| Show Consolation S Series ries 0 Gets New Interest Chicago Officials Make Plans for 1927 Race In Cage Sport CHICAGO March When U 15 I he 42 teams gather rather A Rl al t the ratty of o Chicago the twenty twenty- twenty ninth ninth ot of o this month for tor the open open- ing opening ng days daye play ln n the ninth annual national Interscholastic basketball meet mett tor for the third thiril year losers In heIr Initial games will find another opportunity of coming back In the division of the tile meet The consolation correlation tour tour- tourney tourney ney w wu be begun In n In 1123 1925 19 and theams the ami ams that have o placed high In Inu Inn u II hae been comparable In every ery way to those which which sot got the breaks and Ind went nt through III fp In the major dl St at George HIgh High ot or Utah e big and strong five won the drat con consolation meet two years go defeating Southeastern of rolt De- De rolt in a a close final game f High ot or Portland Ore took third place from rom the tho Fort Smith ArK Ark Grizzlies by n a com com- comfortable comfortable score acore Last It year Zanesville the Ohio after arter losing to the tournament favorite Newton Ras Ku In the opening round of o the met meet came right back to go straight through to the consola consola- consolation consolation tion championship The Zanes Zanes- Blue awe Devils lIs had bad a tough tight fight In the tho final after riding through to the semi finals com com- corn beating out lAtter day Latter Saints the tho speedy Mormon team from Salt Lake by only 35 It wa was the second point one-point win or the day for the Buckeyes who had won their semi final In Inthe the afternoon from Oak Oale Ridge RidgeT-n RidgeT La Ja 38 to 37 The Southerners took hird place by winning winning- from Can Can- Canton Canton ton Ill Ili 22 to 13 Since the Inauguration of the tournament there has hasben ben been a game every hour from 9 In the he morning until 11 at night the tho first four tour day days of the tho na- na national na national meet on the Bartlett gym foor gam games are aro sand sand- sandwiched In championship section battles and the standards standard s a so even that anyone dropping In on the play could not nol tell whether he ho were seeing a cham championship or consolation game The consolation consolation feature of the tournament Is la paralleled m IU no other meet In basketball It was aa begun by A A A Stagg and Manager FrItz Frill Crisler because they y r recognized the fact that pro pre probus pre pre-lous bus experience In the tho meets tore b tore 1925 had shown that moet moat ot or the teams were of practicallY nil same somo strength and that even eu tier nr a team had lost to another It t t did not not necessarily mean that here litre was any real difference In InNe Ne he comparative strength of o the two teams The tad fact that some of the tile teams bad come great distances from lilt all over the tho country to compete and be beat In their first games also alao al o Influenced the Midway tour tour- tourney tourney tourney ney officials to Institute the con con- consolation consolation competition The wisdom of the tho logic that underlay the move was as well shown In last years year's tournament when three of semi finalists the four consolation were defeated by teams that wept straight through to the last eight ot of the championship section Interest In the consolation tour tour- tourney tourney tourney ney Is on a par with that In the major bracket and the same sarno care Is used In handling the consola consola- consolation consolation tion games gomos as Is the case In the tho title games A A full set of prizes Is awarded ed In the minor Section os as well s as in the major maor |
