Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1919 — BASKET FIVES TO CLOSE PLAYING SEASON FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

BASKET FIVES TO CLOSE PLAYING SEASON FRIDAY

"Lafayette, Feb. 27. —Crawfordsville's second defeat of the season over Jefferson, of Lafayette, Anderson’s victory over the state'champion Lebanon aggregation and Darlington’s 20 to 18 win over Advance, conqueror of Thorntowrf and Lebanon, in a ten-minute overtime getne, were among the feature events in high school basketball last week. Cox, Darlington’s center, made all 20 points for his team, scoring five field goals and tossing ten points through the hoop from the foul line. Practically all the teams in the state will finish their playing schedules this week, the majority of them on Friday night, but a few games are carded to take place Saturday night. Next week the teams will prepare for the various sectional tournaments and the winenrs at the twenty meets will then have a week to prepare for the big event to decide the championship high school basketball team of Indiana, which will be held at Purdue university, Lafayette, March 13, 14 and 15. Emerson, of Gary, is billed to again represent the northern district at the state tournament according to advance dope, and South Bend, though hard pressed at times, is being chosen to play in the state tournament. - , Basketball was brought to Indiana and the west twenty-five years ago by Anthany Chez, when he came from the University of Pensylvania to coach athletics at Wabash college, and the first game of basketball played in Indiana was between the Crawfordsville Y. M. C. A- tosser and the Wabash college quintet, according to reports from the Hoosier Athens. Washington was chosen as the site for a sectional meet but the teams in that section will play at Bloomfield instead, according to announcement just made by A. L. Trester, permanent secretary of the high school athletic association, Arrangements for the entertainment of the visiting plawers and fans are practically complete and will be ready for publication next week. The plan is on an extensive scale and all Purdue and Lafayette is working overtime in order to h'ave everything in readiness for the visitors. Several new and novel features which promise to make a great hit with the fans are to be put into vogue. - The teams to participate m the Lafayette sectional meet will play in the Central Y. M. C. A. gym instead of the Memorial gymnasium, Purdue, as previously, because the Purdue authorities are determined that every team in the meet shall have an equal chance and if the s «*-" tional meet were to be held on the Purdue floor the Lafayette winners would have an advantage.