Show T H k LOOK VISITS THE GAME it was friday fiday night thoele tooele was in a stir little crowds crowd everywhere could be seen engaged in a common discussion upon inquiry I 1 learned that tootles To oldest and most formidable enemy was approaching from the west they came up in mighty hordes threatening to wrest from a supremacy jealously guarded for the last five years it was not an army of soldiers that marched over the flats and poured into the city but an army of basket ball rooters armed to the teeth they hadano had no rifles bayonets or machine guns but they were loaded with the kind of weapons weapon needed for taking home scalps the unrest the stir und and the excitement had completely saturated the air much as it did just before the command was given to go over the top from the trenches catching tha contagion I 1 followed the mob to a time worn dilapidated but spacious building it was here that I 1 was to see the promised royal battle I 1 could see they expected to make things hot for the building was not heated up though the thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero outside some said it vas as because the janitor had blown up the boiler they th ey even intimated that the old building was a white elephant t and should have gone with the boiler one man said they only kept kepi it out of respect to the few enter prizing citizens who made it a present to the schools another man however assured me that there was a small money consideration era tion and suggested that the enterprising enter prizing citizens benefited slightly anyway there was a seething mob of excited people old and young they yelled jumped sn eared sheared and jerked like a multitude of wild men huddled along the side aide lines and perched upon the bleachers blee ble chera echers they waited for the appointed hour the boys in red were on the floor when the long line of purple clad youngsters proudly circled the room A volley of yells from the tooele thoele rooters rang out in staccato grantsville Grants ville hurriedly accepted the challenge and hurled their answer defiantly across the floor into the very teeth of the purple and white challengers the shouting mob paused for a moment to be amused by a hoax the spirit of antagonism suddenly changed to that of mirth and glee as they watched a personification of tho the grantsville Grants ville team F for or a basket ball they used stuffed turnip and for baskets buggy tire the tire seemed to be emblematic of what the tooele thoele team would soon need for a basket for try as they would the oval consistently evaded the hoop As if by magically magic magi call all eyes turned to the center of the hall where the youthful warriors had gathered at tho the sound of the shrill metallic whistle for a second silence prevailed women and girls held their breath while the men and boys calmly hut ut confidently waited for the starting signal they were off the tension was broken broke n muscles were relaxed then that fatal whistle it seemed it would never cease every time it sounded a free throw was awer awarded led to one side or other until the contest was completely subdued and chanced to a foul pitching duel due tooele thoele fared poorly no do man seemed to have the courage to stay at the free fred throw line well vell the game ended as all games do it ended with biting dust they were humiliated and defeated every basketball basket ball game ends endal when they have hav e played forty minutes and the referee has robbed the losing team of a victory some how all referees are alike in that they aro are dishonest it seems peculiar they do not choose honest men for the job they will need to have another school for officials for tooele thoele to get one that is honest if they would get some of the brave men like those who surround the official after the game is over and with the help of twenty or twenty five others offer to trounce him they might get an honest one there vre are a few candidates here The they have most if not all of the qualifications necessary led by their hero they threatened one of the officials offered to fight him cursed him shook their fists in his face and demanded that he never return as if he wished to 0 such a brave and noble deed the little affair reminds one of a boy b ay aboard a fast train shaking his fist at the station master and trusting to god that he will never see him again signed T A LOOK local philosopher |