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EXPECT MORE THAN ’38 THRONG OF 30,000 Af WEEK-END TITLE PLAYBellefontaine Cagers Are Only Ones To Escape Logan County Influenza Epidemic—Dayton Coach Wears Overcoat On Bench — Battle Begins ThursdayBy FRITZ HOWELLAssociated Press Sports WriterCULL MBUS, O., March 15.— Basketball briefs on the scholastic cage scramble coming up Thursday. Friday and Saturday!Attendance: Commissioner H. R. Townsend predicted today th* j high school classic would set a new attendance and receipts record, erasing the 30,036 customers and *16.824.39 cash marks of 1938.Luckiest team: Bellefontaine. which won 17 and lost one forthe second best Class A record.4* —The Logan county schools were*\r) i!-1 r l|I*i rclosed because of Influenza 30 minutes after the team left by bus for the Dayton district tourney. All other county schools were banned from play in the class B meet atSpringfield, and only Bellefon-talne’s victory over Chaminade in the Dayton opener prompted officials to allow the club to continue. Result—Bellefontaine's first trip to the Columbus event. By the way. the Bellefontaine center. Don Otten, is six feet seven inches tall —and a whit.Dayton Coach’s CharmThe man to watch: Coach Raymond ‘Doc” Pumphrey of Dayton FalrVlew. former U. of Illinois athlete Doc” wears his overcoat on the bench, no matter what the thermometer says, and eats countless peanuts while the hoys rack up the points.Twins: Two sets of twins willcompete, (inward and John Thompson caging points for Sandusky St Marys. 1936 class B champ, and Clayton and Clyde Arn doing the same for Dunkirk, which makesIts debut under year’s classic.Ohio State, three from unattachedcolleges, and five from outside the state. •The coaches:Class A: Bexley, Carltou H.Smith of Ohio Wesleyan: Bridgeport, Stan Plummer of Wittenberg: Akron Buchtel. A. R. Porosky of Otterbein; Akron Garfield, Corl J. Zimmerman of Mt. Union; Akron North, Luther Hosfield of Oberlln; Bryan. Cloyce E. Taylor of Findlay; Findlay. Carl C. Backnian of Bowling Green; New Philadelphia Paul Hoerneman of iieidelber Mansfield. J. it. Murphy of Cot j rado university: Toledo Devilbiss, l,ars Wagner of Oberlin; Portsmouth. Paul Jenkins, U. of Kentucky; Bellefontaine. H. A. Dodd of Wilmington; Cincinnati Roger Bacon, J. A. Wiethe of Xavier; Dayton Fairview. Ray Pumphrey of U. of Illinois; Cleveland Shaw, RoxMiami, and Massillon, of Miami.Green township. Ken-of Ohio U.; Dunkirk, of Bowling Green;Wisecup of Paul Brown Class B; neth JonesJohn IhnatNova. Harvey Graham, of Ohiothe big tent in thin state; Amanda, Everett Fahren-i Itolz of Capital; North Canton. R.First-timers: ledo DevilbissBr!Bt5IesII*lt;Bexley. Bryan. To-and Bel!efontalue will make their first state tourney starts this year in class A. while 10 of the class B quintets will be here for the first time. Only Upper Arlington, North Canton, Maumee. Sandusky St. Marys, Glenford and Union City of the minor leaguers have appeared previously. Sandusky taking the title in 1936 and Arlington being crowned in 1937.Birthdays: Five players will haveA. Swope of Mt. Union; Dillonvale,Edgar Hickman of Union (Ky.) college; Maumee, Clifford Conrad of Bowling Green; Harpster. Kenneth E. Somerlot of Miami; Upper Arlington, Walter B. Heischman of Capital; Rittman, Philip C. Young of Wooster; Sandusky St. Mary's, Lee L. Zierolf of Dayton; Glenford, Nolan --P. Swackhammer of Ohio university; Monroe. W’. L. Thies of Ohio Stale; Spring Valley, J. W. Waddle of Cedarville; Union City, Paul D. Lahue of Indiana U., andExhibition Baseballp0fp1dehirthdays during the tourney, and each hopes to celebrate by winning Dennison. Glen O. Furbay of Musa title. They are Don Tippett of I kingutn.Bexley, George Nickolson of Akron Buchtel and Ken Huddleston or Dayton Fairview in Class A, and Evan Clark of Glenford and Ray Goodrich of Maumee in class B.Charley Swihart of New Philadelphia becomes 2ft tomorrow and is ineligible for play because of theage limit.Portsmouth Boasts Begt RecordBest record: Of the “veterans'’ in the big scramble. Portsmouth has the best record. The TrojansAt Tampa: Cincinnati (N) 9. St. Louis (N) 2.At Clearwater, Fla.: Brooklyn(N) 6. Boston (A) 3.At New Orleans: Cleveland (6. New Orleans (SA) 1.yeilfI-nKI*spnrgstsdcsejare making their sixth appearance.In 1925 they lose in the first round, and in 1927 they dropped the second game. They reached the semi-finals in 1929. but copped the championship lnl931. nosing out Cunton McKinley 20-19. In 1934 they reached the finals again, but lost to Dayton Roosevelt, 46-30, in the titlescrapTightest game: The feature of the first round, in class A, looms as the one between Findlay and Massillon. Each team has won 16 and lost five. Massillon had an offensive average of 32 1 points to Findlay’s 31.0 for ihe season, while Massillon’s defensive mark of 24.5 was Just four-tenths of a point over Findlay’s If season s records mean anything, (and they don’t as a rule) It looks like a deadlockTwo-sporters: Toledo Devilbiss,which upset it* way into the class A division, has eight footballers on the squad of 10 The Tigers won 15 and lost seven during the campaign and several of the defeats were toughies. One was by a single point, two by two points, one by three another by four.Certainty: Rain won’t Halt play this season as it did two years ago. The fairground* Coliseum has anew roof.Hello, Stranger — May we help you find a room, apartment or bouse? 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