Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1946 — Page 6

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List Schedule Os Industrial League Play S- cond round play will open next week In the Industrial basketball league, as first round play waa completed last night, For the »*<•• ond half, the Post 43 team will replace Central Soya iti h-.iKiie competition McMlB-n ond Berne Furniture, who tied for lirnt half honors with eight victories and two each, will meet for the first half championship at 8:30 o'< lock Thursday nitwit at the Lnicoln gym. Central Soya and Post 43 will play an exhibition game nt 7:30 p m. First Half Standings W L Pct. McMillen .... .. 8 2 ,800 Berne I 2 800 Kraft ... .. 5 5 sofl Moose .... 4 <’> .400 fl. E Clith 4 6 4«0 Soya .. .. 19 .100 Second Half Schedule Jan. 29- McMillen vs Moose; Berne v» Kraft. Jan. 31 Po«t 43 vs fl E ; Kraft vs Moose. Feb. S Moose v« G E.: McMillen vs Berne Fab. 7 Kraft vs Post 43: Berne vs a e. Feb H-O. E. vs McMillen; Moose vs Post 43. F*b. 14—0. E vs Kraft; Post 43 vs Berne Feb IS—Berne vs Moose; McMillen va Kruft. Feb 24 — McMillen vs Post 43; Berne vs O E. Feb 28 G. E. vs Moose; Post 43 vs Kraft March 4- Berne vs Moose; Kraft vs McMillen. March 7- (L E. vs Kraft; Bern - vs Post 43; McMillen Vs Mouse at Monmouth. March 11 McMillen vs 0. E; Moose vs Post 43. March 14—PosU 43 vs G. E; Kraft vs Moose March 19 McMillen vs Post 43; Berne vs Kraft. March 21 —Exhibition fame; McMillen vs Berne. Monday's Games G E Club and Kraft registered easy victor!*-* in the closing first half games Monday night. 0. E. defeated Moose. 44 to 27 in the opening game, after leading at the half, 26 to 14. Stapleton paced the winners with 14 points, and Kukelhan was high for Moose

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Hartford at Poling. Wednesday Commodores al Huntington Catholic Friday Hurtford at Commodores. I Yellow Jackets at Pleasant Mills. I Jefferson at Kirkland. , Berne at Bluffton, . Monroe vs Geneva at Berne. I 1.-tncasler at Monmouth k> with • ight. . Kraft defeated Central Soya. 54 i to 33. in the nightcap, pulling away i after leading at the half by only f six jKilnta, 27 to 21. Scherer was i Kraft's leading scorer with IS i points and Hummers led Soya with I 12. I Kraft FG FT TP Reyno Ida, f .. 5 2 12 . Myers, f 4 19 ) Scherer, c .. 7 | |5 > Gr wley. g 3 0 r, I Itehnert, g -.3 0 6 i Counterman, f ... o 0 o • Holt, f .... ..0 11 >' I'ffelman. g .. Oil Beerman, g -.204 Totals . .. 24 fi 54 Central Soya FG FT TP Williamson, f o 11 Painter, f ..248 Hlrachy. c 4 0 8 » Rummers, g .. 4 4 12 Stucky, g . .. 10 2 Pettibone, g ..... ..Io 2 Totals .. 12 9 33 Before* Everhart. * » G. E. Club FG FT TP Stapleton, f . .... 6 2 14 August, f — .22 «; Frnchte, <• . ... ..2 0 4 I McContv 11. g 0 0 o Strickler, g ... 20 4 Melchi. f .. 4] 9 Highland, c . .. ,00 0 Murphy, n 0 0 0 > Bolinger, g .... ...31 7 Totals .. j 9 f, 44 Moose FG FT TP Kitchen, f . .. ... 2 1 5 Johnson, f .... ..13 5 Kukelhan, c ..409 Rice, g ... .... 30 f, R Fuelling, g 11 3 Totals .... II 5 27 - - ... .0 - - , , 1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Ohio State 48. Purdu« 38. Indiana 46. Michigan 43. Earlham 48, D* Pauw 43 (double 1 overtime!. Northwestern 44. Great lakes > 42 lowa 59. Chicago 32. Kentucky 69. Georgia Tech 43. The nation wide effort to increase fish consumption to inUancs th* meat shortage is meeting with marked success, resulting in the doubling of refrigerated carload 1 shipments of fifth and seafood from the seaboards to ail part* of the country, according to the Bailway Express. | - -

