Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1946 — Page 8

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Morris Leader Os Conference All-Star Five Chicago. Feb. 28 (Ulw Gr*a' offensive perfo* -ners wh > have helped mak*- the Big Tin on*- <>t th*- nation's mos: formidable cage groups today were i pot lighted with place< on the United I* <• -' annual all-eonferen *• basketball team In lialloting that wax ait tight us the title race Itself the first team ton-art went to Max Morris of Northwestern and Tony Jure* of .Minnesota at the forwards; Jack Uuderman of Ohio State at center; Herb Wilkinson of lowa and Paul Hoffman of Purdue at the guards. Winning the k> ond team berths were John Walla* •• <>f Indiana and Dick Ires of lowa at the forwards; Bob Doster of IllinoU at center; and Warren Amllng of Ohio Stat* and Dave Strack of Michigan a' the guard* Stellar individual performers were widely distributed around th* Bitt Ten this season and that wa reflected In the tot In? of <• nfer ence coaches atid mid-western newspapermen who participated in the poll, A total of 28 player* from every conference school, * xceptlny cellar-dwelling Chicago, re - Ived votes for the all-star t« am. The honorary captaincy • f the all-conference quintet «oes to Morris, who was the only unanimous choice. The Northwestern forward led the league in individual scoring in 1945 and then came back thia season to play above the standard he set a season ago. Morris scored 198 points In league <oinpetiiion this year. Morris is six-foot-two and weighs 195 pounds. He was an all-Atnerlca •election at end last football season Morris’ runnlng-ma'e on the honorary team. Jaras, catne back to intercollegiate play this reason after an absence of three y--ar-during which time he was In the army. Although Minnesota slumped badly in bite sea-on. Jaros maintained a brilliant individual standard Six foot two Inch. 19 f > pounder the Gopher forward has the slae, speed and durability si necessary for modern basketball. He has accounted for 155 points in 10 league gamtw. Good center.! were plentiful In the conference and th- nod went to Underman of the championship Ohio State team i>y a very narrow margin. A reserve at the outset of thseason. Underman gained a starting position when six-foot nine-inch Arnold Risen was declared in-ll-gible Underman made good from

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the outset a ,| rapidly established hlmrelf u« an oi -<t.-in-lint pivot man He ranks sixth In scoring with 139 point* in II c.iin- h. s- f-ond to Mo-,- . In th- vrtlng I was Wilkinson, a superb rebound er and fine piuy muk-r The rix foot four inch Hawkeye wa»* a member of tae University of Utah team that won the national collegiate chant !>:*>.< >ip two years ago. (tn a team that wallowed in the »e. nd divi- .i -i all season Hoffman was conM -'eiiily »r lltant He ranked fifth In individual oring uni *u< the k- -y performer who made th- Boil.rm.ik>' a threat even n a -*-asnn w!.--:i they wire far l»< low par Happy Says Baseball Heads For Big Year V< Fla F.-b, 28 (I pt Baseball commissioner A. II (flap pyi Chandler, touring the Major b-agu*' training camps, raid today that baseball "now has no problems whlih are not working out satlsfar torlly.” Impressed by tin- big turnouts at the varum- camps an I "the enihu-uiii-ni of the many rc-rvlcemen.” ('handler predicted that th- game wr.i headed f >r Its greatest year. Cardinals St. Petersburg, Fla. Feb. 29 tl’Pt Manager Eddie Dyer divid-♦-I the St Louis Cirtlin.ils into tw * teams (oday for their intra-squad game, naming t-.mi ('apt. Terry Moore to leud one squad and Eli is Slaughter, another prewar slugging outffeld-r, to head th-- other. Giants Miami, Fla.. Feb. 28 tl’Pt -- Manager Mel Utt -a; i today that Walker Cooper, the Giant*' SI 75, OOP catcher, probably would not join flu-m until it arrived In New York after spr.ng training. Cubs Aval n. Calif., Feb. 28 - (IT) — The Chlcag > Cubs' holdout ranks were Increased today when outfielder Hairy (Peanuts) Lowrey quit camp because he Was unable to reach an -agre-.-ment with the National league champion*' man agement. Browns Annahelm, Calif., Feb. 28 (UP) > — Pitcher Jar k Kramer, in-game winner with the st. Louis Browns lust season, sig icd 111- 194*5 cuufract today and Immediately donned his unlf rm for th-- squad’s third inter-camp game of th-- week Tigers Lakeland. Fla.. Feb. 28 (UP) —; Michael (Pinky) Higgins, at 36 yearn of age. set out today to win back the third base position for the Detroit Tigers h>- held for five years before the war. Senators Orlando, Fla.. Feb. 28 (UP) — Rae Scarborough, 27-yt-ar-old righthander. recently discharged after twr years in the service. reported to the Washington Senators* camp j today leaving the club abort only i one man. Marino Piereiti, who won II and lost 13 games with the Sen ators last season. Yankees Balboa. C Z.. Feb. 28—(UP)—I Spurgeon (Spud t. Chandler, 36- | CORTI ♦ G I — Last Time Tonight — "KID MILLIONS"Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern | ALSO—Shorts 9c 30c Inc, Tas ♦ # Starting Fri. & Sat. ' New Serial Thriller! FEATURE — "GUN TOWN" —o Sun. Mon. Tues.—" The Spider" A ' “Out of the Depths."

