Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1949 — Page 6

PAGE SIX

Kirkland Kangaroos Win

Beat Monmouth Eagles, Defending Champions, In Tournament Final

Hartford Is Handed First Season Defeat By Kirkland; Eagles Eliminate Warriors Kirkland's Kangaroos ended the Monmouth Eagles’ two-year reign as Adams county high school basketball champions, defeating the Eagles. 37-30, in the final game of the 1949 tourney Saturday night at a jam-packed Decatur high school gym. The Kangaroos advanced to the championship battle by pulling the prize upset of the tourney in the first semi-final tilt Saturday afternoon, eliminating the Hartford Gorillas, 3S-36, thereby handing Hartford its first defeat of the season after 11 victories. (Monmouth kept alive its hopes of taking its third straight county title by easily whipping the Jefferson Warriors, 50-34, in the second semi-final.

Kirkland Champion The Kangaroos, in dethroning the Eagles, held command of the final game most of the way, erasing an early Monmouth lead and halting an Eagle rally which brought the defending champions within lone point at the half. •Monmouth drew first blood in the Saturday night clash. Bob Harvey converting two free throws when fouled in the act of shouting. Darrell Arnold knotted the count with a fielder from the side, and Jim Arnold's foul shot put Kirkland in the lead. Ray Graft's two-pointer from underneath and Fred Kukelhan's free throw gave Monmouth a 5-3 lead but Junior Arnold's 20-foot shot again tied the count. The Eagles worked an out of bounds play, Kukelhan scoring from underneath, putting (Monmouth on top, 7-5, the last time the Eagles were in the lead in the final game. Dwight Troxel’s charity toss and field goals by D. Arnold, Troxel and Jr. Arnold gave the Kangaroos a 12-7 margin at the end of the first quarter. The Kangaroos maintained this five-point margin until the last two minutes of the first half, when twopointers from close range by Jim Merriman and Graft cut Kirkland's 'aalf-'ime margin to 16-15. The third period was nip and tuck, although Monmouth was never able to catch the Kangaroos, who at one time held a six-point lead in the period, which was cut to four Willys Cars & Trucks

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Warsaw at Yellow Jackets. Monroe at Chester Center. Bryant at Pleasant Mills. Friday Commodores at Hartford. Monmouth at Lancaster. Berne at Ossian. Monroe at Geneva. : poin’s, 27-23, as the final eight minutes of play opened. Graft's two-pointer from the foul circle reduced Kirkland's advantage to two points but Troxel hit from well out and added a free throw to lengthen the margin to five points. The Kangaroos began playing a possession game at this point, taking no wild shots and the Eai gles’ closest approach was four i points at 31-27. Darrell Arnold's 13 points led the j winners, with Troxel contributing j 11 to the new champions’ total. ■ Graft topped Monmouth with 10 i points, all on field goals, with the rest of the Eagles’ markers well divided. Kirkland made seven of 10 free throws and Monmouth six of nine. Eliminate Hartford The Kangaroos, defeated twice in regular season play by the Hartford Gorillas, sectional champions, were not to be denied in their third meeting Saturday afternoon, jolting the Gorillas to their first loss of the season after 11 triumphs. Kirkland started well, marking up five points before Jerry Dubach counted Hartford’s first points with i field goal after five and one-half minutes of the first quarter had elapsed. The Kangaroos held a slender 9-7 lead at the end of the period. Bob Augsburger hit a pair of quick fielders to put Hartford out in front 11-9, the only time the Gorillas held the lead during the game. Hartford's attack stalled here, however, and Troxel's field goal tied the score, and when D. Arnold connected from the field and added a foul toss, Kirkland was on top, 1411, at the half.