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Central Tigers Slam-Bang Way Into Top Spot By James E. Walters United Press Sports Writer Indianapolis. Jan 22- (UP) Fort Wayne Central'.* fast-breaking Tigers, a typical Murray .Menden-hall-coached quintet. Ham-banged Lhelr way Into the No 1 berth of the statewide prep basketball rankings today. The Tigers, who are not overly tall but make up for it with a firewagon attack and smooth ballhandling. Jumped from fifth to first as Evarwvill* Bosse and East Chicago Washington abaorl>*d defeats. Beaten only by Richmond in th* title game of the Muncie holiday tourney. Central has win 11 out of a dozen starts and emphasized its power by knocking off undefeated Fort Wayne South, la-hanon and Columbia City within four days last Week. The Tigers are rolling ranch in the same manners ao the 1942-43 team, wh-’.h carried off the stat* title. At least on* veteran Fort Wayne sports authority haa termed the current and 22nd quintet of silver-haired Mendenhall as better than the '43 champions. Key men for Central are hign scoring Bob Milton. a six footer whose listed as a guard but who more often than not i>< under the offensive basket, and five foot 10 inch Bob Cox. a hot »hot southpaw sniper Six foot two Inch Joe Bigge, a crack defenseman, and six foot on* inch Bud Alt<-kruse. at forward. combine with Milton to provide the Tigers "height." Fifth starter is Ixiweil Shearer, Ilk* Milton and Biggs a regular last seation. Diminutive Shearer is the ball handler, dribbler and when Central’s fast break bogie down playmaker Is working the ball in under. Sophomore Delmar Blanks, who Is built along Shearer's lines, is the "pinch hitter” and top reserve of th* team. Central may have only one week atop the throne since the Tigers meet Hammond lllgh'a tall Wildcats Saturday night at Fort Wayne. Hammond, winner of 11 out of II starts, ranks loth in th* state this week B-th clubs have tough assignments Friday, too Fort Wayne North meets Central and Gary Wallace is at Hammond. Meantime, here’s the eighth United Pitm weekly list: 1 Fort Wayne Central (11-11. 2. Jasper (12-21. 3. Elkhart (14-11. 4 Evansville Bosse (fl-2). 5. New Castle (11-31. 6 Lafayette Jefferson (13-3). 7. East Chicago Washington (121). 8. Fort Waytie South (10 1). 9. Richmond (8-4). 10. Hammond High (11-3). Next beat: 11. Evansville Central (121). 12. Shelbyville (12-3). 13. Wabash (3-1), 14. Anderson (I---4), 15. Columbus (11-3), 16. Terre Haute Gemimeyer (l it, 17. Hammond Tech (11-3), IS. New Albany (9-4 D 19. Indianapolis Howe (11-1). 20. Terre Haute Garfield (8-2>, 21. Fort Wayne Concordia (HMD, 22. Vincennes (S-4), 23. Rossville (160), 24. Madison (10-4). 25. Gary Emerson (9-6), Bosse has two chances to regain ground lost at New Albany last week - against Evansville Memorial tonight and when hotting Jasper Saturday. Richmond plays at .New L'aatie Wednesday and other Friday standout include Shelbyville at Columbus and New Albany at Jeffersonville The remaining top-notehers have relatively easy assignments. Elkhart meats Nappanee Friday and Greensburg Saturday, Fort Wayne South Is at Lebanon Friday and Crawfordsville Saturday, Jeff plays hosts to Indianapolis Tech Friday and Evansville Centra! meets city rival Reitz the same night. Wabash has a Wednesday date with Elwood and a Friday one with Rochester. o Annual Mies Classic To Open February 2 Entries have bMB closed and final Plans are underway for the llth annual Mies bowling classic at Mies Recreation. It was announced today by Carl H. Mies, manager. The event this year will be opened on February 2 and close on February 17. More than I*o teams are expected to compete for the prise money, including 8200 to the first place winner. Last year 130 teams were entered. Entries have been closed and are now being assembled preparatory to the opening. Among the eompeting teams will be iMt year's chainpions. Standard Oil of Decatur The tovroay b held under wnc Hon of the American Bowling Con grew.

