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CHEAT FALLS ALL-STAfiS SEAT
BELT III EXTRA PERIOD 35-34
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A most exciting and 'delightful
game of basketball was the game be
tween a picked team from Great Palls
and the surrounding country and the
Belt tow® team on Monday evening at
the Auditor!uni before the Legion
dance. Balt lost in an extra period
by a score of 35 to 84.
An impression had gone abroad that
the game was to be between the Mur
phy-Maday* end the Belt team. Such
was not the case because the visitors
had done Belt the honor of picking
the best team they could get together.
They had ,Qrady, Hawley and Dimpke
of the M. M.'s, Perrine of Cascade,
Adair of the Y. M. C. A. and Brown
of the Miners, Adair playing the first
half and Brown the second.
They showed in the warm up that
all were finished players.- They also
brought a referee, Murphy of the
Buicks, as well as the score keeper,
Silsby. - ,
Memory must furnish the data for
this article because the score book
arent visitors to Great Falls
who did not have time to allow it to
be copied.
The Belt team looked like pigmies
beside the visitors, Pattsner and Gas
sock forwards, Dolin center, Rubber
and Robber guards. Not one of these
boys is teller than five feet eight inch
es and when they lined up alongside
of Grady, Dimpke and Adair they did
not appear to be in the same class.
The first point went aa a gift to the
visitors on a foul called by Referee
Murphy on the first play. Belt soon
forged ahead and at the half the score
was 23 to 16 in Belt's favor. Bad
lock followed the locals in the second
half. The referee's whistle kept one
basket from counting. Another went
almost through the basket to come out
again. Easy shots were missed until
ut the call of time the score was tiad
33-38. In the extra tNk minute per
iod Belt made one of two gift tosses
but Dimpke was lucky enough to cage
a long one, giving Great Palls the win
ning score, *
In the extra period Fluhr and Gil
lette replaced Dolin and Bill Rubber.
The game was as clean as a man's
game often is. A few points that the
referee overlooked brought maledic
tions on the head of the referee from
the Belt adherents. At one time when
a Great Falls player fouled a Belt man
the foul was reversed and the Great
Falls man got a free toss. The play
ers took these little things in much
better part than did some of the au
dience who howled for the referee's
blood. When thé Great Palls man
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tossed from the fool line the crowd
■absolutely could not be kept still and
it rapidly dawned upon the referee's
mind that something was wrong. Af
ter that the game went better. Both
sides were groggy toward the last.
It is difficult to pick out stars in a
game like this where all showed stel
lar caliber. It was a fine game and
stirred the sporting blood of the mul
titude. Any time this bunch of play
ers come to Belt they will get a crowd
and a more or less warm reception ac
cording to whether their referee hap
pens to strike the popular fancy, but
that same crowd likes to see tham play
nevertheless.
You see after the last game In the
Falls where Shaw won the game for
the M. M.'s they were a little chary
about playing in Belt and would only
play if they were allowed to select
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Harry T. 8tong. Pastor.
Morning worship at 11 o'clock. The
sermon of the morning will be given
hy Dr. W. E. Manley, a missionary
who has given 26 years of service in
West China. His work has been di
vided into three parts as follows; Ten
yaut teaching, 10 preaching, and six
year* hi building and teaching.
Evening service at 7:30. The pas
tor aril] bring a message on "The Dis
covery of Hidden Powers."
Prayer service Thursday evening
at 7:30.
Choir practice Saturday evening
Sunday school at 16 o'clock.
at 8.
Epworifc league at 6:39.
"Go te trite «Q thé work! UÜ preach
tee gospel to «very creature," Mark
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Great Falk
_ Hawley (IS)
Belt
Pattsner (IT) .......
Bight Forward
Goeaack (8) .. Dimpke (18)
Left Forward
Dolin (8)
Grady (4)
Center
W. Rubber .......
Perrine (8)
Right Guard
G. Rubber (1)
Adair
Scorer—Silsby, Great Falls.
Referee—Murphy, Great Falls.
EMORY PARHELL
HERE MARCH 29
The Boy Scouts and the High
School Athletic association will pre
sent for the entertainment of Belt
people on Saturday night, March 29,
Emory Parnell, the One-Man Band, at
the Auditorium.
Mr. Parnell piaya classical, popular
and jazzy selections on the accordion
to the accompaniment of drums played
by his feet He has a baritone voice
of fine quality and his songs are a
striking feature of the evening's en
tertainment.
His transformations into various
characters by the use of grease paint,
wigs and costumes before your eyes
make the characterisations exceeding-^
ly interesting although a person can
hardly realise that it is Parnell after
all. A clean, humorous, pleasing ev
ening's fun. If you miss it you will
miss something to talk about and
laugh over for many days.