The game's tempo speeded up considerably with the opening of the third period, the Kangaroos moving into a nine-point lead at 3324 at the close of the quarter. Troxel's four net-swishing shots sparkid the Kirkland drive in this period. The Gorillas made their last bid to maintain their unbeaten record is the final quarter opened, a field goal by Claude s*l once and a pair of baskets by Dubach slashing the Kirkland lead to three points, 3310, after three minutes of the perior had elapsed. D. Arnold, however, contributed his fourth bucket of the game and Carl Feichter added a foul toss, his only point of the tourney, incidentally, and Kirkland was back on top by six points, 3610, with only two and one-half minutes to play. At this point, Hartford lost Dubach. its leading scorer, on five personal fouls. Troxel convened a foul toss, hut Augsburger, Meyers and Weikel hit from the field to cut Kirkland's lead to one point, 3736. Just as the final gun cracked. Junior Arnold was fouled and made good on his charity toss to make Kirkland's final margin of victory two points. D. Arnold was top scorer for the Kangaroos wi.h 13 points. Troxel following with 10. Augsburger led the Gorillas with 10.’Kirkland won the game from the foul line, converting 12 of 16 chances from the charity stripe, while Hanford, with only six chances, made only two. Eagles Win Easily

The Jef.'erson Warriors started the second semi final as if bent on repeating their Friday night upset, when they edged out the Geneva Cardinals. The Warriors topped the Eagles. 9-6. at the end of the first quarter, but the defending champions limited Jefferson to three points, while Monmouth picked up 17 markers to take a 23-12 margin at the half. The Eagles took no chances on ihe Warriors' repeating their sens* tional second-half rally against Ge neva. and increased their advantage to 24 points. 42-18, at the close of the third period Jefferson's desper ate effort* In the final quarter succeeded only in reducing Mon mouth's final victory margin to 50 34. Graft was Monmouth's leading scorer with 16 points, with Harvey

close on his heels with 14. Wall and Smitley led the Warriors. Kirkland FG FT TP J. Arnold f .. 2 2-3 6 Baumgartner f ... 1 0-2 2 I). Arnold c 4 5-5 13 Troxel g — 5 0-1 10 H. Arnold g 14-4 6 1 Feichter f .... .. 0 1-1 1 TOTALS 13 12-16 38 Hartford FG FT TP i Monee f 2 0-1 4 i Dubach f 4 C-0 8 D. Noll c 1 1-1 3 Augsburger g .... 5 0-1 10 K. Noll g .... 3 1-3 7 Weikel f — .... 1 0-0 2 .Meyers f 1 0-0 2 TOTALS 17 2-6 36 Referee:— Lehman. empire:— Strickler. Monmouth FG FT TP Harvey f 6 2-2 14 Merriman f ... .. 2 2-3 6 Singleton c 0 5-7 5 Kukelhan g 2 1-2 5 Graft g 6 4-9 16 G. Kiess f 0 l-l I Bultemeier f 0 0-0 0 L. Kiess c 0 0-0 0 Stoppenhagen g 1 0-1 21 Fuhrman g 0 1-1 1 TOTALS 17 16-26 50 I Jefferson FG FT TP Kuhn f 0 0-1 0 Wall f 7 1-2 15 Tumbleson c 1 1-2 31 Smitley g 4 4-8 12 Wendel g 1 0-1 2 Wellman f 0 0-0 0 .Miller f 1 0-0 2 Brandt f 0 0-0 0 Christy g 0 0-0 0 Debolt g 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 14 614 34 Referee: — Strickler. Umpire:— Lehman. FINAL Kirkland FG FT TP J. Arnold f 2 1-3 5 Baumgartner f 0 2-2 2 D. Arnold c 6 1-1 13 Troxel g 4 3-3 11 H. Arnold g.. 3 0-1 6 Feichter f 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 15 7-10 37 Monmouth FG FT TP Harvey f 2 3-4 7 Merriman f 3 0-0 6 Singleton c 0 1-2 1 Kukelhan g 2 2-3 6 Graft g - 5 0-0 10 Fuhrman f 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 12 6-9 30 Referee: — LehmMn. Umpire:— Strickler. —— Golden Gloves To Open On Thursday The 20th annual Golden Gloves amateur boxing tourney will open at North Side high school in Fort Wayne Thursday night, with an entry list of more than 100 from the area expected to participate. Included in the entry list are eight from Adams county. They are: Erneste Garza. Decatur, flyweight;' Salvader Garza, Decatur, bantamweight: Curtis Jones, Decatur, and Bob Sauder. Berne, lightweights; George Gilbert. Decatur, and Carlton Sales. Linn Grove, welterweights; Tony Reyes, Berne, middleweight; Lee Faurote, Decatur, heavyweight.

