Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1926 — Page 6

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MARION GIANTS CAPTURE STATE BASKET TITLE Grant Countv Bovs Defeat Martinsville in Final Game, 30-23 CROWD OF 17.000 SEE FINAL CONTEST Indianapolis, Mar. 22.—Marton is the 1926 Indiana high school basketball champion. It won the title in the ‘‘cow barn" of the Indiana state fairgrounds here Saturday night, before a crowd estimated at 17 000 persons by defeating Martinsville by a score of 30 to 23. In winning from Martinsville the new champions duplicated a victory scored earlier in the season. Marion outplayed the Artesians throughout, stealing the ball from them and bombarding the basket almost twice as many times as Martinsville. The all around work of Charles Murphy, lean center of the Giants characterized the play. R. Chapman, guard, carried away the scoring honors. netting four field goals. Every member of the regular Marion quintet scored from the field. The ten striplings who fought for the title had played two games earlier in the day. but with the cheers of a basketball maddened crowd urging them on forgot their weariness and played at top speed throughout. Martinsville went down fighting. The same fighting heart that had carried them through two terrific struggles Saturday was evident in the final contest. Repeatedly Captain Reynolds sought to rally his wavering forces for a winning drive, but the powerful Marionites overwhelmed them. Marion’s best defense was its offense, although at times the giants were forced to their utmost to stop an Artesian attack. It was a fast game. It was brilliant. But it was not as spectacular cr as indecisive as other games of

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the tournament. The result never was In doubt once the (Hunts got under way. Marlon scored first and never was headed. The Giants led at the half nineteen to eleven. At the tnd of the game members ■ of the Marion leant were presented ■ with gold watch fobs and a silver ■ plaque emblematic of the 1926 championship was giv< ti to the Marion school. At the same time Richard t Williams, running guard for the central team of Evansville was given the Jake Giinbi-1 sportsmanship medal, awarded annually to the player showing the best, mental attitude. . Indiana's greatest basketball tourI nament. ended, the great pine village was emptied quickly. Built only for s a two day tournament the massive structure will be torn down this week. Os the seven hundred and nineteen p teams which started in the tournai_ ment three weeks ago sixteen came , to Indianapolis to compete in the final rounds. From the first game , when Logansport defeated Laporte a . few spectacular upsets added inter- , est to the play. The greatest of these was the elimination of, Frankfort.. . 1925 champions, by Central of Evans- , ville, in a secound round game Saturday morning. ; After twelve games the semi final- , ists were Martinsville. Bedford. Central of Evansville and Marion. Mart- . insville eliminated Bedford to enter the final round and Marion defeated . Central. The teams which started play here Friday morning were: ■ Marion. Martinsville. Laporte, Logansport, Summitville, Syracuse, Bedford. North Vernon, Hillsboro, Auro-' ra. Frankfort. New Castle, Central of Evansville. Central of Fort Wayne. Franklin and Nappanee. Lineups and summary: Marion (30) FG FT P Overman, rs 3 10 E. Chapman. If 2 0 4 : Davidson. If 0 0 0 Murphy, c 2 13 R Chapman, rg 4 0 0 Kilgore. !g 3 U 1 Martinsville .(23Franceseoni. rs 3 11 Wooden, rs 0 0 0 Lockhart, If ._ 2 2 0 Thomas. It 0 0 0 Whitaker, c 1 2 3 Reynolds, rg 1 2 2 Ennis, Ig o 2 0 Referee: Dale Miller. Umpire: Paul Gurley. o — WICHITA WINS THIBO PLACE ( Kansas Team Drops Commodores In Consolation Game, Score 33-14 In the consolation game of the national tournament last night, the tired 1 Commodores lest to the Wichita. Kan- < -.as, team. 3314. The Cjmmodores i played their opponents on even terms 1 during most of the first three quarters, but fell behind in the final period. Mongo Meyers was forced to leave the game in the last quarter on account of injuries. The Commodores failed to pass ac- i curateiy and the effects of the hard I games with F.rt 'Wayne ano Louis- ; ville were much in evidence. Coach Center used his substitutes freely in ’.he last half. Wemhoff led the De-' catur team in scoring in this game, I with threeXield goals and two free throws. First Quarter Decatur jumped into an early lead' when Wemhoff looped an easy basket. ] Playing furiously, neither team was able to register any more points until ’ the quarter was well under way. when Reeser counted a free throw, making the score 2to 1. Norton and Resser followed this with quick baskets to give Wichita a 5 to 2 lead as the quarter ended. i Second Quarter <Decatur tied the score within two minutes of the period, when Meyers counted on a free throw and Mylott bounced in a field goal. Beth sides! played easily and cautiously. Wk-hi-, ta went into the lead again on Resser’s'

