Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1947 — Page 6

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Tournament Al Lafayette Holds Prep Spotlight Indianapolis. Dec. 23 (UP) Indiana will get a preview this week of next February's state high school tournament when most of the front-running clubs break away 1 from conference competition for! the annual holiday tournaments. There are many first-class holi- I day tourneys scheduled, but the one at Lafayette appears to have : the spotlight. No less than three! undefeated and high-ranking prep j, schools will be represented there! for what promises to be a battle i. royal for the cup. .Jefferson of Lafayette, a peren- j nial threat for the state title'and | only member of the North Central i conference still undefeated, will be. host of the affair. But in Evansville Central, probably the best! schoolboy quintet in the state this I year, and East Chicago Washing-1 ton, the Broncos will have two of the finest clubs to contend with. i The last member of that quar-i tet is Columbus, whose record of j three wins against four losses j doesn't rate much of a chance to keep the Bulldogs in such fast | company. Evansville Central, for the second straight week in the number one spot of the statewide United Press rankings, was conceded the edge over the host and Washing-; ton's Senators on the strength of its well-balanced squad. The Senators also have a good | squad, but Evansville’s reserves! may make the difference. Marion Crawley’s Broncos are! tough either at home or away and I this will be their biggest test of j the campaign. South Bend Central. dropped! from the undefeated ranks by 1 Lafayette last weekend, and Elkhart will be the two eastern di-j vision representatives of the NIIISC in the Hammond tourney. But two of the Hammond teams will have been eliminated when Central and Elkhart enter play. The most evenly-matched tour-! ney will he that at East Chicago I Roosevelt where Whiting may turn ' out to have a winner. The city tourney at Gary may be captured by Emerson, which showed nicely in the Evansville doubleheader last weekend, but Gary Roosevelt may provide some stiff opposition. La Porte’s Slicers, who moved up in the ranking this week by virtue of victories over Michigan City and previously undefeated Fort PEOCTI' i “MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL”! 0 O[ — Last Time Tonight — RAY MILLAND MARLENE DIETRICH “GOLDEN EARRINGS” ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax 0 O WEI). & THURS. o C OCR BIG DAYS! First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 2:00 BE SURE TO ATTEND! o o fIOW IS COMW IAWS! - W ■ j L ■ C ’FSB COLUMBIA PICTURES Ifejjy «■ i as as A roon tusn W SINGLETON LAKE SIMMS Xf IWUWK HUGH HfRMRT Li E.A JEROMt COW* Kt DACT —o Fri. & Sat. — 808 HOPE “Where There's Life” —o Coming Sun.-“WILD HARVEST”, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour

Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams T uesday Commodores at Payne, O. Monmouth at Willshire. O. Berne at. Lancaster. Jefferson vs Bryant at Berne. Wayne South, shouldn't have much trouble with Rochester or Goshen in the La Porte tourney. Princeton will be put to a test in the Evansville tourney but should get past either Evansville Bosse, Reitz or Tell City, while Shortridge of Indianapolis is after its second tourney crown in as many weeks in a (pur-way engagement with Elwood, Peru and Indianapolis Howe in the Hoosier capital. Besides these bigger tourneys, county teams all over the state will celebrate the holiday season with “extra-curricular" hardwood activities. Meanwhile, Lawrenceburg moved back into the “Big Ten” with a record of nine consecutive wins, and the well-regarded list was full of powerful teams, just a few percentage points off the pace. The "Big Ten" of the United Press, third edition: 1. Evansville Central (won six lost (T). 2. Lafayette Jefferson (8-0). 3. Bedford (7-1). 4. La Porte (6-0). 5. New Albany (5-1). 6. Fort Wayne Central (6-0). 7. Lawrenceburg (9-0). 8. Princeton (7-0). 9 East Chicago Washington (4-0). 10. Richmond (4-1). Well-regarded: Madison (6-1); Muncie Central (6-1): Plymouth (7-2); South Bend Central (6-1); [Jeffersonville (5-2); Culver (6-2); ! Crawfordsville (5-2); Brazil (6-1); Fort Wayne South (4-1); Fort Wayne Concordia (7-0). Plymouth will meet Rochester in a Central Indiana conference tilt I tonight and Vincennes ‘will be at Huntingburg in a Southern conferI ence game. In other games tonight, Kokomo will be at Elwood and i Brazil will meet Greencastle. 0PRO BASKETBALL National League Minneapolis 61. Sheboygan 52. Indianapolis 63, Toledo 57. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Anderson 61, Earlham 57. Evansville 56. Oakland City 46. Michigan 51. Southern California 38. Illinois 71. Washington State 35. Xavierx 56, Ohio Wesleyan 34. Oklahoma 75, Wisconsin 49. 0 Trade In a Good Town — Decatur Whether — it’s a hankv ♦ or a coat, we gift wrap FREE of charge. E. F. Gass Store Exclusive Ladies Wear For Beautiful DRY CLEANING Phone 147 427 N. 9th St. Across from G. E. Pick up and Deliver. I CORT "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL” o 0 — Last Time Tonight — “JUNGLE FLIGHT” Robt. Lowery. Ann Savage & "JEWELS OF BRANDENBURG” Richard Travis, Carol Thurston 9c-30c Inc. Tax 0 0 THURS. FRI. & SAT. EDDIE DEAN “WEST TO GLORY” & Three Stooges Comedy —o Coming Sun. —“News Hounds” & ‘Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back’ . O—O CLOSED WEDNESDAY

