Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1946 — Page 8

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Decatur Teams Split In Double Head]

Commies Defeat Lima, Hoagland Defeats Jackets

!»••< atur's high Mhool basketball teams, • ngaging in their fir-t dou I I.- header in L‘ie city's history, gained .ill even break ill the two g.niK - played Tuesday night at th. Yellow Ja.kets gym, with a la: trowd in attendance. Ti, De.atur Commodore*. open Ing tin in i- '• alt rat -Gon. def- .1 e| Ft John's of Lima. 3!* to 31. While tile Decatur Yell-W .!:•« het. . p1.,-, n:- tlie n ghhtip. w<-:e handed ;i 57 io 37 ethack hy th • Hoagland Wild, at.* The evening s .ittra<t.on enlivened hy lhe liitlric of both Decatur high .-chool hands, with a Hpe. ial thri I between the game provided by a t.ilinpel ami drum corps from the De, atm junior -<•»* lor high H. hool Commodore* W-n With big Wilder -liowing the way with 11* point, . oil.' of the filleet perfomam-, of liix career, the Commodores def. ted St John's of Lima. (» . 39 to 31, in the open er It was the Lima teams fit defeat of tile season after three victories. After a clone first quarter, which ended with Hie Commies on top by a 12 to It score. Hie Commodore* pulled away in tie second period and stayed out in front all the way. Decatur led at the half. 21 f > ill, and at the third quarter. 112 to 22 St Johns pulled Within f.ve point* al 34 to 2!» Imt Wilder Mopped the Buckeyes' onrush when he grabbed a rebound to store. Baker followed Wilder's lead by counting 11 point-, while the Hi.penhoff brother paced Lima with 13 ami 10 point*, respe tlwdy. Nel tlier team was consistent from the foul line, the Coinmodorte converting II of 25 chances, while Lima made only seven ol 2 Yellow Jacket* Lose I'nerring accuracy from the free throw line showed the Hoagland Wildcats the way to a 57 to 37 victory over the Decatur Yellow Ja kets in the finale. Although outscoring Dicatur only six points from the field, the Wild cats registered a great percentage bom the free throw line, clicking on lit of 25 opportunities to build up their 2" point margin. The Jackets, meanwhile, blew their victory chances by counting only five tinier from the charity stripe in 21 efforts. The first quart"- was a tight bat tie a ll tin- way. with Decatur in the lead most of the way, but Hoagland pulling into a 12-12 tie a* the first period closed Tin- Wildcats took the lead with the start of the second period and v ere in front to stay, leading at the half, 23 to IS The Allen county quintet increased He margin to 12 points at the third quarter, 39 to 27. and kept building up this lead in the final eight minutes of play Guenin. scoring nee of the Wildcats for the pant two seasons, was the outstanding star of the contest the diminutive forward pouring through seven field goals and five free throws in seven chance* for a total of 19 pointe. Decatur's scoring was divided among 10 players. Schnepf and Ere by leading with six points each. Commodores FG FT TP J Gilllg. t 10 2 llumschlag, f Oil Wilder, <• X 3 19 itoop. g Oil Baker, g 3 5 11 Kahle. f 2 15 Totals 14 1 39 Lima FG FT TP N Hoehn, f 10 2 Rhine, f 10 2 T. Rlepenhoff, c 5 3 13 L. Hoehn, g oil P. Rlepenhoff. g 4 2 10 Bruin, f 1 0 2 Santagoida, f Oil Totals 12 7 31 Referee:- Todd. umplre:-Tatum Hoagland FG FT TP Andrews, f 3 0 6 F. Guenin. f 7 5 19 Zelt, c —.................... 4 5 13 Mailand. g — Oil Morton, g 2 2 6 Scherer, f .... - 0 0 0 Kaiser, g 3 6 12 R. Guenin. t — 0 0 0 Totals .... 19 19 57 Yellow Jackets FG FT TP Beehler. t 0 2 2 Freeby. f 3 0 6 Ballard, t .. ... 2 0 4 Grant, f — 0 0 0 Holmes, c _ — 2 0 4 Scbnepf. g ........... 3 0 6

Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Wednesday Commodores at Until i-igton f'ath ..111-, Friday Monroe at Yellow .la kets. Ilirtford at Berne. Bryant at Geneva. Monmouth at Hoagland. Kirkl in I at Lam aster. Jeff. <>n at Gray. Lil llten-teiper, g 12 4 Boyne , f o ti 0 Lehman. g 2 0 4 McConnell, i- 10 2 Ogg. 6 113 McElhaney, g 1 o 2 Haughn. g tioo Totals hi 5 37 Referee Tatum, umpire Todd Hartford Gorillas Beat Spartan Five D Moser'- II points paced thill irtford Gorillas to a 12 to 33 victory over the I’b-asadt Mills Spart.itis Tuesday night at the Pleasant Mills gym. The teams were tied at the first quarter. 66. Imt Hartford took a 1111 lead at the half and Increased tills margin to 27 21 at the third quarter Strayer was the leading point getter for the Spartans with 12 points. Hartford FG FT TP Il Moser, f 6 2 14 W Wanner, f .... 3 2 X Smith, <• .. 3 17 Dubach. K .. ..317 ('. Warner, g 1 4 G Hpelchlger. f .. ... 0 0 0 M Moser, f 0 0 0 Totals .. 16 10 42 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Hay f .. -. 124 Riley, f .. .. . 3 0 6 Strayer, <• 4 4 12 Ehrsam. g ..237 White, g 2 « 4 Daniel- g 0 0 0 Wolfe, g . .... 0 0 0 Springer, g 0 0 0 Totals .. 12 9 33 Referee Arnold. Empire Strickler Preliminary Hartford 33. Pleasant Mills 9. o Sixth Grade Opens Intramural League A four team Intramural league has been organized in the sixth grade at the Lincoln school. with one game played each Tuesday atnl Friday after school at the Lincoln gym. The All-Star* won the opening game Tuesday, defeating the Cobras. 21 to 10. after leading at the half. 11 to 4 The Indian* and Wildcats will meet Friday afternoon. All-Stars FG FT TP Koons, f • 2 0 4 Murphy, f -— -.1 0 2 Llby, c 3 0 6 Brokaw, g .. .... 3 17 Troutner. g ... -— .. 0 0 0 Lawson, f -. 1 0 2 P. Andrews, f 0 A 0 McDonald. g ... ... 0 0 0 Yoder, g ... ... ... -000 Totals .. 10 1 21 Cobras FG FT TP Sharp, f 10 2 Reinking, f . -v 0 0 0 Roe. c — -— 10 2 Marion, g . 3 0 6 Thomas, g -- 0 0 •• Andress, f .. .. 0 0 0 Andress, f 0 0 0 Lobsiger, g 0 0 0 Totals 5 0 10 PRO BASKETBALL National League Indianapolis 65, Fort Wayne 39. RocheMter 65, Detroit 64. Chicago 72. Youngstown 60. Association of America St. Ixmis 62. Cleveland 61. Philadelphia 72, Toronto 60. — 0 Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

