The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-14
Few Upsets Recorded If
Other Centers-FinaI
Tourney Nearing.
By Dick Miller

Most basketball coaches searching
their. squads in early season for a
center, one who can jump, usually
explain that action by saying, 1.-THE
tip-off is worth ten points"
1t was apparent in the game at
Anderson High School gym Satur-
day night, when Tech High School
of Indianapolis and Sharpsville met
in the final game of the regional bas-
ketball tournament, that if center
can get away with batting the ball
as the referee losses it up and before
it reaches it's maximum height,
that little trick put over on the Off
Gals is worth at lease nine points.
Sharpesville defeated Tech, 1922,
and began practice today for the
finals to be held at the Exposition
building at the fair ground, Indian
apolis, next Friday and Saturday, as
did the winners in fifteen other
regional meets.
us Eliminated
Forty-eight teams, who lost Satur-
day, Joined with the 667 who went
down to defeat March 5 and g.,
bringing the total of eliminated
teams to, date to 715. Next Satur-
day night at 9 p. m. one Of the six
teen remaining will be on the pin
nacle of Indiana high school basket
ball, champions of 1927.
Technical carried the hopes Of In
dianapolis that a Capital City school
might, for the first time since the
advent of sectional and regional
tournaments, play in the finals.
They lived up to all dope predictions
and smothered the fighting Ander-
soft team, 28-17 in the afternoon
game. In fact Anderson was just a
wee bit too tightly, and the twelve
fouls goals tossed by Tech players
was the margin of victory The
Green and White played a careful
game, exceptionally clean.
Roughs Up Noblesville
Sharpesville, rough playing
team, injured two Noblesville play
ers, sending on out with broken
nose, and the other with g. cut eye,
they were fouled for neither. They
exposed little or none of their style
of play, came from behind in the
second half to win, Pip. Mobiles
vile led at the half, 81.
Some of the boys who figured that
Tech had a walkaway sat in hotel
after the Tech game figuring where
to go in the evening to see excite
ment. The Tech team probably
thought likewise, for it lacked drive
at the start and never found it.
Fisher sank field goal that sent
Tech into the lead, for a few Sec
onds, but when johnson, L. Cage
and H. Cage got into action, baskets
came thick and fast. A shot that
sent Sharpesville score to IS at the
half time was in the air when the
gun cracked. Tech had IA. Massey
and Grimsley played the stellar roles
in the opening half.
The Tech boys seemed bewildered
as they were smashed, knocked and
banged about. They seemed a bit
afraid to step into a time-worn tip
off play, as Johnson and L. Cage
went in under the hoop time and
again, for baskets almost any kind
of a defense should have stopped.
Repetition of First
The second half was q repetition
OF the first. Techs defense was bet
ter for a few minutes at the start,
but withered when the Sharpesville
sharpshooters dropped them from
far and near, in fact, some of them
almost unintentional.
Out in the State the returns from
the other regionals were about as ex-
pected. Washington came through
where 1t was thought Vincennes
might upset the dope Muncie,
minus Wedmore, overcame Hooker
and his Newcastle crew. Emerson
Of Gary continued to demonstrate
the win over Froebel was not a
fiuke, and Logansport and Bedford,
two championship favorites, met lit
tie opposition.
The sixteen regional meets in
sured the fans that witness the
finals of one thing, a lack of weak
teams such as have come in past
years when two teams came from
each region.