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By Eddie Ash
CENTRAL TART OF STATE RULES
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FRANKFORT ADDS TO PRESTIGE
'pHE central part of the state continues to dominate high
school basketball in Indiana. It was that way at the
outset of the tournament plan in Indiana in 1911 and only
infrequently has the champion emerged from other sections.
Vincennes “copped the duke in 1927, the first time the “far
south” won.
Bloomington was “tops” in 1919, but that city is just a
little “olf” the central sphere. Washington has “it” in 1930
to give the “south” added prestige and in 1934 Logansport,
“slightly” north, came through.
In all other years of play the central section captured
the crown. The twenty-sixth “renewal” ended Saturday.
The Frankfort champions were confident, cool and smooth as they
subdued Anderson, 1935 winner, and Central of Fort Wayne. The
Everett Case lads looked like a seasoned college outfit on the court.
Ernest Blood, who coached a wonder team in New Jersey years ago used
to follow the simple code, “get the ball, keep the ball, put the ball in the
baske.” Thr.t describes Frankfort.
The state new hardwood kings were impressive in all departments
of play in the two important games at the Butler fieldhouse They
covered their assignments faultlessly and put so much steam into their
drives for the hoop that big league coaches in the audience felt in a
mood to kidnap the entire team.
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TEN cage coaches and other
prominent college mentors
scouted the games and got plenty
of information to carry home. The
titular contest grew one-sided in
the late stages, but it was worth
something to Just sit there and gaze
at the brilliant attack uncorked as
Frankfort, opened up and pulled the
lever on the hoop. It was a basket
ball rain at the finish.
a a a
. One spectator, delayed in reach
ing the city, puffed before the
fieldhouse doors, found a scalper
outside and reported he paid seven
bucks to see the second half, "I
was supposed to be here,” he ex
plained, “and the delay forced me
to pay through the nose.”
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A FEW ticket “snatchers” got
away with it. One pair of
ducats was snatched out of the
hand of a man shortly before he
reached a gate. The ticket pirate
escaped in the crowd. Anyway, it
was a grand show.
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JOHNNY COONEY. Indianapolis'
gift to the Brooklyn ball club,
collected four hits Saturday as the
Flatbush team defeated the Newark
Internationals. One of Johnny’s
blows went for three sacks.
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Art (The Great), wrestling offi
cial and former major league and
American Association 1)311 player,
will be on the air over WIRE at
5:45 today. Andre Carlon, WIRE
sports announcer, will do the inter
viewing. Talkative Arthur is ex
pected to relate some of his base
ball experiences.
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Mike Kreevich, who hit .345 for
Kansas City last year, is slated
for a regular berth in the White
Sox outfield. He has been up be
fore with the Chicago Cubs, but
took on added class in 1935 in the
American Association.
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Shanty Hogan, huge catcher with
Minneapolis, is going through the
spring training routine, but his
mind Is on opening a tavern in
Boston, his home town. Night hall
during hot weather is too much like
work, thinks Shanty.
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DAVE HARRIS, better known as
Sheriff, who a few years ago
broke up Tommy Bridges’ perfect
game by getting a hit after two out
in the ninth, used to be a cop be
fore entering baseball. Last winter
he signed up with the Atlanta police
force, but turned in his badge this
spring and rejoined the ball club in
the Cracker city.
Three Local Nines Enter
Indiana-Ohio Pro League
Kautskys Arrange to Represent Richmond: Sterlings and
A. B. C.s Prepare for Season, Opening May 10.
Three Indianapolis teams are entered in the Indiana-Ohio semi
pto baseball league, one local nine, the Kautsky A. C.’s, to represent
Richmond. The Sterling Beers and A. B. C.’s will carry Indianapolis
colors. I
Other members are Middletown
(O.) Armcos, last year's champions;
Dayton <O.) Shroyers, Muncie Citi
zens, Dayton (O.) Monarchs and La
fayette Oilers.
The new franchise holders are the
A. B. C.'s, Monarchs and Oilers. All
managers have bolstered their line
ups and the circuit stacks up as the
fastest in years. Several former
big league and minor league pas
timers have been assigned. The
sthedule is to open cn May 10.
