Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-03-20
GREAT FALLS ALL STARS BEAT
BELT IN EXTRA PERIOD 1884

A most exciting and delightful
game Of basketball was the game be-
tween a picked team from Great Falls
and the surrounding country and the
Belt town team on Monday evening at
the Auditorium before the Legion
dance. Belt lost IN an extra period
by score Of 35 to 81.
An impression had gone abroad that
the game was to be between the Mur-
ply -Maelaxs and the Belt team. Such
was not the case because the visitors
had done Belt the honor Of picking
the best team they could get together.
They had Grady, Hawley and Dimpke
of the NJ. MS, Perrine of Cascade,
Adair Of the Y. M. C. Az and Brown
Of the Miners, Adair playing the first
half and Brown the second.
They showed in the warm up that
all were finished players They also
brought a referee, Murphy of the
Bucks. as well as the score keeper.
SiIsby.
Memory must furnish the data for
this article because the score book
went with the visitors to Great Falls
who did not have time to allow it to
be copied.
The Belt team looked like pigmies
beside the visitors, Pattsner and Cas-
sock forwards, Dolin center, Hubber
and Hubber guards. Not one Of these
boys is taller than five feet eight inch
es and when they lined up alongside
Of Grady, Dimpke and Adair they did
not appear to be in the same class.
The first point went as gift TO the
visitors on foul called by Referee
Murphy on the first play. Belt soon
forged ahead and at the half the score
was % to 16 in Belts favor. Bad
luck followed the locals in the second
half The reEeree's whistle kept one
basket from counting. Another went
almost through the basket to come out
again. Easy shots were missed until
at the call Of time the score was tied
1888. In the extra i've minute per
iod Belt made one of two gift tosses
but Dinpke was lucky enough to cage
3 long one, giving Great Falls the win
ming score,
IN the extra period Fiuhr and Gil
lette replaced DoIin and Bill Huber.
The game was As clean as mans
game often is A few points that the
referee overlooked brought maledic-
tions on the head of the referee from
the Belt adherents. At one time when
a Great Falls player fouled Belt man
the foul was reversed and the Great
Falls man got a free toss. The play
ers took these little things in much
better part than did some of the au-
dience who howled for the referees
blood. When the Great Falls man
tossed from the foul line the crowd
could not be kept still and
it rapidly dawned upon the referees
mind that something was wrong. Af-
ter that the game went better. Both
sides were groggy toward the last.
It is difficult to pick out stars in
game like this where all showed stel-
lAr caliber. It was a fine game and
stirred the sporting blood Of the null
titude. Amy time this bunch Of play
prs come to Belt they win get crowd
and more orsless warm reception &C
rording to whether their referee hap .
pens to strike the popular fancy, but
that same crowd likes to see than play /
nevertheless. i
You see after the last game in the 4
Falls where Shaw won the game for j
he M. Ms they were little chary i
about playing m Belt and would only
play If they were allowed to select /