Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1945 — Page 6

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Huntington Wins Regional Tournament

Berne Loses To Huntington In Regional Final Adams county's two-year hold on the regional basketball championship was broken Saturday night when'”the Huntington Vikings defeated the Berne Bears. 51 to 31, in the final game of the regional tourney held at Huntington. The Bears, winners of the Decatur sectional the previous weekend, staged a great fourth-quarter rally to eliminate the Dunkirk Speedcats, 39 to 37, in the second afternoon tilt, after Huntington had walloped Chester Center. Bluffton sectional titlist, 50 to 29. Huntington jumped into a 5 to 0 lead in the final game, and was out in front 14 to 7 at the first, quarter, 28 to 18 at the half and 40 to 27 at the third quarter. Hendricks led (the Huntington attack w|th 19 points, while Liechty was high scorer for Berne with nine points. The Viking will meet Kokomo, Marion regional winner, in the second game of the Muncie semi-final tourney next Saturday afternoon, iHlfqediately after the Auburn-Mun-de Central clash at 1:30. Bears Rally to Win Bjqne put on a great final per- i ioj rfiUy to nose out Dunkirk, Hartford City sectional champions, in ■ the second afternoon hat tie. The quintets were tied at 10-ltt | at the first quarter, but Dunkirk was in front at the half, 18 to 15, and at the third quarter, 29 to 25. Baumgartner and Liechty each tallied 11 points to lead the Bears, while Ross was high for Dunkirk ifith 13. Huntington FG FT TP Hendricks, f 8 2 18 Musselman, f 3 0 6 Bostel. c 7 0 14 Burkhart, g 2 0 4 Williams, g 2 1 5 Wilhelm, f 0 0 0 Carnes, I 0 0 0 . Wasmuth, c 0 0 0 Gardner, g ... 0 0 0 Glosson, g .... 11 3 Totals 23 4 50 Chester FG FT TP A. Pearson, f 1 0 2 8. Pearson, £ 5 5 15 Carmichael, c 0 2 2 Ajqunsey, g 10 2 Meaters, g 2 2 6 Hart, e 0 0 0 Riggs, g 10 2 Totals 10 9 29 1 Berne FG FT TP Baumgartner, f 5 1 11 Liechty, f 5 1 11 E. Stucky, c 2 0 4 Lehman, g .... 3 2 8 Muselman, g — 2 15 i. Stucky, c 0 0 0 Inntger, g 0 0 0 Totals 17 5 39 Dunkrirk FG FT TP gatch, f 4 1 9 i ■■■■■■■■■■ Tonight & Tuesday l “HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN” Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, hundreds more. ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax O—O Wed. A Thur*. — “The Suspect" Chas. Laughton, Ella Raines First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thurs. from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! O—O Coming Sun.—Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman in “For Whom The Bell Tolls.” | CORT Tonight & Tuesday “JADE MASK” With CHARLEY CHAN & “DESTINY” Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis 9c-30c Inc. Tai O—O Wed. A Thurs.—Jane Withers In “Faces in the Fog” O—O Coming Sum—“ Night Club Girl” A “Mark of the Whlatler.”

