Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1946 — Page 8

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Lafayette Jeff One Favorite In Semi-Final Editor's note Thl* I* the third In u series of four stories dealing with probable ten tn alignment at «eml-fina! centers of the Indiana high school Itasketall tournament which op iih Fob. 21.1 By James E. Walters < United Press Sports Writer) IndiunapoHs. Feb. 7 ill') A "dog-out dug" battle In the far north, eoupltd with u mediocre held In the near northwest, may Ktt the stage for a luifayette Jeff •Hoff xweep to the luifayette semifinal title of the state prep basketball tournament. The tanking Broncos from Jeff winners of 14 out of IS gain’s and ranked No. I In the state this week hy United Press, apparently face olily one tough came with small school power Rossville i»ui 19-test nonet befor semifinal firing opens. Lebanon's Tigers nml Frankfort's Hot Dogs, traditional regional stumbling blocks for Jeff, are below par this season ami. from all indications., Roseville's one-handed shooting, fleet Horn is will dump Frankfort's four-time state champs In the sectional. On the other hand, the primary laifayette Jeff semi-final rivals - clubs such as Hammond High. Hammond Tech, East Chicago Washington, Elkhart ami Smith nnd Central—will have to go 1 all out to emerge from sectional and regional tourneys. Some idea of the upset potentialities in the far north can be gleaned from [cast tourn ys. Hammond Tech’s veteran-loaded, defending state champions lost in the 1941 sectionals, for example. And northern clubs reputedly are better balanced than ever this season. Once-beaten East Chicago Washington. nigged Hammond High twon 11-lost five) and Hammond Tech (won 13-lost four), any one of which could go all th way. are matched in the Hammond sectional. Whiting (10-6), tied for s rond In the west-NIHSC, also is in this one. Elkhart. beaten once in 18 games; Plymouth, Central confer ettce I ader until last weekend, and one of South Bend's powers • -Central and Riley—-should meet in South Bend regional play dn the other far northern regional—at Hammond, the Hammond sectional champ will hav to get by the Gary winner, which could be any one of six Gary dub* - Edison. Emerson. Wallace. Mawn. Froabel or Roon, volt—and (be in-and-out La Porte Slicers (won 11-lost pis). Actually, the list of "solid contenders", narrows to Jeff. Hammond High, Tech, Elkhart and Central. Marion Crawley, who had two successive state champs at Washington early in the decade, has his first gr at team at 1 aifayette. Seven vets of the '44-45 season, plus a transfer student from Stockwell who won himself a starting job

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday V How Jackets nt Kendallville. Lancaster at Kirkland. Winchester at Berne. Monroe at Monmouth. Petroleum nt Hartford. Geneva at Pennville. at guard Lowell Cartmil! make up the first squad. High scoring Don 801. nt six one; pivot nee chariot Seinmex at six foot two; guard Pete Gettings, at six one; 1 and sub forward Jim Clayton, tit j six three, give Jeff a big height advantage. Nifty Bob Lennen, Bid’s tunning mate, stands five feet 11. while Cartmill and alternate guard Glar lice Reilemeler are both five fcetia ’ i ”i|n * Washington, also loaded with I veterans, revolves around tower-' Ing Ray llegelis He's usually good I for 15 or more points a game. Coach Boh King at Hammond High mak. s little pretence of playing defense but the Wildcats have |»- Imps the state's best off enMvc machine. Six players have hit for hi points or better in one game, a* an indication. At Hammond Te-h. rnarb lam Birkett has a < luh similar to his 1910 state champs The Tigers are big and experts at the slow . break, possession game Elkhart, beaf n only by Tech, packs mo t of It i offensive pun-h In Its pint-sired guards Jim M<--Linn ami Tommy Kern. Coach John Longfellow's team doesnt’j have too much height, although < renter Leo Hoffman is six-four. | Central has lost only to Riley.(Elkhart and Imfayett Jeff In Its last 1.1 games- and by a total margin of 10 points. It’s n typh-al fast-i breakTlig Johnny Wooden quint-{ el. with Boh Adams <2B points in one game) pacing the attack. —.— —o- — - — - New York Yankees Open Spring Drill New York. Feb 7- (UP) The Yankees march on Dixie today and they'll )m- welcome even where folks are still fighting the civil war. because deep in the old confederacy there hasn't been a major league buM-lwll team around In four years, Besld'-i the Yankees baseball variety are a fir cry frotm the Damyankees who brought bayonets Instead of bail bats m th- ’fib's. They’ve got j ; »e DiMaggio. And Charley Keller, and Phil Rizzuto, Spud Chandler, even old Bill Dickey. That crew and the others who comprise the 1356 Yankees are the February favorites to regain the American league champlomthip. The Yankees will go direct from here to Miami after which headquartern will Im- established In St. Petersburg, Fla. and the team will begin an elaborate training tour to the Panama Canal zone. * The Yankees aha will go "deep In the heart of Texas" in their tour of the sunny aide of the MasonDixon line. — —o —-—— The population of Los Angeles has increased more than 300,000 since the last census.

