Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-11-12
TEAMS WIN
FIRST TILT

The local basketball season opened
Friday evening at the high school
gymnasium before capacity crowd.
when the Coulee City high school boys
and the Coulee City girls athletic
club scalped the Harthne loopers i'll
a pair OF exciting contests.
The newly-formed Girls Athletic
club bot off to an suspicious srar,
when they took the Hartline red ami
white clad t'Clem Whackers'' into
camp to the merry tune of 1873, amid
the whoops and yelling of typical en-
thusiastic Hartline-Coulee bleachers.
The local girls aggregation, composed
Of the former high school team sup
plemented by those of last years
graduated stars, early in the fray let
it be known that this contest was not
mere tiddlywinks competition when
the two bouncing Bettys began sink
ing the ball in the basket with neat
regularity.
Demonstrating brand of passing
and sidestepping which is much i'm
proved over their last years per-
Torrance, they were able to keep
the opposing guards guessing-gener-
ally with the wrong guess. Josephine
Wanamaker and Helen Trout substi-
fufad Of for@ror1 o,1 oop,r;ro.,1 fon,
that graduation from high school does
not make folks any less agile. In the
center positions the consistent good
work Of Wilma Trout and Louise Egg
gleton kept that emo Mans Land"
safe for the locals and for portion
OF the game June Brown and Martha
Blain substituted in the center court.
Superior guarding by Beth Blain
and Bonnie Leonard kept the Higgen-
hotham-Carey forward set-up blan-.
Eeted' with the ball missing the has
ket on the few occasions when a shot
was attempted.
Grace Blair and Verlie Lee made
their initial floor appearance in this
game. substituting for Ace veterans
Cathryn Struntz Jeffers showed up
splendidly at guard position also with
customary suppleness and agility.
1t is u long to hs remembered day
when Coulee City's girls 'takc"
l!artline! Hartl1ne's widely-known
..irls' team was unbeaten last year,
even taking the local girls by small
1argin. and they are out this year
10 add lot of scalps to their trophy
string. They will take good num-
her, but the scalp of Coulee City's
1896 club will be conspicuously miss
ing.
In the boys game, the Giants
started out in high gear and won by
an impressive count of 20 to 8.
The game was far more interesting
tan the score would indicate The
maritime boys passed the ball with
great deal of accuracy, but the Cou-
lee guards were just too strong.
At half-time the score was fairly
even, being 10 to 8 in favor of the
LONE boys. In the second half the
Coulee boys. did not permit Hartline
10 make single point and at the
same time they added IL points to
rake the score rs to 9 at the finish |
Bud Austin won high point honors
with 13 points. Young Frank Eggle-
ton, playing his first high school con-
test, played like veteran, scoring
six points. Dean Craig, Winton Craig
and Bob Brimble were towers Of !,
strength on defense.
Coach Woodhouse used eleven
players and they all performed in Il
fine manner.
Coulee will play at Neppel Friday,
November 18th in doubleheader |,
boys games. Neppel was Grant county
champion last season. They have lost |
I'll of their first string except Gold !
smith, an all-county center. The Gil |
ITS were also hit equally hard byI
graduation. losing Pugh, Lee, Ford
and Spurbeck. |
The next home games will be a.
double-header (girls and boys) Tues !,
cay, November 18th Remember the !
date.