South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-09

looked like the supreme effort Of
two days great work and bewildered
the LapOrte team. who knowing
they were beaten. fought gamely 20
the end
south Bend u7) Iaporte OO
Cunningham .......... Hamilton
Forward
NyikOs ................. Barker
Forward
Waters .... CCapt) .-.. Danielson
Center
Buntman .....-.-.....- Nuet1man
Guard.
Scheer .....-......- ....... Johnson
Guard.
ummary-Baskets Buntman ..
Cunningham 2. Hamilton. Barker,
Danielson.
Free throws: Danielson q. Wat
ters 3. Nyikos 2.
Referee. Veenker; umpire Quantz.
Time q periods, 1 8 minutes.
Tournament Runs smooth.
From the time the first ball was
tipped of. at . o'clock Friday morn
ing in the Nappanee and Leesburg
game. the tournament moved along
with machine-like smoothness. each
game being pulled off exactly on the
dot as scheduled. The Leesburg five
was no match for the Nappanee
quintet. as was soon evident and was
finally defeated by the p-sided
score OF Al to "a
Michigan City. winning a hard
fought game from Naw Carlisle by
the score OF Is 10 S. was the next
act on the program. Neither team
was up TO the usual high school
standard. and neither team was
picked by the critics to be a factor
i'm the final issue The last game of
the morning was the best Of the
three. with Syracuse winning easily
from Ligonier. so 10 "a. Syracuse
showed a brand Of real team work
in the contest and with the clever
work Of a pair Of fast forwards.
Drikamiller and Leeper. looked like
possible contenders for sectional
hOnOrs.
south Bend Wins.
South Bend. playing with a snap
and speed. eliminated their old rival.
Mishawaka. In the first contest e
the afternoon The victory was no
surprise 10 local followers. as il was
the third time this season South
Bend has defeated the neighboring
town Capt. Waters was held out of
part Of the contest because of bad
shoulder. and this probably account
eG for the small score of 20 TO 10,
hung mp.
I'm the other three games Of the
afternoon la Crosse defeated Co
shen by one lone marker, % to p.
Iaporte won from Rolling Prairie
20 90 II. and Elkhart took Milford
into camp 26 to rs. In these games
both Elkhart and Laporte showed
some real class i'm spots. which made
the dopesters figure on them as like
IN 10 be I'm at the finish
In the first evening game Wanna
tab had no trouble i'm winning from
Wakarusa by the score of 90 TO ..
Whittmack. the husky Wanatah
center. one Of the best tossers seen
in the tournament. was a big factor
IN his teams victory, scoring Is Of
the % points This game finished the
first round of the tourney. One-half
Of the 16 teams entered being elm
mated. leaving Michigan city. Nap
panee, South Bend, Syracuse, La
porte. Elkhart. Wanatah. and la
Crosse still I'm the race. with South
Bend. Syracuse. Elkhart and La
porte as the favorites.
Second Round Starts.
The second round started AT
o'clock Friday evening with AIichi-
gan City and Nappanee lighting it
out for "a place In the semi-fnals.
The Nappanee quint though strug-
CLING gamely. was no match for the
lake town boys. and was put out of
the running by the I 3 TO route
South Bend and Syracuse staged
the best contest of the tourney the
first thing Saturday morning. the
former coming ont on top by the
score Of q TO Il. This game was
expected 20 be the deciding issue as
70 whether the locals w-uld see the
semi-fnals and both fves put up an
exhibition az a speed that was kill
ing from the first whistle The
syracuse boys displayed some great
basket ball but were outclassed by
the revised lineup sent into the fray
by Coach Cohlmeyer This victory
put the locals into the semi-hnals.
IN the second game of the morn
ing IapOrte had an easy victory over
Ia Crosse. winning by the score Of
80 90 a. I'm this game the Lapor-
aggregati on got away with such Y
good start and played such consist
emit team work throughout the whole
go minutes OF play. that they became
The favorite over the Elkhart lads
for a place I'm the finals
ElLhart Lands ScmiS.
Elkhart played true 10 the dope
and landed In the semi-dnals by de-
feating the Wanatah FIVE I'm the last
morning game i'm an overtime con-
test. by the close count Of n 20 10.
IN this game. as in the others. the
bsg Wauatah center. Whittmac3S.
played a strong game for the losers
and threatened 10 upset Elkhart by
his clsver work on several occasions
South Bend had easy sailing I'm the
semi-hnals and had no trouble in
disposing ~ Michigan City by the
score Of % 20 Il. The tan and blue
Quint took things easy through the
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