The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-19
PROMISES TO BE BIGGEST EVENT
OF KIND EVER HELD IN THIS
STATE.
Conducted Under Auspices o. IVES
leysn coilese-Wheeiina Hish
Arrives Today.


specila Dispatch 70 the I~ntelIiEenosr.
BUcKHANNON. March Is.5Tomor-
rom AZ 3: 0 O'Clock the opening gun
IN the biggest athletic event the state
OF West Virginia has ever witnessed
will be fired when the first real bask-
81 ball tournament for high schools
will be opened. The drawing for op-
ponents will take place at 10 O'Clock
IN the morning AZ Athletic headquar-
tiers here. At the very last minute
Davis high school. a team that had
confidently been expected 20 enter ev-
er since the tournament has cen agi-
tated. found IL impossible TO be here.
This left the number OF teams az nf-
teen. and IL was therefore necessary
TO pass n team through the prelim-
mary round. These votes are being
collected now and will be counted at
the drawing tomorrow morning. II Is
most likely that Salem. Middlebourne.
or Piedmont will be passed through
this round. as very little il known OF
the strength OF these teams.
The names Of the other fourteen
teams will be placed in a hat and
drawn out two M a time. tin all are
drawn. The teams represented by
these pairs viii meet eacn other in
the preliminary rounds and so far as
good basketball II concerned Il IA
likely that the best games OF the whole
tournament will take place the very
first afternoon and night. All the
Dreliminaries will be played Friday
afternoon and evening and Saturday
the finals will take place.
Arrangements Complete.
All local arrangements for the great
anair have been completed. Every one
Of the hundred and forty competitors
have been arranged for so far as lodK.
ing and meals Is concerned and when
the first five teams arrive here at noon
tomorrow the town as well as student
body will be ready for them and the
entertainment they come to provide.
Fairmont. Elkins. Piedmont. Fairyfew
and Thomas viii arrive on the noon
train. AT 2:15 Tomorrow afternoon
wheeling. Charleston ParkersburR
salem. Weston, Wellsburg. Middle
bourne and %Sistersville will arrive.
The last team to come will be the
Clarksburg aggregation. this five ar.
irving at 6:47 Friday evening. IL was
impossible for the Clarksburg PLAYERS
TO get away ooner so IL will be ar
ranged that they play their game of
the preliminaries in the evening OF
Friday. Referee Davis is expected
here at $40 a. m. tomorrow, he hav.
ING spent the night at C~larksburg. ON
IRIS same train will arrive the yari.
Gus representatives OF the teams that
come TO represent their teams at the
drawing. Eight or ten OF these will
be here.
Several OF the teams. in order to he
o. the best OF shape for the big affair
mat Will settle their records for the
year. are spending tonight in towns
nearer Buckhannon than their own.
Wheeling comes down L Clarksburg.
n viii take q later train Friday here
instead OF having TO travel so much
on the day OF the games: Elkins will
spend h night at Philippi. from
which town connections are better:
Thomas will come TO Elkins, and sew
eral others Of the teams will arrange
th"ir schedule so that their men will
be In the best OF shape. The tickets
Tor the tournament have been going
very rapidly. and with the great in
u OF visitors tomorrow, and the
enormous crowds coming on the spe-
cisl trains from Elkins and Weston,
Saturday, the capacity OF even Wes-
lSyan's big gymnasium will be taxed
TO the utmost
Sentiment here is crystallizing con-
sidcrably In favor OF Elkins winning
the tournament, Parkersburg. a IA
vorite from the start. has many up
porters. Weston's team. in its fine
showing in beating Wesleyan's re-
serves here last week. now looms up
as a contender. and with the reported
rapid strides this team has beer max
ing. there IS a good chance that a fac
tor has been overlooked here.