Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1947 — Page 8

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Commodores Defeat Huntington

Final Period Rally Results In Decatur Win A sensational fourth quarter tally, sparked by the great play of Bunk Wilder, veteran pivotman. brought the Decatur Commodores a 42 to 37 triumph over' their old riva’s, the Huntington Catholic Ramblers, Wednesday night at the Yellow Jackets gym in this city. Trailing by from six to 11 points throughout most of the first three periods, Wilder's nine points in the final quarter led the Commodores to their fourth victory in a row and their fifth triumph of the season. After the Ramblers had taken an early lead Decatur pulled into a 7-7 tie but Huntington again moved out in front to hold a 10 to 7 margin at the first quarter. Paced by Godfrey, hot-shooting guard who collected five fielders in the first half. Huntington at one time in the second period held an 11-point lead which the Commodores managed to whittle to eight points. 23 to 15, at the half-time intermission. Huntington apparen’ly had the ball game fairly well in hand as h-te as the end of the third quarter, when Decatur still trailed by. six points at 31-25. ' , The Commodores started to move in earnest with the opening of the final eight minutes of play. Wilder hit a one-hander from close range. Kable tossed in a free throw, but Edgar retaliated with a two pointer. Baker hit a one-hander from close range and Wilder clicked on another onehander from the corner and Huntington’s lead was sh’aved to one point at 33-32 with only two minutes of the final period played. Wall slipped one in from close range hut Wilder batted in a rebound and Baker converted a foul shot to tie the score at 35-35 with five minutes left to play. Kable hit from underneath and Decatur was out in front for the first time. Baker and John Gillig added free throws and Godfroy hit from under for Huntington’s final points of the tilt. Wilder tossed in a free throw and then put the game on ice with a fielder from underneath to give Decatur' the 42-37 triumph. Wilder's 16 points, all but one I

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County * Basketball Teams Friday Monroe at Yellow Jackets. Herne at. Hartford township. Hoagland at Monmouth. Lancaster at Kirkland. Bryant at Geneva. Jefferson at Gray. of them in the' second half, led the Commodores, while Godfroy, tallying only trvo points in the j . last half, was high for Huntington .with 14. Superior accuracy from the foul line paid off for the Commodores, who hit 18 of 23 chances. while Huntington made only seven of 20. The Ramblers refused free throws twice' in the closing minutes to take possession of the ball out of bounds. The Commodores wi’l next see action Thursday, Dec. 18. when they meet the Monroe Bearkatz at the Yeilow Jackets’ gym. Decatur FG FT TP Baker, f 2 4 8 Kable, f 12 4 Wilder, c 6 4 16 J. Gillig. g 2 3 7 Pumschlag. g 1 5 7 Heimann, f 0 0 0 D Gillig. f 0 0 0 Myers, g 0 0 0 TOTALS 12 18 42 Huntington Leming, f ... 3 0 6 Wall, f 2 4 8 Brodrick. c 2 15 Godfroy. g 6 2 14 Edgar, g 2 0 4 Johnson, f 0 0 0 Kastner, g 0 0 0 TOTALS— 15 7 .37 Referee: Havens. Umpire: Collyer. Preliminary Huntington 34. Decatur 33 (overtime). oCOLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue 61. Marquette 44. DePauw 53, Canterbury 38. Indiana State 74, Hanover 41. Western Kentucky 58, Evansville 42. Oakland City 66, Fort Knox 56. Kentucky 74, De Paul 50. Heidelberg 46, Ohio Northern 35. o_ PRO BASKETBALL ational League Rochester 62, Fort Wayne 58. Minneapolis 49, Toledo 46. o Trade in n Good — npcnUir

Major Leagues Meet Today In Joint Session BULLETIN New York, Dec. 11—(UP) —The major leagues today refused the request of the Pacific Coast League for big league status. New York, Dec. 11 —(UP) — As the major leagues went into a joint meeting today, Leslie O’Connor. general manager of the Chicago White Sox, was reported ready to propose a rule change that might diminish commissioner A. B. Chandler’s judicial power. O’Connor, secretary .to the late judge Kenesaw M. Landis and interim commissioner before the appointment of Chandler, was reported to have prepared an amendment providing that Chandler should interpret major league rules according to the letter of the rules, and not according to what Chandler believed to be the spirit of the rules. O’Connor’s amendment could be proposed only with the permission of the joint session, over which Chandler presided. Many baseball men doubted that such permission would be granted because before the amendment could be considered, the session would have to reopen Chandler's recent high school ruling that led to O’Connor’s temporary suspension until his club had paid a SSOO fine levied against O’Connor. O’Connor was fined for having signed George Zoeterman. a high school player, for the. White Sox. O’Connor claimed the fine was illegal because Zoeterman’s high school was not a member of the national federation of high school associations, and that the major league rule prohibited the signing only of boys attending schools in that association. Chandler decided that the rule ■ was applicable to boys in all high schools throughout the United States and Canada, although the rule did not specifically say so. Before today’s session, president Will Harridge of the American league said O’Connor had not brought up the Chandler high-school ruling before either of the American league’s separate sessions yesterday or Tuesday. He said O’Connor would be acting “trictly on his own’’ if he made an issue of it today. One problem certain to be con-

