Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1948 — Page 6

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Evansville's Bears On Top Os Prep Fives Indianapolis, Jan. 20—(UP)— Evansville Central’s Golden Bears, still minus that first defeat, stayed on top of the statewide high school basketball heap today in what was beginning to take the shape of a long-term lease. The unbeaten Bears, with a dozen victories behind them, were rated the No. 1 prep school hardwood squad in the seventh United Press rankings. Still riding hard on Central’s trail were the Lafayette Jefferson Broncos with only one defeat to mar their record. That loss, of course, was administered by the Bears themselves. Fresh from an easy win over Washington last week. Evansville Central may not find the going too tough against a stubborn Bicknell squad this Friday. But should the Bears slip, Lafayette Jefferson will be ready to move into the coveted top slot. Jefferson, with 13 wins and one loss, will play twice this week, both games with foes not expected to surprise with an upset victory. Two wins would give Jeff a 15-1 total and a good argument for a raise if Central should fall, which doesn’t seem likely. Lafayette goes against West Lafayette and Indianapolis Technical, both games at the Jeff gym. La Porte and Bedford round out the first four berths in the rankings again. Only Terre Haute Garfield is absent, the Purple Eagle’s second loss moving them well down the list and out of the Big Ten.

Despite their slip, the Eagles will be odds-on favorites as they defend their title in the annual Wabash Valley tournament this week. The tourney gets underway in 15 centers on Thursday and will be climaxed with the finals at Terre Haute on Jan. 30-31. Some of the best clubs in Indiana and Illi-

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Commodores vs Jefferson at Yellow Jackets gym. Hartford at Pleasant Mills. Wedneday Yellow Jackets at Warsaw. Thursday Monroe vs Geneva at Berne. Friday Commodores vs Hartford at Yellow Jackets gym. Yellow Jackets at Pleasant Mills. Ossian at Berne. Lancaster at Monmouth. Jefferson at Kirkland. __________ nois participate. The chances of the Purple Eagles in the Wabash meet, as well as in regular Hoosier competition, seems to depend on the availability of lanky Clyde Lovellette, who was out of action when Garfield dropped their pair of contests. Lovellette has been ill for several days. New Albany moved up into the Big Ten to replace Garfield, leaving the seventh up rankings: 1. Evansville Central (won 12 lost 0). 2. Lafayette Jefferson (13-1). 3. La Porte (12-1). 4. Bedford (13-1). 5. Lawrenceburg (12-0). 6. Madison (11-2). 7. Fort Wayne South (9-1). 8. Fort Wayne Central (10-2). 9. East Chicago Washington (9-1). 10. New Albany (10-3). Well-regarded: Evansville Bosse (8-3); South Bend Central (9-3); Elkhart (12-2); Brazil (10-1); Terre Haute Gerstmeyer (10-2); Peru (10-3); Franklin (10-3); Fort Wayne Concordia (10-0); Culver (10-1); Plymouth (10-4).

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CLASSIC LEAGUE Standing W L Pts. Ebonites 43 8 60 Swearingen 32 19 45 West End 29 22 39 Mies 21 30 27 Super Service 17 34 21 Smith . 11 40 12 High series: G. Schultz 608 (180-224-204); Faulkner 610 (180-196-234). High games: Stump 220-213, Murphy 201, Appelman 212, Steury 210, Engle 210, Bleeke 209, P. Schroedpr 232, A. Buuck 213, W. Gallmeyer 202-213. Bayles 218, Tutweiler 22, Ladd 201. FRATERNAL LEAGUE (G. E. Alleys) Standing W L Moose II 25 11 G. E. Club 24 15 K - of C 21 15 Moose I 10 on *.p :: ” « VFW 12 27 High series: Faulkner 675 (221-266-188); Stump 611 (254-188-169); J. Ahr 602 189-166-247).

High games: H. Murphy 202, Lord 221, Zelt 200-205. Miehener ' 202, Hoffman 223, Omlor 225, J. Murphy 203. 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Wisconsin 49, Purdue 44. Illinois 46, Indiana 45. Minnesota 72, lowa 56. St. Joseph’s 48. Illinois Wesleyan 46. Evansville 66, Miami 53. Northwestern 68, Marquette 38. Kentucky 71, Georgia Tech 56. IOPEN ’TILL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AL SCHMITT ICORT 9 0 Last Time Tonight — I “KILROY WAS HERE” Jackie Cooper, Jack Coogan & “THE PRETENDER” With Albert Dekker I 9c-30c Inc. Tax 0 .— 0 1 THURS. FRI. SAT. John Mack Brown “LAW COMES TO GUNSIGHT” —o—0— I Coming Sun. — “Invisible Wall” & “That's My Gal" —o CLOSED WEDNESDAY

Badgers Beat Purdue, I.U. Is Nosed .Out Chicago, Jan. 20 —(UP) — Defending champion Wisconsin, although once beaten in the big nine basketball race, still held a game and a half lead on its nearst contender today after a night of firing which leveled the league standings for nearly all other teams. The Badgers outlasted Purdue for a 49 to 44 victory, giving the Boilermakers their second defeat in four league games. Minnesota, coming fast as the season progressed, handed second place lowa its second loss in five games. 72 to 56. to knock the Hawkeye;' into a tie for third. Illinois came from behind with a rush and a sub guard. Tan Anderson, popped in the winning basket' with oply five seconds to go to give the Illini a 46 to 45 decision over Indiana which nearly eliminated the Hootiens from league contention. In the final scrap of the night Northwestern swamped Marquette in a non-conference go, 68 to 38.

