The Delta independent., 1923-03-09

torium Friday and Saturday, showed
some lively contests and remarkably
good sportsmanship among high
school students.
The Grand Junction Tigers were
successful in winning each Of the
three games played by good healthy
margins. They are very heavy and
showed remarkable training and al
most perfect teamwork.
The Fruita girls showed up remark
ably we'll, which did also Olathe, but
by the Fruita girls losing the game
with Glenwood Springs Saturday
morning by the close score of 25 to
26, honors went to Glenwood Springs.
The first disappointment to the
Delta Panthers came Friday after
noon when a conference was held and
it was decided that the demand Of
Eckert for another game to determine
the district championship, should be
played. The Glenwood Springs boys
who had been scheduled to play the
first boys game with Delta, were al
ready on the floor and then retired.
Eckert put up a terribly poor scrap.
making only one basket and points
on foul. The score for the Delta end
was 81. However, the boys were to a
little disadvantage when they met up
with Glenwood Springs in the even
ing and were defeated by points,
score 81 to "a.
The Olsen sisters were the outstand-
ing stars for the Fruita team and in
their first game played with Telluride,
won by score of 2S to IA. The second
game was between Grand Junction and
Gunnison boys, Junction winning by a
score of SO to "a.
Saturday morning the Glenwood
girls defeated Fruita girls 26 to 25.
The game was hotly contested every
step of the way, Fruita's wonderful de-
fense being offset by Glenwood's S
speed and basket shooting ability. The
Glenwood six held the lead most of the
timd but only by margin of two or
three points.
The Olathe six defeated Telluride's
girls AIS Saturday morning. Telu,
ride was overcome from the start by
their opponents superior skill and
sensational basket shooting, being en-
tirely swamped and almost defenseless
in the last part of the game.
On Saturday afternoon the first
contest was between the Delta Pan
Tiers and Gunnison Cowboys. Hewitt
was a wonder for the Gunnison team,
making nine baskets and four free
throws out of the As point score.
Nelson was a close second with eight
baskets. The Delta boys succeeded in
piling up a score of "a points.
Following this Gienwood Springs
and Grand Junction took a whirl but
the Junction boys had the best of the
game all the way through, Mackinnon
and Jones proving themselves stars
in this game, making seven baskets
apiece. Oates also helped out a lot
with nine free throws. The final
score was AZ to 15.
The last game of the afternoon was
between Glenwood and Telluride girls.
The Glenwood girls showed much fas-
ter work and had three field goals to
their credit within the first three
minutes of the game. They kept up
their good work throughout and the
final page showed a score OF II to 80
in favor of Glenwood.
In the evening Fruita and Olathe
met for forty minute clash and the
Olathe girls proved themselves fast
and interesting but were unable to
put enough balls through the hoop to
make them the winners.
The second game of the evening
was between Glenwood Springs and
Gunnison Cowboys. The crowd SEEM
ed to be mostly with Glenwood but
the Cowboys had the best Of it most
Of the way. Hewitt scored six bas-
kets and nine free throws and Nelson
got three baskets. For Glenwood
Tucker and Richardson each had four
baskets to their credit, while Reeves
pulled down two and six free throws.
Glenwood started off with a good lead
but when luck started for Gunnison.
there was no stopping them and at the
end Of the first half, they were tied
with 13 points apiece. 1t was any
body's game until the end. The final
score was 26 to 30 in favor of Gunni-
son.
The closing game was between
Grand Junction and Delta and the
Grand Junction boys were simply
wonderful on defensive and weren't
afraid to dig in. At the end of the
first half the score was 80 to 4 in
favor of the visitors but the Delta
boys came back wonderfully well and
nosed out % points in the last half
The final score was Al to 26 in favor
of Grand Junction.
At the close of the game Hon. John
T. Johnson, OF Gunnison, presented
the beautiful silver loving cups given
by Luke e. Meyer Jewelfy Store and