Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-23
CUE GOSSIP
COLLEGE FIVES
OF STATE FACE
BIG CONTESTS
Purdue and Indiana Clash,
Dentals Play Franklin and
Butler Battles Earlham.
OTHER BASKET GOSSIP
BY HEZE CLARK.

BY HEZE CLARK.
Two indianapolis college basketball
teams will be in action tonight. The
Dentals play Franklin at Franklin and
Butler meets Earlham at Richmond. Two
other important games are on the list
tonight in which Hoosier teams will play
Purdue plays indiana at Bloomington
and Notre Dame meets the Western State
Normal FIVE at Kalamazoo, Mich.
This is the first time that Butler has
met Coach Moves Quakers. However,
Rose Poly defeated Butler by one point,
and a few nights later the Engineers de
feated Earlbam in an overtime game at
Richmond This comparative score route
would indicate that the Butler ia rlham
game tonight would be the hardest
fought kind of battle.
BASKET DOPE
PROVES ERRATIC.
While the comparative score route may
tell some things, still there is one thing
sure and that is comparative score dope
doesn't always hold true. What better
example of this could be had than the
three-way comparison of Valparaiso, st.
Joseph and Dental college basketball
teams? Valparaiso university defeated
the dental college quint in game
played in Indianapolis before Christmas
by score of 33 to g. Tho upstate team
seemed unable to miss sae goal, no mat
ter where the players shot from. Inc
Dentals could not shoot the ball into the
basket II they were standing under the
cage and had open shots. Never did the
Tooth Pullers put up a poorer exhlbl-
ton of basketball. Still, the Dentals
pulled together and showed real team
play and defeated st. Joseph college, 81
to 20, last Saturday.
The critics contented themselves By say
ing that Valparaiso was exceptionally
strong. and that st. Joseph was team
many points weaker than Valparaiso
and about the Dental standard. How
ever the critics have something to eX-
plain today, for st. Joseph won clean
cut victory over the Valparaiso quintet
by q % -to-1S score at Collegeyille last
night. IT would appear from that com
paratiyc score dope, considering the time
in the season that the games were played,
that the Dentals have made great i'm
provement ard that the Tooth Pullers
will give Coach Thurber's Baptists a
real game tonight.
EM-ROES SPILL
WAYNE HOPES.
Franklin has defeated Hanover and
Central Normal by topheayy scores.
Franklin lost to DePauw at GreenCastle.
However. DePauw appears to have a
team that will have a chance to win the
state college championship. DePauw Won
from the En- ROes by an eleven point
are still the independent champions OF
Indiana and are likely to remain 50 dur
ing the present season. The lndianapo-
lis sporting goods team outplayed the
knights of Columbus i've at Et. Wayne
last night and won by a % to IS score.
The 1T Wayne quintet had Stonebrea ker
and Bacon. but the clever team play OF
the indianapolis veterans was more than
the all-star professional aggregation at
TT. Wayne could solve.
Two games in two days with two OF
the strongest kinds Of teams Is what
Coach IAmbert's Boilermakers have on
their card. Purdue meets Indiana to-
night at Bloomington, and then meets
DePauw at Greencastle Saturday night.
Purdue has up until now been the hard
luck quintet Of the Big Ten. Purdue has
lost to Illinois and Ohio State ty a mar
gin of one field goal. Indiana has de
feated Ohio State and Michigan univer-
sity. which would indicate that the
bloomington team is playing last basket
ball. II Purdue defeats Indiana tonight
its hard luck In other games Will be Tor
given and forgotten by the Purdue stu
dents But If Indiana wins from the
Bollermakers tonight the B'comi ngton
five Will loom up as a possible conference
championship contender. Indiana has
been going far better IN its college games
than would have been expected from tne
poor showing that team made In It's
transforming trip before the first OF the
year However, Phillips is at guard Tor