The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-08
AMOS ALONZ0 STAGG
ANNOUNCES TOURNEY
WILL Be CONTINUED
Texans, Making Use Of Greater
Height, Defeat Classen
High Is to q
j0Es, COLORADO, Is THIRD
Forty Teams From SO States
Sought National Honors at
Chicago Last Week
JoEs, COLORADO, IS THIRD


high school basketball title. hereto
fore only a myth to the southwest.
Saturday became q reality as Athens.
TEX, won tho championship. defeat
ing Classcn high school. Oklahoma
City, Okla, IS to 81, at the University
Of Chicago.
The winning Of the national cham
pionship. the first time the feat has
ever been accomplished by a team
from the southwest, was accomplished
after five days Of grueling play IN
which the Texans bowled over five
teams from every section Of the coun-
try. The southwest has had teams IN
the finals, but never before has that
section OF the country sent two OF Its
representatives into the final contest
for the gold basketball.
Towering over their opponents. the
,ix-fcot-plus athletes from the little
farming community Of northeastern
Texas went out In front early in the
;econd period, and stayed there.
Battling the Texas five, which av-
erages better than 6 feet inch In
height. was a great team from Okla
homa which came to the tournament
and proceeded to turn back four OF
the nations best. including Ashland
KY, the defending titleholder
Beck Stars
On that fla5hy Oklahoma five was
a guard, Andy Beck. all-tournament
selection. Beck had played brilliantly
before. but he never played more SEN
sationally than he did Saturday night
Everything he did was right. With
Jumping Jack McCracken. all-Ameri.
can center. covered like blanket by
his equals In size from the bordering
state, Captain Beck took unto himself
the job OF keeping the Oklahoma
champions in the running.
Five times the 5-foot-1 inch guard
came through with n,idcourt shots
that failed to tonch the rim as they
swished through the net. or one-hand-
ed two-pointers from far down the
side. But Beck Single-handed could
not matc.l the all-around scoring
ability Of the champions.
Doc Sumner. 6-foot center ant
shortest OF the giants from the south
west, led the Athens scoring with fivs
field goals and two free throws. bu
aiding him was a pair of Tompkin!
brothers, John and Fred, Buster
Brannon and Moody Johns.
Height Telling
In winning. the Texans exhibited 6
''futuristic" style of play. Being vel
over the 6-foot mark, the gangline
boys from Athens elevated the game
SO that they played over the heads ol
their opponents. Saturday night thu
high" game with its high paSse!
aimed at leaping giants was just tot
much for Classen to combat.
AS with the other four teams de-
fcatcd by the national champion
ClasScn found the Athens defense al
most impregnable. Unable to brcal
through and with McCracken's pivo
shots tied up. the Oklahomans coult
do nothing but shoot from down tn
court. But, despite the fact that Becl
shot five times in the first half an,
made four baskets. this style OF pla,
could not match the alternating shor
and long pass game Of the titleholder
that carried the ball down under tn
basket for frequent short shots.
Joes Gets Third
Five youths from farming countr
bordering the Rocky mountains. rep
re5enting Jocs. Colo. champion OF tn
Centennial state. won third place b
vanQuishing Jackson. Mich. in grca
final quarter rally 81 to II.
The Michigan quintet had show
the way in the first three quarter
but the Jocs youths staged grca
drive to win what remaining laurel
there were after having been elm
mated earlier in the day by Classe
of Oklahoma City.
Brockton, Mass, outstalled Morto
high school. Cicero. H.. to win til
consolation championship, II to 10,
the first battle Of the evening.
Morton. using the slow tactics whic
won them the national title In 1872
could not draw out the Brockton d.
Tense. and when the casterner5 ran u
2 lead Mortt is boys found themselvt
outraneuvercd in the final minute