Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-07
ARGUMENT MARKS
CLIMAX Of P. VI. C.
0. H. s. STRUGGLE
TiMEKEEpER's WHISTLE BLOWN
FOR TIME OUT INSTEAD or FIN.
lsH or GAME CAUSES BIG AR.
0uMENT BETWEEN TEAMS
WITH p. V. L. c. IN LEAD.

Whether or not Coach Brynstad'S
Luther college basketball quintet car
DO rightfully credited with victory
over the ottawa township high schoo
Ave In their game last evening at p
Y. L. c. gymnasium is question
which today confronts local fans anC
critics who witnessed the encoun
ter.
The game broke up in n big argu
nlent and members of the South OF
tawa team walked of the floor before
the full time of the game had expir
ed. However, when timekeepers are
supposed 10 have blown the whistle
for the end Of the game the p. V. l..
9. team emerged from the struggle
at the long end OF a - to ~ count
They claimed q rightful victory while
Coach Smith and HIS men refused |
admit that they had lost the game
stating the game was net really over
with and furthermore that they were
entitled to a free throw, whether OF
not time had been blown out, due tC
the fact that three P. V. L. c. players
walked off the field
Cause Of Argument.
The argument started when Coacl
Smith had informed the timekeeper,
TO blow the whistle for time out, In
order that he might send IN some
substitutes. The high school team
had held lead throughout the en-
tire game until about the last three
or four minutes of play. Two lucky
baskets by Gordan Farland knotted
the score. Then Referee Giehler call
ed foul on Byrne of the high schoo
team That gave Olsen OF the p. V
l.. c. team a chance at a free throw
and he made good, giving his team 2
lead az one point. There was only
thirty more seconds TO play and both
the members of the p V. L. c. team
and the college fans were so excited
and rejoiced over the fact that Bryn
stads men were in the lead after
dragging along in the rear through
out the entire game, that they thought
the conflict was over when the
whistle was blown for time out
Three P. V. L. C. players dashed of
the floor and the college fans started
TO surge onto the field. However
they were informed that the game
was not over yet and Capt. Neck
snstock of the red and white squad
demanded that the p V. l.. c. team
had fouled by allowing three OF
their men to leave the floor.
Referee Refuses to Call Foul.
However, Referee Giehler refused
10 call the foul on the p V. l.. c
team, although the rules governing
basketball state that such an offenst
by any team rates technical foul
That rule has been in effect for tht
past number of years and has caused
such arguments in other prominen
games about this section Of the state
Therefore p. V. l.. c. should have
been charged with a foul, which il
that case would have given mem
Der Of the high school team a chance
at q free throw, which if it was mad
would have knotted the score
Whether the full time was up or no
that chance to try the free throw
Ia due any team and in the case tina
Ii was made last night, the game
would have gone an extra period o
time.
Despite their pleadings Referee
Giehler refused to call foul on tht
p. v. l.. c. team, as his decision
Timekeepers then stated that the
had blown time in again and that tn
thirty seconds to play had alread,
elapsed. But no whistle sounded 70
the ending of the game. p V. l.. c
players gave their final yell, as !
the custom CT any athletic team, an
departed for the showers
Az the foul was not called P. V.
C.. In all events should be credite
with having won the game from tn
high school squad. But the fact tina
they did leave the floor before fina
whistle had been blown ending tn
game still leaves the argument Il
denseness.
interesting Game.
However, regardless of the china
Of the game it was one Of the mos
interesting and exciting games eve
put on by two local teams in years
1t was the first game for Smiths me