The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-19

championship play will be drawn
next Saturday morning at 10
o'clock in the Claypool Hotel. The
pairings will show just what Sec
tional winners play each other in
the regionals and how the final
meet will stack up.
Then it will be time for the dope
sters to get busy. Right now,
theoretically, every club in the as
ISOLATION has a chance as. each
one plays in the sectional. 1t is
the survival of the fittest-one
loss and it is all over until next
year.
To those who believe the draw
is fixed" and there are always
some who make such claims, we
wish to say that they are mis-
taken. The sixty-four sectional
centers are written on slips of
paper.
Those assigned to certain re-
gional are taken from the list and
put into hat Iand drawn out.
The same procedure is gone
through with to ascertain the fin
al schedule.
We KNOW this is the way it is
done because we saw the draw last
i, year and will be there again along
AAwith other newspaper men and
, press association representatives.
r~7ERSISTENCE wins. That
is one of the copy book
maxims that holds true
part of the time at least. Dis
cOuragement just makes some
folks fight all the harder. VIII
liams, the long, lanky back
guard of Manual High School,
who grabbed the ball off the
blackboard against Tech last Sat-
urday' and started it down the
floor to his teammates, went to
Technical at one time.
Williams knew he could play
the old game and he was very
determined. When the East side
school did not think he was good
enough he stili believed in him.
self. The long boy transferred
to Manual last winter. Satur-.
day night he showed Technical
that the school had lost mighty
good back guard.
livery time Purdue basket
r ballers think they have
something soft" ahead
they get shock. There doesn't
seem to be any such teams in the
Big Ten. Just before the Boiler
makers played Northwestern the
Purple team held Michigan to a
two-point victory.
Purdue goes to Chicago on
Wednesday. The Maroons looked
like set-up until they surprised
everybody by defeating Wiscon-
sin on the Badgers own floor,
Now the Boilermakers are slight
ly worried.
Purdue never thought I. U. was
easy, but there is food for Thought
in that 39-to-31 score Monday
night. The Crimson defeated
Northwestern at Evanston by a
bigger score than Purdue was
able to run up on the Lafayette
floor.
In this Wonderland of basket
ball the Carpenter sometimes has
a word to say. We heard him
tell the Walrus while talking of
Ships and Shoes and Sealing
Wax, that the press boxes at
the Exposition Bldg, State fair
ground, would be up in the raft
ers this year at the high school
net Journeys. Please put in
plenty of braces, Mr.. Carpenter,
and build the ladder strong.
TT1HIS Big Ten basketball race
L is very much of a fifty fifty
- proposition so far. The de-
feat of Michigan by Illinois Mon
day night put six teams in tief
for first place. That's fair enough. (
Northwestern and Minnesota are
the under dogs, each having lost
three games and won none.
Indiana University has played
four games, tlae most any team
has participated in to date. The
Crimson has won two and lost
two.
Purdue, the other Hoosier repre-
sentative, is one Of those tied for
first place. The Boilermakers can
go into undisputed leadership by
defeating Chicago on Wednesday.