Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1948 — Page 8

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Hold County Tourney Here Again In '49 Official announcement was made today that the 1949 Adams county basketball tournament will be held at the Decatur junior senior high school gymnasium. Th.i<s announcement was made following a recent meeting of officials of the competing schools with Lyman L. Hann, county superintendent. Dates set for the county tournament are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 13, 14 and 15. The tourney was held in Decatur this winter for the first time in history. The 1948 meet was also the most successful in history, with the Decatur gym affording far more seating capacity than any other gym in the county. The county meet thia season was a near sellout in season tickets, with only about 200 single admission tickets available at each session. The 1948 tourney was won by the Monmouth Eagles, their second county championship in a row. The eight teams competing in the tourney in addition to the Eagles are the Decatur Commodores, Pleasant Milks, Kirkland. Monroe, Jefferson. Geneva and Hartford. The Decatur Yellow Jackets and Berne do not compete in the county tourney, playing each season in the fourteam New Years tourney with Bluffton and New Haven. The 1948 meet was the best from a profit standpoint ever held. The financial report of Hansel Foley, Pleasant Mills principal and tourney manager, showed a net profit of $2,812.99. leaving a net distribution of $351.62 to each of the eight participating schools. o— The early inhabitants of Northern Europe are credited with the Invention of beer.

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PRO BASKETBALL National League Indianapolis 83, Minneapolis 63. Rochester 66, Toledo 50. 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL St. Joseph’s 58. Valparaiso 56. Eastern Illinois 74, Indiana Central 69. 0 Central Soya Five Edges VFW, 38-36

The Central Soya basketball team edged out a 38-36 victory over the Decatur VFW team Tuesday night at the Lincoln gym. VFW held an 18-17 lead at the half but Soya moved into a 35-30 advantage at tf>- third quarter. Scoring was well divided for both teams, Haines leading Soya with 11 and Reef topping VFW with 10. Central Soya FG FT TP Fennig f . 11 3 Painter f 4 2 10 Schnepp c 0 4 Ulman g .... 2 0 4 Bentz g 3 0 6 Haines f 4 3 11 Bollenbacher g 0 0 0 TOTALS 16 6 38 VFW FG FT TP| Fisher f 2 0 4 I Reef f 5 0 10 iaudenbush c .. 2 0 4 Martz g 10 2 Butcher g ... .4 0 8 Daniels f 0 0 0 Fraaz f 0 0 0 Summers g ■. 2 4 8 Hammond g 0 0 0 TOTALS 16 4 36 Referee:— Hackman.

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Bedford Meets New Albany In Feature Clash

Indianapolis, March 3—(UP)—The quirk of a tournament sched-I ule will throw two more of southern Indiana's best basketball teams together again this weekend as Bedford and New Albany meet in a semi-final regional tourney game at Jeffersonville. Last weekend, in the sectional, power was concentrated at Evansville. Central had to beat off two formidable rivals in Bosse and Reitz to survive. And this Saturday, without qjiy preliminaries, Bedford and New' Albany will battle it out in a tournament that is hard to figure out. They meet in an afternoon game of a session which matches Seymour and unheralded Mt. St. Francis in the nightcap. On the surface it appears that the winner of that big first game ' should be able to coast in the 1 finale at night. But the picture is 1 more complicated than that. • Mt. St. Francis, of course, is an • unknown quantity. It’s not only the team's first regional, this is the first state tournament in which it has participated. In Indiana basketball. unheard-of schools have done big things, but Mt. St. Francis in this case -must be put down as the underdog. But Seymour, the records show, was one of the few teams able to ’efeat the New' Albany Bulldogs this year. The Owls turned the trick Jan. 2 at New Albany, winning 46-39 in what was termed an upset. Three weeks later, the Owls lost to Bedford at Bedford, 49-42. So w'hether Bedford or New Albany survives that early afternoon struggle, the winner won’t find the evening’s fare exactly easy pickings. As for the big game itself, past records should make New Albany the favorite, what with the 33-30 win the Bulldogs scored over the Stonecutters early in the season at New Albany. Also, Bedford looked none too impressive in the sectionals. The Stonecutttrs got by Mitchell by eight points, edged Oolitic by only five. They looked sharper in the finals, winning by 27 points. But then Bedford coach Ralph Holmes may have been keeping his boys under cover slightly, since they are recognized as a definite state title threat. They finished second in the final up statewide high school basketball rankings. But Bedford finished in fifth place, one notch behind New Albany, in the southern Indiana conference race. Only one rating point separated them. Both teams will be at home on the neutral floor. New Albany has played there frequently, of course,

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and Bedford won a holiday tourney at Jeffersonville. Bedford won 17 games during the season. New Albany 16. Taken all in all. the tussle is pretty much of a tossup. New Albany will floor one of the most well-rounded teams in the tourney—tall, rangy, fast, and a team-full of good shots. During the sectionals. New Albany scored 223 points, whipping arch-rival Jeffersonville 53-31 in the finals.

McCracken Declines I. U. Director Posl Bloomington, Ind., March 3— (UP) —Branch McCracken, Indiana University basketball coach, said todaj - he did not want the athletic directorship at the university. McCracken, regarded as one of the leading contenders for the job left open by the resignation of Alvin (Bo) McMillin, said he preferred to keep his position as basketball coach. He has held that post for seven years. The lanky, silverhaired mentor was believed to be under consideration by the university's board of trustees, along with several others, I to succeed McMillin, who resigned

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Michigan Men Dominate All Big Nine Team Chicago, March 3 — (UP) — Michigan’s big nine championship basketball team dominated the coaches all-conference squad selected for the United Press today with two men on the first team and one on the second. Seven conference schools were represented among the 10 players, and only Michigan and runner-up lowa were able to place more than one man. The Wolverines landed two Stellar guards, captain Bob Harrison and Pete Elliott, of football fame, on the first squad, with Mack Suprunowicz, 20-year-old sophomore forward, on the second team. lowa placed Murray Wier, a short red-headed sharpshooter who caged 272 poin's this season for a new big nine record, on the first team and guard Bob Schulz on the second five. Other members of the first team were Dick Schnittker, a eophomore speedster for Ohio Stale, and Minnesota's gigantic center, Jim McIntyre. The second team was completed by forwards Bob Cook, Wisconsin and Dwight Eddleman. Illinois, and Lou Watson, Indiana, a guard during the season but placed at center on the all-star five. Only Wier and Mclntyre were unanimous choices. Every coach in the league placed the five foot nine inch Hawkeye forwaird and six foot nine and one half inch Minnesota center on the first team. Otherwise their choicer varied widely. Seven men were nominated for the forward spots, five were ' listed at center and ten at the guards. But to evidence the widespread support for the first team, all but one coach picked both Schnittker and Harrison on either their first I or second five and all but three I had Elliott as a member of the j All-Star quintet. The coaches went for scoring ability. Seven of the 10 players selected were in the top ten scorers of ihe league for the 12 game season. Wier averaged 22.7 points per game to break the previous season mark of 255 points set by Ai dy Phillip of Illinois in 1943. Mclntyre finished second in ’he scoring race and posted the high scoring mark for one game for the season with 36 against lowa in the first tussle between the Hawks and Minnesota. He finished the sea-

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