BASKETBALL, EDITION
The Daily Nebra
kan
VOL. XVII, NO. 109.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. FRipAY, MARCH 8. 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SOME OFTOURNtY'S FASTEST GAMES
BY TEAMS
Groups Running Nearly Even in
Form
SEMI FINALS TOMORROW
Dope Upset In Many Cases Will Be
Hard Scramble for Finale In
All Gradea
The lower classes In the eighth an
nual high school basketball tourna
ment to be staged by the University
lived up to expectations, and produced
games that were fast and hard fought.
The class of ball bein played in the
various classes is higher than ever
before, and there is very little differ
ence in the form being exhibited by
teams in the different classes. The
second round wcs played yesterday.
The semifinals will come today and
the finals Saturday.
Two teams are looming up big in
Class C, Omaha Commerce and Exeter.
Of these, the Omahans are "probably
the favorites, although the Exeter lads
are playing exceptional ball. Class D
produced one real thriller, when Bay
ard and Dunbar were forced to go an
extra period to decide which was the
better team. Bayard finally got' the
decision, 8 to 7. Class E is full of
well-balanced teams, but Sidney is ex
pected to be a strong claimant for the
championship. In Class P Gretna up
set the dope by beating Bladen. Polk
also showed up well. Boelus and Ran
dolph both are showing class in Class
0, and will fight hard to get to the
finals Saturday. Class H teams are
running true to form and the games in
this division yesterday were close. The
winners are well matched, and there
will be a bard scramble for final
honors.
CLASS C
Central City, Exeter and OnSaha
Commerce were the winners in the
games played at the auditorium last
night. All three of .the games were
hard-fought from start to finish.
In the first game of the evening
Central City defeated Clay Center
after a close contested fight. At the
end of the first half Central City was
hut two field goals ahead but in the
second half Ehe managed to steadily
increase her lead. The playing of
Gray was the outstanding feature of.
the game. . "
Clay Center-16, Central City 25
Schwab ...f Gray
Campbell .". . f... Staats
Haylett .c... Walcott
Swanson g . . Dunavan
Kller g Smith
SENIOR GIRLS HOLD
IMPORTANT MEETING
Lay Plans for Election of Black
Masques' and the
May Queen
The method of selecting members
for the coming year's Black Masque
was the main problem discussed at
the senior gins mass meeting held
Thursday 11:30 in Law 101.
Lucile Wilcox gave a report on the
proposed plan of giving each senior
girl the right to vote for thirteen
Juniors whom she desires for Black
Masque rnesibenj next year..-
TODAY'S GAMES
Ciu A (Armory) .
4:30 Lincoln vs. South Omaha.
4: B0 Fremont vs. Omaha Central.
Class B (Armory)
10:00 Oakdale ts. Schuyler. -10:20
Nebraska City vs. Shelton.
Class C (Auditorium)
4:30 Hardy vs. Central City.
4:50 Exeter vs. Omaha Commerce.
Class D (Auditorium)
10:00 Kenesaw vs. Ravenna.
10:20 Seward vb. Bethany.
Class E (V M. C. A.)
4:30 Scribner vs. Superior.
4:50 Steele City vs. Sidney.
Class F (Y. M. C. A.)
10:00 Bayard vs. Blooufield.
10:20 Polk vs. Gretna.
Cats G Caj:
4:30 Juniata vs. Boelus.
4:50 Randolph vs. Mowells.
Class H (Chapel)
10:00 Mascot vs. Culbertson.
10:20 WInside vs. Osmond.
OF LOWER CLASSES
Field goalB Cray. 7; Wolcott. 4;
Swanson, 2; Smith, 1; Campbell, 1;
Haylett, 3.
Free throws Gray, 1; Haylett, 4.
Referee Anderson.
Scorer White.
