Show TEAM Local Y II N C A Practicing Hard I to Go Up Against Iowa Champions I The Y V M f C C A basketball team went through a stiff stift practice game last night In preparation for the big game with Mus Muscatine Muscatine lus I catine la ia next Saturday evening Ham Hammond Hammond Hammond mond one of the star forwards for the theY theY theT Y T M C A is sick with diphtheria and his loss greatly weakens the fighting strength of ot the team The Y M lI C A Ais Ais Ais is particularly fortunate fort nate this year in hav hay having having haying ing seven men on its first team any five of ot whom are capable of putting up tip a winning game At the present time how however however ever six men are In good shape and de determined determined e to keep up their record against visiting teams and uphold reputations reputations as a stumbling block to traveling organizations Up to date the Y M C A Ahas Ahas Ahas has successfully met the various travel traveling traveling travelIng ing teams which have invaded the state although none of the previous teams is isas isas isas as strong as the one which plays here Saturday The Crescents of Chicago came last season with a most remarkable rec record record ord and were beaten Jan 1 and 2 this year a team from Nome Alaska lost two consecutive games to the Y M Id C A and then won fifteen games straight after leaving Utah The Muscatine aggregation comes with a record to date of thirty eight victories and seven defeats The team is on a tour of ot the coun country country coUntry try and has met and defeated such prom prominent promInent meat eastern rn teams as the Y M lI C As of Grand Rapids and Detroit Mich To Toronto Toronto Toronto Canada Albany Alban N Y Second regiment basketball team champs of the south Richmond and the great Krebs team Hamilton O 0 The University of ot Nebraska Kansas City Cit Athletic club and the Haskell Indians Lawrence Kas No traveling basketball team has ever made such a record and if the Y M C A can defeat this organization Saturday night It will establish supremacy In bas basketball basketball basketball I beyond question |