Stewart, f 12 1 Mock, c 0 11 Robs, g 6 1 13 Randall, g 4 2 in Smith, c <• •ii u Holmberg, g 0 u n Bell, g . 0 0 0 Furling, g <> 0 0 Totals 15 7 37 Huntington FC, FT TP Hendricks, f 8 3 19 1 Musselman, f 6 2 14 ' Hostel, c 1 I 3 ! Burkhart, g 3 0 6 ’ Williams, g 113 ■ Wilhelm, f 10 2 1 Carnes, f 0 0 0 Wasmuth, c 10 2 ’ Glosson, g fit) 0 ’ Gardner, g 1 0 2 Totals 22 7 51 Berne FG FT TP Baumgartner, f 10 2 Liechty. f 4 1 9 Lehman, g 3 0 6 E. Stucky, g ... 113 Musselman, g 0 2 2 J. Stucky, f 2 15 Kjieuss, g 0 0 0 Abhaham, g 0 0 0 Inniger, g -2 0 4 Totals 13 5 31 Referee, White. Umpire, McSwane. ■ —o 16 Quintets In Running For Hoosier Title Indianapolis. March s—>(U) —<Ts I figures never lie, Jasper, Covington, 'Auburn and (Logansport will ! decide the Indiana high school has- j ketlball championship among thHm-I selves on (St. (Patrick's day tn the Indianapolis coliseum. ■Purely on the (basis rtf scoring records asembled in sectional and regional competition of the 35th annual tournament. that quartet was favored to carry off the titles : at the four semi-final centers ■ next Saturday. Jasper's 28-point margin of vic-! tory was tops among Terre Haute Gerslimeytr. Evansville Bosse and I Bedford, the ether three semifinal competitors at Indiana University's (fieldhouse. (Auburn's 25-point victory edge j was ifour-hundredths of a point bet- i ter than that compiled by Kokomo’s Wildcats in gaining the "qweet sixteen" round. Muncie Centra] and (llun'tinigton round out the Muncie semi-final field. (Covington carried off six tourna-! iment games by an average margin of 19 (points to spread-eagle the other Indianapolis entrants —Hope, Indianapolis Broad Ripple and (Rushville. (Logansport averaged 50 points to six opponents' average of 30 points ■ to gain a one-point average ditlfenence toehold over South (Bend Riley. (Hammond iwon six tourney games (by a margin Os 13 points, while Oxlfoid—the fourth team to play at Purdue University— twon by I an average of 17 points. The 'figures protbalbly will lie, however, since none of the top four in average margin of victory was ■ a (favorite iii the respective semi-[ final tournaments, although Jasper iwas a (favorite in the respective semi-final tournaments, although Jasper and Auburn rated an even chance of gaining the final round of Hoosierland’s greatest sporting event. 'Regional firing 'Saturday produced one major surprise—the elimination of Jelflfersonville’s Red Devils,, and several minor upsets, (Such as (Anderson's defeat at Anderson, Hope’s victory at Shelbyville,, Oxford's triumph at Lafayette and iCovlngtonSs title honors at Attica. 'Elsewhere, however, the regional play went “according to Hoyle” with the Ifavorites turning in im pressive performances. (Kokomo trounced Waibash in twinning at Marion, 62-36. Evansville (Bcsse triumphed in the final a't Evansville over Tell City. 77-44. .South Bend Riley was impressive in downing first Rochester and then Jamestown at South Bend. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer nicked Linton, 50-4(5, Ifor the Terre Haute title. Aulburn ibreeted to the Fort Wayne championship, beating Cramiwell, 67-39, and then Syracuse, 56-32. Michigan -City trampled Gary Emerson, 47-26, in the afternoon at. Hammond, but lost the championship to the host Wildcats, 48-42. Bedford maintained its regional “Jinx" over Jeffersonville Saturday night and stopped the highlytouted (Red Devils, 45-38. Jerry Queen, (burly Bedford guard, broke up Jedfs short-passing gaime by handcudfiug “Big Charlie” Meyers and Bob Young’s 22 points paced Bedford to its fifth straight regional conquest of Jetff. 'Anderson dropped 33-32 thriller

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to Danville in the Afternoon round at 'Andeieon. That made things easy for Indianapolis Broad Ripple, since the Rockets kayocd Danville at night. s'-2S. Covington handed Waynetown its first defeat of the season in winning at Attica, 32-28. Hope nosed Franklin, 41-38. and Oxford surprised Frankfort, 33-31. - —o Semi-Final Pairings Indianapolis, March s—-(Follow-' | ing are the pairings for the semii final round of the 1945 Indiana I high school haeketlball tournament ■ next Saturday. At Bloomington 1:30 p. m. —Terre Haute Gerst- ’ tneyer and Jasper. 2:30 p. m. — -Bedford ve. Evanej ville Bosse. At Indianapolis 1:30 p. tn. Hope and Indianopolia Broad Ripple. i 2:3i> p, in. —Covington and RushI ville. At Lafayette 1:30 p. im. —South Bend Riley and Hammond. 2:30 tp. m. —Oxford rnd Logansport. At Muncie 11:30 p. im. —lArtbum and Muncie i Central. 2:30 p. m. Kokomo and Huntington. Winners of the afternoon games twill meet at 8 p. m. for the right to compete in the finals at Indianapolis Saturday, March 17. 0 Fascist Criminal Escapes From Jail Rome, Mar. 5. —(UP) —Gen. Mario Roatta, on trial as one of Fascism’s leading war criminals, escaped from Regina Coeli jail during the night. The interior ministry offered a 1,000,000-lire (|10,000) reward for information leading to his re-ar-rest. Roatta was former army chief of staff under Mussolini. o Each British soldier who charged up the steep side of Bunker Hill in the boiling sun of June 17, 1775, carried 125 pounds of field equipment —and three days’ rations. COMFORTS FOR CASUALTIES—Even letter-writing atop* when • Red Crom girl makes the rounds at an evacuation hospital near the Western Front. Having lost his personal supplies in battle, this serviceman finds her armload of cigarette*, reading material and comfort supplies a wcleoa* windfall

