Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-25
BOWLING
NEW TOURNEY
SQUADS SHOW
BEST OF CLASS
Turner's and Anderson Replace
Montgomery County Elves
in Meet Here.
FIRST GAMES FRIDAY

With the withdrawal from the state
150-pound Independent basketball tourDa-
ment of the Charlottesville and Wingatc
high school teams, the meet at the local
Y. ii. C. A. Friday and Saturday becomes
an official event for state amateur IN
dependent teams, and in many basket
circles fans regard the withdrawal OF
the Montgomery county hves as a GOOD
thing for the meet. Both Crawfordsvllie
and Wingste are 'outlaw" high school
easket teams this season, due to their
suspension from the Indiana High School
Athletic association and the fact that
Ihev were to compete among the indc
pendent amateurs was not received with
favor by a number of followers of the
game.
Charlottesville and Wingate both with
drew rather late, but Wayne Zimmerman
manager of the tourney, has replaced
these fves with the South Side turner's
Of this city and the strong Anderson
Y NJ c. 4. quintet, both popular or
caDizations The reason given for the
Withdrawal Of the Montgomery county
squads was that the players of those
teams were out of condition as re-
suit of participation in toe siren uous
meet at Cincinnati last week. therefore,
after looking over the list of the state
amateur teams and their records, Emmel
man picked the Anderson \. NJ Z a.
quintet to take the place or Wlngate 10
the tournament and the South SIDE
Turner's to fill in the vacancy left by
the withdrawal of the Crawsloi aVllie
clan.
NEW SQUADS
HAVE RECORDS.
The fans owe Emmelman bit of
praise for the judgment he used In PICK
ing teams to take the places OF the
Montgomery county quintets on me
records and win surely keep the stan
dard of play high. The entry OF the
Turner's gives Indianapolis direct rep
resentation in the big event The JOY
and GIooms of Broad Ripple, champions
of the local district, will still represent
Marion county.
THE Turner'S are the choice Of Emmel-
man and the fans to represent Indiana
polls in the tourney for two reasons.
First, they have defeated every amateur
team in this city and vicinity, JOY ana
Tlooms excepted. Second, they were run
ners-up in the local district play and
lost their only game Of the season In
that event when the JOY and GlOOms de-
feated them after going two two oyeItln NJ.
periods in the final scrap: The team is IN
perfect condition for action In the state
meet and ready to play through the
strenuous schedule
The Anderson y athletes are luOls
of Madison county independent ranks.
In the recent Madison county tourna-
ment they won the championship in n
walk. defeating number of classy teams,
and they intend to repeat here With a
record OF thirteen wins and no defeats.
ii looks as though Il is going to take
something big to bust up their plans
The Anderson combination will make Its
debut in the tournament at I:l5 Friday
night against the JOY and Glooms and the
Turner's will play their first game at 3 Ia
Friday evening. nj which time they meet
the fast Muncie Maroons.
JOYS AND TURNER'S
MAY CLASH AGAIN.
The Anderson and Muucie teams are
two of the hest in the state, but the
Joy and GioOms and Turner's are conf
dent of victories over them. Should the
Ripple men and he Turner quintet win
their early round games they will clash
in the semi finals. Memories Of the game
these two teams staged IN the local dis
trict play will live for several years
among the fans who were on deck and
there is nothing to keep them from put
ting up as good an exhibition If they
clash again. Dawson. JOY and Gloom
captain has stated that he is anxious to
meet the Turner's in the state event and
prove to the fans that their previous vic
tory was not brought about by the alb
sence Of Johnny Rice from the Turner
lineup.
Season tickets for the tournament are
on sale at the @. FL. Westing Smith
Hassler and Sturm and En- Roe sporting
goods stores.