The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-20
FRANKLIN NET men
STATE CHAMPS Third
Consecutive Time

INDIANAPOLIS, March 20.-Three |
championships in row Is the record !
of the Franklin high school basketball !
team. and this is the only time In the
history Of Indiana high school basket |
ball that one team has captured the
championship for three consecutive
seasons. After eliminating all Of their
opponents they went into the fiEal
game against Garfield, high. Of Tere
Haute, and playing true to form. came
out victorious by the score of 26 to 10.
Garfield put up one of the most
stubborn fights that has ever been wit
messed in state championship game,
and threw a mighty scare into the
camp of the Franklin followers. The
Terre Haute lads put up dizzy pace
for the champs in the first half. play
ing them on even terms the entire
period, and the score at the half way
point was to in favor Of Franklin.
The first part Of the second half
saw the Garfield five stage a rally
that sent them into the lead by the
score Of II to 9, and at this point 1t
looked like the Franklin team had
cracked and was doomed to a certain
defeat. Vandiver and Cant started the
fireworks for the champs at this time,
and staged piece Of team play that
was nothing short of marvellous, and
put their team in the lead.
Rally Arouses Pep.
This rally staged by these two men
put the seeming lacking pep into the
Franklin lads and they Immediately
proceeded to put the game on Ice by
scoring goal after goal, and Garfield
fighting with grim determination to
check their rally.
H. Wheeler, pivot man for the
losers, will go down In the history OF
Indiana high school basketball as be-
ing one of gamest and hardest fight
ing men that ever stepped on a basket
ball court. The plucky center was in
the thickest of every play and on
many occasions would dive after the
ball to keep 1t from going out Of
bounds or into the hands of one of the
opposing players. He was here and
there, every where on the floor, fight
ing every inch of the way and never
willing to give an inch, and always in
the thickest of the play, following the
ball with unbelievable endurance and
stamina. He also scored Ii OF his
teams rs points.
Defeats Bloomington.
Franklin won the right to go into
the finals by defeating the strong
Bloomington team in the semi-finals.
Bloomington did not put up the fight
against the champs they were expect
ed to after the splendid attack they
displayed in eliminating the strong
Vincennes team in the morning game.
Bloomington could not pierce the
Franklin defense to any advantage.
Garfield displayed dazzling Of
fensive attack in the semi-finals
against the Marion team who had put
up one of the biggest surprises Of the
entire tourney by trimming both Rush
vile and Anderson. Marion could do
little with the offense of the winners.
Garfield seemed to connect with the
basket on nearly every shot they at
tempted, which seemed to take the
pep out of the Marion lads. Lawson
who pulled the two previous games
out of fire for the Marion lads by his
sensational long basket shooting fail
ed to connect in this game.
The line-ups and summary Of the
final game:
Franklin (06l Earfiefd ff6l