Exeter easily defeated Franklin, 37
16, outclassing them in all depart
ments of the game. Exeter showed es
pecially good team work. Adams, Mc
Cleary and Costello all succeeded in
caging a number of baskets. .Morris
and Sprout did good work for Frank
lin. Franklin 16, Exeter 37
Sargent f v. ... Costello
Morris f McCleary
Sprout c Adams
Harvey g Smith
Vedder g Lefler
Field goals Costello, 5; Adams, 6;
i.McCleary, 4; Smith, 3; Harvey, 1;
Morris, 2; Sprout, 2; Sargent, 1.
Foul goals Sprout, 4 ; Adams, 1.
Referee Anderson.
Scorer White.
Omaha Commerce defeated Hol
Urook in the hardest fought game of
the evening. Each played a good
brand of basketball but the Omaha
boys succeeded in forging ahead of
their opponents in the second half.
Mahoney and Goodman did the best
work for Omaha, while Malloring
scored most of the points for Hol
brook. Omaha Commerce will un
doubtedly be one of the strongest con
tenders for the Class C championship.
Omaha Commerce 20, Holbrook 8
Goodman f Douglass
Mahoney f Smith
Koofer c Phillipson
Levinson ...g Tomlin
Burnstein g Malloring
Field goals Malloring, 3; Goodman,
4 ; Mahoney, 4 ; Kooper, 1.
Free throws Goodman, 2; Mallor
ing, 2.
Referee Rhodes.
Scorer White.
The only Class C game of the after
noon was a hard-fought battle between
Hardy and Wilbur in which Hardy
copped the long end of the score.
Meyers for Hardy was the individual
star of the afternoon, making the ma
jority of the scores from difficult
angles. Hardy exhibited a style of
playing that caused some to favor
them for the final round. The line-up:
Hardy 23, Wilbur 15
Bixby f Storkam
Myers I Placek
Wright c Stepanek
Weimer g- Tachovsky
Elam Jacob
Referee Anderson.
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TO OUR HIGH SCHOOL VISITORS .
wo n,iPr,m vou the high school students who have taken parr,
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government. University. Perhaps you have been a bit
to tui SSoJo? -a '? nl ,",e ll,e M
" SS.TuoXo c... Yd w. that to our count,,
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ahly he run in The Daily Nebraskan
7 ... tfco Y. W. C. A.
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office for the convenience of seniors
who are to vote uunus ."
to be held March 26 and 27. The
names should be carefully examined
. - ii-m. ft a vntnr'a Choice 01
ana a uat . .
girls be prepared prior to the day of
election. It is desired that the girl
who has really done something worth
while for her scnooi una u
pari m " .
first consideration. Politics should not
.. . . i.iiiiifio tha fmiection.
be anowea iu luuucuv-w -
The beginning of genuine democracy
could be noticed by the unanimous
vote with wnicn me iwv -
cepted. ' '
Kinnn nf the Mar Queen will prob-
ably follow spring vacation.
Plans for a junior-senior girls party
which will probably be held March
23 were also announced the date and
further information will be posted
VISITORS TO SEE HUSKERS
PERFORM AGAINST AGGIES
High School Lads to Witness
College Games
BOTH TEAMS ' PRIMED
Opposing Five Preparlnfl Diligently
for Conflict! to Be Staged Today
and Tomorrow Afternoon
One of the most interesting events
of the basketball tournament this year
will be the opportunity that the high
school lads will have to witness some
real class games of college basket
ball. The Kansas Aggies are making
a little pleasure trip to the land of
the Cornhusker today and Saturday,
in a vain attempt to satiate their
thirst for conquest. The "Aggies,"
while they have not. made a brilliant
record this year, are yet a foe to be
reckoned with, and the prospects are
that the games will be of an A-l va
riety. The outcome of these games, how
ever, will have very little effect upon
the final standing of the teams In the
valley conference, as that is pretty
much in a set condition now. At
least Nebraska cannot hope to land
very near the top of the pile.- The
fact that the team was slow in "get
ting into shape, caused the Huskers
to lose a good proportion of the early
games, and practically put Nebraska
out of the runjiing. However, the fel
lows have perked up quite consider
ably in the last few weeks and are
exhibitinlg a brand of basket tossing
that is not very far from the cham
pionship variety. As for the "Aggies,"
while they are not at the top, still
they are far from the bottom and
should give the local boys a good
scrap.
