The Coconino sun., 1924-02-29

The basketball boys returned Sun
day from the Junior College tourna-
ment in Phoenix Friday and Saturday.
The games were the last played on
the trip which started a week ago
Saturday. Both boys and girls left
here on that date for Camp Verde
where they won double header the
same night. On Sunday the Camp
Verde folk loaded the teams in their
cars and showed them through Mon
tezuna Castle. In the afternoon the
trip to Jerome was made. Monday
night both Jerome teams tasted the
same bitter defeat from the hands
of our Normalites. They also were
good sports, though, and gave the
bunch a feed and dance after the
games. Tuesday saw the gang in
Prescott. By this time the teams had
become somewhat wearried from the
long trip so that both teams suffered
the first defeat of the trip. The Nor
nal girls were able to defeat the
Prescott girls at Flagstaff some two
weeks previous and the boys held
Prescott to the score of 1928 the
same night, but it seems that the
combination of Normal's WEAKNESS
and the advantage of Prescott in be-
ing on her own court was too much
for the Lumberjacks. The girls left
on the train Wednesday for Flagstaff
and the boys went on to Phoenix in
"Bodge" Vickers' Studebaker.
Thursday they spent sightseeing.
By Friday night they we're all tuned
up for the tournament. Normal drew
ella academy for her first game. Both
Normal and Gila academy were con-
sidered clark horses" inasmuch as
they had not appeared before in the
valley this year This first game
was tester. Normal tested some
what weak in comparison with the
fast quintet from Thatcher, the lat
ter swamping them. This eliminated
all chances for the championship, but
the next night consolation game was
played with Junior College. These
lads found it somewhat more diff
cult to defeat Normal but the Lum-
berjacks had lost their spirit, Junior
college nosing out from a tight be-
ginning to the long end of a 37-16
score. Of the five teams Normal
had to have bested to win the tourna-
ment the strongest was the one she
met first and that was Gila academy.
Gila won the tournament the same
night Normal lost to the Phoenix
Bears"
There still remains one more game
on this seasons program, double
header to be played with Winslow on
the '8th of March here.
The training school teams will set
tie the subject of their supremacy this
week on Thursday and Friday after
moons in the auditorium. There will
be the honor of six teams and two
championships at stake-the little
boys and the big boys. The winner of
the first two big boys teams to clash
will play third big boys team for
the big boys championship on one
day. The little boys viii follow up in
like manner the next day. Mr.. Pow
ers is coaching two teams, Helen
Raitt two teams and Goidie Greer a
third set of two teams. Powers, Raitt,
or Greer? Well all be there to see.
While discussing class champion
ships we would not go amiss to stop
right here and tell the results of the
first big annual field picnic and cell
ebration last Friday on the shores of
Lake Mary.
Cruising over the nine miles of
"terra firma" which lie between here
and the lake we alighted from our
motor gondolas and before you knew
it the fun had begun. The various
classes separated into groups which
were known as colleges. The normal
seniors were "The Pinon College"
normal Juniors "Gooseegg akademy,"
high school seniors Pumpkin Center
university" and high school juniors
Sleepy Hollow college" Each group
backed its team to the limit in the
various relays and sports. The normal
junior Gooseeggs seemed to have a
preponderance of boys and were walk
ing away with the day until the
scheme of handicapping boys enter
cd some of the high officials heads.
The normal seniors then stamped into