Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1917 — 255 High Schools In Chase For State Banner. [ARTICLE]

255 High Schools In Chase For State Banner.

Two hundired and fifty-five basketball (teams will make their getaway an next Friday in their chaoe for the state basketball banner. ' Twenty different cities will be the centers of the sectional tournaments and when the curtain is rung down Saturday evening the 28 teams to go to Bloomington will be known. This is the greatest field of starters that has ever been entered in the Indiana Basketball Derby and reflects not only the interest that has been aroused throughout the state, but the confidence the various high school principals have m the gome as it is conducted under the auspices of the The sixteen cities which will be the scene of the sectional tournament are : Anderson, Bluffton, Bloomington, Brazil, Columbus, Crawfordsville, Franklin, Kerwlalville, Greencastle, Kokom-o, Lafayette Lebanon, Loganspoit, Martinsville, Newcastle, Richmond, South Bend, Valparaiso, Vincennes, Washington.