The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 18

18 KOKOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1950 HEADLINER OF THE WEEK The 1950 Sectional Baskefbail Tournament KOKOMO GALVESTON WESTERN ELWOOD NORTHWESTERN GREENTOWN JACKSON UNION May the Best Team Win! Galveston Bows Into Tourney 1 I While in Kokomo, We Invite You To Come In and See OUR MANY VALUES IN HOME FURNISHINGS KOKOMO WRECKAGE CO. South Side Square COMING FAST toward the end of the regular season, Galveston's rebuilt Cardinals will be formidable in their first crack at the Kokomo sectional tournament. Coach Max Kelley's crew will tackle Greentown in the opener at 7 o'clock Thursday night. First row (left to right): Bill Salmons, Max Jones, Ronald Bone, Andy Ronk and Bob Patterson; second row, Coach Kelley, Dick Ahrens, Bob Polk, Joe Walker, Ronald Chambers, Connie Gerdes, Craig Maze and Principal Andy Fernung.

Cardinal Record GALVESTOX Coach Max Kelley Won Lost 15 19 Northwestern 57 33 Doer Creek 36 28 Sharpsville 4B 29 Walton 39 46 Onwnrd 45 30 Northwestern Walton 31 Bunker Hill 46 I'rairir HO America Cl Nriv Wavcrly 37 Washington Tu-p HlftriL 30 iMCcrnr. 6-1 Western 42 Washington .39 Union 52 HR Vnuiiir America 46 41 Twelve Mile 4(5 Tourney Tourney Elementary, Watson! Austin. Tex. citizen had a clue for police when he reported the theft of 11 chickens from his yard. One of the chickens, he said, walked with a limp.

Cubs and Indians Are Semi Threats Great in Sports--Greater in Sportsmanship' The Best of Luck to the Eight Participating Teams! rFANS When Games Are In Progress, Some to Schraders and Browse Around. You'll Find Many, Many Values! BY KURT FBETJDENHAI- United Press Sporta Writer Indianapolis (UP) Madison and Anderson stand out as top! challengers from the Indianapolis: semi-final district to make the four-' team finals of this year's Indiana high school basketball tourney. These two powerhouses were favored Isat year, too, and Madison went all the way to the championship game, only to lose a one-point decision to Jasper. Anderson's title hopes died in sectional play, the Indians dropping their first to Uttle Lapel I in the most astounding up'set of! the entire four-week tourney. If both gel through the first two 1 tourney weeks, they'll clash in one! of the semi-final afternoon games, for the Shelbyville regional winner should 1 be Madison--collides with the Indianapolis champ --which may be Anderson.

OF COURSE, one of the Indianapolis clubs, probably Tech, may give the dope bucket a good kick. If Anderson gets through ita rugged sectional, where it clashes with last year's winner Summitville in the first game, the Indians movej up to the Butler fieldhouse for the! reffionals. Anderson is one of the most consistent powerhouses in Hoosier high school net circles. Three times the Indians have captured the crown, the last time in 1946 under Charley Cummings. They made it to the "charmed circle" two years ago, too.

Altogether, they've racked up 19 regional championships, made it to the four-team finals 11 times, and were runners-up six times. Anderson is loaded with talent again this year, and despite dropping its last two gomes of the season to Jasper and New Castle, represents a title threat second to none. Coach Keith Lambert can alternate his line-up in platoon-sys-j tern fashion. -His veterans am led by two Negro stars, Roy and Gene Wilson, and Jack Tllley, Fred Cunningham, and Monte: McCune. MADISON, the United Press choice, will be gnnning'for Its; first.

state crown. Coach Kay Eddy Is without the brilliant Dee Monroe and Ed Orrill this year, but has a trio of fine performers in center Spcnce Schnaitter, Ed Cheatham and Ted Server. They closed their season with a record of 16 wins 18 starts, compartlble to last year when they won 17 games and dropped three, Tech wound up the season with a six-gome winning streak, and a. record of 35 victories in 18 starts, to give Coach Herman H'inshaw's boys cause for optimism. Hinshaw lost only Tom Pollom from last year's outfit, headed again by center Charley Engle'rth.

Tech and twice-beaten Southport, the sectional favorites, are in opposite brackets. The chart hasn't held true in the Indianapolis for years, but if it does this year, Tech and Jewell Young's Southport Cardinals will clash in the sectional championship tilt. jCass Couniians Hope To Spring. Auspicious Stari Despite, the fact its record is the poorest of the lot, Coach Max Kelley's Galveston quintet will carry considerable hope and enthusiasm into the 1950 Kokomo sectional tournament starting Thursday night ia Memorial Gymnasium. BiRgest cause of it all is the lact that the Cardinals definitely were an improving ball club at the end of the season.

It's not an uncommon thing in the tournament for the "coming" teama to spring the surprises in the IHSAA's big event, regardless of their records during the regular-season. Witness the Kokomo "Wildcats of last year. COACH MAX KELI-EY'S Card-, inals wound tip the campaign with' a record of only four victories in 19 games. But they whipped power-; Washington Township of Cass I I county and fought tooth and toenail: with Younsr America and Twelve 1 'Mile--two of Cass county's best--I in their last few panics. Their 46-' 41 loss to Twelve Mile in the i a game last Friday night mishti easily have been the upset of the! season.

i The bulwarks of the squad Andy Ronk, a veteran of considerable action with hist year's conquerors of Logansport, and Salmons. The two have been 'dividing the forward chores and leading the scoring most of jseason. Max Jones, Ronald' Bono and; Bob Patterson have been starters' most of the year and have been the whose individual improvement has had most to do with the rapid strides shown by the Cardinals of late. THE CASS COUNTY invaders have fared teidly in competition with prospective sectional opponents, losing twice to Northwestern and once each to Western and Union during the season. Speed is the chief attribute Kelloy's club.

The Cards move; swiftly at all times, pass well a jhave come up with some sterling performances. The fact that the Red and Black I is appearing in the Kokomo section- ol field for the first time this year is an added incentive to the Cuss They'll give their all in an effort to start out with a bang. Greentown, Galveston's first foe at 7 o'clock Thursday night, may be sorry for that. KOKOMO GREENTOWN UNION ELWOOD WESTERN GALVESTON NORTHWESTERN JACKSON Be Sure To Visit THE I A DEN Located at Rear of Gerharfs Drug Store 206 North Buckeye Street WELCOME Northwestern Greentown Galveston Jackson Western Elwood Union TO KOKOMO and the SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT The FASHION 106 WEST WALNUT 106 N. Main St.

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