The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-03-05
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PORTER LEADS
RICHMOND five
Pickell and Students Put
Faith in Doughty Captain
to Pilot Team to Victory
Enthusiasm Grows.

Rushville was the first team to ar
rive in the city for the tourney games,
arriving this afternoon at 1855 o'clock.
From then on practically every train
and interurban car carried visiting
teams and their followers. BY 8
o'clock every team will be in the city
and those not scheduled to play to-
night will be on hand to witness the
battles between the Mooreland and
Rushville fives and Connersville and
New Castle. From three hundred to
five hundred visiting students are ex-
pected to witness the games.
connersviIle Arrives.
Connersville will reach the city at
o'clock on the interurban.. New Cas-
tie, Cadiz and Mooreland will also ar
rive at this time on the Pennsylvania.
Hagerstown gets in at $50 o'clock
and Brookville will be the last team
to arrive on the G. & O. at 8 O'Clock
Guides appointed from the student
body of the high school will meet the
teams and take them to the high
school for registration. Dollins and
G. Grimes will take care of the New
Castle team; T. Hafner for Hagers-
town; E. Loehr and E. Porter for
Rushville; w. Tomlinson for Cadiz;
w. O'Neal and Rost for Mooreland,
and William Dean and T. Jessup for
Connersville.
The mass meeting this morning to
arouse enthusiasm was one grand sue
cess. The students had complete
charge Of the affair and everything
went off without a hitch. Talks by
members of the team Principal Pick
ell, Coach Nohr and Manager Maier
helped to instill more courage and
strong hope in the hearts of the play
ers and rooters.
The talks given by the team mem
bers were as follows: I've are going
into this tournament with the idea of
winning and believe that we are 60
ing to do it,
Little Mascot Talks.
Happy Ward, the mascot, also had
word to say which brought down the
house. Happy's words were, Pm with
the team"
Bob Phillips, yell leader, got away
with some mighty clever dope and his
work at the games will be feature.
Coach Nohr told the students that the
team had practiced faithfully for these
games and had been training as no
high school team had ever done be-
FORE and that if Richmond did not win
she would be right up around the top
at the finish.
Principal Pickell compared Clarence
Porter, captain, to Napoleon Bona
parte, as the little corporal, explain
ing that the little people were the
ones to accomplish things and that
he was sure the little captain would
get the best work out of his men.
Clean sport is what we want, boys,
and we are expecting to have that and
win besides" he said.
Manager Maiers versions Of the
teams possibilities, was that taking
the team right from the start, when it
was made up of green material for
the most part, that it had done fairly
we'll this season, playing consistent
game and that it was especially
primed for this event
A short practice on yells and songs
was INDUCED in and showed that all
voices were in good form. The girls
did the song part with the boys CIV
ing vent to their feeling in strong
bass notes.
After the meeting, Nohr, to be sure
that his men would be right" took
them to the Coliseum for short prac-
tice on goal tossing.