Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-03-12
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winner II a. m. Friday.
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BLOOMINGTON. Ind. March r.
Emerson High school of Gary. Hartford
city, and Milroy we're the early morn
ing winners In the finals of the State
High School Basketball Championship
tournament here today. The Gary lads
triumphed over Veedersburg, 35 to Is;
Hartford City slid Washington out of
the running in 49, % trouncing, and
Mllroy defeated Ridgeville, 81 to 13. The
second contest was the feature OF the
morning play. both teams lighting hard
all the way and holding the score to a
close margain.
Despite the fact that nine quintets
were eliminated yesterday. the immense
crowd continues to hold on and this
morning Il was necessary TO close the
gymnasium doors on: hundreds of en-
tbusiastic fans thirty minutes before the
first game warriors trotted out on the
court.
The Hartford City Washington event
was fast from whistle to whistle, and
the fans were kept on their toes during
the thirty minutes OF play. During the
first period the score was knotted twice
and the Hartford City fans went wild
with joy when the rest period arrived
with their heroes leading. IA to 10.$yvsRsh-
fngton came back strong in the second
half and tied the count for the third
time, with less than FIVE minutes to go.
but the Hartford representativ lives opened
up with a streak Of passing that gave
them their three point win. just before
the closing whistle sounded.
Emerson displayed a wonderful show
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the veedersburg quintet in the first game
on the morning card. The Gary team is
the smallest that has tramped the tour
nament floor. but the youngsters are all
speed and fight and the crowd cheered
them wildly as they played circles around
their much larger opponents. The Sib-
lev brothers, Robert and Fred, were the
shining stars of the winning combination
on both the defense and offenses each Of
them registering six times from the floor.
Dunleavy also played a great game for
the Gary quintet and had four field
goals chalked up to his credit. Barley
and J. Hershberger starred for the
Needersburg combination.
MILROY EASILY
BEATS RIDGEVILLE.
Milroy had little trouble winning over
the Ridgeville five in the final contest
on the morning schedule. The winners
took the lead in the first two minutes OF
play and were never headed. At the
close Of the first half the Milroy crew
held a Il to 10 lead, due mostly to the
wonderful playing of Osterlin, center
The winning players showed such Won
derful form IN the contest that their fol
lowers are confident of a victory over
Hartford City in their scrap tonight.
At the close of the first day Of the
tourney nine of the twenty six teams had
been shuffled into the discard. How
ever, it was not according to advance
dope that Martinsville should be one OF
the teams that would lose its opening
game
Greencastle 20, Martinsville 16, was, OF
course, the surprise OF the opening day
of the tourney It had been reported
that Coach Smith had a fast bunch OF
husky young athletes, but few there
were who believed that Martinsville
would loose, but Martinsville did loose
and therefore Greencastle looms as one
of the favorites in the battle for the
state championship.
Greencastle was scheduled to meet
South Bend at p. m. today. South Bend
eliminated Angola by a 27-to-12 score in
its opening game Thursday. The vic.
tory shows that South Bend is strong
but Angola must have won its sectional
championship in a district where the
teams were exceptionally weak.
Anderson was given much harder
battle by Rochester than had been ex.
pected. Rochester is probably tbs
strongest team from the far northern
part of the state and the town has long
been known as the home of good basket
ball teams. However, this season tht
central Indiana teams have shown much
more strength than the far northern oil
extreme southern Indiana high schools.
SPICELAND FIVE
LOOKS CLASSY.
watch Spiceland'' was the tip sent
out late yesterday after Spiceland had
defeated Central High school of Evans
vile by a score OF 81 to IA. When Spice
land played Franklin a close game two
weeks ago the academy team at once be-
came a central figure on the basketball
map. The critics are not overlooking
Spiceland.
Columbus bumped Kokomo, IS to 6
and Jefferson High school of Lafayette
trimmed Bloomington, % to IS. These
results were expected. Jefferson and Co
lumbus should furnish a good game when
they clash at o'clock today in the first
tourney.
NO TROUBLE
FOR FRANKLIN.
Reports from Logansport, where Young
America won its district championship,
were that Coach Lowery had a fast team
but the men were small ANY basket
ball fan who has seen Franklin High
school in action knows well that no mat
ter how fast a team is, if the athletes
are small, they can't defeat Franklin.
The Franklin team is composed of an
unusually large set of athletes Not
only are they exceptionally large for
high school men, but they are without
a question one of the fastest combina-
tions that ever went to a state meet.
The team play of the Franklin quintet
borders on perfection. The score. FRANK
lin 4S, Young America Is, was not a
surprise. Young America just furnished
good scrimmage practice for franklin
During the present season, Normal
High school of Terre Haute has been
winning its games regularly Normal
won the Wabash Valley tourney held at
Clinton, Ind, defeating the cream Of
western Indiana and eastern Illinois
high school teaps. That was some weeks
ago. Then. true to expectations, Normal
deefated all corners in the sectional tour
ney a week ago. Normal pct Hunting