Anew ball park under construc
tion in Richmond will be ready by
June 14. In the meantime the
Kautskys will play independent ball
and games are wanted with strong
teams out of town. Write or call
Frank Kautsky, 5500 Madison-av,
phone Drexel 1890.
Practice is to be held at Riverside
Park next Sunday and candidates
are invited to attend.
25 MENTORS SEEKING
BLOOMINGTON BERTH
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. March 30.
—Although the local school board
is to meet tonight, the selection of
a successor to A. L. (Pete) Phil
lips, Bloomington High School
coach, is not likely to be named
for at least 30 days.
The probability of reaching a
decision soon has been foresalled by
the large number of mentors seeking
the .lob. Applications from 25
coaches are to be considered. Tom
Rea, whose Washington Righ
School team lost to Evansville in
the final game of the semi-final
tournament, has been reported in
line for the post.
ROCKWOOD TO PRACTICE
The Rockwood A. C. softball team
will hold its first practice of the
season tomorrow at 5 p. m. at the
Rockwood criamond. Last year s
player* and new tryouts are asked
to report. The team will play in
the Em-Roe Wednesday loop and
the Smith-Hassler-Sturm Twilifeht
League. Call Drexel 5611-W for in
formation. ( '
Evans Gains
French Lick
Links Title
Vet Wins Midwest Amateur
Meet for Second Time
With 227.
By United Pres s
FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind.,
March 30.—Charles (Chick) Evans,
veteran of 25 years’ competition,
held his second Midwestern amateur
golf championship today.
Evans posted a 54-hole total of
227 at the end of medal play com
petition at the French Lick Springs
Hotel hill course yesterday. He fin
ished his Sunday round in 76, four
over par.
Gus Moreland, Peoria, 111., Walker
Cup player, took second with a 228.
He made the final round in 77.
Johnny Lehman, former Western
open champion, lost his putting
touch after a strong start and fin
ished with 236. The defending
champion. George Dawson, Chicago,
posted 235.
Detroit Annexes
Hockey Laurels
15,000 See Wings Capture
League Title.
By United Press
DETROIT. March 30.—The De
troit Red Wings are champions of
the National Hockey League and
finalists in the Stanley Cup play
offs for the world title. They won
both honors last night by virtue of
their third straight victory over the
Montreal Maroons in the first-place
play-offs. The score was 2-1.
More than 15,000 Detroit fans saw
the Red Wings down the Maroons,
top notchers in the league’s Cana
dian division, and win the right to
tangle with the winner of the To
ronto-New York Americans semi
final play-off series, for the Stanley
Cup.
Incidentally the Toronto Maple
Leafs got off to u flying start in
these semi-finals Saturday night by
taking the opening encounter, 3-1,
in this best two-out-of-three-game
series. The first-place series be
tween Detroit and Montreal was on
a best three-out-of-five-game basis.
‘Mixed’ Bout
Put to Test
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THE old argument "Can a
fighter beat a wrestler?” will
be decided, at least temporarily,
tomorrow night at the Armory
where an added feature to the
regular three-bout grappling card
will be the staging of a “mixed”
match.
Contestants will be Art Shires,
210 (above), former major league
ball player and ex-pugilist, and
George (Cry Baby) Zaharias. 240.
Colorado's “meanie” matman.
They are scheduled for ten rounds
of three minutes each with Shires
wearing six-ounce gloves and Za
harias being limited to wrestling
rules.
Pete Schuh, 235, Birmingham
trial horse, will attempt to halt
the “Black Secret,” 220, in the top
mat bout. Frank Speer, 235, At
lanta, goes against Daniel Boone
Savage. 250, Kentucky, hill billy, in
the 45-minute semi-windup, and
Ernie Kelly, 215, Knoxville, op
poses Eddie Newman, 220, New
Yorks in the prelim at 8:30.
Indianapolis Times Sports
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FRANKFORT HIGH SCHOOL SQUAD
Left to right: Glcnwood YVitsman, Ansel Street, James Miner, Merlin Goodnight, Ralph Vaughn, Jay McCreary, John Slaven, Loren
Joseph, Ralph Montgomery, Max Livezey.