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i baskets. Myers counted again for I ' ,Wichita, after missing a free throw on 1 Smith's foul. Wemhoff droppmj one from the middle of the floor.. Resser scored a point on Meyers’ foul. Score r t Wl hlta, 10; Decatur, 7. i| Third Quarter 4 Wemhi ff scored a penalty toss on Robertson's foul t ► start (he period. < Resser made a basket for Wichita I Wichita’s defense keep deep at mid r floor, bu) Myers broke through for an i- easy ba ket. Resser again counted a 1 bnrkct. Wemhoff scored on Norton's 1 f ill, while Resser evened thing< by • dropping In a free throw. Olmstead > followed this quickly with a basket. I, Myers added to Wichita’s total with r another Isisket. Score, Wichita, 19; Decatur, 11. Fourth Game • Wichita opened strong in the final r period, Meyers dr pping in two has- » kets and Reuser accounting for one tc I lend 23 to 11. Myers, of Decatur, left the game because of injuries, Kapkc i übstitutidg. Voglewede replaced Smith • for Decatur. Wemhoff opened up for ’ Decatur with a basket. Robertson Rip 1 ped one for Wichita and repeated it ‘ immediately afterwards, ta lead 31 to 1 13. Gaatt ecored a free throw while ■ Wichita continued its rampage with another basket. Final score: Wichit. •33; Decatur, 14. The lineup: Decatur (14) FG FT PF Meyers (RF) 11 ] Knapke (RF) 0 0 0 Wemhoff (LF) 3 2 1 Mylott (C) 1 0 2 Smith (RG) .... 0 0 1 Voglewede (RG) f) 0 1 Gass (LG) 0 1 0 Total 5 4 7 Wichita (33) FG FT PF ■ Myers (RF) 3 0 0 Norton (LF) 2 0 0 Res-er (C) 5 3 2 Robertson (RG) 2 0 2 Olmstead (LG) 2 0 3 Kearns (LG) 1 0 0 • Total 15 3 7, Referee: Serfling, Umpires: Glick i and Griffin

1 "'""—■ ———- _... ~ ■ ■ j. _ I FIELD GOALqI ■ X By MARK M. UPP kJ Good work. <’ rnniodores. You didn’t win the tournament, but you gave ‘ a mighty good account of yourselves, and showed that yon were one of the four best teams In the tourney THE BEST PART OF THE SHOWING MADE BY THE COMMODORES IS THAT THEY ELIMINATED FORT WAYNE AND WON THE TITLE OF INDIANA STATE CATHOLIC CHAMPS. MESSERS. SHROYER. SQUIRES. FISCHER. MKERING AND SCHWARTZ AND THE REST OF THE FORT WAYNE FANS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. The above named gentlemen are the ones who figured it out that C. C. H. S. c uld beat the Commodores 10 to 12 points on a neut al floor. Os course, the floor at Loyola University was not a neutral floor, since the Commodores played more game? on it last year than C C. did. The Commodores will bring home a big share of the trophys offered at the tournament. They won the trophy offered for the team making the best appearance, the one for the team making the highest score in the first round and the one for the team winning fourth place in the tournament. The trophy offered for the team exhibiting the best sportsmanship in the tournament, was awarded to Fort Wayne. If the team deserved it, we 1 commend the players, but we don’t understand how a team that had one player put out of every game the team played for commiting four personal f ills could win the sportsmanship cup. This boy Mylott sure delivered the goods in the games played by the Commodores. Although it was the first tournament in which he had ever played, the Commodores' scrappy center put up a great game. I Hendricks, star guard of the Louisville team and one of the best guards in the tournament, was detailed to keep Mongo Meyers under cover in the game Sunday afternoon and the little Kentuckian did a good job. Although Mongo was unable to get many shots at the basket, he did seme nice guarding and teamwork. We know a lot of you are impatient to see what we have to say about our favorite. Martinsville, getting licked in the state tournament. Well, we picked a loser, that’s all. But our pick did go to the final game of the state finals. We picked the winner In thirteen of the fifteen games played at the state tourney. Central of Evansville spoiled the other pick for us by de'eating Frankfort. The hard * battle given Martinsville by Bedford in the semi-finals, had a lot to do with Marion’s victory over the Artesian City crew Saturday night. i We had'nt figured Bedford that s*rong. There were some “angry mobs" around the Daily Democrat office when returns tfom the Decatur games in the Catholic tournament were coming in. What couldn’t get into the office, filled the street In front. Thanks to the Indiana Electric Company, which provided a rhdio ami h ud speaker through which the results were announced to those ontsflde the building, everybody received the results in quick order. | IF MESSERS. SHROYER. SQUIRES. FISCHER. MKERING AND SCHWARTZ OF FORT WAYNE. WILL WRITE TO THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. WE WILL SEND THEM EACH A PHOTO OF THE STATE CATHOLIC CHAMPS. The Commodores lacked only seven points of winning the tourney. Five more points would have licked Louisville and since Louis- , ville beat Rochester by only two points in the final game, two more would have given Decatur the title. Anyway, we’ll wager several hundred persons have taken down their geographies and drawn a I little circle around the dot that shews where DECATUR is located. The combined population of the five cities from which came the teams played by Decatur in the tournament was more than 811,000. Prairie DuChien, Wisconsin, the first team played by Decatur, comes from a town of 3,537 population, but the other four, Cincinnati, Fort Wayne Louisville and Wichita, Kansas, have populations ranging from 72,217 to 401,247. And Decatur’s population, in round figures, is 5,000. ■ Reports from the «itate tournament say that the Marion team was unpopular with the fans. Very few champions are extremely popular with the fans, however. Marion, undoubtedly, has a powerful team and probably*!® as good as any team in the -tate, if not a little better. Anyway, the etate 1 championship has travelled a little farther north. It came up the Cloverleaf about fifty miles nearer Decatur than it was last year. Another hop of about fifty miles and the title will rest in Decatur. Will it take the hep next year? j j We had a notion to sign off for the season today, but we have decided to prolong the agony a little longer just to see it our Fort Wayne friends ' have anything to say. |

