Bloomington High School, The Gothic, 1916, Page 67

Description:	19 GOTHIC 16In forty minutes of fighting, the local aggregation triumphedby a 25 to 14 score, thus winning the Sectional Championship forthe second time in two years.With a record of seven straight wins, the Bloomingtonitesjourneyed back home to compete in the State Tournament. Inthe opening game, the Purple and White lost a scrappy game tothe fast Lebanon five. The team was in a poor condition to play,owing to the sickness of some of its members, but put up a gamefight and was defeated only in the last few minutes by a success-ion of long shots which found their way through the ring.The Bloomington rooters acquired a reputation all over thestate for showing absolute fairness and courtesy to the visitingteam and the referee.Probably the greatest credit for the seasons success shouldgo to Coach Montgomery. By constant effort, he produced aquintet which was called by opposing teams, the fastest and clean-est five in the state. The short-pass game was worked down tothe finer points, and team-work was exhibited which is seldomparalleled in high school basketball circles.The members of the team worked hard throughout the season.They played a clean, scrappy game, and even when defeat wascertain, fought to the finish. Although their average weight wasonly 127 pounds, so that they were often outweighed forty poundsto the man, a yellow-streak was never apparent: on the con-trary, they won more than one game in the last few minutes bypurely outfighting their opponents. The main weakness of thisyears five was the lack of a foul thrower. If the Bloomingtonteam had made half of its free throws in every game, the scorebook shows that only two games would have been lost during theentire season.With six out of seven men graduating this year, some of thefans see little hope for next season. The more thoughtful are notso pessimistic. They look back through the season and see howa team was developed this year. The memory of the 1915-16 teamwill always be cherished, not because it was the best team everturned out, but because it has proved that as long as there is agood coach and the proper spirit in the school, B. H. S. never needsuffer from lack of a good basketball team.VISITORS WININ HOT GAME.B. H. S. Loses to Rochester inOvertime Play.In a strenuous five minute over-time game, Rochester won last nightin basket ball from the local highschool by a score of 27 to 21. Thewo teams were almost evenly matchPEACE ALSOHAS IT’S HONORS.Shelbyville Huskies Slaughtered By Bloomington Midgets.Shelbyvilles basket ball quintetproved easy victims for the localhigh school when they were swampedby the score of 67 to 11. The slaugh-ter of the visiting team was unexpect-DID THEY DO IT?YES, THEY DID.Bloomington High Scalps Bed-ford 13 to 12.Bloomington 13; Bedford 12.Smithville 64; Elwood 14.North Vernon 31; Austin 11.Seymour 49; Columbus 42.Danville 37; Plainfield 33.44 TO 13 TELLSTHE STORY.Of Evansvilles Waterloo atHands of Bloomington High.LAST NIGHTS SCORESBloomington 44; Evansville 13.Crawfordsville 38; Rochester 18.Bl’ingdale Ademy 32; Rockville 22.Martinsville 48; Broad Ripple 21.LOCALS DEFEATWYLIE HIGH.Bloomingtons high school basketball team won the last game of theirschedule last evening at the highschool gym from the Wiley high ofTerre Haute, they being defeated attheir home by the locals on Jan. 14thby 42 to 20. The game was interest-ing to a certain degree, but the one-sided score shows the locals easilyhad the visitors outclassed. The at-tendance was good as the friends ofErnest LintUey, George Louden, Rich-(67)
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