Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1948 — Page 8

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Top Big Nine Teams To Face Tough Battles - Chicago, Feb. 6.—(UP)—The Big Nine’s three basketball pacemak- 1 ers, Wisconsin, Illinois and lowa ■

meet major opponents tomorrow, and the outcome of their games could set up one of the trio as the club to beat for the remainder of | the campaign. Illinois and lowa, tied for set-1 ond place midway through the season, face the toughest opposition from the standpoint of the present standings. The Illini tangle with Michigan at Champaign while lowa travels to Purdue. Thus the two second place teams bump heads with the pair tied for fourth, just below them in the ratings. Wisconsin, also judging from the standings, has the easiest foe of the night, tailend Northwestern. The game, though, is scheduled for the Chicago Stadium, a floor with which the Wildcats are more familiar. And. despite their record, Northwestern forced the high-ly-rated lowa team into an overtime Monday before it lost. Northwestern, even by winning, couldn't Amivc- ant of butt pla*e.4>ut the Wildcats seek revenge for a ( defeat suffered at Madison last , year when the Badgers scored . the winning basket after time had ' run out. The Wildcats too have f one of the leading scorers in the , league, Bill Sticklen, who has been < a dependable point-maker at the ’ Stadium. Thus, they were held as ‘ only three point underdogs. Michigan, a pre-season favorite t for the crown, was rated eight ( points weaker than Illinois on the

Illini floor. Illinois hasn’t lost a| home game this season. Although the Wolverines feature the strongest defensive game in the league, Illinois ranks third in defense and sixth in offense. Michigan has the

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Yellow Jackets at Kendallville. Monroe at Monmouth. Winchester at Berne. Pleasant Mills at Kirkland. Petroleum at Hartford. Geneva at Pennville. Jefferson vs Gray at Berne auditorium.

lowfest scoring average in the league. Purdue was ranked six points ' better than lowa, and the Boilermakers could easily come up with i a triumph. lowa was hard hit this ; week when Leonard Metcalfe, its ' star center, was ruled ineligible. Metcalfe was one of the league’s ten leading scorers, and his loss will hurt the Hawkeyes for the rest of the season. The contest may develop into a scoring duel between Murray Wier, lowa’s leader in individual scoring presently, and Dick Axness, Purdue center who ranks 10th in the point race. The fourth league game of the night carries Ohio State, tied with Indiana for seventh, to Minneapolis for a scrap with sixth place Minnesota. The Gophers have lost three games and retain only the slightest hope of figuring in the championship, while the Buckeyes, four time losers, are out of title contention. This brawl, however, brings together two of the five leading scorers of the conference. Jim Mclntyre. Minnesota center, has netted 128 points in five league ( games for an average of 25.6 points per contest, and Dick , Schnittker, Ohio State, has averaged 15 points per game for six scraps. In a non-league game Indiana travels to Miami, 0.. and was favored to win. 0

PRO BASKETBALL 'National League Fort Wayne, 74, Flint 57. ’ Anderson 73, Indianapolis 54. I Rochester 60. Sheboygan 53. Minneapolis 69, Syracuse 55. Tri-Cities 70, Oshkosh 65. o COLLEGE BASKETBALL I Notre Dame 55. Detroit 30. Anderson 49, Franklin 44. Centerbury 57, Rose Poly 37. Taylor 73, Cedarville 66 (overtime!.. Louisville 72, Evansville 55. Toledo 53, Dayton 39. Kentucky 41, Alabama 31. —- 0 Kirkland Defeats Pleasant Mills The Kirkland Independents defeated the Pleasant Mills Independents, 77-62. at the Kirkland gym Wednesday night.

