Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-30


four New England teams, four OF
the southern teams and some of tn'
favorites of the middle west. Fal
west squads came through safep
with but one exception, Minersvilie
Utah, which was overwhelmed D.
the lone southern victory today
Vienna, Ga, So to 26.
The heroic squad representative
the hamlet of Alpine, Tenn wen
dcwn to defeat II to before one oi
nament, Lincoln Neb.
Because of the increased number
cf teams this year, the II teams
playing their first matches tomor.
row are regarded as in the second
round brackets, fourteen hours play
is or Wednesdays program.
Stafford, Ariz. and London, Ky,
open tomorrows round at 8 a. m
The succeeding matches are:
Lincoln, Neb. VS.. Huron, SD.
Grand Fords N. D. VS.. Ridgefield
N. j.
First round byes:
Athens, Texas VS.. Eau Claire, WIS
Fort Fairfield, Nc VS.. Roswell,
N. NJ, / p. m.
Muskogen, Mich. VS.. Batesvilie,
Ark.
Eugene, ore. VS.. Duval high jack
scnville, Fla.
Maury high Norfolk, Va vs.. Oak
Ridge, La. #
Bigtol, Conn. vs. Gilbert, Ariz., )
p. m.
Florence, Miss. VS. South high
Minneapolis, MINI.
Englewood high Chicago VS.. Chey
enne Wyo.
Second round:
Fairmont w Va VS.. Cicero, Ills.
Winfield, Kans. VS.. Vienna, Ga.
Dover, O. VS.. Colorado Springs, 1o
T.. M.
CHICAGO, March 20 R)-with few
defeats the west and middle west
marched on today through eastern
opponents to prove that high schooI
teams with western accents are more
rugged than their eastern opponents
and have a better claim to the ma
tional scholastic BASKETBALL
championship Tonight saw the sec
end round in the annual University
Of Chicago tournament under way
Leading all the way the Coloraco
Springs, Colo, quintet upheld tire
prestige of the Rocky mountain
region, established earlier in the day
by the Stafford Ariz., team by de
feating the Deerfield- Shields team
from Kennilworth, Ills, % to 10
The Springs team goes against the
Dover, O., quintet tomorrow night.
The Ohio representation took the
Northeast high Kansas City team to
a cleaning by score of 21 to II
tonight.
The other western teams to drop
out of the running as the nights
play progressed was Minersvlle
Utah, which fought IN uphill battle
all the way to take the short end
of a SO to 28 score Winfield, Kans,
famous for it's high school basketbai.
teams, squeezed in the survivor class
by downing Aberdeen. S. D, 26 to. Is.
Baker of Deerfield, and H. Burton
Of Colorado kept the score unchans
ed with basket apiece at the starr
Of the seconc period From the
center circle Baker got mis- fourth
goal, Colorado did some fine passing
going down the floor but Deerfield
broke it up before the westerners
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Deerfield in a scramble under the
net went wild. G.. Burton started
the scoring again fer Colorado
Daugherty evened it sp with one for
Deerfield, so c.. Burton got another.
Daugherty replied with his secono
basket Thomas dropped in rree
throw for Deerfield to make it Is
to 10 a Colorado Springs victory just
as the gun cracked.
Colorado Springs gave the Deer
field Shields high a trimming, 28 to
19. Two of the largest teams in
size, they played a careful passing
game with the westerners closing the
opening period, 8 to 2, in their favor.
Wallace and the Burton brothers of
the Colorado team, and Johnson and
Baker of Deerfield bore the brunt of
the scoring attacks, with Daugherty,
negro guard of Deerfield, playing a
good defensive game. Colorado in
creased its lead to 21 to 8 at the half.
In the third frame, Deerfield added
six points while the Colorado five
gained only three points.
Dover, Ohio and Colorado Springs
meet in the final game of tomorrow
nights card
Teams from the western states
marched through their foes in a steady
parade today in the early part of the
national interscholastic basket ball
tournament of the University of Chi
cago.
Nightfall found Arizona, Nebraska,
North and South Dakota and Illinois
teams survivors of the first round and
counted among the victims teams from
New Hampshire, Tennessee Ohio, Okla
homa and South Carolina.
Two entries west of the Mississippi
river fell by the wayside. Muscatine,
Iowa dropped a contest to London, KY
Is to u, and Morton High, of Cicero
ILL.,, toppled Durant Okla, 29 to 19.
Lincoln, Neb., high school set the
pace for its rivals by rolling up the
highest score ever accumulated in a
single game at the nine-year-old
event. It's red juggernaut crashed
through the lads from Alpine, Tenn,
for 71-to-6 victory.
Huron high school of South Dakota
gave the crowd its biggest thrill with
a two-point victory, 22 to 20, over