The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 10

PAGE TEN THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1928 North Dakota Wins First Athletic Contest From Minnesota U. NODAK AK BASKET Bison Basketbalt Machine Takes 38 to 33 33 Contest Fr From Vikings | Hockey Star | TOSSERS TRIM | GOPHER SQUAD Captain Paul Boyd Breaks ws to 24 Tie With Free Throw Near End SCORE IS Minnesota Holds Short Lead in Second Half; All Flickers Score — | Mineaponlis, Minn., Dec. 10.) | A hard playing quintet from the University of North Dakota admin- istered a 25 to 24 defeat to the Uni- versity of Minnesota in the opening baskethall game of the season here Saturday night. A completed foul shot by Captain Paul Boyd of North Dakota, in the last minute of play broke a 24- =| deadlock. An elaborate stalling game then | gave victory to the Flickertails as | the Gophers fought desperately to retrieve command of the ball. Boyd had played well along with O1 Letich and Lewy Lee, who guarded well and added several points to their own total. Scoring Well Divided The North Dakota scoring was divided fairly evenly between all of its players, Letich leading with three field goals and one free throw for seven points. Lee and Boyd were tied with five points, each account- ing for two field goals and a free throw. To further show the North Dakota all-around scoring ability, Vie Brown, forward, and Harold Eberly, guard, each made a total of four points, coming from field goals. The contest dragged on rather slowly in the first half hour, which ended in an 11-11 tie, but both teams speeded up considerably as the sec- ond period opened. This was due for the most part, however, to the in- creasing intensity of Minnesota’s of- fense, which started the last half in a scoring burst. The teams fought evenly as far as scoring went, but the Gophers lost many opportunities to put them into a safe lead. Boyd Scores in Pinch A Alter taking a three-point margin, the widest during the whole game, Minnesota’s efforts were nullified as North Dakota, with Boyd scoring two baskets from the field, dead- locked their opponents. While Minnesota was presenting a tly better offense than the ickertails, the Gophers, when they came under the basket or into fair scoring range, were unable to sink shots which oth should have drop) in. This was not true of the Flickertajls, who took advantage of nearly every opportunity to score. Minnesota outshot the Flickertails in point of attempts at the basket about 3 to 1, but their attempts bounced off the back board or the rim into the hands of the Flickertail guards. Captain George Otterness, the best shot on Minnesota’s quint, scored three baskets from the floor, but two other Gophers, Nelson and Wil- liams, scored the same number of field goals. It was around these three men that the Minnesota offense functioned best. The summary: North Dakota— FG BT PF Brown, f . Letich, f | rotorocers elena & Nelson, ¢ Olson, ¢ Totals . 10 Referee: John Getchel, St. Thomas. COYOTES NO MAT MATCH FOR HAWKEYE FIVE Towa City, Dec. 8&—(#)—Dis- playing form far below Big Ten caliber, Coach Sam Barry’s Univer- sity of Iowa basketeers won their first game of the 1928 season from South Dakota here tonight, 37 to 17. handling of the ball and ig teamwork marked all but the last five minutes of play on the part of the Iowans. During that last short pe riod Iowa ran ups points. With Captain Francis Wilcox kept out of uniform by illness, sopho- mores bore the brunt of the Iowa attack. Twogood, veteran forward, failed to score but his floor play was a highlight of the game. akota stars were B. Root, forward, and K. fod E. Esterson, | guard. , PYLE SPONSORS ONE MORE RACE New York, Dee. 10.