The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-03-13

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Marysville won the district
basketball championship last Sat
urday night by defeating Ash
vile at Westerville, and even if
the boys lose their first bid in the
regionals at Springfield Thurs
day, they still have had the best
season the local school has ever
enjoyed.
Their record to date, including
tournament play, stands at %
victories against only one defeat,
Glass "A" Westerville nosed out
Marysville by three points early
in the season for the only loss,
Combining the football and
basketball seasons, this is also the
best year Marysville has ever
had in athletics generally, The
football team, it will be recalled,
went undefeated last fall,
Best part about it all it that the
boys and their coaches who have
brought this athletic honor and
glory to Marysville are as nice a
group as you would want to meet,
The lads themselves are good
students, clean-eut kids who have
worked hard and trained hard to
accomplish their goal
Their coaches are gentlemen
in every respect, whose influ-
ence with the boys is of the best.
They also possess exceptional
! coaching ability, and should any
of them decide to leave Marys-
vile for other schools, it would
be a distinct loss to the commun-
ity, both in athletic prowess and
general welfare of the boys,
For a school and town which
had just won a district champ
ionship. MarYsville was a quiet.
peaceful place, Saturday night.
There was not the slightest
sign of celebration or exuber-
anee downtown-not even so
much as an extra heep from an
automobile horn when the
crowd began arriving home
from Westerville.
There was not even the
slightest extra stir when the
team walked into Buffers res
taurant. In fact. the place was
probably quieter than on an or
binary Saturday night. The
! players just walked in and sat
down in booths or went into
the back room to talk and
listen to the juke box.
Probably the fact that Ma
rYsville had such an easy vic
| tory (the final score was S3-34)
accounted for most of the calm
ness. Had the game been one
of those close affairs which had
the fans on their feet from start
to finish. screaming and yelling
with excitement. there might
have been more cheers and
huzzahs at home.
But victory and the champ
ionship was obvious to most
people from early in the game
and when it was over. there
was no wild cheering or pan
demonium such as there MIGHT
have been had everyone been
tense throughout a close con-
test. MarYsville partisans were
obviously happy over the out
come. but certainly not hysteri-
callY so. a -
Perhaps another factor in the
way MarYsville took the win
stride comes from the fact that
winning championships while
always nice. is not particularly
new here. Thanks to the best
coaching in the central district
over period of 27 years. plus
some excellent athletes from
time to time. MarYsville has
now won six district champion
ships. four of them in the past
ii years.
While rejoicing about Marys-
Ville's fine team and champion
ship, let's take time enough to
do something about the raw deal
which neighboring London re-
ceived in the tournament Friday
night
Competing with Worthington
for the upper bracket champion
ship, London lost the game 1884.
The point which gave Worthing-
ton its victory, however, was re-
gistered on the official scorebook
when Referee Bus MeMillen
threw the ball through the hoop
to clear the nets which had be-
come wrapped around the hoop.
This happened with 3:02 left in
the game and just as Worthing-
ton boy was preparing to shoot a
free throw. The official score
keeper "a Westerville man named
Murphy who is really an ex-
cellent score-keeper and a whale
of a nice guy, and who feels very
badly over the whole thing) fail
ed to catch the referees signal
that the Westerville lad was en-
titled to only one free throw.