Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1948 — Page 6

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Wolverines In Leadership In Big Nine Race Chicago, Feb. 17. —(UP) — The Big Nine conference basketball race was turned upside down with last night's games and today the University of Michigan, driving hard for its second major athletic crown of the school year, was sitting on the top. » Wisconsin, which had led the pack or at least shared the lead for the past several weeks, fell into a second place tie with idle lowa by losing to Ohio State, 53 to 4J. Michigan reached the top of the standings with a complete rout of Indiana, defeating the Hoosiers 66 to 54. In the third game of the threetilt evening, Purdue knocked off coachless Minnesota 54 to 38 and climbed into third place by shackling big Jim Mclntyre, the Gophers’ six foot, nine inch center and the conference’s leading scorer. Once again all of Monday night's! victories were accomplished on the home team’s floor. If the pattern holds true for the remaining two weeks of conference play, as it has most of the season, Michigan and lowa would emerge with records of eight wins and four losses, while | Wisconsin would drop into the second spot with seven wins against five losses. Mclntyre, who helped coach the team while Dave McMillan lay sick in a hotel room, was held to 14 points for the evening, but it was enough to give him a season conference total of 202, one more than Murray Wier, the lowa Universityforward whose team was idle tonight. Andy Butchko, Purdue guard, spent most of the evening with but one assignment—to stop Mclntyre and he was successful. Mack Suprunowicz and Bob Harrison led Michigan's attack with 21 and 18 points respectively, and it was enough to land Suprunowicz among the conference’s ten leading scorers. 1 Dick Schnittker, Ohio State’s speedy forward, was the big gun

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Jefferson at Madison. Wednesday Commodoreis at Fort Wayne C. C. Pleasant Mills at Monmouth. Friday Portland at Yellow Jackets. , Commodores vs Monroe at Berne. I Berne at Montpelier. Hartford at Geneva. Monmouth at Union Center. Markle at Kirkland. 'of the Buckeye's defeat of Wiscon- : slip Schnittker added 24 points to I his total and refused to stay hot- ' J tied up by the Badger defense. Wisconsin’s ofensive flash was limited to a short period following the intermission when it pulled to within one point of the lead OSU had taken early in the game and held at 25-15 at the half. Minnesota’s inability to shake Mclntyre losse was a blow to his hopes of taking a strong grip on the individual scoring crown. He trailed Wier by 13 points with an additional game to play before he came up against the Boilermakers. But his best efforts netted him ' only the 14 tallies Monday night i and now it will be a knockdown drag-out fight to the finish. Saturday night’s conference] games find Purdue at Illinois; Wis-1 consin at Iowa; Michigan at Minnesota, and Indiana playing North- , western at the Chicago Stadium. | Ohio State meets Michigan State in a non-conference engagement. -o PRO BASKETBALL National League Minneapolis 63, Anderson 54. Flint 63, Oshkosh 61. ' Shebovgan 78, Syracuse 58. 0 1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue 54, Minnesota 38. Michigan 66, Indiana 54. Ohio State 58, Wisconsin 47. DePauw 83, Knox 49. Manchester 54, Canterbury 52. Taylor 72. Bluffton 62. Toledo 61, Wayne 50. OPEN ’TILL MIDNIGHT ■ TONIGHT I AL SCHMITT

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Bedford Moves ‘ Into Top Spot Os Prep Teams I Indianapolis, Feb. 17 — (UP) The hectic 1947-48 regular Indiana high school basketball campaign will come to a close this week with the crowning of five major conference champions. This will also be the last week for teams regarded as the "cream of the crop” to better their pretourney standings. That goes especially for clubs of the powerful southern Indiana athletic . conference and the western division of the northern Indiana loop. In the meantime. Bedford's highstepping Stonecutters have replaced Evansville Central in the ton spot of the United Press weekly rankings. Coach Ralph Holmes’ Cutters, with a record of 17 w-ins in 19 starts, will close their season at Bloomington this Friday. They reached the top berth by virtue of their 52-42 triumph over the Central Hears last week. Evansville Central (15-2) and Lafayette Jefferson (16-3) were next on the list in that order. Jeff had a chance to bypass the Bears, hut Crawfordsville dashed that bid when the Athenians upended Marion Crawley’s crew, 43-38. However, Jeff may make up for it if Its Broncos can whip Richmond on Friday to keep possession of the NCC crown. A loss to Richmond (13-6) would give the Red Devils a share of the loop title. Hammond High (12-7) can retire the western division banner of the NIHSC by besting Whiting title week. A loss there would result in a three-way tie for the title between the Wilcats, -East Chicago Washington and Gary Emerson. Meanwhile, here are the 10th and next-to-last weekly rankings: 1. Bedford (won 17 lost 2). 2. Evansville Central (15-2). 3. Lafayette Jefferson (16-3). 4. New Albany (15-1). 5. Lawrenceburg (18-0). 6. Madison (17-3). 7. LaPorte (16-3). 8. Fort Wayne South (15-3). 9. Fort Wayne Central (15-5). 10. Princeton (15-4). Well-regarded: Terre Haute Gar-

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J. McDonald, f 0 0 0 Totals 4 2 10 Eagles FG FT TP B. Strickler, f 1 0 2 D. Johnson, f 0 0 0 K. Nash, c 1 0 “ T. Gaunt, g - 0 4 M. Smith, g 4 19 Thompson, f .... 0 0 O’ Lake, f 0 0 0 P. Johnson, c 0 0 0 Totals 8 1 17 — Decatur CYO Beats Independent Team The Decatur CYO defeated the Decatur Independents, 34-24, in a game played Monday night. CYO led at the first quarter. 7-2. but the teams were tied at 16-16 at half-time. The winners moved into a 28-18 margin at the third period. Briede paced the winners with 11 points, while Beehler was high for the losers with nine. CYO FG FT TP Kohne, f 3 0 6 A. Braun, f 3 0 6 N. Lengerich, c 113 B. Lengerich, g 2 0 4 Hackman, g 0 0 0 Schindler, f 10 2 Mowery, f .......... ......... 10 2 Briede, g .... 4 3 11 E. Braun, g 0 0 0 Totals 15 4 34 Independents FG FT TP Price, f 3 0 6 Heller, f 113 Beehler, c 4 19 W. Arnold, g 10 2 Kingsley, g 10 2 Maddox, f 0 0 0 Cowens, f 10 2 L. Arnold, g 0 0 0 Totals 11 2 24 0 Echo Service Team Sportsmanship Winner The Echo service team won the team sportsmanship trophy in the Baer Field - Horton AA basketball tourney Sunday night, in which 19 teams were entered. Echo lost in the semi-finals to the Garrett Eagles. 46-33. Echo will play the Baer Field Flyers at the field Monday at 8 p.m.

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