Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Mar 1929, p. 14

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w ·l LM E T T E LIP E March 1, 1929 New Trier Cagers Prepare for Tournament Make Pairings for Basketball Tourney at New Trier High Trimmed Several Tourney Entries Strong Prep Squads Ready for Battle in New Gymnasium Ten teams have already announced their intentions of entering the Northern Illinois Basketball tourname!nt (New Trier district) in the Leslie F. Gates gymnasium at New Trier High school Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 7, 8, and 9. The tournament is the first of its kind ever held at New Trier, and elaborate preparations are being made for the entertainment of the visiting teams. A faculty committee is working on plans for the event, and letters have been written to coaches and principals inviting schools of the district to enter the tournament. The Girls' club of New Trier High school will publish a souvenir program for the .tournament. Drawings for the district basketball tournament to be held in the Leslie F. ' Gates gymnasium of New Trier High school next week have been made by C. W. Whitten, manager of the Illinois High School Athletic association. Antioch and Wauconda will open the tournament Thursday night, March -7. with a game at 8 o'clock. A clash between Waukegan and Des Plaines, at 9 o'clock, will furnish the remainder of the evening's attraction. New Trier will play its first tournament game at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. Mar-ch 8, with Libertyville as the opponent. Other games scheduled f<lr Friday are: Palatine vs. Lake Zurich at 4 p. m.; Arlington Heights vs. winner of Waukegan-Des Plaines clash at 9 p. m., and Warren Township High school of G~rnee, Ill., vs. winner M Antioch- Wauconda game at 8 p. m. The semi-finals will be played Saturday afternoon, March 9, beginning at 3 o'clock, ·and the finals at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening. The two losers in the semi-finals will meet in a preliminary game at 7 :30 p. m. to decide third place standing in the tournament. New Trier and Waukegan, tournament favorites, would meet in the final game Saturday night, provided Warren Township High School, of Gurnee, Ill., will enter the tournament they eliminated other championship at New Trier with a record of nine victories and five defeats thus far this contenders. season. Warren has whipped Antioch twice, Barrington twice, the Warren Teams entered to date: Wauke- alumni twice, Pal~tine and Wauconda twice. The team has lo3t to Libertyville gan, Libertyville, Palatine, Arlington twice, Crystal Lake, Arlington Heights, and Franklin Park. Squad members Heights, Wauconda, Lake Zurich, An- shown in the picture are: "Doc" Smith, holding basketball; front row-Dixon, tioch. Des Plaines, Gurnee (Warren Hall, Oaptain Strid, Steadman, and Gehrke; back row-Smith, Panzer, Edwards, Coach R. P. Kelton, Hel!11, and Hook. township). and New Trier. Plan Entertainment for Ca~e Tourney Contenders The Tri-Ship club, boys' organization of New Trier High school, which has charge of entertainment for visiting bas'<etball players at the district tournament at New Trier next week, has been busv this week making plans for the event-. Five hoys representing the club-Arthur Wienecke.· George Cogswell, David Hicks, John Betak. and Sanf!uine.t Williams-were sent out to visit all schools entered in the tournament, to meet t;e princiPals. coaches, and players, · nd tci inform them concerning trar ,:;portation ~nd other facilities. The schools visited were: Palatine, Antioch, Waukegan, Gurnee, Libertyville, Arlington Heights, DesPlaines, Wauconda, and Lake Zurich. ... I I ______ A_n_t_io_c_~_B __ o_ys __ JV_,_·u __ Af_a_k_e__ T_r_ou_b_l~e----~~~.--------P--al_a_t'_·n_e~T-h_r_e_a_t'_·n_T __ ou_r_n_e_Y_________ Antioch High school is expected to cause trouble for other teams entered in the tournament at New Trier. Antioch has won eleven out of thirteen pretournament games this season, beside.; winning the annual tournament sponsored by the Northwest High School Basketball conference. Only one team, the Warren Township High school of Gurnee, Ill., ha'3 been able to defeat Antioch by close scores of 15 to 14 and 23 to 17. The Antioch aggregation holds victories over Bensenville, Richmond, Palatine, Ela, Arlington, Libertyville, Wauconda, Leyden, Lake Zurich and the Antioch alumni. Players 'shown in the picture are: front row-Murrie, Cremin, Captain Wertz, Steininger, and Sheehan; back row-Folbrick, McNeil, Bown, Mastne, and Dalziel. Manager An zinger is standing at the left of the picture and Coach Reed is standing at the right. Palatine High ·school boasts a record of ten victories in fourteen starts. The first team, according to Harrison A. Kincaid, Palatine coach, is composed of three sophomores, one ju~ior, and one senior, most of last year"3 regulars having been lost by graduation. The following teams are listed among Palatine's victim3 this year: Wauconda, Lake Zurich, Barrington, Libertyville, Arlington, Warren, and Bensenville. Palatine has dropped games to York High school of Elmhurst, Leyden and Antioch. Shown in the picture are Coach Kincaid and the following squad members: Dalton Kruse, captain, Harri-s Reigeson, Harold Meyer, Myron Helgeson, George LeFever, and George Smith, forwards; Elmer Mess, . George Shobaz, and Orville Helms, center3 ; Wilfred Cole, Walter Warriner, Gilbert Smith, Joe Shobaz, and Paul Ketterman, guards. was 22 years old, when he came to Chicago as vice-president and sales manager of the Royal Colliery company. It was just a year ago that Mr. Maloney was called back to Philadelphia to become president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, the same company which he started as a boy. with Former Kenilworth Man ·Ia · Praiaecl in Magazine Story Ia the March number of the Amer· ican Magazine is an article by Sherman Gwinn on the life of Andrew KaJoney who for many years was a re.ident of Kenilworth. Mr. Maloney left Kenilworth about a year ago to become president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company. In this article Mr. Gwinn tells how Mr. Maloney w_ent to work in the mines at the age of 11 years. He worked there all through his boyhood, doing his studying at night until he Miss Betty Houren, 838 Cherry street, Winnetka, attended the Washington Birthday dance at Notre Dame, last Friday.

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