The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-10
BY PAUL BOXELL

BY PAUL BOXELL
It's more in a muddle than ever
meaning the outlook for the local
sectional high school, basketball
tournament. Now that Ben Davis
Giants have proven themselves
beatable and Tech and Shortridge
have shown themselves capable of
being real trouble-makers, city quin-
tets swing into preparations for this
weeks games wondering which will
be next to take a turn for better
or for worse.
Washington, for one, is in the
slough of a definite turn for the
worse. After getting off to a snappy
start this season, the Continentals
skidded, and go into this Fridays
feature intra city tussle with Cathe-
dral under burden of eight straight
setbacks. Cathedrals Irish will be
out to close their regular season in
triumph on their home floor. Wash
ington dropped a 1920 decision at
Peru Saturday night. Cathedral
bowed at Martinsville, 1925.
Greenfield Guns for No. 3
In other tits this Friday, Bloom
ington's fart -middlin'" Panthers
invade the Shortridge goal shop, and
Greenfield goes a-gunning for In
dianapoliS victim No. at Manual.
Broad Ripple advances on Elwood.
CriSpus Attucks entertains Dayton
Bloomington should prove a good
test as to whether the Blue Devils
were just riding on hot streak in
that decisive victory at Lebanon last
week, or actually were sounding the
warning signal for a fast running
start into sectional competition.
Greenfield already holds verdicts
over Shortridge and Washington.
Ripple, like Washington, is en-
meshed in a losing net which grew
tighter with a 1929 defeat at the
hands of Brownsburg on Saturday
night. Crispus Attucks whipped
Louisville last week.
Jack Reedy "Sizzles."
Tech locked good in a 1864 vic
tory over Marion Saturday night.
The local boys, in flashy new green
'trimmin's" got hot in the last half
and couldn't be cooled off. Jack
Reedy. who totaled six field goals,
sank four of them right in a row,
and from such varied angles that
he had to take a good laugh him
self. The Techmen are to enter
tain Shelbyville in next Saturday
nights local feature.
Manuals city champions play at
Southport, Washington is host to
cambridge, Ripple takes on Carmel
at the Shortridge gym and Crispus
Attucks travels to Nashville, Ind.
A LETTER received in this de-
L n partment midways of last week
contained matter which was of
highly disputable nature when it
arrived. But something happened
Friday night which turned that
matter into a more or less concrete
statement of fact and convinced
this writer that he must shuttle his
Marion County ratings.
That something" was Warren
Central's stunning upset over Ben
Davis. The letter, written previous
to the game by Leslie Burt, sports
editor of the Warren Owl, went like
this:
Dear Mr.. Boxell-I read your
article in the Feb. 3 issue of The
Times and was very much put out
about it. believe you said some
thing about Decatur Central being
second only to Ben Davis in power
on the county basketball floor. Well.
it so happens that Warren Central
thumped this same Decatur team by
a rather large score of "a to 81. We
also happen to have beaten Beech
Grove, and proved in the county
tourney that the 28-15 warping
handed us by Southport early in
the season was a f1uke. Although
they beat us by four points in the
county, any student of Warren
Central would give you even odds
that they couldn't defeat us again.
ed. Note: Refuse to bet, but will
refer the matter to the Southport
bookies).
I'VE have record that is second
only to Ben Davis in the county.
and believe it also has the records
of the city teams showed off the
map. We have won II and lost four,
and we tackle Ben Davis Friday"
just to make Leslie look extra
good, the Warren Central boys
stepped right out and hung 1926
sinner on the touted Ben Davisans.
And mighty Decatur Central bowed
low to Manual. All. tickle basket
ball :.