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Junior League Tills Played Monday Night Three games were played in the junior intramural league Monday night at the Yellow Jack ts gym. The Senators defeated the Yanks, 16 to 10; the Dodgers registered a 10 to 7 victory over the Cubs in an overtime buttle, and th- Braves walloped tjie Tigers, 20 to 1. The Braves. Yanks and Dodgers are tide for the league lead, etu h with two victories and one loss. whIL- the Cubs and Tl»-rs are lodg ed in the cellar, each with three losses. Senators FG FT TP J. Dean, f 0 0 0 Sheets, f 1 0 2 Jennings, c .... 5 0 io Egley, g .00 V Lee. g o o o Brennan .... 2 o 4 Total* ....... .... 8 0 16 Yanks FG FT TP Strickler, f .3 0 6 Cottrell, f 0 0 0 Evans, c 10 2 Mcßrict-. g 0 0 0 laidd, g...... ..io 2 Runyon ..... .. 0 0 0 Totals .... ... 5 0 10 Dodgers FG FT TP Lobslger, f 2 0 4 I-ane, f 0 0 0 Ahr. c .... 2 0 4 Smith, g 0 2 2 Odle, g oo 0 Totals . 8 2 10 Cubs FG FT TP Bollinger, f .... 2 0 4 Johnston, f 0 0 0 Johnson, c .. . 0 0 0 Bassett, g 0 11 Gehrig, g 1 o 2 Strahm 0 0 0 Whl»trodge .. Os, 8 McGill 0 0 0 Totals 6 1 ’ Tigers FG FT TP Kochar, f 0 11 R. Johnson, f 0 0 0 Hasher, c .... ...... 0 0 o Hott, g 0 0 0 C. Johnson, g 0 0 0 Sudduth .... .... 0 0 0 Totals ..... ..,01 1 Braves FG FT TP Callow, f oo 0 Myers, f oo fl Brentlinger, c 3 0 6 Doan, g 2 2 6 Raaser. g 3 2 8 Swag-r oo 0 LaLke 0 o f Totals 8 4 20 College Net Gome At Fort Wayne Wednesday A large number of Decatur people are planning to attend the. Val-paraiso-Bowling Green uet tilt at North Side high school Wednesday night. Louie Jacobs, local member of the Fort Wayne sportsmen club, said today that more than a score of local members of the club and ardent supporters of the Valpo team have purchased tickets for the game. • The tilt la sponsored by the Fort Wayne sportsmen club. The Valpo team la one of tbe rangiest in these parts, boaatlas « couple of man up arouud the S’ 9“ mark. o — Trade In | Good Towg — Deeatur'

