From good basketball gentleman, Jim Wheeler:
One of my favorite things to do is to go back and read old newspapers and see how they covered the game we all love…basketball.
These articles are taken verbatim from The Daily Banner in Greencastle, Indiana.
I find the writers of yesterday were allowed to write more eloquently than writers today. I know our writers could write like this, or better, but today they are told to just report the details of the game. Today the names of athletes dominate an article, but in this report from 1927, not once in this entire sports page does the writer mention a player’s name. The game was about your team vs. our team, and actually, your community vs. mine.
Ask yourself this question after reading this article: Would Hoosier Hysteria benefit if we cut the sports writers loose to write as writers not reporters?
1927 The Daily Banner, Greencastle
Sullivan, here, Friday!
Brazil, there, Saturday!
Brazil is counting on winning from the Tiger Cubs this week on their small floor. It has been more than a year since the Purple and Gray quintet has practiced on a small floor and the Brazil game there last year and the Cloverdale game this season are the only tilts that the Greencastle athletes have played on a small floor since the erection of the big new gymnasium here. It will be like taking a “fish out of water,” but the Tiger Cubs and Coach Bausman are going to invade the Clay county seat determined to crock the Brazilians even if their gym is nothing more than “a dug-out”, Greencastle fans hope, however, that Brazil will have a new athletic building next winter and will call on the Tiger Cubs to help dedicate it.
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Little is known of Sullivan’s record for this season, but the local basketeers are not expecting any pink tea affair when the huskies from the mining fields play here on Friday evening. The game is called at 7:30 p.m. and there will be no curtain raiser. Remember it is during this contest that a blanket is to be passed for a popular subscription to defray the expense of sending the high school band to the Garfield game at Terre Haute on February 12. Let’s all be there and toss in our pennies, the youngsters deserve it!
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Concerning The Brick
Reports have reached us regarding just how Bainbridge is going to possess the Victory Brick this season. The idea is this-Greencastle is to lose to Brazil and then Bainbridge is to beat the Clay county netters. That may work all right, but wouldn’t the Tiger Cubs get the brick back in the sectional?
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The following clippings from the sports column of the Brazil Times reveal that our old rivals have plenty of respect for us this year, but expect to win the old ball game Saturday night, just the same:
Brazil has plenty of flats-as we say down around the mines, which means lots of work to do. Greencastle’s next opponent defeated the highly touted Rushville team, 40 to 19, and keeps the Victory Brick taken from Washington.
Greencastle is certainly playing a fine brand of ball. After a none too auspicious start. The Tiger Cubs have been improving steadily and it will take the best Brazil has to beat them here next Saturday night.
Greencastle’s spectacular victory over Rushville keeps the Victory Brick at home for another week and gives Brazil a whack at it here Saturday night. Greencastle is playing great ball and Adams’ men will have to do their stuff to defeat the Tiger Cubs.
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Washington and Aleck, especially Aleck, are tickled and by that we mean decidedly tickled. First, the Hatchets had the Victory Brick (before they lost it to Greencastle) and now they copped the Lucky Horseshoe from the Seymour Owls. The Washington girls team also has the feminine Victory Brick. Now the Davies county fans don’t want the Consolation Brick but they do desire the Gimbel Prize. To get that, however, the Hatchets must go to the “cow barn” at Indianapolis. And to get to the “big time” tourney, Washington must first win its sectional and regional meets. How about it, Aleck? Vincennes says “you shall not pass!”
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One of the feature games in Indiana on Friday night of this week is the Shelbyville-Martinsville fray over at the Artesian City gymnasium. Coach Tim Campbell and his basket snipers are going to Martinsville determined to wipe out a defeat sustained earlier in the season. The Martinsville Reporter says concerning the battle: Coach Campbell’s Shelbyville squad will furnish the opposition for the Artesians at the local gym next Friday night. Shelbyville is coming strong; it seems that Martinsville is meeting all the team on the local schedule at a time when they are hitting their peak. Shelbyville is coming with a determination to avenge the defeat handed to them earlier in the season at Shelbyville by the Martinsville boys.
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Following the tournament at Bainbridge we have revised our Big Five for the county as follows:
1. Greencastle
2. Bainbridge
3. Roachdale
4. Cloverdale
5. Fillmore
The feature game for the out-in-the-county teams will be the Monrovia-Bainbridge scrap Monrovia is one of the few quintets that have defeated the North Putnam squad this season and Pruitt’s proteges are out for revenge, Friday night.
