Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1946 — Page 8

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Major League Player Trades Loom Shortly L<* Angele*. Dec • 1 (I’Pt Ma Jor league ball playa i > were gin;oil the trading bleak !n wholesile lota today with the R<-<l« and the Phillies of the National league and the Browns and Indiana of the American the moat u-tlve bidder* Thus far the informal ■ >nfe ences whi.-h have l»«-n going on for four days prior to the official open Ing of the winter meeting Thursday have resulted in no deal*, but there are plenty on th ■ fin M• t of them may not Im completed until later hut a lot of ground wo k hi* been laid There have been k >me de finite offers and rejection- The Indians offered Ken Kellner, their third basmati, to the It iwns in exchange for canter fielder Wally Judni.-h but Muddy Ruel, the new manager of St. Louis nixed that one although he admitted h- definitely was Inteleated in the Cleveland In fielder. But Ruel sai l that Jndnh-h was one of the five Brown players who were not on the marke*. the others being pitcle-rs Boh .Mumrlef and Jack Kramer, ahortstnp Vernon Stephen-* and Infielder Johnny Berardlno The others, h- said, war"up for «ale or trade The Browns were out in front' so far as the number of players j were concerned, but their city rival*, the Cardinals, were on the other encl Owner, Sam Brendon.' although admitting that he h s received offers for .Ma ty Marlon. Stan Mitaial and Whitey Kurowski. said none of hfc« stare were for sab- ’ or trade Confident that both Howie Pol let. who was inju ed in late season last year, and Johnny Beazley would come b.ick .is front line hurlc-rs, the gray-!-aired Cardinal owner said he was I Hiking forward to another National league i pennant and world's championship.' President War en Hile and man , ager Johnny Neon of the- Redu came' here with the penni> -<io;i of owner Powel Crosley "to -pare- no ex penne" in an effort to obtain some heavy hitters. "We nre looking *or hitters." Neun said, and we an- teady to go very high for the right man o; men." At the same time, h ewever. he made- it plain th ct he would not part with any p'ayer-c whom he

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Yeil-'-v Jackets al Bluffton. Willshire nt Monmouth. Wednesday Jefferson v .Monroe at Geneva. Kirkland at Petroleum. Friday Bente at Yellow Jackets. Commodores at Pb-asart Mills. .* Geneva at Pleasant Mills, i-' Geneva at Kirkland. Monroe at Hartford. I J< ff- r c n vs Bryant at Geneva figured would help him in 1917. lie- said the Reel* hud received feelers from "a lot of National league clubs" for he three catche ,< Hay Mueller. Ry l.nmaitno and Al I Lnkeman Hut he was quick to add that he would not part with Mueller'* services under any circumstances lie- Intimated that a lot • of teams were after Lake-man and that he may be used as trading ma terlal The Indians definitely had Kelttier on the market to all clubs ex c-ept the- Boston Reel S< x None of the American league teams wore interested in talking deaU with the 1949 American league p»-nnant winner*. There was a report that the Yankees had offered the Indians Johnny Lindell, outfielder-infielder. In ex. h inge for first baseman Les Fleming, but nothing concrete de veloped. Manager B»n Chapman the Phillies had his eye on Stan Rojek. i utility infielder with the Budget* | last season, a- I indicated he would give up Oscar Judd, a left handed pitcher in whom Brooklyn hue ‘ c hown interest, for him. lie also ■aid he could use one of Brooklyn s young pitchers lik- Hank Behrtnan and would go high for him He sug- ' geared Judd, outfielder Ron Northey anti “some cash" for Rojek and Behrtnan but wasn’t ve y hopeful of obtaining the latter. The chances were, however, that he would take Hal Gregg instead. Th-- Yankee- al-o were active ' Manager Bucky Harris has named I • even pl.-yer-c with whom he will net part otitfleders Joe HiMaglo, Charley Keller and Tommy Henrich, infielder* Phil Rlzzuto. Bobby Brown and Georgie Stirnwc-iss and catchers Aaron Robinson and Bill I terra. All of the dubs, except the Cards, were in the trading market. The New York Giants were repotted to have th<- inside track on HUI Good man. hard-hitting outfielder of the Atlanta dub nt the- Southern aeso-

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Two League Games Are Played Monday McMillen ol this city and the Willshire Legion post scored victories In Adams county Independ ent league games Monday night at the Lincoln gym. McMillen romped over the Foreign War Vets, fit to 40. In the opener, after hading by only six points at the half, 33 To 27. Randenbush VFW forward, led both teams with 16 points, while K Schnepf was high for McMillen with 15. Willshire edged out Hoagland. It to I". In the nightcap, after the teams tied at the half. 17-17. August's 11 points led a well balanced Willshire attack, and P. Hisuer was high for Hoagland with 13. Games scheduled Thursday night at the Pleasant Mills gym are VFW vs Post 43; K of (’. vs Moose. McMillen FG FT TP 11. Schnepf. f 2 2 6 , Crist, f .......60 12 K. Schnepf, c 71 IB Schelper. g .. 4 1 !' Way. g .. .. 3 17 Williamson, f ..1 1 3 Hirschy. f .. .. ... 11 3 Delong, f .. 000 Kistler f -- ... 204 August, g ... ... 10 2 J. Schnepf, g ..113 Totals .... 28 8 64 VFW FG FT TP Reef, f 2 1 5 Raudebuslv. f ... 4 16 Rates, c .. 3 17 Strayer, g ’-... ..1 2 4 Werllng. g 0 0 0 Sapp, f 0 0 0 Sipe, f .... 1 0 2 Chronister, g 3 0 6 Totals 16 8 40

