Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-11-25
HOME TEAM WINS GAME
Minocquans Narrowly Beaten
in Hard-Fought, Thrilling
Contest.

basketball team won over Minoc-
qua last Friday night by a score of
Is to IA. Right from the beginning
it was a seesaw fight, with Minoc-
qua and then Eagle River ia the
lead. 1t is doubtful if Coach
Kracht's team will run up against
a better bunch of players during
the remainder of the season. The
Minocquans are every bit as good
as our own boys and seem to have
the edge on the home team in
floor work. They are husky young
sters and in Mel Minton possess one
of the most dangerous men that
ever played on the high school
floor. 1t was a pleasure to watch
him play, and more than any other
player on either side he starred
during the game. His almost un-
canny way of slipping through de-
Tense with that tiny Chink stride
Of his kept the crowd always on
edge.
Ketz, Of the home team, showed
up better in this game than ever
before, doing the major part of the
star playing, with Giese a close
second. He is getting into that
class where a ball in his hands is
almost sure of a basket. Giese
showed his stuff to better advan-
tage than in the last game. In fact
he had to or-lose. He lost all that
seeming bashfulness toward mixing
and bulling that kept him back for
so long and some of his stunts were
mighty clever.
"Tarzan" Gloyd, center, played a
better game than usual. He used
his head more and showed up bet
ter, playing the game with more
knowledge Of the plays than before.
He was the only man on the team
that approached in weight the Min
ocqua players. 1t was up to him to
make that weight felt, and he did.
1t was no kid glove affair right
from the beginning. The Minoc-
quans were out to win by any
means that they could get away
with. Along toward the end it sim
nlered down to almost a wrestling
match, with Minocqua having the
edge on the home team.
During the game two shots were
made such as you only read about
in fairy tales-one by Eagle River
and the other by the opponents.
Ketz rolled long one through the
hoop from three quarters the way
down the floor, to be followed later
by better and longer one by Mac
Minton of Minocqua.
Considerable disappointment is
felt that there can be no return
game with the Minocquans. They
have no adequate place to play in
over there; their new gym is not
finished as yet and the old one is
almost impossible. Local fans had
already begun planning to follow
the home team to Minocqua for a
return game, but it was announced
Friday evening that such an event
was off. On their own floor Min
ocqua could be expected to give the
Eagle Riverites game that would
have made them lay awake nights
worrying.
The Minocqua team can not COM
plain over the support they received
from their home fans. Fully a
quarter of the crowd present at
the game came over from Minocqua
and the home crowd was very gen
erous in its applause for any good
play they made.
Being old enemies and having
had much controversy over who
won and who lost the last game, it
was an absolute necessity to have a
neutral referee. Eagle River did,
and he was a real one-A. B. FL
lingson, of Phelps. He was the kind
of man who would stand for no
dirty work and had an eye for the
game that no one could deceive.
He played as good a game as any
of the combatants.
The girls game, played as a pre-
liminary to the boys also ended in
a defeat for Minocqua. Like their
boys, the Minocqua girls seemed to
side lines to be an excellent team.
They were larger and worked well
together. They had rotten luck in
shooting and made a big mistake
when they allowed the Walsh twins
and Marian Belongy to get angry.
In the future, few of the girl teams