The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-03-16
0LS0N'S SWEDES
HERE MAR. "a
Blackhawks to Meet Terrible
Ones In Feature Basket
Ball Game.


basket ball team will bring to a close
their most successful season in years
when the clash at the Memorial gym
nasium, Saturday March "a, with the
local Blackhawk A. C. cagers, in what
is expected to be the greatest exhibition
of basket ball ever seen on the local
court. The Swedes come here after a
very successful tour of the Western
states and Canada in which they de-
feated the best teams in those sec
tionS.
Local basket ball followers, who saw
the SwedeS in action here last season,
pronounced them the most finished
performers ever to show in Ely. Ac-
cording to reports, the Swedes are a
vastly improved team this season, hav-
ing expanded upon and improved their
repertoire of court tricks, all of which
should make the presentation OF their
wares real treat to watch. A recent
article in the San Diego tCal0 Evening
Tribune has the following to say about
the Swedes:
Living up to advance notices in
every respect Olson's Terrible Swedes
Saturday night put on sensational
exhibition of basket ball to defeat San
Diegos varsity five before a packed
house with score of 20 to %. The
Swedes had things very much their own
way during the entire game doing
everything but swallow the ball during
their performance, bouncing, rolling,
and tossing it as though they were
going through a juggling or 'Chandu
the Magician act"
Ole Olson is the head man or chief
conjwer of the Swedes black magic
performance. A born Snowman, Olson
puts on an exhibition all of his own
which for sheer comedy keeps the
crowd in stitches from laughter. In
addition OlSons back hand passing and
shooting and his trick bouncing the
ball in the basket with his head are
rare basket ball accomplishments
Jimmy Maddern, a member of the
BlackhawkS, is also slated to furnish
some comics, trick which he did well
in the recent game against travelling
team. With Olson and Jimmy furnish
ing the laughs, spectators will be given
a real entertaining evening.
The Swedes attack is built around
the famous pin Wheel offense featur-
ing a double pivot system" which
means plenty of good basket ball hand
ling, something at which the Terrible
Ones are very adept. That the Swedes
have their opponents puzzled with their
speedy passes and method of attack is
a foregone conclusion, for, to the aver
age eye, it seems that no one on the
Swedes team knows who has the ball
except the man who actually is hand
ling it at that particular time.
In Ed. Grant, giant forward, the
visitors have one of the best ball
handlers in the game today. His play
ing of the "hole position" is perfect
as he losses the ball through the hoop
with either hand. The uncanny long
distance shooting of the dinninutive
Richeson and the elongated Babb is
something to talk about. These boys
cage the ball from all distances and
angles. Howdyshell, the back guard of
the Swedes, is human barrier on de-
Tense and his speed on breaks for the
basket keep him well up in the scoring
column of every game.
As preliminary game, arrangements
have been made to have the Pioneer
Location Globe Trotters play the East
End Hottentots. The teams will be in
full makeup. A great deal of rivalry