The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
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By NORMAN u. IsAACs - -


Wen let you in on secret. 1t will
be- one of these sixteen teams:
Anderson Frankfort
Bloomington Greencastle
Bedford Horace Man tGaryl
Columbus Muncie
Charlottesville Martinsville
Delphi Newcastle
Froebel Gary Technical
Franklin VincenneS
With the Big Ten conference
race we'll under way, a fairly good
line" on most of the flag conten-
ders, has been available. Here's the
way we dope the chase for the
bunting to wind up:
Purdue. 6-Northwestern.
2-Wisconsin. Ohio State.
3--Michigan. 6-Illinois.
EIoWa. minnesota.
5-Indfana. I0-Chicago.
There are many critical followers
of basketball who believe Wisconsin
stands a great chance of dethron-
ing Purdue, despite a stiff schedule.
doc" Meanwell'S boys are well able
to make plenty of hoopee, but at
the same time we believe the Sched-
ule-makerS just about knocked the
Badgers for a loop when they drew
up the 1929 program.
No, we haven't forgotten our
promise to pick an all-state high
school team selected from the en-
tire dominion of HoOsierdOm, and
we have quite a list of stars. The
latest nominee for the mythical
team hOnors is Joy of Delphi,
who, so we hear, Is the cream, the
sugar and even the coffee in Del
phi's beverage. Wadday0uknow-
ab0utthat?
again stepped out
L. Saturday night handing Or
vile Hooker's Newcastle Trojans a
Al to % pasting at the Armory.
There are some experts" in the
city shouting about the terrible
things wrong with Indianapolis
basketball and why Technical never,
never will reach the state finals this
year. Those are the kind of fellows
who don't know much more about
basketball than the man in the
moon. Newcastle will tell you there
wasn't anything wrong with Indian
apolis basketball on Saturday night.
There wasn't.
Tim Campbell has tough row
to hoe in bringing his team to the
state finals. First there's the Sec
tionaI where the odds are 2 to ]
against any team before it starts.
Then there's the regional where
the odds also are 2 to / against
any team. Tech is improving with
every game and this young man
is going down on record with the
prediction Tech will go to the
state finals.
JACK HILL. THE TECHITES. FOOT
4 INCH CENTER PLAYED HIS BEST
GAME OF THE YEAR AGAINST NEW
CASTLE. HILL PLAYED A BANG-UP
GAME ON THE PASSING END AND HIS
WORK ON TINS DECEPTIVE PLAYS
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE.
q Il II
One Of the features of Saturday
nights play at the Armory was in
the second team game where the IT.
year-old Malloy twins, Bill and
Carroll of Newcastle, copied all the
glory. They are juniors in the
Trojan school and for speed,
aggressiveness and agility they had
all the other players on the floor
beat by 'umpteen fllrlongs."
A SISTED by our good friend,
4 n Frank Skinner, the oId-time
footballer, we kept some interest
ing statistics on the Butler Frank
lin basketball game last Friday.
Butler took IS shots during the
game, So in the first half and q
in the second canto, Ind made II
field goals, which is a shooting per-
centage of 100 plus. Franklin
fired at the hoop 81 times, 90 times
in the initial session and 80 times
in the last round, sinking 9 field
buckets, percentage of .167 plus.
= n
Frank kept time on the ball
game with stop watch, figuring
the actual time the ball was in
play. In other words, time was
taken out each time the ball went
out of bounds, on tip-off plays and
on free throws. Of the forty
minutes of playing time the ball
was in actual play 80 minutes and
IL seconds. The leather was in the
players possession Is minutes and
20 seconds of the first half, and
Is minutes and 81 seconds of the
last half.
CHARIIIE LOGAN and his Hope
~ Haven basketball team were
headed for New Orleans today after
bidding Indiana a CHEEKY adieu.
Charles boys gave Cathedral a
splendid battle Saturday and the
indianapolis boys squeezed into a
50 to % triumph.
1t was the first time the south
ern lads ever had seen snow and
hey were "tickled pink" with the
frosty covering old man winter had
aid for them Sunday morning.
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