years tney nave cue mrougn wixn-e‘vS{oufc a defeat. They returned home'?r-l j yesterday- by special Pullman, .and I s\v today the gocd old ^ burg will tear^gft *| things up with joy, *for* Halstead, is!Ui^ the. greatest basketball town in the state. It was a pity that the- tournament, which was a most success-Ladere|ess i ful .one in every other respect, should y i end this way.- as? the contest betweenm* *IEudora and Halstead was proving to be a briliant one..wilth Getker, one of the in-eligibles starring.1 In the girls tournament, the Beloit ! team won first place and the Chanute , | girls second. Their score was 15 to 8. The Beloit girls were pretty goal L “I throwers, while the Chanute girls [ had the team work, but failed onj. t b'askfets. It was as- pretty an exhibition of the girls game as has been seen in Lawrence.Most of the teams stayed for the final game, so that there was an audience of several hundred high school students, as well as a large audience of university rooters on the! hand to cheer the final battles on.lotrer-ing