With only three minutes left to
play the score stood 26-24 in Downs’
favor and at that point in the game
Vance Hall, the Dragon hoop whiz,
went to. the bench on fouls. Of the
26 points for the Dragons, Hall had
made 22, and with him out of the
game both Downs and Trojan side-
lines figured the game was in the
bag for Beloit. But not so. It was ap-

| parent in the last few minutes of
|play that the Dragons could score
| in a pinch without Hall, and after a
| substitute was sent into the game
' the Downs boys went to town and
; scored six points to Beloit four, the
| game ending 32-26.

In spite of Beloit’s excellent guard-
‘ing, Hall maintained. his reported
_ average of 22 points a game this sea-
son by piling up just that many last

night. Hall is a center-shot artist and
as a result is difficult to handle with-
out drawing out his opponent guards
, too far from the basket for the op-
-ponent’s good .As a_ result he can
| shoot almost at will with uncanny

| That Downs is headed for high
honors in the state in Class B can
hardly be argued, Hall’s maintenance
| of his present record being the only
| Qualification for such a statement.
| Downs undoubtedly has a one-man
| Scoring machine which is sufficient
to win most of the games, but wheth-
|er the Dragons can withstand any
long period of play without Hall
might be questioned,

| Very little of criticism can be said
| of Beloit’s playing last night. The en-
| tire battle was one of heads-up bas-
| ketball, with the exception perhaps|
| of the second quarter previously de-
scribed. One criticism, however,
might be offered in that under the
strain of excitement and confusion
in last minute play when the score is