Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-16
BALL CAGERS in
THE SPOTLIGHT
Scme ThrillerS In Store For La
dysmith Fans Next
Tuesday
VISITORS BEATEN HERE
AFTER 126-MILE TRIP
Famous Appleton Team Coming Next
Observation-Disclosures Players of
Statewide Celebrity

Ladysmith basketball fans will see
one Of the fastest teams in the state
perform, when the Appleton Ideals
play the Ladysmith Athletic Club here
next Tuesday night.
A wire to Manager +. c. MacDOn-
aid from the manager of the Ideals"
assures that the Appleton team will
be here with the following men: Nor
nington, Hill, Palmer Ritchey, Smith,
Stark
| This team is composed of some of
the best basketball players in the
state of Wisconsin, and at least one
of them. Starks, can be classed as one
of the best in the United States. This
combination played under the name of
| the 'Tri-city Athletic Club Of Wiscon-
! sin Rapids. last year, and took third
ment.
money at the Fond du Lac tourna-
This team is composed of some of
the best basketball players in the
state of Wisconsin and at least one OF
them "Starks" can be classed as one
of the best in the United States This
combination played under the name
of the Tri City Athletic Club of Wis
consin Rapids. last year and took third
money at the Fond du Lac tOurna
ment. They were handicapped by not
having their center Palmer, with them
at Fond du Lac, due to the death of
his sister, or they might have come
out on top.
S. Starks, who plays forward on this
team. is an eX-Marquette university
man who was selected as the best bas-
ketball player at the Fond du Lac
tournament which included about 81
of the best teams in the state. Starks.
with Red Dunn, of the Bright Spots,
was selected as forwards on the "All
Tournament Five" Ritchey, the other
! forward. who is now coaching WiscOn-
sin Rapids highschool, was picked as
one of the next best forwards at the
tournament and placed as forward on
the Second All-TOurnament Five
Palmer, the center, on the team is
wonderful basketball player. but is
more noted for his ability to play
baseball and pitches for the Sheboygaa
| team
Smith, one of the guards, was cap
| tain and center on the Lawrence col
lege football team this season and was
picked as all-state center on the team.
He plays standing guard and while on
the Wisconsin Rapids highschool team
in 1915, which won the states high
school championship, was credited
with only one field basket all season.
Some guard
Normington and Hill, the other
guards, are exceptionally fast. Hill
according to the reports in the Mil
waukee Journal played stellar game
with the Wisconsin Rapids five when
they defeated the Indian Aces, 1926,
which is the same score the Bright
| Spots of Milwaukee defeated the
| Aces
This is the fastest bunch Of basket
ball players that ever played in Lady
smith. This is the same bunch that
| defeated the Denver A. G. last season.
so you can judge for yourselves.
| The athletics are under heavy eX
penses in getting this team here and
it was only arranged after some OF the
business men volunteered TO keep the
players at their homes that we could
| afford to book them. The reason they
are called the Appleton Ideals" Is
because four Of them are going to Law
| renee at present.
| All turn out and we will get some
good teams in here.
The game will start at 5 o'clock
i in order that the visiting team may
catch the 9 :23 train south. An or
chestra will furnish music.
The basketball team Of Edgar drove
all the way up here from their town,
a distance of 126 miles, to play our
city team last Friday night, and the
long drive may account for the fact
that they got the short end of 33 10
26 score. The Edgar boys were game
bunch and after the contest made the
return trip to Edgar the same night.
Ladysmith at ChetelI
II The Ladysmith Athletic Club team
will play the Chetek Legion quint at
Chctek tonight, and one week from to.
night the Chetek team will be here
for a return game. On that night, al
so the Weyerhaeuser city team will
play the substitutes on the Athletic
Club team as a curtain raiser.
College Team Coming
On date to be fixed for the latter
/ part of December, Ladysmith basket
ball fans will have an opportunity to
: see Bushey's Business College team in
action here.