Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1949 — Page 6

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Michigan Five In Key Spot In Big Nine Chase , Chicago. Feb. 14 —(UP) — Michigan's defending Big Nine champion basketball team, even though now in third place, held the key to the 1949 campaign today and still had a chance to at least share the crown. The' Wolverines play both first place Illinois and second place Minnesota before the season ends, by winning these two games, Michigan probably could wind up in a tie with Illinois for the championship. The first of these two crucial contests comes Saturday when Minnesota, with a record of seven wins in nine league games, plays at Ann Arbor in the most important battle of the night. Should Michigan win, the Wolverines would advance into secund place behind Illinois and at the same time probably eliminate Minnesota from further title consideration. A Minnesota win, however, would end twice-beaten Michigan's chance to share the title. Then it would be up to the W’olverines to trip Illinois in the final game of the year at Ann Arbor March 7 to give Minnesota a chance to share the championship. Neither Illinois nor Minnesota seemed likely to lose any other league games except the Michigan contests. Illinois, idle this week, plays lowa, Northwestern and Indiana before the Wolverine game, none of these seemed able to challenge the league leaders. Minnesota, after the Michigan game, has to face only Purdue at home and Wisconsin away and is the choice to win in both of these brawls. Michigan, with more games remaining than either of its two ma jor opponents, still has another chance to lose, against the rocketing Ohio State team next week at Columbus. The other two foes on the Wolverine schedule are Purdue and lowa, and both will be underdogs against the defensive-minded Michigan team. Illinois passed a major test on the path to the crown Saturday with a well-earned 64 to 49 win over Ohio State at Champaign. Bill Erickson piled up 15 points,to pace the winners and the Illini outsped their foes all the way. Michigan kept in the running with a 54 to 47 decision over Indiana at Bloomington as Mack Suprunowicz, last year's star forward. scored 23 points. Minnesota had to battle to beat lowa. 54 to 49, on a second half spurt with Whitey Skoog the pace maker with 15 points. Wisconsin beat Northwestern. 56 to 52, with another second half rally. Center Don Rehfeldt was the star with 20 points for Wisconsin while Bill Sticklen counted a simi lar number for the Wildcats.

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Rockford, 0. at Yellow Jackets Commodores at Pleasant Mills. Jefferson vs Kirkland at Berne auditorium. Thursday j Commodores vs Monroe at Berne. Friday i Yellow Jackets at Portland. > Union Center at Monmouth. 1 Montpelier at Berne. ■ Geneva at Hartford. Jefferson vs Pleasant Mills at Berne Auditorium. * " ' " —— — Purdue won a nonconference scrap at Michigan State, 66 to 48. Two league games are on the program tonight, neither of them affecting the leaders. Wisconsin plays at Purdue and Northwestern at Indiana. Ohio State meets St. Louis in a nonconference game. Saturday in addition to the Michigan-Minnesota clash, there are three other league games, Ohio State vs Northwestern in the Chicago Stadium, Indiana at Purdue and Wisconsin at lowa. The Big Nine standings: W L Pct. Illinois.l7 1 .875 Minnesota 7 2 .778 Michigan 5 2 .714 Purdue 5 3 .625 Ohio State 5 4 .556 Indiana 2 5 .286 Wisconsin 2 5 .286 lowa 1 6 .143 Northwestern 17 .125 — Noire Dame Defeats All-Stars Saturday Notre Dame defeated the AllStars, 11-10, after an overtime battle in the Saturday morning league at the St. Joe school. The teams were tied at 9-9 at the end of the regular playing period. Murtaugh hit a field goal for Notre Dame in the extra period, while Mowery's free throw was the only point for the All-Stars in the overtime. Eyanson led Notre Dame, with six points, and York was high for the losers with five market's. Notre Dame FG FT TP G. Voglewede flO 2 T. Murtaugh f . 11 3 E. Meyer c 0 0 0 P. Teeple g 0 0 0 T. Titus g.. 0 0 0 R. Miller f 0 0 0 D. (Eyanson f 2 2 6 D. Rumschlag g 0 0 0 T. Omlor g 0 0 0 L. Ettinger g 0 0 0 TOTALS 4 3 11 All-Stars FG FT TP T. Zeser f 0 0 0 I. York f 2 1 5 C. Voglewede c 10 2 W. Mowery g Oil J. Geels g 10 2 T. Debolt f 0 0 0 E. Laurent f 0 0 0 M. Schulte f 0 0 0 P. Braun g 0 0 0 R. Eyanson g 0 0 0 TOTALS 4 2 10 The first degree of folly is to concede one’s self wise.—Franklin. If we did not flatter ourselves, flattery of others would not hurt us. AT HBR HOME in Bridgeport, Conn, Miss Elaine Cooper brands as fantastic the charges by Bulgaria that she was one of 12 Americans and Brit ons who bad acted as contacts for the 15 churchmen now under indictment there for treason. Miss Cooper is a former principal of Lovech College, a Methodist instituI tion in bona. (International)