Monroe Bearkalz Win In Overtime Battle Th Monroe Bearkalz nosed out j a thrilling 21-20 overtime win at Berne Wednesday night over the Pleasant Mills Spartans. Sadler's charity toss in the extra period decided the affair, aft r the tv-ore was knotted 20-al! when the regulatlon playing period ended. The BearkatS held a 17-11 lead | nt half-time and 20-15 margin at the nd of the third stanza, but . were held scoreless in the fourth ; quarter. Zunher led the scoring for ls<th teams with 12 points, while Werllng was Is-xt for the J Spartans with nln . Monros FG FT TP Hirschy, f ... Io 2' t'iownovcr, f ... .. o o o Rich, c . r 0 0 0 Pierce, g .....Io 2 Zunher, g 4 4 12 Sadler, g 2 I 5 Totals 8 5 21 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Werllng, f 3 3 9 Johnson, f .. | 0 2 Ray. c .. 0 0 0 j Teeple. g . ...... 0 0 0 Speakman, g ...... ..10 21 Sipe, g .. 11 3{ Strayer, g .... 2 i> t Totals .. X 4 20 Preliminary Pleasant Mills 20. Monro In Spillinq The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities Major League Kraft won three from Nussbaum Novelty; Smith Bros, won three from Kohns Drug: McMillen won two from Standard Oil; Riverview Gardens won three from Kuhner; West End Restaurant won three from Ossian Tin Shop. Standing* W L Kraft . .. .... 7 2 , Riverview 7 2 Kuhner ... ... ..... . 6 3, McMillen 5 4 Smith Bros. ..5 4 West End .... 5 4 , Standard .. ... .. ..... 4 5 Ossian .... 3 6 Kohne .. . .... .. ..... . 3 6 Nussbanm ... - o !> High K ties- Mclntosh 642 (214-133-245; Laurent Cl 9 <203 224 192); Murphy 808 <lB9 206 213) High games; Petrie 223. Schnei der 202-215, Shoaf 201-212. F. Hoff man 200-200. Tutewller 222 2<»B. Keller 213. Mies 201. Snyder 203. McClure 221, Hilly 215. Faulkner 203. Women's League Daul r won three from Holt-j house: Kraft won three fram Vera's; Hill-Smith won three from Coffee Shop; McMillen won three from Schafer; Victory Bar won two from A 4 P; Weber won three from Mi-s; Central Soya won two from Smith Bros. Standings W L ( Dau If r .... > .. .. 6 0 Kraft .. 8 0 Hill-Smith .. ... .... .. 5 1 Central Soya 5 1 McMillen . 5 1| W her .. ... ... .... 4 2 A * I’ .. .. ... ... .... 4 2 Victory 3 3 Mies 3 3 Smith Bros. j 5 Schafer .. .. 0 6 Hoithouse ..0 8 Vera's 0 6 Coffee ......... o 8 High series: Schafer MS (!80-183-156); Reynolds 503 (161176 166); Young 501 (174-174-153). High games: Wherry 202, Schafer 189, Reynolds 176, Pancake

