The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-18
.ELKO PROTESTS
BASKETBALL GAME
Says Winnemucca Boys Out-Foot.
balled Their Lighter Team in
Game Played Here and
Won by Local Boys

won by Local D0yt
Winnemuccans termed the basket
ball game played here between the
local high school boys and the Elko
team "the best game Of basketball
played here in years." and indeed
they have cause for esctacy because
the Winnemucca- boys came from
behind, Is to 2 at the end of the
first half in favor of Elko, and
emerged victorious with the score
26 to 81 in favor of Winnemucca.
Plays in the last half were specta-
cular, and the old spirit of do or
die, the dominant trait of the local
team during the last year or so,
caused a pace to be set that the
Elko lads could not keep up. Local
people deny emphatically that the
game was rough. 1t was fast, but
fouling, either personal of technical,
was unusually infrequent.
The account of the game as
given to the Elko Free Press,
against which local players object,
is as follows:
An even break in the two games
played over the weekend, was the
record of the Elko high school
basketball squad which returned
from Battle Mountain yesterday
morning. After losing the first
game played in Winnemucca Fri
day night, to the Humboldt county
lads by a score of 1921, the quin-
tet that is scheduled to represent
Elko in the annual tournament at
Reno, came back strong and swept
Battle Mountain off their feet hand
ing them the short end of a 1920
count.
1t doubtless should have been a
clean sweep, for in the Winnemucca
game the score stood 1872 in favor
of Elko at the end of the first half
and with nary a foul being called in
the entire second period, the lighter
Elko lads were out-footballed. Win
nemucca passing them with three
minutes to go.
1t was a hard game to lose, for
both teams playing straight basket
ball, Elko proved to be far superior
but with Winnemucca making their
weight count in the second half, the
local team was unable to stand w
under the battering and lost out.
Starting off the second half with
three baskets from way past center
Humboldt countyites set a fast
pace and maintained it all the way
making seemingly impossible baskets
look easy and sweeping through to
well earned victory.
In this game Murphy led in the
scoring for Elko, making four bas.
kets from the field, Furlong follow.
ing with three, all of which were
made in the second half, which
shows the speedy guard to be al
his best when the pace is the
fastest. Backus rang the hoop fol-
two baskets, while Wright main
tanned perfect record in his fouls
making three out of his three trials
In the Battle Mountain game, il
was an entirely different story. The
Lander county quintet started
things with a rush, and when the
Elko lads awoke to what was going
on, they were trailing by some eight
points. However, they put on lots OF
steam overtaking their opponent.
along toward the end of the half
managing to squeeze into lead by
the narrow margin of one point a,
the end of the first half, with the
score standing 1915.
The second half was merely 9
repetition of the first with the ex,
ception that there was considerable
less scoring. Elko managed to ring
one more basket in the second hall
than their opponents coming through
with three point lead, the fina
count standing 1921, and the de.
feat in Elko some five weeks age
being fittingly avenged.
In the Winnemucca game over
confidence and lack of weight were
the factors that lost the game in
the second half for Elko, but some
very valuable experience was gained
which should aid in perfecting the
five man defense system as used
by the local team. All of Winnie.
mucca's points were made from out
beyond the limit of the Elko de-
Tense, and the Humboldt county
lads had evidently been practicing
on this one stunt ever since their
game here in December.
While he wanted to win the Win
nemucca game, Martie expressed
himself as being well satisfied with
the work of his charges on the trip
and feels confident that when the
two teams meet on the University
court during the tournament, that
the Elko contingent will have little
to fear from either Winrfemucca OF
Battle Mountain. After all, it's ex-
perience that counts, and Elko got
lots of that, according to Martie
who says that in thesfirst contest in
particular the boys learned much
that should stand them in good
stead in future games.
Carson doomed up as one of the
'trong contenders for the title
when they knocked Gardnerville
over by score of 1915, after
Reno had great difficulty in defeat
ing the Douglas county lads by a
scant margin of one basket. How
ever, Christensen, the Indian player
whose age caused such a connection
among the ranks of the western
high schools during the football
season, is holding down one of the
forward positions, and there is
every probability that he will not
be eligible by the time the tourna-
ment time comas oroupd