Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1945 — Page 6

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Indiana Needs Only One Win To Take Title Chicago. Nov. 12 tl'Pl I'nde Bated Indiana wax Jit 4 t one gatiw away from he first Big Ten font ball • hamptonxhlp today utter a xtory-bo>k Hoosier vi< tory over Minnesota rivaling Ibe famous “tall latae" f th'-i- <oa<h, Bo McMillin. Indiana, In *a'k.ng ern e mighty Minnesota, 49 to (i, turned the Blk Ten standings topsy-turvy Satur day. T ie l|<H><|erx, p>- ennlal al-o nine. are marching toward their fhst title hi conferen. • history ami Miruie- ita, trie perennial powei house, |s mired in the mid><t of it 4 worst season in recent history. M Millin. th*' white-haired, draw ling Texan who alway- lias been u favorite on the Indian i banquet circuit. hat come t rough on th" gridiron after io yeans to guld the hoosiers to the top of the con ference as the Big Ten s only tin lieaten team One more vbtie, will m ike the H> urret tion < mpletc Indiana takes it > a y th;- Sai Utday In a lion conference g.itm against downtrodden Pitt-burg li and then the Hoosiers return t i Bloomington Nov 21 for 'he trad! tiotial "old oaken Inti lo t ' clash with Purdue, w uh will decide whethet those diehard If <<elei fans .it ItliMiinitu'ton w 111 get i < hance to celebrate in In 1..in.• t >otball < ham pion ship after 15 years of waitin.,’ Meatiw i|je, Onio State’■ defend Ing < h.impioi <«. Purdue and Me hi gan. the three team- wit i a chance t i nose Indiana out of the title, will be Scrapping to keep their , (hampionship hopes alive Satur day Purdue and Michigan, rai 'i with on>’ conference defeat, meet at ' Ann Vbor in an "••!.initiation ba’ tie' esprit) d to dl.lW 75.•••••! falls ' while OS I -land- a heavy fa , vorite t i w.dp Illinois at t'o'.um j bet That trio, iW'ever, tats a rocky road ahead because n tie ot them which Indiana lutiii’d loie-e against Minnesota The Crimson shirt**! Hoosiers, making up f ir past beat in/a. -tunned Minnesota and a crowd of t.’i.'iio by a iminixtering the wo ot beating a Minin ol i team ha* ah* rl»d In hi .lory. Indiana's "cockeyed wax kept in the mot balls as the Hoosiers used .straight wingb.i, k power to bury the Gopher- in the I 'rf II was the biggest ci ire a McMillin coailied team ha- eve.- tolled up in conference competition Mi higan, bruised from its 33 to 7 Navy Ix-atitia, fa-es a toil ’ll battle in Purdue. The Bdtarmak ers were hard pre* •d I > wrip stubborn Miami. ith rniversity, 2I to 7. Saturday, tail they came out of the game m t () p conditiijti. primed for Mi< Igan (thio Slate, with fullba k (till" Cline in the driver's m at defeated

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams i Thursday J'ff«"*on vs P-dlng at Geneva Friday Garrett nt Yellow Jackets. Comtnodoios at Monmouth. Pleasant Mill* at Heine Monroe at Geneva. Hartford at Kirkland. I'itteburgh <>n a muddy Held. I 4 to 0 and should have little trouble snapping Illinois* on< game winnl.ig xtreik this Saturday. The lllini marked up their first Big T<n victory of tin- season Sat urd.iv In Untying lowa. Is to 7. In the Big Ten cellar The Ila wkcyi’s now have lost f.vc straight games and inve little hope of i breaking their downhill slid • against Mi'imeota Saturday. Meanwhile, Northwietein, whicu rallied to defeat Wisconsin, 2M-H | Saturday. m<’' f * Notre Dame at • I’ll.it>.ton and Wisconsin coi-s ca-t ; to play Navy. t Standings

