The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-03-07
District Basketball Tournament
Starts Tonight at New Ulm With
Cardinals Regarded as Darkhorse
Redwood Winthrop Tilt WIN
Start Meet; Sleepy Eye
is FavOrite
Lamberton and Springfield
Will Play in Second
Game Tonight

"Details Class A meet on page 1O
With Gibbon, winner Of the
Class A tournament completing
the list Of contestants, the district
ten basketball tourney win get
underway tonight at New Ulm.
Nine teams will launch them
selves on the rocky path to the
championship held by Redwood
Falls, 1888 and 1884 winner, with
only one destined to reach the end
Of the trail. Two games Of the
opening round will be played
Thursday with the remaining
three tits scheduled for Friday.
The semi-finals Saturday morn
ing and the finals that same eve
ming will wind-up the tournament.
The Redwood Falls Cardinals,
will inaugurate the hostilities with
Winthrop in the opening contest
Of the tournament at 1880 p. n.
today, with the Lamberton W.
Springfield game scheduled to fol-
low. Fairfax having drawn q bye
will meet the winner Of the Lam
berton-Springfeld tilt, Friday
night.
New Ulm and Sleepy Eye, The
two favorites, will settle the ques-
ton of which is the real contend
er in an opening round game Fri
day night. Each team holds de-
cision over the other, New Ulm
having won by a lone point early
in the season, while the Indians
retaliated Friday with a 1920 tri-
umph, giving them undisputed
possession of the Little Ten cham
pionship with a record of 10 wins
and one defeat.
Although losing 10 out of IL
games on their regular schedule,
the Cardinals will enter the
tournament as the darkhorse. Des-
pite their record the Cardinals
displayed plenty of potential pow
er, losing on several occasions by
one or two points and in the final
game on the schedule broke loose
to snow Morton under. If the
Cardinals are successful against
Winthrop, they will have a whole
Gay of rest Friday and will then
play in the semi-finals Saturday
morning against Lamberton,
Springfield or Fairfax. The Red
wood Falls High school band will
accompany the team Thursday
night.
An entire array Of different
faces from last years great ag-
gregation viii be found by the
tournament fans in the Redwood
Falls lineup. Where Palmer Kise
and Dale Byram held down the
forwards last year, will be found
Ralph Tenney, who saw some
service with the state tournament
five and Bill Finn. Howard Mel
ges, sophomore, is filing in 70.
Jim Inglis at center and Bob Paff-
rath and Steve Inglis at the
guards in place of Wallace Lau-
terbach, Albert Corbett and Buzz
Smith. Besides the starting five,
Gordon Alexander, Cubby Thorn
son and Nerve Wolverton will
complete the squad of eight which
each school is allowed to bring to
the tournament. Alexander, VOL
verton and Finn will be lost for
next year through graduation.
while Tenney will be ineligible fo,-
any further competition because
of his age.
A compilation of statistics fof
the season shows that the Cardin-
ais made only II less points than
their opponents, scoring 203 to the
opposit:on's 20 Ia~lis and Ten
ney led in the individual scoring,
ingiis dropping in So points witt
Is field goals and Is free throws
while Tenney made So points on
20 baskets and eight gift shots.