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Tourney Fifth Straight TimeBy Vic ForsytheB-BRumph.' w-why^THIS tS THE MOSTOUTRAGEOUSTHING THAT YOUNG IDIOT HAS EVER DONE!!!Fenske, W isconsin May Succeed Cunningham as Qreatest of MilersHash from the *Sports Skilletf hicago —(/P)— Glenn Cunning-hajn and the rest of the cast in foot-racing’s current hit, the greetAmerican mile, can st^rt taking Wisconsin’s “Chuck” Fenske seriously any time now.Cunningham, the old mastered , . miler himself, is enjoying hif ereal-Spring isnt just around the cor- estseason and shows no signs of ner, it’s here! If you don’t believe relinquishing his role. But. when heit, asks Jack Morrissey. His All- does fold up, Fenske, Badger withdistrict Cage TitleStars defeated Clark's Dubs Satur- * a reach»ng. almost abnormally long day, 24-15, in the first kittenball Istnde' is ,ike,y to be around bat-game reported played here this season. Hornsey pitched for the win-! ners and Clark for the losers. Antling for the honors.Breaks Big Ten RecordFenske proved Saturday night Inother sign of spring: T. L. Me- the annual Big Ten indoor chain-tent Champions■ Joynt held practice Sunday after- P*onsh'P meet that he has comeJqJ^ Qoslinfi^S ! n°°n f0r th^Garfield and Milwau-1lon,g wa.y s,n.ce he scored an upsetkee avenue kittenballers.in Final GameTilton Stars on Offense and Defense in 27 to 17 VS in at Watertown.WALLACE WESTLANDrn Wisconsin district high school bas-Arthur Freudenberg, Fort Atkinson; ice Westland, Walwqrth; Joe Sturte-odhead; and Webb Schultz, Delavan. iead won class C championships, while elavan look titles in class B competi-ained the pennant in its own district, le. Sturtevant’s Waterloo cagers re-ig from Poynette in the deciding tilt.Waterloo. Blake’s Brodhead quintet ing Argyle for the crown.It/, all produced double winners, their mips in addition to taking district honors. O'Neil’s Evansville club, un defeated intopped the fieldBy RAY BEACHWatertown—Followers of the Fort Atkinson high school basketball team had barely recovered from the shock of the Southern Six conference championship won by their favorites when they were jarred again. The last jolt was the winning of the Watertown district tournament title Saturday, Fort scoring a convincing. 24-17, victory ovfcr Watertown in the final game.The championships gained by Coach Arthur Freudenberg's cagers are the first in Fort Atkinson high school basketball history.Play Best Ball of Year | Fort played its best game of the year in clinching the district tourney. After spotting Watertown an early 8-1 lead, the Cardinals clicked in championship form and were never headed after eking out a 10-9 advantage at the half.A big third quarter rally which produced 10 points put the game on ice for Freudenberg’s team.Watertown got off to a big lead at the outset on baskets by Smith. Stupka and Grabow and a pair of free throws by Stofflet. while Fort was meshing a single point, a free throw by Tilton. A goal by Captain Pitzner and two beautiful iSticking our neck out, here's the Gazette's all-Whitewater tournament squad of 10 bas-keteers; Paul Srhuette, JEd-gerton, Clifford Gerber, Lake Geneva, Francis Williamson. Delavan, and Philip Deno, Elk-horn, forwards; Harold Reed, Delavan, and Richard Whiting, J-ake Geneva, centers; Orville Reed and Orlo Brown, Delavan, Allen Hoyum, Whitewater, and •fohn Spragia, Elkhorn, guards. And the coach of the all-stars— Webb Schultz of Delavan.mile triumph over a conference field in 1936, and repeated last year,| by setting a new mark of 4 minutes, 11.1 seconds. One of the finest miles ever run inside by an undergraduate, it took an extremely noticeable chunk off the old standard of 4:12.5, posted by Henry Brocksmith, Indiana, in 1932.To make it more convincing, he finished off with an easy victory in j the half-mile, running as he pleased. in 1:55.4.Fenske’s brilliant performance, augmented by an upset triumph in meet record time for his teamma*e, Walter Mehl, in the two milt, accounted for the rout of Indiana’sCaptain Schuette of Edgerton 0,ed a£*5.°f ,he longer distances, was high scorer of the White- S.m',d wa\dlsflu,all«*d ifte,rwater tourney with 24 points, gain-' ,andjng fifth m the nrnle, for fouled on eight baskets and a like num- ng Fenske. Tommy Derkard, ace her of tree throws. Gerber, Lake;ff , he Hoosier forces, finished a Geneva, and Hoyum, Whitewater, badley beaten ^rroild were next, each with 23, with Harold R’eed, Delavan, and Whiting,1 Lake Geneva, right up in there with 22 points each. They were the only players to make 20 or more points. The all-time Quaker district individual scoring record is held by Stewart Browne, Delavan, 36 points in 1935. Browne is attending the University of Wisconsin and plans to go out for the varsity cage team next season.1Q ’ shots b\ Luebke got Fort much in I-To^hffieb, ,un»ing;,h.ch.mr«,™i.in.b |at the end of thei nbut one point the Rock quarter. 'lt;-8.Valley league Foit tightened its defense in the second quarter, Watertown’s offensive efforts in that period consisting of a free tnrow by Smith. Kammer’s free throw and Pitzner’s second basket of the game gave Fort a one point edge at the rest period, lb-9.Tilton on Scoring Spree Tilton took things into his own hands in the third quarter, ringing Webb Schultz ed Fort’s first up three baskets on one-handed Southern Six conference basketball push shots and potting a free throwand went on to take the Stoughton tournament, thump-i n g Stoughton in the final game. Freuden-berg. in his first year at Fort Atkinson. produced Fort’s firstOther tournament scoring statistics: .Most baskets, Gerber, Lake Geneva, 9; Sehuette, Edgerton, Whiting, Lake Geneva, and Hoyum, Whitewater, 8 each; H. Keed, Delavan, 7; and Deno, Elkhorn, 6. Most free throws, Topp, Elkhorn, 10. High teams, Edgerton, 64; Lake Geneva and Delavan, 6S each; Elkhorn, 58; Milton I nion, 57; Whitewater, 56. Most points by a team in one game, Milton Inion against Burlington, 35. Fewest points by a team in one game, Milton Union against Elkhorn, 1*», and Elkhorn against Lake Geneva, 10. Most baskets of meet by teams. Lake Geneva, 25; Delavan, 23. Most free throws of meet by teams, Edgerton, 28; Elkhorn, 20.Mehl Also Sets MarkMehl trounced Smith in the two-mile, in 9:18.3, a tenth of a second faster than the other mark Brocksmith set on his great night in 1932. Deckard, with a mark of 9:04 as his best for the distance, could do not better than fifth.Dave Albritton. Ohio State’s negro high jumping star, gave the meet its other record performance. He won his event at 6 feet, 6’; inches to erase the former mark of 6 feet, 5s* inches, achieved by a former Ohio State mate, Mel Walker. last year.Michigan’s balanced team retained the championship, scoring 3214 points. Wisconsin was second witn26. followed by Iowa, 204: OhioState. 19; Indiana 184; Illinois, 16;Chicago, 6western, 31Purdue. 4; North-and Minnesota, 3.lot of points in the opening quarters and then play defensive basketball the last half. lt;Editor’s note: Delavan rallied in the fourth quarter in all three of its Whitewater district games to coma out on top.)Beloit high school holds tho southern Wisconsin high school record for consecutive district basketball victories 21. The string was snapped on March
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Mon, Mar 14, 1938
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