Big Train' Os Baseball Dies Tuesday Night Washington, Dec I! fl’Pt Walle r .lohts'on. who rude t > base lull Immortality on ni, fubuhui-fc-t ball, passed on today to the hi: si league .a .hi in all. Itc-ath, caiiM-d hy a Icaln tumor, claimed the "Big I aln" at the ag" of 59 and plunged four decades of Im i-buildom into mourning from tin major league executives who knew and loved him to the grade-h-hool sandlotter* to whom he was only a legend. The magnlflclent lii-art that never conceded defeat in n pitcher's baiib. finally yh-lded hut night at 11 I't Death came to the <>n<- lime pit - It iug ace of tie- Washington Senafont in the stlllnesc of a white wailed hospital room only a few miles from Griffith stadium, the ball pa k wiiere lliousands from pn sidents to pi-aniit vendors oni-t roared tribute to his hurling genius Hi>« three son* and two daughters were at his bedalde. Johnson had been critically ill sin-<• la-f April when he suffered a stroke induced by what then was described as a "p-ogresslve blockage fff a small cerebral artery." It I developed, however, that hi- was suffering from a brain tumor which paralyzeil hio left eide. He was stricken on the 552-acre Get m.intown. Mil. fa tn where he hid lived quietly since his retirement from baseball in August, 1935, ami was rc-move I to Georgetown hospital where he died. A half dozen times, Ilf - had ebbed desperately low for Johnson. And a half dozen times he rallied with tlie same gamenetM that made him tlie paragon of pitcheiv perhaps the greatest, ce-talnly the fastest, of all time. But Johnson's fighting heart, weakened by th- lung erdeal, was unequal to the last great challenge. The fabulous fiieballer, whose achievements are recorded in baseball'u "hall of fame" at Cooperstown. N. Y. did all hi* major league pitching for tlie Washington Senator*. Hi- broke In with them in 1907 and dosed out his active playing career In 1927 after suffering a broken leg in spring training In that span, the big raw-bom-d ri -ht hander from Humh ddt. Kan* . fUHhioited one of tlie greatest pitching record* in baseball history. He won 414 games, a record surpassed only by Cy Young. Those I ’iumpli'. adib ved with a team that finished in the second division during 15 of Johnson'* 21 big league pitching years, earned him the nick name "Big Train" he always was pulling ills teammates through without much support. He compiled an alllime major league record of 113 shutouts. It was Johnson's blazing fast ball that inspired the famed, anil unanswerable, baseball alibi -"you can't hit 'em when you can't see 'em." And it was his high hard one that brought him a big league strikeout record that hasn't even been approached 3,497. Ills tdrik<-out victims included all of the mightiest American league sluggers of his time—shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth. Harry Hellmann, Trig Speaker, George Sister, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx. JahriHon leu ine American league . pitchers in strikeouts so- 12 years; set a record, sine.' tied, of six conI secutlve strikeout* In one game, > and struck out 313 batters in one i season 35 short cf the new record i lashioned In 1946 by Cleveland's ; Bob Feller. Johnson's successor as : the speed ball king of the majors. I " ■ Trade In a Good Town — Decatui

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Biff Train Dies » « n \ He 01 ' ' )■ I ? Walter Johnson Illinois And lowa Are Farly Favorites Chicago. Dec |l tl'Pt Some ba-ketball fireworks should fly to night and tomorrow night as Illilads an I lowa, with nearly the same teams that already have won big nine < hamplntislilp-. speed up their warmup campaigns. Illinois, with four of its brilliant Whiz Kid- ba. k from the 1943 championship team, bumps Into Marquette at Champaign tonight and lowa, find hy four members of it* title team of 1945. runs Into Detroit Thursday night at lowa City. Marquette, who won three games l.efore losing to Wisconsin Saturday. Is rat'd as one of the midwest's strongest teams, and Detroit's rugged and rangy squad will give the Hawi.eve* their toilgh- . est test so far. Imt both Big Nine teams Were expected to win. Illinois showed its strength hy whizzing past Cornell tlowa) in Its opei er. X7 to 39, with reserves taking over at halftime. lowa knocked off South Dakota State ami Kansas Slate, averaging 63.5 points a game. The llllnl, on tlie basis of the Whiz Kids' return ai d some sldny new prospects, have been rated generally so far as the team to beat once the conference race starts the first of the year. But the red hot Hawkeyes are so close to them on paper that the llllnl undoubtedly are uncomfort-j able. Illinois' returning Whiz Kids are, Andy Phillip, all-time high scorer in the conference with 255 points , in 1913. Ken Menke. Jack Smiley and Gene Value. All of them except Mi nke were rated all conferen -e ] layers in 1943. Menke land- - ed on the second team. lainky center Fred Green. Bob Doster, third in conference scoring last season, and several other ! expi-rlerced standouts add' d to the . Whiz Kids give Illinois one of the

IJJWIU BWIIII—IIIIIIO WTW | CORT r Tonight & Thursday ■sa ! JCU : j THE HOOSIER HOTSHOTS /Bk «U.H.UKCHIHIf»> gT—t, f Og Ki emu-mi min W tl!nun mm A num * ciiiiii j<U o JMr . Mill -111 Sllll Ki-miii lunt Illi-Ill! t aal Its IMYTHM IS<Wa tmiits ■■fete.-- * i > ALSO—Shorts 9c-30c Inc. Tax O—O Fri. & Sat.—Return Hit! . Hopalong Cassidy, "Borderland" —o Sun. Mon. Tues.—“ One Exciting I Week” A "Valley of the Zombies"