Leahy To Step Down As Athletic Director Binghamton, N.Y.-(UP)- Jan. 17. Frank Leahy will step down as athletic director of Notre Dame University and will be succeeded in that post by his assistant. Moose Krause, it was reported here today. I-eahy, however, will continue as Notre Dame's football coach. Krause said in an Interview with Charles Peet, Binghamton press sports editor. He said the shift would be announced in two weeks. Peet quoted Krause as saying that both job* were too much for one man and that Is why Leahy is stepping down as athletic director. Overnight deliveries of express shipments by rail Is assured from the point or origin over sn area 400 miles in diameter, and air express is delivered overnight throughout an area 2,400 miles in diameter, according to Railway Express.

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

ALL-TOURNAMENT CHOICES Player Team Position J. Arnold Kirkland Forward Harvey Monmouth Forward Wall Jefferson Forward Kable Commodores Forward D. Arnold Kirkland Center Dubach Hartford Center Troxel Kirkland Guard Graft Monmouth Guard Smitley Jefferson Guard Augsburger Hartford • Guard Honorable mention: Kukelhan, Monmouth; Merriman, Monmouth; Jr. Arnold, Kirkland; D. Noll, Hartford; Singleton, Monmouth; Baumgartner, Kirkland; D. Gillig, Commodores; Farrar, Geneva; Stanley, Geneva; Habegger, Monroe; Price, Pleasant Mills.

Two Teams In Tie For Lead In Big Nine Chicago, Jan. 17 — (UP) — The big nine basketball chase was a two-team race today with Illinois and Minesota deadlocked in first place. Purdue close behind and six teams batting less than even in league competition. Minnesota faces two games this week while Illinois begins a two week rest period for examinations, But the Gophers were favored to defeat both lowa tonight and Indiana Saturday and head undefeated into a Jan. 29 scrap with Illinois at Champaign in which the conference ti le could easily be decider!. The strange lineup of the league standings occurred after Saturday’s play. Minnesota beat Purdue. 67 to 52, to knock the Boilermaker’s out of a first place spo’i, Wisconsin downed Indiana, 58 to 48, lowa tripped Ohio State, 53 to 49, and Michigan dropped Northwestern. 53 to 40. Illinois swamped Creighton, 96 to 30, in a non-conference game. These results left Wisconsin, lowa, Indiana, Ohio State and Michigan all with the same record, one win in three league games, and put them into a fourth place tie. Luckless Northwestern was all alone in the cellar with two s.raight losses and no league wins. Due to semister exams, the league program will be thinner this week. In addition to Minnesota's pair of matches, Ohio State plays at Wisconsin and Purdue at Indiana tonight, while Saturday Purdue travels to Ohio and lowa tangles with Northwestern in the Chicago stdiutn. Minnesota passed a major test against Purdue. Jim Mclntyre netted 20 points, Meyer Skoog 18 and Bud Grant 14 to pace the Gophers, and they never were in danger after the opening few minutes. Bill Berberian was Purdue's spark with 13 counters, but his work was futile against the precise Minesota game.

The big nine siandings: W L PCT. Illinois 3 0 1000 Minnesota 3 0 1000 Purdue 2 I 667 Ohio State 1 2 333 Indiana 1 ? 333 Wisconsin 1 2 • 333 Michigan 1 2 333 lowa 1 2 333 Northwestern I) 2 O'JO H. S. Basketball Fort Wayne South 39. Mishawaka 32.