Lee Johnson has opened a lunch
counter in. the store room formerly
occupied by Louis Mitchell.
This baa been nicely furnished with
counter and back bar, electric range,
etc. He is prepared to serve short
orders, lunches and noodles. He has
chosen as the name of the concern the
Busy Bee Lunch Room. Mrs. John
son is assisting him. They have a
neat attractive place of business.
H. J. Kampschneider and Hano Mas
are installed as proprietors of the
Pythian Billiard Parlor. The interior
of the building is being thoroughly
renovated and will present a brighter
atmosphere hereafter. Mr. Kamp
schneider is very popular with his ac
quaintances in his former home at
Geyser, while the other member of the
partnership. Hano Maa, was born iri
Belt and needs no introduction.
Straight and Everson, who have
leased the old Park-to-Park garage,
are gradually getting things into
shape for the spring trade. They are
agents for the Chevrolet car, the sale
of which they will push in this terri
tory this year. They are getting in a
full Hfte of tires and accessories be
sides opening up a well-equipped re
pair shop, Mr. Straight will ook after
the sales and service part of the bus
iness wbile Mr. Everson, a practical
auto mechanic of many years' exper
ience, will conduct the repair depart
ment.
These new firms will be established
in time to share in the prosperity
coming to this community this season.
FUNERAL OF MRS. COONEY
IN GREAT FALLS YESTERDAY
The funeral of Mrs. Georgiana A.
Cooney, wife of Editor E, H. Cooney
of the Great Falls Leader, waa held
Wednesday afternoon at the Church
of the Incarnation. Episcopal, in Great
Falls, the Rev. Christof Keller offici
ating.
The condition of the roads between
here and Great Falla prevented sever
al Belt people from attending.
Mrs. Cooney had been HI for an ex
tended period. Her death occurred on
Sunday morning last.
The Methodist Episcopal Church to
now launching the World Service pro
Tbe apportionment to the
gram
churches for the 14 missionary and
b e ne v o lent organizations for the year
to $ 1 & 660,000 Our «har* at Beft to
$468. Unpaid Centenary subscriptions
will he credited on our World Service
apportionment James Brodte, be
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Locals and Personals
Mrs, Mary Lucotch, nee Mary Ban
dre, has been visiting home folks for
« few days before leaving for Rte
land, Wash., where her husband is I%
cated. She returned to Sand Coule«
this morning but will be back in Belt
before her departure on Saturday.
Misses Anna Mae and pearl Famum
drove out Monday evening to attend
St. Patrick's balk
Mrs. B. F. McConkey came home
from Great Falls Tuesday where she
has been taking treatments. Her
friends are wishing for a speedy re
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covery, -
The roads have been bad this week.
The snow has been drifted until many
of the roads have been impassable ex
cept for a saddle hone and farmers
have been basking at home in the light
of their fires. At Tiger Butte snow
is reported four feet on * level and on
upper Little Belt and Big Willow
nearly the same thing is true. Be
tween here and Bumgarner's ranch
the Great Falls road is reported in
bad condition from drifts and deep
snow. In Great Falls there is very
little snow and in Cascade on Monday
Belt A fter 15 Games
On Saturday the commissioners of
the Cascade coudty baseball league
met in Great Falls. There were also
present the majority of the managers
of the several teams. Commissioners
Funk and Biomquist represented Belt.
A schedule of games was presented
by Axel Samuetoon, who was long ago
a Belt school boy. This schedule al
lowed each of the outside teams a to
tal of eleven games at horn«. The Belt
commissioners protested against thia
and asked for an additional number
of Sunday games. The matter was
discussed and there was a tentative
agreement to allow Belt 16 Sunday
games st home. Dor commissioners
did not ask- for any twilight games
because the expense attached to them
to greater than the receipts. The mat
ter of the schedule was taken under
advisement to he considered with all
sidelight« turned on before it is def
initely adopted.
The meeting was distinctly harroon
ions, all being in the best of humor
and willing and anxious to work out
a program which would work for the
best interests of the league.
Commissioner W. C. Blomsutot was
placed on the executive committee and
Commissioner Bart Funk was placed
ing Beit rep re se n tation on two of the
most important oommittess.
One of the first duties undertaken
by the executive board will be the ap
pointment of
being the intention to play no league
til» sea s on without te ap
proved umpire, selected and paid by
executive committee. This action
our meetings with
friends in Great Falla and over
tend to
it was reported that the ground was
ban. When a Chinook comes we will
hafe some high water as the snow
fan the benches and foothills melts.
