Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1948 — Page 6

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Play Started In Sectional Meets Today Indianapolis, Feb. 25 — (UP) ~~ Nearly 8,000 athletes clad in brightcolored outfits today start a monthlong race for Hoosierland’s most coveted sports award. At 9 a.m. the first whistle blew in the 37th annual Indiana high school athletic association basketball tournament. It signaled the opening of four days of sectional play that will cut the field of championship contenders from 779 to 64 and pave the way for three more thrilling Saturdays of rugged eliminations. Play began at 14 centers this morning, picked up five more this afternoon and expanded to 21 for tonight's contests. By the time the first day’s firing ends, 117 teams will be on the sidelines, their dreams of wearing the IHSAA toga shattered for another year. The way was rocky for whoever survives the sectionals, the regionals, the semi-finals and the title round and takes on March 20 the crown now worn by Shelbyville’s never-to-be-forgotten Golden Bears. The ultimate champion must, as usual, hurdle a minimum of nine opponents to grab the title. The foes get tougher as the tourney gets older. Shelby's defending champs, who had a rather humiliating season after their 1947 upset victory at the Butler fieldhouse, won’t see action until the tournament is 34 hours old. They open the Shelbyville sectional play at 7 p.m. tomorrow against Boggstown. None of the major powers squaring away for the tourney can boast an unblemished record, so the pressure that squeezed Terre Haute Garfield last year clear up to the final game won’t be on anybody this time. Here are the first tests of teams ranked at the top of the stack: Lafayette Jefferson vs Battle Ground, 7 p.m. Thursday. Evansville Central vs Wadesville, 8:15 Thursday. Bedford vs Mitchell, 1:30 p.m. Friday. New Albany vs Georgetown, 8:30 a.m. Friday (at Jeffersonville). Princeton vs Owensville, 7 p.m.

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Wednesday (at Owensville). Lawrenceburg vs Guilford, 7 p.m. Thursday. Madison vs Hanoven 7 p.m. Friday. LaPorte vs Jackson Twp., 8:15 Thursday (at Michigan City). Fort Wayne South vs Fort Wayne Concordia, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. Fort Wayne Central vs. Huntertown, 10:15 a.m. Wednesday. Terre Haute Garfield vs. Riley, 9 a.m. Friday. Although the shooting began soon . after daybreak today, only 21 of the . 64 sectional centers will be in act tion. The mice will play in the 43 others until 7 p.m. tomorrow, ■ when the crowds pour into all cenj ters with fields of 13 teams or few- . er for the opening rounds. > There are 120 games on ThureI day's card, including four in the > morning, four in the afternoon and i 112 at night. The firing reaches its , highest pitch Friday with 286 i games on tap, and the semi-finals and finals Saturday will account ; for 192 more to round out the fourday total at 715 games, one less than last year. This year marked the expansion of an experiment dividing several sectional sites with heavy entrants into two sections for the preliminary firing. Actually, there still are only 64 centers. But games will be played in 70 different cities and 72 different gymnasiums. And two centers where all games will be played at the same place will operate under the two-site system, dividing the field into two brackets. o COLLEGE BASKETBALL Michigan State 54. Notre Dame 50’. Southern Illinois 64, Evansville 47. Indiana State 71, Illinois Normal 49. Anderson 63, Canterbury 48. Franklin 62, Manchester 48. Indiana Central 91, Huntington 66. Western Michigan 58, Valparaiso 57. DePauw 48, Wabash 34. Kentucky 58, Temple 38. Holy Cross 62, Chicago Lovola 46. KELLY’S Quality Dry Cleaning Phone 147 Plant—427 N. 9th St. ui 1 Be I■ :inr for Beer A y | Moff-Brau Brewing Coro.. Fort Wayne. Ind. OPEN ’TILL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AL SCHMITT iCORT THURS., FRI., SAT. Ifegg T"? Ml BOBBV BLAKE Wf; MARTHA WENTWORTH > ALSO— Last Chapt. “Mysterious Mr. M” & 3 Stooges Comedy. O—O Sun. Mon. Tues.—“ Devil Ship" & I Chas. Chan in “Chinese Ring”

