Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-03-21 | Page 19 | Ghosts Defeat Eckers, 57-50

Ghosts Defeat Ecker 57-50 In a game that kept ths 1500 spectators spec-tators howling with laughter at their antics, the barnstorming Ghost twsketballers defeated the Ecker Studio quintet 67-30 Monday evening eve-ning in the Deaeret gym. Hood, ths clever, comle forward, won the honors for tbs Ghosts as hs chalked up 11 points as Potts, one of the fastest and beat dribblers drib-blers in the country, "bounced circles' cir-cles' around the Ecker bunch to tank seven field goals and foul pitch. Bob Mullca was high man for tha Photographers with 14 tallies. tal-lies. Simmons, ths big center for the negro team, made ths crowd roar with his hilarious antics. Pretending Pretend-ing to throw the ball with terrific force, he would hold It as one might a baseball, while ths opponents fell all over themselves Jumping for a ball that was still la the huge center's cen-ter's band. Ths fascinating little Hood, who was guarded most of the time by "Red" Wade, teased the big guard unmercifully, doing everything in the book except make the ball talk. During Intermission Wayne Clark and Clarence Gehrka of the University Uni-versity of Utah staged a comic wrestling match, practically killing themselves and slaying the audi- Wells wsrd defeated the Eighteenth Eight-eenth ward In the preliminary game. The Ghosts will play the Knights of Columbus squad Thursday at the Judge Memorial gymnasium, with a preliminary game to start at 7:30 p. m. XCKXlt'S I GHOSTS O.T.F.P. O.T.F.F. NfelMn rf .2 0 0 4 Hood rf . 101131 Pendletoa l S 0 0 SI Potte If . 7 1115 AhJQUiat sail flStmmone e f 0 0 14 Wada ., 3 3 1 SIWDklnaon rs 1 0 0 3 Mullca "s -7 0 014'Orav l , i 1 1 1 Bars .... 0 3 3 2 . F.mper ... 1 0 31 Can.r . . 8 00 10 MclXmaue 0 0 ol Tolala ..2374M Totals ..274357 Score Sr Quarters: Ohoati 14 S4 SO 57 atckafe S 21 SS SO Referee, Xvsaa: umpire, OswaM.