Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-11
FACE
A HARD BATTLE
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The Douglas high basketeers re-
turned Sunday afternoon from No
gales and Tucson with the scalps of
both teams dangling from their belts
and the second team also took their
match from Patagonia, so the week
end trip of the local school teams
resulted in three clean cut victories
The Tucson team offered the most
stubborn opposition to the Bulldogs
offensive, but Coach Fuzzy" War
ren's fighting five came back
after trailing 6-1 and slowly gained
in speed and scoring power, finally
overtaking the Badgers late in the
final quarter. The final score was
14-11, Seeley caging the winning
goal by breaking through the Bad
ser defense for close in shot.
In the Nogales game the Bulldogs
swept across the floor during the
first five minutes with such speed
that they gained an eight-point lead.
At half time the Douglas team led
Is to 8. Except for short rally in
which the Wager brothers, of the
Key city quintet, each scored a long
range basket, the Apache squad
never threatened, and the Bulldogs
gained steadily, the final count be-
ing 27 to 8. The teamwork of the
Douglas quintet was the outstand-
ing feature of the game. Pratt was
high point man, with Denno and
Causey following closely. The second
string boys had little trouble in
their first clash, trimming the Pata-
gonEa five 25 to 9.
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hardest games on the schedule, both
night against the two Bisbee teams.
On Saturday night the regular squad
will go to Tombstone, while the Sec
ond team will entertain Lordsburg
high school in a game on the local
"Y" court.
Coach Warren will give his pro-
teges hard workouts each evening
this week so as to have them in tip
top condition for the Bisbee games
Little trouble is expected from the
Mortieians and from the team out
of the state.
The Bisbee quintet which faces
Douglas Friday night is the same
team that defeated Douglas twice
last year. four of the boys playing
their last game for Bisbee high
school This team has played to,
gether three seasons and are
clever team. They defeated the
Gilbert team, 81 to 18, before the
holidays, while the Gilbert team took
the Douglas five into camp by
cne point margin, 21-2O. The Bisbee
aggregation is keyed UP for the
hardest game of the season, as they
realize the Border city crew has a
fast team. The second teams will
clash in preliminary game.
Coach Warren will probably use
Causey, Cary, Demo, Betty, Pratt.
McKinnon and seeley on the regular
lineup and the rest of the squad for
the other game.
Douglas Cary, star guard on the
local quintet, IS playing his last
games for Douglas high this week
as he becomes Ineligible for further
competition owing to the eight
semester rule. This same rule affects
kruger, Horn, Medigovich and Rey'
nolds, of the Bisbee team Several
ether teams in the state will be
affected by this ruling that w%s
made three years ago by the state
athletic association.
Frank Cummins, star center on
the Rinky Dink team a year ago,
will become eligible next Monday
and will probably take Cary's place.
Magma, another guard of last years
team, is eligible but has not re-
ported for practice. Both of these
PLAYERS are valuable and will be used
in future games this season.