.fri'iiuct f. a n In i-iuifereiice his tt.ry But the Hawkeyes ar.- jm-t about IIS impre be Bulwarking the lowa team are Herl. Wilkinson, three time all American guard -election, Clayton Wilkinson, Dick Ives and Jacs Spew er nil back from the title team of 1915. Herb Wilkinson was an all t-onfereme guard that year aid Ives was the hottest score.- in the loop with 2"X points. Giving the Hawkeyes still more strength are Have Danner, all conference forward in 1944; fiery little Murray Wier, who poured in |n>it t - when hl* team m-'-ded them jiiest la t year, and Noble Jurgen i-n. 6 foot 9 Inch center. H. S. BASKETBALL If.i.d tn. Milclu-ll 2*l. Elkhart 4*. Gosh< n 19. Seymour 39. Brown-town 32. , Evansville Ho >• It. Evansville Re.tz 37. Plymouth 37. Ml liawaka 34. Crawfordsville 34, Gieenca-tle 2X Muncie Central 39. Anderson* 37 Bio mingtoti 19. Sullivan 19 Shelbyville 17. Greell-lilirg 311. South Be.id Adam: 33, South I! nd Ril' > 29 Lawn .. -l.urg 31. Batesville 25. o COLLEGE BASKETBALL Indiana Central til, Huntington 51 lllin.c Wesleyan 60, St Joseph's Evansville 71. Gcorgcfown iKy.t 59. McMillen To Play Geneva Thursday Tile M. Mill'-n team will play the G< nevi* Independents ut the Lin- < oln gym in this <liy Thursday » veling at 7 3t> o'clock. No admls--.ion will l.e cliar -.d and the public is illV ited to attend. New Hunting, Fishing Licenses Arrive Here County (fork Clyde O. Troutper ai iiotin. .-d today Hint tlie 1917 hunting and li liing licenses have arrived at hl* office ami are now on Kale.

AAWVWVVWWWWVWWW PUBLIC DANCE Friday. Dec. 13 Hound and Square e K. of P. Home N:3d to 12 I*. M. Free prizes to the ladies. A/WWVVVWWWWWMNW Tonight & Thursday ' 0 o I (HR BIG DAYS! First Show Tonight 6:30 Continuous Thur, front 1:3(1 BE SI RE TO ATTEND! ' 0 — o j He's 2$ W -jffStei in Tails... and jy Twice as 1 UNIV I **■ Dan I DlWWtft l Wa <k «■! I RMHtS U J g YiiWtam 1 wttjjLfCct ■ i Wiwtl •» fZANK Jf NKS • SCOTTY BECKETT DONALD CUSPS . SICHASD GAINES I GAtENCE KOLB • BAIBAM MOWN ALSO—Shorts oc4oc Inc. Tax* -0 * Fri. A Sat.—lrene Ounne, “Anna A The King of Siam" I o-O ' Sun. Mon. Tues.—" Gallant Bess”

MINOR LEAGUE Mi Millen won three from Bah .ink Standard: Gamble’s w.ui three from Kraft Bud's Place won twi. fi.'iil Central Soya; Mai kI n won two from Ahr's Market. Standing W L Pt*. Mi Millon .. 27 12 36 Central Soya . 24 15 32 Gamble's . 22 17 3o Macklin 23 16 2x Bud's 19 2n 2* Babcock — lx 21 21 Ahr 16 23 22 Kraft . 732 x I High games: IH-ldenbach 227. Sihtiltz 222. Macklin 212, Judt 211. Morbach 2H3 212. Steiiry 2<ts. Lish r 2<>X. Brown 2-»7. RURAL LEAGUE Ili-aii Club w >n thr i- from Hi Ho Inn: Miielb-i ng won two from White Spot; West End Texaco won iwo from Sti-ury; Farmers Feed won two from Werllng Insurance Standing W L Miielleiing 27 15 West End 27 15 Farine s 23 19 Hi Ho Inn 2t> 22 White Spot 2« 22 Heaii Chib 19 23 Werllng 19 2'l I Steury 11 2x High mime- lli'ffm .-i 22". Dixon i ~»>» MERCHANT LEAGUE Di-ialur Inliisti'H won three from Eurle a. Kiesa; Schitfer won tlnee from Brant Mi.t ; Kraft No I won thee from Three Kinga Tavern: Riverview (I..id'll' Wuu two from Kraft No 2. Standing W L K. aft I 2s II Three Kings 25 17 Riverview 23 19 Schafer 23 19 Brant 22 2i» Engle | ( ; 26 ; Decatur Ind j', 27 Kraft 2 11 2S High games- S .vine 2<H Spahr 202. Baker 212. Hammond 2t»7. W. Si hm-pf 2it.!. Stulie 2tt». V Builck 221. MAJOR LEAGUE Burke Standard won three from | Smith Bros.; Burk Elevator won I three from ILilu-gger; Stale Gar-

