Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-16
GREAT YEAR AHEAD
FOR LOCAl.. Lovers
0FCAGE CONFLICTS
OTTAWA TO HAVE TWO FAST
SCHOLASTIC TEAMS AND TWO
PROFESSIONAL OUTFITS TO
PLAY AT HOME AND ABROAD.

A banner basketball year is look
editor in Ottawa In the l922-l92S sea
son. There win not be list of ten
or fifteen hals way teams but there
Will four teams and every one has
bromisc of being star aggregations
With some OF the best talent in this
city performing with them,
There will be two prep teams, the
Pleasant View Luther College and
the Ottawa high school squads. Then
there will be two professional aggre'
rations. The American Legion team
will uso the armorS as q home floor
shaving here and abroad. Tho fnal
team is the Apak, Triangles which IS
Chased with the Legion and will per.
form on some of the Legion cards II
such an arrangement can be made.
Reports from the camp of the col
leplans across the river are loud in
praise OF this years prospects. the
ffre Is the best ever seen AZ the col
jegs and promises 70 establish a
great record IL tho seasons cage
snort. The college will play a cou-
ME of minor entanelements before
Tho new year but they are Just prac-
tice conibats After New Years day
the men OF Drynstadt viii Get down
10 real work and they oil pan to 40
through the season With I'm unmarried
record.
Dewey Olson, captain end forward
of the Lutherans, is the best basket
shooter the school has developed in
many years. Munson is q veteran
center and Bold the guard had pien'
Nv OF experience before he came TO
Ottawa. The rest of the team while
not playing feature basketball per
forms well at all times 1t is always
OF winning caliber.
The o. n. S.
Coach Richard 4. Newberg. new
usntor at the local high school and
oue of the. most popular Of Ottawa's
MANI coaches. Is not saying much
about basketball hopes, but he wears
a big smile and wears it every day
md behind II seems TO be high hopes
fnr his team. The material az the
hfgh school this year is nothing IN
usual being of Just mediocre caliber
and success all hinges around how i
Turns out Newberg stated last night
that the team work could and would
IA developed to the highest pitch Of
ysrfection but somebody With an eye
for the basket was badly needed to
bolster UP the FIVE.
IT,
az, but they have got the stuff IN
thctn and when they get II out they
are fNound to tear up things this year"
was a remark made by Newberg,
American Legion.
To-day 1t seems that the American
Thgion will be the team that the
fsna will see perform here mostly but
thay can never tell and the Apak-
rrriangles may appear here consider
ably. This years legion team is com.
pbsed of college men. They hare al.
rtady signed 1--WE player but are ex-
s,crienoing considerable trouble in So
caring first class substitutes. HoN-
the Apak-TrianGles happen to be idle
eyer. when they play at home and
they plan to secure members OF the
rival organization for subs.
II They besides that Coach Newberg
haA his eye one a couple Of other
faerf who together with himself. q
sTaduate Of Lombard college; Kettle.
camp, University of Chicago; Parks,
University of Wisconsin; Waugh,
Bradley INSTITUTE Harboldt, Western
normal. and York Duffy, Ottawa high,
Vail constitute the legion roster FL
nier Y. Hitter, director Of legion att