Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-21
HOOSIER FANS
GIVEN ANOTHER
FEATURE WEEK
Indiana and Purdue Each Has
Two Conference Scraps
Wabash Plays Twice.
BIG TEN STANDING

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Three Western Conference games and
the Butler Wabash contest at Crawfords-
vile will be served tonight as the first
course OF this weeks appetzing basket
ball spread.
The Crimson athletes play two games
this week, meeting Iowa in both of them.
They are in Iowa City for the hrst OF
these scraps tonight, and Friday night
they take on the Hawkeyes on the Bloom
ingtOn floor. Iowa kicked a terrible dent
In the dope can Saturday night by com,
ing through with win over Purdue, but
this is not causing Crimson fans to lose
any Of their confidence in the team TO
score a pair Of Big Ten victories this
week.
HARD TASK
FACES PURDUE.
Purdue tonight is scheduled against
Illinois at Urbana, and Saturday night
they take on Northwestern at Evanston.
This had prospects of being a mighty
gloomy week for Lambert's men. unless
they can uncover more trumps than theT
have shown in recent games Illinois Is
the club thar is fighting IL out with 1ndi-
ana for the conference lead.
Wisconsin battles Ohio at Columbus in
the other Big Ten scrap tonight.
Pat Page will take his Butler quintette
20 Charlottesville tonight for their second
battle of the season with the Wabash
crew, under Coach Pete Vaughans wing.
InlS Is the Only Dlg game TO De pldyEu
on an Indiana court tonight and it is
getting all due attention.
Tomorrow night will bring the De
PAW and EarIham teams together at
Richmond and the Dentals and Rose
Poly into action at Terre Haute De
Paw defeated Earlham at Greencastle
and the Dentals defeated Rose in Indian
epOlis earlier in the season. Both VIC
tories were scored by comfortable mar
gins. so it looks as though the Quakers
and Engineers are in for some rough use
tomorrow night Chica go meets Mime
sofa in the Conference attraction Tor
Tuesday night.
EALPO TACKLES
y. ID. CUNT.
Valparaiso and NOtre Dame will have
the stage all to themselves Wednesday
night The VaIpO athletes are clearing
their decks for battle with Creighton at
Omaha Saturday night, but the scrap
with NOtre Dame Wednesday Is conSid-
cred Of much more Importance to the
keOgan prOteges. The Irish hold one
victory over ValpO.
Then there viii be a let-up IN cole
giate circles until Friday night, when
Wabash travels up to Notre Dame for
their second contest with the Irish, and
Butler en- cages the Earlham combination
en- the Butler floor. This is also the
night for the Indiana-IOw2 affair at
Bloomington.
The Saturday night schedule is alive
with Interesting events. Purdue takes on
Northwestern az Evanston in the second
Conference contest OF the week for the
BOlermakers. Earlham and the Dentals
play here, Illinois takes a crack at Mich
igan at Ann ArbOr. Valparaiso tangles
with Creighton at Omaha and Rose Poly
and state Normal meet for the third time
Of the season. Normal already has two
wins over the Engineers.
UPsETS KNOCK
DOPESTERS OUT.
The games played Saturday night by
Indiana teams brought forth some Of the
widest upsets the present season has
tostered- The most prominent Of these
were the Iowa win over Purdue, the Ohio
victory over Chicago, the Hanover tri-
umph over the Dentals and the Franklin
slaughter by Kalamazoo College.
Indiana and Illinois continued their
neck and-n neck chase for the conference
pennant by winning their contests with
Northwestern and Wisconsin, resDec-
lively.
A field goal by De Hority in the last
minute brought the Indiana University
athletes their 23-to-21 win over North
western. Indiana had a wide advantage
in this scrap until a few minutes after
the second half opened. The score stood
Il to 3 in favor of the HoOsiers, when
the Purple started a rally that tied the
count at 21-all. After the tying field
goal, De HOrity grabbed the ball on the
tip-Off, dribbled down the floor to i'm
mediately under the basket and scored
the winning points. The teams battled
hard without scoring from then until
the final whistle.
a safe lead over Wisconsin until the
closing mOn/ntS of play, when Vail and
Walquist registered three baskets from
the floor in rapid succession. The final
count was II to 9. In the first half,
WiScOnsin's smart passing game appeared
too much for the Suckers, but thrilling
guarding by Vail and Sabo proved the
equal of the visitors offensive game
Wisconsin had defeated Illinois In a
previous contest.
PURDUE LEADS
FIRST HALT.
Purdue held an to lead over Iowa
at the close of the first half OF their fight
at Iowa City, but some distance shoot
ing by Shimek in the second session kept
the Hawkeye total growing steadily until
. the HOLSTERS were finally met and passed
in a spirited brush during the closing
scene. The final score was 20 to Is, and
Shimek registered fourteen Of the Iowa
points.
Ohio broke through the Chicago de-
tense to a 31-to so victory with less than
inmate to go. after having fought an
uphill battle from the start. Chicago
held a decided advantage at the close OF
the half, but Ohio used a trick Offense
in the second session and soon took all
the steam out Of the Maroon defense.
The Hanover athletes swOOped down
on the unsuspecting and overcOnhdent
DentalS ana put over 3S-to-ZS victory
on the Athenaeum court. DeKyne was
the only Dent who played up to stand
ard in this scrap.
Kalamazoo held an 11-to-3 advantage
over Franklin at the close of the first
session, and came through with a final
count Of is to ID. The Franklin athletes
lost all their form in an attempt to close
the gap during the second half.
After getting away to a flying start
and holding what appeared to be a COM
Portable lead through most of the first
half. the Notre Dame basketeerS weak
ened and dropped their third straight
game on Nebraska floor, 80 to p, to
the University of Nebraska. Captain
Mehre was the only Hoosier who could
hit the ring consistently.