Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1945 — Page 6

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Sectional Tournament To Open Tonight

Annual Slate Net Classic Opens Tonight

Indianapolis, Feb. 22. — (UP) — "Hoosier madness” reaches a fever pitch tonight as ithe 35th annual Indiana high school basketball tournament gets under way. A star-studded opening night field will raise the curtain on the month-long extravaganza of the Indiana high school athletic association. Jasper. Indianapolis Tech, Gary Lew Wallace, Elkhart, South Bend Riley and Hammond high were the standout contenders scheduled for action on the first night of the three-day sectional tournaments. Tlie first night schedule also featured eight former champions— Fort Wayne South, Font Wayne Central, Hammond Tech, Vincen-i ties, Logansport, Washington, New Castle and Lebanon. None of them figured to cause much disturbance ! in this season’s tourney, however. I One of the six undefeated smaller j school combinations was to stait playing “for keeps” in the staite’s i greatest sporting event. Waynetown, a semi-finalist test ■ season, risks its 19th game skein! against New Ross at Crawfords-; ville. Other strong quintets play to- j night, particularly at Terre Haute,; Indianapolis, Mitchell and South Bend. But In the main, however, 1 the Opening 159 games of the 775-; game tourney were devoid of any- j thing but “drees rehearsal” inter-: eat. None of the major contenders; figured to come a cropper this early on the always-to-be-expected wave 1 of Upsets. Record-breaking crowds were in-1 dlcated at all sectional centers playing tonight. The Cannelton' meet was condensed to three sess-' ions, cutting the opening night field from 64 centere to 63. Capacity turnouts were expected elsewhere, though, indicating that an all-time opening night attendance high might be set. Indianapolis, for example, expected a 12,500 turnout. The bulk of the sectional schedule will be run off tomorrow, with ( semi-finals and finals set for Saturday. ReglonaJs, semi-finals and . finals of the state meet follow on successive Saturdays. Indianapolis Tech’s Big Green faced the toughest task tonight among the A-l contenders for honors Carried off a season ago by the Bulldogs from Evansville Bosse. Tech, plays Beu Davis, champion of Maijon county. The IIISAA draw fed tiny Ireland do the Jasper Wildcats in a 7 p. m. 1 game. Gary Lew Wallace warms up for its stiff sectional test against Morgan township. South Bend Riley takes on Madieon township. Elkhart drew Wakarusa and Hammond high tangles with Griffith. A fault of one-millionth of an hjeh in. one of the tiny balls in the ball bearing in the bombsight tilting device in a B-17 Flying Fortress would cause the bombardier to miaa his target by several hundred yards from 20,000 feet at 200 miles I an hour.

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10 Teams Vie For Sectional Championship

- iDecatur'e sectional tournament, :■ I with 10 Adams county teams twttlI ing for the tourney championship. ! will open at 7 o'clock this evening j at the Yellow Jackets gymnasium. ; j The Kirkland Kangaroos and ■ ; Pleasant Mills Spartans will clash ■ in the tourney opener, the second year in a row that Pleasant Mills has drawn the opening encounter. lu the second game tonight at 8 o'clock, the Geneva Cardinals, county champions, will meet the Monroe Bearkatz. tPlay will be resumed at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, with the Decatur Commodores meeting the weak Jefferson Warriors. In the second Friday afternoon tilt, the Monmouth | Eagles will tangle with the Hartj ford Gorillas. The Decatur Yellow Jackets and ! Berne Bears will mix baskets in the ! first Friday night game at 7 o’clock | in what may be one of the feature tilts of the entire sectional. These ■ teams have met three times during I the season, with Berne copping the : long end of the score twice. Winding up the Friday night ses- ■ sion, the winners of tonight's Kjrk-land-pleasant Mills and Genevas ■ Monroe tourney openers will meet ! at 8 o’clock. Semi-finals will be played Satur- ; day afternoon, with the Friday as- ! ternoon victors tangling in the first ; tilt at 1:30 o’clock, followed by the winners of the Friday night session. The championship encounter will be played at 8 o'clock Saturday night, with the victor carrying on to the Huntington regional March 3. Tournament Officials, assigned by the Indiana high school athletic association, will be Richard Klop and Donald Dickie. The complete sectional schedule follows: Thursday Night Game I—7 p. m. Kirkland vs. Plea--3 vs. winner game 4. Came 2—B p. m. Geneva vs. Monroe. Friday Afternoon Game 3—2 p. m. Jefferson vs. Decatur Commodores. Game 4 —3 p. m. Monmouth vs. Hartford. Friday Night Game 5 —7 p. m. Decatur Yellow j Jackets vs. Berne. Game 6 —B p. m. Winner game 1 vs winner game 2. Saturday Afternoon Game 7 1:30 p. m. —Winner game 4. Game 8 —2:30 p. m. — Winner game 5 vs. winner game 6. Saturday Night Game 9—B p. m. Winner game 7 vs winner game 8. Wrong Commie Named in Certified List An error was made in the listing of certified names of the Commodores basketltall team. The name of William (Bill) Mowery should have been in the lineup instead of John Gillig, a freshman, The correct list was certified to the state.