Lebanon 48, Fort Wayne Central 43. Jeffersonville 55, Vincennes 46 Indianapolis Cathedral 54, Batesville 33. Lawrence Central 43, Indianapolis Broad Ripple 27. New Albany 57, Washington 31. Gary Froebel 35, Gary Wirt 17. East Chicago Washington 35. Terre Haute Wiley 33. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 46, Evansville Reitz 39. Texas and Louisiana are the leading sulphur producing states of the U. 8. Trade in a uood Tow,*. — Decatur LOANS S2O to S3OO QUICKLY ANO PRIVATELY MADE E*»y *0 qualify-Liberal tanna—o Raady caah-Toapply-CaU « phone LOCAL LOAN D'f*’**' COMPANY JwraSm*e-OwMFtar Oensr.MM Hna. J 4-7 m nearSj , x, aenu aw 4

Tourney Notes How’s your laryngitis? —oOo— Half a dozen laurel wreaths, please, for Jim Arnold, Dick Baumgartner, Carl Feichter, Darrell Arnold, Dwight Troxel and Junior Arnold ... the players who wrested the county crown from the Eagle’s roost. —oOo — For those who weren't 100 percent pleased with the officiating, here’s a verse by Bill Fox, sports editor of the Indianapolis News; To question the integrity Os Refs is most unkind They May not see as you may see But Justice, boys, is blind. —oOo— A segment of Commodore fans cheered their lungs out for Monmouth in Saturday night's finals, directed by the Commodores' zestful head cheerleader himself. —oOo— Dont quote us, but wasn’t that a pair of Commodores players flanking the Monmouth yell leaders Saturday? Pretty short period of bereavement! —oOo— Now it can be told. The tickettaker who barred W. Guy Brown from the game Friday night (be cause he misplaced his ticket) crawled into the high school office next morning with a sheepish apology. Mr. Brown said “forget it" and commended the doorkeeper tor his devotion to duty. —-000 — Miss Jean Mowery, who disseminated scores from the Daily Democrat office throughout the tourney, ..says she never wants to see a telephone again. She answered close to 1,000 queries. —oOo— Kirkland may have taken home the nets but most of the confetti and streamers flew on the Monmouth side. —oOo— In the semifinals, Hartford scored a dozen points in the final; frame, compared to Kirkland's five. It hardly scared the Kangaroos a bit. Jefferson partisans waited till they trailed 49-31, with a minute to go, before they conceded with a good luck cheer aimed at the Eagles. — I Colleae Basketball Minnesota 67, Purdue 52. Wisconsin 58, Indiana 48. Michigan 53. Northwestern 40. i lowa 53. Ohio State 49. Illinois 96. Creighton 30. Butler 74. Cincinnati 52. Wabash 71. Earlham 52. Hanover 56, Canterbury 42. Indiana State 56, Valparaiso 49. Indiana Central 67, Manchester 56. DePauw 75. Carroll 42. Defiance 78, Taylor 70. Benton Harbor Junior College 66,! Tri-State 60. Western Michigan 83, Western Reserve 63. Kentucky 66. Tennessee 51. Nebraska 71, lowa State 50. Loyola of Chicago 56, Toledo 44. Bowling Green 79. Marquette 56. The city of Mobile, Alaoama, was founded by the French in 1711. ’ Since statehood all governors of Oklahoma have been Democrats.

