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“COW BARN" IS READY FOR PLAY Sixteen Teams, Cream Os Indiana Basketball, Await Start Os Final Tourney % ■■■■„■ Indianapolis. March 17. — (United Press.)—The great white pine arena in the exposition building at the State Pair grounds today was given a final inspection in preparation for the sixteenth annual championship tournament of the Indiana High School Athletic Association which starts tomorrow'. Indianapolis police and fire department officials gave the vast indoor s udium a final inspection to make sure that everything was in readiness for the crowd of 20,000 basketball fans. Final o. k. of these men will leave everything in readiness for the whistle which will send sixteen teams into action in the battle for Hoosier cage supremacy. A list of “do’s and don’ts” and "can’s and cant’s" has been compiled by Indianapolis high school officials who ate hosts to the "big 16" and will govern conduct of fans, players and coaches at the exposition building. Most of the rules are already known to the veteran trounament fan having been in effect since the inaiguration of the event. Among the new rules this year will be that eliminating use of passout

checks. Pay tickets will be sold at the box offices in the form of books with a ticket for each session. Once inside the building the fans must remain unless he is willing to put chase another ticket for that particular session. Policewomen will be stationed at the cow barn for the first time in the history of the meet. The stands will be cleared at the end of each session, officials ruled, eliminating the temptation many yield to come early in the morning and stay in one seat all d As in the past officials expect the size of the crowds to be limited only by the capacity of the stands. The program calls for three games tomorrow morning, three in the afternoon. two at night with, four, two and one game at morning, afternoon and night sessions respectively Saturday. Logansport, one of the leading contenders, reports sale of more than a thousand tickets to the fans of that ci y while other schools are running close behind. The famous “Victory Brick” which in the past three years has traveled the length and breadth of Hoosierdom in possession of various Indiana teams, will come to the tournament in care of the Connersville quintet which won it ftom Whitewater at the Rushville regional. A final warning was sounded to fans to purchase tickets only from the authorized box offices after reaching the 'ournament grounds, thus avoiding possibility of a repetition of the Anderson scandal when several Indianapolis youths sold 300 counterfeit tickets. o— Independent Tourney To Be Held At Ossian An independent basketball tournament will be held at Ossian, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 24. 25 and 26. The schedule for the tourney has been diawn as follows: Thursday, March 24. 7 30 p. m.—Ossian A. C. vs First Evangelical, Fort Wayne. 8:15 p. na.—lnternational Harvester Truck Co., Fort Wayne vs Wayne Street Methodists, Fort Wayne. 9:00 p. m. —Bowsers A. A. Fort Wayne, vs. ZaZnesville Business Men. Friday, March 25 7:30 p. m. —Ossian Merchants vs. West Union Huntington county. 8:00 p. m.— Petroleum vs. East Union, Wells county. 8:45 p. m.—Bluffton Junior Moose vs. Winner 7:30 Thursday. 9:30 p. m. — Winner 8:15 Thursday vs. winner 9 Thursday. Saturday Afternoon 2:30 p. tn. —Winner 7:15 Friday vs. winner 8 Friday. 3:15 p. m.—Winner 8:45 Friday vs. winner 9:30 Friday. Saurday Night 8:15 p. m. —Winner 2:30 Saturday vs. Winner 3:15 Saturday. Seymour. — Two high school students wrote brief essays on Longfellow in celebration of his recent birthday but few there are who can tell what they said of him. Both essays were written in Latin.

Five States Left In Kansas City Tourney Kansas Citi, Mo., March 17.—(United Piess)- Five states are left in the National A. A. I ~ Basketball tournament which tonight goes Into its fourth round of play. Wisconsin, Indiana Missouri Kansas anil Oklahoma representatives will be on the floot to pi! their skull for the honor of playing in the quarter final round. The Moncns of I_afayette. Indiana., the one remaining hoosier team, will meet the Ke-nash—a team of Kenosha Wis., tonight. CATHOLIC NET TOURNEY OPENS Eleven Games On Schedule For First Day Os National Caging Event Chicago, Mar. 17 -(United Press) Eleven basket ball games in the fourth annual national Catholic high school tournament, are stirring up the dust tn Loyola University’s gypr today. Columbus High of Austin. Minn., and Sacred Heart of El Rene. Okla., opened the meet at 9 am., thirty-two schools are entered. Under severe handicaps St. Amrose of Davenport. la., meets De La Salle of Minneapolis tomorrow. Ros-

