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Show j Gunnison Quint Bests Centerfield The Gunnison quint of basketball-ers basketball-ers clearly demonstrated their title to the championship over Centerfield when toy took the players of the sister sis-ter town for a trimming Tuesday night with a score of 36 to 27. The game was played before one of the largest and most cm husiast ic crowds j of fans seen in the valley for years. and during the progress of the game the "rooters" for the respective sides lnade the walls of the opera house fairly tremble with cheers. .When Joseph A. Anderson, special referee for the game from Salina, tooted his whistle for the game, the contestants entered into the play with a vim. and during the first half there was classy playing on both sides and at the call of time Gunnison Gunni-son led by four points, the score being be-ing IS to 14. In the second half Centerfield weakened and the Gunnison Gun-nison boys played a stronger game than in the first half, and the score for the last half stood IS for the Gunnison Gun-nison team while the Centerfield boys only landed 13 for count. The. superiority of the Gunnison boys was shown in the team work in passing the ball and several stunts were pulled off that won the victors plaudits. In shooting the basket, however, (he Centerfield players were leaders at Tuesday night's game. The Centerfield team was crippled when Gilbert Fjeldsled sustained a badly sprained ankle, During the warm-up Fjeldsled, crack center, turned his foot in such a manner that his ankle was put out of commission, commis-sion, and Alvin Fjeldsled was substituted. substi-tuted. Outside of this accident and a hard crash on the bead of Richard Fjeldsled, the fatalities were slight. Referee Anderson kept the players play-ers busy and his decisions and rulings rul-ings proved a source of satisfaction both to the players and to the crowd of fans. The score for the-game follows: Gunnison, Norman, forward 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 Jones, forward 2 0 0 It (I (1 0 H. llalverson, center. .2 2 2 1 1 2 0 E. llalverson, guard . 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 Deal, guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 'cute ifiebl. Anderson, center ..2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Childs, forward ....1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 Jensen, forward ... 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 A. Fjeldsted. g 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 F. Fjeldsted, g.' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |