March Madness family style ect.

The other day while it was still almost 40 degrees above zero and just before the whole lake was socked in with dense fog, 2 beautiful big swans flew in and walked around on the ice. They made their way over to the open water close to the park. I guess there was a reason for them to be there and soon they were gone. The fog erased the girl scout cabin, a stones throw away, wafting in and out all morning.

Our primary source, Uncle Jack, was so generous taking the time to write a short article about how the Anglins were involved with basketball. He named it "Anglin Brothers Basket Ball" ( By John H. Jack Anglin). Anything in parentheses was plugged in by me.
" In the early 1930s Atwood, Indiana had a good Independent basket ball team. They were good enough to play exhibition games against Semi-Pro teams such as The New York Rens, the Ft. Wayne Incas and the Lafayette Lambs. In the spring of 1931 or '32 they entered the Independent
State Tourney at Tipton, In. advancing to the Semi-finals, losing by a narrow margin.
There were four Anglin brothers on that team, -Monk,Suze, Dal and Wop.
In the spring of 1934 a sixth brother, Wendell, graduated from high school.
The Anglin Brothers basket ball team was formed by Dale, Monk, Suze, Dal, Wop and Wendy.
Their father, Wash, acted as coach.
Their first public appearance as a team was an independent tourney at Bourbon on wednsday nite Feb. 7-1934. They were defeated by Etna Green 15 to 12. Through the remainder of the Spring of 1934 ,-then in the fall of 1934 and spring of 1935 the brothers played in several benefit and fund raiser games, including 1/2 a game against the Harlem Globe trotters who had been booked by the Bourbon school as a fundraiser. The faculty of the school played the other half of the game. The brothers team then retired because all were married and had families except Wendell.
In the spring of 1939 the youngest of the Anglin family, Jack, graduated from Atwood High
School and IHSAA restrictions. Brother Bill had graduated in 1937 and was already playing independent ball At that time Plymouth had a sporting goods store operated by Don Stephenson called "Don's Parlor". It was a hang-out for all young sports minded youth.
Don had become acquainted with Jack through summer soft ball games which had been played at both Bourbon and Plymouth. Don was a promotor of sports and sponsored a basketball tourney in the spring of 1939. Don called Jack to see if he could get enough of his brothers together to play in the tourney as a drawing attraction of interest. So Jack, Bill, Wendell, Dal and a couple of Anglin cousins from Leesburg forming an Anglin team for Don Stephenson's tourney.
We lost the first game but the mission had been accomplished and the era of the Anglin brothers basketball had come to an end."
(Uncle Jack has more to say about this great guy- Don Stephenson next post)