Won the Gimbel Prize
A LL-STATE quarterback and
winner of the Gimbel
award for best mental attitude in
the state basketball finals are the
achievements of Steve Sitko,
aoove, w f ho finishes his senior
year at Central High School of
Fort Wayne in June. He scored
16 points in the tw s o games Sat
urday, was the spark plug of the
Tiger team and an outstanding
netcer in all departments of the
gome. He is a champion on a
team that went down fighting aft
er the most successful season in
the history of Fort Wayne high
schools.
Lawson Foresakes
British Amateur
Not to Defend Title, but May
Enter Open Meet,
By United Press
AUGUSTA, Ga., March 30.—W.
Lawson Little Jr., announced today
that he will not defend his British
amateur title.
The big Californian, who scored
31 consecutive match play triumphs
in winning the American and Brit
ish amateurs last year, said, how
ever, he may go abroad for the
British open, and announced def
initely he will enter the United
States open this year.
Little, practicing on the Augusta
national course here for the opening
of the third annual Masters’ tourna
ment Thursday, gave no reason tor
his decision.
Bobby Jor.es, who also is on the
scene practicing .'or his annual re
turn to the competitive field, con
tinued shooting sub-par golf yes
terday. Playing in a foursome, he
followed his Saturday's record
breaking 64 with a 67, five strokes
under par.
Burman Is Given Chance
to Climb Fistic Ladder
Jack Dempsey’s Protege Matched With Light-Heavy
Champion; Young ‘White Hope’ Is Rated Comer.
By United Press
CHICAGO, March 30. —Clarence (K. O.) Burman, a grinning Irish
ring clown until Jack Dempsey took him in tow, today began training
for an overweight match with light-heavyweight Champion John Henrv
Lewis. ,
'The fight, which probably will be
held the first week in April, is a
halfway test for Burman in the Chi
cago Stadium’s elaborately staged
search for a “white hope” to beat
Joe Louis.
Although Burman weighed only
177 poiu.i; for his last fight, his
severe body punching and lightning
left hooks to the face carried him
pßst the best heavyweights in the
tournament and set him up as Chi
cago’s No. 1 white hope.
Burman. who fought in Balti
more as K. O. Bums before Demp
sey became interested in him, plain
ly reflects the mauler's coaching in
his fighting style. He presses in,
risking a blow on the chin for a
shot at his ppponent.
Burman learned his boxing under
Vince and Joe Dundee, former mid
dleweight and welterweight cham
pions. 1
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1936
The end of a long climb which
started one year ago when Coach
Everett Case’s men lost to Rich
mond in the state tournament
was reached when the Fighting
Five from Frankfort captured the
1936 state hardwood champion
ship in the Butler fieldhouse Sat
urday night. A 34-to-18 vic
tory over the defending cham
pions of Anderson and a
50-to-24 triumph over Central of
Fort Wayne in the titular game
Kansas Netters Favored
to Cop Olympic Tourney
A. A. U. Champs Expected to Outclass Other Contenders
When Teams Line Up in New York.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 30.—The Globe Oil Refining quintet of McPher
son, Kas, are favored to win out in the three-day Olympic basketball
finals starting Friday at Madison Square Garden.
The McPherson Oilers will be op
posed by seven teams, including five
college outfits, but the towering Jay
hawkers’ successes in the last three
weeks have branded them as cham
pionship caliber.
The opening draw, pits the Mc-
Pherson Oilers against Temple Uni
versity, lone Eastern contender.
Universal Pictures of Hollywood,
runners-up in the A. A. U. tourney,
tangles with Arkansas University.
Denver Safeways, national Y. M. C
A. title holder, engages Utah State
and Washington U., Pacific Coast
collegiate champ, encounters De
Paul University.
Winners of the McPherson-Tem
ple and Washington-De Paul games
will meet in one semi-final Satur
day night, and victors in the Uni
versal-Arkansas and Denver-Utah
State games t collide in another on
the same evening. The final will
be played Sunday or Monday night.
EXHIBITION BASEBALL
Chicago (N) 4, New York (A) 3
(12 innings).
Boston (A) 3, Philadelphia (N) 2
—(l3 innings).