Even though Michigan, one :.f the pre-season favorites for the C’own, was idle, the Monday night p'.ay advanced the Wolverines into second place behind Wisconsin with a record of two victories in three games. The Badger.s, though were three games ahead in the winning column, and even if the Wolverines hit a winning streak, they couldn’t move into a tie until Wisconsin taken a breathing spell early next" month.

Purdue kept Wisconsin on edge for only 10 minutes last night. The Badgers held a 23 to 17 halftime lead, but the Boilermakers bounced back early in the second half to go ahead. Doug Rogers sparked Wisconsin into the lead again and the Badgers romped to a 40 to 32 margin to win going away. Don Rehfeldt, Badger center, and Howard Williams, Boilermaker forward, each sank 14 points for scoring honors as Bobby Cook, the league pacemaker last year, was held to 10. Jim Mclntyre, Minnesota center, and Murray Wier, lowa forward, who are running one-two in the individual scoring race this year had a personal battle before the Gophers won. Mclntyre took the individual honors too, looping 36 points for the third highest total ever registered in big nine play by one man. Wier, however, counted 30 points for lowa.

Wier hit for 21 points in the first half to Mclntyre’s 14. and lowa took an early lead. Minnesota rallied for a 35 to 29 halftime edge, and Mclntyre whipped in 22 points in the final period to lead the Gophers home. Their scoring gave Wier 121 points and a 24.2 per game average for five contests while McIntyre had 108 and a 27 pointe per game mark for four.

Indiana and Illinois battled evenly for the first half, and the Hoosiers held an 18 to 16 margin at the half. They increased the lead to 41 to 30 in the first 13 minutes of the final period, but Illinois broke loose then and counted 16 points in the final seven minutes while holding the Hoosiers to two field goals. Still it took Anderson’s last minute shot to win. Don Ritter paced the Hoosiers with 14 points while Jack Burmaster counted 10 for Illinois. Northwestern won handily from Marquette. The Wildcats took a 21 to i lead in the first 10 minutes, were ahead 35 to 17 at the half, and took it easy the rest of the

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way. Chet Strumillo, Northwestern guard, sank 17 points to lead the scoring. Standings Team W L Pct. Wisconsin 5 1 833 Michigan 2 1 667 lowa 3 2 GOO Illinois 3 2 600 Purdue 2 2 500 Minnesota 2 2 500 Northwestern 1 3 250 Ohio State 1 3 250 Indiana 1 4 200 o Anderson Packers Take Eastern Lead By United Press The Anderson Packers today led the eastern division of the National Professional basketball league by one :::■ game and .002 percentage points. Anderson new ’..ns a record of 25 victories in 34 starts, and a percentage of .735. Rochester, the second place team, has played only 30 games and won 22 of them for a percentage of .733. It was the fist time since Dec. 11 that the Packens have been on top and they needed a 16-game home winning streak to turn the

trick. Anderson defeated the Toledo Jeeps. 76 to 50, last night, for their 16th consecutive victory on the home floor. The Packers scored 28 points in the first quarter and stayed in front all the way. Milo Komenich dropped in 20 points to lead Anderson His teammate, John Hargis, scored 16 ■ points. Dick Mehen topped Toledo > with 14 markers. ) Mineapolis, the western circuit pace-setter, akto won last night. 1 trouncing the Flint Dow Chemicals, 1 85 to 72, at Midland, Mich.

Flint, which ran its longest winning streak of the season up to two games last week, was back in con-

! ventional form against Minneapolis, dropping its 28th game iu 34 starts. Minneapolis lea oy cnij three points, 34 to 31, at halftime, but a third quarter splurge in which they scored 28 points sewed up the game for the Lakers. Bob Callihan scored 23 points for Flint to lead both teams. Don Carlson led Minneapolis with 17 points. Tonight Rochester has a chance to go back into the eastern division lead, on a percentage basis, when it plays at Indianapolis. In other games tonight, Flint goes to Toledo and Fort Wayne at Tri-Cities. o Monmouth Defeats Ossian Legion Five The Monmouth Independents whipped the Ossian Legion, 46-26, at the Ossian gym Monday night. Monmouth led at the half, 17-15, and pulled away to win easily In the final period. Rice paced the winners with 22 points, while Yager’s nine were high for Ossian.