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sidered today was that ot th* Pacific coast league’s desire to be freed from the major league draft, to obtain this freedom, the P. C.. L. had proposed that (1) it be granted major league status, or (2) be granted a probationary period of five years during which it would be free from the drafting of its players at “sacrifice prices.” The national and American circuits, in their separate sessions, were reported to have voted down both proposals, and to have designed procedure by which individual Pacific coast clubs possibly might enter the major leagues. Yesterday’s national circuit meeting concentrated on an investigation of television. Will television - ball games help or hurt the club i owners? How much should he own- ■ ers charge for elevision rights at - their parks? These, and other simi ilar questions will be answered at t later meetings. o 5 H. S. BASKETBALL Fort Wayne C. C. 45. New Haven 30. t Garrett 38, Angola 33. Arcola 43, Harlan 39. Terre Haute Wiley 54, Clay City I 30. Brazil 37, Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 33. ’ Linton 51. Lyons 36. Terre Haute Garfield 47, Clin1 ton 29. ’ Vincennes 39, Bicknell 33. Lapel 39, Noblesville 37. 1 South Bend Central 33, Rochester ’ 26. Logansport 53, Delphi 47. Winchester 47, Sparansburg 32. Monticello 66, Royal Center 31. I Hugh Dull Appointed Ohio City Postmaster » - - 1 Hugh Dull, Decatur meat market ' manager for a number of years, has been appointed acting postmaster 1 at Ohio City, 0., it was made known | ' here today. Mr. Dull, a resident of I Ohio City, takes over the duties ot the office on January 1. He was affiliated in the meat market at a local chain store for a number of yeafs and more recently ' has been manager of the same de--1 partment at the Dunlap market 1 here. Mr. Dull, who received the of--3 ficial notice of his appointment today, said that he would likely close his association with the local busi- ’ ness about December 20. Option Payment Made On Berne Auditorium Berne, Dec. 11 — The Berne town board has made a payment of $25 to the Berne community auditorium association as a binding fee on the purchase of the building by the town. This payment gives the town an option on the building, through an agreement with the board of directors of the building, until January 31, 1948 and the stockholders cannot sell the building to any other party during this period. The new town board will take future steps to make the auditorium the permanent property of the town. Magazine Peddlers Nuisance At Berne Berne, Dec. 11 — Tactics of several magazine peddlers in Berne this week resulted in police being called but the salesmen fled town before they could be questioned. About five or six young men traveling in a station wagon with Michigan license plates, entered several homes here, frightened women, refused to leave and otherwise made nuisances of themselves. <€«««««!«« «€«««««* Whether—it’s a hanky or a coat, we gift wrap FREE of charge. E. F. Gass Store Exclusive Ladies Wear I CORT, TONIGHT and FRI. & SAT. Zane Grey Thriller! “THUNDER ' MOUNTAIN” With TIM HOLT ALSO—3 Stooges Comedy & “Mysterious Mr. M.” 9c-300 Inc. Tax O—O Sun. Mon. Tues.—“ The Trespasser” A “Dick Tracy’s Dilemma.”

Efforts To Shift > Ball Game Fail Berne, Dec. 11 — Efforts to > change the Berne-Hartford town- ’ ship game Friday nfght to a larger 1 floor have failed and the game will i be played at Hartford as previously scheduled. The Decatur, Biuffton and Geneva floors were not available and Hartford declined the invitation to play the game on the Berne floor. Hartford authorities would have liked to move the game to a large floor because of Hartford’s limited seating capacity o Monroeville Cubs Defeat Monmouth The Monroeville Cubs defeated the Monmouth Eagles, 53 to 36, at the Monmouth gym. The Allen county team led at all periods, 13-2, 28-13 and 43-23. Getting, Monmouth forward, J led the scorers with 20 points, and Myers' 12 points topped a wellbalanced Monroeville scoring. Monroeville FG FT TP Reinking, f 5 1 11 Lehrman, f 2 0 4 Lee, c 3 2 8 Rhodes, g 2 0 >4 Myers, g 5 2 12 Hullinger. f 2 0 4 Bender, f ........ 0 0 0 Giant, c 113 Shaffer, g 1 ff 2 Brown, g 2 15 Totals 23 7 53 Monmouth FG FT TP Susdorf, f 10 2 Getting, f 7 6 20 Bieberich, c 0 0 0 Kruetzman, g 3 2 8 , Ewell, g 2 15 I Graft, f 0 0 0 Kukelhan, f Oil Singleton, f 0 0 0 Miller, c 0 0 0 Drew, g 0 0 0 Totals 13 10 36 Referee: —Lehman. Umpire:—Strickler. Preliminary Monroeville 24, Monmouth 20. o Trade in n Gond Town — npcnfvir —TODAY— Continuous from 1:30 “THE WEB" Ella Raines, Wm. Bendix ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax EXTRA—RoyaI Wedding Pictures BE SURE TO ATTEND! O—O FRI. & SAT. |M?STtStwSe5vE l | BAND MURDER oeuve™| oSWlil OtdH muiiMii | w i I CURTIZ i K CtlEMMtt MMcroaof g WARNER I ■«««■ BROS.s~ i IMJMW s * efSw | o—O'Sun. Mon. Tues.—“CßY WOLF” j Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck j

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