—(AP)—C. C. Pyle, second eanseen Sasnener ogee: Bi eeues be) alononnond al HHowe Nodaks Grab Cage Victory from Gophers is pictured the five regular members of the University of North Dakota basketball team which defeated Minnesota, 25 to 24, at Minneapolis Saturday night and registered the Flickertails’ first athletic vetory over a Gopher team. Captain Paul Boyd sewed the game up with a free throw in the closing minute of play to break a tie. Harold Eberly, guard, is pictured in the upper left, with Coach Clement W. Letich, top center, and Ca] tain Paul Boyd, guard, upper right. forwards. Left to right below are Lewy Lee, center. Al Letich and Vic Brown, The Nodak globe-trotting team, which travels 5,500 miles through 14 states to play 11 games this Christ- mas sper ci tall enough to look down on some of the “tall buildings” that will be seen en route. Coach regular five Se he was all-state in high school. Lee, age feet one inch. Here are their height: two inches; Letich, Tive feet 11 1-2 inch All of the boys are lettermen, and Letich, high school man from Yankton, S. Dak. Boyd came t Eberly, six feet one i Brown, and Eberly each members at one time or another of the all-state te: North country fans are wondering if this veteran crew Young, California, Southern Branch, St. Louis Loyola of Chicago, and Washington at Seattle. will compete with the Nodaks during the holidays. , ee is six feet three inches tall himself, likes them long and rangy. So his entire Dakota Lee, six feet two inches; Brown, six feet h, and Boyd, six feet and one-half inch. s the coach’s brother and a former All-American rth Dakota all the way from Boulder, Colo., where ll hail from Valley City high school and were in down such teams as Chicago, Illinois, Brigham All of these Two Powerful Eastern Basketball Teams Invade Western Conference North Dakota Whips Min- nesota, Washington Beats Indiana, and Wesleyan Wal- lops Ohio State in Big Ten Pitt Team Is Chicago, Dec. 10.—()—Invasions | by two powerful eastern teams, | 0| Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania, injects | the spice of intersectionalism into | the Big Ten’s preliminary basketball | | season this week. The two teams, which won high honors by their prowess last season, will engage five Big Ten teams and the contests headline the 11-game card of the week. Pittsburgh Conceded Best Pittsburgh, conceded the national title last season, meets Northwestern at Evanston Friday night and the next night clashes with Wisconsin's Giants at Milwaukee, «where the largest crowd that ever saw a bas- ketball game in Wisconsin is antici- pated. Pennsylvania, eastern inter- collegiate champions last season, meets Indiana, co-holders of the Big Ten title, Thursday night at Bloom- ington, Ohio State at Columbus on Friday night and Michigan at Ann Arbor the night following. The invasion of Pittsburgh will give Big Ten teams a chance to re- gain some of the cage prestige lost last season when the Ba nthers de- feated four of them in five nights. Illinois, Wisconsin, and Purdue, which was tied with Indiana for the title last season, open their cam- pales this week. Wisconsin meets ‘ranklin college and Illinois tangles with Bradley tonight, while Purdue starts against Wabash on Tuesday. Other scheduled preliminary games are Purdue at Washington univer- sity, St. Louis, Friday, and Lombard OXY PHANN easiest way to stat something is try to stop something « at Illinois and Minnesota at Drake, Saturday night. Had Three Upsets Three upsets marked the grand opening of the Big Ten preliminary season Saturday night. Washington ity defeated Indiana, 31 to 30; Ohio Wesleyan walloped Ohio State, 36 to 20, and North Dakota edged out Minnesota, 25 to 24. The other three teams, which made their seasonal debut, were victorious but their showing was far from i ressive. Iowa defeated South Da- kota, 37 to 17; Chicago beat Mon- mouth, 28 to 16, and Northwestern sank Wabash 35 to 20. It was the Poorest first night showing of Big Ten téams in years. TECH CAPTURES TITLE IN SOUTH Atlanta, Dec. 10.—()—Georgia Tech’s Golden Tornado swept to u disputed championship of the South- ern conference Saturday by crushing its ancient rival the University of Georgia, 20 to 6. The Georgia Bulldogs, however, rovided sufficient thrills. Thirty- ‘ive thousand saw Maffet, Georgia end, take ass over the Gold and White goal-line in the first period to give his team a 6 to 0 lead. It was Oe first time this season any team has held a margin over Tech. Stump; Py. Thomason, halfback, and Father Lumpkin, sophomore full- back, however, could not be denied. It was the ramming, battering Lumpkin who made a three yard dive for a touchdown in the second quar- ter and in the next period he rammed over left guard for another six pointer. Thomason, after giving the crowd a wonderful exhibition of broken field running and pace changing, added the third touchdown in ‘the same period. He ripped center for four yards and a touchdown. This march started on Tech’s own 42 yard line. French Interest in Tennis on Increase Paris, Dec. 10.