Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1916 — VALPARIASO TAKES SECTIONAL HONORS [ARTICLE]

VALPARIASO TAKES SECTIONAL HONORS

Porter Five Downs Frqebel of Gary In Final Game, Taking Title— Few Upsets in Stale. Running trueto tlieir season’s form, the dashing five from Valparaiso_ took the title at Gary and won the right to attend the state meet at "Bloomingon next week. This speedy quintette was doped to win but did not win without the hardest kind of fights. In the final game they encountered the toughest kind of sledding and emerged victors by the scantest kind of a margin—one point. Laporte was their opponent in tfie final fray and the score was 30-29 when the final whistle blew, In the last ten seconds of the game a Valparaiso player committed a double foul, but the Laporte foul shooter was unequal to the occasion. The other thrillers of the tourney were the games between the Froebel and Emerson schools of Gary and the* FroebeLSouth. Bend game, which went to the former 31 to 30. If Valparaiso continues to show the same stone Roller tactics at the state tourney they should have a great chance of copping the titular honors. Some surprises were recorded throughout the statebut of course upsets are always in order and the teams ran true to form pretty generally. In the tourney at Martinsville the home squad was returned the victors by trouncing the JSouthport five 47 to 17 in the final. At Lafayette .the two home teams went into the final and Jefferson high was returned the winner easily, 56 to 13. Seymour won from Milan in the meet at the former place. In the Kokomo meet the local school won the right to contest by defeating .Fairmount Academy 25 to 21. Brookville took the honors at Richmond, Crawfordsville won at that place, easily defeating the Wingate crew in the final 51 to 9. Liberty Center won at Bluffton. Bloomington won from Salem at Bloomington. Elkhart upset the dope bucket when they downed Medaryville 19 to 16. Hopewell, the team that is feared by all the contenders, won frpm Tiafalgar, clinching the honors in their district. Lebanon won at Lebanon. Cicero won at Anderson in a hard fought game with the latter team. Washington won at Logansport, Vincennes at Vincennes and- Clinton at Terre Haute. The state-winner should be among these five teams: Valparaiso, Hopewell, Clinton, Crawfordsville, and possibly Seymour.