Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-02-01

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RUB FROM MEnDEL TA|LORS
In an overtime game Wednesday
night our Wagon Company basket
GERS defeated the well known speedy
Mendel Tailors of Columbus by a
J sore of 27 to 81. At the end of
/, the second period the score was 81
all. In the overtime period of five
! minutes, Wagon Company with
! cyclone burst of speed made 10
| points, and at the same time held
| the visitors scoreless.
First Half
In the first half it would appear
that the Wagoneers sort of had
their playing gears out of mesh.
Deedrick was the first to score with
a foul, but very soon after the Men
dels showed up some pretty passes,
and loose guarding on the part of
Wagon Company, gave them the
chance to make three fields which
they made in short order. Deedrick
scored the next three points, all
fouls. The Tailors took the next
four points, all made on foul throws.
Whiting, after IL minutes of play,
made good a pretty long field from
the center of the floor, and dupli-
Gated it in short order The visit
ors however about as quickly
popped in two fields. Smith from
the center next looped field the
Tailors then made good a foul
throw, as did also Deedrick, which
ended the first half with score Of
Is to IL in favor of the Mendel Tai
lors.
Second Half
In the second half Wagon Com
pany rearranged their lineup, which
greatly improved their playing. and
in less than three minutes Whiting
and Smith had each registered a
field. The score was now tied-15
all. But only for a moment. since
the Tailors made another field. so
did Whiting. From that time on
for several minutes first one side
then the other would score a point.
however, the visitors held a slight
lead up till after thirty minutes,
when Whiting with a side shot and
Bingham with a pretty center, put
the score 21 to 20 with the Wagon
GERS for the first time leading.
From that time on, till the close
of the forty minutes. some OF
the fastest and most exciting
plays ever seen on the local floor
were unloosened and the big
crowd almost went wild, and each
team was bewildered at the speed
of their opponents work.
Shattucl was high scorer for the
| Mendels with four fields, while
| Whiting topped the list for the
"Mule Skinners'' with six fields AS
before stated this was the rub
game, each team having won a vic
| tory this season over the other.
The first game was % to 43 in
| favor of Wagon Co. The Mendels
! took the second, score Al to 80 In
| the meantime however the Men
| dels had added new laurels to their
! fame, by defeating the famous, one
time state championship Lancas-
| ter Petty Shoes. With one excep-
! ton the Mendels were real sports,
and did mighty keen, clever play
| ing, however it took no little bit of
their time in having to apologize for
| the unsportsmanlike demeanor of
one of their players, Bonowitz.
Lineup and summary:
MendeIs-27 Wagon-37
Reinard. -. r. f.. -. Smith
| Shattuck :. Il. f.. -. Deedrick
! BonoW1tZ. C.. Bingham
| Vincent -. IT. g.. WhlClng
James :. l. g.. -. Lewis
Substitutes -Simeral for Smith;
Whiting for Deedrick; Smith for
| Whiting
Mendels, Fields: Reinhard. 2;
Shattuck, 4: Bonowitz, q; James,
2. Fouls, James. out of 12.
Wagon Co., Fields-Smith, 8;
Simeral, 1; Whiting, 6: Bingham,
4. Fouls. Smith 1 out of 6; Lewis,
8 out of S; Deedrick, 5 out of Z.
! Notes
The Mendel Tailors had adver-
tised themselves the champions of
| southeastern Ohio" and in their
defeat Wednesday that right was
certainly forfeited to our own Wag-
on Company. and puts them way
up towards the top as being one of
the very best teams in the state.
Last year the Wagoneers and
Mendels played two games, each
winning one
In spite of the rainy evening, the
crowd was almost a record breaker.
Preliminary
A preliminary game was played
between two girl teams-the Fuss
ers" and the Fighters" The game
was most interesting, and ended in
a tie to 0. The rub will be play
ed off in the near future. Those on
the Fussers were G.. Spung, M. Dur
bin, L. Lynn, B. Henery, X. Gray,
with B. Mcclure, substitute.
The Fighters: J. Birch, R. Spung,
M. Bryan, J. Beckwith, l. Bauer.