Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1947 — Page 6

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Berne Bears Only Team No! To Win Tourney Four teams, one of which, Berne, has never captured the annual New Year’s Day blind basketball tourney, get together at the Bluffton community building on that day in an affair which had its beginning in 1937. For four years, Bluffton, Berne, Decatur and Hartford City tangled in the affair, with Hartford City copping the title three times and the Bluffton Tigers once before the transportation difficulties of the war years forced the cancellation of the meet. With the resumption of the affair in 1944, the Bluffton Tigers emerged as winners and in 1945, the last year in which the Hartford City five was a competitor, they annexed the title. New Haven replaced the Airdales in the 1946 meet, which was taken by the Decatur Yellow Jackets. In 1947, the New Haven Bulldogs came out victorious after putting down the bid of the Bluffton Tigers in a 47 to 45 double overtime. Although it had been expected that the meet this year would be a sellout before the opening whistle, indications are that approximately 250 single session ducats will go on sale for the afternoon and evening sessions of the meet. The drawing will take place at 1 o’clock on the afternoon of the meet, with the first game to begin an hour later. The consolation game in the evening will commence at 7 o'clock, with the title game to follow at its completion. Thf: complete record of the meet is as follows: 1937 Berne 27, Decatur 21. Hartford City 39, Bluffton 25. Bluffton 40. Decatur 30 (consolation). Hartford City 31, Berne 22 (final). 1938 Bluffton 92, Berne 24. Hartford City 31, Decatur 29. Berne 34, Decatur 27 (consolation). Hartford City 24, Bluffton 17 (final).

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Thursday Tourney at Bluffton (Yellow Jackets, - Berne. Bluffton and New Haven.) Friday Yellow Jackets at Warsaw. Monroe at Pleasant Mills. Monmouth at Geneva. Kirkland at Hartford. Saturday Fort Wayne Central Catholic at Berne. 1939 Hartford City 32, Bluffton 24. Berne 37, Decatur 21. Decatur 32, Bluffton 28 (consolation). Hartford City 31. Berne 20 (final). 1940 Hartford City 38, Decatur 29. Berne 33, Bluffton 19. Decatur 37, Bluffton 34 (consolation). Hartford City 30, Berne 26 (final). 1944 Bluffton 39, Hartford City 36. Decatur 47, Berne 34. Berne 43, Hartford City 26 (consolation). Bluffton 42, Decatur 31 (final). 1945 Hartford City 33, Decatur 30. Bluffton 40, Berne 38. Decatur 47. Berne 40 (consolation). Hartford City 37, Bluffton 33 (final). 1946 Decatur 24. Berne 23. Bluffton 22, New Haven 21. Berne 41. New Haven 26 (consolation). Decatur 23, Bluffton 20 (final). 1947 Bluffton 46, Berne 38. New Haven 34, Decatur 30. Berne 51, Decatur 29 (consolation). New Haven 47, Bluffton 45 (double overtime) (final).

H. S. BASKETBALL Mishawaka 37, Fort Wayne North 33. Paoli 45, Salem 27. Fort Wayne Tourney Concordia 52, Angola 38. Central Catholic 46, Huntington Catholic 36. Huntington Catholic 40, Angola 38 (consolation). Concordia 60, Central Catholic 36 (final). Jasper Tourney New Albany 58, Huntington 41 (consolation). Madison 57, Jasper 42 (final). 0 Trade !n a Good Town — Decatur Open Tomorrow 6:45 a. m. till 8 p. m., serving fine foods only.—Ehler’s.

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New Years Day Bowl Games To Hold Interest By United Press For sports folks who insist on something besides the Bowing bowl for New Year’s, everything was ready today for football frivolity in the Rose, Sugar. Orange, Cotton, Sun, East-West, ‘Gator, Tangerine, Cigar, Dixie Delta, Raisin. Harbor, Salad, and Pineapple bowl grid battles. Lacking both geographical and sentimental rivalry to spur them on the players in the hastily - assembled slate of bowl games will be on hand to give their all for such noble motives as paying off stadium mortgages, keeping the field hockey and Lacrosse squads in action during the lean winter months, and providing the players with some pleasant mid-winter relaxation in sunny climes. And as the final breathless bulletins came in from all camps and it appeared that on all fronts ablebodied warriors would be able to get out on the field without assistance from seeing eye dogs or male nurses, there were estimats that up to $2,560,000 would be doled out for seats by better than half a million fans. The biggest assemblage, of course, was expected at Pasadena, Cal., where Michigan, making its first Rose Bowl appearance since 1902 when it polished off Stanford, 49 to 0, was hoping to do one-sev-enth as well against Southern California as Wolverine coach Fritz Crisler said he would be tickled to settle for a one touchdown triumph. There was a similarly forthright attitude at Miami, Fla., where both coaches George Sauer of Kansas and Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech said they were “shooting the works for victory.” “This is our first bowl'game,” Sauer said. “We want to give them all we’ve got.” The Kansans were given a boost in morale w’hen their 100 piece band plus a big rooting section arrived unexpectedly and staged a big downtown parade and pep rally. Dodd said that his boys looked “pretty sharp” as they gave each other a final banging around in scrimmage. In New Orleans, the Sugar Bowl folks awaited the arrival of the Texas Longhorns who have been practicing at home where all-Ameri-ca back Bobby Layne has been working on passes in the hope of outshining Harry Gilmer of Alabama. At San Francisco, the east and west college all-star squads were scheduled to move with the easterners still seven point favorites because they have Johnny (Jackpot) Lujack of Notre Dame doing their passing. The west hoped to counter Lujack’s passes with a quartet of talented passers and runners consisting of Herman Wedemeyer of St. Mary’s Cal Rossi of UCLA, George Quist of Stanford and Virgil Eikenberg of Rice. Coach Bob Higgins of Penn State said at Dallas, Tex., that he was very pleased over prospects of cold weather for the Cotton Bowl game with Southern Methodist. “If we get a cold snap that will be just what we have been pleading for,” he said. The Southern Methodist Mustangs, working out on their home town campus, were reportedly very sharp with Doak Walker, their sophomore all-Ameri-ca passing star, “practically unable to miss a completion.”

