Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — LAFAYETTE TO ENTERTAIN THE TITLE ASPIRANTS [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE TO ENTERTAIN THE TITLE ASPIRANTS

Lafayette, Feb. 12.—Basketball is the premier high school sport in Inthana. There is practically no football, little track and less baseball. 3ut there is scarcely a high school in the state, whether it be situated in a city, town, hamlet or crossroads, that is not represented by a basketball squad in which the entire populace in the community in which it plays is not interested. With the sectional turnament, to be .held in twenty Indiana dties-. looming- up a little more than a month off, the enthusiasm of the basketball fans is running rampant, and it is predicted that this will be the, banner year in the annals of the great high school sport. March 7th and Bth, 275 basketball teams will play at Anderson, Bedford, - Huntington, Columbus, Crawfordsville, Franklin, Indianapolis, Martinsville, Kendallville, Kokomo, Frankfort, Rochester, Newcastle, Richmond, South Bend, Gary, Vincennes, Washington, Brazil and Lafayette. The following week the twenty sectional champs .will compete in the ninth annual tournament, which will be held at Purdue university, Lafayette, to decide the cham-

pion high school basketball team in Indiana, which is great honor since high school basketball .in Indiana compares favorably with the brand of basketball played by the high schpol quintets in any state in the union. While the coaches and players of the " teams in every section of the state are hard at work conditioning so as to make the best possible showing at the district tourneys great Mans and preparations are being made at Purdue university to proviofe board, lodging and entertainment for the sectional champs and the hundreds of fans who will be hete \o witness thegamesin what promises to be*the biggest and best state tournament in the history of the classic. ' , Four railroads, the Big Four, Monon, Wabash, and Lake Erie and Western-, two interurban lines,.the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern, and the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana, run through Lafayette,, and’ there are adequate facilities, making the Star City an ideal 'plaee to hold the state tournament. The various fraternities plan to care for the visiting basketball quintets, and there will be plenty of room, with excellent places at which to dine, for all visiting fans. The Purdue University Memorial gymnasium* where the tournament Will be held, is modern and fully equipped and a student committee has been appointed to co-operate with the athletic department at Purdue to insure tha success of the meet. ~ w