The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-03-13
ELY TEAM LOSES
HARD FOUGHT MEET

man, but his greatest asset 20 the Ely
team was his fine work under both
baskets getting the ball off the back
in for several pot shots.
Krall, in our estimation, was one of
the two best guards at the tourney, the
ether being NJ Urick of Biwabik.
Kran was the best man on the floor
in the final game and his clever
guarding in the Biwabik contest was
superior to any other guard on the
floor He was high point man the
final night and also found the hoop in
the other games.
TomSich was about the hardest
player of the tournament being in on
every play while in the game. He
came through with several points dur
ing the tourney and never once was
he seen tagging behind while either ON
the offense or defense.
Nicholas, teaming up with Tonsicn
at the forward berth, was another hard
player. He was always in fighting for
the ball and giving all he had. Mich
olas also contributed some clever free
throw shooting and was about the
prettiest long shot of the meet even
though he ran into some tough luck
the final night.
Bolinger, the other regular of the
Ely team, pleased us very much.
Starting out as green recruit at the
beginning of the season, Bobby" was
one of the main cogs in Ely's splendid
defense at the tourney. In each game
he had very clever man to watch
On Friday night Bolinger had to cover
one of the Urick brothers and his ex-
hibition then was one of the tourna-
ment highlights. Next season Bobby
should be very good man as he will
be the main cog in Ely's next quint.
Brobin and Pucel, the two reserves
to see action in the games, gave a nice
account of themselves and show
promise of becoming good men.
Ely Routs Biwabik-Rt Iron.
In their first game of the tourney
Ely eeked out a IS to II victory over
Mountain Iron in hard fought game
that was in doubt until the gun
barked. In the first half of the Mt
Iron game, Ely could not get going at
all and the local quint seemed in a
trance as they threw the ball away,
time after time Mountain Iron
played inspired ball all through the
game and held a 10 to 4 lead over
the local quint at the end of the first
half. Coach Buckyel, however, brought
the locals out of their delirium be-
tween halves and Ely evened the count
by the end of the third quarter Ora
hex opened the scoring with a gift
toss and Nicholas gave Ely another
free throw. Bianchi then made the
first field goal of the game to knot the
count at 3-3 as the first canto ended.
In the second period, Mountain Iron
inquish until the fourth period. The
Mountain Iron quint scored two quick
baskets and then Nicholas counted
Ely's fourth free throw out of four
tries. Mountain Iron then came back
with gift toss and field goal to
give them a 10 to lead as the period
ended In the third quarter, Mountain
then Ely opened up with Grahek Gag
ing pot shot for Ely's first basket Of
the game. Nicholas then made very
pretty basket from mid-floor and Ora
hex dropped in another Pot shot.
Mountain Iron Gagged another gift toss
and Grahek sank one from the side Of
the court to knot the count at IL all
as the last quarter started Krall
Gagged gift toss to give Ely the lead
but Mountain Iron came back with a
field goal and gift toss to make the
count Is to Is in their favor. Mich
olas then knotted the count again with
another pretty long shot and Grahek
gave Ely II to Is lead with two free
trows. making 1t seven out Of seven