Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-29
By CHARLES LOGAN.

All entry records for the Indiana State
High School Athletic Association basket
h bah championship tournament will be
\ shattered with the eleventh annual meet,
& which is to be concluded here March Is
4 and 10 next. This information came to
light at a meeting OF the board of con-
trol Of the I. H S. A. A. at the Clay
4 pool hotel Tuesday afternoon.
Although the association has grown
bigger and stronger every year since its
organization, this past year has been q
bumper one for enrollments and the
membership list has now swelled above
\ the fondest expectations Of the directors.
4 Permanent Secretary A. L. Trester an
+ nounced at the board meeting Tuesday
n that go schools are now registered In the
association, against Oh members ut this
time last year, which shows an increase
Of liz schools. The coming tournament
. will bring no less than 512 schools to
gether In competition, while last sea
sons mark Of 433 was considered a record
\ that would stand for some time.
These statistics show that Indianapolis
is facing the problem, which is a pleas
ing one, of staging the championship
: round of the biggest basketball tOurna-
ment the country has ever known.
\ JOINT COMMITTEE
HARD AT WORK.
This tournament must not only be con-
\ Quoted successfully. but the teams and
4 fans must be taken care of in better
u style than either Purdue or Indiana Uni
3 versity has ever been able TO handle them.
The Joint committee representing the
y INDIANAPOLIS Chamber of Commerce. But
d Ter College and Manual. ShOrtrtdge and
Technical High Schools is alre5dy hard
a at work on plans for staging the NAM
moth event and there is little doubt but
that their adopted slogan OF Once at
q Indianapolis Always at Indianapolis,
viii be carried out.
Forty-six invitations for sectional meets
were placed before the members of the
n board yesterday by Secretary Trester.
This breaks another record, but the board
4 would have been hard up II IL didn't, De-
s cause there will be more sectionals than
ever the coming March. Last season
twenty-six districts accommodated all
entries but Trester stated yesterday that
n 1t Is certainty that there will be thirty
4 more. The entry lists have not yet closed
and the already assured number Of 512
entries may be raised considerably be
& fore the books are closed
These forty-siX sectional Invitations
: come from cities well scattered through
out the State and all OF them appear
qualified to handle the play In their re
spective viciniJies- Several district CEN
& tiers were considered yesterday. but no
definite step was taken, as the board was
4 portance that demanded immediate at
tentiOn.
INDIANAPOLIS IS
SURE OF SECTIONAL.
Indianapolis is the only city in the
\ State at this time that is sure OF a Sec
8 tiOnal. The local meet will be staged at
the Coliseum and sixteen teams. which
Il have not yet been designated, will com
q pete for the hOnors.
a The district meets ara 10 be held March
and 5. the regional play at Indiana and
Purdue will be held March Il. and the
championship struggles will be fought
4 here on March Is and 20. The idea Of
\ this regional play, as has been previously
explained, Is to eliminate sixteen Of the
4 sectional champs with one round of
games so that the physical strain Of the
championship fights will be decreased.
The board will meet again during the
first part Of January to award the sec
g tiOnals and announce the date for the
= closing of the entry lists. The boundary
q line for the Purdue and Indiana regionals
u will also be named at this meeting. In
dications at this time point to the In