The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-02-25
TO PLAY FINALS
IN GRADY COURT
GAMES TONIGHT
Hard Play Features Preliminary
struggles In Basketball Tourney
Here ~ Entries In Con-
tests Battle.
EXPECT RECORD CROWDS
AS CHAMPS ARE DECIDED
Amber vcrden Clash Outstanding
Feature to Date; Rush Springs
humbles Pocssset: Other
Results Are Given.

Hard play featured the first da,
o; tho annual Grady county basket
ball tournament which opened Ia
the Chickasha high school gymna
sium yesterday morning and which
Will close tonight at which time
tho champions OF the various classes
VIII bo determined.
Time for the finals Is scheduled
III follows: Class-B girls, Z p. m;
c'ass-B boys. 8 y. m: class-A girls,
3 p. m. and class-A boys 10 p. m.
Finals In the other classes Will be
determined this afternoon.
Interest centers around the class.
A boys championship. In one.
sided tilt played yesterday after.
noon, Coach Gland Southward's Rus h
Springs high school lads eliminated
the Poccaset high school entry by
score OF 66 TO 81. Last night, In
one OF the most closely contested
games seen on the local court this
season. Amber nosed out a 32 to 30
victory over the scrappy Verden Hi
aggregation. That this game was
bitterly contested throughout is evi.
depced by the score at the end OF
the first half. 10 to Is In favor of
the fast Amber squad. The Yer
den team fought hard to knot the
rcore before the end OF the game
but without success.
Amber used the following lineup:
1vie and Citizens. forwards; Henley,
center; Thomas and Marcum.
guards. Following was verden's
lineup; d. Wilson and Sawyer, for
wards; e. Smith, centcrs; A. vii.
son and A. Smith. guards.
In the game with Poccaset. his
fcrmer home. Coach Southwark
used this lineup: Baker and Barry
forwards; Bailey, center; Allcon
and Jackson, guards. Mullican sub
stituted at guard. Meeks and o.
Station at forwards; Waterbury at
center and r. Station and Osborn
at guards was the lineup used by
Poccaset high school.
Minco Girls Victorious.
Minco triumphed over Ninnekah
in the first class-A girls game,
played yesterday afternoon. The
score was to 8. Mincos lineup
was: Johnson and Myers, forwards;
Robertson, center; Albright, second
center; Albright and Householder,
guards. The Ninnekah lineup:
Lents and Tails, forwards; Hart,
center Jackson, second center;
Cursten and Hoker, guards.
The Junior high school girls (class
~, won an 5 to decision over the
Friend team. For Junior Hi, Fergu-
son and Buchanan played forwards;
Elgin and Washburn, centors; Bar
ron and Woodbridge, guards For
Friend, Bradford and Ramsey, for
wards; ! Hedrick and Allenbaugh,
centers; Brown and Watson, guards.
Results Fridays Games.
Results of games played yesterday
follow:
Rocky Ford (class-D boys) 16,
Fairview Is; Ionine (class-D boys)
10. Pleasant View Dist No. 66, SO;
Slaton (class-D boys) 1, See Chapel
So; Pleasant View Dist, No. 80
(class-D boys) IA, Spring Creek Z.
Junior high school (class-B girls)
g. Friend /; Meridian (class-B girls)
8, Pioneer -; Stove (class-C boys)
80, Acme 25; Lucille (class-C boys)
A, Little Rush AZ; Poccaset (class-A
boys) 81, Rush Springs 66; Minco
(class-A girls) 8, Ninnekah 8; Ru5h
Springs (class-A girls) IL, verden 4.
Amber (class-A boys) 80; Verden
go; Slaton (class-D .boys) Is. Pleas
ant View Dist. 9; Rocky Ford (class-
d boys) 23, Oak Hill 8; Slaton
(class-D boys) "a; Rocky Ford
(tbis game was. played this morn
ing).
Decrease In Attendance.
Attendance at the tournament is
some smaller than the crowd which
packed into the Chickaeha high
school gymnasium last year during
the course Of the tournament.
Threatening weather is believed to
have caused some Of the decrease.
Attendance at the Verion-Amber
class-A boys game last night was
not large. A larger crowd, however,
is expected tonight when the finals
are scheduled to be played.
Interest is increasing as the tour
nsment progresses. "Sideline WISE
acres" were busy this morning pick
ing champions. Some predicted that
the Rush Springs team, which loom
as strong contenders, will win both
cIass-A honors; others expressed
the belief that Amber and Ninnekah
boys teams will stop tho onward
march of the Rush Springs lads.
Junior high schol boys loom as
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