Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1948 — Page 6

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12 Sectional Champions Are Out Os Running Indianapolis, Feb. 28 — (UP) — At least a dozen new sectional champions will be crowned when the first part of the 1948 Indiana high school basketball tourney comes to a close tonight. Twelve defending sectional titlists were eliminated in the last three days of preliminary firing, but none of the casualties could be considered as major upsets. Disappointment was only noticeable in the state capital where the co-favorites — iShortridge and Technical — went down in what turned out to be one of the most hotlycontested sectionals of them all. But elsewhere, the form sheet held true for the second day as another 286 clubs joined the oncebeaten category in tourney play. The field has been sliced to 256 outfits, will be cut in half in the semi-finals this afternoon, and by around 9:30 p.m. tonight only the 64 sectional champs will be left from a field of 779 to battle for regional honors next week. Several thrillers were on deck for the 1:15 p.m. games today, to be followed by three or four major games at 2:30 p.m. before the stage will se set for the finals tonight. Hammond High (15-7) will battle Hammond Tech and the winner will oppose the East Chicago Washington (17-4)-Whiting victor at Hammond tonight. Gary Emerson (17-5) will have to register a win over dangerous Gary Wirt before qualifying to meet the Valparaiso -Kouts winner. Downstate, the Evansville Central -Evansville Reitz tilt at 2:30 could be tabbed a>s a "southern championship playoff.” Reitz halted the Golden Bears several weeks ago after they had chalked up 14 consecutive wins. The winner of that tiff will take the court against the Evansville Lincoln-Bosse winner for the blue ribbon. Shortridge, which had won 14 of 20 games during the campaign, lost to little Warren Central, 49-44, to get things rolling in Indianapolis. Then, Crispus Attucks turned its heavy guns on Technical to ehade the big green in an overtime thriller, 46-45. Everett Overton was Attacks’ man of the hour. He tallied 25 points, including the winning basket with less than 10 seconds to go in the extra session. But such contenders for state honors as Bedford, New Albany, Madison, Evansville Central, Terre Haute Garfield, LaPorte and Lawrenceburg kept rolling merrily along. Sectional titltets already out of the race included Spencerville, Clinton, Fort Wayne South, Southport, Kendallville, Zionsville, Ellettsville, North Manchester, Marengo, Rensselaer, Silver Lake and Washington Catholic. Milford, Chester Twp.. and Spurgeon, the three remaining unbeaten teams, were still in the thick of it. Milford and Chester qualified for the next round on Wednesday, while Spurgeon whipped Winslow at Jasper last night, 54-48, to back