Pittsburgh (N) 10, Chicago (A) 8.
Washington (A) 13, St. Louis (A)
I—l 6 innings).
Atlanta (S) 4. Philadelphia (A) 3.
New York (N) 2, Cleveland (A) 1.
Brooklyn (N) 6, St. Louis (N) 3.
Louisville (Asn.) 5. Washington
(A) second team) 4—(10 innings).
Detroit (A) 7, Cincinnati (N) 4.
Toronto (Int.) 5, Indianapolis
(Asn.) 4.
St. Paul (Asn.) 5, Buffalo (Int.) 3.
Milwaukee (Asn.) 8, Albany
(Int.) 7.
Rochester (Int.) 1, Montreal (Int.)
o—6 innings).
Newark (Int.) 9, Columbus
(Asn.) 4.
Baltimore (Int.) 7, Minneapolis
(Asn.) 6.
Malone, Zennie in
Tomlinson Windup
Eddie Malone of New York is to
oppose Edmund Zennie in the final
event of the light heavyweigh mat
show at Tomlinson Hall tonight. In
the first of the two feature events
Johnny Carlin, local veteran, meets
Del Wilkins of Columbus, O. Both
bouts will be two out of three falls
with a 90-minute time limit. In a
one-fall, 30-minute, event opening
the card. Bob Brown of Detroit
meets Bob Blake of Cleveland.
3 GET HOLE-IN-ONE
Timts Spretnl
NORFOLK. Va., March 30.—1 t
was a “hole-in-one” day here yes
terday, with three golfers dropping
tee shots in the cup at the Ocean
View Country Club.
gave the Clinton County team 23
straight victories. A loss to Tip
ton and a tie with Tech are the
only blemishes in a campaign of
31 games this year. The new title
holders are pictured above with
the plaques which symbolize Hoo
sier net supremacy. The nets
through which the Frankfort lads
poured the winning points are
shown in the hands of Street and
Vaughn. In foreground is the
shield awarded by the Indiana
High School Athletic Association.
Indians Lose
Close Battle
Toronto Bunches Hits and
Takes Game, 5-4, at
Haines City.
Times Special
WAUCHULA, Fla., March 30.—The
Tribe pastimers of Indianapolis
were back at their spring training
camp here today to take on the St.
Paul Saints in an exhibition after
spending the week-end on the road.
The Indians lost to Columbus at
Avon Park Saturday, 16-13, and
then got nosed out yesterday at
Haines City, 5-4, by the Toronto In
ternationals. The Hoosiers pound
ed the ball hard in both tilts, but
their pitchers were erratic and the
opposition bunched hits to win.
In the contest yesterday the Tribe
| sters collected 12 blows to nine for
the Leafs, but too many runners
w r ere left stranded. Tinning, Bolen
and Page shared the Indians’ mound
work against Pattison and Lucas.
Bob Kahle, Richmond lad, paced
the Hoosiers at bat with two singles
and a triple. He played shortstop
in place of Otto Bluege. Harris and
Bouza, outfield rookies, each con
nected for two doubles.
In Saturday’s Avon Park exhibi
tion the Tribe got 11 safeties to 12
for Columbus. Score yesterday:
Indianapolis x . 010 002 010—4 12 3
Toronto 112 v)0I OOx—s 9 0
Tinninp, Bolen, Page and Crandall,
Egerer; Pattison, Lucas and Heath,
Crouch.
Wentitling Cracks 97
in Target Shoot
George Wendling broke 97 out of
100 targets at the regular Sunday
afternoon shoot to take high hon
ors at the Indianapolis Gun Club.
Smith annexed the 50-target event
with a4B score. Other scores fol
low:
100-Target Payton, 89:' Tubbs,
88; Hargitt, 86; Alig, 85; Leon
ard, 84; Schuhardt, 82; Hickman,
80; Ridlen, 64.
25-Target Handicap—Smith, 23;
Wendling, 22; Leonard, 22; Tubbs,
21; Havens, 19.
Columbus Walther
Teams Win Titles
Columbus holds the 1936 basket
ball championship of the Walther
League in both divisions, following
victories over Fort Wayne in the
senior and junior final tournament
games Saturday night.