Berne’s Foes In Regional Tournament •I j Erol'S LTvw 1 t* ** i ,I ■CEjLhH'4 IfcjiAs- I* ***** TiK The Huntington Vikings will meet the Berne Bears, winners of the Decatur sectional tournament. In the first game of the Huntington regional meet at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Members of the Huntington team, pictun-d above, arc: L«-ft to right Bullinger. Carnes, Mx kstroth. Shultr Wilhelm. Stephan. Burkhart. Priddy. Williams. Shock and Ixihr.

year-old righthander, wa* <-xperiencing trouble today In hi» comeback attempt with the New York Yankees. ( Chandler, who oald he did not I«-el "right" yet. worked six inningH against the Panama pro-lea-gue all-stars yesterday, yieldin'? three runti. Th>- Yanks defeated th-- all-stars, 5 to 3, for their oeven'.h consecutive exhibition victory. Pirates San Bernardino. Calif., Feb. 28 (UP) Pitcher Oadis Swigurt stood out in yesterday's intra-squad game of the J'lttohurgb Piraho. as thA’s defeated the B’s, 9 to 2. McMillen Team Is Defeated By Moose The McMillen team of tills city diopped a 30 to 22 till to the Fort Wayne M>*ose In a game played Wednesday night at the Con- >rd la gym in Fort Wayn.. Moose led at the half. 14 to 12. Sammetinger ted the winners with Di points, followed by D. Bchnepf of .McMillen with nine. Moose FG FT TP Van Ryu. f ... .20 4 Wilkins, f ..1 1 3 Sammeting r.c ..5 0 10 Hanley, g ..... ... 2. 2 t’> Nern, g .. . 1 3 5 Marquette, g _. 1 0 2 Totals ... 12 (5 30 McMillen FG FT TP D. Schnepf. f ... ..4 1 9 Delong, f o o o K. Srhnepf, <• ..2 1 5 W. Si-hnepf. g .... 2 0 4 Hirschy. g 2 0 4 Williamson, f o 0 0 Painter, f .. ... () 0 0 Totals . ... 10 3 22 —— - ■ -o Snillinq The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities Women's League A A P won thr.e from Schafer; Damler won three from Weber; McMillen won throe from Kraft; Hill-Smith won two from Holt-, house: Vera’s won two from Mies; ' Central Soya won two from Victory Bar; Coffee Shop won two from Smith Bros. Standing W L Daukr 12 3 McMillen . ... .. .... . 1! 3 Hill Smith ... . 11 4 Kraft 11 4 Central Soya -- Id IA A P .... ... 9 « Mies - « ~ Victory .... 7 8 Weber — '» 9 Smith Bros ... fi 9 Holthouse ... ... .. .. 5 10 Coffee ... .... 3 12 Vera's...... " 12.. Schafer ........... .. ..... 2 13 High series; Schafer 512. High ifimes: Scimf r 190-197. Sheet < 190. Reynolds 181 172. Young 177, Heim 174. Scbamerloh 184. o Fox Hunting From Planes Unlawful Evansville. Ind.. Feb. 28-Conser-ration officers have received orders to crack down on sportsmen and on bounty-aeekera who have been blasting Indiana's foxes from the air, the department of emservatlon announced today. Light airplanes bearing a/woman crew have been making It rough on Reynard this winter, particularly In tha central part of the atate. While the pilot deftly swoops down on the startled * beust, the i trigger man whatna away with a i shotgun, and any kind of a marksman can make enough In bounties to pay for the day’s gasoline, and perhaps a couple of box lunches. It 'is believed that more than 100 | foxes have been alain In this man--ner In Vet million county alone.

