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HICKMAN BOYS AND GIRLS ARE WINNERS – 1930

PLAY 9 PERIODS BEFORE HICKMAN BEATS FRANKLIN Score Is Tied At End of Seven of Nine Periods With Visitors Winning 23-21 Instead of playing the customary four quarters to decide the winner, Hickman high school and Franklin school battled through nine periods in the Tilghman gyni nastum Saturday night before Hickman counted & 23 to 21 victory. The game WAS odd. in that the two teams were deadlocked at the end of seven of the nine periods. Hickman led 3-2 at the end of the first quarter but the score was tied 9-9 at the half, 10-10 at the end of three quarters and 12-12 at the end of the fourth quarter. Neither team scored in the first extra period, but the second extra quarter saw each team count two goals and the score was 16-16. In the third extra quarter each team counted two points and when the fourth was ended the score was 20-20. Armstrong's goal in the of the fifth extra perlod clinched matters for Hickman although each team made a free throw. White, Hickman center, led the scorers with thirteen points while Nelson Hughes, Franklin forward, pushed him by scoring eleven markers. Hickman marched to a victory in 8 slow but interesting girls' game. The score was 22 to 13, with Miss Nugent counting seventeen of Hickman's twenty-two points. Miss Herndon and Miss Goheen led the Franklin attack with six points aplece. Lineup: BOYS Hickman Franklin Armstrong 2 .F ......Herndon 3 White 13 Hughes 11 Hale .....Alderson 4 Ray Johnson 1 Jonikan 8 ....F... .........Wallace Substitutions Hickman: Roth for Hale, Clark for Jonikan. Franklin Thornton for Johnson 2, Hughes for Herndon. GIRLS Hickman Franklin Nugent 17 ....P .........Goheen 6 Johnston 4 ...F. ....Price Roger Herndon 6 Reynolds ......G... Middleton Golden Substitutions Franklin: Herring for Price, Fields for Scarbrough. Referee: Twitchell of Y. M. C. A. Acree Austin, umpire. -Lanman, Franklin. a J. 6; 4; of only a a 8

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