At a special meeting of the city
comkil the clejrk reported that a few
lapnple had signified their willingness
to act as Judge« without pay. Those
notify ana requested to respond. The
ni< |M W iiupo ox tire pvnr foe the enfh
ing year was discussed and it was
ordered that a park board be appoint
ed who should have charge of the man
agement for the season. This board
is expected to make some arrangement
for the Fourth of July which will be
satisfactory to both the bail team and
the Legion.
CIRCLE — Farmers' Cooperative
creamery paid out $11,060.76 for but
terfat hist year.
EUREKA—Farmers of Glen Lake
Irrigation district to purchase herd of
26 grade Holstein cows and registered
sire.
BUTTE—J96/TOO contract awarded
for construction of Christian Brothers
high school.
the hill much less like an armed neu
trality. Joking aside, the public be
lieves that the selection of three cap
able umpire's will do much to remove
and make the league what it by right
should be, a sporting proposition, not
a matter of life and death.
The different teams are rapidly
signing up players. Several have
dropped into Stockett and Sand Cou
lee lately. Brown, who played on the
M. M. team Monday night is said to
be the Miners new first baseman.
We are authorized to say that the
Belt manager is negotiating for the
service« of two first class pitchers
and U is hoped that the first game
will see the team lined up in much
the Mme order as they will appear
late la the season.
If last year's team ever practiced
together except juat before a game,
the matter was kept very dark, Thia
year it to planned to have batting and
fielding practice several tiroes a week.
It is hoped that a junior team will
be organized for which we have abun
dant material. This team would fur
nish amusement for those condemned
to stay at home when there are games
st Great Falls and Sand Coulee and
would bring our neighbor town teams
here to play mi off days.
Th« «U Slav town Sluggers should
reorgapiM as should the Cokeoven
Flat 8Uders,the Boy Scout* and the
Independents,
than idleness,
rility and roanh
incentive for dissipation. It breeds
clean thinking because the boy whose
mind to wrapped up in the league's
averages and hi* own in comparison,
has little time to manufacture cussed
Baseball to healthier
breeds strength, vi
Jt takes away the
BELT NIGH SCHOOL WINS THIRD
PLACE IH COUNTY HOOP TOURHEY
The B. V. H. S. basketball season
closed with the tournament in Orant
Fall* on Friday and Saturday of last
week.
Six teams competed who finished in
the following order: Great Falla, St.
Mary's, Belt, Fort Shaw, Cascade and
Simms.
Belt drew a bye for the first round,
lost to St Mary's 86 to 14 in the sec
ond round and won from Simms by a
lop-sided score in the last round.
Great Falls beat St. Mary's handily
in the finals.
The Tribune resume of the meet is
LIBRARY DAHCE
CLEARS S70.00
The Belt poet of the American Le
gion gave a very successful library
dance in th e Auditorium on Monday,
March 17.
School had been in session all day
and it was only after 4 o'clock that
the Legion were able to begin prep
a rations. The walls were trimmed
with symbols of the day in the appro
priate color. Mori's orchestra of
Great Falls were located in the center
of the large floor end the crowd of
happy dancers encircled them until
early morning hour«. The music was
inspiring and was enjoyed to the ut
most by the great crowd present. The
auditorium floor was comfortably
filled when 100 couplet were dancing
at one time, but had the roads been
passable such a crowd would hate
boon present as to remind one of the
old day« when the farmers' short
course brought out everyone within a
radius of 20 milts.
A feature of the evening was a pro
««am of classic dancing by the pupil*
of Mi« LaHberte which was of umls
u.I merit and made . happy interlude
in the succession of dances
Belt people were unanimous tft their
admiration for the clever work of the
youthful artist« and appreciation of
the kindness of Miss LaHberte in pro
viding the entertainment. The pro
gram rendered was clever, artistic
and graceful. The number, were:
Dragon Fly (toe dance) Gretchen Igel
Valse-Chopin . Dorothy Lillie
Wooden Shoe Dance (duet)
. Vivi »n Miller and Helen Strand
Colonial Dance.. Gretchel Igel
Polish Dagger Dance.
. Martha Anderson
The young artists were accompanied
by Dr. Igel, Clarke Grady and a num
ber of chaperones, all making the trip
by car.
At 12 o'clock the ladies of the Altar
Society served a lap lunch of an abun
dance of sandwiches, coffee, ice cream
and cake. Nearly everyone of the
large crowd took supper and the last
found the larder entirely bare
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Helena Light A company
report net earnings of $74,480 16 forl
1923. ' r "-'■Y»
< omers
for the ladies had. prepared lunch for
only 200.