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Hartford Winning Streak Is Snapped The 1947 basketball year for Adams county hgih school teams ended on a sad note for the Hartford Gorillas, who saw their sev-en-game winning streak snapped as the Gorillas dropped a tough 39-37 decision to the Roll Red Raiders at Roll Tuesday night. It was Hartford’s second defeat of the season as compared to eight victories. Roll led at the first quarter, 11-10, at the half, 19-18 and went far ahead in the third period, 3321. Bonewit led the winners with 12 points, while Smith was top scorer for Hartford with 11 points. , Roll FG FT TP Cook, f 3 0 6 Bone wit. f 6 0 12 Cain, c 3 2 8 Glancy. g 14 6 Holloway, g 0 4 4 Dickey, g 113 TOTALS 14 11 39 Hartford Moser, f 2 15 Wanner, f 113 Smith, c 5 1 11 Dubach, g 3 17 Augsburger, g 3 2 8 Noll, f 113 Spichiger, f 0 0 0 TOTALS 15 7 37 Referee: Ireland. Umpire: Powell. Preliminary Hartford .24, Roll 22 (overtime)

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PRO BASKETBALL National League Anderson 71, Toledo 58. Indianapolis 77, Flint 57. Tri-Cities 65, Syracuse 57. - 0 Ballard's Mark Broke 20-Year-Old Record Local basketball fans, carefully perusing the history of the Yellow Jacket basketball team, declared today that they learned Ballard’s 28 points garnered against Berne on December 5 snapped a 20-year-old individual high point record. It was in 1927, when the Yellow Jackets beat Syracuse 73-20 on the local hardwood, that Bob Hill, now city policeman, set the previous record of 27 points. 0 All night skating Sun Set Rink, New Year’s Eve, 8 till (?) Hats, Serpentines, Balloons, Pair of Skates given away. Also skating New Year’s night, 7 till 10, SunSet Rink — Daniel J. Zeser Mgr. For Beautiful DRY CLEANING Phone 147 427 N. 9th St. Across from G. E. Pick up and Deliver.

I Decatur 6. E. Girls Lose To Fort Wayne The Decatur G. E. Girls were handed a 51 to 25 thumping by the Fort Wayne G. E. girls Tuesday night at Fort Wayne. Shearer topped the winners’ scoring with 20 points, while M. Schnepf and Smith each tallied eight points for Decatur. Fort Wayne FG FT TP Puff, f 7 0 14 Gallaway, f Oil Williams, c 5 4 14 Shearer, g 9 2 20 Sanders, g 0 0 0 Peppas, f 10 2 Totals 22 7 51 Decatur FG FT TP Hurless, f 2 15 M. Schnepf, f 4 0 8 Smith, c 4 0 8 Switzer, g 2 0 4 Melchi, g 0 0 0 Goldner, g 0 0 0 Totals 12 1 25 o Kirkland Defeats Pleasant Mills Five Kirkland Independents defeated the Pleasant Mills Independents, 63-53, in a high scoring game Monday night. Fruechte was the leading scorer for Kirkland with 18 points, followed closely by Beineke with 17, while Sipe was high for Pleasant Mills with 14. p Fox Hunt Saturday In Union Township A fox hunt is being planned in Union township Saturday morning. All persons planning to participate are asked to meet at 8 a.m. Saturday one-half mile north of the Bleeke church. 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Canterbury 52, Earlham 37. lowa State 47, Michigan 41. Toledo 57, Cornell 41. South Dakota 54, Bradley 51. o Department Called By False Fire Alarm Firemen made a false alarm run to the Orval Reed residence on North Eleventh near Monroe street about 1:30 o’clock this afternoon. o Cattle Hit Another New All-Time High Chicago, Dec. 31 —(UP) — Cattle hit another new all-time high on the Chicago livestock market

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today when two carloads of fat steers sold at s4l a hundredweight. The steers average 1,275 pounds each. ——o — Shelbyville Farmer Indiana Corn King Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 31 —(UP) Frank Lux. 39-year-old Shelbyville farmer, was proclaimed corn king of Indiana today by judges at the agricultural conference here. Lux was also the state winner last year and recently took second place honors at the international grain and hay show in Chicago. Judges selected his 10-ear sample as the best exhibited at the annual state show. He was also winner of the special class for a 10-ear sample of hybrid seed corn. —— — o — No One Injured As Two Trains Derailed Chicago, Dec. 31 —(UP) — The Milwaukee railroad reported that its fast Pioneer Limited was derailed early today near Lake City; Minn., and that a freight train derailment south of Milwaukee had blocked the main line there. No one was injured in either accident.

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