The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-16
Sixteen Hoosier Prep Quintets
Set for Opening of Title Chase
Five Newcomers in Final
Field for First
Time.
BY DICK MILLER.

With the opening OF Indiana S big
gest winter sports show, the twenty
third annual Indiana high school
athletic association state basketball
tournament, just twenty-four hours
away, several of the distant teams
to take part in the big hardwood
classic began their trek to the But
Ter university fleldhouse today.
Others will travel tonight while
some of the nearer teams and those
who do not play their first game
until Friday night will not arrive
until Friday morning.
The sixteen honor teams, cham
pions of sectional and regional tour
nament play the past two weeks
when the field was reduced from
TIL starters, all were reported in
good condition. Slight colds and
other minor ailments we're reported
in some camps. but the team
strength of all probably will be top
flight when they take the floor for
action Friday
Five Are Newcomers
The field this year is one of the
strangest Setups in many years. 1t
contains five teams among the select
sixteen that never before have taken
part in a final classic. They are
Beaver Dam, just a township school
without a town or postoffice /;
North Side of FIT. Wayne, Wakarusa,
Michigantown and Hazelton.
Valparaiso once reached the final
tournament at Bloomington in 1916.
-Four other teams-Bedford Con-
nersville, LOgansport and Shortridge
of IndianapOliS-each have been in
the big show in past years and were
contenders, but none ever reached
the final game, while Greencastle
was runner up in 1881 and Kokofno
in 1925.
The big noise of the present meet
may be provided by three of the
four former champion teams in the
event-Muncie, Martinsville and
Vincennes.
Top Bracket Strongest
Muncie and Martinsville are in
the lower half of the schedule
bracket and could crash through to
the final game handily and in good
physical condition while several of
the favorites for the 1888 title,
Greencastle, Logansport and Con-
nersville and are fighting it out with
Vincennes, Shorttridge, Kokomo,
Wakarusa and indicated Michi-
gantoWn in the upper half.
Franklin, only team ever to win
three consecutive titles, is the fourth
eX-champion entered.
The tournament will open at 9 a.
m. Friday with a game between
and Michigantown. Lo-
gansport is one of the top favorites
to grab the 1888 title. Michigantown
is the only contestant to be unde-
feated during the season, with %
triumphs.
ShOrtridge Opens Action
Greencastle, also strongly favored,
meets Wakarusa in the second
game at 10 a. m. The third game,
between ConnerSville and Vincennes
at II a. m, is expected to present
one Of the hardest battles of first
round play.
Shortridge Of Indianapolis, win
ner over Technical in sectional
play, will engage Kokomo, in the
last game Of the upper bracket at
2 p. m.
Valparaiso will oppose Martins
vile in the first game of the lower
bracket at 3 p m. Bedford is ex-
pected to win over Hazelton, an
other darkhorse, in the p. m.
game. Muncie, picked as the
strongest in the lower bracket, will
meet Franklin in the first night
game. Franklin won only two of
twenty games in regular season
play.
Beaver Dam will be a dark horse
contender in the final-round game
against North Side Of TT. Wayne
Friday night.