—(AP)-—Court ten- nis, favorite game of French kings and long neglected after the Revolu- |, tion, is reviving in public favor. In Paris, Bordeaux and Pau, particu- larly, recent tournaments . have | K demonstrated that an_ incre: number of players are taking up the game: " dust before the revolution there were at least 30° courts in Paris alone. Four c paecreve)ation courts are still standing in France, one built at Versailles in 1686, another x Fontainbleau in 1702 and courts at Bordeaux and Chantilly erected in| Sali po aide of Hl eighteenth cen- in-tl rdeaux bu ie played; the others BUCKEYESTAR IS INELIGIBLE IF PLAN HOLDS Allan Holman Has Played Three Collegiate Years, Loop’s Maximum Chicago, Dec. 10.— (AP) — Allan Holman, Ohio State’s star quarter- back, as well as Mayes McLain, Towa’s Cherokee Indian fullback ace, is epparently through with Big Ten football. While McLain was the only one to be officially declared ineligible for further competition by the fac- ulty committee because of the three- : year player rule, it was regarded as a foregone conclusion by the com- mittee and coaches that Holman, too, would be banished. The three-year rule, reaffirmed by the committee during the annual Big Ten sports conclave here Satur- day, limits any one to three years of college athletic competition. Hol- man played a season on the Parsons college football team, another with Towa State and one at Ohio State. McLain played two seasons with the Haskell Indians and one with Iowa. L. W. St, John, director of ath- letics at Ohio State, said that in his opinion Holman would be banned. The Ohio State athletic board will] 5 make the decision, but if it should | B! decide in favor of Holman, a protest from other Big Ten members, notably Iowa, would be certain, fac: ulty committee-members said. Agreement to enforce the three- year rule which was adopted in 1904, to’ refuse athletic. relations with any college that does not en- force the rule, except in the case of service elevens, framing of sched- ules and agreement to cooperate in a.more rigid campa’ to eliminate proselyting in both h schools and colleges comprised the. work of the faculty committee, athletic directors and coaches at their meetings, Revere Student Made Jimmie Grid Captain ements N..D., Dec. 10.—Robin penhaaver, Revere, was elected 1988 fo football captain ‘for Jamestown college at a mothers’ banquet. Coach Karl Ericson announced the follow- ing lettermen: William Watson, Maxbass; Erwin Gussher, Gordon keston; Bert Ferguson, in Sederholm, Jamestown; ‘Koppenl ad Pageley; Ui fonel Rejek: Paton walle Minn; Erwin Reiste, Bowbells; William. Goons, Bowbelis Townes 7 Palas Fi Raises Royal Oakes, Knoll, and Da Tell i one a Millarton. TILDEN. CASE POSTPONED New York, Dec. 10.—-(AP)—1 action on. ion: | rtSaneat te BE TEACHERS HOLD ADVANTAGE FOR PART OF AFFAIR Count Is 19 to 17 for Morri- son’s Crew at End of First Half a TAKE BREAKS 1 BISON Johnny Smith and Leo May Show Possibilities in Their First Game Fargo, Dec. 10.— North Dakota Agricultural basketeers opened their- 1928-29 campaign with a 38 to 33 triumph over the Valley City State Teachers college here Saturday, the Bison winning after a torrid strug- gle. The Vikings, fighting doggedly for a win over the yellow and green clad warriors, were leading at the half, 19 to 17, but a second half rally led by Cecil Bliss and Leo May proved too much for the invaders. It was a typical early season con- test, fumbles, wild passes and many poor shots marring an exciting and interesting basket duel. Long Shots Find Loop Both teams showed a ‘decided lack of offensive polish and it is doubtful if the score would have been larger than an ordinary baseball total had it not been for the long tosses dropped in by players on both sides. Neither side made more than three short shots, and only a few were wild, the scoring