The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
Coach Lynch Claims
Southwest Basket
Ball Championship
For College Varsity

BY virtue of the victory of the Uni
versity of. New Mexico over the Uni
versity of Arizona at Tucson last
Friday night by the score of 1923,
Coach E. H. "Swede" Lynch of Flag
staff Teachers college laid claim to
the collegiate basketball championship
of the southwest.
Coach Lynch bases his claim on the
performance the Flagstaff boys have
made the past season in defeating the
University of New Mexico in two
games and winning over every other
leading college in the two states. The
University of Arizona team is the only
important quintet in the two states the
local boys have not met this season
with the exception 0 f ella college
which has played only two or three
games. Although the Flagstaff boys
have met three defeats this season, at
the hands of MonteZuma college, N.
NJ. School of Mines, and n. M. Nor
NAL university, they defeated Monte
yuma in three games, and the N. nj.
Normal university in one. The
School of Mines has been defeated by
practically all the teams that Flag
staff has downed.
y
he Flagstaff boys total of II VIC
tories in 20 games.
Flagstaff basketball fans are get
ting good laugh out of Saturday
nights game between Flagstaff and
Tempe Teachers colleges.
+ Coach Lynch of Flagstaff had been
working his freshman squad against
the varsity pretty regularly and the
former always had gone strong for
the first 10 minutes or so; then weak
ened.
Saturday night he decided to start
the freshmen against Tempe just to
get the latter sore. He told the fresh
men just before play began that he
would leave them in until Tempe got
four points ahead of them.
When the freshmen raced on to the
court mutterings were heard among
the spectators, until almost everyone
in the hall was looking daggers and
saying sharper things of the lmper-
turbable Lynch.
Tempe soon had al lead. Lynch
was all set to shoot in the varsity
SQUAD, when the freshmen began to
run away with the game, which at the
end Of the first half they had pretty
well in hand, the score then being 29-
9. Tempe did better in the second
half, but the Flagstaff freshmen had
no trouble hanging on to the long end
Of the tally.
Lynch succeeded in making the
Tempe players mad. One was so fur
ious that he cried.
The fans are now over their sore
ness against Lynch But they are
sore at the Arizona Republican, which
cut the telegraphed story OF the game
and mangled it until this was the way
it finally appeared:
"FLAGSTAFF, Feb. 19.-Using his
strong freshman team, which he con-
siders about as fast as his varsity,
Coach Lynch of Flagstaff scored a
SECOND victory over Tempe Teachers
here tonight by the score of SO to "a.
The game was tougher one for the
Tempe five than the one against the
varsity. The Flagstaff quintet was
fresh while Tempe was tired from the
hard game they played last night. In
the first half Flagstaff rolled up a
score Of 29 to 9 from the bewildered
Bulldogs, but they had to fight to mold
the lead for Tempe beat them IN the
last period, Is to z. The big advan-
tage could not be overcome. Lynch
is considering entering his freshman
instead of his varsity in the confer
ence tournament at Phoenix this week
end"
The "fresh" Flagstaff team and the
"tired" Tempe team is good. Flag
staff was fresh because it won; Tempe
tired because it was beaten. The fact
is that Tempe, after the game the
night before when it was trimmed by
the varsity, got to bed at 10:30. The
Flagstaff freshmen played at Wins
low Friday night and got back here
and to bed at about three Saturday
morning.