Show the pen is mightier than the whistle an argument of long standing was settled saturday right night before a large and excited crowd at the high school gymnasium roy barker and 0 R have been friends for a long time they have many things in common they are both talented refined men they move in exclusive society circles they bot both th lance dance divinely and play a wonderful ganie game of pinochle they were both candidates on the democratic county ticket at the last election with equal success neither of them were elected they are both authorities on basket ball but at this point the parallel stops barker has always maintained that the referee was the most important man in the game of basket ball while mick ilick has ha just as strenuously contended tl that t the man t that hat kept the score was the man that decided the game so to settle this point a bunch of monroe fel fc lows came over saturday night an and played the richfield clifield Ri all stars that is they were all stars but allen alien johnson the players for Ri richfield clifield were Q hansen allen alien hansen howard allen alien johnson and B cluth for monroe asay vl vincent hi swindle horace magleby dwight swindle with neil madsen and carl N naser laser changing off barker referee scorer modesty and a desire le sirie to refrain from comparison forbids setting out the box bok score let it be said however that Q hansen was the bright and shining star for richfield Q made 7 points for his team in thelast the last quarter and after a careful consideration the exports experts who saw this game have advised Q that in the future lie he should play his last quarter first rf hav L score stood 36 for monroe and rich fields 21 24 2 1 points were divided as follows Q 7 the rest of the team IS 13 barker 4 total 21 it will appear appears from froin a careful reading of this articles article that micks alicks contention lias iras been fully established that the pen is mightier than the whistle when the richfield team has been fully covered with ointment a game will bo be played on oil neutral ground round to wit the monroe pavilion |