The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-16
MOST SPECTACULAR
CLASSIC IN HISTORY
FORECAST BY FANS
Experts Hesitate in Picking
Favorite, So Evenly
Matched Are Teams
OFFICIALS ARE ANNOUNCED
Bismarck Will Make First Ap-
pearance Against Ender-
lin Friday Night

With North Dakota's most brilliant
prep court spectacle in prospect, fans
were trekking to Bismarck Thursday
to watch the Glass A state champion
ship basketball tournament at the
World War Memorial building here
Friday and Saturday.
j, All entrants in the tourney, includ-
Ing more than 70 athletes and coaches
from eight high schools in the state,
will be in the Capital City by Thurs
day night, ready for the starting
whistle at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon,
: It IS announced by H. Q. Saxvik, SUI
perintendent Of Bismarck schools and
tournament manager.
+ Minot and Grand Forks will start
. the fireworks when they clash In the
first game Friday afternoon. This
game will be followed by game be-
tween Mandan and Devils Lake at
1 o'clock.
Y What Is generally conceded to be
the feature game Of the first round
will find Fargo and jamestown, two
Of the admitted strongest entrants,
facing each other at 8 o'clock IN the
first evening game.
Bismarck vs.. Enderlin
In the final game of the first round
: at 9 O'Clock, Bismarck will face En-
derlin, the only Class B quint in the
/. tourney. Enderlin won the right to
enter the tourney by defeating Valley
City, q Glass A team, in the third
extra period Of a playoff game.
The semi finals will be played Sat-
Nrday at 10 a. m. and IL a. m. with
winners OF games and 2 meeting in
the first and winners Of games 3 and
I claShing in the second.
The championship game will be
played Saturday at 9:l5 p. m. pre-
coded by the game between the losers
of the semi-fillal contests for third
splace and the championship game OF
the consolation round.
Losers Of the firSt-round games will
clash in two games Saturday after
noon for the right to enter the final
game of the consolation round.
This years tournament promises to
be the most spectacular i'll the states
history not only because the eight
entrants are without doubt the
strongest eight In the state but also
because they are so evenly matched.
Not one of the Glass A teams has
come through the season without suf-
fering at least one defeat at the hands
Of another Class A team.
Predictions Are Doubtful
This situation clouds all attempts
at picking an outstanding favorite to
win championship honOrs. If any
teams are mentioned more pron1in-
emily than others as championship
probabilities they are Fargo, James
town, Grand Forks and Bismarck.
This Is the inaugural season OF
Class A. Under the new plan eight
teams automatically are In Glass A
and become entrants in the state
tournament unless they are challenged
by Class B teams. In the event of
challenges, playoff games are ar
ranged between the challengers and
the Glass A teams in those districts,
winners to enter the tournament.
This set-up illsures that both Bis
marck and Mandan and both Valley
City and jamestown will be entrants,
barring their overthrow by challen-
gers, as is the case In Enderlin's en-
trance this season. Heretofore either
Bismarck or Mandan and either VAL
ley City or Jamestown were elimin-
ated in regional games, with two
weaker teams from other regions be-
ing admitted to the state tournament
in their places.
Dick Holzer of Moorhead, Mimi,
1avorite official Of the University of
North Dakota and the North Dakota
agricultural college, and F. E. W.T.
tenbach. Aberdeen, s. D., will be tour
nament officials. Wyttenbach, a
graduate Of the University of North
Dakota, Is not newcomer to North
Dakota tournaments, having officiated