The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-15
COACH TO HAVE
FIVE VETERANS
WHO RATE HIGH
Jacobson, Spriggs, Landers,
Brown, and O'Hare Are All
Returned
MEM HOVER IS HOPE
IL Games Already Made for
Schedule; State to Be Re-
districted
M EINHOVER IS HOPE

season in the history Of Bismarck
high school, the Demons and Coach
Roy Mcleod are now looking for
ward to basketball season which
also promises to be one of their best.
Mcleod will have five lettermen
from last years squad back on the
court this year and host Of likely
candidates. The mentor has also
mapped out a schedule which will
build the team gradually until the
time Of the regional, district, and
state tournaments, which will be
conducted under new plan recently
adopted by the North Dakota high
school league.
Lettermer returning this year are:
Captain Ben Jacobson, Gordie Lam
ders, and Eddie Spriggs, forwards;
and Fay Brown and Johnny O'Hare,
guards.
Among the most likely contenders
for positions on the first squad be-
sides the lettermen. according to the
coach, are big Ted Meinhover,
Johnny Spriggs, Dale Brown, Hank
Potter, Paris, and Loerke.
Meinhover Has Height
The coach hopes to develop Mein-
hover into a first class basketball
player. If Meinhover can learn to
handle himself on the floor and find
the hoop this year, he should make
= great center with his six feet and
a half in height. The big fellow was
coming right along at the end Of
last season, and has signified his in
tention of landing regular berth
on the five this year.
Spriggs, Landers, and jacobson
are three Of the classiest court per-
formers in this neck of the woods
and Demon followers are satisfied
that the trio will be able to take
care of the forward posts in sat
isfactory manner.
Mac expects O'Hare and Brown to
be back at their old guard posts.
Competition for regular berths
will be keen this year, however, and
it appears that Mac will have plenty
of men for every position, which will
make the Demons that much strong
er.
Regular training on the court will
not be inaugurated until about the
first Of Dec .mber, Mcleod says.
The schedule this year calls for
games with Hebron and Linton be-
fore the Christmas holidays, and two
games with each Dickinson, Mandan,
Valley City. and jamestown during
January and February. The Demons
will also entertain the Minot Magi-
clans here and have tentative game
scheduled with Dickinson Normal.
At Home February
The local quint will meet Valley
City, Mandan, Jamestown, and Minot
here on successive week-ends in Feb
ruary. Seven of the IL games
scheduled so far will be played in the
city.
North Dakota high school league
is now employed mapping the state
out into Is instead of eight dis
tricts, as has been the plan in the
past.
When the state was divided into
eight districts, district champion.
ships in many cases became the
monopoly Of one or two schools ir
the division. Valley City and James.
town have monopolized the seconc
district honors, Bismarck and Man
dan have always fought it out II
this section, and with one or two
exceptions, the seventh district
champion has been Minot or Willis
ton since 1920.
When the state is divided into II
regions. no two strong teams OF
larger cities will be included in ont
region. The new plan will necessi
tate regional, district, and a stat,
tournament to decide the state cham
pion.
Though the regions are not We
announced, it is believed that tourna
ments will be held at the following
cities: Wahpeton, Fargo, Vale.
City, jamestown, Bismarck, Mandan
Bowman or Hettinger, Dickinson
Grand Forks, Grafton, Park River
Devils Lake, Cando, Minot, Willis
ton, and Bowbells.
Final plans of the committee il
charge of the new plans will be an
nounced shortly, it is said. The con,
mittee which is now working is mad
up Of C. L. Robertson, jamestown
superintendent Of schools; r. ]
Moulton, Cando superintendent
George Myers, Hillsboro superinten
dent; L. "A. White, Minot superin
tendent; and J. c. Gould, Manda
superintendent.
Schedule Is Announced
Games arranged for Bismarck 8
TAR, according to officials, follow:
Hebron here, Dec. Is.
Linton here, Dec. 20.
Dickinson here, Jan. IL.
Mandan there, Jan. IS.
Valley City there, Jan, IS.
Jamestown there, Jan. 26.
Valley City here, Feb. /.
Aandan here, Feb. 8.
Jamestown here, Feb. is.
1llnot here, Feb. %.
Dickinson there, March /.
Dickinson Normal there. March