Police Called to Quiet Basketball Riot
Neighbors of the high school gymnasium grew so frustrated by the deafening roar of a basketball game that they summoned a policeman to restore order.
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In the liveliest game of the season thus far in the city basketball league, the high school defeated Puget Sound University last night 34 to 22. The Methodists kept the school boys down in the first half, but the high school would not be denied and they kept going at such a pace they wore the other fellows out and piled up enough baskets to win in the second half. The rooting was terrific. At the request of neighbors adjoining the gymnasium a policeman went to keep the youngsters quiet, but he might as well have tried to stop the earth from revolving. There was no muzzling that commotion.
“At the request of neighbors adjoining the gymnasium a policeman went to keep the youngsters quiet but he might as well have tried to stop the earth from revolving.”
Long before modern arena culture, local sports fandom was already generating significant noise complaints. The boisterous spirit of early high school athletics in Tacoma has remained a constant, even if police intervention for cheering is now a relic of the past.
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