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175, Young 174, Odle 174. Bowdon 172. <> s Intramural Tourney Will Open Tonight Play will Mart 'onlght In the intramural tourney at the junlor-se nlor high school. ¥he tourney will determine the championship team in each division. The regular Inagae schedule cloned Tuesday night, with the Avengers in the lightweight division the only undefeatmi team. Following are standings for the msm: Heavyweight W, L. Pct. Eagles ... 6 2 .750 Bears S 3 .625 Redskins I 4 .500 Wolves 4 4 .500 Flashes I 7 .125 Lightweight Avengei-t 8 0 1 009 Maroons 4 4 500 Hawks I 4 .50) Cats 3 5 .375 Hornets 17 .125

Columbia City And Auburn Meet Friday The Columbia City Eaglet and Auburn Red Devils will battle at Columbia Chy Friday night tor the championship of the Northeastern Indiana cons rence. The Eagles hav won five games in an many starts, while Auburn ■has a record of six victories utid one defeat. By virtue ot pitying one more loop tilt, th Auburn quintet can retain its conference title by defeating Columbia City. The Warsaw-Columbia Chy Tilt Saturday wilt have no bearing on she loop title regard! an of'the outcome of tomorrow night's tilt. Meanwhile, the Decatur Yellow Jackets and Kendallville Comets will tangle at Kendallville in a haul for third place. This week's conference games will wind up the loop schedule. The conference standing: W L Pct. Columbia Chy. 5 0 I.tMH) Auburn .. <• 1 .*B* Decatur 5 2 .715 Kendallville . 4 2 .667 Garrett 15 .167 New llavt n ........ ... t 6 .142 Warsaw 0 fi .000 Bluffton ... 0 7 .000 Leading Scorers G TP Wat tier. Auburn .a 7 128 Hines. Auburn 7 111 Cook. Col. City S 64 Steiner. Decatur 7 79 Brown, Kendallville .. .... 6 63 Dillon, Kendallville .. .. 6 61 Clark, Garrett « 68 Broderick. Auburn 7 56 Aker. Col. City f. 40 Kleiman, K ndallville 6 38 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Ball State 60. Butler 26. EvsmvSllo 53, Western Kentucky 42. Huntington 42, Defiance 40. West Virginia 66, Army 63. Central Norma) 38. Wabash 36. Akron 69. Toledo 06. Almost overly kind of weapon In atw by armed force* of the Hulled States at th* time st the sitsek on Pearl Harbor had beeo chau|-

Brown Os Evansville Leads State Scorers Indianapolis. Feb. 7— (VP) — Harold Brown of Evansville college wax still the king pin of the state’s Individual collegiate basketball scoring race today, but the lanky forward faced a thr e-way duel Io the wire. On the surface. Brown’s 330polnt total In 19 games some 70 poliils ahead of his nearest competitor appears a wide enough bad In th closing weeks of the season. However. Brown, whose average of slightly morn than 1? points a game is the best in the slate, has only five more garnet 1 ft to play, while second plat e John Janisch of Valparaiso has eight and thirdplace 14*o Klier of Notre Dame has spven. Klier. with 236 {mints in II games, has virtually th same point-per game average as the front running Brown, who has played in five more games than the Notro Dame's unorthodox forward. Janisch, on the other hand. Is averaging 14 points a gam 1 three less than Brown or Kltar—but with eight left to play he still Is a top threat. Brown came through under pressure last night, dropping in five field coals and eight free throws for 18 points against W stern Kentucky to widen his lead. However, both Janisch and Klier get a chance to narrow the gap tonight when Valpo plays oncebeaten Holy Cross In (he Rostan Garden and Notr- Dame takes un Contains at Bufalo. N. Y. The Evansville captain la undisputed leader in all departments —total points, points per game and total field goals -123 and total free throws 84. Here are th state's top 20 scorers: G TP Brown. Evansville 19 336 Janisch. Valpo .............. IS 261 Klier. Notre Dame ..... 14 236 Jones. Evansville . 19 225 Royer. Ind. State ..... ... Is 211 Boryla. Notre Dame .. 14 211 DHIe, Volpo .... 18 210 Wallace, Indian 16 2(15 Hoffman. Punta — 17 192 Cranny, Butler 16 191 Anderson. Purdue IS 186 Fine. Hotter 18 180 laish. Ind. Blate ......— 18 158 Miller, Purdue 18 156 Cofer. Ind. State 17 156 Schoon, Valpo 16 149 Johnson. Huntington 10 148 Boyd, Depanw ... ... 13 146 Toon. Bnttar ......—... 18 145 Kistler. Ind. Central N.. 12 145