One Fox Is Killed In Saturday Hunt More than 40 members of the Adams county fish and Kame cluh responded last Saturday to the Invitation for a fox hunt and the group was rewarded by bringing up three and killing one of the animals The |5 bounty and the money from the sale of the hide will go to the treasurer of the club. Virgil Sprunger fired the shot which felled the anima). ’ Another hunt fa scheduled for next Thursday morning at 8:39 o'clock. 4'iub members will meet at the T F Foreman ‘arm a mile north and a mile east of Monroe. A new system *lll tie used at this hunt in closing fn on the animals A young man from Hawaii who was visiting at the Foreman farm Joined the hunters and saw his first fox when the animal was killed. —. ——q -- . . Ohio State Beats Purdue, I. U. Wins Chicarp. Jan. 22—(VP) —Iowa's defending champions and Ohio Htnte. rebounding from humiliat> ing setbacks, patched up thakr early«eaaon rating today and moved back in to the thick of the Big Ten basketball rao-. Ohio State drew closer to leagueleading Minnesota with a 48-to3S triumph over Purdue last night, while coach "Pops" Harrison's lowanx, now in third place*, moved up by drubbing Chicago, 58 to 32. Both teams had been knocked out of th undefeated class unexpectedly by Indiana, the Hawkeye lineup of stars falling, 4a to 3f, on Jan. 11. and OSU going down before the "hurryin* Hoosiers" Saturday, 44 to 39. Those were the only blots In six games for Ohio Elate and five for the iowans. Wbll- lowa and Ohio State were regaining their strides, Indiana squeezed by Michigan. 46 to 43. and Northwestern won a close one from Orest Lakes, 44 to 42. OS I* resumes play Saturday In a game at Michigan, Chicago plays at Indiana. Purdue at Minnesota. Illinois at Great laxk> a, and Wisconsin and Northwestern meet tn the Chicago stadium. With big Bob i'udennan successfully filling the gap left by the ineligibility loss of Arnold (stilts) Risen, Ohio State fought off a Purdue rally in the second halt last night to round out its twogame series in Hoosierland’s basketball hotbed with an even split. Vnderman tossed in 19 points against Purdue. lowa bad some trouble defeating! the weak Chicagoans, but finally delivered the n cessary scoring punch in a last-half rally It left the maroons with their 53rd straight conference defeat. Indiana ied comfortably moot of the way against Michigan and then was forced to rally in th last five minutrs to maintain a clear margin when the Wolverines began closing In. Glen Eelbo of Michigan took Individual scoring boners with 14 points. In marking tip Its nor-conference victory, Northwestern had to figjit off a scoring spurt fey Great Lakes that sent the teams into a 34-all tie In th* second half. Max Morris. Big Ten scoring champion, started Northwwsta. n's winning rally with only fbur minutes left f raffs tot « Geoff Tewfl — Deeatur

Decatur G. E. Girls Lose To City Light Chy Light def ated th* Decatur 0. E. Girls in the Cltywldd girls league at Fort Wayne Monday night The winners led at the half. 21 to IL Rcorlng honors were well divided for both team*. Shearer leading City Light with nln- points, and Royer nnd McLean each counting elgfit for Decatur. City LlLght FG FT TP Shearer, f .... 4 1 9 Meier, f « « s Sanders, c — 21 5 Arnold, g —lO 2 Grenzenbach, g .... 2 0 4 Ely. f .... 12 4 Hlbshman, g ... 1 0 2 Totals 15 4 3t Oscatur FG FT TP Royer, f 4 0 8 Kohn, f 113 Smith, c .. 2 H 4 Bower, g 11 3 Melman, g .... 3 2 8 Bolinger, f .. o o o Painter, g .. .. o o o Totals 114 26 Decatur Junior High Defeats Willshire Rallying in the second half, the DecAtur Jnaior high netters defeated Willshire. 0. 28 to 17, Monday evening at the Lincoln gym in this city. Willshire held a 10 to 7 lend at the half. Decatur pulled into a 17 to 16 lead at the third quarter and pulled away In the final j»eriod. Dugue waa Decatur's leading scorer witK 14 ponts, and Fainter was high tor Willshire with w ven. Announcement was also made today that U>e opening ypme of the annual city series between the Decatur Junior high and St. Joe will be play-d at the Commodores gym next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Further details will be announced later. Dscatur FG FT TP Dagtie. f 6 2 14 Bair, f 2 0 4 Bohnke, c .’. 10 2 Jscb. g .... 12 4 Mills, g 2 0 4 Totals — 12 4 28 Willshire FG FT TP Luginbill f 3 0 6 Strickler, f ..10 2 Hileman, c ... .......... 1 o 2 Marhach, g ... 0 0 9 Coffee, g 0 0 0 Painter, f 3 17 Hoblrrt, f oo 0 Totals 8 i 17 —■ o-— Three Big League Players Sell Cheap Chicago. Jan. 22— (IP) —Wartime baseball prices dropped to normal today with the sale of three big league players for 822.500, approximately one-ttird cf their value a year ago. The National League champion Cubs, the Washington Senators and the Cleveland Indians combined put four wartime player* on the market. There were hnly three purchases, all at rock-botton prewar prices. The Cuba sold Roy Hughes, their

