Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1919 — FIVE TEAMS JOLTED OUT [ARTICLE]

FIVE TEAMS JOLTED OUT

OF CHASE FOR STATI| BUNTING ANDERSON FALLS IN TOURNEY FEATURE. RESULTS THIS MORNING. Rochester, 16; Greencastle, 8. Jefferson, 22; Martinsville, 16. Emerson, 33; Kendalville, 13. In the opening round this Friday morning Rochester put Greencastle out of the meet in a slow, listless affair. Jefferson bumped Martinsville, wirtning 22 to 16 and Emerson of Gary slaughtered the Kendallville five 33 to 13. Emerson’s speed and pep startled the critics and the railbirds and iqpny fans are leaning ’toward the Steel City five as a team likely to go to the finals. Thursday’s Scores. Thorntown, 26; Anderson, 23. Bloomington, 16; Richomond, 13. Columbus, 24; South £end, 3. * Huntington, 24; Washington, 13. Manual, 19; Vincennes, 13. Today’s Fusses. 9:oo—Greencastle ys. Rochester. 10:00—Jefferson vs. Martinsville. 11:00 —Emerson vs. Kendallville. 12:00—Crawfordsville vs. Franklin. I:oo—Spiceland vs. Logansport. 2:oo—Brazil vs. Kokomo. 3:oo—Bloomington vs. Manual. 7:3o—Thorntown vs Huntington. B:3o—Columbus vs. Rochester. Five of the twenty-tWo teams in the chase for the state championship basket ball bunting were jolted out of the running during Thursday afternoon and. evening, leaving seventeen teams still not eliminated. The dope of the critics, went wrong for the most part on the opening games. The feature of the ppening day squabbles was the defeat of the Anderson five, named as one of the very strongest teams in the tournament, at the hands of the Thorntown five, by a score of 26 to 23. Thorntown has a classy five and now that they have eliminated a quintet possessing the strength that the Anderson club had, there seems to be nothing to prevent them going to the tourney final. It is too bad that two such strong fives had to meet so early in the fracas. Anderson is out of the tournament but is a far stronger team than the majority of the fives still left in the race. It was simply the working of fate that put them against such a team for their opening game. -- Z Richmond surprised Bloomington and the latter barely managed to win from their rivals. The Richmond five was called an average five by the critics without a very damaging punch and* Bloomington was expecting an easy time of it. Uuless the Monroe county five shows improvement in their coming battles their followers are going to be disappointed. Columbus had little trouble with South Bend. The Benders were able to garner but three points during the entire thirty minutes of play and at no time did they show form that warranted their being in such a classic. Huntington surprisedthe—railbirds again by downing the Washington five with ease, the final result being 24 to 13. Manuel Training of Indianapolis carried a little too stiff a punch for the Vincennes quintet, defeating them by a six-point margin. A full schedule is booked for today, 12 games in all, and some wonderful exhibitions are expected. Owing to the lack of quality of the contending teams yesterday and the small number of games being run off, the number of visitors will be as nothing when compared to the number of today and Saturday. • Today’s interest centers on the Bloomington-Manuel scramble and the Jefferson-Martinsville affair. With the fall of Anderson, critics are selecting Crawfordsville and Thorntown as the teams to fight it out in the tournament final.