Ted Rush was thrilled to have made his early 1940s high school basketball team in Chicago. But there was one problem.

Basketball practice, Rush recalled in an interview at his Northeast Heights home on Saturday — three days before his 100th birthday — directly conflicted with band practice. And young Ted was as gifted and skillful a clarinetist as Howie Dallmar (look him up, we’ll wait) was a basketball player.

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