enfield. St. Ambrose forward, is in a hospital with throat trouble and Walsh, stellar guard, is still suffering from a recent illness. Two former champions perform today. St. Mel, Chicago, champ for 1925. meets St. Mary's, Richardton, N, D.. St. Xavier. Louisville, Ky., 1926 champs, play St. Joseph’s, Pittsfield, Mass. o Tilden Reaches Semi-finals Ortega. Fla., March 17 — (United Press) —William T. Tilden, ranking American Tennis player, who is attempting to come-back this season, has won his way into the semi-tinuls rounds of the Southeastern Tennis t uinament with ease. Today in the semi-final rounds Tilden will meet John Hennessey of Indianapolis, seventh ranking player, in the other semi-final round Geotge M Lott of Chicago will play G. Carlton Schafer of Philadelphia. c F+++++ + + + + + + SPORT TABS ♦ <•+++++ + + + + + + (By United Press) hereveport La—The Chicago White Sox are smarting under a 9-8 whipping administered yesterday by Shreveport's Texas Leaguers. Blankenship and Faber were unable to step the Panhandlers onslaught. Avolon. Catalina Islands —The Chicago Cub Goofs thoroughly drubbed the Regulars, 10-3. The Regulars were unbel to his Sheriff Blakd 1 and Snipe Hansen, whereas the Goof outfield were hitting freely. St. Petersburg, Fla —Bob Meusel, stellar New York American outfielder, has signed a two- year contract ter $17,000 a year. Chicago — Preparations ate being made here for the Bud Taylor-Tony Conzoneri 118-pound world’s championship bout at the Coliseum, March 26. Taylor arrives Monday from Terre Haute, Indiana to begin training and the New York Italian is due Sunday. Chicago—Charles Haerger, Guard,! was elected Captain of the 1928 University Os Chicago basketball team. Paso Robles, Cal — Pittsburgh's Pirates spent yesterday in an effort to polish up technique. There was much base running and fielding practice mixed with swatting. South Bend, Ind., —Last minute entries in the General Intercollegiate track meet to be held at the Notre Dame gym Saturday have been received from Kansas and Butler. Onehundred and ninety entrants are already registered. CLEARwater Fla., —The St. Loins Americans beat the Brooklyn Nationals yesterday 12-1. It was a free hitting game. Avon Park, Fla. —The Worlds' Champion St. Louis Cardinals nosed out the Cleveland Indians yesterday. 8-7. Bradenton, Fla —The Phillies managed to triumph over the Buffalo International League club yesterday 7-6. St. Petersburg, Fla—Boston Brave's the N. Y. Giants yesterday ' ■ 4-3. 11 t o | Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay*

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FIELD A GOALS £*& JA E A • Mark M. The national Catholic tourney is now in progress. However, the Commodores will not get into action until ! 11 o’clock tomorrow morning. The state tournament fireworks .will start popping at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning. And the Yellow Jackets will be there to see the show. The Catholic high school received a letter yesterday from Art Wemhoff. one of the captains of the Commodores. Art wrote the letter immediately after arriving in Chicago Tuesday evening and he said the trip did not have any bad effects on any of the players except ‘’Silent” Joe Smith, who wasn’t able to talk yet. Ford Griffith, of Auburn, who has been one of the referees in the sectional tournament here each of the

last three years and who is rated as thep best official in this part of the, state, is one of the four officials chos- ( en to referee the games in the finals of the state tournament at Indianapolis tomorrow and Saturday. Ford woiked in the regional tournament at South Bend last week. Nice going, Ford. As far as we have been able to learn, the Vincennes regional tournament had the largest receipts of any of the sixteen regionals. A total of $4,800 was taken in at Vincennes. The center school received S3OO and. after all expenses had been paid and the state athletic association received its share, between S7OO and SBOO was distributed to each of the four schools in the tourney, namely, Vitpennes, Washington, Linton and Carlisle. We doubt if Linton and Carlisle took in that much money all year, A sports writer for the Loyola News, published by Ixiyola University. Chicago, picks Roman Catholic high, of Philadelphia, to win the national Catholic tourney this week-end. He picks St. Vincent high, of Akron, Ohio, to play the Philadelphia team in the final game. Don't place too many greenbacks on this hunch, however, as the said sports writer admits J that he had tried to pick the winner of the tournament for the last four years, with negative results. A picture of last year's Commodores appeared in a copy of the Loyola News received here today. A line under the picture singled out Tubby Gass, captain of the outfit, and said he was back this year for his third straight year of competition. Tubby is back there alright, but he's going to do his stuff from the bleachers, this year. The Berne high school inter-class basketball games started yesterday I evening. As soon as these games are ! ended, the Berne a'hletes will start spring sports.

