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Show 'Negro Ghosts Gemmcll Club to Play Casaba Game - Great Treat Promised Local Hoop Fans at Gym ThU (Friday) Evening M;mlHrs of the It. C. Gommell club will be treated to as fine a basket ball game as irhey have seen in a long time, according to Al Ab-lett, Ab-lett, club manager, when the "Negro GhoU" tf Sioux City, Iowa, will appear here against the club team this evening ut the Gcmmell gymnasium. gym-nasium. I The "Gnosis" are one of the J strongest team on the road today, Ahlett state, and what they can't I do with a basketball just isn't worth, mentioning. They are said to stag nn exhibition of ball handling that is wonderful to behold. The visiting team is composed of "Flimsy" Evans and "Barbarian" Hood in the forward ioitions; "Suitcase" Simmons at center, and Les Wilkerson and Eli Hickman on the guard line. IOvans is declared to be the fastest dribbler in basketball, and Hood is known as the "Columbus "Colum-bus Flash." and lives up to this non. iiienclntnre in every respect. "Suitcase" Simmons, the center, i six feet four inches tall and po-wesses po-wesses a pair of hands that loo like a couple of IM'rs. Murphy' smoked hams. He does everything with a cassnba except give it a music lesson, according to advanc dope received by AI Ablett. Ts Wilkerson is reputed to be at greot showman as well as en one standing guard. Every frward who hiw plavcd against Mm will testify to this fuct. Eli Hickman, guad, semis tlvit ball through ..the ;tring us though it bad eves of. itsiSSi; Manager Boherg of the iiem'inc.Il baxketeers fctute that he has hit men in fine shape for the fracas, ond so the fnns aro assured that thb will be a real game. |