The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-10
OFF The Blackboard
BY VERN BOXELL

GHORTRIDGE hasn't lost bas-
, ketball game since the Techs
took them in the city tournament
And Saturday would be an excep-
tiOnally poor time to start dropping
EN- again!
The believers who were convinced the
'yOu-can -beat-a good tea mt three times
in-one season" jinx is a reality by Tech S
tumble to ShOrtridge and ShelbyvilIe S
humpty dumpty to Columbus, are wonder
ing what will happen at Washington and
Muncie Saturday.
Muncie has toppled the NewcastIes twice
this year and Vincennes twice has chopped
down the Washington Hatchets two times.
They are due for that Hateful No. Satur-
dsy.
It's been years and years since either
Muncie or Newcastle has been able to
sweep three-game series in one season.
cicero. which knocked Your correspond
happened land in the first round last
wear, is out of the running The Ciceros
came out of the Marion regional last year.
beating the Giants and Wabash. Upton
takes .Cicero's place in the regional this
year, transferred to Kokomo. and tackles
Marion in the first game. while Wabash
has hopes Of repeating its last years win
over Kokomo in the other first-round
It looks like Marion and Kokomo in
the night struggle, and the three- times-in-
Grow LINK probably Will hold again.
year.
If you're wondering why an Indiana U.
quintet which houndered all through the
early Big Ten campaign was able to close
with rush and blast Ohio States un-
disputed championship claims with 40
10 90 victories Monday night, then con-
slider the case of GlendOn HOdson
An attack of influenza kept the Hooser
sharpshoOter out of all but twenty three
minutes of play until the last six games.
In these final games. he scored the
amazingly high total of eighty-five points,
including eleven against Wisconsin, four
teen against Minnesota, sixteen against
Chicago, eleven against Northwestern, six
teen against Michigan and seventeen
against Ohio State. That's better aver
age than Joe Reiff established in creating
new aE-time scoring record for the
college loop.
1.-TWO good ball players called il
Il quits this week and will be
missing when their teams swing into
regional action Saturday. Old age
caught up with both of them-they
passed the 21-year-old mark.
Charley Jordan Of VincenneS pas
timed with the Alices in the Sec
tional last saturday and had {
birthday party on Sunday. His cake
had twenty-on one candles on it, Sc
John Adams had to tell him good.
bye.
Down at Seymour, Ike Lyons
Owls will be minus the services o.
Chris Moritz, sharpshooting for.
ward. They'll miss his fast play anc
basket shooting, too He turned q
Wednesday.
Bud Walker has been ibbing. The Con-
nersvi"e conductor reported to your cor
respondent that the Spartans weren't
ing a petition asking for the repeal of the
three times in arrow jinx. Connersville,
in case you've forgotten, dropped Rushvillc
twice this year.
TIE Lions lost fifteen in a row then
knocked off Columbus and Franklin in
rousing fashion and Cruse-d right through
the sectional.
Unless our records are confused.
Charlottesville has looked at Green
castles heels twice this season.
Brother Walker, hand me that Pc
i tition!