The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-30
MooRHEAD ALSO COMPLETES
Middle West Teams Have Been
Best Consistently Since
1917 Opening

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night and play started Tuesday
morning.
Valley City high schools basketball
machine, North Dakota champion,
will carry great responsibility at the
national tournament at the Univcr-
sity Of Chicago next Tuesday. We'd
nesday. Thursday and Friday.
Coach Claude L. Miller and his Hi
liner squad embark for the tourna-
ment city Sunday night in company
with the Moorhead five, champions of
Minnesota. Yankton will represent
South Dakota and Miles City Is Mon.
tana's entry.
The Hiliners will have to play real
basketball II they wish to keep the
two Dakotas in the limelight in ma
tlonal high school cage circles. Teams
from the Dakotas have been great
factors in giving midwest teams the
edge over all sections Of the country
since the national event was intro
duced. During the last five years,
teams from Grand Forks and Fargo,
N. D.. and Huron, Salem and Yank-
ton, 8. OAK, all figured in the quarter
finals.
Grand Forks Third
Grand Forks. beating out Vienna,
Ca, was third in the tournament
last year and Verne puChene. Forks
forward. was q unanimous choice for
all-American forward at the couclu.
sion Of the tourney.
When the tournament first started
in 1917, middlewest teams played
brand Of basketball superior to that
Of any other section. One Of the
chief results Of the Chicago tourna-
ment has been the improvement Of
play Of teams from all parts Of the
country. The tourney has been q
laboratory OF basketball for the visit
Ing coaches. It has demonstrated the
best styles Of play, and today the
tactics Of the teams are quite uni
form.
Judged on basis Of five points for
first place, three for second, two for
third, and one for fourth In the IL
mails, during the past five years, the
Middlewest averages up slightly the
best Of any section with q total Of
16 points. The South is second with
IL. and the Northwest, third with II.
The East with seven points, edges
out the Rocky Mountain district with
six, and the Southwest has three
points.
In the consolation tournament, the
Middlewest has scored ~ points, and
the South Is again second. with IL.
The Rocky Mountain teams are third,
with eight: the Pacific Coast is next
with four: the East Is fifth. with
three and the Southwest has one
point.
The South won the tournament
last year, when Ashland, KY, defeated
Canton, I'll. Grand Forks, N. D., was
third, beating out Vienna, Ga. In
the consolation tournament, the
South again had two representatives,
the winner, Wheeling, w. Va. and
Wilmington, N. c., which was fourth.
Nsugatuck. Conn.,, took third place,
and Englcwood Of Chicago was third.
In 1927, Morton high Of Cicero,
H.. was the winner, trailed by two
southern teams. Batesville. Ark, and
Florence, Miss. Huron, s. D., was
fourth. Kansas City. Mo-. Northeast
high won the consolation title for
the Middlewest: Athens. Tex, took
second, and Gilbert. Arizona. third,
while Durham. N. O., was fourth.
One Of the best teams in the tour
nament during the last two years has
been Vienna. Georgia. which, played
basketball Of college quality. In both
tournaments, the 0eorgians lost to
teams that went into the finals BY q
margin Of ono point.
The Southwest is handicapped by
the fact that the small population Of
the states does not permit much CONF
petition. Fewer Pacific Coast teams
have been represented than from
any other section. It has only been
recently that the East has had Z large
enough number Of teams In the
tournament to have fair percentage
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