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Show Milford High Basketers Win Hard-Fought Game When the news spread that the basket ball quintette of the local high school was to meet the famous Dixie aggregation, grave shakings of head3 and mutterings of sympathy for the home boys was the general response. Even the team itself was prepared to accept a moderate defeat de-feat and congratulate themselves that it was not a "whitewash." No doubt the brilliant victor? of the faculty in the preliminary game added add-ed "pep'.' to the manner in which the boys scrapped for the name of their school. The whistle blew with the, following lineup facing each other: St. George Milford Herman l.g. ' White Hurachi r.g. Miller Foremaster c. Bond Stuitznacre l.f. Schow McArthur r.f. Tanner Bringhurst subs. Pitchforth Fotheringham With a strong support from a capacity ca-pacity crowd the ball went up at center cen-ter and the contest was op. A few-swift few-swift passes and Spencer Schow landed the first field basket for the home team. Enthusiasm became tenae, the boys electric. No loafing now! Both teams were , playing to win. All were sensitive that the majority of baskets landed fell to the Milford end of the court. The visitors played with the precision and abandon of experience, and seemed to cotint on long distance shooting, many times so close as to hold the crowd breathless for a moment. mo-ment. At the end of the first half, y the score stood 7 to 14 in favor of Milford. Even with this advantage many feared that Dixie was holding off for a spectacular finish, in the second haji. During the intermission the crowd celebrated the first half victory with unmistakable demonstrations of pride. The energy of the athletes seemed contagious. Students yelled, sang and danced for joy, while older people could 'not resist the temptation tempta-tion to cut capers for joy, But the end was not yet. The toss-up toss-up introduced the second half with more stubborn aggressiveness than the first. That the visitors were not easy to handle was plainly shown in an unguarded mqment when the Dixie boys landed two baskets, in rapid succession. It was also evident evi-dent that Milford was somewhat weakened through the injury to Miller. Mil-ler. For several minutes nothing was scored by either side. But the home team rallied splendidly and rose resourcefully above the deadlock. dead-lock. The splendid manner with which White and Miller guarded was equaled by the whirlwind forwarding forward-ing of Schow and Tanner, while Bond in thrifty American style held down his position at center, and generous gen-erous lad as he is, played the whole floor. Little time was lost in controversy con-troversy ; and general satisfaction prevailed,1 especially in the home team when the final score of 19 to 26 was announced in favor of Milford. Mil-ford. Prin. Wells, Coach Davis and the balance of the faculty had dire difficulty in keeping the corners of their mouths from trespassing on the territory belonging to their ears, while the victorious boys got a free ride out of the gym. on the shoulders of enthusiastic boosters. The true sportsmanlike way in which the visiting boys accepted their defeat is but another way of showing the sterling mettle produced in Dixie. Rah! Rah! Rah! Dixie! I Rah! Rah! Rah! Milford! This is a glorious beginning! Let's make it a more glorious ending. |