The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-16
EACH NATIONAL
MEET PRODUCES
QUOTA OF ACES
Chuck Carney, Greatest Big
Ten Center, Was Discovery
of First Tournament
KANSAS CITY HAS TRIO
Fisher, Rusch and Haas of
Fargo Were North Dakota
Boys Who Made Good

The coming University Of Chi
cago national interscholastic bas-
ketball tournament is expected to
reveal its quota Of schoolboy stars,
following the precedent set in the
nine previous years Of the compc-
tition in which no small number
have achieved wide recognition.
Most of these players who have
stood out prominently have gone on
to become brilliant players in in
tercollegiate competition. The tenth
annual tournament is set for April
3 to z, and once more many Of the
fastest schoolboy quintets in the
United States will compete for the
coveted honor of champion.
In the first championship in 1917
two outstanding athletes were un-
covered. Chuck Carney. who led his
Evanston (Ill.) Academy to the
championship, captured tho trophy
awarded to the best all-around play
er in the tournament. Carney later
attended Illinois, where he set an
all-time Big Ten scoring record and
was rated as the greatest center
ever produced in the Western Con-
ference. Chester Weiderquist, later
an all-around athlete at w. and j.,
where he was chiefly noted for his
prodigious strength as a lineman in
football, was another schoolboy to
compete that year as a member of
tic runner-up Freeport (Ill.) quin-
tet.
Goldsberry Discovered
The second tourney in 1920 un-
covered Goldsberry. captain of the
winning Wingatc und.) five, as the
outstanding star. Later he was a
mainstay Of the Wabash quintet.
Blackmer. who CONNECTED in the
same tournament, later set a scor
ing record as centre for Williams
for three years.
The 1921 champions, Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, contained four men who
later played a prominent part in
intercollegiate ranks, Barnes, cap
t n, leading Chicago in 1925. while
Barta also played on the Maroon
varsity. Jensen and Swenson, the
others, played college basketball at
Iowa.
Lexington, KY, title winner in
1922, sent its complete team to the
University of Kentucky. four of the
five players staying together for
three years. They were Carey, Mill
ward, Underwood and Mcfarland.
Mount Vernon, Ohio, runners-up,
had as its scoring leader, Cookie
Cunningham, who later shone
brightly at Ohio State, where he
was rated as the best centre in the
Big Ten in 1926.
Kansas Gets Trio
Kansas Cit,, Kan, team that
is still well remembered swept
through all opposition in 1923 and
included Zuber, Schmidt and Proud
fit, who formed the backbone Of the
championship University of Kansas
five a few years later.
Moon Baker. crack football and
basketball player at Northwestern,
competed for the second-place win
ner, Rockford. ILL.,, Gleichman. who
also distinguished himself at North
western, played on the same team.
The 1924 meet was probably the
greatest In pOlnC OF prominent
schoolboy stars. The list included
Fisher and Rusch, who played
for Fargo. a quarter finalist
later starring at Northwestern;
John McDonough. a member Of the
Yankton IS. d. five, runner-up and
later football, baseball and basket.
ball standby at Chicago; Langdell
the present Dartmouth centre. who
was a member of the third place
Manchester IN. H. team and
others.