Every entertainment put on by the
Legion this winter has been unlucky
in the the matter of weather and reads
but in spite of everything they cleared
about $70 for the library fund.
The library is being splendidly pat
ronized and it requires the utmost ef
fort by the management to keep ahead
of the demand for books.
Court Decision
Frees Tom Messelt
E. E. Dawson to fighting his extra
dition from Washington on account of
three grand jury indictment«. Depu
ty Sheriff Locke is in Seattle with ex
tradition papers awaiting the outcome
of the habeas corpus proceedings in
stituted by Dawson.
H. J. Skinner to in Great Falls and
has been releaaaed on $1600 bail.
It to understood that M. T. Messelt,
who has been out on bail, has been au
tomatically freed by the decision of
the Montana Supreme court that re
ceiving deposit» after « bank is known
to be insolvent to not criminal, accord
ing to the Montana
John Sprengtet to out on bail until
the case to called for trial.
L. B. Lockhart to in the county jail
in Great Falla having been unable to
furnish bond«. Five indictment«, three
of them for the alleged larceny of
funds, lie against Lockhart
as follows;
While the county baakétbell
ment, which concluded here Saturday
night and ended the hoop season
next fall, was featured by some
sided games, some mighty good
rial was introduced to spectators that
undoubtedly had been unknown h*
them before.
Although some of the team stars
didn't have the chance to show to the
best advantage, particularly in the
one-sided games, in the even frays
some good players were brought oetfL
Thia is to be no selection of the
ever popular "all star" team. A fair '
team couldn't be picked from so few
games and such mythical athletic
squads accomplish nothing but to de
velop antagonism. There were sev
eral good players in the tournament,
however, that deserve mention.
Five forwards of four teams stead
out from ell the rest of the toure*
ment not , lone ^ tbair «hootr
^ ability, but for«
ntM pl«ytog ability. They
are Briscoe of Cascade, Boboth af
Belt, Rogers of Port Shaw and Qem
barling and Arvid Woodahl of Great
In ^ ^ter class there were only
two men that stood out from ail otfc
m They were Rademaker of St
Uary > a Remington of Belt. Both
.howed floor
Ta i aa bla contributions to the scores
of twn ^ ^»yed the
of the meet,
Walsh, St Mary's, was the oat
.tandlng guard of ' the tournament
Hj|) apM< ] enabled him not only te
handle his own position but to feature
with dri bbles and consistent shooting,
8crvOM| Belt, although he probaahly
attract much attention hemme
raining 'em around the beep
like ,ome of the players, was also a
KOod (fUard H , displayed the kmmk
^ ^tpating where the hail was te
^ th and niiw timaa oot of
interrapt<>d , t lt WM withte
raach of the player for whom R
intend<(d pj«j di port Shaw, was prao
WaWw although he
lftck#d lom# of ^ apee d ^ thm m
, Ur Johnny Gerber, Gnat
w ^ # va joab(« guard,
0u ^ jds took two of the tre
phiet of the meet by big margin, and
oatlide tnM up th . bigger
part ^ at tondance figures,
feaanr Fruit, in charge of the cash «né
^ nport ^ The first day
^ tourney, Friday, the attendance
WM mad . up of mon than 60 per cant
out of town people, while the Mat
day it eras estimated that local *®d
out of town supporters were abaci
evenly divided.
Briscoe. Cascade, and Boboth. Belt,
furnished more than one sensation
during the meet with their shooting
ability and ran a cloas race for high
Briacoe won the race by «
scorer.
margin of two point«, Walah, high
of St. Mary's, beat out Gem
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berling. Great Falls high point man,
by a margin of two points also, each
however, being 10 point« behind
the leaders.
The high scorers of the meet were:
Briscoe, Cascade...
Boboth, Belt ....
A. Woodahl, Great Falls ...
Rogers, Fort Shaw ............
Walsh, St. Mary's..
Gemberling, Great Falls
Remington, Belt
Rademaker, St. Mary's .
Jenkins, Fort Shaw.
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To the above may be added that
Boboth and Remington of Belt
the above scons in two games, while
all other team« except Simms played
three games.
Boboth made 81 point» in the ta»
while his nearest competitor.
games
Briscoe of Cascade, made 83 points to
three games. Remington at
made 16 point« in two game* while
Rademaker of St Mary's made 14 to
three games.
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♦ A. A. U. REINSTATES
♦ CHARLES PADDOCK ♦
♦ Boston, March 17 — Chartes ♦
♦ Paddock, suspended CaHfomi» ♦
+ sprinter, has been reinstated bf ♦
♦ the Amateur Athletic onto«. ♦
President William C. Front made *
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ment on the matter toter.
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