being chiefly the re- sult of pitches from points well out- side the foul circles. Johnny Smith; Bison - ‘sophomore forward, and Leo May, Bison soph, playing at both guard and center, scored five and four field goals re- spectively and Smith never had a chance in close while four of May’s pitches were of the lengthy variety. Cecil Bliss, veteran forward, hit a fast scoring pace in the second half for the Bison, dropping in five field goals, four of which were close-in shots, two setups and two made aft- er Bliss had outscrambled the Viking guards in scoring territory. Both teams played strong defen- sive basketball, the Burchill broth- ers, George and Eddie, assisted well by Murdock, keeping the Bison of- fensive thrusts well in check in ad- dition to being leading factors in the offensive play. The Bison defense functfoned well at times but it was not steady enough to satisfy its di- rector, the energetic Saalwaechter. Valley City worked through too many times to suit Sally, and no doubt something will be done about this before these rivals clash at Val- ley City next Friday in a return en- gagement. Vikings Lead First Half Smith kept the Bison in the run- ning in the first half with his five field goals, Bliss and Braus each getting one by way of aiding their mate, while the Burchills, McQueen and Murdock took a hand in the scoring from the field for the visi- tors. The Vikings were on the long end of a 12 to 11 count with six minutes to play in the first half when Braus gave the Bison a tem- porary lead with a field goal regis- tered when he followed in on his own pitch. McQueen then: kicked in two in rapid succession from the field and then Smith snared his fifth long pitch and Bliss lige the. Bison ahead when he scored on the only real setup offered the yellow and green in the period. McQueen. tied it with a field goal, and George Burchill dropped in two more from the foul line after being tackled when he was about to. shoot from under the net. This sent the Vi- kings to the rest room, leading 19 to 17, and in a happy frame of mind. Eddie Burchill increased the Vi- kings lead to four points on a pretty pass play shortly after the opening of the second half, but then the Bliss and May combination began to func- tion and these huskies took turns at slapping in field goals until the Bi- son were enjoying a fairly comfort- able advantage. The firing was hot and heavy in the second half and for a time it was anybody’s game, but the Bison cashed in on their op- portunities and won. oe summary: wn D. 49 FT PF a Smith, f Braus, c... Gergen, § May, g, ¢ - Brady, g Hermes, g Totals...,.+.++.16 Vikings— Fe E. Sara f.. Murdock, f McQueen, ¢ Soraas, c Gunderson, ¢ Simons, g - G. Burchill, g oonmnrond 4 2 CiCARS Beauty, vigor, poise—here is ture of these three qualities as they’ro embodied in M Agnes Rodgers of Buffalo, N. Y., star hockey player of Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Murdock 1, G. Burchill 3, Braus 1, Gergen 1, May 1. Referee, P. E. Mikkelson, Morn- ingside. OY . Basketball Score i Collegiate North Dakota 25; Minnesota 24. N. D. A. C. 38; Valley City Teach- ers 33. Concordia 23; ers 20. Washington. (St. Louis) 31; In- diana 30. Ohio Wesleyan 36; Ohio State 20. Iowa 37; South Dakota 17. Northwestern 35; Wabash 20. Chicago 28; Monmouth 16. High School Solen 35; Fort Yates 15. Dunn Center 12; Golden Valley 10. Ra spemtcran ree | Football Results i fbtas statitistediantarnbaciaN ° Moorhead Teach- Tennessee 13; Florida 12. Georgia Tech 20, Georgia 6. Alabama 13; Louisiana State 0. Creighton 9; Marquette 6. Chattanooga 10; Southern 0. North Carolina 14; Duke 7. Quantico Marine 14; Loyola 13. Frankford Yellowjackets 7; New FLORIDA TITLE HOPES FALTER AT TENNESSEE Volunteers Squeeze Out 13 to 12 Victory Over Florida’s *Gators Knoxville, Tenn., Dec, 10.