Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1919 — LAFAYETTE PREPARES FOR INVASION OF NET STARS [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE PREPARES FOR INVASION OF NET STARS

Lafayette is facing one of the greatest weeks of her history with the invasion of her city by the cream of the Indiana high school basketball teams, twenty-two in number. Heretofore the annual classic has always been staked at Bloomington, the seat of Indiana university, 'but that city has been found too small to care for the hundreds of visitors that flock to the games, as well as the basketball players themselves. Lafayette citizens are leaving no stones unturned in their efforts to entertain and care for the visitors in a manner that will assure them of the retention of the right to stage the tournament in i years to come. All this Wednesday '■ afternoon and Thursday morning the teams will be swarming into the Tippecanoe capital, the games starting at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon and continuing until Saturday the two survivors meet to determine the championship. Dopesters throughout the state are busy trying to figure the chances. of their respective favorites coming through and are making their minds rather resilient in an effort to convince themselves that there is no team like their-own team; ‘ Down Lafayette way they have decided that Jefferson must win the mee t—all this as a result of the improvement of their five during the past three or four weeks. At Crawfordsville you can get yourself in trouble in a minute by even intimating that any team other than Crawfordsville is likely to come through and cop the flag. Anderson laughs when any other club is mentioned as the title winner while Thorntown smiles serenely whenever championships are mentioned. It is the same throughout the state in every city where they have a sectional tournament winner, and you have a hard time convincing the average citizen that his home town five is not the cream of the crop. But it’s the same old story, twenty-one quintets are going to be sadder and wiser soon, while -the twenty-second team is going to say: “I told you so. A Lafayette sport writer has doped Anderson and Jefferson for the -finals. Looks as if he’s half right—the Anderson part of it. We are prepared to fit every man and boy in this county and will guarantee to fit you out from head to foot for less money than any firm in our city and give you better quality. Duvall’s Quality Shop. Mlle. Schoen-Rene, of Berlin, says that “the trouble with modern German music Is too much inbreeding,” which sounds like an almost polite Teutonic way of saying it’s too German. —New York Morning Telegraph.