Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1947 — Page 6

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Yellow Jackets And Monroe

Pleasant Mills And Commies Are Defeated BULLETIN Jefferson 38. Geneve 37. The Decatur Yellow Jackets and tlw Monroe Roarkatz won the opening game* of the 1947 sectional tournament nt the Decatur gym Thur d y night eliminating the Pleasant Mills Spartans and the Deiatur Commodores. re sportively. Aw a result of their vb torie« the Yellow Jackets and Bearkatz will tangle in the final quarter round tilt at * 15 o'clock tonight Play was resume 1 this afternoon, with the Geneva Cardinals and Jefferson Warriors tangling in (he opener, followed by the Mon mouth Eagles and Kirkland Kan garoos The Berne Bear- defending *<•<•• , tional champions. will meet Iti the opening battle tonight at 7 o'clock, followed by Decatur and Monroe. This afternoons winners battle in the first semi final at 1:15 o’clock Saturday afternoon, fol lowed by tonight* winners The championship struggle will open at 8:15 pm. Saturday. Yellow Jackets Win Decatur’s Yellow Jackets led moat of the way to down a hardfighting band of Spartans from Pleasant Mills. 46 to 43. in the tourney opener Superior free throwing by the Jackets was the payoff, each team counting 17 field goals. The Jac kets converted 12 of 1* chances from the foul line, while Pleasant Mills made only nine of 19 at tempts from the 15-foot stripe. Ehrsam drew first blood on a field goal but Lehman evened the count for Decatur. The teams battled nip and tuck for the remainder of the first quarter, which ended with the Jackets on top. 10 to s. Decatur Increased this margin slightly in, the second quarter to hold a 23 to 19 margin at the halftime intermission. The Spartans sliced only one point off this lead in the third quirter. and Decatur held a 33 to 30 advantage going into the fin.il eight minutes of play Strayer's field goal and a foul toss by Riley evened the count at 33-33 hut Decatur then tallied seven [mints in a row while holding Pleasant Mills scoreless to give decatur a 4" to 33 lead with three and one-half minutes to play. The closest the Spartans could come in the closing minutes was the final three-point margin Decatur's scoring was well split, le-lim.ni counting' 12 points.

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Holmes 11 ami Ballard 10 Forthe 1 Spartans. Ebrsam tallied 12 point* and Strayer 11. Bearkatz Triumph The Monroe Bearkatz piled up an early had on the Decatur Com rnodores in the final Thursday night tilt, and seemed headed for a runaway victory. Monroe was on top at the first quarter, ii to 6. and tallied nine points in a row to open the second quarter while the commodore* offense stalled to give the Bearkatz i a 2" to 6 margin. Monros' was’ still on top by nine points. 24 to! 15. at the half Ths- Comffiier. began whittling away at the Beark itz. with the, opening of thi' second half, and as the third quarter slowed had p riled within five points at 34 Io •'< With four minutes of the game left to play. Monros- led. 37 t<> 31 Tin- Commodores twice cut this margin to four points at ST--33 and 39-35 hut .Monroe added ! three points in ths- final two min utes to establish their seven-point margin of victory. M Habegger was outstanding for ths- winners with 19 point*.' while Baker led Decatur with nine. I followed by .1 Gillig with eight and Wilder with seven. Both) ti-ann were err.iti<- from the free throw line. Monroe making 10 of ■ ansi the Commodores 11 of 24 | Decatur FG FT TP Bs-ehler. f 123 4 Lehman f 5 2-3 12 Holmes. <■ 5 1-2 11 . Schnepf. g 3 0-0 si Ballard, g 2 6-8 10 Bogner, f 11-2 3 Freeby. f 0 0-0 0 Hot als 17 12 16 46 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Ray. f 2 3-5 7 , Johnson, f 2 1-2 5 Strayer. <• 5 1-3 111 Ehrsam. g 5 2-5 121 White, g 1 0-2 21 Riley, g 2 2 2 « Totals IT 9 19 43 Referee; — ,M< Kenzie. umpire: Robilya Monroe FG FT TP | llirschy. f o i-« i . ia-hmaii. f 11-43, M. Habegger. c 9 11 19. Zucher. g 5 4-6 11 Moser, g 12-2 4 1 Pierce, f o 0-2 o * Nussbaum. <• 0 1-1 1 1 Totals 18 10-25 42 ‘ Decatur FG FT TP J Oililg. f 4 0-2 S I Baker, f 2 5 X 9 . Wilder. c 2 3-11 7 J Kahle, g 1 11 3 D. Gillig. g ill 5 Rumschlag. f 1 1-1 3 • Roop, f st 0-0 0 < Parent, c 0 0-0 0 t Total* 12 11 24 35 <1

