Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1939 — Page 21
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Cards Won’t Hazard Guess
On Chances to Hurdle That Anderson Regional.
By LEO DAUGHERTY Times Staff Writer ANDERSON, March 9. — Coach Buck Plunkitt and his Southport Cardinals have duly surveyed the Anderson gymnasium where Saturday they engage in the regional basketball tournament. ; But after a two-hour practice ses-
sion here yesterday at Tourneytown,| |
neither Mr. Plunkitt nor his boys would hazard a guess on their cHances. ; “Going to try and try awfully hard,” Mr. Plunkitt said. “If you don’t go in there with the feeling that you're going to win or at least do your darndest in the effort, then you might as well not answer the whistle.” Plunkitt unconsciously leaves the impression that he isn’t worried so much about his first regional foe, New Winchester. What he is more than a trifle worried about is Anderson.. }
Great Record Under Chadd
The Indians are doped to thump the Greenfield Tigers by a margin as long as from here to Southport, and that would put them against the Cardinals—the other half of the pretourney dope running to form—in the regional title game Saturday night. The Indians would have a bag full of tournament advantage over Southport. They have won every sectional during Archie Chadd’s sixyear reign, four regionals and two states. Southport, on the other hand, hasn't won a sectional since 1924. This is Plunkitt’s second season as boss. Chadd finished his regular prac-
_ tice session and then left Plunkitt and his Cardinals alone in the big
hall. Plunkitt, aided by Jewel Young, his assistant, searched the dark nooks and corners of the goalhouse and beneath the seats to make certain there would be no espionage of his stuff and then put his squad of 10 through scientific paces: to get accustomed to it. Needless to say, there were no spies around.
Plunkitt Sees Something
Knowing the floor is half the battle, he’ said, “Look at those black marks.” He pointed to small black bars which Chadd has painted on either side of the baskets just inside the foul line. “I have a hunch those Anderson fellows don’t have to look at the baskets,” Plunkitt explained. “They know when they reach those points that they're within shooting distance and let go.. It's a good thing we came up here.” ; Plunkitt left the impression: that he believes his chances in this Saturday show are wrapped up in the huskiness and toughness of his squad. oach Plunkitt still is undecided
on his starting lineup, finally con-|
fessing at the tail end of the season that he doesn’t have a second string, that each of the 10 is about as good as | e other one. Probable Starters
1 He added, however, that starters probably will be Charles and Harold Miller, Ed Schienbein, Johnny Williams and Bill Shimer. His others are Eaton, Sawyer, Wilson, Ferger and Coates. uthport will step to the center line against New Winchester with the Marion County championship, a new emphasis on its right to *hat title by a sectional victory over Decatur Central, the team the ‘Cardinals beat in the county, and a reg-
port, Anderson ‘has only 70 tickets left for the affair. Before Southport came here to practice, Plunkitt and his players received a real boost. Athletic chiefs Indianapolis Tech, sectional host school, paid them a visit and handed them a scroll. - It |bore congratulations for the sectional victory, cheers for regional
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state basketball championship trophy to Col. Bers The Indianapolis Green Shields won the championship by downing
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-the Lafayette Red Shields in the final game of the state tournament held here recently. Members of the Green Shield team are shown in the background of the picture above.
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By United Press
Hoosierdom’s burning question foday—will Frankfort’s Hot Dogs be the 1939 state high school basketball champion? It's a question that most of the Indiana dopesters would answer affirmatively, and they would have plenty of evidence to back them up. Frankfort has a season record of 17 triumphs and six losses—only fair, to'say the least. But Frankfort has as coach Everett Case, acknowledged throughout the nation as one of the best in this business of molding championship teams. Frankfort’s team has an indisputably good first string and four or five capable reserves—all boys who can pitch the leather with the best of them. On the Other Hand Frankfort has confidence, assurance, smoothness, shooting ability, passing ability, ability to play both fast and slow breaks—according to some critics, it has everything. But to balance all the recognized Frankfort possibilities — the Hot Dogs have been beaten six times, and what has been done once can be done aagin. Frankfort won an easy sectional and will head into the regional Sat-
Basketball Fans Weigh Frankfort’s Chances; 17 Victories, Six Defeats
urday at Lafayette. Its first contest will be against Lafayette Jefferson, a team that the Hot Dogs trounced twice during the regular season. If the Hot Dogs ride through the Jefferson menace, they will meet either Oxford or Lebanon in the finals, and. neither should offer the Hot Dogs too much opposition. Then, however, the semifinals appear, and the traveling will be just that much tougher.
