bewilderec
by the whirlwind attack Of the Ma
room and Cream. In the second half
Alma piled up far larger margin
than in the first half. The Maroon
and Cream margin in the first session
was 6 points, and in the final half 10
Francis and Calkins were the shin
ing lights for the Teachers, these tive
lads playing their usual consistent
game. In the second half, however
Calkins could not elude the fine Alma
guarding, and failing to secure field
basket he was yanked for Warner
The Carson City lad, however, could
not penetrate the Alma defense, leav-
ing Francis as the only man able e
score a field basket in the second half
aside from one lucky blob shot that
C6rooks nailed.
The entire Alma aggregation was
going great, every man being II
the game every second. The guarding
during the entire contest was superb
and much credit for this work must
be laid at the door Of Crittenden anC
"Cuddy" Shaver. Johnston and Carly
were the high scorers from the field
the former getting seven field basket.
and the latter five They were greatly
assisted IN their efforts by Kirker anC
Hickerson, the former also managing
TO break into the basket scoring col
umn as did Shaver in the final half.
Alma may we'll be proud Of The
aggregation which wound up the sea
son in such a brilliant fashion, defeat
ing a team that has been acknowl
. edged all year as one of the fines
teams in the state. Starting the yea
with almost an entire new lineup thr
job Of building a team to face veteran
aggregations has been no small one
and the success that came to the ef
forts of Coach Campbell and his mel
are clearly shown from the clear-cu
defeat that was handed Mt. Pleasant
During the game fourteen foul
were called on the Normals and thir
teen on the local outfit, which show
how fiercely the two teams were bat
Ting.