Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-21
FOUR ENTRIES IN
Rock Island, Moline, Monmouth
and Streator Will Contest
in Basketball.
AT LOCAL PRELIMINARY
Games Will Be Played at Local High
School Gymnasium Friday and
Saturday of This Week.

Friday and Saturday of this week
the preliminary contests for the bas-
ketball championship of the state will
be held and the indications are that
there will be between 40 and 80 teams
in the race for the honor
These contests will take place stimuli
taneously at six different cities. These
places are Rock Island. Mt. Sterling,
Shelbyville, Mt. Vernon, Decatur and
De Kalb. Only the winners of each
of the tournaments will be eligible to
compete in the finals March II and
u. This means that there will be but
six teams in this last deciding tourna-
ment and Rock Island has strong hopes
of being among this number. The
place for playing off the finals has not
as yet been determined, but il will be
Bloomington Decatur or Peoria. Peo-
ria and Decatur have made formal ap-
plication for entertaining the cham
pioGship aspirants and the Y. NJ. c. \.
officials at Bloomington are under the
impression that they are to have the
honor. The matter rests with the
board of appeals of the state associa-
ton
FOEF Entered
Four entries for the tournament 10
be held here are already in the hands
of the local authorities. These include
in addition 10 the local team. the
teams from Moline. Streator and Mon
mouth The entry list has not yet
been closed and it is probable that
there will be more teams entered as
Galesburg, Kewanee. Mt. Carroll and
several other schools are considering
the possibility of sending a representa-
tive team to take part in the tourna-
ment If only the four teams come
here there will be six games played,
as the percentage method of reckon
ing standing and not the elimination
method will be used. This means that
each team will play each of the other
entries and when all have played. the
one which has won the most of its
games will be declared te winner Of
the tournament In this plan each
team plays three games and there are
often ties for first place which are
settled b. having the two leading
leans play off the tie with one game.
Arrangements have been made 70 give
the second highest team banner and
the reward of the best team will De
the right TO enter the finals.
Schedule Not Ready.
The schedule governing the playing
of the teams during the two days
tournament here has not yet been +
made out on account of the entry list
not being closed. There Will be two
games Friday afternoon, two at night |
and Two the follO"iug afternoon. n
case Of a tie it will be played of Sat f,
urday evening The usual admission
VIII be charged for the games, and 1t
is hoped that he public will turn out /
to see them. inasmuch as there is con /
siderable expense attached to enter /.
tanning the visiting teams.
An attempt is being made to secure .
MI Day of Peoria to act as referee .
and V. C. Hall of this city will prOba- .
bly, serve as umpire. These two
worked in this capacity at the tourna-
mont last year and gave entire salts
faction to all the COntenders.
Invitation from Madison.
The basketball authorities of the
Of Wisconsin have invited
the Illinois Athletic association 10 send
a team or teams TO Madison to repre-
sent this state in an interstate high
school basketball tournament March
II and - AS these are the dates set
for the finals in the championship
series in this state. the invitation had
to be refused The Wisconsin people
-uggested that the dates for the Hi
nois finals be changed. but as they
had been announced sometime before
he Madison tournament was even
thought of. the association decided il
could not change TO other dates.
While it is probable that there will
De several Illinois teams at the Madi-
ION tournament, none of them will re
as the representative Of