Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1947 — Page 6

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To Announce Tourney Draw Next Friday — Indianapolis, Feb. 17 (I'Pt i East Chicago Washington's Senators were ranked first in Indiana high school basketbai i for the fourth straight week tod iy as the state's 7k! teams swung into the final week of the regular campaign. There appeared little chance that coach John llaritto's Senators would fail to finish the sea son undefeated against Indiana competition, and as the state'* top i ranking quintet Washington vlr-| tnally clinched that last week by beating first Huntington and then I Jasper. Hut few of the teams cared anymore. Tiie tournament draw will be announced promptly at * a.tn. Friday by IHBAA commissioner I. V Phillips and then, on Feh. 26 and 27, sectional play gets under way. with few exceptions, the players, coaches and fans had eye* for n<»thing hut the tourney pairings and. of course, the tourney itself. Most of the front running teams go through the motionagainst mediocre competition this week The exceptions to the rule include Washington, which wants to nail down an undisputed championship in the northern Indiana conference s western division, and finish with a perfect record in the state. Hay itagelis and company, early-sea-on loser at Paris. 11l . faces comeback • Itound Jeffersonville Tuesday at East Chicago in an inter-sectional match and then winds up NIHSC play Friday with in-and-out Whiting. Meantime, here's the 12th and next to-lust weekly United Press statewide rankings: 1. East Chicago Washington t won 17 lost 1). 2. Terre Haute Garfield (20-4)1. 3. Evansville Central 118-11. 4. Jasper (17-2). 5. Fort Wayne South (16-1). 6. Lafayette Jeff (163). 7. Hammond High <lB-2). 8. South Bend Central (17-3). 9. Huntington (17-2). 10. Bedford (15-4). Next best: 11 La Porte (15-4), 12. laiwrenceburg (19 0), 13 Mun fie Central < 14-31. 14. Madison (14-3), 15. Columbus (15-4), 16. Rochester 115-1), 17. Richmond (11-8), 18. New Albany <l2-st, 19. Rensselaer (19-0), 2u. Jeffersonville (10-8). 21 Shelbyville (14 5). 22. Indianapolis Shortridge (145), 23. Gary Froebel (144), 21 Muncie Burris (12 5), 25. Seymour (13-6). •

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Monday Jefferson al .Madison. Tuesday * Commodores vs Fort Wayne Central Cathulk at Yellow Jackets gym I Berne at Angola. Wednesday I'nion Center at Monmouth. Thursday Commodores vs .Monroe at Heme Berne Yellow Jackets at Portland. Montpelier at Berne. Monmouth at Pleasant Milk*. Geneva at I lull fold Kirkland at Markle VFW Qualifies For State VFW Tourney The Decatur VFW made up a half-time deficit .it Pleasant Mills Saturday night and went on to score a 44-36 victory over South Whitley and gain the right to enter the «tate VFW net finals at Ixigansport. at a date to be announced later. The locals trailed 9-13 and 19-23 a! the end of the first two quarters. but forged ahead 33-31 at the e;n| of the third frame ILiudenbush with 16 and Kerkel with 12 points paced the winners. Beck with 17 was best for the losers. VFW FG FT TP Zerkel. f .. 5 2 12 Ratidenhush. f fl 4 16 Painter, c 2 4 8 Strayer, g 3 0 6 E. Raudenbush. g ... . 0 0 () Bates, g 10 2 Reef, g ... .. .... 0 o 0 Totals 17 10 44 So. Whitley FG FT TP Beck, f 8 1 17 Kelfer. f .... 113 Sansan. <■ . 6 0 12 Enyeart. g .. .. t 0 2 Hecht 01, g ....,() O <| Reiter, g .. o o o Austin, f ... 10 2 Totals ... 17 2 36 0 All-Stars Capture Intramural Title The All-Stars won the first half title in the sixth grade intramural league at the Lincoln school, defeating the Cobras. 15 to 12. in the one game playoff. The All-Stars led at the half. 5 to 4. All-Stars FG FT TP Brokaw, f 4 19 Koons, f 0 0 0 Üby. c .. 2 0 4 Murphy, g .... 0 0 0 Lawson, g 0 0 0 Troutner. f ... 0 0 0 Yoder, f . ..1 o 2 McDonald. g ... ... 0 fl 0 Johnson, g .... 0 0 0 Totals 71 15 Cobras FG FT TP I Morrison, f .. 0 0 ol Sharp, f .. 3 0 6 Roe. c .. 2 0 4 Reinking, g 10 2 Abliott. g .000 Harvey, f 0 0 0 Thomas, f .. ... 0 0 0 Andress, g 0 0 0 Lobsiger, g 0 0 0 Totals 6 0 12 0 Trade In a Good Town —Decatur STOP That Cold with our own COUGH SYRUP 47c and 89c bottle KOHNE DRUG STORE West End Texaco Station 7th A Monroe Phone 254 Complete Lubrication Washing — Waxing * We call for and deliver. DR. H. R. FREY OPTOMETRIST ♦ 104 N. Second St. II Isbov* Democrat office) < ♦ Cyea Examined I « SUmh Fitted I HOURS: 9 a m. U 12 rows I i 1 p. m to $ p. m. • I Saturdays till gp m j I I Ctaaa each That, | l| - VMac 27

