The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-04-03
nONTAM'S ENTRANT
ALSO IS ELIMINATED
IN GAME YESTERDAY
National Champions Last Year
Heavy Favorites to Re.
tain Title Crown
KENTuCKlANS BEAT CHINOOK
Eight Of rs Survivors Are From
Dixie, Most From Small
Villages
KENTUCKlANs BEAT CHINOOK
ny PAUL

Chicago, April 3.-(P-The chase
Tor the 1890 national high school bas-
ketball championship bounded into
the third lap today with the Giant
Hornets from Athens, Texas. strong
4avorites to retain the cherished
crown.
without extending themselves, the
husky Texans routed the fast Lankin.
N. D., team, IS to IL, in their first
counter thrust at the large field seek
ing to dethrone them. They looked
every bit as good as last year when
they romped through q larger and
possibly q better crop Of champion
ship contenders.
There we're IS other surviving
teams, however, many Of them dark
horses, confident Of hating the Hor-
net parade. Chief among them was
Denton. Texas, which defeated the
titleholders, a to 10, In the 1880
Lone Star state tourney. Denton
breezed past the first round easily
yesterday BY swapping Baylor 1nsti-
tute, Chattanooga, champions OF
Tennessee. 80 TO Is.
M ElKxIt VI tkIO 10 Cul vAVOAO AA UAAO
championship scramble today were
from Dixie and most Of them were
representatives Of small villages. They
were the Giants from Jena La, Lake.
land, Fla: Savannah, Ga: Corinth. q
village OF $40 population in Kentucky:
Linsley Institute Of Wheeling. w. Va.
Braselton, a cross-road town Of about
60 in Georgia; Kavanaugh high Of
Lawrenceburg, KY; and Durham,
N. G.
Two Played Twice
Linsley Institute and Corinth were
the only teams in the field forced to
play two games to wedge into third
round, the remainder Of the field
drawing byes. ,Corinth defeated Chi
nook, Mont, IS to 20 and Linsley won
q close one from Spartansburg, s. c.,
Is to % in their second round skirm-
ishes, in which they displayed cham
pionship class.
Another Of the heavy favorites was
Wheatland, Wyoming, q band Of one
handed artists which submerged
Roanoke, Va, n to IA, yesterday.
The ~westerners, led by Eddie Nc
0inty, threw up an overhead passing
game that rivaled the best Of them.
The Athens, Tex, Hornets served
notice they will be hard to topple from
their national prep basketball throne
by their crushing IS to IL victory over
Lankin.
The giant Texans looked every bit
as good as they did last year when
they smashed through q great field
to win the crown. Plotted by the
two TompkinS boys, Freddy and Ben
ny, they streaked up and down the
floor In spectacular fashion and the
North Dakotans, who hung up q
fancy record In their own bailiwick,
were outclasSed from the start.
Lankin was unable TO cope with the
size and tournament experience Of
the 1929 champions, who led through
out the game. Like Iankin. Athens
Is q brothers team, the three Tomp-
kins boys accounting for q Of the
winners IS points.
Texan Cracks Ice
Reynolds. Raugy Texas center,
cracked the game open with = sdeepes
shot. Hendereu1E Athans forward.
s-sr IAffrec toss. Jack Zeman OF
tied the count with . basket
1 10 throw but the Tompkins
gan to hit and Lankin was
to 3 at the quarter.
Ia outscored and outplayed the
/ squad In the second quarter.
! / Witasek accounting for two
i, hat cut down the teams lead
ct half time.
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