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snre-flngered world serie* shortstop. to the Philadelphia Phillies for the waiver prb e of 87.500 while the southside White H- X picked up two castoffs front the Washington Senators, pitcher Alex Carrasquel und Infielder Fred Vaughn sot the same bat gain-counter price, 17.500. Manager Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians, finding no buyeta, turned loose Al Smith. 37-yenr-old southpaw wha had tolled six of his 13 Major bague seasons In Cleveland uniform. Boudreau also removed veteran catcher George Stwcc from the active player list and made him u full-time coach. Hughes' sale symbolizes future pf the wartime varsity man who is Hcheduled to lie a p istwar substitute. The 33-year-old. Ohlo-l»orii fielder played 69 games with the' Cubs last year, hlttlnx .261, hut be was mana'ger Charlie Grimm's - No. 1 ehort fielder during the hot pennant drive and the world series. A veteran of 16 year* In organised bu-eba” *<ughes returns to the Phillies wa* e played in 1939. Th* Cutie let lughes go despite the tact that as yet they have not obtained a first class irhortatop. Merullo, whom Grimm Iwp-<-h*d In favor of Hughe* last season, at present is th* No. 1 candidate. In obtaining Carrasquel and Vaughn, the White Sox boosted their active player roster to 58. largeot In the American league. Carrasquel, 32-year-old veteran of eeven Major league seasons, all with Washington, was used primarily as a relief pitcher last season. He won seven game* and lost five to bring hln total big league record to Co victories and .39 losses. Vauhgn. 27-year-old, part-time second baseman. Lit .235 with the Senators last year and Is scheduled for reserve duty with the Sox during the coming season —_—Q SHORT CHARGES (CMMeeet Fr.m p aS e Owe) the action taken. I am convinced that all who read the report thought that my action was correct or I would have received instructions to modify my orders." Short’s statement was similar in purport to that of Adm Husband E. Kimmel, former com-

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inander of the | H who pre<-,| 1 „| hl(t( M committee. Like Kimm<-1, |„. Washington rl(>r crushing defeat B . Jf <8 Kimmel had <har E H -J navy department, i,. vital Information lr Jj fleet of '« tla ll( | a< avert the disn.'e, •• ** When Kinmiei J six day. of te.t lmo ,7j Rep. Frank I; * commended hi m spe<tators “So far a, | arn Keef,- toiff Kimmel. acquittel yourself ni| j Short was of Marshall, former ,1 of staff. Marshall congressional <otnmito,J Hawaiian command .ut advance warning it tinJ . needed to l><- property ( against a Japanese at'jo. The deposed genem * 1y rejected this view jp’ *d that although the ment had prior knotriM war was at hand, it did* It along to him He put the finger ot | as the man to blame f W | Information out of his also asserted that Mink given him reason to Mm before Pearl Harbor, 'a staff chief personally fate the kind of alert to k llshr-d at Hawaii in the« a hostile threat.

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