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Krall Beals G. E. In League Contest — The Kraft Cheese quintet defeat-' ed the G. E. Club, 51 ito 28, in a! City industrial league game Wed-| necday night at the Lincoln gym in I this city. The winners held a 22 to 10 lead I at the half. Counterman was out-1 standing for Kraft with 19 points, i and Hirsch led G. E. with 14 points. 1 One game is scheduled for next [ Monday night. Kraft vs. Central Soya, a tilt postponed from January 15. Kraft FG GT TP Reynolds, f 4 3 11 N. Saalfrank, f 2 0 4 Strickler, c 2 15 Franke, g 2 2 6 Counterman, g 9 1 19 A. Saalfrank, f 0 0 01 Scherer, f 3 0 6 Totals - 22 7 51 G. E. Club FG FT TP Hirschy, f 7 0 14 Heller, f 2 0 4 Andrews, c 3 2 8 HIU, g — 0 0 0 Pettibone, g 10 2 Totalis 13 2 28 Referee, Everbart. ——o Railway Re-Routing Bill Is Kept Alive Indianapolte, Feb. 22. — (UP) —A favorable minority committee report today kept alive a senate bill to authorize re-routing of the Nickle Plate railroad around Fort Wayne. On the plea of Sens. Charles Phelps, R„ Fort Wayne, and Lucius Somers, R., Hoagland, ithe Indiana senate rejected a majority report recommending indefinite postponement of the measure. The vote was 31-11. The senate accepted a minority amendment, providing for the city of Fort Wayne to pay 80 percent of the cost of the re routing. The bill now is eligible for final ation in the senate. | CORT o — o — Last Time Tonight — EAST SIDE KIDS “BLOCK BUSTERS” ALSO—Comedy 9c-30c Inc. Tax O — O FRL & SAT. GENE AUTRY “COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN” With Smiley Burnette —O— O Sun. Mon. Tuen.-’Thoroughbrods' & “The MiMing Juror."