BULLETIN Indianapolis, Feb. 28—(UP) —lndianapocs Shortridge, winner of 17 out of 20 games this season and favorite to capture the Indianapolis sectional title, dropped out of the running today when Southport, a perennial threat to capital city teams, nosed out the Blue Devils by a score of 32 to 31. o ■ — - Sectional Scores At Decatur Decatur Yellow Jackets 48. Pleasant Mill* 43 Monroe 42. Decatur Commodores 35. At Fort Wayne Monroeville 46, Ariola 34. Fort Wayne Concordia 43. Fort Wayne North 42. Elmhurst 4*. Lafayette Central 37. Woodburn 41. Coesse 26. Fort Wayne- South 53. Leo 25. At Bluffton Bluffton 36, Ossian 44 Liberty Center 30. At Huntington Roanoke 29. Andrews 23 Huntington Twp. 41. Warren 35 Rockcreek 35, Markle 26 Lancaster 52. Jefferson 47. I’nion Twp 38, Polk Twp 35. At Hartford City Redkey 46. Madison Twp. 36. Pennville 51. Ridgevilb 29. Gray .16. Montpelier 33. Roll 45. Poling 26 At Auburn Spencerville 56. Pleasant Lake 32. Auburn 49, Concord Twp. 37. Fremont 48. Ashley 28. Angola 52. Salem Center 22. Garrett 46. Waterloo 26. At Kendallville Kendallville 56. Brighton 14. Avilla .35. Rome City 27. Howe Military 29. Lima 26 (overtime). Ligonier 41. Topeak 39. Wolcottville 35. LaGrange 26. At Warsaw lx>esburg 41. Syracuse 36. Milford 72. Larwill 40. Mentone 45. Columbia City 24 Silver laike 50. Burket 26 Pierceton 51. Sidney 25. Decatur Legion Team Defeated In Tourney The Decatur American legion basket ball team wan eliminated from the district Logiqn tournament at New Haven Thuisday nighl The local quintet wa- edged out by Post 296 of Fort Wayne after a iugged battle. 44 to 42. o— Franklin College Head In Serious Condition C E Bell of thM city, trustee of Franklin college has l»een advised of the seriova condition of W.O. Spencer president of the college, who was injured in an auto accident several weeks ag<». Dr. Spenrer ha- l>eeii moved to the Methodist hospital in Indiana polio. He has suffered three convulsions and hi* basic trouble has been ascribed to uremia. Dr Spencer Is well known here, having spoken here on several occasions o Plea In Abatement Filed To Divorce In the divorce ease of Blanche against Frederick Country, pending in Adams circuit court. Myles F Parrish as at’orney for the defendant has filed a pica in abatement. averring that the plaintiff has not l>een a resident of the county for siz months as required