Judging from the comparative re
sults of the two teams' mixes with the
Drake Bulldogs, Nebraska should have
little trouble in taking the Farmers
into camp.
- Besides the two varsity games, each
will be preceded by a preliminary
scramble between the freshman teams
of the two schools. Very little is
known concerning the prowess of the
"Aggie" freshmen, but something is
known of the . first year men of the
Husker squad. They cleaned up on
the crack team from the Omaha Cen
tral high school once this year, and
have made themselves considerable
famous around this neck of the woods,
so the battles are sure to be exciting
and full of pep if nothing else.
Treat for Visiting Teams
These tames are a real treat for
the boys of the visiting high schools,
as it gives them a chance to witness
at first hand, some games of real col-
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liter. Thi Dartv which will be given
by the Black Masaue is for the pur
pose of aiding the upperclassmen to
become better acquainted.
An all-girls' mass meeting which
will probably be held Tuesday, March
12, at 11:30, for the furthering of Uni
versity Red Cross work was an
nounced. A committee has been asked
to see that 1,500 articles, are made per
monQ.' Since the vacation in this
work during the remodeling of the
rooms, students have gotten out of the
habit of working there. It is, therefore,
desired that as much publicity be
given this matter as possible because
the need for surgical dressings, etc.,
becomes gTeater every day.
Safety First
"Sj, alike, why do you carry that
dynamite in your breast pocket?'
"Well. Pat has a habit of slapping
me on the chest. Next time he does
it he'll blow his hand off. Wash
ington Square Dealer.
THRILLS FEATURE SECOND ROUND OF
TOURNEY GAMES IN UPPER CLASSES
Lincoln and Omaha Show
Championship Form
CROWDS ARE TURNED AWAY
Five Hundred People Were Unaccom
modated at Armory Last Evening
Shelton and Nebraska City Feature
Thrills and thrillers were the or
der of the day in the second round of
Classes A and B in the Eighth An
nual Basketball Tournament yester
day. The games were all of the fast
est order and every time. that a new
pair of teams came on the floor the
crowd was assured of plenty of excite
ment. Beginning with the Oakdale
Holdrege game at 10 o'clock in the
morning, the game's grew rapidly bet
ter until the climax of the day's events
was reached in the game between
Omaha and Gothenburg. From the re
Bults of the day's play the semi
finals tomorrow promise to be a rather
exceptional variety or basketball. Lin
coln is clearly the favorite of the
tournament and is picked as a winner
by many of the critics, although the
showing made by Omaha and Fremont
in the play Thursday evening make
them loom up as possible contenders
for th etitle in .Class A.
In Class B Sheiton Is the prime
favorite, although Nebraska City is
confident of a victory. Oakdale also
has a strong team as has the Schuyler
so that the games in Class B tomor
row will be of an exceptional variety.
All in all the tournament is rapidly
developing into one of the greatest
athletic events of history.
Crowds Break Records
' One of the greatest evidences of the
success with which the tournament
has met so far was the size of the
crowd in attendance. Early in the
evening there was an almost unman
agable mob gathering at the east en
trance of the Armory attempting to
gain admittance. Before the games
were due every seat in the gymnasium
was occupied and a steady stream
kept constantly pouring until every
inch of space was covered and the
people began to erowd out onto the
field. The doors were then closed
upon more than five hundred persons
who tried in vain to gain entrance to
the games. Never before has there
ISSUE LAST CALL FOR
SOPHOMORE PICTURES
Second Year Students Must
Have Photos Taken at Town
sends ( by Saturday Night
Absolutely the last call for sopno
more pictures has been issued by the
Cornhusker management and with it
a warning there will be a host of dis
appointments about the campus when
the first, edition of Nebraska's War
Baby makes its appearance. There
remain a number of the second year
students who have failed to respond
to calls made last week for their
photos and unless immediate attention
is given to the matter and the pictures
taken at the Townsend studio by Sat
urday night their pictures will not be
printed in this year's big issue of
the Cornhusker.