H. S. BASKETBALL Port Wayn* C. C. 85. Leo 37. Monroeville 33. Harlan >O. Marlon 42. Munt-le Burris 31. Evansville Memorial 49. Fort Branch 35. Ijtwrenceburit 44, Rushville 38. Three More Players Will Rejoin Cubs < — Chicago, Feb. 7—(UP)— Three more players, recently released from the armed forces, will join the Chicago Cabs at their Catalina Island training camp this month. They are Emil Kush, right handed pitcher: John MePartland. southpaw Wrier, and ouiftrtdor

O —— c Today's Sports Parade By Oscar Fraley Reg. U. S Pat. Off.) b 0 New York, Feb. 7-H P)- The burly man with the bullmus none railed a strike down lhe alley, minced half-heartedly back to lhe bench and forced a smile at a score that would have delighted most bowlers. A few blocks awa) the New York Yankee# were piling lightheartedly into the train that would carry them south for spring training. And here, In lhe dim shadows punciured by th* crash of falling pins, the greatest Yankee of them all George Herman Rtitlt observed his 52nd birthday anniversary in a bowling alley. "Those were the days," the Bals' mimed, almost lu hiaiself. as he pushed that pudgy, unbelievable mate across the side of his face. Hera. Indeed, waa a cyruno of the sports world. The Bambino never will forget the game he loved and sIIII loves, above everything else. Bui there’# no rancor in th.heart of lhe big man. Nolmdy knows better than the Babe that the day is gane when basehall could have made a place for him. It angered him at first but a man’s phiiuoophy alter* with hl* age“I’m not sore at anybody," he grinned. “Still, they did let Ty Cobb manage the Tigers. And they let Tris Speaker manage the Indian#. I guess it was natural that I'd expect a crack at managing In the majors." The blood rose a bit at the* thought, even now. “How did they know I wouldn’t make a go of It?" The Bambino watched a pin crush Into the pit, signed and added: "But they didn't so that's that." It Is. And now the Babe is just a big man, who has a sore leg and