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up its 23rd win. In other "specials” today, Fort Wayne North will battle Concordia for the right to meet the winner of the Fort Wayne Central - Monroeville game tonight, and terre Haute Garfield will do battle with city foe Gerstmeyer. The winner will meet either Prairie Creek or Terre Haut Wiley in the sectional final. o *— Tourney Notes Statistics on Friday's sectional games: Kirkland. 11 field goals in 38 shots, percentage .289; 11 of 25 free throws, percentage .440; Berne 14 fielders in 51 shots, percentage .275; four of nine free throws, percentage .444. Decatur Commodores, 76 shots, 16 field goals, percentage .211; 10 of 25 free throws, percentage .400. Pleasant Mills, 11 field goals in 52 attempts, percentage .212; seven of 15 free throws, percentage .467. Monroe, 76 shots, 18 field goals, percentage .237; eight of 23 free throws, percentage .348. Jefferson, 15 field goals in 45 attempts, percentage .333; six of 20 free throws, percentage .300. Hartford, 54 shots, 16 field goals, percentage .296; six of 17 free throws, percentage .353. Decatur Yellow Jackets, 13 field goals in 48 shots, percentage .271; 10 of 22 free throws, percentage .455. Bubble gum is popular. The more observing fans were surprised to see Bob Wendell, No. 33 of the Jefferson Warriors, come dribbling down the floor occasionally “blowing a bubble” from a huge wad of the stuff tucked in his mouth. Little Patsy Beal, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beal, delighted the crowd when she appeared as a yell leader for the Decatur Commodores. She deftly followed most of the antics of her fellow yell leaders. Her gold crown proclaimed her "Commodore Sectional Queen.” Illness and injury plagued the sectional participants this year. First it was Russ Kruetzmann, Monmouth, who suffered a sprained ankle in pre-tourney practice—but it didn’t keep him from playing. Then Thursday night, Bruce Baughn of the Yellow Jackets sprained an ankle and it did keep him out of action last night. Rumschlag, Commodores, has been out suffering from the effects of . the “flu.” Milt Habegger, Monroe ace, just recovering from a bad cold, was used sparingly last night. . The more ardent net fans are of ' the opinion that a record may have been set in the Berne-Kirkland en- ' counter Friday afternoon. The ' Bears have the rather dubious honor of being probably the only team in a sectional here ever to be kept completely scoreless in the final quarter of a tourney tilt. At least none of the oldsters remember such a thing happening before. Diogenes can stop looking. The honest man has been found, even though he is just a boy. Jerry Zerkle, of Berne, route one, found a purse at the game Friday afternoon. It contained some money and numerous valuable papers, bearing the name of Elizabeth Bertsch, Berne. Jerry turned the purse in at the scorer’s bench and in turn it was retrieved by the rightful owner. Police were just a bit peeved Friday afternoon —and rightfully so. At one time they reported exactly 14 cars illegally parked in the alley south of the gym, where net fans had parked them in an effort to avoid a run in the rain to the tourney site. Finally all were moved but one and Ellen Beer, Berne, blushlngly left the gym to move her car after her name was blared over the p. a. system. —t The "tops” in bright sayings relative to the sectional tourney, and especially that ,feature dealing with the huge demand for tickets goes to an unidentified lady, who added her plea to the overburdened shoulders of the tourney manager, principal W. Guy Brown. “I'm sorry, but we’re all sold out of tickets,” was the principal’s stock answer. Then she retorted—“ Well, for gosh sake, why don't you print more?” Besides the referees there are two other "official” officials who have important jobs at the tourney. They are: Harry Dailey, official scorer and Dale Ross, official timer. With all these nar-row-margin contests the task of the Decatur men has become doubly important. Representatives of each school work with them when their respective teams are playing. Other "regulars" at the bench include Roger Cole, who operates the

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electric scoreboard; Simon Schwartz of lhe Berne Witness (except for Friday afternoon when Howard Gilliom temporarily took over); Pete Reynolds and Bob Shraluka from the Daily Democrat and Don Wefel, of the host school, who assists with the public' address system. Jean Mowery, who is acting as telephone girl at the Daily Democrat office during the tourney, reported 194 calls on the Hartford - Yellow Jacket game last night. 0 •

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Classic League Swearingen won three and total from Super Service; Smith won two and total from Mies; West End won two and total from Ebonites. Standing W L Pts. Ebonites 55 14 77 Swearingen 45 24 60 West End 39 30 54 Mies 25 44 31 Super Service 25 44 31 Smith 18 51 21 High series: O. Schultz 627 (258-178-191). High games: Zelt 232-203, Lankenau 200, Petrie 213, H. Murphy 235, Faulkner 204, G. Schultz 226, Stump 206, Reinking 211, Ladd 202, Hoagland 202, Tutewiler 246. Fraternal League (G. E. Alleys) Standing W L VFW 8 4 Moose II 8 4 Moose I ...... 7 5

