The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-03-13
THE UNION COUNTY JOURNAL, MARYSVILLE. OHIO

| through the basket IOr the IlTSl
time, unaware that McMillen
himself, had thrown it. Murphy,
accordingly, marked up a free
! throw point for the Worthipgton
player, Jack Woods. The lad then
shot his one free throw, and Muir
ply credited him with another
point, thus giving Worthington
two where there should have
been only one.
Fans were well aware that the
scoreboard, which at that time
showed it 31-30 for Worthing-
ton, instead of the 30-30 it should
have been, was wrong, but the
board had been operating erati-
cally all evening and most fans
simply assumed something was
wrong which would eventually
be corrected.
But the official seore-keeper
was under the assumption the
score was correct at S1~30 be-
cause he had simply seen the ball
60 through the nets twice, with
out realizing that one time il
didn't count. The referees, OF
course, have no tine to watch
seorebeards or anything else ex-
eept action on the floor, and SO
were unaware even that an err
rer had been made.
After the game was over with
the books checked, and Worth
ington declared the official WIN
ner, it was discovered that mis-
take had been made. BY that
/ time, it was too late.
Basketball rules state that,
once a game has been completed
and the officials declare a win
ner, that decision is final and cam
not be changed. Il
That was the authority under
which State Athletic Commits
siener H. w. Emswiler upheld the
! Worthington victory Saturday
morning, when London officially
protested the game to Emswiler's
office. Mr. Emswiler was entirely
and unofficially sympathetic with
London, but officially ruled he
he was powerles to do anything
to change the situation,
Which brings up to this point,
If the rules are so iron-elad
and inflexible as to not allow an
injustice like that to be corrected,
then something had better be
done to change it. If a team gets
a raw deal (and everyone con-
eerned, either officially or unof-
fieially, admits that's what hap
lpened to London) then there
| should be provisions to right the
wrong.
| After all, the only justifiea-
tion for interscholastic sports is
to help develop in boys the spirit
of fair play and good sportsman
ship, and situation which would
permit such an injustice to stand
uneorreeted is most certainly
wrong. The London players
themselves are the real sufferers
! in this instance.
| In baseball, where there is a
| juStifiable protest, the game is
replayed from the point where
the incident occurred that caused
the protest. Something like that
could apply in basketball (or any
other sporD just as WE'LL
In the London Worthington
game, it would have been a SIM
pie thing to admit that the game
actually ended in a tie (which
everyone knows it did and rule
that an overtime period be play
ed, just as it would have been
had not that extra point been
marked up, Either that, or re-
play the last three minutes and
two seconds of the last quarter
which remained after the disput-
ed incident took place.
Clancy Hagqard came up
with new one in his Buffers
Restaurant. Saturday night.
After the victory. he featured
tournament sundaes" at his
fountain. They were simply
cherry ice cream sundaes top
ped with blue whipped cream
and red maraschino cherry, Red
and blue. of course. are the
school colors.