Monmouth FG FT TP Singleton, f 2 2 6 Rice, f 10 2 22 Crosby, c 5 2 12 King, g 10 2 Thieme, g 2 0 4 Totals 20 6 46 Ossian FG FT TP Hatfield, f 10 2 Harkless, f 10 2 Yager, c 4 19 Middaugh, g 10 2 Farr, g 2 0 4 Fluke, g 3 17 Totals 12 2 26 d — We make Keys—Gambles.

St. Joe Defeated By Convoy, 33-26 The St. Joe eighth grade team dropped a 33-26 decision to the Convoy team at Convoy Monday afternoon. Convoy’s 23-9 lead at the half proved too much for the Decatur team to overcome. Scoring was well divided for both teams, Small leading Convoy with seven and Laurent tallying a like number for St. Joe. Convoy FG FT TP Schaadt, f 3 0 6 Wyandt, f 12 4 Helm, c 3 0 6 Small, g 3 17 Clay, g 3 0 6 Meyers, f 0.1 1 Barkley, f 0 11 Etzler, g 0 0 0 Jones, g Oil Weldi, g Oil Totals 13 7 33 St. Joe FG FT TP Gase, f 2 15 Brunton, f 0 0 0 Costello, c‘ 2 15 Gass, g 0 0 0 Laurent, g 15 7 Ostermann, f 113 Miller, f 10 2 Hackman, f 2 0 4 Totals 9 8 26 ——— Physical Fitness Class Meets Here The first meeting of the adult nhysical fitness program was held Monday night at the Decatur juniorsenior high school gym. Bob Worthman. high school athletic director in charge of the program, stated there were 13 present for the first workout. The group win meet again Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7:45 p.m. All adult men of the city are invited to participate. Habegger Brothers Form Net Quintet Berne, Jan. 20 — Five brother® of this place, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Habegger, have formed a unique independent basketball team. The brothers are Lester, Ell, David, Clifton and Jesse. They played and won their first game of the season Saturday and are looking for games with strong independents teams of this community. At least two of the boys are form°r Berne high school etars.

Baskethall-2 GAMES- FREE Wednesday, Jan. 21 ... at Lincoln School 7.*>Z\ G - E. GIRLS vs. •WW GENEVA GIRLS G.E. BOYS vs. •wW geneva boys The Public Is Welcome

Inframural League Results Announced The Cardinals defeated the Braves, 24-11, the White Sox downed the Reds, 16-9, and the Dodgers whipped the Yankees. 27-10, in the junior high school intramural league Monday evening. Cardinals FG FT TP Helm, f 11 Huff, f 4 0 8 Liby, c 5 1 11 Roop, g 0 0 0 Hott, g 1 0 2 Thomas, f 0 0 0 McDonald, f 0 0 0 Andress, g 0 0 0 Andrews, g 0 0 0 Totals 11 2 24 Braves FG FT TP Reinking, f 3 0 6 Murphy, f 0 0 0 Seeaur, c 113 Johnson, g 102 Gray, g 0 0 0 Cole, f 0 0 0 Rambo, f 0 0 0 Sudduth, g 0 0 0 Totals .... . ......... 5.1 11 White Sox FG FT TP Isch, f Oil Schieferstein, f 0 0 0 Cole, c 2 15 Lawson, g 2 15 Brunner, g 2 0 4 Nelson, f 0 0 0 Blackburn, f 0 0 0 Cowan, g Oil Totals 6 4 16 Reds FG FT TP Lobsiger, f 0 0 0 Andrews, f 0 0 0 Roe, c 113 Yoder, g 0 0 0 Conrad, g 0 11 Gaffer,, f 0 0 0 Ritter, f 0 0 0 Foor, g 2 15 Totals 3 3 9 Dodgers FG FT TP Stocksdale, f 10 2 Custer, f 2 15 Cole, c 2 0 4 Andrews, g 6 0 12 Harvey, g 0 0 0 Sudduth, f 2 0 4 Nelson, g 0 0 0 Totals 13 1 27 Yankees FG FT TP Wolf, f 0 0 0 Reidenbach, f 10 2 Thompson, c Oil Sudduth, g 2 0 4 Hurst, g 113 Mercer, f 0 0 0 Totals 4 2 10 0 PRO BASKETBALL National League Anderson 76, Toledo 50. Minneapolis 85, Flint 72. o 11 Foxhound Pups Now Owned By Club

The Adams county conservation club is proudly boasting today of Ds new members — 11 Walker foxhound puppies. The club hae owned the father and mother for some time, along with two younger dogs, and now the mother foxhound has borne a litter of seven males and four females. The puppies are being kept with the club's dogs in kenuels at the O. K. Welding shop until old enough to offer for sale to hunting enthusiasts. Meanwhile Robert Hill, club president, and other members have an unusually large famBy to care for. — o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur For Beautiful DRY CLEANING Phone 147 427 N. 9th St. Across from G. E. Pick up and Deliver.

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