Bob Feller And Spud Chandler Lead Hurlers New York, Dec. 23 — (UP) American league pitching honors for 1947 were split between blazing Bob Feller of Cleveland and Spud Chandler of New York, according to official averages released today, but neither the Indian fire-ball artist nor the Yankee veteran was i particularly proud of the questionable accomplishments. The 29-year-old Feller was the i only American league hurler to win ! 20 games, but his 20 triumphs were: the fewest he has registered over I a full season since 1938. His 11 defeats left him with a percentage of! .645. sixth best in the circuit. Chandler, inactive for most of the! season due to arm trouble, was the : official leader in earned run average with 2.46. He won only nine and lost five and won the title only because Chicago’s Joe Haynes, who had a 2.42 earned run mark. [ failed to complete 10 full games. American league pitching, on the whole, declined during 1947. Whereas five moundsmen won 20 or more games in 1946, Feller was the lone 20 game winner last season. The general earned run average rose .21 to 3.71. Feller ranked runnerup in earned runs with 2.68, followed by southpaw Eddie Lopat of Chicago! and rangy Dick Fowler of Philadelphia, each with 2.81. Others to finish with an average below three , earned runs per game were Hal Newhouser of Detroit, 2.87, and! Joe Dobson of Boston, 2.95. Rookie Frank (Spec) Shea of the! Yankees owned the highest won-! lost percentage with his .806 mark. I amassed by winning only 14 and losing five. His earned run average — far from spectacular — was 3.07. Closest to Feller in the matter of victories were Allie Reynolds of the Yankees, 19 and eight; Phil Marchildon of Philadelphia, 19 and nine; Dobson, 18 and eight, and Fred Hutchinson of Detroit, 18 and 10. For the first time since 1936, Feller failed to strike out at least 200 batters, but he led the league in that department anyway with 196, and as in 1946, pitched the most innings, 299. The Cleveland ace also increased his major league record to 10 one-hit games by adding a pair the past season. Jack Kramer, St. Louis Brownie right-hander recently dealt to Boston, yielded the most runs. 123, and the most earned runs, 110, while Newhouser gave up the most basehits, 268. Marchildon was freest with bases-on-balls, yielding 141, and bespectacled Ed Klieman, Cleveland relief pitcher, appeared in the most games, 58. Individual no-hit no-runs games were tossed by Don Black of the Indians against Philadelphia on July 10 and young Billy McCahan of the Athletics againsr Washington on Sept. 3. Three slabsters were deadlocked for the most setbacks, Walt Masterson of Washington and Kramer and Fred (Porky) Sanford of St. Louis each being charged with 16. Newhouser lost more games than any pitcher in the league, 17. while Eddie Smith, who pitched for both the White Sox and Red Sox, had the highest earned average, 7.38. The New York Yankee pitching staff was the best with a collective earned run percentage of 3.39 and the St. Louis Browns were far and away the worst with 4.33. Yankee hurlers struck out the most batters, 691, and Detroit pitchers completed the most games, 77. Dobson and Newhouser committed the most wild pitches, 11 each, [ while Marchildon and Dave Ferriss| of Boston hit the most batters, sev-I en each. | VflJ

