The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-02-16
BASKET BALL
CHAMPIONSHIP
Brewster and OrOyille Lock Horns at
Omak Next Friday Evening to De-
eide this MomentOus Question.


There was surprise in store for the
Oroville high school basket shooters
last Friday evening when they ambled
down to Riverside land took on the
high school team fthat place for
return game The week before Oro
Vile smothered the Riverside boys at
this place under score of "A to IL,
and the impression prevailed that
there was picnic ahead for the sec
ond game and that Riverside would
be properly butchered to make an
Oroville holiday. AS things turned
out the Oroville team came the nearest
of suffering a butchering that tley
have this season. Instead of having
walkaway Oroville soon discovered
after hostiltes commenced it would
require all the zip they could COM
mand il they were going to lug off
the big end of the score. They sue
ceeded in doing so, but the big end
was not so large as 70 leave much
room for merriment. Possibly hold
ing their opponents in some contempt
remembering what they did to them
the week before our boys thought they
had a soft snap, but they found out
pretty quick in the serimmage that
Riverside had more snap than they
had been given credit for and conf
dence as to the final result at times
turned to doubt. Riverside developed
astonishing strength and strategy
both in defensive and offensive tactics
and it was only by the very hardest
effort that Oroville won out by a
score of "a to 10. That is the closest
shave that the Oroville team has had
in six games. and it was altogether too
close for the heart action of the Oro-
VILE boosters on the side lines. How
ever, it was victory, hardly won
victory and as such gave the Oroville
team a clean string of victories and
crowned the aggregation as cham
piOns.
Now, If we nave the 5S4,e right. the
county for the purpose of settling
athletic titles is divided east and west
at Riverside into north and south
district AS it is understood the bas-
ket ball teams that prove themselves
entitled to be champions of their dis
tricts at the close of the season meet
on neutral grounds and play three
games, that is, of course. if one team
does not win both the first and second
al, Al n ~ nt
the county. Oroville having demon
strated that it is the best team in the
north and the honors having fallen tC
the Brewster team on the south end
of the county it is up to these tive
teams to decide which of the two is
| the better. That is going to be put tC
the test next Friday evening, March
IL when Brewster and Oroville will
meet in battle royal at Omak, as the
Omak high school gym has been Sc
lected as the scene of the first con
test. No one can foretell the result
Rumor comes filtering through from
| the south to tle effect that Brewster
has developed a marvellous machine
|
That the players are as active as cats
| and uncanny in their accuracy il
putting the ball through the rings
They have taken on and doWned abou
| every team within reach this season
| and go into tle championship games
| flushed with repeated victories, feeling
| confident Of their ability and determ
ination to win.
| But there are others. The Orovill'
! team has been doing some swell per
forming with the rings this. season
| Six times they have met the enem.
and six times the enemy was theirs
In most instances the victories wer
cruel slaughters. The record is a
follows: With Nelson AZ to 80 and 3
to 20. With Tonasket-29 to 10 and )
to 12. With Riverside-44 to IL an
"a to 10. Each individual of the team
is a crack player and the substitute
are so near as good as the best tha
it is almost necessary to draw lots Il
order to see who is to fill out tn
team. Ii an accident befalls one O
the players there is a substitute equ
ally as good as the player knocked ou
to take the place. According to tn
general line up Darrell Irwin play
center; Ned Smith and Bernard Curt
forwards; Ross Griffith and Franci
Hart guards; with Virgil Piper an
Ernest Sanborn as subs 1t is grea
combination as the performance Of tn
team has demonstrated in the ha
dozen games played. Individual
and collectively the gang is hard
beat in the several positions to wilc
they are assigned. They are a clea
, sextette of players with staying qua
tiles combined with skill. They ma
not win the championship of the cour
| ty, although if the good wishes of ii
: Gazette has any influence in decidin
, the final result they will come out o
, top. but If Brewster wins tae boy
from the south end of the county wi
have to do their level best, and whe
the smoke clears away they will hay
reason to realize that the game VIZ
; not handed to them on a silver salve