Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
TOURNAMENTS TO
START IN MARCH
Annual High School District Meets
VIII Be Held Oh First and Sec.
ond OF Windy Month.
RECEIPTS WILL BE DIVIDED
Shields to Be Awarded Winners-Vic.
tors VIII Hold State Games
Following.
BY KEITH NELSON,

BY KEITH NELSON.
The annual high school district
tournaments will be held on Friday
and Saturday, March ] and 2, state
wide. Principal A. J. Burton Of the
local high school. who is vice presi-
dent Of the Illinois High School Ath-
letic association, is handling all of the
district and state tournaments. Mr..
Burton also has charge Of the shields
and will present the schools with the
emblems won in the meets that they
participate in.
Mr.. Burton and the officials decided
in their last meeting to set the meet
ing OF the state tournament later,
which probably will be done in the
near future. Several new changes
have been made this year and are
hoped to be more satisfactory. All
of the entries for the tournaments
must be in by Jan. IS, and must be
in the hands OF the vice president of
the association. Also an entry fee of
$40 must be paid which will be re-
funded if the team plays all of its
scheduled games barring the ones that
they might be eliminated from, at the
close of the tournament. 1t is under
stood that any school may be reas-
signed to another district than the
one that It is assigned to II the vice
president OF the board of control sees
fit under the circumstances that the
gym is not fit for so many games and
also II the hotels in the city can not
provide accommodations for the play
ers.
The receipts Of the tournament will
be divided as follows: IS per cent (ot
the gross) to the visiting teams, 40
per cent to the management and per
cent to the state association. The Wis,
iting teams share of the receipts shall
be prorated among them on the basis
of necessary expenses including car
fare and necessary hotel bills for eight
men. Hotel expenses will cease when
a team is eliminated. The drawing OF
the games ard schedules shall follow
the plan of the United States National
Lawn Tennis association. The shields
will be awarded to the winners of the
district tournaments and to the teams
ranking first, second and third in the
state tournaments. An intermissiOn OF
two minutes shall be taken in the mid
die Of each half, during which time
the players shall not leave the floor,
receive coaching or exchange goals.
A school may enter any number OF
players, but will be allowed only IL
men in the tournament. The manager
of each team must file with the man,
ager OF the tournament, one hour be-
fore the beginning of the first game
of tournament list of 10 men he in
tends TO use in the tournament. These
10 men must be chosen from the lists
of men previously certified to by the
principal of the school, No substitu-
tons will be allowed after this list
has been filed. The manager of the
tournament must verify these lists by
checking them with the eligibility lists
previously filed by the principals. This
last rule is new one and it is be-
lieved that it will prove to be salts.
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The following cities will have charge
of the district tournaments:
ockford-Principal C.. P. Briggs,
manager; will have the following
counties: 10 Davies, Stephenson, VIM
nebago, Boone. McHenry, DeKalb, Lee,
Oble. Carol. Whiteside, Lake.
Elgin-Principal W. L. Globe, man
ager: will have the following coun-
ties: Kendall, Kane and DuPage.
Joliet-Principal j. Stanley Brown.
manager; will have the following
counties: Cook, Will, LaSalle, Grundy
and Putnam.
Galesburg-Principal A. W. Willis.
manager; will have the following
counties: Knox. Warren, Henderson.
Mercer. Rock Island, Henry, Stark
Peoria, Bureau, Schuyler. Handbook.
Fulton and McDonough
Decatur-Principal Thomas Dean.
manager; will have the following
counties: Macon, Piatt, Logan and
Dewitt
Bloomington - Principal William
Wallis, manager; will have the fol-
lowing counties: Mclean, Taxewell,
,Woodford, Marshall and Livingston.
Champaign-Principal Lottie Switz-
er, manager; will have the following
counties: Kankakee, Iroquois, Ford,
Champaign, Vermillion and Douglas.
Shelbyville-Principal Paul X. Theo-
bald, manager; will have the follow
ing counties: Coles, Edgar, Poultrie,
Shelby, Cumberland, Clark, Montgom-
cry and Christian.
ksonville-Principal T. W. CALI
han. manager; will have the follow
ing counties: Macoupin, Morgan, San
canon, Scott, Menard, Cass. Brown,
Adams, Jersey, Pike. Mason, Greene
and Calhoun.
Centralia-Princlpa1 l.. W. Hanna,
manager; will have the following
counties: Marion, Clay, Hamilton, Eff
fingham, Fayette, Bond, Madison. Gin
ton. St. Clair. Jefferson and Wash
ington.
Lawrenceville-Prin G. B. WILL
liams. manager; will have the follow
ing counties: Wabash, Lawrence,
Crawford. Richland. Jasper. Edwards.
White. Saline, Gallatin, Hardin and
Wayne.
Carbondale-Will have the follow
ing counties: Jackson. Perry. Ran
dolph, Monroe. Franklin. Williamson,
Union. Johnson. Pope, Massac, Alex
ander and Pulaski.
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