Fort Wayne forced the Columbus
senior squad into an overtime to
win, 32 to 28. The Columbus junior
team eliminated the Fort Wayne
representatives, 33 to 24.
GRANT, ALLISON FAVORED
Times Special
HOUSTON, Tex., March 30 Bry
ant Grant, defending champion, is
favored along with Wilmer Allison,
| nation’s top-ranking player in 1935,
| to capture the annual River Oaks
tennis title, in the tournament which
i opens here today.
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He Coached the Winners
WISE teaching by a great
coach put the Frankfort
High School. team on the cage
throne in Indiana, Everett Case,
abovei brought a master machine
to the fieldhouse Saturday and
gave the customers a look at sup
erlative basketball. His lads
dominated the play afternoon and
night and convinced everybody
they are entitled to be ranked as
one of the greatest teams in the
history of the sport in Hoosier
dom.
The Fighting Five is made up of
sturdy, durable and agile athletes
who know how to gain possession
of the sphere and guide toward
the hoop with no lost motion.
Terre Haute Pugs
in Return Bouts
Five to Appear on Amateur
Card Thursday.
Roy Wallace’s weekly amateur
boxing show scheduled for Tomlin
son Hall Thursday night will feature
a team of five boys from Terre
Haute. Three of the boxers, Joe and
Johnny Benna ana Ivan Hunt,
fought here two weeks ago and made
a hit with the fans. Joe lost an
unpopular decision to Harry Brown
in the feature four-round bout and
Johnny and Hunt won over local j
opponents.
Joe Benna will appear in the |
four-round main event this week j
and Matchmaker Wallace is seeking '
a fast welterweight to oppose him. j
Johnny, a lightweight, will meet
Jimmy Krukemeier of the South
Side Turners in three rounds and
Hunt, a heavyweight, will meet an
opponent yet to be chosen.
Other scrappers who will appear
are Donald Dean and Chuck Miller
of Terre Haute; Bob Blue, South
Side Turners; Wally Ricks, un
attached; Johnny Parrish, Real
Silk; George Watson, unattached;
Basil Baer, Brightwood A. C.;
Johnny Roberts,' unattached; Ray
McCloud, unattached, and Tommy
Davidson, unattached.
Cox Meets Brown
Times Special
NEW ORLEANS, La., March 30.
Tracy Cox and Willard Brown, two
welterweights from Indianapolis,
are to renew a feud tonight in a
ten-round windup match on the
local boxing card. Brown whipped
Cox on a decision last December
at the Hoosier Capital.
Umpire Eggleston Is
Added to A . A. Staff
Times Special
AVON PARK, Fla., March 30.
George Trautman, president of the
American Association, on , a visit
here with the Columbus Red Birds,
today announced the signing of
Umpire Harry Eggleston of Roches
ter, N. Y. The A. A. umpires are to
meet with Trautman in Louisville,
Ky., on April 11 to receive final
instructions.
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ALTERATION 1
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“Prepped" at Oak Ridge
Lowell Dean, a rookie ball player with the Phila
delphia Athletics, is a product of Oak Ridge Military
Academy, where Wesley Ferrell, Boston Red Sox mound
ace, first attracted attention.
Casemen Are Superior Over
All as Smooth Net Machine
Clicks in Titular Tourney
Clinton County Lads Annex State Basket Championship
in Decisive Fashion, Disposing of Anderson and
Fort Wayne; Campaign of Glory Concluded.
Times All-Tourney Fives
FIRST TEAM
Ralph Vaughn Frankfort Forward
Jay McCreary Frankfort Forward
Ralph Montgomery Frankfort Center
Steve Sitko .Tort Wayne Guard
William Miller Anderson ..Guard
SECOND TEAM
Paul Armstrong Fort Wayne ..Forward
Billy Jackson ........Anderson Forward" 1
Virgil Riddle Fort Wayne Center
James Mirer Frankfort Guard
Gene Hersehelman Evansville Guard
BY HARRISON MILLER
The Strange Case of Frankfort again is Indiana’s best seller.
