WHITMAN WALLOPED FOR FOUR STRAIGHT GAMES
University of Idaho Team Administers Fourth Consecutive Drubbing to Missionaries
Coach 'Hec' Edmundson's speedy basketball five Saturday night continued uninterrupted its march toward the conference championship by defeating Whitman 36-32 in a closely contested affray staged at Walla Walla. The game marked the fourth defeat Whitman has suffered at Idaho's hands this season.
The Idaho quintet got away to a long lead in the opening minutes of Saturday's contest and stayed in the van until the end of the first period. Early in the second half, however, the Missionaries closed the gap and from that moment until the final whistle, any succession of accurate shots would have tossed the affray to one team or the other.
The exuberant aggressiveness of Chick Evans, substituted for Elra Hunter when the latter gave his already injured foot a severe wrench, and the accuracy from mid-melee of Ronald Romig, inserted in the place of Drom Campbell, were perhaps the deciding factors of the battle. Romig's three baskets came when they were sorely needed.
Les Moe, brilliant Idaho forward, suffered a nasty cut over the left eye early in the second half but stayed in the battling. He received his injury in an attempt to cut the ball from a knot of three Whitman men.
The lineup:
Idaho
Whitman.
Botts
Clerin
Garver
Johnson
Comrada
Forward
Center
Hunter
Moe
Campbell
Lindley
Hyde
Guard
Baskets—  Hunter 4, Moe 6, Campbell 2, Botts 3, Clerin 3, Garver 3, Johnson 1, Romig 3.
Fouls—Hunter 6, Romig 2.
Substitutions—Whitman, Twilson for Comrada, Idaho, Evans for Hunter, Romig for Campbell. 