Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1948 — Page 6

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Evansville's Bears Continue To Lead State Indianapolis. Jan. 27 —(UP) — Indiana high school basketball experts, with an eye cocked on the state tourney next mpnth, scouted the state today for the team to upset Evansville Central’s bid for the coveted state title. The Golden Bears are well on their way to a successful defense of their southern Indiana conference title with eight loop victories and an over-all record of 13 consecutive wins. That record and the fact that no club has been able to challenge their supremacy in Hoosier prep school circles successfully placed them on top of the United Press weely standings for the seventh straight week. Thus far, the Bears have not met their equal on the hardwood floor. Bloomington came closest to upsetting the touted pocket cityl quintet early In the season when the Panthers came within a few points of tying them, but a lastperiod rally by Walter Riggs’ boys took care of that and Central went on to win, 51-43. But there may be trouble ahead in the form of four SIAC tilts. On Friday, the Bears will be at Jasper, Which bottled up Evansvillel Bosse’s powerful offense last week to score one of the upsets of the week. The following week they face city rival Reitz and their last two games this season will be against third-placed Bedford and Princeton. Any one of those clubs could upend Central’s applecart. Lafayette Jefferson's north central conference loss to Indianapolis Technical hurt the Bronchos’ reputation to the point of having to share the number two spot with La Porte this week. Jeff’s record now reads 14 wins against two l/'-sses, while the Slicers have dropped one game in 14 starts. This week, Jeff will be at Marion in an NCC tilt, while Richmond will challenge the Bronchos’ bid for undisputed possession of first place in that loop when the Red Devils clash with Kokomo on Friday. Both clubs have a conference record of six-and-one. In third place this week are Bedford’s Stonecutters, who led

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Monroe at Berne. Jefferson at Pleasant Mills. Wednesday Commodores at Monroeville. Thursday Wren at Pleasant Mills. Friday Auburn at Yellow Jackets. ‘ Commodores at Kirkland. 11 Angola at Berne. I Monroe at Hartford. Monmouth at Hoagland. PLAY AT HOAGLAND Dan Perry, coach of the Decatur Commodores, received word this afternoon that tomorrow night’s game between the Commodores and the Mon-

roeville Cubs will be played at Hoagland, instead of at Monroeville, as originally scheduled. the parade in the first rankings this season but slipped when Evansville Central, Lafayette and La Porte got hot. The Cutters ! overwhelmed Mitchell last week, 60-34. to move into a challenging position. Fort Wayne South bettered itself from seventh to fourth place, ahead of Lawrenceburg, by virtue of the Archers’ tougher schedule and their flashy form the last few

times out. The upper bracket was completied by Lawrenceburg which has a nifty 14-0 record to fall back upon. New Albany, Madison, East Chicago Washington, Fort Wayne Central and South Bend Central completed the “Big Ten” in that order. New Albany jumped from last place to sixth after disposing of dangerous Jeffersonville, 41-31; Madison slipped one step because of its loss to Franklin; East Chicago’s 11-1 record moved the Senators up the ladder and Fort Wayne Central dropped to the ninth place after losing to city rival South Side. South Bend Central, finally, reentered the select group on the strength of its good NIHSC record. That left the eighth weekly United Press statewide rankings: 1. Evansville Central (won 13 lost 0). 2. Lafayette Jefferson (14-2) and La Porte (13-1). 3. Bedford (14-1). 4. Fort Wayne South (12-1). 5. Lawrenceburg (14-0). 6. New Albany (11-3). 7. Madison (12-3). 8. East Chicago Washington (11-1).

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Intramural League Results Announced The White Sox defeated the Yankees, 18-7 the Reds swamped the Braves, SS-4, and the Dodgters downed the Cardinals, 20-13, in Junior high intramural league games Monday night. Yankees FG FT TP Reidenbach, f 12 4 E. Gilbert, f 0 0 0 Thompson, c 0 2 2 Metzger, g 0. 11 Hurst, g 0 0 0 Totals 15 7 White Sox FG FT TP Lawson, f 10 2 Isch, i 0 0 0 T. Cole, c 3 2 8 Schiefersteln, g 2 15 Brunner, g 113 R. Abbott, t 0 0 0 R. Nelson, g 0 0 0 Totals 7 4 18 Braves

FG FT TP J. Cowans, f 0 0 0 D. Rambo, f 0 2 2 A. Cole, c 0 0 0 D. Reinking, g 10 2 C. Johnson, g * 0 0 0 Totals 1 2 4 Reds FG FT TP B. Roe, f 5 0 10 * D. Foor, f 1 3 5 J. Gaffer, c 15 1 31 J. Conrad, g 5 0 10 f E. Ritter, g 10 2 L. Andrews, f 0 0 0 Lobsiger, g 0 0 0 _

Totals 27 4 58 I Dodgers FG FT TP N. Andrews, f 3 17 ' Stocksdale, f 10 2 R. Cole, c 1 0 2 Custer, g 2 3 7 T. Sudduth, g ’I 0 2 G. Harvey, f 0 0 0 1 J. Reynolds, g 0 0 O' Totals 8 4 20 Cardinals FG FT TP < Helm, f 1 0 2; Duff, f 2 0 4 1 Liby, c 2 1 5 Hott, g 0 0 0 Roop, g 1 0 2 McDonald, f 0 0 0 I Thomas, g 0 0 O' Totals 6 1 13 0

