The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-15
Three Major Objections


been raised to the present tourna-
ment plan are:
% Sectional tournaments in .centers
where sixteen teams compete, the same
number that take part in the final games.
require that the winning and runner-up
team play three games in one day.
(2) The final tournament under the
present system, demands that followers
of teams engaging in the meet spend one
and sometimes two nights in indianapolis,
which plan has met with much criticism
from principals and members of the state
board of education the last two years.
CD While medical experts, who have
been employed by the 1. H. S. A. A. to
check up on the physical conditions if
the players involved in the final tourna-
ment games, have reported no ill effects
to the boys, even after play of three
games in one day, many parents are not
convinced.
These are the major objections
and while there are others of minor
significance. such as reduction in
price of state final tournament
tickets, distribution of the profits,
ETC., it is felt that one major change
in the tournament system will cor
rect most of the faults.
Extra Week Planned
This change would follow right in
line with the past policies of the
I. H. S. A. A. in expanding the
tournaments to different sections
of the state and would add one
more week of play in deter
mining the state champion. This
one week would be between the re-
gional and final games.
Under the new system, after the
sixteen regional tournaments have
been played, the sixteen winners
would gather the next week in four
divisional centers, four to each CEN.
ter and the schedule would call for
three games, two in the afternoon
and one at night, as is at present
played in all regional centers.
This would leave four divisional
winners who would travel to Indian
apolis for the final games one week
later. Two games on Saturday aft
ernoon and one at night would de-
ternline the state champion.
Three-Day SectiOnaIs
This would supply one week Of
rest between all sectional, regional,
divisional and state final games.
And if the three-day plan, which
recently was tried out at Gary and
found satisfactory as far as sec
tional tournament play, where there
are sixteen teams involved, is
adopted, then no team will be re-
quired to play more than two games
in any one day in the determining
of the Indiana high school basket
ball champion.
The three-day play, while accept
able for sectional centers, is i'm
practical for state tournament use,
educators say, in that it takes stu
dents, who wish to follow their team,
away from school another full day
and night. This is the objection to
the present state tournament plan,
that it brings hundreds of young
sterS to Indianapolis for one or more
nights and also takes them out of
class on Friday.
Lease Is Obstacle
Another big argument in favor of
the extra week of play between the
regional and final games is that at
least 10000 fans could be accom-
modated at these division games,
and this would cut down the de-
mand for tickets for the final games,
leaving an adequate supply for fans
following the four teams.
1t has been suggested that the far
northern divisional tourney be held !
at Notre Dame field house, the north |
central event at Lafayette, the south |
central tourney at Butler field house
and the southern play at Indiana
field house.
The only obstacle to changing the
present plan is the ten-year lease
at $4,000 annually which the I. H.
S. A. A. holds on Butler fieldhouSe
for the present two-day meet. 1t
is believed, however, that this could
be arranged.