—(AP) ‘The Volunteers of Tennessee scuttled the Southern conference champion- ship hopes of Florida Saturday in a thrilling climax to one of the great- est Dixie gridiron seasons. These sturdy sons of Tennessee, with a scrappv fast charging line and three sensational sophomores in the backfield, ripped into the de- fense of the country’s highest pow- ered scoring machine, tore it apart in the first half with a bewildering attack and had the stuff to turn back Florida’s desperate counter thrust that fell only a single point shy of squaring the count. ‘ennessee’s final margin was 13 to 12, so close that chills were run- ning up and down the spines of Vol- untcer partisans as Florida darkened the air with passes’ serious enough to threaten the result of the game, yet winding up the home team’s sea- son in triumphant fashion. 17,000 See Game A wildly excited crowd of 17,000 saw the Volunteers not only spoil} Florida’s hopes of sharing the south- ern title with Georgia Tech but strengthen their claims to a share of Bie national gridiron spotlight for 1928. Those youthful stars in orange and while, with a brilliant array of sophomores, carried on where their predecessors left off to give Tennes- see the distinction of finishing its second successive undefeated season. Only a Thanksgiving day scoreless tie with Kentucky keeps the Vols from claiming an equal share of southern title glory with Georgia Tech, which closed its campaign at Atlanta today by beating Georgia before moving on to represent Dixie in the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena New Year day. As it stands, Tennessee, under the coaching of the old West Point star, Major Bob Neyhand, has played 20 consecutive games over a three-year period without defeat, winning 18 and tying 2 others, Gators Top Heavy Favorites Florida, unbeaten previously this year and with a speedy, well drilled outfit that had rolled up the aston- ishing total of 324 points in eight games, entered the game a top heav; favorite, colors flying and confi- dent of victory. Each touchdown tallied by Florida put the Gators within a_ point of Tennessee but each time the failure of the try for extra point kept the York Giants 0. DEVILS LAKE HONORS FREDDY HOVDE, WESTERN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL STAR Former Satan Athlete in Grana Forks Saturday to Make Per. sonal Application for Rhodes Scholarship; Lakers Present Him With Watch Devils Lake, N. D., Dec. 10.— Freddy Hovde, University of Minne- sota football star, “the boy who is given credit for putting Devils Lake prominently on the map of the northwest,” received the good will of Devils Lake folks here Saturday night, along with a white gold watch, Hovde, who was in Grand Forks Saturday and was brought to Devils Lake by two of his schoolday chums, was welcomed by a group of about 50 persons when he arrived in the city, nearly two hours later than \scheduled. He was first taken to the home of his parents, where they | joined the party, and then was taken {to the Grayson hotel, where a ban- quet had been arranged. With many of his former school teachers and school chums present, the lad who has made a name na- |tionally known by his action on the gridiron was placed at the head of |the table while speakers paid tribute to the lad. Mayor Allen Haig was toastmaster and the superintendent of schools gave an address outlining the character of Hovde and his scholastic record. State Senator Frank .Hyland pre- sented Hovde with the watch, in- scribed with his name. Hovde re- turned to the University of Minne- sota Sunday. Bluejays Take Close Game from Marquette Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 10.—(AP) —A brilliant’ 80 yard run across the goal line by Jimmy Bertoglio, mak- ‘ing his final appearance on a college gridiron, and a placekick enabled Creighton university to defeat Mar- quette in a post season game here Saturday 9 to 6, Held scoreless for three periods, the Golden Avalanche scored in the middle of the final period when Captain Swede Gebert, who has been in a hospital for two. weeks, caught a 10 yard pass and galloped 40 yards for a touchdown. In the 44th renewal of their rival- ry, the oldest of the home school, the two teams brought their season’s activities to a close before 5,000 per- sons.who braved a freezing tempera- ture and southwest wind to witness the porte caepeon game, postponed from No- itors from catching thats flying Florida tried a pass first that nar- rowly missed ringing up the added point, and a kick the second time but both failed. 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