Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-09

SuDdlStrlct tOurna-
'S'' ments are played,
the surviving team may have some
such schedule as this; three games
in three days in the first week in
March in a subdistrict tournament;
two games in two days in the third
week of March in regional tourna-
ments and three games in two days
in the fourth week of March in the
state tournament.
This is too much. When he gets
to the tournament stage high school
boy plays himself out every time he
takes the court. He saves nothing
for another day. He gives everything
he has.
To play IL games in % days, each
hard tournament game, is more
strain than an immature frame should
be asked to carry, especially under
this years rules which keep the &C
ton at top speed almost continu-
ously.
A wiser course might be to elm
mate the subdistricts and select all
entrants into district tournaments by
a poll of coaches rather than in &C
tual play. An injustice might be
done here or there, but then some
times the better team loses anyway.
There's a good deal of luck in bas-
ketball.
After all we have to consider
|, of, 20 fho
ask them to make our amusement
for us at the expense of their health.
Three tournaments in three weeks
are more than enough. 1t would be
wiser to reduce the competition even
further
How's this for a plan. Select four
teams to play for each district cham
pionShip over one weekend. Pair off
the district winners into 16 games
to be played week later. That would
be one more game for each district
winner. Bring the 16 winners to
the state tournament and let them
settle it there.
This would mean seven games in
stead of II for the teams that go
all the way through. No team with
any remote chance to win a state
championship would be deprived of
its chance. The state tournament
itself would be a better show than
ever with twice as many teams hav-
ing a chance to get into it; and the
boys would be spared a good deal
of physical wear and tear that is
not good for them. By this method
1913 teams could start district tourna-
ment play and it would take but seven
games in four weeks to determine
the champion.
When even college teams such as
the University of Minnesota with its
1000 male students to draw players
from, get tired to the point where
they play very poorly near the end
of the season, you may judge that
basketball can be too exhausting for
high school boys if given in too many
doses.
Country Boys Win.
The country boys won the argu-
ment from the city slickers in last
weeks boxing commission meeting
and they won it by the old fashioned
belief that a mans word of honor
should mean something.
Boxing commissioners of st. Paul
and Minneapolis, in close contact with
the low conniving that goes on in
the business, got themselves involved
in an exchange of favors and decided
to break promise to one promoter
in order to do a favor to another.
Before they knew it they were mixed
up in all kinds of controversy in
Guiding a lawsuit in district court.
Finally the court compelled them to
call in the three commissioners from
out in the state.
Strangely it all seemed very simple
to those fellows with their more
fundamental attitudes. When COM
missioners Alex Nemzek of Moor
head, and Chef Kitzman of Duluth,
and c. w. Whitaker of Winona, came
to the meeting they looked over the
facts and said, There's nothing to
this. We made a rule didn't we?
And we made promise didn't we?
Well, then let's abide by the rule and
keep our promise"
And as simply as that the whole
thing was solved. Sometimes plain