The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-11
HIGH SCHOOL TOURNEY HERE.
First District Basketball Contest Opens
in Topeka Friday. -s.

The First congressional district
high school basketball tournament will
open in Topeka tomorrow morning,
under the auspices of Washburn COL
lege and the Topeka high school. More
than 400 players and coaches will be
in attendance. s.
Thirty-six boys and twenty girls
teams will participate in the struggle
trict during the two days. The boys
will go thru six series and the girls
three. in addition to the semi-finals
and finals for both. The length of the
halves in the preliminaries will be
limited to ten minutes and in the semi
finals to fifteen minutes. The, finals.
alone will be full time affairs. :
Owing to the large number of pIay-
ers it has been necessary to split the
games, sending the girls to the Topeka
high school gymnasium and the boys
to Thomas gymnasium at Washburn.
Saturday, however. the players will be
reduced to a sufficient number SO that.
all games for that day can be played
at Washburn.
The tournament is the largest ever
held in the First district. There were
onlyiabout so teams in the state tour
nament. Topeka, Valley Falls and
Oska1oosa high schools have each en-
tered two boys and one girls quintet.
naries. beginning tomorrow morning,
follows:
Severance VS.. Topeka Firsts, a. M );
Denison VS.. Oakland, 9:25 a. m;
Washburn highs VS.. Whiting. $3.50
a. M; Topeka Seconds VS.. Valley Falls
Seconds, 1913 a. M: Horton VS.. Meri-
den, 11:05 a. M; Atchison VS.. Valley
| Falls Firsts, 1880 a. M; Oskaloosa
| Seconds vs. OZawkie, 11:55 a. m. ;
Mayetta VS.. Willis. 1920 p. M; Easton
vs. Nortonville. 12:45 p. M; Potter vs.
Rock Creek, ITO p. M; Soldier VS..
VS. Powhattan. p. M; Winchester VS.
! Wathena. 2:25 p. m; Muscotah VS.. st.
| Mary's, 2:5O p. m-; Bancroft VS.. Eff
bingham, 2:15 p m; Everest vs.. Leav-
enworth, S:40 p. m; McLouth VS.. Lee
ona, 4:05 p. m.
| The girls teams will play their
| opening round as follows:
| Leavenworth~vs. Oakland, 10 a. M
Washburn highs VS.. Horton, 1880 a.
| M: White Cloud VS.. Onaga. IL a. M
| Valley Falls VS.. Meriden, l .. m.
| Ozawkie VS.. Nortonville, 80 p M
Winchester VS.. Willis, 2 p. M; Oska-
loosa VS.. Holton, $3.50 p. m: Powhat-
tan VS.. Easton, p. M; Atchison VS..
| Wathena, $3.50 p. M
The winning girls team and the
winning boys team will be presented
with a silver loving cup, the gift OF
President Womer of Washburn. and
the eleven best individual players, six
girls and five boys, will be given silver
basketballs by the Topeka Chamber OF
Commerce.
Among the teams considered strong
candidates for honors are Topeka
Winchester Easton. and st. Mary's
boys quintets. Leavenworth, Valley
Falls. Atchison and Ozawkie girls
teams are unusually strong.
Boys and girls games will alternate
as far as possible, according to SEIZED
ules worked out by officials.
Plans are made at Washburn to en-
terrain the visitors in various ways
and to get them acquainted with the
college A Washburn afl-school party
is being arranged for Friday evening
F,raternAies and sororities are assist
ing in the plans to make the week end
nleasan for the high schnol visitors