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Tourney Notes , Mrs. Hugh Andrews. Pleasant Mils facuty member, relcelved an "orange pop shampoo" during the Spartan-Jacket game. The ball i bou titled off the floor and Into Mrs Ar. irews juet as she was taking a drink from the paper cup. She was Showered with the soft drink. ■ ■■■ !■—•••• For the first time at a local tourney, members of the fire de-1 partinent augmented the regular city police force at the gym Fire . chief Harry Stults has assigned four members of hi* regular and > volunteer! department* to each session. He will be on duty, him- , -elf. Saturday State trooper Walter "Bud Schindler Was also there. a , — About a dozen ls>ys from the host school ain't content with just tooting with the others In addition they have so: med their own "Jolly Bow Pepsi Prep outfit" with their own yells, one of their ranks fn>m the art class even made them a special banner which they carry with them —<t————— Kenny Grant and Bob Bokm-cht of the host school are assisting a Daily Democat taff member in handling the public addretM system j during the to ney. Byford Smith was assigned to operating the "scorin'’ part of the electric scoreboard. Harry Dailey and Dale Ross, of the host scho' l fatuity, are the official scorer and timer, respectl- > vely. rp-io-themlnute rn-ores of other sectional* are announced over I CORT SUN. MON. TUES. Contimout Sun. from 1:15 YOI R FAVORITE ACTION STAR IN A SPECIAL MCSICAL WESTERN! \ * " "Republic picture ALSO—Comedy & Sporilite 9c-30e Ine. Tax —o Tonight & Saturday First Exciting Episode “DAUGHTER OF DON Q” in 12 Thrilling Chapters! — Feature Hit — BUSTER CRABBE “PRAIRIE BAD MEN” 9c 30c Inc. Tax

the P A. syst.-m-llnimsh the |<otirtesy of the .ante-n workers, who have their own radio o BULLETIN Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 28. (UP)—Stuart K. Holcomb, former assistant coach to Earl (Red) Blaik at West Point, today was signed to five-yea> contract as head football coach at Purdue University, athletic director Guy (Red) Mackey announced today. 0 WfiRWL rVywitl If®. The first session of the annual Decatur sectional tournament has gone down into history, with the results of the opening games about as expected, and the Yellow Jackets gym packed to capacity. The Decatur Yellow Jacket*, and Monroe Bearkitz were return cd the victors in the opening seeslon. a* pre-tourney dope Indicated. thereby setting up a DecaturMonroe battle in tonight s second tilt. The Spartans gave Yellow Ja< kets' partisan* plenty of anxious moments in that freeshoot- ! lug opening affair, although Deca tur led most of the way In the xeioml clash. Monroe seemed, in the second quarter, to be well on the road to an easy victory but the Commodores rallied strongly to

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throw a real scare info the Bear katz on a couple of occasion* in the secund half O—O —• The Jackets and Spartans fin'd a total of 143 shots in the tourney lid lifter. Decatur iaking 73 shots ,nd Pleasant Mills 7« Ea< h team made ezattly 17 field goal* The Jackets' superior accuracy from the foul line was the payoff, a* Decatur converted 12 of 1* opportunlties. while Pleasant Mills made only nine of 19 o()o The Bearkatz and Commodores were somewhat more eonserv at i' e in their basket firing, with Monroe taking 68 shots and the Comh rnodores 54 Monroe hit 16 times from the field and the Commodores 12. Both teams had bad nights from the foul stripe, with Monroe clicking on only i« of 25 free throw attempts, and the Com- . modores converting II of opport unities. - 000 Some tourney "firsts.” First tipoff Taken by Pleasant Mill* First field goal attempt Strayer of Pleasant Mill*. First field goal made Ehrsam of Pleasant Mills. First free throw made Ehrsam of Pleasant Mills. First free throw missed Johnson of Pleasant Mills. First personal foul—Schnepf of Decstur Yellow Jacket* First time out called Pleasant Mills, with two minutes to play in second quarter. First player removed on personal fouls—Lehman of Decatur Yellow Jackets. First technical ievr— Rumachlag of Decatur Commodore*. —oOo — The molt disconsolate indidual in the gymnasium as the tourney opened was Myron

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