Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-24
ANOTHER ENTRY
IN TOURNAMENT
Mt. Carroll Basketball Team
Decides to Compete at Lo-
cal Preliminary.
FIVE TEAMS TO BE HERE
Schedule Will Include Ten Games
Unless Other Contestants Are
Secured.

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basketball tournament to be held to-
morrow and Saturday at the Rock Is
land high school has been secured. Mt.
Carroll having sent word that a team
from there will be in the running.
This makes five entries-Rock Island,
Moline, Monmouth, Streator and Mt.
Carroll The entry list does not close
until tomorrow morning, and it is the
fond hope of the management here
that one more team from this section
of the state will warm up it's feet to
such an extent that 1t will be willing
to enter into the competition for state
honors Galesburg, Kewanee and
Aledo are eligible to enter. and they
have been pressed to send a team,
but they seem to think that they have
no chance to win and therefore have
no desire to come.
Eight Games to Play.
The addition of the Mt Carroll team
to the list makes it necessary to have
eight games on the schedule, which
will be arranged tomorrow after the
entry list is closed. These games will
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ening and Saturday afternoon and ev-
ening. The winner of the tournament
will be determined by the number of
games which each team wins. the elm
ination plan being followed only during
the first days playing, when one team
will be put out of the running.
In case there is tie, it will be nee
essary to play it off, as only one team
will be eligible to represent this sec
tion of the state in the finals March
IL and IL. The winners of this latter
tournament will be adjudged cham
pions of the state, the goal for which
all teams entered in the six prelim-
mary tournaments throughout the
state are straining every nerve.
Locals in Running.
The Rock Island boys are out for the
championship of this section of the
state and for the right to enter the
final contests. Despite the fact that
their late conqueror, the Monmouth
team. is entered in the tournament.
they believe they have an excellent
chance of carrying off the first hon
ors. They firmly believe they can
take the measure of the Monmouth
boys when they meet on the floor here.
and they are not worrying about the
other teams entered, because, as yet.
they are of unknown quality. The To-
Gals are not in the best of shape for
the fray, but they hope to be so when
the first whistle of the tourney blows.
Streckfus is a little under the weather.
and MacManus is not in the best of
shape. but there are no fears about
their being able to give a good account
of themselves. Lift. Steenberg and
Young. and Richie. who acts as substi-
tute. are all in excellent form. Coach
F. W. Gray believes his team has a
good chance of winning the tourna-
ment
officials Arc Secured.
Principal H. E Brown, assisted by
Principal E. T. Nutting of the Moline
high school, who was asked to help
make out the plan of the tournament.
has secured all the officials. Clifford
Day of Peoria. who refereed the games
last year will serve in that capacity
again. coming here from the Univer-
sity of Illinois for that purpose. G. c.
Nance of Blue Island will serve as
umpire. The scorers and timekeepers
will be students from the Rock Island
and the Moline high schools Joe Kel-
ley will act as the local scorer and
John Kittilsen as timer The Moline
boys have not yet been announced
V. C. Hall of this city has been cho-
sen to referee the contests which will
take place at DeKalb, where there are
II teams entered.
The losers of the two Friday after
noon games will be pitted against
each other at night, and the loser of
this contest will be declared elimina-
ted from the tournament Were this
not done. it would be necessary to
play 10 games in the four sessions,
which would make two of the teams
play three games in one day.