Cats and Dogs
For if Hammond’s Wildcats come through as expected and win the Gary regional, the Hot Dogs will bump into the Wildcats, their conquerors in a Christmas tourney, in the first game of the semifinals. And the semifinals are being played on the Hammond floor. Any game thereafter, if Frankfort continues, will be a complete anc. utter dog fight, with the Hot Dogs’ opponents as likely to win as the Hot Dogs. Cn the credit side, Frankfort definitely has a balance. According to more than one obseryer, there are no better “big” ball players in the state than “Splinter” Johnson and Lewis Cook. Harold Pyle is another tall man
who knows his way around a hard-
Play will continue tonight in the 22d annual Central States city amateur basket tourney now in progress at the Dearborn Gym with three games on tonight's schedule.
i—Hoosier State Commercial College vs. Brightwood. 8—Goldsmiths Secos vs. Lang Market. Ones hawnee Athetic Club vs. Texaco
Last night in the city tourney one upset featured the evening’s play with the Indianapolis Flashes winning over the Liehrs Tavern quinet, 44 to 38. Palnier led the Flash quintet with 14 points. The Stokely Van Camp five triumphed over the Bethany Buddies team, 39-30, while the Royal Crown Colas toppled the Mt. Jackson Tire &: Battery five, 36 to 32. The semifinals of the Dearborn Sunday tourney drawings were announced last night with the schedule as follows: ors —DeGolyer Printers vs. Waverly Oilpd:30—Hoosier Athletic Club vs. Fails City S$—Winner 3:40 p. m. game vs. Winner 4:30 p. m. game. Each of the four quintets listed
‘above were winners of their Sunday
sectional meets which has been in progress each Sunday at the Dearborn for the past four weeks.
An elimination basketball tournament for the six house teams of the Sunday League will be sponsored Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday by the Christamore House.
The WPA Recreation Division postseason senior tourney is to be held at the Meridian M. E. gym, St. Clair and Meridian Sts, on March 14, 15, 16, 17. Drawings will be held at the gym tomorrow night
{and the following teams are re-
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ques ted to have representatives present: 3 Ji D. Adams, Rosedale Milk, South Side Athletics, M. I. As, Mars Hill Seniors, First U. B. Cardinals, Beech (Grove Seniors, Royal Crown Colas, Meridian Club, Broad Ripple A. Cs, Jake's All-Stars, Bethany Buddies, Lincoln Chiropractic College, Greenwood Philip 66, Southern A. Cs, Indianapolis Business College.
The finals in the WPA city and county free throw tournament will be hsld tonight at 7 o'clock at the Meridian M. E. gym. Out of a field of 803 original contestants from 17 community centers, 30 contestants and their alternates remain for the finals, . They are distributed as fol-
lows: . EY. WoOA hyllis "Wheatley Branc . vO. Ay 2. "Meridian M. E. Club, 8; Lauter Boys’ Club, 3; English Avenue Boys’ Club, 8; Hill Community Center, 1; Rhodius. Park, 3; Beech Grove School, 1; Brookside Park, 2 Elvarside Park Methodist, 1; St. Philip’s chool, 1.
Awards will be made in each of the four |divisions, which include the men. women, junior boy and girl classes.
Results: of last night's games in the Em-Roe tournament at the Noblesville. Armory:
Clermont Christians, 31; Fisher's Merchants, 21. ; Westfield Merchants, 28; Ross Garage, Sheridan, £2. Arcadia lions, 30; Carmel Lions, 27. d Goodyear Service, 36; Forse Masters, Anerson,
Noblesville: 7:00—-Peterson Lumber, Monticello Display. 8:00~-Gootlysar Service vs. Frankton er¢ hints. 9:00~Clermont Christian Church vs. Wesifield Merchants. 10:00—-Arcadia Lions vs. Lapel Merchants.
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wood floor. Aggressive Jim Laughner and the defensive wizard, Danie Davis, complete the first team’s roster.