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. i lowa Hawkeyes Win . Conference Title Chicago, March S—(UP5 —(UP) —lowa's record-smashing Hawkeyes revived an almost discarded basketball theory to win their first undisputed j championship in the history of the ■ western conference. For lowa coach Lawrente (Pops) ■ Harrison, once a great guard him-1' self, (built an outstanding defensive j team this year and It provided Lis . theory thy smashing Iliionis, 43-37.: Saturday night to accomplish what ; +4 previous lowa teams had failed ■ to do—win a 100 a per cent Big Ten basketball title. Bops ibelievee “a good defensive team will win more games than a good offensive team, for when the iboys aren’t hitting their shots they Fitill can win ball games witu defensive play.” And although defeneive Ibasketiball has become almost i an orphan to the lightning oilfense which dominates today's play and! coaching theories, Pops stuck with his theory and made it pay. ‘‘lt turned out to be a remarttaible defensive team, one of the best I’ve ever (seen," he said. Tiie 1945 Hawkeyea, the third lowa team coached by Harrison, was the third best scoring team Jn the conference bu't was the No. 1 defensive unit. They cleged out their regular conference season Saturday night iby defeating Iliionis ( to avenge an earlier loss at the hands off the 'lllini and to make amends itor Ibeing noeed out by the title toy one point last year when Ohio State’s Buckeyes wbn the championship. iln losing only one game during the 1944-45 season, the Hawkeye* •wrote f(ye new records into the lowa lltaeketiball ibook: (tl) won) the (first undisputed title in da years off trying; (2) <won 17 victories in 18 games, the highest number off triunupha in history; (3) scored a new all-time victory per- ■ centage of .944; (4) chalked up a new ail-time point total ot J.tCd, and (5) scored 408 field goals and 214 free tllrawa, which topped the previolus record tfor 18 games of ' 392 (field goals and 208 Cree thrown. — o— Mel Riebe Wins Pro League Scoring Title Fort Wayne, Ind., Mar. 5.-—(UP) —Forward Mel Riebe, Cleveland, today held the national basketball league scoring championship with a record ot 606 points. P.iebe won the title last night as his team lost to the Fort Wayne Zollners 68 to 58. Riebe scored 29 points to win the title over Bobby McDermott ot the Zollners by five points. At the beginning ot the game, Riebe had 577 points and McDermiott had 571. Both players had topped tbe former record ot 406 set by Chuck Chuckowit ot the Toledo Redmen In 1941. McDermott scored 30 points in last night’s game but was unable to overtake the Cleveland ace. The two teams meet here again tomorrow night in tbe opening playoff game for the league’s eastern crown. Tbe Zoltem alresdy have won the regular season tftle.

Regional Results

I — At Anderson j Danville 33, Anderson 32. Indianapolis Broad Ripple 50, Eden 39. Broad Ripple 51, Danville 28 ) (final). At Attica Waynetown 36, Clinton 33. i Covington 49, Bainbridge 17. Covington 32, Waynetown 28 i (final.) At Bedford Jeffersonville 48, Paoli 40. Bedford 57, Brownstown 32. ’ Bedford 45, Jeffersonville 38 (final.) At Evansville I Telle City 43, Owensville 32. Evansville Bosse 49, Boonville 37. Bosse 77, Telle. City 44 (final). At Fort Wayne Auburn 37, Fort Wayne North ' Side 33 (overtime). Auburn 56, Spracuse 32 (final). At Hammond Michigan City 47, Gary Emerson 26. Hammond 50, Remington 38. Hammond 48, Michigan City 42 (final). At Huntington Huntington 50, Chester Center 29. Berne 39, Dunkirk 37. Huntington 51, Bente 31 (final). At Lafalette Oxford 39, Zionsville 33.

Kraft And McMillen In Playoff Tonight Tie Kraft Cheeee and MdMillen teams will play a t 8:30 tonight at the Lincoln gym in a playoff battle for the second half championship oif the city industrial league. Central Soya will meet the Lancaster Independents in a preliminary game at 7:30 p. m. o Trash Fire Results In Department Call The Decatur fire department was (called to the Mrs. Charlie Vogle-;-wede home on West Monroe st. evening at 6 o’clock when ■ a burning trash pile threatened a ■train at the rear of the property ■ The fire was extinguished before (any damage was caused.

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Frankfort 38, Lafayette 37. Oxford 33, Frankfort 31 (final). , At Loganßport Monticello 26. Flora 24 (double' j overtime). Logansport 58, Peru 34. Logansport. 40. Monticello 31 j (final). AtA Marion I Wabash 25, Fairmount 23. Kokomo 59, Jackson Central 24. Kokomo 62, Jft’ahash 36 (final). At Muncie Muncie Central 39. Richmond 25. i Lewisville 36, Parker 25. Central 41. Lewisville 29 (final). At Rushville Rushville 32, Batesville 19. latwrenceburg 26, Liberty 20. Rushville 50, Lawrenceburg 35 (final). At Shelbyville Franklin 46, Madison 36. Hops 38, Greensburg 27. Hope 41, Franklin 38 (final). At South Bend South Bend Rily 38, Rochester 23. Baugo Twp. 40, Culver 34. Riley 50, Baugo Twp. 25 (final). At Terre Haute Linton 60, Spencer 39. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 11. Bloomington 43. Gerstmeyer 50, Linton 45 (final). At Vincennes Jasper 50, Bicknell 30. Sullivan 37, Washington 31. Jasper 65, Sullivan 35 (final). !

Movie Actress Is Overcome By Gas New York, Mar. 5. — (UP) —Motion actress Una Merkel Burla was overcome by gas early this morning as her mother, Mrs. Arno Merkel, 70, died, apparently, a suicide, in their hotel apartment. A night bell captain at the Essex House discovered Mrs. Merkel’s body about 5 a. m. after a night watchman had. smelled gas coming from the apartment. A heajry bath towel had been wedged under the kitchen door, police said. The 38-year-oM actress, unconscious in her bed, was partially revived by a police emergency squad and removed to Roosevelt hospital, where her 1 condition was said 4o be good. No man ever had a defect that ■ was not somewhere made 'useful to him. __ A- ' —

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