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Standings W L Pct. Hartford 11 1 Kirkland 11 * Yellow Jackets — 8 3 .727 Geneva - -7 6 .538 Monmouth 8 8 .500 Monroe 8 « “00 Jefferson “ 1 Berne 4 9 Pleasant Mills 3 9 .250 Commodores 2 9 .182 —oOo — Congratulations, Kangaroos! —oOo — Kirkland's Kangaroos, very apparently at the peak of their game, played a great brand of basketball to win the 1949 Adams county" tournament held in this city, ending the two-year reign of the Monmouth Eagles, whom the Kangaroos defeated in the championship battle Saturday night. —oOo— The Kangaroos, in copping the county title, avenged regular season defeats on their road to the crown. First, they knocked off the Monroe Bearkatz, who had defeated Kirkland 40-35, and then the Kangaroos pulled the prize upset of the meet, handing the highly favored Hartford Gorillas their first defeat of the season after 11 victories. Hartford twice downed the Kangaroos in regular games. | Kirkland’s tourney final triumph 1 was the third of the season over j the Eagles. By the way, Kirkland's victory might almost be termed an "Arnold family” triumph, coach Don Arnold and three of the Kangaroo regulars, Jim Arnold, Darroll Arnold and Homer Arnold, Jr., are all mighty closely related. Hats off to the Arnolds. —oOo — AND hats off to the Monmouth Eagles and their coach. Myron Lehman. Their county champions of two years riddled by graduation last spring, with all five regulars receiving their diplomas, the Eagles started slowly last fall, but have shown steady improvement, and served warning in last week's tourney that they spell trouble in the oncoming sectional meet next month. —oOo — Great crowds attended all four sessions of the tourney. While a few scattered openings were noted at the Thursday night and Saturday afternoon sessions, the Decatur gym was packed both on Friday and Saturday nights. With the county tourney a matter of history, players, coaches and fans will now turn their eyes toward the sectional meet, to be held at the Decatur gym Feb. 24, 25 and 26, with these same eight teams entered, plus the Decatur Yellow Jackets and the Berne Bears. From here, it looks like another great sectional. —oOo— Adams county teams will resume their regular schedules this week, with only the county champion Kangaroos and the Jefferson Warriors idle. Seven games are on the card, three Tuesday and four

Friday. —oOo — The Decatur Yellow Jackets, riding on the crest of a fourgame winning streak after a severe holiday slump, will return to action Tuesday, entertaining the Warsaw Tigers in a Northeastern Indiana conference clash at the Decatur gym. The Jackets will seek revenge for a 49-48 loss to Warsaw last season. Other games Tuesday send Monroe to Chester Center in Wells county, and bring the Bryant Owls to Pleasant Mills. —oOo— The Decatur Commodores, dogged by tough luck practically all season, have their work cut out for them Friday when they meet the Hartford Gorillas at Hartford. The Gorillas had their perfect season record spoiled by Kirkland Saturday, and are likely to be in no docile mood for the Commodores. Other games Friday: Monmouth at Lancaster; Berne at Ossian and Monroe at Geneva. —oOo— The county tourney games brought about a number of changes in the county's scoring leaders, although John Stanley, Geneva, retained his leadership, despite playing only one game. Stanley has now scored 213 points in 13 games for a fine average of 16.38 points per game. —oOo— The 10 leading scorers are as follows: Name G TP Ave. Stanley, Geneva 13 213 16.38 D. Arnold, Kirkland 15 171 11.40 Habegger, Monroe . 12 158 13.17 Graft, Monmouth ... 16 158 9.88 Dubach, Hartford .. 12 149 12.42 Troxel, Kirkland —ls 147 9.80 Smitley, Jefferson .. 12 145 12.08 Harvey, Monmouth .16 139- 8.69 J. Arnold, Kirkland 15 137 9.13 Wall. Jefferson 12 134 11.17 —oOo— Results one year ago this week: Commodores 52. Jefferson 40. Hartford 46. Pleasant Mills 25. Warsaw 49, Yellow Jackets 48. Geneva 32, Monroe 27. Commodores 35, Hartford 33 (overtime). Yellow Jackets 47, Pleasant Mills 27. Kirkland 62, Jefferson 24. Lancaster 33, Monmouth 31. Berne 37, Ossian 25. Pro Basketball BAA Saturday Results Rochester 73, Fort Wayne 62. Washington 75, New York 73. Chicago 94. Boston 86. St. Louis 79, Providence 76. Philadelphia 94, Baltimore 87. Sunday Results Fort Wayne 76, Providence 56. Chicago 92, Washington 70. Minneapolis 75, Indianapolis 66

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