Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — LAFAYETTE HAS ON GALA DRESS [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE HAS ON GALA DRESS

AS KEYS OF CITY ARE TURNED OVER TO CHAMPION BASKETBALL FIVES. Former Title Winner*. >•1911 —(Crawfordsville. 1912 .Lebanon. 1913 .Wingate. 1914 — Wingate. 1915 — Thorntown. —19.16 —J efferaon . 1917 ’Lebanon. 1918— Lebanon. * * ♦ ♦ v . ~ "All Lafayette is teeming with excitement today with the opening of what promises to be the greatest basketball tournament ever offered since the inauguration -of such classics in the year 1911. All day yesterday the championship fives from the various sections x of Indiana swarmed into the city and were promptly taken care of by the citizens and offered the keys of the city. Never before has Lafayette been offered such a dainty sporting dish and she is doing her very best to show that she appreciated the honor conferred upon her and thereby assure herself of future meets of the kind. The Tippecanoe city is ideally located and has all the necessary facilities to insure that the meet will be a success in every way. k The barriers were lifted at z o’clock on the teams who drew the getaway squabbles. The following is the afternoon and evening schedules: 2 : oo—Richmond vs. Bloomington. 3:00 —Manual Training vs. Vincennes. 4:00 —Thorntown vs. Anderson. 7 : 30— Washington vs. Huntington. 8:30 —Columbus vs. South Bend. In the opening scramble Bloomington should have but little trouble with the Richmond quintet, ’thereby discounting all the hard work of the latter of a week ago m winning the sectional title. In the second game Vincennes should be returned the winner over the Indianapolis five, lhe third game of the series should see one of the hardest foufcht battles that will come up during the entire tournament, when the Anderson five meets Thorntown. Both teams are recognized as being of championship timber and it is unfortunate that they are forced to meet each other so early in the fracas. Anderson should win and then have easy sailing until the final. In the first game of the evening Washington should dispose of Huntington in a tight fit Neither team is of state championship calibre and the game should no 'bearing on the ultimate result of the tournament. South Bend sheuld win from Columbus, but these teams, too, are not of extremely high grade and the winner will probably fall in the early rounds. , . . . Seven games are booked for rnday and six for Saturday in addition to the tourney final. Owing to the late start we are unable to give any oi the tourney scores in today’s edition.