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Lynn Waldorf Selected Coach I At California -Berkley, Cal. Feh. 17-(I'PI — I'nlversity of California officials today Ir-san unrolling the traditional carpet of welcome in anticipation of the arrival here next Thursday of Big Lynn O. Waldorf as head coach of the school's football team. Waldorf, with 12 years of coaching serenity behind him at NorthWestern university, accepted the post vacated by the unceremonious firing of Frank Wickhorrt late yesterday in a surprise longdistance telephone conversation with Brutus K Hamilton, acting general manager of athletics. In taking the job. Waldorf said last night in Evanston. 111., that he wax giving up a "sure" job beanse California presents “a challenge unequalled anywhere-*' The 44-year-old gridiron mentor will come here Thursday to formally >ixn a tbree-year contract and thereby step into one of the most rabid football hotbeds anywhere. The salary terms were not disclosed, but Hamilton said they were "in line with California’s athletic policies.” Student pressure had much to do with the ousting of Waldorfs predecessor The touchy coach, once a se.-tmd string all-American tackle at Syracuse university, said | he wasn't interested m the athletic director's job which also is vacant. Hie contract is known to contain a clause which specifies that he was ' hired by the school and Is responsible to tile president and not the student ixxly.” “1 wasn't hired by the student*,'' Waldorf said. "I report to the president and I am responsible to him only.” 'l'm Just a football coach That's all I want to be," he said. Waldorf severed his connections with the big nine echool yesterday at a special meeting of the athletic board of control although his present contract ran until Sept etulier. 1949. ”1 really hate la leave here,” he said "It's been a wonderful place ami after 12 years It's hard to go." Waldorf will officially assume his new duties March 1.

H. S. BASKETBALL Fort Wayne North 47, South Bend Washington 38. Gary Emerson 56. Fort Wayne Central 25. Fort Wayne Concordia 65. Albion 38 Milford 38. ColnrnMa d'ity 37. Woodburn 48, Ixkj 41. Evansville Central 33. Bedford 23 Pendleton 38. Anderson 36. Evansville Memorial 51. Winslow 44. PRO BASKETBALL National League Tri-City 43, Indianapolis 40. Rochewter 93, Detroit 56. Oshkosh 59. Toledo 50. Fort Wayne 57. Syracuse 56 Indianapolis 52. Detroit 42. Chicago 62, Sheboygan 44. — o— IrotAng Clothes Clothes can bn ironed more easily and quickly if sprinkled with hot water rather than cold. ■■Bl—— DC KIOT I - avoid _ f ign | davdOmT! — and wo ean prove it! See tomorrow's paper for answer. You can give your car special care when you drive in at B 4 T Standard Service. Proven methods of dependable automobile performance have been developed there to assure your car of I smoother riding Drive in today i and let their expeMenced attend I anta annrire VOU, car.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Illinois 59. Indiana 50. Minnesota 81. Purdue 69. Wisconsin 54. Northwestern 42 lowa 55. Michigan 46. Ohio State 58. Mk-higiiD State 46. Butler 63, Wabash 49. Marshall DePaw 58. St. Joseph’s 82. Chicago Teachers 43. Indiana State 70. Western Mich izan 57. Tiffin (O ) 80. Earlham 62. Muhlenberg 81, Valparaiso 65. Anderson 64. Ft. Benjamin Har risen 41 Toledo 72. Kalamazoo 64 Hamline 45. latyola 43. Kentucky 61. Tennessee 46. DePaul 66. Bradley 50.