Prematurely gray at 35, the shrewd gentleman from Clinton County
has re-established himself and Frankfort High School on the pinnacle
of Hoosierdom with one of the finest broods of hardwood talent ever
assembled for a state championship.
The perplexing Mr. Case and his
enigmatic cohorts today share the
all-time limelight of the Indiana
basketball kingdom. The 50-to-24
conquest of a spirited Central team
of Fort Wayne Saturday night in
the twenty-sixth annual state high
school tournament finals in the
Butler fieldhouse emphatically cul
minated a campaign replete with
glory.
The decisiveness of the triumph
catapulted Mr. Case and Frankfort
to the heights. By repeating the
championships of 1925 and 1929, the
school ranks with Lebanon, Mar
tinsville ana Franklin which have
laid claim to three state diadems.
W’agner, Curtis, Case
The man of destiny, Everett N.
Case, in booting his third winner
home, ascends the throne held by
the late “Grizz” Wagner and Glenn
Curtis. Case, Wagner and Cutris
are the only mentors to scale the
heights on at least three occasions.
Franklin’s “Wonder Five” which
annexed the crown in 1920, 1921 and
1922 were the product of Wagner.
Curtis gave Lebanon one of its
titles and then moved to Martins
ville to develop the champions of
1924, 1927 and 1933.
It was a personal vindication for
Coach Case, who four years ago left
the scene of his triumphs to assist
Sam Barry at Southern California.
Last year he returned to a com
munity which likes a winner, but
lost to Richmond in the first round
of the finals.
Team Has Everything
The 1936 champion is as near a
perfect team as ever performed in
the classic. Embodying height,
speed, smooth-functioning attack
and a strong defense, the Casemen
were a super team. Confidence and
precision oiled the maneuvers of the
quintet as it swirled relentlessly to
its winning margins in the two bat
tles Saturday.
Old-time fans were quick to rank
the team next to the Wonder Five
of Franklin. The points accumu
lated in the contest with Fort
Wayne fell one short of equalling
the all-time record for a titular
game. Lebanon defeated Franklin,
51 to 11, in 1912.
The aggregate points of the titular
contest, however, set anew mark.
The 74 scored by ihe two teams is
the largest in the history of cham
pionship games.
Makes Fight of It.
Although Frankfort easily was the
class of the tourney, commendation
is due the scrappy Tigers of Fort
Wayne. Deprived of the tip-off,
Coach Murray Mendenhall’s routed
sharpshooters waged a dogged bat
tle to forestall the apparent defeat.
Big Ralph Montgomery, gaunt
center on the winners, controlled
the tip-off throughout the conflict
and started the Frankfort offense by
gaining possession of the ball. The
absence of good big centers among
the opposition paved the way for
Frankfort’s drive. The six-foot
three-inch pivot start of Frankfort
was unrestrained under the back
board.
Nine times in the titular fracas
he batted rebounds through the
hoop. Adding one fre£ throw, he
captured individual high honors of
the tourney With 19 points. He was
the tower around which the attack
revolved. Capt. Jay McCreary and
Ralph Vaughn, high scorers of the
North Central Conference, gave im
petus to the Hot Dog drive.
Vaughn Close Up
Dashing under the goal on open
ings cut in the opposition by Case’s
set-plays, Vaughn and McCreary
tallied on easy shots or fed the ball
to a mate. Neither Vaughn, Mc-
Creary nor Montgomery can be de
nied in the selection of an all-state
mythical team. Vaughn registered
14 points against Anderson and 12
against Fort Wayne to fall only
two points behind Montgomery,
who amassed 28 points in the tour
ney.
Fort Wayne, with neither height
nor a leading pivot man, resorted
to a fast breaking, wild-shooting of
fense which has carried the up
staters through the preliminary
tournaments. They trailed the pen
nant-bound Hot Dogs, 11 to 8, at
the end of the first quarter and still
clung close, 21 to 14, at the inter
mission.
Steve Sitko, captain and high
scorer, of the Tiger squad was the
only Central player able.to connect
with consistency. Four times he
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drove through Frankfort to twist
the ball through the hoop.
His brilliant performance earned
him the Jake Gimble award for
mental attitude and outstanding
performance. Sitko also gained rec
ognition last fall as an all-state
quarter back.
