Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1918 — 274 Schools Await Opening Of District Tournaments [ARTICLE]

274 Schools Await Opening Of District Tournaments

Promptly at nine o’clock next Friday morning, 40 Indiana high school teams will make their getaway in the chase for the basketball crown of Indiana for the season of 1917-18, and by nine o’clock Saturday evening of the 274 teams bidding for the championship of the Hoosier state, there- will be but twenty survivors. These twenty teams will meet one week later to determine who will house the championship for 12 months. Basketball fans are buzzing with excitment and are doping the chances of their favorite to come through. To pick a winner out of 274 teams is a considerable task and there a number of teams who have a chancfrto come through. Lebanon looks to have better than an even chance of annexing the title; Jefferson of Lafayette is not a rank outsider by any means; Anderson has been stepping along at a merry clip throughout the season, and Martinsville, Kohomo and Wingate are teams who always bear watching. However, none of the latter three teams are' expected to annex the coveted banner. At a swift glance it looks like one of the first three named Lebanon having a slight edge. Maybe we are all wrong and maybe it will be some team, unheralded and not figured in the reckoning, that will dash to the champiohship. Time alone will answer the question. The schedule of the district tournament at Hammond, in which Rensselaer fans are interested, follows :

Friday Morning—9:oo, Morocco vs. Fair Oaks (1); 10:00, Medaryville vs. Francesville (2), Crown Point vs. Rensselaer (1). Friday Afternoon —2:00, Valparaiso vs. Whitirig (2); 3:00 Hammond vs. Brook (1); 4:00, Emerson vs. East Chicago (2). Friday Evening—7:3o Winamac vs. Kentland (1); 8:30, Lowell vs winner 9:00 a. m. (2). Saturday Morning—B:oo, winner 10:00 a. m. vs. winner 11:00 a. m. (1); 9:00, winner 2:00 p. m. vs winner 3:00 p. m. (2); 10:00 winner 4:00 p. m. vs winner 7:30 p. m. (1). Saturday Afternoon—2:oo, winner 8:30 p. m.