Chii ag >. Nov 12 il'Pi Wes’-e--n conference football standing* W. L. T Pct. Indiana I n I I tui-i Ohio State I I o sou Purdue .'! I •• .75'1 Mb hig.m 3 ] o .75" I Norl!iwfi<ter:i 2 1 4i»-» I llliledi | • 1 .33.3 M iim< ota I 3 u ,2atl Wls. on-in I 3 1 .250 lowa it .' o lino o Dales Are Received For Decatur Bowlers Dates for local liowlerx for the A B C to be held at Buffalo. New Vork. have liecn received by the officials of the Decatur howling association. leams with ;m average of Ssu or less ar- classed as booster teams and can bowl the team event only on March Is and March 2*. If teams in this an age group desire to bowl iti the doubles mid sini’les the dat s are March 20 and March 27 May tl and 7 have been alloted to the Dc.atiir howlets sot regular teams I Here are ::!itm teams air ady booked for the tournament besides the teams that will be entered from th tournament city and most date- are already completely filled, -o any fteiatur teams that desire] to go to the national tournament j should make reservation- at one . | Don Stump, city association sec-1 retary will be at the Mies Itacrea-! lion Tuesday night to accept ell-! tiles for thn big tournam nt. and ax he has been advised by the reservation cleik that these dates wtii not be held op- n for any length of time. Ho entries will be accept-

<-d by him fur thrw dates after Tuesday night, as the ••titri-s will be mailed to Milwaukee Wednesday in eider that the liecatur teams can he assured of a date. Two teams h;r.e already reserved their time. The Decatur Super! ■ Service will go on March 26 and I I the Kraft Foods team will bowl i May 6. The team event will be rolled In the evening and the doubles and i Singles the following morning or aiternoon. In the boost- r class, the averages are to be for 21 or more games of this season's league schedule. Booster t ams will have a prise list of their own to roll for as each squad will have a prize : IlHt. <y Monroe Beorkatz Lose To Willshire The Monroe Bearkat’ dropped a tmujT 42 to 41 decision to the Willshire, O. Bearcats, Friday night on the Wiltshire floor. The rrs'ilt of this game was not made available to the Democrat for Saturday's edition. — o Ninety gallons of motor fuel can be processed from a ton of corn cotis or eottuiueed hulls.

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Army, Navy Clash Salurday, Dec. 1 I - c — .New York. Nov. 12 (t’l’l — While most folks yawned at the thought of Army being beaten tiy anybody. Navy climbed into Die I Cadet’s class today on its rip roaring win ov<r Michigan and the Dec, I collision t> tween the service titans took shape ax the fisitbail game of the century Although Army rolled over Notre Dame for seven touchdowns, crushing the team that Navy needed horseshoe* to tie the Week liefore. The Middles blasted Michigan by n 33 to 7 count and,better-d Army's score against the same eleven by five points. Nmh an afternoon for Navy against Army could make football history But before that clash. Army must face Pennsylvania this w-ek and Navy plays Wisconsin. Wisconsin aroused no fears in the fleet during the course of Its submission to Northwestern but Penn, knocking Columbia from its unbeaten perch In a 32 to 7 win. look- d like a team that can make Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard wo.k for their touchdowns on Saturday.

Temple also toppled from the jsTfect-record ranks, losing a 2i Io 0 verdict to Petin State, its- If beaten only by Navy. That left only Army, Holy Cro-w, Alabama. Oklahoma A w M. and St. Mary's in the unbeaten and untied classes Those formidable five are hot top ' les of conversation the various | Uowl committees. The big in. which does not figure In the howl considerations, finally came up with an oiiNtanding representative for hypothetical national honors when Bo McMillin's i last Indian i Hoosiers bl- w down Minnesota 49 to o. S*-ctionally, the pigskin campaign shapes up ax follows: East \rmy was tops but Navy wax hitting Its stride and Holy Cross and Pennsylvania wen- the best otherwise. Biggest upset of th-- section: Brown's 2" to 7 de- | f- at of Yah-. Midwest Indiana had a com-1 ma tiding position In the big 10 ami was Just about on a par with Oklahoma A & M.. technically In the Missouri valley conference. The Aggies upended tneir nut- rest rival. Tulsa, 12 to fi. on Saturday. South Idle Alabama still was the tops, but faces a stiff Dec. I '••st aval!!st--ait P'-ft —Vi. - • ippl State which boiim <‘d hack to def. at l.oillxtaiia 27 to 2<> Southwest Texas A. Hr M. took over the tame Star State lead with its 3 to II win over Southern Methodist while Texas Tech rocked Texas Christian with a 12 to o up- ‘ set and Texan edged Baylor. 21 to i 14. Bice stayed in the picture with I a 26 to 7 victory over Arkansas Far West Southern California i strrxle back into Hose Bowl consid- ■ I oration by Its 14 to 0 victory ov r j California while Oregon Stale bumped off Washington 7 to <1 in the biggest upset out there. i - i,m i —I, r gy 1 *"""