Four Other Stales 1 Crown Basket Champs ' » " . Urbana, 111., Mar. 22 Feeport won ’ , the high s hool basket hall championship of Illinois Satuiday night by <!•-■ ] (’eating Canton, 24 to 13, In the final game of the annual state tournament/ 1 Seven hundred teams entered the meet. which started three weeks ago. ’ 1 Columbia* Mi., Mair. 22.—Westport , high of Kansas City Saturday night won the Missouri state basketball, championship for the second cQßsec- ( UtLve year, defeating Central high school of St. Joseph, 28 to 7. Columbus, O-, Mar. 22. —Zanesville, defeating East Akron, 4o to 27, Saturday won the state basketball championship of Class A high schools. Oberlin won the class B title. Ottumwa, la., Mar 22.—Newton high school Saturday won the state high school basketball tournament, by defeating Boone high 23 to 21. o Eugene Thomas Gets Much Credit For Marion Victory Indianapolis, March. 22 —To the hardwood strategist Eugene Thomas, remembered as the flashy Captain of Indiana Universiy's quintet a few vears age goes much of the credit for Marion's annexation of the 1926 In- - diana baskeball title. The team which defeated Martinsville Saturday night is a Thomas-Made team. Three years ago Thomas went to Marion as athletic director and the team which brought the first high school championship to Mariort was developed solely under Thomas guardianship. i Three of his five regulars will bo lost through graduation this year. They are Chales Murphy center and Robert Chapman, guard, and Glenn Overman forward. Carl Kilgore guard and Everett Chapman forward remain to form the nucleus of his 1927 quintet. All of his substitutes are undergraduates. Three of the Marion team

members. Murphy, Chapman nnd Overman are eighteen years old, Kilgore Is sixteen and E. Chapman, seventeen. , — o Indianapolis Star Picks All-State Basketball Teams Following are the all-state high school basketball teams selected by W. Blaine Patton, sports editor of the Indianapolis Star: First Team E. Chapman, Marlon, forward. Spradling, Frankfort, forward. Murray, Bedford, forward. Murphy, Marion center. Whitaker, Martinsville, center. Reynolds, Martinsville, guard. East wood, Evansville, guard. Kilgore. Marion, guard. Second Team Ashby. Evansville, forward. Cooper, North Vernon, forward. Coyle, Bedford, forward. Schlntz, Frankfort, center. R. Chapman, Marlon, guard. Jasper, Fort Wayne, center. R. Chapman, Marion, guard. Evans, Logansport, guard. Ennis, Martinsville, guard. Third Team Overman. Marion, forward. Francesconi, Martinsville, forward. Koetter, Bedford, forward. Secrist. Newcastle, center. Grabert. Evansville, center. Williams, Evansville, guard.

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