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Night Games In Catholic Tourney To Be Broadcast Radio station WGES, In Chicago, owned and operated by Guyon's Paradise ballroom, will broadcast the final game each evening in the national Catholic basketball tournament, which opened at Loyola University, Chicago, thiis morning. WGES is one of the most powerful stations in Chicago. Its I wave length is 315 meters. Shorty 1 Fall, former varsity eheel leader at I the University of Wisconsin, will preI side at the miciophone. The scores of all games and ether items of Interest concerning the tournament will be broadcast by the best I stations in Chicago each day. . FOUR STARS ARE HOLDOUTS Roush, Pennock, Thevenow And Gritz Ret use To Sign Baseball Contracts New York. Mar. 17—(United Press When Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby were talking during the winter about so much or nothing on a new contract, there were reasons to believe that less noted discontented players might enlist behind the two prize show elephants of baseball in . an organized holdout campaign. As it turned out the Babe and the , Rajah were not interested in any la- . . > . i. -.

bor cause and were concerned chiefly with themselves, Hornsby asked for the pen and the ink bottle and signed for $40,000 after he had talked to his new boss,' John McGraw, for less than fifteen minutes. The ceremony of signing Babe Ruth to a new 3-year contract fdr $210,000 consumed titty-five mnlutes by actual clocking. | The holdout campaign if it was waiting for high powered leadership then blew up and the boys began to sign up even if they did grumble. i There remain, however, a few more stubborn athletes who are talking about raising silver foxes, fishing in Indiana, running pool rooms and loafing if the magnates do not come through with what they want. The pennant chances of four lead-' ing contenders depend in no minor par', upon four players who couldn't agree with the valuation placed on their services by their employers. | Eddie Roush has not reported to the New York Giants and hasn't even talked to his new bosses and Manager McGraw needs him in center field. I Herb Pennock, admitted to be the greatest southpaw in baseball, has the Yankees worried. He wants $20,000 a year and he will not report, until he gets it. The Yankees have to have Pennock and he knoWs it. I Tommy Thevenow, one of the outstanding stars of the world series, tossed back the contract the Cardinals offered him. He knows that the club can’t pick anyone to fill bis shoes from the dozen or more farms the club owns. I Hughie Gritz, the best fielding second baseman in baseball, wasn't satisfied with the term offered him by lhe Cincinnati Reds. He refused to 'be moved by the threat that George Kelly can play second base. He knows that Kelly can’t play thb bag like he can, o Mt. Vernon —The city may prove a Mecca for workmen if a recent experience is repeated. Workmen found 84 bottles of bonded pre-war whiskey when they razed an old building here.

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1 TOURNEY SCORES The national Catholic high school basketball tournament, epened this morning at Loyola University. Chi-1 cago. Thirty-two teams, including the Decatur Catholic high school Commodores, were entered in the tour ney. The Commodores will play I heir first game at 11 o'clock Friday morning, meeting St. Joseph s high school, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Scores of games played today include: Columbus high school. Austin. Minn. 26; Sacred Heart high, of El Reno, Okla., IT. j De la Salle high, Joliet, 111,. 28: St. Patrick's high. Weston, W. Va.,B. | St. Vincent's high. Akron, Ohio, 19, La Salle Institute, Cumberland, Mil., 17. * Veterans Bureau Offices To Make Loans To Veterans The Indianapolis Regional Office of the United States Veterans Bureau announces that instructions have been received making it possible for bureau offices to make loans on vet-j erans Adjusted Service Certificates. Due to the necessity of perfecting an organiation and procedure for this purpose, the making of loans will not begin until April 1. The loans will be made directly to veterans, whose certificates are ac-| ceptable as security, upon proper ident'fication. Regulations provide that certification from certain offi-

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ADVANCE MADE BY CANTONESE — Northern Forces In Chinese I, Civil War Reported Defeated Near Nanking Shanghai March 17.—(United Pre —Cantonese Troops were leported to. day to have defeated the Northern ■ forces defending Nanking and Shan* ! hai and to have pressed forward to within 20 miles of Chang ( hung-Chan f headquarters at Nanking. Fifty American women and children hastily evacuated Nanking as the M - I tionallsts advanced, fearing outbieaks and looting within the city if j t j, captured by the Nationalists. The Cantonese attack was shifted from Soochow to Nanking several days ago and the Southerners have been forcing their way slowly toward the city. A IT. S. Warship was on guard at Kucehangmiao, south of the Shankhal native city, to protect American inter ests at Kianghang dock, which was seized by General Pi. commanding Northern tioops there. Pi explained the docks were seized to permit urgent repairs to northern waiships. Several anierican ships were under construction at Jhe dock. — o The Misses Olga Reinking and Mary ' Schultz spent Wednesday in Fort | Wayne visiting with friends.