Strong in Reserves
Then, for reserves, Case has Bill Wetzel, Ernie McGill, Jim Stinson and Dan Brower. All have had experience in the 23 Hot Dog games this year, and all have come through capably. Wetzel, against Jeffersonville, hit the nets for 10 points while subbing for the bed-ridden Cook. Throughout the entire schedule
points per game, and their record during the sectional tourney only raised the average. Their defense held the opposition to an average of slightly under 29 points during the regular season. In their first
in 270 attempts. Johnson set a new North Central conference scoring record with 138 points. Davis, Cook and Pyle are long shot experts. What more does a team need to win the Indiana high school basketball championship? But still—Frankfort has = been beaten.
Officials Selected
For Regionals
The 64 teams are ready to go in the state high school basketball regionals, Officials have been assigned and the firing will start Saturday afternoon. Arthur L. Trester, athletic “association commissioner, today announced the list of officials, as follows: Anderson—Gale Robinson Orville Jones. Auburn—J. Alvin Taylor and Art Krider. Bloomington — William Pointer
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Evansville — Frank Jarrell and Norman Dunlop. Gary--T. R. Smith and J. Clayton Hughes. Greencastle—Thomas Baker and Fred Alwood. Greensburg—John H. McClure and Lundy Welborn. Huntington—Glenn Adams and Charles G. Garrett. Lafayette—Carl Burt and C. C. Walls. - Logansport — L.,’ E. Fink and George L. Russell. Marion — Winston Ashley and Lowell Sparks. Muncie—Allen H. Klinck and Karl Dickerson. : New Albany—Irvin Springer and Clyde Castle. ; Plymouth—George Williams and Stanley Porter. Rushville—Nate Kaufman and Hal Harris. Vincennes—T. Noble Lyons and Reid H. McLain,
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Little Jerry to Lead Blue Next Season; 13 Varsity Awards Made.
Jerome Steiner, junior forward from Berne, will captain the Butler basketball team through the 1939-40
imously by his teammates prior to a banquet held last night in the university cafegeria. “He also was one of 13 varsity men to receive monogram sweaters from Dr. Henry M. Gelston, chairman of
the athletic committee. Numeral awards were presented also to 11 freshmen. Gold basketballs were presented to the four seniors: George Perry, Indianapolis; Laurel Poland, Brownsburg; Bill Geyer, Ft. Wayne, and Chester Jaggers, Louisville, Ky. The awards were: B sweaters to Ceeyer, Jaggers, Perry, Poland, Steiner, Byron Gunn, Loren Joseph, Knobel, Melvin Vandermeer, Bob Dietz, Bill Hamilton, Lyle Neat and Charles Richardson. Lowell Green, senior student manager, also received a sweater. Freshman numerals were given to Jack Akers, Ralph Buis, Frank Celarek, honorary captain, Jaraes Deputy, Richard Freuchtenecht, Robert Harcourt, William Kelly, Alfred Lochmondy, Elwood Norris, Williain Schumacher, Herbert Schwomeyer and Dick Gwyn, student manager. Cheer léaders: B sweater to Edward Liljeblad, senior. Nunierals to Russell Lilly and Steve Hack, sophomores, and to Paul Patterson, Bob Schernekaw, Gilbert Johnson and Herbert Reynolds, freshmen.
Sears to Take Nine
Men to Notre Dame
Track Coach Ray Sears has selected nine Butler University trackmen to take part in the 13th annual running of the Central Collegiate Conference indoor track meet at Notre Dame tomorrow and Satur-
ay. Bill . Southworth, junior from Anderson, is expected to better the
Net Scores
COLLEGES Columbia, 50; Dartmouth, 45. C.C.N. Y,, 38; N. ¥. U,, 27, Penn State, 32; Temple. 25. Brown, 40; Yale, 38. St. John’s, 48; St. Francis, 37. Peru, 53; Chadron, 28. West Virginia, 40; Washington and Jefferson, 39. Waynesburg, 42; Geneva, 21. Creighton, 34; Washburn, 31. Pennsylvania, 39; Harvard, 2% Westminster, 58; Bethany, 35.
Firemen and Cops PHILADELPHIA, March 9 (U. P.).
of former college stars and American League players, the New’ York Police and Firemen basketball team defeated - the Philadelphia Police| and Firemen, 45-39, before 2500 at! Convention Hall last night.
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