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PUBLIC SA GUERNSEY HERD OF Dairy Cows 6* Heid T. B. AND BANGS TESTED I, the undersigned, will sell at public auction my dairy cattle, feed and mIM-elldneous on my farm located > of Bluffton. Ind., on State Road No. 124. then 2 mil" miles south of Preble, Ind.; or 4 miles went and Ji, mj,' Decatur. Ind., on I Tuesday, Feb. 12,151 Sale Starting at 12:00 Noon Prompt 27—GUERNSEY DAIRY HERMI 1. MOLLY—Registered Guernsey cow, 5 yrs. olil. <lu» i, J Feb. 17, 6 gal. cow. Test 5.2. | 2. TOOTMlK—Guernsey cow, 6 yrs. old. was fresh Jan u.J n>». H. F. in 1945. giving 6 gallon of tnilk Tent U | 3. SPOT—Guernsey cow, 6 yrs. old. due to fro-hra Mit gl 65 lbs. milk per day. . Test 4.4. I 4. CORAL—Guernsey cow, 4 yrs. old, dm- to fn-ahra will give 4k firn, milk per day. Text 5.5 I 5. GIVE MUCH—Guernsey cow. 7 yrs. old. dm- May : swl gallons now. will give 55 lbs. when fresh. Test (k I 6. LADY—Guernsey cow, 2 yrs. old. was fresh June U. J giving gallons milk now. milk 55 Ilin, shin fre.h T«] 7. CASEY—Guernsey caw, 3 yrs. old. was fresh Dec. 1:, lons of milk now. Tent 5.3. I 8. DOLLY—Guernney cow, 5 yrs. old. was frosh Ort > 4m|J giving 3*£ gallons now. Test 41. I 9. BEULAH—Guernsey cow. 4 yrs. old. due to frrahnz hy J sale. s’i gallon v» w - T,,>t 5- I 10. GUERNSEY cow—3 yrs. old, due Io freshen Feb.S.gl gallon with first calf. Teat 4. 11. STAR—Guernsey cow, 3 yrs old. due April H. siriwi\| with first calf. Tent 43. 12. U)U—Guernsey cow. 4 yrs. old. tine to freshen IVh Ji v; 6 gallons of milk. Tent 5. - 13. HOSEY —Guernsey cow, 5 yrs. old, due July is. 6 si! s 5.7. 14. BIG JOHN—Guernsey and Swim cow, S yr old. due Jfifl Ing 3(k gallons, will give 7 gallons when fresh Test H 15. ROAN—Spotted cow, 9 yrs. old, due March 16. 7 zal roils 16. WHlTEY—Holstein cow. 7 yrs old. was fresh Nov » Vai 16. giving 5% gallon. Test 3.3. 17. BLACK lE—Holstein cow, 5 yrs. old. due to freshen by hit gave 6.524 lbs. of milk and 594 8 of B. F in l!'l> Tat 11 18 DAISY- -Guernsey cow, 2 yrs. old. due Sept !••. Her IMi 65 Tbs. per day. • 19. REGIfeTEP.ED GUERNSEY— .Heifer- Coining 2 yr« * Guernsey bull Jan. 9. ?« HOLSTEIN Helfer—l year old. open, 21. GUERNSEY AND HOLSTEIN Helfer-i year old 22. GUERNSEY Heifer—l year old, open. 23 and 24—Two Guernsey Bulls, service age. eligible to irfiwt 25. GUERNSEY Helfer-8 weeks old. 26 GUERNSEY Helfer-4 weeks old. Thia is an extra good herd of dairy cows. You are IntitH* to farm any time before the day of sale ami inspect thii es alnive that are bred, are bred to a registered C.urnsey bzllif* that I isiiight out of the Pete !x*hman Herd. 1 have -"ldtbl the market on account of getting cross and dangerous HAY 20a Bales of clover and alfalfa hay. first cutting. 2" ■••• er and alfalfa hay, second cutting; 4<M» bales of < lover luf. clover nd wheal stubles; 250 bales of bright wheat straw. MILKING MACHINE j Hindman, double unit milking machine with pipe for 18 cows, COMBINE AND MISCELLANEOI S 31 T Model McCormick-Deering 12-ft. cohibim. '•«'« >*’ lion. Tractor cultivator* for McCormlck-Deerltt! Model* good rubber tired wagon with GtAixlfi liras; M<<'"rnuik . hammer mill, like new; Red Cross power corn sheiier. w,lhJ ' er and cleaning fan; 50 ft. Red River belt; 40 ft. han ’®'? b( Silo, size 10 ft. hy 32 ft., 1 stave; extra good Smidb-y " w ( er; winter hog fountain; 6 new cow stanchions, er house, size 12’xl«'. new last summer; Burge Surge milk cooler; 10 good milk cans: milk strains ’ brackets; rubber tired milk cart, extra good TERMS-t’ASH. RAY WILSfI oIS Ei'enbcrgei Bros., Amt ionear a. Vance Wilson, Clerk.

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