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Immanuel Winner In Walther League Immanuel of near Decatur walloped St. Thomas of Ohio City, 0.. 58-11 in an inter-river zone Walther league game at Monmouth Monday night. This was the only league game played, but St. Paul of Convoy, 0.. defeated Zion of Schumm, 0.. 53-16, in an exhibition tilt. The league will not play next week, with games resumed Tuesday, January 6. at Monmouth. St. Paul will meet St. Thomas and Ossian will play St. John. Immanuel FG FT TP D. Bulmahnfß 2 18 E. Bulmahn f 6 0 12 G. Bienz c 2 2 6 K. Bienz g 3 0 6 D. Thieme g 4 0 8 Schainerloh f 10 2 W. Thieme f I 0 2 Krueckeberg g 2 0 4 Bleeke g 0 0 0 TOTALS 27 4 58 St. Thomas FG FT TP Hoffman f .2 0 4 G. Germann f 0 0 0 D. Schmidt c ... 1 0 2 Gerken g 0 11 L. Germann g 0 0 0 Boenker g 2 0 4 TOTALS 5 1 11 0 Berne Church Honors Long-Time Member Berne, Dec. 23 — E. M. Ray, elderly local business man. in recognition of his many years of faithful service in the local Evangelical U. B. Church, was presented with a basket of fruit on Sunday in recognition of his many years of service. Because of ill health. Mr. Ray recently retired from all official church duties. He was secretary, trustee and Sunday school teacher in the church for many years. Homer Niederhauser made the presentation in behalf of the church.

Former Monroe Man Under Questioning Berne, Dec. 23 — A man who was quoted by a Columbus. 0., newspaper as saying he is from Monroe, Ind., was or is a suspect in a recent murder case at Columbus. The Columbus paper did not give the name of the man but he is said to be 46 years old and is being questioned in the death of a 26-year old Columbus real estate agent. The agent was found shot to death near Columbus recently. o Three Men Die As Train Hits Truck Norton. Kan., Dec. 23 —(UP) — The Rock Island’s Denver Rocket, running half an hour behind time, smashed into a fully loaded Co-op gasoline transport truck on a dangerous “S” curve eight miles southwest of here at 5 a.m. today and three men were killed instantly. One. Orin Heaton, 35, Phillipsburg, Kan., was the driver of the truck. Pete Modlin, Goodland. Kan., engineer of the train, and J. W. Campbell, Colorado Springs, Colo., fireman, died in the flames which engulfed the diesel engine of the streamlined train. OTrade In a Good Town —Decatur

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St. Joe Defeated By Willshire, 26 To 18 The St. Joe eighth grade team, traling all the way, was defeated by Wiltshire, 0., 26-18, at Willshire Monday afternoon. Willshire led at all periods. 5-4, 15-9 and 24-12. Merbaugh topped the winners with 15 points, while L. Laurent was high for Decatur with six. Wilshire FG FT TP Merbaugh. f 71 15 Schlickman, f 10 2 Miller, c .. 1 Stetler, g 10 Koch, g 10 2 Heg. f 10 2 Baker, g Oil Totals 12 2 26 St. Joe FG FT TP Hackman, f 2 1 5 Gase, f 1 o 2 Costello, c 11 3 L. Laurent, g 3 0 6 Osterman, g 1 0 2 Miller, f 0 0 0 J. Laurent, f 0 0 0 Gass, g 0 0 Totals ... 8 2 18 O New All-Time High Paid For Top Steers Chicago. Dec. 23 — (UP) — j A new all-time high price of S4O. per hundred pounds was paid for top grade steers at the Chicago stockyards today. The same price was paid at Omaha for 19 head of Angus steers. In Chicago the record price was paid for a load of choice to prime 1.200-pound fed steers. Other top, good and choice fed steers were as much as 50 cents higher. The previous record was $39 paid Dec. 9. 0 The first steam locomotive to travel a mile a minute accomplished the feat between Boston and Lawrence in 1846. The use of th« word “jug” for prison is NOT slang! -O— Though it has been commonly accepted as a slang term for some time, the derivation of the word is undoubtedly from the Latin jug-um, or yoke. The rela tion in meaning is unmistakeable. and quite logical.

Kirkland Rallies To Beat Pleasant Mills The Kirkland Kangaroos, overcoming a two-point half-time deficit, came back to score a 35-30 triupmfl over the Pleasant Mills Spartans at Pleasant Mills Monday night. The Spartans led at the first quarter, 10-5, and at the half, 17-15, but the Kangaroos moved into a 29-27 lead at the end of the third period. Scoring honors were well divided for both teams, Longenberger topping Kirkland with nine and Sprunger leading Pleasant Mills with 10. Kirkland FG FT TP Jim Arnold, f 2 2 6 Troxel, f 3 2 8 D. Arnold, c 2 3 7 Jr. Arnold, g 0 2 2 Longenberger, g 3 3 9 A. Arnold, f .1 0 2 R. Baumgartner, g Oil Baxter, g 0 0 0 Totals 11 13 35 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Bollenbacher, f Oil Sprunger, f ... 2 6 IO 1 Strayer, c 4 19 Young, g 3 0 6 Miller, g 10 2 Suman, f 10 2 Ripley, g 0 0 0 Totals 11 8 30 Referee:—Me Swane. Umpire: —Hatcher. Preliminary Kirkland 27, Pleasant Mills 17.

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