WSWWL Standing W L Pct. Monmouth .. » o Loot* Herne .. ... 2 o 1.000 Kirkland ... .. 2 0 l.tm Geneva .. 11 .sm» Hartford ... .... 11 .500 I’l-a-.int Mills ..1 1 .IM Yellow Jack -ts 0 I .000 Commodores o 2 .000 Jefferson ... 0 2 -000 Monroe .. o 2 .000 —oOo— Three Adams county teams remained In the undefeated class after the second week of play in the young 1945-46 basketball season. Monmouth leads the pick with three victories, followed by Berne, and Kirkland with two each. Four of the county’s teams have yet to score a victory. —oOo— Six games are on the schedule for this week, with one tilt carded Thursday night and five on Friday. In .the lone game Thursday, the Jeff- mon Warriors will meet Holing on the Geneva floor. —■oOo — The Decatur Yellow Jackets after being Idle last week, will furnish the home entertainment Friday, tangling with the Garrett Railroaders at the Jackets gym In Decatur's opening Northeastern Indiana conference engagem- nt. - The Commodores will almost be at home Friday, traveling only to Monmouth to battle the Eagles in what should be a rip-snorter. Last spring the. Eagles eliminated the Commodores In the semi-finals of the sectional tourney and the Commies will not only be out for revenge but will be seeking their first victory of the season after

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Cleveland Defeats ; Green Bay Packers 4 New York. Nov. 12 tl'Pi The ' Ch-veland-Detrolt game on Thanksgiving Day and th Washington- ( Philadelphia game on Nov. 25 shaped up today as likely to name the champions in th)- respective divisions of the national professional Toothall league. the Washington it (tskin* i'<t th>- Philadelphia Eagle* by one c.inie In the Eastern division while Detroit and Cleveland were tied at “'■j f I.rr- ml 1)11-- '-et 'in the Western division. Cleveland virtually eliminated the defending champion Green Bay Packers yesterday, topping th m 20 to 7, while D'-trolt rallied In the last quarter to defeat the Chicago Bear*. 35 to 2* Fred Gehre, Cl veland halfback, sparked the Ham attack with touchdown run- of 72 an 1 42 ynrds Bob Waterfield passed Jim Benton, who ran M yards for the third marker. All three scores came In th-- fhst period.

Detroit won on the passing of Cotton Price to end John Greene, which set up the last three Lion scores, Sid Luckman threw four touchdown passes for the B ars. Washington rolled over the Boston Yanks. 31 to 7, avenging the I Redskins' only loss. Two field goals hy Jih- Aguirre gave Washington ! an early lead, and a pass from Sami tny Baugh to Stev Bagarus made it 13 to 0. The Redskins then scored two more touchdowns via the ground route, before a last-minute pass topped a long drive for a touchdown for Boston. Philadelphia combined sup- rb passing by Roy Zimmerman and tine running by Steve Van Buren for an easy 38 to 17 win over NewYork. Zimmerman passed to Jack Ferrante for two scores and Van Buren ran tor two more Pittsburgh, stymied for three periods hy ankle-deep mud and hard rain, exploded for three touchdowns in the last quarter and a 23 To 0 victory over the Chicago Cardinals. Halfback Bill Dudb y. the league’s leading ground gainer in 1942. made his first post war appearance and scored twiceo

I Centerville Man Is First Hunting Victim Centerville. Ind . Nov. 12—(I’P) Morris Shank. 38, Centerville, today become the «eason'« first hunting victim in Indiana, Shank was killed Saturday, the opening day of the Indiana hunting season. when a companion’s gun discharged. He had been discharged from the army only two we w ks ago. Wayne county sheriff Carl Sper Ung said Richard J. Wessel, Jr., dropping a pair of tough, dose battles last week. —of Jo — Three other games on the schedule Friday night will send the Pleasant Mills Spartans to Herne, the Monroe Hearkatz to Geneva and the Hartford Gorillas to Kirkland. —oOo— Results one year ago this week: Garret 28, Yellow Jackets 23 Commodores 43, Monmouth 27. Berne 4R. PinnsatH Mills 2a. Geneva 25. Monroe 23. Kirkland 48, Hartford 3b.

2". also of ('••nt* rville. told him that Shank was 15 feet in front ot him when one barrel of Wessel'* shotgun discharged in the air. The jolt caused the second barrel tn discharge and th)- shot hit Shank. Spelling said the victim’s companion told hint. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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