The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-30
80 BASKETBALL
PROSPECTS OUT
AT AUGUSTANA
Sxedberg Has Fine Material From
Freshmen Class-Busy Win
Schedule.
BY CONREY.


Thirty basketball candidates
have answered the call for prac-
tice at Augustana college, and the
form which was shown in the first
workout gives assurance hat the
! I.utherans will have a team which
will be strong contenders for the
/ / A. C. championship. -Four
letter men are back from last year,
I namely, Captain Wally Swanson,
forward and guard; Gus Andreen,
! center; Malvin Lundeen, forward,
and Gully Rydholm, forward. WIN
these men as a nucleus, SwedberS
is confident that he car round his
SQUAD into shape to wallop the OPP
position.
A wealth of high school material
is on hand at the Rock Island
school. many of the candidates
coming from the t~ri-c.ties. Moline
and Rock Island are furnishing
most OF the material in such men
as Rosencranz, center for Rock Is
land high last year, and given that
berth on the all-district five;
Schaefer. also a member of the
Rock Island quintet last year, and
Conrey and Gully Wilson from Mo-
line, who played together with
Wally Swanson with the Maroon
and White in 1918. Connie Aron-
sen from Sioux City, Bill DwyeT,
hail!ng from Des Moines. Anderson
from Fresno, Calf. and Ogden
Johnson. are others who T max
ing their bid for places on the
varsity squad. With such a raft of
material, the fight for places is
sure to be close, and, in conse-
quence, Aug.e has the right to look
forward to a most successful
year.
Art gave his men a light work
out Monday night. explaining what
he expected of them in regard TO
training and scholarship. Shoot
ing baskets from short distances,
passing, and running the floor, con-
stituted the first practice. Swed-
berg plans to hold practice every
night.
a stiff schedule has been out
lined for Augustana this year.
While only tentative. plans are be-
ing made TO include such schools as
Armour Institute, Lewis Institute,
and DePaul, all of Chicago, as well
as the regular members Of the
| Little Nineteen, including Mon
mouth, Bradley. Illinois Wesleyan
! and Eureka. Negotiations are un-
der way now for arranging a game
with Iowa university at Des Moines
on Dec. II. Swedberg is also plan
ming to take his squad On a weeks
trip through Iowa Immediately
after Christmas. On this trip Aug
ustana will meet Penn college at
Oskaloosa, Pella college at Pella,
Iowa Wesleyan at Mt. Pleasant,
Parsons at Fairfield, and an Amer
lean Legion team at Ottumwa. Such
a trip should put the AugU5tana
players in the pink of condition for
the regular schedule which will
begin Immediately after the holi-
days.
The annual interclass basketball
tournament will begin this evening
at $50, the first game being be-
tween the freshmen and sophO-
mores. Drawings were made yes
teTday afternoon with the result
that the freshmen play the sopho-
mores in the first game, and the
juniors and seniors play the sec
ond game. These first two games
will be played Wednesday evening.
Thursday evening the seminarians
will meet the winners of the fresh
man-sophomore tilt, and the acad-
envy five will go up against the
winner of the junior-senior scrap.
The finals will be played Friday
evening at 7:15.
AS is generally the case, the
freshmen are sighted to run off
with the honors. The other upper
classes are hampered by the ruling
that a letter man is prohibited from
participating in the tournament.
! However, they go up against some
real opposition in meeting the
sophs. 1t is the dope that the WIN
Eer of the observation-disclosures
scrap will go straight through the
tournament without a loss. The
juniors. seniors, seminarians and
acadamites are also well repre-
scented, and while indications point
to one of the two u~nderclass teams.
running away with the honrs, the
other classes promise TO make it
hot for them.
Unlike the manner in which the
tournament was held last year it
Will be played by single elimina-
ton; that is. a team being defeated
once is out OF the running. Last
year two defeats were necessary
before a team was eliminated. but
Sw edberg is anxious to give all his
time to the varsity squad and
wishes TO run off the ~interclass
tournament as quickly as pos
sible.