OPEN HOUSE Continuing each afternoon and evening from 2 o’cliwk uni il K<• clock e.tth this week ineluding next Sunday. Come and see the modern homes (Ho "1 1 furnished) in beautiful Stratton Place Additio Just East of the Monroe Street Bridge • Veterans will have 30 day priority to purchase these homes hclore they are turned over to public sale. See these important features in citch home. 1. Fully automatic gas turnacwinter's heating cost $(»•» I" 1 ' sea-"-!- •'* 2. Big size water softeners. New Houses 3. Automatic gas hot water heater- I •1. Hardwood floors in all rooms j l ' l, J 1 We hereby advertise in compll- an a bath which have inlaid lin<»iviini. anee with CPA priority ruling, under the Veteraim' Emergency Housing program, the following 5. Insulation. homes In Stratton Place addition, are completed and offered for sale .. .. . . ... ( | (>u |,| ( . flooring, to veteran* only for a period of ”• «'°ui>u sittiob. 30 dayx ending January !t. IM7; , , , ... i M , black-to] 7. Improved street which will « „ at no additional cost to purchasers. No. Address Pri<e j)W 2 108 llarvewter Lane ... »s.«ho g Sidewalks, curbs, big sewer sy> < ; ill Ks;;x -ss «i «IS SX !:r.::: S:S ». Av.ii.bi. «> veter.„- n-r'* ll K " A 75 nr. Harvester ia»ne ... tx.sio G.I. loans already arranges i<» ■ 78 122 Harvester laine ... ,K.<*4o .| a v W .. I2X liarvexter Lane ... ,8.540 in Available to noil-veterans all'’ •’ >. hated hm-ember in. 10 ‘ with F.H.A. loans alreath ranged for. 11. No worry getting ’’f ancing, in obtaining the ki wj( | e have always wanted on ex - in Decatur’s finest gubdms" John R. Worthman, I n< For Information call Bob Heller, Realtor, Building, Phone 870. . il__-

dens won three fium Foley; Bal. 1 .oik Standard won two from Moose; Wi t Em! won i.wu from K<-< tieiiiaii Hdwe Standing W L West End 30 12 1 Mouse 26 HI Burke Standard 26 16 Babcock 23 19 Stuie Gardens 20 22 IliilH-gger 19 23 • Burk Elevator 19 23 Kmmethan 17 25 m th Bros. 16 H Fttley 14 26 lllah series; R. latdd 615 t 196 192 257». High gttmiic Relnklng 231. Snyder 221, Mies 224. Weinley 212, \ppeliinn 211, Sp utige,- 204, Tute • wiler 204 202, W Gall.neyer 212. Intdzi r 214. Wolpert 215, F. Ahr 21". It. Werllng 210, Murphy 202. Andrews 2<*l. Al Hum k .* 4. Bayh 203, Keller 204. i o Indianapolis Beats Pistons, 65 To 39 By I'nlled Press The Indianapolis Kautskys. National l.aukettiall league western dhisioll leaders, hung tip their bis gest scalp of the seasoa ftslay follow ing their 65 to 39 victory over i lie Fori Wayne Zollner Plutons, j last year's -pro champions, at Indianapolis last night. Il wa«< tlie *.>r-l defeat ever siiffe ed hy the Pistons F'.it Wayne's defeat, collided . »

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