The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-04
LIBERTY WILL BE
STRONGEST TEAM
met BY LOCALS
Is Expected to Give Richmond
Men Hard Fight for District
Honors.

Basing the basketball tourney re-
suits Of next Friday and Saturday on
a comparative study of the scoring of
the Liberty and Richmond basketball
teams for the season, Liberty stands
forth as a strong contender for state
honors and will force the Richmond
basketballer to hump if they expect
to hold the district honors.
Liberty has played Connersville
twice, while the Richmond high bas-
ket shooters have played Connersville
once. In both games the Liberty
team were victorious over the Con-
nersville high school basketball ag-
gregation, scoring in the first game
81 to 20 and in the second 10 to II.
Richmond dropped it's game to Con-
nersville by one point the score end
ing 16 to Is
In the Shortridge setto, Liberty
high school basketball team defeated
the Shortridge basket shooters in
fast game, Is TO IA and Shortridge
handed the Richmond high school five
20 to 13 defeat.
Richmond Shows Improvement.
Judging from those results Liberty
is By far the strongest team, but when
we take in consideration the giant
strides the Richmond basketballers
nave been hitting for the last of the
season, the results for the tourney
take on different look.
In the last three games Coach Eek
els proteges have shown marked i'm.
provement in all departments of the
game. Dollins at center has deyel-
oped remarkably and Is playing the
best game of basketball he has played
since the season started. Van Allen,
the main Richmond scorer, is becom-
ing more reliable and is hitting the
basket with something like clockwork
winch, with the assistance of Steg-
man and Porter, will place the Rich
mond team In the winning class next
Friday and Saturday.
Both Eversman and Price are show
ing up better at the defense positions
than earlier In the season. With a
little more speed Price will prove a
stonewall against Richmond's antag-
onists making short shots Eversman
has been playing a consistent game of
basketball at floor guard assisting the
forwards to score.
Z Records Of Teams. ....
With Richmond playing the stellar
game of basketball there is no reason
in the minds of Richmond fans why
Richmond basketballers should not
cop the honors this year.
Here are the records of the Liberty
basketball team and Richmond bas-
ketball five season.
Richmond won eight, lost six.
Liberty won IL, lost 2.
Richmond .....s
Richmond, 10; Muncie, -.
Richmond, "a; Martinsville, Il.
Richmond, 80, Steele, Il.
Richmond, %; Rushville, 25.
Richmond, %; Huntington. AZ.
Richmond, "a; Marion, 20.
Richmond, 13; Shortridge, 20.
Richmond. Al Rushville, 81.
Richmond, 80; Martinsyille, s..
Richmond, 10; Connersville, 16.
Richmond, II; Huntington, %.
Richmond, II; Manual, 15
Richmond. So; Fountain City, IA.
Richmond, "a; Muncie, %.
Totals, 377-315.
Liberty
Liberty, So; Cambridge City, Z.
= Liberty, 60; New Paris, f.
Liberty, 1S; Shortridge, IA.
Liberty, %; Brookville, 10.
Liberty, 10; Brookville, Is.
Liberty, Al; Hagerstown, Fl.
Liberty. IL; Eaton, 16.
Liberty, AZ; Eaton, IS.
Liberty, 80; Connersville, 20.
Liberty, 80; Cambridge City, II.
Liberty, 10; Steele, %.
Liberty, II; McGuffey, 8.
Liberty, 10; Connersville, II.
Liberty. 20; McGuffey, s.
Totals, 422-202.