The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-17
RICHMOND AGAIN
WILL ENTERTAIN
DISTRICT MEET
City Selected for Tournament
in March-Local Team is
Looking Strong. TX

RICHMOND Is one OF me soVeuIeo
cities OF Indiana chosen by the board
Of control Of the Indiana Athletic as
sociation to hold a sectional basket
ball tournament, March and 8. to
determine the teams which will meet
at Bloomington, March Is and 16. in
the state meet
The cities to hold sectional basket
ball tournaments are bedford, Ander,
son. Brazil, Hartford City. Columbus,
Charlottesville, Greencastle, Kokomo.
Lafayette, Thorntown, Rochester, Mar
tinsville, New Castle. South Bend.
Hammond, Washington and Rich
mond.
Cards have been mailed to SOB
schools In the basketball association
by Secretary Trester OF Marunsville,
asking whether or not they will take
part in the tournaments this year.
and from the number Of affirmative
answers received the indications are
that the sectional tournaments will
be the largest that ever have been
held. -.,
May Add Cities.
Should the entry list be larger
this year than last it will be neces-
sary for additional cities to be named
to hold sectional basketball tourna-
ments.
Nov that Richmond high school Ave
is beginning its final drive. basket
ball "dopesters" are wondering where
the team stands in the district. Judg.
ing from the eight games lost Rich
mond seems to be a back number.
However, it must be remembered
that Richmond has been playing
against some Of the fastest and best
trained teams in the state and has not
been meeting any of the teams which
will be likely to play here, with the
exception Of Winchester
To Be Strong Bidder.
Unless some unforeseen accident &C.
ours between now and March, Rich
mond will be a strong bidder for the
district, as Liberty, the strongest
known opponent, has only been play
ing games with smaller teams. An
other thing which must be taken into
consideration is the dark horse"
team has had the tournament won
before the games only to be defeated
by a team that never had a chance
Basketball fans probably will re-
member two years ago when 1t was
all doped out that Richmond would
20 to Bloomington and the strength
of the Brookville five was underesti-
mated
There probably will be from ten to
fifteen teams represented in the Sec
tional tournament here. The teams
thatprobably will compete on the floor
of the Coliseum for the district hon
ors with possibly a few new ones
and some of the present ones drop
ping out ars as follows: Liberty, Win
chester, Carthage, Spiceland. Brook
vile. Cambridge City, Hagerstown,
Rushville, Sapdusky. Modoc, Clarks-
burg, Greensburg, Westport, Milroy
and Union City.
As yet no dark horses" have been
predicted from this district. The
most formidable contender for the
district against Richmond is Liberty.
To Meet Anderson.
Friday Coach Mullins takes his ag-
gregation to Anderson to meet the
strong Anderson crew on the Ander-
son door. Anderson expects to have
easy picking and anticipates no trou-
BILE In downing the Red and White
ave.
Richmond tasted defeat at the hands
OF the Anderson five here and al
though the team will meet strong
offensive and defensive play 1t expects
to hold the Anderson aggregation
down If not defeat it.
All the late practice work has been
along the lines of speed and accu-
racy in passing and shooting. The
Richmond five though far from being
at it's best has shown some improve
mept in the last few games played.
All through the games played here
the Richmond boys showed lack Of
training but now the team is getting
down to brass tacks" and commenc-
ing to train.
Coach Mullins probably will take the
following men to Anderson: Sim
mons, center; Van Allen and Robin
son, forwards; and Harding and Graf
ifs. guards with possibly Hollands and
Gardner as subs. Crafts will play in
Harding's position at floor guard
while Harding will play Stegman's
position at back guard. Stegman
will be unable to play for some time
but will be out for practice soon.