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JIM: District basketball games, 1922 style Columbia High School's only trip to the State Tournament. When the final buzzer sounded, Columbia's all star squad -- Allen Mercer, Earl Blair (CHS Class of '22), Morris Epperson, Marvin Sinclair, and Frank Callison -- stood victorious over the previously undefeated C-ville lads, 39 to 20. Predicted the News of the upcoming tournament, 'the club that attempts to defeat them at Lexington will know that it was a game.' - JIM Click on headline for complete story By JIM With March upon us and the Sweet Sixteen tournaments approaching faster than the tax man's hand in April, a bit of sports news seems appropriate. On Friday, March 2nd, 1922, a merry troupe of basketball players and their followers set forth from Columbia, primed and ready to do battle on the court at Campbellsville. Those in the entourage included the Training School's women's team, the Columbia High boys' team, a contingent of young men from the Lindsey Wilson, and several dozen Columbians. The first game of the evening featured the women's teams, Lindsey v. Campbellsville High, the latter "whose colors up to this time had not bowed before defeat," with the winning team claiming the right to play in the soon-to-be held tournament in Lexington. The Campbellsvillians soon learned the Lindsey quintet had arrived armed and ready for bear. Ethel Garnett, center for the visiting team, drew first blood with a field goal and her hot-handed teammate Gladys Fraser tossed in another, and the first half ended with the score nearly even at 4-3. The third quarter saw Zora Edna Bell of Lindsey toss in another bucket but Campbellsville answered and raised the stakes with a free toss. With the score tied, "excitement ran high" in the gymnasium. For the rest of the game, the C-ville team scored only three free throws, all by their Miss Malone, while the girls of Arbor Vitae Hill went on a scoring spree with another basket by high scoring Ethel Garnett and a free toss apiece by the forwards, Miss Bell and Miss Fraser, enough to set the final score at 10-9 in favor of Lindsey Wilson. The players for the winning team, other than those already named, were Vivian Long and Iva Lewis, guards, and Bessie Stockton and Ruth Hill, subs. (Miss Garnett, LWTS Class of '22, lived to see the third year of the new millennium, well into her one hundredth year.) The second game was an impromptu affair. The News reported that "the rules of the association required at least three teams to contest" for the right to play in the upcoming tournament in Lexington but only Campbellsville and Columbia showed up to play. Upon learning this, the young men from the Lindsey Wilson who had accompanied the women's team composed themselves into a sacrificial lamb of good sportsmanship and "hurriedly got five boys together, regardless of the fact of whether or not they could play ball, donned the High School boys' uniforms and played Campbellsville." The score of this hardwood fray, perhaps mercifully, didn't make the pages of the paper. Suffice it to say that later in the evening, the two principal teams met. Remarked the Adair newspaper, "The High School team had the backing of Columbia, about sixty representatives being in attendance, all the Adair County people and also the team, feeling confident that our boys could knock the plum." And knock the plum they did! Although the paper called the game "a battle royal to the end," when the final buzzer sounded, Columbia's all star squad -- Allen Mercer, Earl Blair (CHS Class of '22), Morris Epperson, Marvin Sinclair, and Frank Callison -- stood victorious over the previously undefeated C-ville lads, 39 to 20. Predicted the News of the upcoming tournament, "the club that attempts to defeat them at Lexington will know that it was a game." This story was posted on 2017-03-05 05:25:43
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