Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
State Officials Spend Day Ar
ranging Annual Sectional
and Other Schedules.
RECORD ENTRY FOR PLAY
MANUAL VS.. sHORTRIDGE.

MANUAL VS.. SHORTRIDGE.
The Indianapolis sectional schedule
announced today brings the Manual and
ShOrtridge teams of indianapolis to-
gether in the first round at p. IN. FRI
day, March 4.
Technical of indianapolis meets Beech
Grove in the opening game of the local
sectional at "A. m. Friday.
There are sixteen teams in the local
district.
The board of control Of the Indiana
High School Athletic Association net at
the ClaypooI Hotel here today to draw
up the schedule of play for the 1921 State
High School basketball championship
tournament-the greatest basketball
event in the United States.
The tournament this year VIII be the
tenth annual, and, under careful nursing
of the present board members, 1t has
reached a mark that surpasses even the
fondest hopes Of It's ardent supporters.
Last yeSr twenty six sectional meets TOOK
care Of the teams entered, but this time
the board was forced to increase the dis
trict number to thirty-two.
OFFICIALS WHO
DREW SCHEDULE.
The members of the board who met
president: James Leffel, warsaw, treas
urer; Arthur Trester, La Porte, perma-
nent secretary; K Y. Amerman. Indian
apolis. Joseph Shock. Lafayette, and Fred
Busenberg, Columbus. district representa-
tives.
The tournament this year is to be
played in three divisions, sectional, re-
gicnal and State final Sectional games
viii be played at the thirty-two centers
throughout the State next Friday and
Saturday, March 4 and 3. Region games
then will be played between the dis
trlct champs at Indiana and Purdue uni
versities the following Saturday, March
II. Sixteen Of the thirtyt two regional
champs to play at each college.
The winners at Bedford, Bloomington,
Columbus. Franklin, Greencastle, Indian
aptIjs. MartlnsvilIe, New "a ste, Owens
vile. Richmond, Rusb,ille, scottsburg,
Sullivan, Terre Haute, Nincenues and
Winchester will play at Indiana Univer-
sity.
er the winners at Attica. Anderson, Au-
burn, BluftOn, Charlottesville, Fort
Wayne, Gary, Huntington, KokomO, In
fayette Lebanon, Logansport, Marion,
Rochester. South Bend and Warsaw. One
round of games viii be played at each
regional meet, thus eliminating eight
teams at each place.
COME HERE TO
DECIDE TITLE.
Then. the following Friday and Satur-
day, March is and 10, the sixteen teams
that have survived the sectional and re-
gionaI battles will come to Indianapolis
to pay the State championship games on
the Coliseum floor. The indianapolis dis
trict games. March and .. also are 10 be
played on the Coliseum 1oOr
This win be The first time in the his
tory Of the association that the State
final games have been played in Indian
apOlis, but they were brought here this
year because past experiences have prov
en- the Purdue and Indiana gyms too
small to handle the crowds, and Indian
apOlis high school and civic officials are
making elaborate preparations for the
meet, with the hope Of convincing the as
ISOLATION that this city IL the place for
all future championship battles.
The three indianapolis high schools,
holders Of the State tourney charter, will
present the cham piOnship team with a
shield, or similar trophy. The members
of the winning team also VIII be pre-
sented with an individual trophy. A
medal, known as the j Gimble prize, will
be awarded the boy showing the best
mental attitude during the State tour
ney.