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Valparaiso V/inner Os College Crown By United Press Coach Loren Elßi and his "world’s tallest b;.k-'lm!l team" f.om Valparaiso nailed the Indiana intercollegiate cage pennant alongside their 1915 cons- n n< <• f wtbill fag t >day. Valpo, winning, the basketball title the hard way. beat down the title challenges of Indiana State's Sycamores last night at Valparaiso, 17 41. The Crusadc-iA. »h > have a»iqua<l that averages six feet five- inches till, trailed state throughout the first half and it appeared that the Sycamores and Valpo would wind up as cochampion». Then'"Busy Bob" Dili?, one of the state'-t all-time great*, set his sites on the goal and the Crusaders sprinted to a 15 37 bad—and that was tha’t as far as the 1945-48 state cage title was concerned. Dille, atate scoring champion In 1943-41 and 1944 45 and an All American both seasons, finished with 17 points. Max Woolsey, freshman from Linton. IRI Stat? with 10 points Woolsey netted most of his poln’.i In the ffrot half, when coach Glen Cuitis' Sycamores took n 25-19 lead. Valpo clinched nt leas* a share of the title Monday nlg.it by blasting Central Normal. 69-42. The Crusaders trimmed Normal. State* and Butler twice apiece to earn •he championship. While Valpo was dropping State to fourth place In the ICC standing:. Huntington'* idle Vikings moved into second and Evansville, blasting Indiana Central, 53-43, held third. Huntington has won seven out of nine -league stars and lax one more game to play -at i i Central Normal tonight. Evansville j finished with six h-ague wins I against two lostes—both to Indian* ' I state. Harold Brown, state scoring champion of tbl* setwon. tossed, in 20 p Jnts to pare the Evansville i Purple Aces against the Central iGreyhounds, central finished the! I season with aix wins tn 17 starts.; Evansville posted 1G triumphs In 24 games. State and Valpo also have completed their regular seasons. Valpo I took 15 out of 26 gamc»t. The Syca- i more*, who will complete In the national v Invltatl na! post-season i tourney at Kansas City, won ia [and lost a half dozen. —_ —o Game Bird Program Revision Announced Indianapolis, Feb, 28-Revision 'of game bird rearing contracts to i allow release of 8-weeks-old pheasant* and quail by cooperating j jelnbs wa* announced today by the i Indiana department of conserva 1 tlon. Donald R. Hughes, director of fish and game for the c .nservatlon department, said revision of the re- ’ cently-announced program which provided for release of birds 12 week* of age and over Wa* necessary because of the acute shortage of wire which has prevented many clubs from enlarging holding pens. ■ 1 o— —— Ray Robinson Scores Another Knockout St. Louie. Feb. 28— (UP) -Ray (Sugar) Robinson. New York, uncrowned king of the welterweights, counted hts Gist victory In 83 bouts today after knocking out Cliff Beckett, Canadian middleweight champion, In the fourth round of a ■scheduled 10-round fight. The Harlem negro, weighing in i at 147 pounds compared to Beckett's 151 U, had the Canadian boxer on the canvaes six times before i putting him down for keeps In 40 , seconds of the fourth round last night. ' . f,: --j'"' ■: .i V 7

