The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-09
RED and WHITE WINS
INTERESTING CONTEST
FROM RANDOLPH LADS

Playing their opponents off their
feet with dazzling password coupled
with consistent goal shooting the
Richmond high school basketball barn
storming players brought down the
hopes of Winchester highs team in an
interesting game at Winchester Satur-
day night by 20 to IL decision.
The score stood IA to IL at half
time in favor of the Richmond five,
but, with the opening of the second
half, the Winchester lads never had
chance to score from the field with
the exception of few long shots from
far out on the playing space.
Winchester showed real fight in the
first half and through the wonderful
long shooting of Monks, they were
able to keep in the running with the
faster Richmond men.
Dale Harkins, Richmond forward
who started the game at Winchester,
suffered a swelling of the right leg
which bothered him to a great extent
in the first half. This plucky player
stuck to the deal through the first
the second half. Harkins showed up
good on defense, but. was unable to
move fast enough on offense to score.
Keep Things Hot.
The entire Richmond team moved in
one unit against the Winchester Hi
lads. Kennedy, Rost and Crafts bore
the brunt of the scoring for the even
ing and kept things hot for the oppos-
ing guards throughout the contest.
keSsler went in for Harkins in the
second half and proved his value as
general utility man for the team with
his ability to follow the ball while on
offense and prevent it being carried
back by the opposing offense. His ever
lasting fight has branded him as a
player who never gives up.
Monks Valuable.
! In Monks, Winchester had a valu-
able man inaSmuch as he was prac-
tically the only man to break into the
scoring column for his team with 10I
of the total points. He seemed to
have the mack of hitting the goal
which they used in the first half. He
used a hard bank shot which seemed
most impossible to make and these
were the kind of shots which kept his
team in the lead during the initial
period.
Lineup and summary:
Richmond (29) Winchester (12)
Harkins .......F. Reynardt
Rost .............F. ........ Wallace
Kennedy ........C. .......... Monks
GRATIS ..........G . .......... Davis
Greene ..G........ Fields
Field goals-Rost 8, Kennedy 5,
Crafts 8, Kesler l, Monks 4, Wallace
1. Foul goals-Richmond :Rost 5;
Winchester, Monks 9 Substitutions
Richmond: Kessler for Harkins,
Mattox for Crafts, Schumacher for
Il L
eree-Allen, Muncie.
An interested Winchester fan who
seemed to be impartial toward the
game, remarked when Kessler went
into the game that he just loved to
see that kid play.
Sam Greene received the usual num-
Der of comments on his size and age.
Many outside fans who see this young
giant in action take him to be a col
lege man.
Monks, of Winchester, had the COM
bination to the goal during the first
half and he willed it to Kennedy at
the opening of the second. The goal
was tilted up on the outer rim and
when the ball was banked hard, it
would invariably go through the hoop
for two-pointer Kennedy assumed
the combination and shot two field
goals in rapid succession from far out
on the floor in the last half.
Kessler resembled baby tank dur
ing the second half and when the
game was over, his eyes were flash
ing and he looked good for another
full game. At one time. he started
down the floor to pass to Rost and
seeing that another player had step
ped in the road of Rost. he sped up
and took the ball himself and turned
it into a field goal under the basket.
Harkin's leg swelled up on him in
the first of the game and it seriously
handicapped him for the rest of the
evening.