The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-03-01

spot where | am. Houses were
scattered and trees we're almost
entirely missing. But the sol
was suitable for tree growing and
the extension of the water mains
did the rest. Like Wolf Point
this city gets its water from deer
wells, rather than from the Mis-.
souri, river. Evidently water is
not overly expensive as it is used
freely for all purposes, including
municipal pools and skating Kinks.
Exciting Game
To revert to the subject OF
schools, | attended a game on
Washington's birthday that decid.
ed the city high school basket ball
championship-Central high YER
sus East high. East high is hard
ly two blocks from my sisters
home, just down Morningside
avenue and l watch the students
come and go by the hundreds. So
l had sufficient reason for taking
sides" with a few samples of wild
west, reservation whoopee.
High Tension
East high won, q to II.
East high second team also
we're victors, trimming Central's
second team, SO to rs, in a pre-
liminary game. The teams met
on a neutral floor at Woodrow
Wilson school auditorium which is
built as a part of the Woodrow
Wilson Junior high building. 1t
seats 1000 and the crowd at these
games filed every seal and all the
standing room, and was said to
number $500. The admission to
all was rs cents-a nice little
boost for athletics. 1t was the an
nual basketball classic and tension
was at concert pitch. There was
not a moment of quiet from be-
ginning to end. Referee Kilduff,
of Malta, had he been the official,
would have had a hectic evening
because that mob did not entirely
hush even when free heaves at
the baskets were made. The
players, fighting for the traditions
of their schols, and before their
schoolmates, families and neigh
bors plainly experienced more than
their share of the nerve strain.
1t its story of the game the
morning Journal said:
Gas has been said before,
neither team played it's best
basketball. But you must re-
member that the principals were
IL boys e subs) all of them
under a terrific tension and burn
ing with %eagerness to win the
city championship. Central won
last year East evened the count
last night. The two outstand-
ing players of the evening, and
incidentally the only two who
seemed at least partially calm
and collected through it all,
were Epstein, East guard, and
Linfor, Central guard"
The said Epstein is a fine
Irish" lad whose father has a gro
Gerry across the avenue, less than
200 feet from where / am writing.
1t was a nice smooth, clean
game to watch, and was we'll run
by a referee from Boone, who ap-
peared to be entirely satisfactory.
The big game was not especially
fast and there was no hard, des-
determined play such as
you would expect in such a con-
est. The close refereeing en-
here slows up play, and
he boys + coached to be eau
.ious in their guarding. l had a
good seat and could not detect a
attempt at roughness or
Intentional fouling, but there were
many free throws allowed for
some sort of rule infringement.
And that was where the Eastside
won. They had a APPOINT
margin and made just 4 more than
here opponents by the gift toss
cute, 9 and 5. They did the best
work from the foul line | have
ever seen, cashing in on about
lalf their chances, while the los
RS improved about one-third of
heirs. One Eastside forward when
,iven two free trys together, in
he crucial part of the decisive
asst quarter slipped both of them
through the ring like the sphere
vas creased. The ball never
a thing but the bottom
f the net. Both teams were bet
er on defense than offensive.
Cast appeared to me to use the
man defense and Central a modi-