The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championshipuntil racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses become overly fond of strippeddown racing cars and Genevieve Rogers Jean Porter suspects her father of being too fond of the school principals secretary Town nerd Bill Kennedy Jimmy Lydon invents a new fuel amidst rumors that horrors the basketball game might be fixed River City is not the only town that has trouble starting with a T and theres not a pool hall in sight