Junior High Beats i Geneva In Finale The Decatur Junior high team, winding up its season Tuesday ’ afternoon, defeated Geneva, 34-19, at the Lincoln gym in this city. Decatur held an 18-7 lead at the half. Kolter, Decatur center, ' was the top scorer with 21 points, and Mann topped Geneva with ' eight. Decatur FG FT TP Bell, f ...: 2 0 4 Moses, f 10 2 Kolter, c —- 10 1 21 Brokaw, g 2 0 4 Everett, g 0 0 0 Engle, f 10 2 Morrison’, f Oil Koons, f 0 0 0 Pollock, c 0 0 0 Kohne, g 0 0 0 Metzger, g 0 0 0 Schieferstein, g 0 0 0 Totals 16 2 34 Geneva FG FT TP Mann, f 3 2 8 Kelly, f 2 1 5 Pyle, c 2 0 4 Parr, g 10 2 Koon, g -.......... 0 0 0 Hardy, g 0 0 0 Totals 8 3 19 0 Immanuel Winner In Walther League Immanual, of east of Decatur, won the inter-river zone Walther league basketball championship Tuesday night, defeating Bethlehem of Ossian, 33-31, at the Monmouth gym. The teams were tied at 13-13 and neither team led by more than three points during the entire game. E. Graft of Bethlehem was the topscorer with 17 points, and D. Bulmahn paced Immanuel with 11. The preliminary was won by the Decatur Independents, who scored a 30-28 double overtime victory over the Monmouth Independents. Immanuel’s victory last night gives the tieam the right to compete in the Indiana district tourney at Fort Wayne March 7. Immanuel FG FT TP D. Bulmahn f 4 3 11 E. Bulmahn f 3 0 6 G. Bienz c 10 2 K. Bienz g 3 3 9 D. Thieme g ••••.... 2 15 TOTALS 13 7 33 Bethlehem FG FT TP E. Graft f 7 3 17 Springer f 2 2 6 L. Bauermeister c .. 2 1 5 F. Graft g 0 3 3 M. Bauermeister g 0 0 0 N. Bauermeister f . .... 0 0 0 TOTALS 11 9 31 —o PRO BASKETBALL National League Rochester 78, Syracuse 54. Indianapolis 57, Sheßoygan 53. 0 Secaur-Upholstering Phone 1686 T

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Sectional Scores At Fort Wayne North Arcola 53, Coesse 39. Fort Wayne Central 49, Huntertown 25. At Fort Wayne South Fort Wayne North 38, New Haven 26. Leo 35, Hoagland 33. At Garrett Spencerville 45, Auburn 43. Waterloo 68, Pleasant Lake 29. At Auburn Garrett 55, Salem 38. Angola 49, Hamilton 26. At Warsaw Columbia City 63, Atwood 29. Leesburg 40, Pierceton 32. At Albion Kendallville 54. Wolcottville 30. Shipshewana 47, Scott 33. At Kendallville Ligonier 44, Howe Military 32. Avilla 31, Rome City 27. o Clevenger Temporary I. U. Athletic Head Blooininton. Ind., Feb. 25 — (UP) — Zora G. Clevenger, who retired two years ago as athletic director at Indiana university after serving in that capacity for 22 years, came back today to his old job. But it was only a temporary assignment. Clevenger was assured he would have to serve only briefly until the university trustees decide on a successor to Alvin N. (Bo) McMillin, who resigned effective March 1 to become coach of the Detroit Lions of the national proses-

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sional football league. o , Union Township Plans Fox Hunt Saturday The Union township conservation club is planning another fox hunt Saturday morning at 8 o’clock. AH participants are asked to meet at the Bleeke service station. Another fox escaped last Saturday and more men are urged to be present for this week’s hunt. _ OH— Monmouth Regular Has Ankle Injury Russell Kruetzmann. one of the Monmouth Eagles’ best bets in sectional tourney play, which starts tomorrow night, sustained a sprained left ankle in practice on the Decatur floor yesterday. He was kept off the injured member today in an effort to get his ankle back in the best shape possible before the Eagles-Yellow Jackets tilt tomorrow night. 0 PRESIDENT BENES (Continued from Paee 11 workers to strike and march on Hradcany castle, the ancient presidential palace overlooking the city. As if by long arranged plan, within an hour after the strike was ordered, long lines of workers wearing red armbands marched through Wenceslaus square. Over the marchens fulttered Czech and Russian and trade union flage.

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The republic’s hour of crisis was complicated by Communist charges of an Anglo-American spy plot. The state police, now the tool of the Communists, began a roundup of the "spies" in Slovakia. 3 he interior ministry, which directs the police, announced a number of arrests and "confessions ’ to espionage for the western powers. Flanked by two of his right-hand men, Gottwald went to Benes’ office and presented his demands for a new all-leftist cabinet to cariy out the policies already made unmistakably clear in the Communist assumption of power. Benes accepted the resignations of the non-Communist ministers, tendered last week, the Prague radio said, A spokesman at his office denied it, but admitted that the radio “seems to know a lot of things we do not know." o_ Law .prom bits a candidate from being elected to mo.'i than two consecutive terms as state treasurer of Nebraska. o SEVEN EXHIBITS 'Continued from Page 1) spreading flies and insects; "brucelN’OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE NO. 435« ■ Notice is hereby given to the creditors, and legatees of Sadie M. Miller, deceased to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana on the 20th day of March, 1948, and cause if anv, whv the FINAL SETTLEMENT ACCOUNTS with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Franeile Smith and Neva Brandyberry Roaa — Executors Decatur, Indiana, February 25.1948 Attorney Nathan C. Nelson Feb. 25-March 3

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