The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-29
Drawings for 9th District
Meet to be Made Tuesday
Ely People Seeking Coveted
Ducats Should Reserve
Them Next Week.

| Ely people who want to be certain
Of getting a seat for the Memorial
high school basketball teams initial
appearance at the District 81 tourn-
ament should make reservations with
Athletics Director Edward T. Buckley.
Only cash on the line will hold
ticket, Buckley states, because this
year the school here In obtaining
tickets for the Ely tournament game
must pay for them in advance. A poll
Of the student body is being conducted
to determine the number of tickets
to secure for students. The average
number sold to towns people in past
years will be ordered.
After these are gone, tickets will be
available only at the box Office at Vir-
ginia, which ordinarily is allotted about
one thousand.
If Ely wins its first round game,
then the school here will be given
tickets to dispense locally to students
and residents of the city for the Sec
ond round, but will receive an allotment
of only IS after the local club is
eliminated.
Drawings for the tournament, which
is scheduled for March 1916, will be
conducted in the Fay hotel, Virginia,
Tuesday evening by coaches of the
district. Tickets will be available To-
cally the following day, it is believed.
Reservations for the opening game
for Memorial high, which may be
either the first or second day Of the
meet, should be made by Monday,
March. II, Buckley advises.
The method used in pairing the
teams will pit Eveleth and Tower
against each other since they occupy
the two last places in the standings
They will play the opening night, and
will occupy a place in the bottom
portion of the bracket. In making the
pairings only games played up to this
weekend will count in the standings.
First drawings will be conducted to
place Gilbert and Virginia at the top
of the standings, in opposite portions
of the bracket.
After their positions on the brackets
have been determined, the other teams
are placed, with the draw being in the
order Of their positions in the stand
ings. There will be one bye, with the
winner of the Eveleth-Tower game
playing this team. Ostensibly the
squad getting the bye in the first
round will indeed have Lady Luck on
its side and should have a COMPARE
lively easy time getting into the semi
finals
Last year this spot went to Vir-
ginia. Ely and Eveleth, the cellar
teams, tangled, and Ely, which won,
was pitted against the Queen City in
the quarter-finals. The Bluedevils met
Gilbert in the finals without having
to breathe above the ordinary rate, but
the latter club captured the cup.
No season tickets will be sold this
year, the committee in charge of the
tourney has announced. On this COM
mittee are Supt. M. W. Van Putten,
Aurora; Supt. L. A. Levine, Virginia,
and Supt. C. E. Hagie, Biwabik They
have also ruled that no mail orders or
telephone orders will be filled
The Virginia Rec, at which the classic
is held, seats 1929. Tickets will be dis
tributed as follows: ITS to non-playing
schools; ATS complimentary, and 1000
to Virginia for sale to the general pub
lie, making total of 1850, the balance,
or 1889, will be available to schools
and communities whose teams are
competing.
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