Junior High Wins In Overtime Tilt D catnr Junior high netters closed out their home season Wedne day afternoon with a real thriller. defeating Kirkland at the Lincoln gym. 31 to 28. after an overtim • battle. Kirkland held an It to 8 lead at the halt but Decatur ctlme back to tie the score at 23 23 at the expiration of the regular playing time. The youngsters really put on a scoring spree In the overtime se-sioti. Deiatur pouring in eight I-ointH and Kirkland five. Bohnke led Deiatur with 12 point-, follow <1 by Dague with 10. Heller was Kirkland's leading scorer with 10 pointe. Decatur wound up Its season at Convoy, O. late this afternoon. Decatur FG FT TP Dague. f 5 0 10 Bair, f .. 1 0 2 Bohnke. c 6 1 13 Mills, g ... 2 0 4 Peterson, g ..10 2 Bauman, f 0 0 0 Rowdon. f oo 0 toctu g ..oo o Totals 15 1 31 Kirkland FG Ft TP Baumgartner, f 1 0 2 H Iler, f ...42 10 Arnold. <• . 2 1 5 C. Get Iter, g 2 0 4 t Kolter. g ... ...... 3 17 *W. Gerber. <• .. .......... 4> 0 0 Kuhn. g .. ...'OO 0 Totals 12 4 28 o 0 O I Today's Sports Parade I By Oecar Fraley | I Reg. U- 8. Pat Off.) O — O Savannah. Or., Feb. 28—(UP)— Rambling through the American la-ague red book for a p* k at [ the rookies who might make major league headlines this summer —ami getting closer to th<m by the minute. Boston Red Sox—pitcher Earl Douglas Johnson of San Mateo, j Calif., one of baseball's real war heroes. Up once befor- from the St. Mary's college campus, Earl was awarded the bronze star and a battlefield promotion and doubled during the battle of the bulge - with the silver star and promotion to first lieutenant. And third baseman Ernie Andree, an all-around athlete at Indiana university re- * gird d as a iMiak«thall ace. Starred for Mickey (Aoetirane at Great latkes for two years. Chicago White Sox — pitcher Doyle Marlon Lade of Fairbury. Neb., a fugitive from a railroad. Out of the coast guard after nearly four y ars service. And taflelder Chester Hajduk. a Chicago boy 1 of Polish extraction who had planned to play professional ice hockey. Thought better of It after two yHr> under Cochrane at Gnat Lakes. Cleveland Indians — pitcher Ralph Berbert McCabe, a young Irishman from Nstpande, Ont., who once wanted to diamond drill for gold. Th 1 six foot, four inch hurler figured money came easier on the diamond. And catcher John Sherman Loller of Fayetteville, Ark., the "Cfnd -rella Kid." Played seml-pro ball two years ago—and yet in 1945 was the International league’s leading hitter w’»h a .367 mark and its most valuable player. Detroit Tigers—outfi 4der Walter Arthur Evers of Collinsville, BL, better known aa "Hoot.” A team mate of Dick Wakefield at Beaumont in 1942, Wakefield winning hatting honors with .345 and Hoot b Ing second with 322. Homa from a long stretch in the army. And outfielder John Joseph MeHsle of Detroit. Cail out the subway alumni—-he's an ex-Notre Darner N v York Yankees — pitcher Rinaldo Joseph Ardlsoia of Ban Francisco, who was born in Italy. A husky right hander who cams

out of the army last November nnd may he some of the medicine needed In Yank< e stadium. And another hurler, Clarence .Wwley Marshall - u lucky man. He hud planned on being a eports writer. Bellingham. Wash., his native heath, la proud of the Improvement. Philadelphia Athletics another hero In pitcher William Wieri Connelly of Alebrta. Va.. landed on Iwo Jirna with a navy d-tach-inent and wan shot through the face 18 days later. Bill admits that the navy “did a marvelous repair job." And infielder Eugene Handley of Sacramento, father of u six y ar old daughter and three-yt-ar<’ld twins — and a brother of the Pirates' l*-»- Handley. St. Louis Browns infielder John Berardino, another Italian pros pect who luills from Ixrs Angeles Att-nded the university of Southern California, where he was e Phi Kappa Tau. Entered the army as a pilot, left the air force an<! entered the navy. And outfi Idet George Washington Bradley of’

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