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IG. E. Club- - ——6 3 sK.of P 1 8 i K. of C. — — 0 6 t High ganites: Gage 212. Cook 201, , Ahr 213, Zest 211. t o Sectional Scores At Decatur Kirkland 33, Berne 32. Decatur Commodores 42, Pleasant Mills 29. Monroe 41, Jefferson 36. Hartford 40, Decatur Yellow, Jackets 36. At Bluffton Chester Center 48, Bluffton 38. Jackson Twp. 32, Union Center 24. Petroleum 56, Rockcreek 32. At Hartford City Roll 31, Hartford City 29. Dunkirk 49, Pennville 44. • Portland 61, Ridgeville 45. 1 Jefferson 51, Gray 18. t Redkey 46. Roll 34. At Huntington Salamonie 46, Polk Twp. 43. Clear Creek 35, Union 29. ■ Huntington 51, Huntington Twp. 35. Jefferson (Whitley) 48, Andrews 41. Huntington Catholic 55, Salamonie 54. . 0 COLLEGE FOOTBALL ' Ball State 55, Northern Illinois , 47. , Indiana State 76, St. Louis Concordia 49. PRO BASKETBALL " National League Fort Wayne 68, Tri-Cities 66. Anderson 71, Sheboygan 46. ” Flint 76, Toledo 64.

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KIRKLAND I Continued from Page 1) Jackets and the same boy hit another foul shot to put Decatur on top. Glen Smith then hit a rebound for Hartford and the Gorillas were on top, 37-36, with one minute to play. Dubach counted a foul toss to make Hartford's lead two points. Dan Freeby was fouled while shooting on Augsburger’s fifth personal with only seconds 1 to play. Freeby missed the first one, and the Jackets took the ball out of bounds. Dubach intercepted the pass in and dribbled under for a layup just before the final gun cracked to give Hartford its fourpoint victory. Dubach was easily the star of the battle with 20 points, while Lehman counted 12 for Decatur, followed by Ballard with 11 and McAlhany with 10. Kirkland FG FT TP D. Arnold, f 1 0-0 2 Troxel, f 5 1-3 11 Jim Arnold, c 3 3-7 9 Longenberger, g 2 5-7 9 Jr. Arnold, g 0 0-3 0 A. Arnold, f 1-2 1 Baumgartner, g 0 0-0 0 Baxter, g 0 1-3 1 Totals 11 11-25 33 Berne FG FT TP Ellenberger. f 2 0-0 4 Schwartz, f 3 2-4 8 Kriehbel, c 0 0-0 0 Liechty, g 5 1-2 11 Sprunger, g 4 1-2 9 “Weller, f 0 0-1 0 Shoemaker, c — 0 0-0 0 McCrory, g 0 0-0 0 Habegger, g 0 0-0 0 Totals 14 4-9 32 Commodores FG FT TP ; Baker, f 3 0-0 6 ' Parent, f 0 0-0 0 Wilder, c 3 2-7 8 J. Gillig, g 5 0-2 10 D. Gillig, g ..... 1 5-9 7 Kable, f 4 3-7 11 Meyers, g 0 0-0 0 Totals 16 10-25 42 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Ripley, f 0 2-5 2 Sprunger. f 0 0-1 0 Strayer, c 4 2-3 10 Miller, g 4 1-2 9 ’ Young, g 1 1-1 3 Bollenbacher, f 0 0-0 0 Price, f 0 1-1 1 Suman. g 2 0-2 4 Totals 11 7-15 29 Monroe FG FT TP W. Nussbaum, f .... 2 0-1 4 C. Lehman, f 0 0-5 0 Moser, c 2 2-2 6 Ehrsam, g 1 1-2 ‘3 Hirschy, g 4 1-2 9 C. Habegger, f 0 1-3 1 D. Lehman, f 0 2-2 2 M. Habegger, c 3 1-4 7 Rowden, g 6 0-2 12 P. Nussbaum, g 0 0-0 0 Totals 18 8-23 44 , t Jefferson FG FT TP Wall, f 3 1-2 7 Wendell, f 2 1-3 5 Kuhn, c 0 1-1 1

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