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WILLSHIRE FG FT TP Dellinger, f ..317 Carr, f 4*l 9 August, c 5 1 11 Miller, r 2 1 I Painter, g .. .. 2 4 8 Morningstar, <• .... 2 0 4 Totals .... 18 8 44 Hoagland FG FT TP G. IHaner, f .. 5 1 11 Frauke, f . .. ... 2 3 6 P. Ulster. <: .6 1 13 Ruhl, g .. ..Oil Counterman, g .. . 2 1 5 Fredrick, f 0 0 0 Gresley. e ..... ... 0 0 0 Shearer, g .. .. . 0 0 0 Reynolds, g .... 1 3 4 Totals .. 16 8 40 Referee: Everhart. Umpire: — Foor. 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Indiara 69. Wabash 46. Indiana State 79, Oakland City 36 Wheaton 65, Valparaiso 63. Huntington 61. Manchester 56. Union 55, Hanover 40. Wisconsin 61, Lawrence 42. lowa 73, South Dakota State 32. Kentucky 68, Fort Knox 31. Marquette 65, Ripon 46. o Cancer Treatment Treatment of cancer anywhere In the mouth is essentially a radiologic problem, to be tieatcd with radioactive substances or x-rays, since only a small number of cases are entirely suitable for surgery, the doctor* said, pointing out that there were only three patients In a five year survival group who were treated entirely with surgery. 0 Bottom Up When you wash painted walls and woodwork, remember to start at the bottom and work up. When the warm water trickles down over soiled walls, the path it makes is hard to wash off.

I. U. Beats Wabash In Season Opener Chlciiro. Dec. 3 —<UP I - Three of the Big Nine's most promising basketball crown contenders lowa, Wisconsin and Indian* were off to n susceessful early sea son start today as the conference teams moved into the first week of n«m title play lowa* sharpshooting Hawkeyes, centered around four members of their 1945 title winning team, crushed South Dakota State In a season opener at lowa City last night, 73 to 32. Wisconsin, with IS letter winner* back, trounced Lawrence College at Madison. Cl to 43. and Indiana's Hoosiers, runnerup to Ohio State In the conference race last season, won easily In a home game over Wabash College, fill to 46. Two attendance mark* fell on the first night of play. A crowd of 8.475 turned out for the lowaSouth Dakota State game, breaking the previous high of f>,300 In the 1945 opener. About 7.600 crowded the Hoosier field house for another new record. lowa, strengthened by a lineup including Clayton and Herb Wilkinsor. Jack Spencer and Dick Ives from the 1945 championship team, stretched its winning streak at home to 22 straight victories. Wisconsin opened it* season with the largest group of monogram winner* in the conference, including Bob Cook and Kxner Menzel from the regular 1945-46 lineup Indiana, coached by Branch McCracken, back from the navy. Is

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I shaped around Ward William* and Ralph Hamilton, rated as allconference player* last year. In midwest games outside the conference last night, .Marquette beat Ripon. 65 to 46. and lowa State trimmed Grinnell. 56 to 28 Ust night's game* touched off an ll gatne nonconference scheduled for Big Nine teams this week, j In which every team but Purdue will see action. The schedule: Thursday — Kipon at Northwestern: Friday — Cornell at Illinois; Saturday — Pitts burgh at Ohio State. Kansas Statt i nt lowa. Marquette at Wlstonsln, Depaul at Minnesota. Michigan State at Michigan and Miami of 1 Ohio at Indiana. o — — Jasper Team Tops After Early Tills Indianapolis. Dec. 3 —(UP)—I Many of the front-running Indiana I high school basketbull quintet* | cquare off again*! each other this week, but Jasper's Wildcats, who! grabbed flr*t place In today'* first statewide United Press rankings of the season, should have easy sailing. Through a schedule quirk, the Wildcat* tangled with three of the future book favorites during a four-game November schedule. The way the Cat* trimmed first Bedford. 39-33; then Huntingburg. 31-26. and lastly Jeffersonville. 39 33. left little doubt that, going into the second month of the campaign. Jasper had shown the most power. Coach Leo “Cabby" O'Neal doom't have a six footer or really

outstanding star m the h neu| , B the Jasper sone defense and f| ‘ 1 wagon attack has hmn, oper, U Z with nild-season p:e<-ls| un O'Neal will be able to taper off hie club somewhat this week Princeton goes to Jasper tonight and the Wildcats trek to Evansvliitto play Kelts Friday. Meanwhile, here's the first United Pres* statewide h* ( „ r , h|i 1 season: > 1. Jasper twon 4 lost Ot. 2. Shelbyville (40). 3. Bedford 14-1 >. 4. Lafayette Jeff (j.j>, 5. Columbus (3-o*. 6. Muncie Burris (4-1). 7. Kvanavllle Central (20). 8. Huntington (3-0). 9. Rochester <5-01. 1". South Bend Central (2-j), Well . regarded: Jeffersonville <2 11, Marion (34i|. Terre Hautg Gerstmeyer (2-o>, Muncie Central! 12-1 L MlcJilgan City (2-0). Madi son (4-11, Huntingburg (j.j) Crawfordsville («-|>. Anderson (2-1). There were some notable “sbI sentees” from the list because such I < lubs as Kant Chicago Washington and Hammond High have not play ed two or more games Hamrnoud nicked South Bend Central last I Saturday. 38-36. Zollner Pistons Back In Pro League Lead By United Press The Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons were back in fltat place in the Eastern division of the National basketball league today and the Indianapolis Kautsky* took over leadership in the Western division following a schedule of three game*

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