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■ 4 Today's Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) New York, Feb. 22 — (UP) — ! President Ford Frick of the i ! National league made it plain to- < i day that the office of defense • : transportation did not ask base- i ball to curtail its travel 25 perI cent as reported from Washing- i ’ ton yesterday by a service other i i than the United Press. , Frick said he couldn’t understand how the service got I "twisted.” He told the United Press today, "in fairness to the OUT, let me make clear what happened at yes- ( terday’s conference in Washington. ( Let me emphasize that the ODT did , not ask baseball to cut ite travel — , nor to do anything else.” , ‘ Frick — slender, dark and gray- i ! ing—explained that he and Will Harridge went t 0 ODT headquart- ] era, Harridge is president of the , American league. They conferred with transportation director J. Mon- , roe Johnson. They wanted to find , out how baseball could help most • to ease the transportation shortage , without wrecking the game. So they asked him. Frick continued, “In reply to our questions, director Johnson made some suggestions. Mr. Harridge and I also made some suggestions. We discussed the situation at length. Then Mr. Harridge and 1 told Colonel Johnson we believed major league travel could be cut about 25 per cent by making certain curtailments. These included reducing the number of cluib tripe in home sections, and eliminating certain training and seasonal exhibition games—as well ae the mid-summer all etar game. Also by poseibly canceiling the world eerice. Director Johnson approved these proposals. ‘lt is incorrect, and it is unfair ' to Colonel Johnson and the ODT to ' say that he asked or ordered the curtailments. Particularly after he was so gracious and co-operative. ’ He was not taking a whack at the ■ game. Instead, he gave us his time ‘ and his knowledge— clarifying the transportation picture for us, so that we could devise travel cute that would do the most good.” I A reporter asked Frick about the I elimination of the annual all-star game, scheduled this year for July 9 at Boston’s Fenway park. Was this an important elimination, figured in mileage? “Yes Indeed,” he answered, “we estimate thait elimination of the all- • etar game will cut out more than a half-million passenger miles.” •In the opinion of the reporter, this answer sounded like a nail in the coffin of the world series—unless the war situation baa changed consideralbly before October. Because the series mileage would be many times that of the mld-eumm®r classic. The reporter asked Frick if bls Washington conferences with war , moibilizer Byrnes had resulted in any new angles of the manpower' situation. (Manpower atiU ia the game's biggest problem. Frick said he was not at liberty to comment on manpower prospects; Other •' than to say, “We are Mill hopeful." Meanwhile, certain oietropollUMi I baMball •xecutivftfc-iWbo wish to

remain anonymous — are hoping that the Kilgore manpower bill passes the senate soon aud meets with similar success in the house. They point out that such a labor measure will “take the curse” off lial! players—the 4-F’s, dischargees and over-agere — (because It will spread attention to about 18,000,000 potential workers. Under such conditions, they believe the players will have a much better chance of continuing in the game than they have now. o Indianapolis Plant Destroyed By Fire Indianapolis. Feb. 22—-(UP) — Officials of the Peerless Furnace company said today that the estimated $250,000 loss by fire which destroyed the company’s plant yesterday, was covered’ by insurance. The blaze swept through the hloek-long brick building containing the company’s offices, warehouse, assembly, machine shops, sheet metal department and steel furnace division. All records, equipment and finished materials were lost. Only the concrete block foundry section was saved. Three firemen were Injured slightly in fighting the flames.

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Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities MIES ALLEYS Major Lea Sue West End Restaurant won two from Mutschler; McMillen won two from Kratt; Smith Bros, won two from Standard Oil; Home grocery won two from Kohne Drug. Standing W. L. West End 15 9 Mutschler : 14 10 Home 14 10 Standard 12 12 Kraft 12 12 McMillen <ll 13 Smith 10 14 Kohne - 8 16 Irv Inniger cranked out nine in a row for a 277 game, to put him in first place for -high single game, and combining gamea of 188 and 201 for a 666 series for second place in the three games for individual standings. High scores: Ladd 212. Zelt 207. Petrje 216, Lankenau 211, Stump 203-208, Dysert 241, Koeneman 212, Murphy 223, Sanders 205, Young 202, Reinking 200, Hoffman 20*7. — o Democrat Want Ads Get Results

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Nap In Bus Depot Costs Man $6,600 / Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 22—(UP) An early morning naip in the bus depot here cost E. G. Crittenden, Tutea, Okla.. $6,600. Police said today that Crittenden told them he had four SI,OOO bank drafts, four SSOO bank drafts, and S6OO in cash in his pocket before falling asleep in the station. Shortly after 'boarding hie hue for Tulsa, he discovered the loes and notified the driver. The officers believed the “lift" was done .by an “exlpert" during lhe early hours when few persons were around the station. o American Air Losses Over Europe Reduced 'Washington, Feb. 22, — (UP) —I American air losses over Europe have been cut to an average of 12 heavy bombers out of every l.ftOO and U. S. airmen flying over Hitler’s shaky fortress now have bettar than four out' of five chances

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