Coach Mendenhall continued to
use his abundance of reserve ma
terial in the second half, hoping
that fresh speed would wear down
the husky Frankfort team, but the
vaunted Tigers, although connect
ing on a percentage of long shots,
were handicapped under the basket.
Frankfort, an opportune team,
could not be stopped and the third
period ended with the score 34 to 20.
Anderson, the defending cham
pion, faltered in the afternoon tus
sle. Hughes and Higgenbatham
were unable to score a field goal,
and the attack of the Chaddmen
was carried by Jackson and Miller.
Frankfort won, 34 to 18.
Afternoon Games
Frankfort went into a 5-to-0 lead
at the start, swept to an 11-to-2
margin at the end of the quarter,
and withstood an Indian rally io
lead, 18 to 12, at intermission.
Scoring fell off in the third quar
ter. Vaughn hit from the field for
the Hot Dogs, and Fisher and Jack
son connected for Anderson. At
the start of the last quarter, Frank
fort came into its own, rolling up
12 straight points. A field goal by
Jackson was Anderson’s only mark
in that period.
Fort Wayne had little trouble with
Evansville in the opening game,
breaking loose with a barrage of
shots in the second quarter to hold
a 25-to-15 lead after the Golden
Bears had knotted the count at 11-
all. The final score was 36 to 31.
Armstrong, Sitko and Schaeffer
shone for the Tigers. HferscheJ
man. Bosse and Nicholson were out
standing for the Wakefield-coached
squad.
As the Curtain Fell
Frankfort (50) Fort Wayne (24)
FG FT PF JPQ ft pw
McCreary,f.. 3 0 2 Paul.f l o 1
Vaughn f .54 llMotter.f.l 0 o
Montgo’ry.c. 9 1 l Riddle.c i 2 2
Joseph.g ii l sitko.g 4 l a
Miner,g .... 2 2 1 Schaefer.g... 0 2 1
Lavezey.g.... oo (j Braden.f ... l l i
street,g 1 o. 0, Armstrong,!.. 0 2 1
!Bourne, t 0 O' 1
Kftbsich.g.... 0 0 0
Totals ..'. 21 8 6! Totals "g *g
throws missed: McCreary, Vaughn.
Montgomery, 2; Armstrong. * *
—Score by Periods—
Frankfort n 21 34
Fort Wayne ......... g 14 20 It
Glenn Adams; um
pire. Nate Kaufman.
PATH TO THRONE
—Frankfort’s Record
Frankfort, 28; Dunkirk, 19.
Frankfort, Jfi; Tipton. 21.
Frankfort, 23; Anderson, 17.
Frankfort, 49; Delphi, 19.
Frankfort, 34; Muncie, 23.
Frankfort, 21; Logansport, 17.
Frankfort, 4t; Lebanon. 17.
Frankfort, 31; Tech, Indianapolis,
(double overtime tie).
Frankfort, 30; Kokomo, 13.
Frankfort. 83; Marion. 17.
Frankfort, 46; Lafayette, 18.
Frankfort, 37; Newcastle, 19.
Frankfort, 45; Lebanon, 16.
Frankfort, 28; Kokomo, 17.
Frankfort, 22; Anderson, 18.
Frankfort, 33; Lafayette, 24.
Frankfort, 31; Richmond, 21.
Frankfort, 30; Muncie. 24.
Frankfort, 23; Horace Mann, Gary, 2*.
Frankfort, 34; Logansport, 20.
Frankfort, SS; Martinsville, 22.
Frankfort, 32; Connersville, 28.
—Sectional Tournament—
Frankfort, 57;. Scircleville, 15.
Frankfort. 38; Miehlgantown, 9.
Frankfort. 40; Rossville. 13.
—Regional Tournament—
Frankfort. 52; Lebanon, 12.
Frankfort, 48; West Lafayette, 12
—Semi-final Tournament
Frankfort, 85; Froebel, 39.
Frankfort. 28; Logansport. 27.
Final Tournament
Frankfort. 34; Anderson. 18.
Frankfort, 50; Central, Fort Wayne, 24
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