The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-05
STAGE READY FOR
Big TITLE Clash
VANDALS AND CALIFORNIA BEARS
IN TRIM FOR OPENING GAME OF
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES HERE.

ference championship basketball
games between the universities of
Idaho and California is scheduled for
tonight at the local gymnasium at 1880
O'Clock, when the winners of the Sou
thern division and the winners of the
northern division will battle for the
pennant of the Pacific Coast league,
in what is being heralded as an epoch
making series in western basketball
history.
The California Golden Bears ar
rived in Moscow Sunday morning at
11:50 from Berkeley via -Portland,
Oregon, and registered at the Mos
COW hotel. During the afternoon
they took a light workout on the Ida
no court, and members of the team
In talking to press correspondents
after the practice, stated that they
did not expect to be handicapped to
any greater extent by the size and
pecularities of the Idaho floor than
by any other strange court on which
they have played this season. The
vandals spent Sunday in resting, hav-
ing had their last practice Saturday
afternoon.
Huge Crowd Assured.
A huge crowd is expected to at
tend tonight's game, reserved seats
for townspeople being all sold at an
early hour Monday, while student re-
servations put on sale at noon today
In the Administration building hall
found eager buyers, many of whom
waited in line for several hours for
an opportunity of obtaining them.
The doors of the gymnasium will
open tonight at $50, according to
Graduate Manager Albert Knudson
Both the main and side entrances will
be used, following the same general
plan of handling the crowds as was
in effect during the latter part of
the regular season.
By all reports in circulation among
Idaho's undergraduate student body,
the crowd of students seeking to gain
admittance to the gymnasium will be-
gin to assemble long before six
o'clock, rivalling perhaps the crowds
with their intense enthusiasm which
stood from 4:30 o'clock in the after.
noon until o'clock, with the ther
nometer down below the freezing
point before the second OF the Uni |
varsity Of Washington-Idaho games
hast year. which gave the Silver and
Gold It's first Pacific Coast confer |
ence flag
Defending Title.
the role of defendant, seeking to re-
tain that record of two conference lea
der set last year, when playing her
first season of coast conference basket I
ball, she walked away with the Paci-
fic and Northwest titles, playing the
greatest brand of ball ever seen in
this part of the country
The Vandals possess a natural
grudge against the Californians, not
having quite forgotten the way in
which the Bears cancelled their scheu-
duled game with the Idaho five last
year when they came almost to the
gates of Moscow and then turned
around for home after splitting a two
game series with the Washington
State men at Pullman.
Dope Lacking.
Dope on the opening game seems
to be entirely lacking, California not
having been seen north of their own
boundary line this season. The re-
cord of the Vandals, however, and the
spectacular way in which they rose
from the lower rungs of the ladder
of the northern section to the pinacle
of championship team, stamps her
as possessing a crew of basketball
players far above the ordinary. In
that respect, California's dope sheet
resembles that of the Silver and Gold,
for they too were counted out of the
race during the first heat, but man
aged to hand both Southern California
and Stanford such stinging defeats
during the final dash for southern
divisional honors as to leave little
doubt as to their supremacy.
The Idaho lineup which will most
likely take the floor at the call of
icrJ,f xxrf1I 1Ct of To,1 toi,
Al Fox and Harry Edwards, forwards;
g Or " Thompson, center; Harold Tel
ford and Benny Keane, guards. 1t
has been this combination Of players {
which has enabled the Vandals to {
make the spectacular final season I
dash which resulted in their elimin- {
ating both Washington and Oregon {
college in the northern s
section, and giving to them the right s
to play the Californians for the big ,
cup. E
The list of California players who {
made the trip from Berkeley and are
registered at the hotel are Earl H. &
Wright, coach; Hubert C. Wychoff, :
Louis F. L. Hane, Floyd A. Thompson, {
Paul A. O'Neil, John Talt. Taylor |
Harold Belasco, Harold Huovinen ard
Aubrey Kincaid.
Northwest Backs Idaho
That the entire northwest is be-
hind the University of Idaho Vandals f
tonight is attested by an editoial b
comment which headed the editorial h
column of the University of Wash !
ington Daily for last Thursday. a
wherein Idaho was looked upon to v
uphold the dignity of the northern i
portion of the coast conference ard n
humble the Golden Bears. !,
The editorial is here given in full Il
as follows: r
MIdahn Won heat Washin otnn. You =,