One of my favorite things to do is to go back and read old newspapers and see how they covered the game we all love…basketball.
These articles are taken verbatim from The Daily Banner in Greencastle, Indiana.
I find the writers of yesterday were allowed to write more eloquently than writers today. I know our writers could write like this, or better, but today they are told to just report the details of the game. Today the names of athletes dominate an article, but in this report from 1927, not once in this entire sports page does the writer mention a player’s name. The game was about your team vs. our team, and actually, your community vs. mine.
Ask yourself this question after reading this article: Would Hoosier Hysteria benefit if we cut the sports writers loose to write as writers not reporters?
1927 The Daily Banner, Greencastle
Sullivan, here, Friday!
Brazil, there, Saturday!
Brazil is counting on winning from the Tiger Cubs this week on their small floor. It has been more than a year since the Purple and Gray quintet has practiced on a small floor and the Brazil game there last year and the Cloverdale game this season are the only tilts that the Greencastle athletes have played on a small floor since the erection of the big new gymnasium here. It will be like taking a “fish out of water,” but the Tiger Cubs and Coach Bausman are going to invade the Clay county seat determined to crock the Brazilians even if their gym is nothing more than “a dug-out”, Greencastle fans hope, however, that Brazil will have a new athletic building next winter and will call on the Tiger Cubs to help dedicate it.
________________
Little is known of Sullivan’s record for this season, but the local basketeers are not expecting any pink tea affair when the huskies from the mining fields play here on Friday evening. The game is called at 7:30 p.m. and there will be no curtain raiser. Remember it is during this contest that a blanket is to be passed for a popular subscription to defray the expense of sending the high school band to the Garfield game at Terre Haute on February 12. Let’s all be there and toss in our pennies, the youngsters deserve it!
_________________
Concerning The Brick
Reports have reached us regarding just how Bainbridge is going to possess the Victory Brick this season. The idea is this-Greencastle is to lose to Brazil and then Bainbridge is to beat the Clay county netters. That may work all right, but wouldn’t the Tiger Cubs get the brick back in the sectional?
_________________
The following clippings from the sports column of the Brazil Times reveal that our old rivals have plenty of respect for us this year, but expect to win the old ball game Saturday night, just the same:
Brazil has plenty of flats-as we say down around the mines, which means lots of work to do. Greencastle’s next opponent defeated the highly touted Rushville team, 40 to 19, and keeps the Victory Brick taken from Washington.
Greencastle is certainly playing a fine brand of ball. After a none too auspicious start. The Tiger Cubs have been improving steadily and it will take the best Brazil has to beat them here next Saturday night.
Greencastle’s spectacular victory over Rushville keeps the Victory Brick at home for another week and gives Brazil a whack at it here Saturday night. Greencastle is playing great ball and Adams’ men will have to do their stuff to defeat the Tiger Cubs.
__________________
Washington and Aleck, especially Aleck, are tickled and by that we mean decidedly tickled. First, the Hatchets had the Victory Brick (before they lost it to Greencastle) and now they copped the Lucky Horseshoe from the Seymour Owls. The Washington girls team also has the feminine Victory Brick. Now the Davies county fans don’t want the Consolation Brick but they do desire the Gimbel Prize. To get that, however, the Hatchets must go to the “cow barn” at Indianapolis. And to get to the “big time” tourney, Washington must first win its sectional and regional meets. How about it, Aleck? Vincennes says “you shall not pass!”
_______________________
One of the feature games in Indiana on Friday night of this week is the Shelbyville-Martinsville fray over at the Artesian City gymnasium. Coach Tim Campbell and his basket snipers are going to Martinsville determined to wipe out a defeat sustained earlier in the season. The Martinsville Reporter says concerning the battle: Coach Campbell’s Shelbyville squad will furnish the opposition for the Artesians at the local gym next Friday night. Shelbyville is coming strong; it seems that Martinsville is meeting all the team on the local schedule at a time when they are hitting their peak. Shelbyville is coming with a determination to avenge the defeat handed to them earlier in the season at Shelbyville by the Martinsville boys.
_____________________
Following the tournament at Bainbridge we have revised our Big Five for the county as follows:
1. Greencastle
2. Bainbridge
3. Roachdale
4. Cloverdale
5. Fillmore
The feature game for the out-in-the-county teams will be the Monrovia-Bainbridge scrap Monrovia is one of the few quintets that have defeated the North Putnam squad this season and Pruitt’s proteges are out for revenge, Friday night.