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Prints; Truckers won two from Solvent; Bag Service won two from Research; Erasers won two from M & R; Wonders won two B from Better Halves; Feed Mill won B two from Pencilpushers. H Standing W L I Wonders 15 3 H Truckers 43 t | E/aser* u 7 | Research 10 8 I Bag Service 10 8 I Dubs 10 8 I Traffic 9 9 1 M&R 9 9 I Master Mixers 9 9 Blue Prints g Pencilpushers 7 44 Fee(i 6 12 Better Halves 5 73 Solvent 4 14 High games: Men—McClure 224210, L. Meyer 213, Judt 208, Novak 201, Friend 200. Women—Schafer 200-182, Mac Lean 186, Way 176 Rose 172. High series: Men—McClure 626; L. Meyer 594, Judt 593, Maddox . 560, Oelberg 539. Women—Schafer I 494. | 0 Berne Bears Lose Player For Year Berne, Jan. 27 -— The chances of j the Berne Bears for sectlonional , tourney honors this year suffered , another heavy blow over the weekend. when Charles McCrory, 17, a member of the team, suffered severe injuries in an automobile accident. He is lost for the season, according to the attending physician. The Bears previously lost Jim Shoemaker, regular forward, for the 0 year when he suffered a bad knee 1 injury. The loss of the two players has badly depleted the Berne reserve strength. Shoemaker was a 1 regular and McCrory was the sixth man. The Bears have not lost a regI ularly scheduled game since early in December. — Geneva And Poling Game Is Postponed Word has been received of the postponement of the Geneva - PolIng game, scheduled to be played at 4 Geneva Friday night. No definite date has been re-set for the tilt. o I g Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

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Decatur G. E. Girls Trounce Farnsworth The Decatur G. E. Girls walloped Farnsworth girls of Fort Wayne, 46-16, at the Lincoln gym in this city Monday night. Decatur led at all periods, 11-0, 15-4, 20-12. Hurless tapped the scorers with 21 points, while Grenzenbrack was high for Farnsworth with 12. Decatur FG FT TP Hurless, f 9 3 21 Smith, f .... 5 0 10 Terveer, c Oil p. gphnepf, g Oil Switzer, g 10 2 Goldner, f 2 1 5 Hains, f 0 0 0 Striker, c 2 0 4 M. Schnepf, g Oil Painter, g 0 0 0 Melchi. g 0 11 Totals 19 8 46

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I 1 Farnsworth , FG FT TP | Grenzenbraik, f 5 2 12 Monner, f 2 0 4 ■, Vrandron, c 0 0 0 Thompson, g 0 0 0 1 Brown, g 0 0 Os x t Totals 7 2 16 t 0 , Butler University Defeats Ohio State Columbus, 0., Jan. 27 —(UP) — ; Butler University, led by Ralph 1 O'Brien and Jim Doyle, romped to an easy win over the Ohio State basketball team. 57 to 47, last night. O’Brien, led the scoring parade with 16 points, while Doyle, a guard, limited Dick Schittker, Buckeye star, to five points. Butler took an early lead and never was headed, leading 33 to 20 at halftime. —o_____ The chief products of South Carolina are tobacco, cotton, rice and textiles.

Minneapolis Again ; Defeats Rochester By United Press The Rochester Royals, erstwhile leaders of the National Professional Basketball league, wouln t mind it ia bit if they never see George Mikan and his Minneapolis teammates on the basketball floor again. Minneapolis handed the Royals their worst defeat of the season last night, beating them 76 to 58. Even more humilating to the prestige of the easterners wae the ease with which the Lakers handled the task. Led by Mikan. who scored 1J points, and Tony Jaros, who took scoring honors with 20 points, Minneapolis moved out to a top-heavy 40 to 29 half time advantage and then coasted to victory. Al Cervi, ailing Rochester forward, did not. play last night, and his high scoring teammate, Bob Davies, was limited to two field goals by an alert Minneaplis defence. The two teams meet again Wednesday night and Rochester will go all-out to pull one victory from the four-game series between the two teams. They will not meet again until March 16. While Minneapolis was building up a substantial lead over the other teams in the western division of the league, it also helped Anderson forge ahead of Rochester in the eastern circuit. Anderson defeated Fort Wayne, 70 to SJ, last night to go two full games out in front. Sues Kautskys Indianapolis, Jan. 27 — (UP) — The Indianapolis Kautskys, who haven’t won a game from their national basketball league foes in their last 10 starts, faced trouble today. But this time it was in the courts, and not on them. Elwood (Woody) Norris, released by the Kautskys several weeks ago, filed a suit charging that his contract wa.s ended illegally. Norris, who starred at Washington. Ind., high school and at Butler University, asked for a declaratory judgement in superior court here. The suit said that a clause in Norris' contract was meaningless as a bona fide method of ending a contract. The clause said he could be released if he failed to show the “skill required of a professional basketball player in the national league.” 0 Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Butler 57, Ohio State 47. Michigan State 66, Detroit 31. Toledo 43, Loyola 39. Texas Wesleyan 57, Dutfuesne 53. o PRO BASKETBALL National League Anderson 70, Fort Wayne 55. Minneapolis 76, Rocnester 58. 0 Legion Team Takes Free Scoring Game The Decatur American Legion defeated a Fort Wayne G. E. Industrial five, 74-68, in a free scoring game Monday night at Fort Wayne. Decatur was in front at the half, 27-19. The winners’ scoring was well divided, Zurcher leading with 17. while Etter and Bucher each tallied 20 for the G. E. Decatur FG FT TP D. Schnepf, f 8 0 16 Crist, f 5 3 13 Mansfield, c 5 0 10

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