Is Extraordinary Concession
The management wishes to remind
the sophomores of the extraordinary
concession being made to give the sec
ond year people representation in tho
Nebraska yearbook". This is a con
cession made by few if any of the
other larger colleges and it is made
merely because of the grave possibili
ties existing that many or most per
haps of the students now in the sec
ond year class will fail to appear or
remain for a full term in school next
year. For these reasons those re
sponsible for the Cornhusker are mak
ing it possible for every one to as
sure themselves a representation in
this year's annual a book that will
without a doubt be one of the greatest
monuments in the history of the Uni
versity of Nebraska and in which
every one should be Interest.! in see
been such a crowd turned from the
doors of the Armory because of want
of seating and standing capacity to
accommodate them.
After the starting whistle was blown
the spectators were forced to take to
the benches and the side liner in or
der that the contending teams could
have adequate playing room but dur
ing every intermission the lines that
held the onlookers from off the floor
gave way and soon the field was
packed with the seething mass of en
thusiasts as they shifted restlessly
about.
Especially in the final game played
between the teams from Omaha and
Newman Grove was a real spirit of
contention manifested. At the open
in? slenal the crowd divided into fac
tions supporting the opposing teams,
and continued for the remainder or
the evening to encourage their favor
ites. The most interesting game of the
evening's play was that between Oma
ha (Central) and Newman Grove.
Prior to the game, the odds were all
on the Newman Grove team, and even
after the first half had been played and
the score stood 10 to 7 for Omaha
sympathy was all against the lads from
the metropolis. Newman Grove has
one of the strongest teams that en
tered the tournament this year, and
fought from the word "go." The Oma
ha lads, while they were considerably
outweighed, played true to their old
form, and outfought their opponents
in every department of the game. The
superb guarding of the Logan brothers
prevented the out-staters from getting
anything but long shots at tha bas
kets, while the speed and accuracy
with which Maxwell, the Omaha cap
tain showed, aided very materially in
that team's victory. For Newman
Grove, Ekstrom and Hinman showed
up exceptionally well.
Omaha 19, Newman Grove 13
Maxwell f Peterson
Smith f Hinman
Paynter c Ekstrom
A. Logan g Johnson
T. Logan g Rodman
Field goals T. Logan, 1; A. Logan,
1; Paynter, 1; Maxwell, 4; Hinman,
3; Johnson, -L
Free throws Maxwell, 5; Ek
strom, 5.
Referee Jones.
Stanton played a losing game yes
terday afternoon to the husky Lincoln
team wljen they were trimmed up to
the tune of 22 to 9. Stanton put up
one of the scrappiest contests that has
yet been presented at the tourney but
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ing that he or slie have adequate rep
resentation. Six O'clock Is Limit
Six o'clock Saturday night is the
time limit set for these pictures and
it is hoped that no sophomore will fail
to arrange for sitting at the Townsend
studio at once.
" Juniors and seniors are also re
minded of the importance pf provid
ing immediately for the payment on
their pictures which have already
been taken. Notice is given that un
less these students make payment by
Saturday their pictures will not ap
pear in the edition.
Asks for Co-operation
It is necessary that everyone should
co-operate freely and willingly in mak
ing this year's Cornhusker the best in
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STAGE CARNIVAL TONIGHT
FOR HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS
All- tournament games will
stop this evening for the big
carnival and get-together for tha
high school athletes at the Audi
torium" at 13th and M streets, at
7:30 o'clock. Elaborate plan.!
for entertainment are being
made by the University, the city
Commercial club and the city
Y. M. C. A.
Athletic exhibitions, freak
stunts, wrestling and boxing
bouts have been arranged and
some real treats are promised.
Hugo Otoupalik, holder of the
national lightweight inter-collegiate
wrestling championship
title, will put on an exhibition
"all his own." The University
cadet band will be there in full
force to fill in between acts.