The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-21
North Dakota Cage
Championship Grail
For. Eight Quintest
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special train will leave Mandan for
Bismarck at 1880 a. m. tomorrow.
The special trains will go to the
railroad crossing near the state train
ing school and will start from the
salne place on the return trip. Be-
cause passengers will not be able to
buy tickets from the Mandan station,
they are urged by officials to buy
round "trip tickets at the Bismarck
station.
Although prognosticators were Civ
ing the Grand Forks team the edge
in the preliminary guessing they were
chary about making predictions.
What ability Hebron, Starkweathcr
and Sherwood will display against
strong opposition remained to be
seen and they were classed as the
dark horses of the tournament. OF
the other teams entered, Fargo, VAL
ley City. Minot and Bismarck were
conceded to have a fighting chance.
Members Of the board of control
Of the state high school league met
this morning and went over details
of the arrangements for the games.
GCvcrn0E Is FlGUrc
Present plans call for all Of the
usual ceremonies incident to a state
tournament. Governor George F.
Shafer will toss out the ball for the
championship game and will be the
principal speaker at the dinner for
team members, officials and neWSpa-
permen after the final contest. J.. E.
Davis, chairman of the state board
of administration probably will pre-
side.
The highway between Mandan and
Bismarck still Is impossible because
of flood waters from the Heart river.
The Capital City athletes defeated
Sherwood 80 to 9 in the semi-finalS
last year. Sherwood is reported to
have a much stronger team this sea-
sen, however, the veterans having won
81 of 22contests played. The northern
crs are coached by Carl o. Hansen.
former star performer at the North
Dakota Agricultural college.
Hansen PROBABLY will start Keller
and Lee at forwards, Stolt at center.
and Clute anG johnson at guards.
Coach Roy D. Mcleod tentatively
has planned to start the same lineup
which battled Mandan last week. This
will find John Spriggs and Harold
TAFT at forwards. Ted Meinhover at
center, and John O'T7are and Earl
Hoffman at the guarding positions.
Valley City Favored
Fargo and Grand Forks were e
garded as certain winners by a ma
jority Of fans this afternoon while
Valley City. by virtue Of its earlier
victory over the Magicians, rules a
slight favoritc to eliminate Minot.
Rosters of the eight teams entered
follow:
Fargo-Morrisey, o'Day, Charbon-
neau, and Fisher, forwards: Chris
Hanson, center: Habener, Kvenmoen,
and Aamoth, guards.
Observation-Disclosures, King, and
Currie, forwards; Hall, center: Lof-
gren, Anderson, Besse, and Nelson.
guards.
Grand Forks-Bolton, Boyle. Gillis,
and Christensen. forwards; Mullen,
center: Booth, Smith, and Collins,
guards.
Valley City-Nugent, Mckay and
Owens, forwards; Thoreson, center:
Miller, Jarvis, and Lockwood. guards.
Minot - Senechal, Kalbfleisch and
Pepke and Krick. forwards; Iverson,
center: Dahl. Murphy, Riba, and Van
Horn, guards.
Sherwood-Keller, Lee. and Nc
Lane. forwards; stolt, center; Clute.
johnson. sanderson. and Peterson.
guards.
demonstrating. Rau. Watts, and
Kavorik, forwards; Metzger, center;
Kick, Dittus, and Abraham, guards.
Bismarck-O'Here, Hoffman, Benz
Ger, and Agre. guards: Meinhover,
center: John sprigss. TAFT. and Dohn,
forwards.