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Indiana Society Dinner Feb. 22 — The 32nd annual dinner of the famed Indiana society of Chicago, j will be held February 22 at the Stevens hotel in that city The 1947 production of the show is entitled "The Hoosier Highball." Hon Charles A. Halleck of Rennselaer. majority leader of the t’.S. Hotme of representatives, will deliver the principal address. Mark A. Brown. Chicago banker, is president of the sociqty.

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WO WL Standing W L Pct. Monmouth 14 4 .778 Hartford 12 G .667 Pleasant Mills 11 6 .647 Berne 10 8 .556 Monroe .... 10 8 .556 Kirkland .... 10 10 .500 Jefferson t 6 11 .353 Geneva .. 5 12 .294 Yellow Jackets 5 14 .263 Commodores .... .. 4 12 .250 - -000— Adams county high school teams will wind up their regular season play this week, and what a wind-1 op! Ten games are on the ached ule, with games every night of the week except Saturday. - 000— The Decatur Commodores will make their last home appearance of the regular season Tuesday night, with the game to be played at the Yellow Jackets gym. The Commies' foes will be their arch rivals of many years standing, the Irish from Central Catholic of Fort Wayne. The Commies will wind up their regular card Thursday, meeting the Monroe Bearkatz at Berne. - 000 - Decatur's Yellow Jackets will close their season Friday on the road, meeting the Portland Panthers at Portland. 000 Other tilts on tap ibis week are as follows: Monday—Jefferson at Madison. Tuesday—Berne at Angola. Wednesday —Union Center at Monmouth. Friday— Montpelier at Berne: Monmouth at Pleasant Mills; Geneva at Hartford: Kirkland at Markle. —oOo— Despite this heavy schedule of games, interest of players, fans, coaches ami school officials will be on the pairings for the annual sectional tournament.

The M’hedules lor the 64 se<- ' tlonals, 16 reglonals. four semi ; finals and the final tourneys will be drawn by the Indiana high i school athletic association Thursday. but will not be made public until Friday morning. Tff<- »<he<l I uies will be released at 8 am. Friday and the drawing for the De- ! catur sectional should be received in this office by 9 o'clock. —oOo— The Decatur sectional with the 10 Adams county teams competing, will open at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 27, and will continue Friday afternoon and night, with semi-finals Saturday afternoon and the championship encounter Saturday night. —oOo—. ' From Simon in the Berne Wit1 ness: "Stere Everhart, of Decatur, is ’ quitting the officiating of high ' sch<M>l bisketball games, in fa<f9 he has already quit. Steve has been an official for many years and was always a favorite in Berne, (an t remember that we j ever saw Steve work a bad game and the Berne fans always liked him. Steve is quitting because he ha* too many other duties and just can't find time anymore to continue his officiating. Best of luck. Steve." 0 Ex-Yellow Jackets Win Grid Awards Muncie. Ind Feb. 17—Two former Decatur high kclxmil stars were hmong the 28 athletes awarded var-' sity lettem for play on the 1946 ' Ball State football squad Bill Lynch, a sophomore, started every game at the right end position and earned his second award, having won hio first on the 1942 con feren<4> championship squad Gene Melchl, a Junior, won his third award a* a tackle, having won letters on the '42 and 45 squads previously. 0 Decatur G. E. Girls Are Defeated, 33-31 The Decatur G. E. Girls were handed a 33 to 31 defeat by BaumI gai t.ner's Grocery in a league game played at Fort Wayne Friday night. A. Painter wa.; Decatur's I leading scorer with nine pointe. | followed by Terveer and Smith with eight each.

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