Solvent, lab Win In Soya League Solvent walloped Expeller, 39-12, and Lab squeezed out a 27-23 victory over Feed Mill in an overtime battle in the Central Soya league games Thursday night. Lab and Feed Mill were tied, 23-23, at the expiration of the regular playing time, Lab tallying four points in the extra session while holding the Feed Mill scoreless. • Solvent FG FT TP Painter, f 113 Selking. f 9 5 23 Way. c . 3 17 Schnepp, g 1 0 2 Gehrig, g 10 2 Fennig. g 10 2 Totals 16 7 39 Expeller FG FT TP Parrish, f 0 0 0 W. Haines, f 11 3 Ulman, c 0 0 0 Bollenbacher, g .......... 3 0 6 L. Haines, g 11 3 Bedwell, f 0 0 0 Totals 5 2 12 Lab FG FT TP

Fennig, f 3 17 D. Vogelwede, f 3 0 6 J. Vogelwede, c 10 2 Christen, g 2 0 4 Miller, g 0 11 Gehrig, f 1 O’ 2 Myers, g 2 15 Totals 12 3 27 Feed Mill FG FT TP Jones, f 10 2 Painter, f ...... 0 0 0 Heimann, c 3 2 8 Garner, g 11 3 Bollenbacher, g 4 0. 8 Foreman, f 10 2 Totals 10 3 23 o Texas has the tallest monument in the world —the San Jacinto Monument and Museum, at San Jacinto battlegrounds 18 miles from Houston, where Texas’ independence from Mexico was won. It is 564 feet above finished grade line. Cost $1,000,000.

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Q - ■ Today's Sport Parade | By Oscar Fraley I (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) I O 0 *• New York. Feb. 6 — (UP) The big fellow turns 53 tomorrow and it isn’t a happy occasion. For George Herman Ruth, the Old Bambino, is playing the game of his life and it’s going into the late innings down there in the Florida sunshine. One short year has made a vast difference in the once-burly, rollicking Babe. Ever since a critical neck operation he has walked in the shadows, shrunken and shriveled and his voice a husky whisper. So today he is making the big fight, making it for the kids he always loved so much and drawing his strength from them. It’s an old story how baseball used the big fellow and then cast him aside. But the beacon in his current darkness is hfe association with the American Legion junior baseball program. “What does it matter whether I’m 53," he whispered. “I feel like 90.”

The Babe went through a series of sicknesses and in 1935 he reached the end of the baseball trail. But the kid from the orphanage left an indelible mark. He was the greatest home run hitter of all time with a total of 714 and a record 60 in one season which still stands. Yet, though he was the game's meet glamorous figure, they found no place for him. So it was a lonely Bambino who turned to golf and bowling for solace through the yearning years until the big sickness struck a year ago. Then, as he rallied, Ruth gained added strength when he was named a director of the junior baseball program. A small part, yes, but he was back in baseball and working with the kids. To him it loomed large, and it was. For consider that currently 204 former American Legion juniors are under major league contract. And from his league, the American, you could get a fair country ball club from such alumni as Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Lou Boudreau, Joe Gordon, Billy Johnson. Mickey Vernon. Ted Williams, Charley Keller and Dom Dimaggio, to name just a few. The Babe must have thought, when named a director, of the time after one of his escapades when the late Jimmy Walker told him: “Babe, you should be ashamed of yourself. You have a sacred duty to the little, dirty-faced kid on the corner and you're letting him down." He isn’t now. For the Bambino is setting them an everlasting example of grit and gameness. Sick and weary, the Babe is carrying on for the kids, proving in the twilight of his life that the size of his heart exceeds by far the limitless boundaries of his fame.

4-H Club Leaders Name New Officers Thirty-four Adams county men and women attended a 4-H club leaders meeting at the Decatur jun-ior-senior high school Thursday night. Plans were made for the 4-H enrollment and supplies were distributed. Officers were elected as follows: eo-chaiman, Stanley Arnold and Mrs. Mary Rich: co-vice chairman, Don Raudenbush and Mrs. Clarence Mitchell; co-seeretaries, Hugo Uoerger and Rowena Miller. o— Eggs of birds that breed on rock ledges without building nests are very pointed. That’s so the eggs will roll around in a small circle mstead of going over the idge. Fire annually destroys enough timber and lumber to build 140,000 five-room houses. Roy S. Johnson & Son Auctioneers & Real Estate >)eVoss Bldg., Ground Floor Phone 104 153 So. 2nd St. We’ll be glad to Represent you tn the transaction of Real Estate st Public Sale or private sale. 25 years In this business In Decatur. We welcome your Investigation as our record of which we are oroud. Melvin Lelchty, Rep.

