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'Confidence And Spirit7 CarryMilan Into Finals, Says WoodBy BALE BURGESS IKentuckians—and none of them are. INDIANAPOLIS UP) — Lexington: in the Hoosier finals. Gerstmeyer _ jLafayette of Kentucky, tagged by hasn’t met any of the other final-Kentucky newspapers as the best‘s1?. Muncie Central, Elkhart and high school basketball team in the Milan.country, was deflated a little Friday by Coach Howard Sharpe of Terre Haute Gerstmeyer.Interviewed for a WIRE broadcast by a battery of Indianapolis newsmen, the coaches of the four'Gerstmeyer’s Hoosier state tour- «nallsts were cagy about their ney finalists suffered one of their1p™spe'rts Saturday, two losses this season at the hands! . Marvjn Wood of Milanof Lexington,said he had figured Logansport for■d c-u , ,, ,u . _ , . the championship before the tour-But Sharpe told the annual Indi- ney startedanapolis Kiwanlsbasketball[ lunch-1 „Now that . , theon that his Black Cats plajed at rll wUh Mj] g, h ' )dhc rat?di“f morc than wo°at MuratHe figured JeHmonvilUy Ham-j Coachos Jav McC of Mun. ,mond and East Chicago Washing ,e Centra, Bffl E|khartI ton were stronger than the huge:and sharpt. als0 sajd they Bguredtheir teams had as good a chanceFads, FiguresS fId!Of 44th AnnualState Tourneyas anybody.Bill Fox of the Indianapolis Nev/s asked McCreary if he had any mixed feelings in view of the-fact he helped Frankfort set a record of four championships as a player and since has helped Mun-cie Central tie the record.| “Not at all,” said Jay. ‘TU be I very well satisfied if we set a new 'record tomorrow!”INDIANAPOLIS HwThe finals ofL sharpe shrugged off the idea thate.the 44th Indiana high school bas-;^e.^€ s * ^Inx. a2ain$t the Wabash •vketball tournament in brief: champions winning the statei The scene: Butler , Un»rsityifg-- Field House, opacity MW. j •■-ri.afs just because Volleyc ?e, a r £ :champs m the post generalliI School Athletic Association, cele-:didn.t , a t0„gh schedule,”ibrating its oOto anniversary. ;sil ^ ^ were out d£Coverage: 150 newspapers, 42;their dass when I radio stations, 10 television sta-(State Uam^ We,ve „|en playiDg. i^e better teams.”rne teams: Wood was asked how his small-i jMuncie Central’s Bearcats ] hool team managed to reach ^_Coach: Jay McCreary, Indianajfinata tWQ ^ a row ^University. -big schools had dominated theConference: North Central^ more ^ three decades..(champion) i «.Two things.” he explained,’S: Record. on 21, lost 6. '“confidence and spirit.”le:w* * 6 Herp: FS5wards I The Downtown Indianapolis KS-Ie Hinds, 6-4 and Gene Flowers, 6-3; iwanis Qub presentad its annual.center John C«rteriow M; guarfsj {or an outstanding Hoosier d- Phil Raisor, 5-10, and Jim Barnes,;^ sports tQ Raymond R, (Gaumy)is 51- iNealp DePauw University athletic1 . E^ lru “e ® * -director who is retiring after 35n Coach. Bill Milliner, Manchester.vears as p]ayer, coach and direc-ld College. . ;tor_Conference: Eastern Division, toJd crowd some peoplep : Northern Indiana. ithink sports is a waste of time,: . Record: Won 25 lost 3. '“but I’d like to have another lifed- Probabk kneup: Forwards Ray ^ ^ th(J same
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Anderson, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 20, 1954
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