The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-22
INDOOR CAME
is new TOPIC
AT AUCUSTANA
Teams Are Preparing for the An
nuaI Inter-Class Champion
ship Struggle.
BY KENNETH CONREY.

| The 1921 football season having
| come to a close at Augustana col
| lege, attention is now turned to the
! coming basketball season. Already
! 20 to 80 aspirants are working out
in the gymnasium every afternoon
! in preparation for the class basket
| ball tournament which will be held
Immediately after the Thanksgiy-
| ing recess.
With four letter men back this
year as nucleus, Swedberg be-
lieves that he has the markings of a
real basketball squad. Wally Swan
son will captain the Augustana five
this year and will probably be used
at forward and guard alternately.
Gus Andreen is back and will make
his bid for the pivot position, and
Rydholm and Lundeen are the
other two letter men.
A wealth of high school mater
ial is on ha1-d from whom Art can
pick the rest of his squad COMFY
Aronson from Sioux City has shown
some real class in the preseason
practice and promises to make Z
strong bid for a place on the vars
ity. Hank ROsencrans, last year :
captain at Rock Island high school
and all-distTict center, is enrolled
at the Lutheran institution and is
sure to show good form against
varsity material
Anderson, lad hailing from
Fresno high school of California,
Gully Wilson, former member of
the Moline high school quintet, and
Bill Dwyer, from East high school
of Des Moines, are freshmen who
have shown up well in the prac-
tees. Schafer. Ogden Johnson,
and Conrey will be out in uniform
at the first call for practice.
Swedberg is losing no time in
getting under way for the coming
season. Practice has been called
for this afternoon. Art wants to
get an early start so his men will
be in the best of condition at the
opening of the regular schedule
which will begin Immediately after
the holidays.
This years schedule although
not completed, brings the Angus
tana squad up against some of the
best teams in the conference, as
well as teams from outside of the l.
l. A. C. and promises to bring to
the tri-cities some of the best has
ketball talent there is in minor
college teams.
Next weeks class basketball tour
nament is sure to bring to light
some additional material With
such a raft of material the fight
for varsity births should be lively.
AS is usual in the annual class
tourney the freshmen are doped il
run off with the honors this wear.
The under-classmen have the adj
vantage over the other classes. in
that letter men are not allowed to
participate in the class wrangIe
Aronson. Gully Wilson. DIVER. An
derson, Rosencranz and Schafer are
the men upon whom the freshies
are putting their confidence Of
winning over the other classes. The
sophs are sure to give their under
classmen a run with such men as
Mahoney, o. Johnson, Parsons. Ben
son, Conroy, Samuelson and UIIe-
meyer. The juniors and seniors
Will be represented by strong teams.
they have been crippled
by losing men to the varsity.
Whether or not the annual
A. {. basketball tournament, which
is held every spring to determine
the champions of the conference |
will be staged this year is a ones
ton. Last year at a meeting at /!
some of the larger
schools voiced their disapproyaI OF I,
the plan. The plan proposed bv tho |
larger schools is that the cham
of the conference shouid |
be determined by percentage !
basis. A spirited discussion is sure |
to take place when the annual !
of the conference is held /
early in December. The tourna-
nent has become an annual tradi-
ion in the Little Nineteen and the
l. A. c. and to dispense with it
would bring much opposition. es-
7ecially from the smaller colleges.
Several preliminary games have
teen scheduled before the winter
for the Augustana crew IL
order to give Swedberg a better
inc on the material with which he
las to work