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Intramural League Results Announced ‘ The Wolverines defeated the Boilermakers. 26-12, the Black Knights downed the Tarheels, 2218, and the Irish whipped the Razorbacks, 21-15. in the heavyweight division of the intramural league at the Decatur junior-sen-ior high school Thursday evening. Boilermakers FG FT TP Lautenschleger, f 3 17 Slusher, f \. 0 0 0 Gilbert, c 0 11 Kingsley, g 0 0 0 Mattox, g 10 2 Roop, f (TOO Stults, g 1 0 2 Totals 5 2 12 Wolverines FG FT TP Myers, f 0 o'o Egly, f 3.2 8 Grote, c 2 15 Jackson, g 10 2 Lehrman, g 1 I'3 I Heller, g 2 0 4 j Fosnaugh, g 2 0 4 Totals 11 4 26 Black Knights FG FT TP Everett, f 10 2 Andrews, f 2 0 4 Feasel, c 3 17 Gentis, g 2 15 Rice, g 2 0 4 Seitz, f 0 0 0 Stingely, f 0 0 0 Totals 10 2 22 Tarheels FG FT TP Meyers, f 0 0 O' Moore, f 10 2 Foley, C 3 17 Busse, g 2 0 4 Wefel, g 2 15 Foreman, f 0 0 0 Nagel, g 0 0 0 Totals 8 2 18 Razorbacks FG FT TP Smith, if 0 3 3 Yost, f 1 0 2 Shackley, c 2 0 4 C. Reynolds, g 2 15 B. Hutker, g Oil Totals 5 5 15

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Irish FG FT TP Gaunt, f J g J. Reynolds, f ’ “ “ J J 2 Cowans, g J E. Hutker, g - 1 u “ Peterson, c 0 ir Kranklin, f ' Totals 9 3 21 0 Decatur Freshmen Defeat Bluffton The Decatur freshman quintet defeated the Bluffton rhinies 23-17, at the Bluffton gym Thursday afternoon. Decatur led by only one point, 8-7, at the half, but pulled away after the rest period. Bair paced the winners with 14 points, while Bluffton’s scoring was well divided. Decatur FG FT TP I). Sheets, f 0 0 0 Fruchte, f 1 0 - Bair, c 4 6 14 Petrie, g 1 0 “ Sautbine, g 0 5 5 Lane, f 0 0 0 Doan, g 0 0 0 Totals 6 11 23 Bluffton FG FT TP Knox, f 2 0 4 Earhart, f 10 2 Wenger, c 10 2 Worthman, g 2 0 4 Costello, g 2 0 4 Uptgraft, f Oil Helvig, f O' 0 0 Myers, c 0 0 0 < Totals 8 1 17 0 Movie Shown Today To School Students “God and The Atom” was the title of a movie shown under the sponsorship of the Decatur ministerial association to students of the Decatur junior-senior high school in a special assembly program this morning. The Rev. Carey R. Moser represented the association at the meeting. ■ --- - o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

Junior High Beats New Haven, 38-15 Decatur Junior high walloped New Haven. 38-15, at the Lincoln gym Thursday afternoon. Decatur was in front at the half. 20-8. Kolter topped the scorers with 17 points, followed by Moses with 13. Myers was high for New Haven with eight markers. Decatur FG FT TP Moses, f 6 1 13 Morrison, f ...- O’ 11 Kolter, c 8 1 17 Brokaw, g 0 11 Everett, g .... 11 3 Custer, f 0 0 0 Kohne, f 0 0 0 Ailerson, f 0 0 0 Carter, c 0 0 0 8e11,.g ~................. 113 Pollock, g 0 0 0 Metzger, g 0 0 0 Sehieferstein. g O' 0 0 Totals 16 6 38 New Haven FG FT TP Burkett, f 0 2 2

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