March 13, 1936 – All District Team
Shady Grove swept to the championship of District Five Saturday
night at Fohs Hall by defeating Tolu 35-25.
In the afternoon session the semi finals, Tolu defeated the
Marion Terrors by a one point margin, 23 to 22 and thus won the right to
enter the finals against the upper bracket winner, Shady Grove.
This game was the most hotly contested and hardest fought of the
meet and especially so because of the fact that both of the
favorites, Marion and Tolu, were placed in the same bracket.
In the opening session Mattoon defeated Frances 16 to 12 and
Shady Grove emerged victorious over Dycusburg 57 to 16.
Friday night
Marion won over Smithland 54 to 6 and Tolu swamped Salem 58 to 8.
The result of these games placed Marion against Tolu in the lower
semi final bracket and Shady Grove and Mattoon in the upper.
Semi Finals
Saturday afternoon, in the semi final play Tolu won over Marion
and Shady Grove beating Mattoon 25 to 17. By far the largest crowds
of the tourney witnessed these two games and not until the final gun
sounded did anyone know the outcome of Marion and Tolu so close was
the score and the play. Both fives resorted to all teaching and
strategy that was at their command with the result that it was the
star game of the meet.
In a game marked by speedy play and featuring Towery, the star
performer of Shady Grove, and the slanting shots of Belt and Hardin,
of Tolu, Shady Grove won the meet and the right to represent the
district in the regional play at Earlington this week. Tolu, the
runner up, is also accorded the right under the ruling of the
association and will likewise enter.
March 20, 1936 – Athlete From Shady Grove is Honored
Player.
Carlisle Towery, pivot man of the Shady Grove quintet, Fifth
District champions was named on three all star teams and second on
another.
Towery, a junior in the school is sixteen years of age and
six feet and three inches tall. He was named on the Crittenden and
Caldwell counties all start five and also that of the Fifth District;
finally concluding the season by being placed on the regional second
group at the meeting at Earlington last week.
Nebo winner, defeated Shady Grove, in one of the opening games
but only after a hard fought battle.
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