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11 Darkhorses in Southern Semi Final District 1 Indianapolis, Feb. 14 — (UP) — The southernmost semi-final dis- ■ trict will have its usual handful of favorites to represent that area in the four-team Indiana high ' school basketball tourney finals in ! Butler fieldhouse March 19. > , Os those, New Albany, Hunting- • burg, Tell City and Winslow appeared to be the teams “most likely to succeed.” But several darkhors- > es, including Jeffersonville, Jasper > and perhaps Vincennes, also are , ‘ strong contenders. ( I Last year, Evansville Central. I once it survived its power-laden i ■ sectional, was given at least an II even chance to go all the way. But ; the Oolden Bears rap smack into l fighting Lafayette Jefferson from ( the northern district and lost in the l grand finale, 54 to 42. This time, observers agree that Evansville “hasn't got it." Although Central may win its sectional again. > Tell City's marksmen are the outl fit to watch in the regional. Coach i Ivan Hollen's boys won the holi- > day tourney in the pocket city, and their only loss this season was to ; lEvansville Memorial by a single I point. I New Albany's rangy outfit is I again In the Jeffersonville section, l al where it is likely to battle for I honors with a much-improved Jeff team. The Dogs clubbed JeffersonI ville recently at New Albany, 60 to 41, but if they face each other in the sectional finals, it's bound to > be close. Coach <Fd Denton’s club cannot » match New Albany in heifht. but its 1 players are hustlers, they're fast and good ball-handlers. In Otto Case. Denton has a sparkplug and I playmaker second to none in the 1 state. j Whoever wins that sections' < should go all the way to the Bloom- < | ington semi-finals. I ■ Huntingburg's Happy Hunters ' i have licked Jasper both at heme II and abroad, and they may have to > I beat the Wildcats once more to 11 figure in the southern play-offs. |' Winner of that sectional go?s to • the Vincennes regional, where the 11 fast-stepping Alices of that city 11 could upset the dope bucket. I They've won their last four starts I • against better than average opposi I tion. the last a 6S to-49 verdict at I Evansville Bosse. II Winslow’s unbeaten Eskimos, 20I game winners and one of five reI maining .perfect record clubs in the II state, also go to Jasper in the sec 1 1 ’ional. Along with Monroeville of I' Allen county, they're looked upon as lithe strongest small-power in this I i year's derby. I Coach Kern McLothlin will rely J on six-foot-three center Dick Farr j ley and forward Gene Northerner. |! a deadly shotmaker, to keep the & ! Pike county boys in the tourney. Bloomington's Panthers still have • their classy Bobby Dobson and • i Lanky Jack Crandall and are in- • : stalled a* favorites to grab the 1 : Martinsville sectional. In their own regional. Brazil and whoever wins ( the Terre Haute sectional should , provide tthe toughest opposition tn . an attempt to spoil the Panthers' I bid for another regional crown.

