The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-04

GREAT TRIO OF DaSkeLDdll
n stars finished their college
careers Wednesday night
for Franklin. And they were more
than just good athletes. Vandi
vier, Cant and Ballard are as fine
young men as one will find. Their
opponents in many a hard fought
battle will admit this, along with
rival fans.
They went about their work
q. ON the courts i'm high school and
college days with a business-Iike
air. They took the bad breaks
and the good ones as they came.
rhey did not "sing" nor did they
boast over their triumphs, which
were many.
They played exceptionally clean
bah, but never cried when they
got up against a team which used
a rougher style such as they met
in a number of out-of-State con-
tests.
aJohnny Cant said naively the
other night: 1--WE just can't play
rough, tough game. We've tried
it. but the officials always get US.
Guess we aren't smooth enough.
We don't know how
We have never seen a better
player than Fuzzy Vandivier.
"Fuzz" is little worried be-
cause he thinks he may have
lost some of his reputation this
season. If everyone knew the
whole truth of it FuZZy's rep
would be greater than ever.
He probably should not have
played at all. But he Just couldn't
stay away from his great love. One
of Nandivier's legs never was right
this season. In previous years he
has been able to pivot from either
foot. He was able to use only the
one sood one since he got back
into the game.
In the De Paw game he hurt
his good pin and played at Notre
Dame and Wabash pretty badly
crippled. The great player need
not worry. The fans do not for
get so easily the wonderful eX-
hibitions of the past.
Ballard. slight of stature, was
mighty of heart. Although over
Swallowed at times by the brilli-
ance of his team mates, Cant
and Vandivier, the little. floor
guard always received much
credit from those who really
knew. Ballard never failed to
fight. He has the spirit that
oyercOmes obstacles and never
gives up.
Basketball is a game in which
team work counts more than any
thing else. Nandivier and Cant,
going at their best, were a per
feet example of cooperation be
tween two forwards.
The Franklin team met many
discouragemerts this season;
enough to demOraiize an average
bunch. First, Vandivier was out
of the game because of illness,
and it was thought he never would
play again. Then Friddle, a vital
cog, was declared ineligible. To
top it all off, Coach Griz Wag-
ner was taken i'll and was not
with the club all the latter part
of the season.
But tosthe very last the Bap-
fists, who had been baptized with
misfortune, did their best. They
enGod up the season with vic
tory over Wabash. All Of them
played as though the champion
ship of the word was at stake.
They dill not play nearly as well
as they have played, but they did
their darndest.
1t is typical of them that there
were no alibis over the Notre
Dame defeat. One of them said,
eve just couldn't get hold of the
ball. I mad a notion to ask Ed
Duggan for another ball so we
could play d little
All Of them were philosophers
Wednesday night as they ordered
more pie. The season was over.
The next thing we go to do is
get some jobs" said Cant. Per
sonally, we don't believe they
should be hard to find.
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