The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-03-22

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II there are any sportsmanship
laurels to be handed out for clean
basketball play, they belong to the Ely
high school team. Ely played the
cleanest ball in the district tourney and
repeated the trick in the recent regional
games. The locals committed only
3 personal fouls against Duluth Central
in the first round of the regional, which
is some sort of a record for 80 minutes
of play. Duluth committed 8. In the
final game against Bull, Ely was
charged with fouls to Bulbs IA.
The officiating at the recent Re
gional tournament was some Of the
worst seen by this writer in some
time. We're not giving any alibis
for Ely's defeat by Buhl, but Ely
was clearly at disadvantage be-
cause of the loose handling of the
game. In the district tourney the
locals were checked close, but in the
regional almost everything went. The
Ely team, accustomed to clean play
did not get any edge because Of poor
officiating, but Buhl, using a lot Of
body checking tactics got away with
plenty.
Starkovich of the Ely team had a
funny one pulled on him in the Buhl
game. Getting in the clear for q
dribbble to the basket he was nailed
by Frisch of Bull and slammed to the
floor Both officials were behind the
play and called the shot wrong by
charging Starkovich with foul. Frisch
made the shot which tied the bali game
at 16 and 16.
Buhl, in winning the regional,
showed an attack similar to CHS
holm, last years state champions, and
five times regional champs. That
was the long shot game. It's a good
attack when it's clicking and the way
in which Bull swished their long
ones through the net in the second
half against Ely, showed that they
had put in more than little prac-
tice on the tossing of such shots.
The Ely-Duluth Central game was
the best played in the regional tourney
Both teams played fast, hard ball using
passing game, which showed lot Oh
action. There is no doubt that this
game took lot out of the Ely team as
they seemed tired at times in the fina
contest.
Why the regional tournament was
held in Duluth instead of Virginia this
year, has got this writer guessing.
The Duluth Amphitheatre is no place
for the event. The Amph floor Is I'm
terrible condition because of roller
skating and the lighting was not what
one could call good. The only seats
reserved were on the floor. The
crowd wandered here and there and
in every game there were at least a
couple of hundred fans standing on
the floor behind the players and
officials benches. The Duluth people
didn't attend as they should. In the
final game Ely and Bull fans &C.
cupied most of the seats with large
sections empty. Inasmuch as two
range teams are represented in the
regional, it should be held on the
range, preferably Virginia, which has
the finest facilities for tournament
in the northwest at the Recreation
building. The Virginia Rec has
good floor, fine lighting and every seat
in the house is reserved. What's more
the tourney would attract more fans
in Virginia.
The regional tourney was well handled
by the officials in charge and no re-
Election is intended upon their work In
saying that Duluth is not the place for
the tournament.
The entire range will be pulling for
Bull in the state tournament.
Chisholm brought the state title to
the Seventh region last year and IL
would be an honor IL Buhl can keep
it in the region by coming through
the tourney on top.
There were some fine basketball
players in the regional tournament
An all-regional team would be hard &c
select, so we'll just mention a few oil
the outstanding players.
Milberg of Duluth Central looked like
the best of the centers. Nicholas, Ely;
Bukovich, Buhl, and Whiting, Pine
City caught the eye as forwards. The
best guards were Lambert, Ruhl;
Starkovich and Golob of Ely.