The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-15

cult required seventeen hours, eight
hours and f1fty-five minutes to cover
the southern half of the state Sun
day and eight hours and forty-fve
minutes over the northern route
Monday.
Start Is Delayed
The start Monday morning was
delayed until $50, because pilot
Arnett, Waco-Stinson distributor
and head of the Central Aero
nautical Corporation, wished the
plane engine good and warm before
driving into the severe head winds
and snow blasts.
Arnett figured right, because it
was a smooth running air wagon
that swooped down on vacant field
across from the school house at
Cicero, the dark horse team from
the Marion regional.
Coach j. B. Stephens was all
smiles about his quintet and the
town feels likewise. The Cicero
cagers all are big boys, averaging
six feet in height. All varsity team
members are seniors.
First Visit Since 1916
Cicero last participated in state
tournament in 1916. Cicero has
tough foe in VincenneS at the start,
but Cicero is accustomed to tough
things and have captured four tour
naments they have entered this sea-
son.
Shooting the little Waco skyward,
Arnett made record time to New
castle, where we were to con-
graduate Orville Hooker, who has
been trying and trying for years to
get by that Muncie regional.
Hook who used to star at An
derson and later at Butler, has had
good teams and then better ones,
but fate always ruled him out by
a close decision at Muncie.
Fate changed horses this year and
last Saturday it was good fortune
that sent Thoman's last-second field
goal swishing through the net to
give Newcastle 20 to 10 win over
their ancient Bearcat rivals.
Hooker Is Confident
But maybe that victory will be
costly. Hooker told us how his boys
waited and waited in the dressing
room for word.
Hooker feels he will have his boys
back in shape by next Friday.
Morning practice, secret drills in
the big Earlham college fieldhouse
and his boys should be ready for
Seymour, an opponent that will
force the Trojans to the limit. But
Newcastle is planning to erase the
Owls and battle at the Alices of
Vincennes on Saturday morning,
bright and early.
1t was long, cold jaunt up to
Bluffton, where we congratulated L.
E. Templin on his second consecu-
tive regional victory. Temp" told
us last year that he had been
rushed into the basketball coaching
position to fill vacancy, his strong
forte being baseball. But when he
used good conditioning exercises
and common sense prove main
factor in winning net games, the
principal and townspeoplet thought
he had good system, and they
were right.
Second Visit in Row
Decatur was doped to have the
Fl. Wayne regional cinched, but
! Temp" said he never feared Deca =
tur as much as he feared South Side
and the other FIT. Wayne teams.
just hard working ball club, one
that causes trouble with little pro-
vocation on part of opponents.
Bluffton makes its second consecu-
tive appearance at the field house
next Friday, one of the three 1881
contenderS to return.
When we headed on north to Fl.
Wayne for gas and who was there
to meet us but Gunnar Elliott, the
WOWO radio station announcer
and sporting goods salesman. Gum
mar will broadcast the state final
games over his station, the Dietzen
Bakeries, and he wanted to know if
we would sit in some of the games
as guest announcer.
De Vol Produces Winner
So long to Gunnar and a trip
against time to Columbia City. Our
old friend, o. w. (Abe) De Vol, who
gained his early training at Leba-
non high school under Ward pig
gy) Lambert, Purdue coach and lat
er starred on the old Wabash COL
lege Wonder Five" in 1915, is
bringing Columbia City to the state
for the second time since he went
there as coach. That was in 1929.
De Vols team lost only three
games this winter, one by one point
in an overtime and another by two
points. Both of his regional games
were tough ones and he won them
BY one point each over Beaver Dam