The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-28
GRAND FORKS.
YANKTON AND
SPUDS ENTER
North Dakota Champions
Should Repeat Great Show.
ing of Last Year
COYOTE ENTRANT STRONG
Mocrhead Is Most Powerful
Minnesota Contender Sent
to Chicago in Years

Basketball prestige Of the north
west will be we'll represented in the
national basketball tournament il
Chicago next week.
Grand Forks, North Dakota title.
holder for the second consecutive
year; Yankton, champion Of South
Dakota; Moorhead, winner of the
Minnesota honors; all have entered
the nations greatest cage pot.
pourri.
Grand Forks and Yankton are nc
strangers in the national event
Moorhead is the newcomer.
The northwest is proud of its en-.
tries. The northwest points with
pride to its entrants of other years
And the northwest can be proud OF
it, representatives this year.
This year more than in any other
the eyes of the basketball experts OF
the nation will be upon the north
west entrants for obvious reasons
In the past five national Journeys, a
northwest entrant has won the ma
tional title once, has been runner
up once. and has reached the quar-
terminals on the other three occa-
sions.
Make Second Bid
Grand Forks will make it's second
consecutive bid for national honors.
Last year the Flickertails found
themselves in the quarter finals
only to be eliminated by Batesville,
Arkansas, the Razorbacks playing
CSon~a frn %ho ~o%;nro1 %:<1o =, 4Ho
end.
The situation this year somewhat
resembles the situation in the year
when Fargo fought Fitchburg for
the union supremacy. In that year
The fans will remember, the experts
pronounced the state finalists in
Mandan rather mediocre. They
have done the same this year. Yet
Fargo upset the fondest hopes OF
North Dakota and the northwest by
going to the finals.
Grand Forks defeated Valley City
this year to win its second con.
yecutive championship and observa.
tions to date show little faith in the
strength Of the Forkers. However
The Tribune wants to reiterate its
pre-state-tourney prediction that
the Forkers have q better club in
1928 than it had in 1927. This year
It is . machine. Last year it haG
two stars. Unless the calibre Of the
national meet is on . higher plane
shan it was last year, Grand Forks
with Lady Luck favoring her
should again 60 to the top.
Yankt0n IL Favorite
Yankton will stand out as one oil
the favoriteS Of the tournament, Ed
L. Shave, st. Paul sports editor
says. The South Dakota team has
had several tries at the title anc
won it one year. That was when
g. w. Letich, now coach at the
University Of North Dakota, was
directing the Coyotes.
From South Dakota comes the
news that this years Yanktor
auint is the strongest that has ever
played there. Huron was the Sodak
ambassador last year and was
eliminated in the semifinals by the
Batesville club, the same five which
had ousted Grand Forks in the pre-
vious round. And they say that
Ysnkton is much stronger than
Huron was.
Minnesota's champions have new
er been as impressive in national
play as those from the Dakotas
However. Moorhead is pronounced
one OF the outstanding Minnesota
High school entries of all time.
Snuds Finally Win
After five tries at the state
championship, Moorhead finally
succeeded in winning the title last
Saturday by decisively defeating
Edison Of Minneapolis. Now the
Spudders may send Minnesota into
the limelight.
!. Going way back in national cage
history, we find the first national
entrant from North Dakota al
Evanston, Illinois, in o12. In that
year. Fargo High met Evanston
High for the national championship
losing by one point with three men
sick in bed and two banished from
the game in the third quarter be.
cause Of personal fouls. Fargo fin
tshed that memorable struggle with
three men in the lineup and yet
they only lost by one point!
On two other occasions, in 1919
IN 1914, Fargo sent teams to a ma.
tional meet. They didn't do quite
% well IS the first team but they
did get to the quarter and SEMI
finals.
Then for q span Of years North
Dakota was forgotten in national
competition. In 1920, Valley City
state champion, and Fargo, runner
up, played at Madison, Wis. Fargo
finished fifth and Valley City 18th.
Winfield, Kansas, won the title,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa was runnerup
and Yankton. $. D, was : semi
Luck Against Fargo
II 1923, IN the first round Of the
nov historic University Of Chicago
rational tournament, Fargo met
Kansas City, KAns. The Kansas
entrant beat Fargo a4ter the most
sensational oncounter Of the tour
~ ord tho1 eWept through to an
ooey 1oftonal triumph. Jt was said
a1tor - 1eo@t tha& the Fargo KAN
- a. G1Qpo Was The real cham.
Ii11onC 1tless. Lick Ms aeaingt
IT. ~ = span Of Is. yaars,
49, 1n hoo DA1t excellent
nol meets, teet1s that
0Qo Ne oBor other STATE
g. ~ tonmD that have
~ tor. tnana1 Tint