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I Muncie Five Loses To St. Joe Team The St. Joe eighth graders defeated St. Laurance junior high of 'Muncie, 36-15, at the Commodores gym in this city Sunday afternoon. St. Joe led at the half, 16-4. Gaffer led the (winners' scoring with 16 - points, while the Muncie scoring - was well divided. 1 In the preliminary, the St. Joe i sixth and seventh grade team det seated St. Laurance, 31-22. i St. Joe FG FT TP . Hackman f 113 . Gaffer f 6 4 16 r Costello c 4 0 8 . Gass g 113 r Brunton g 113 ; Wilder f - 0 2 2 Bowers f 0 0 *0 J. Meyers f 0 11 , Nagel f 0 0 0 ) Gage c 0 0 0 t Laurent g 0 0 0 , Mendez g 0 0 0 i B. Meyers g 0 0 0 k • ’ TOTALS 13 10 36 St. Laurance 1 FG FT TP Flora f 0 0 0 i Gillis f 2 0 4 ! Fox c 10, 2 . Rahe g 113 I MacDonald g 0 0 0 , Herbert f 2 0 4 Jett f 1 0 2 Flye c 0 0 C s Grady g 0 0 0 , Reinke g 0 0 0 p f TOTALS 71 15

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t MAJOR LEAGUE 8 Foley won three from Super Ser t vice: Mies won three from Gay; ) Ideal Dairy won two from West I End: Smith Bros, won two from b Burk Elevator. (Swearingen and Decatur Industries will .bowl later). Standing W L ■wearingen 43 23 b Super Service _ 43 26 B Burk 40 29 > Foley 39 30 a West End .. 7J 33 1. deal 32 3* 3 Mies 29 40 b Gay 28 41 ) Decatur Ind 26 40 . Smith 26 43 b High series: Andrews 618 (223i 223-172). t High games: Zelt 202. Appelman 200, D. Reidenbach 208, Reef 202 I- Young 202, Mies 218. Mann 210, W h Gallmeyer 220, Arnold 201, Wer’Jng e 209, Conrad 212, P. Hoffman 200, : Allspaw 242. Inniger 202. V. Bleeke f r>o2. Tutewiler 200, Hoagland 214, J. s Xhr 206, Ladd 204. 8 y Pro Basketball r- • BAA r. Saturday's Results e New York 85. Fort Wayne 58. Rochester 87. Chicago 73. e Providence 81. Indianapolis 78. d Philadelphia SI. Washington 88. 1- St. Louis 74, Baltimore 73. e Sunday's Results n Fort Wayne 82. New York 73. s Minneapolis 91, Baltimore 74. d n Two kinds of people on earth: • those who lift, those who lean.— Ella W. Wilcox.

■ ZTIO I > 1 1 1I ' I Standings W L Pct. Hartford 17 1 -944 Kirkland 15 5 .750 Geneva 10 8 .556 Monroe 10 8 .556 Yellow Jackets .. 10 8 .556 Monmouth 10 10 . .500 Jefferson - 8 10 .444 Berne 6 13 .316 Pleasant Mills 4 12 .250 Commodores .... 4 13 .235 —oOo— Adams county high school teams, with one eye cocked on the all-important sectional tourney pairings, wind up the hectic 1948-49 regular season this week, with nine games on the schedule. —oOo— The Decatur Yellow Jackets will wind up their home schedule Tuesday, entertaining the Rockford, 0., Tigers at the Jackets gym. This will mark the first appearance of the Rockford school on Decatur’s schedule. The Jackets hope to snap out of a bad slump which has marked their play in recent games. —oOo— Decatur's Commodores, who wound up their home card last week, play two county foes this week. The Commodores and Pleasant Mills Spartans will wage a battle to get out of the ce'lar post Tuesday night at Pleasant Mills, and the Commodores will meet the Monroe Bearkatz at the Berne school gym Thursday night. One other game Tuesday will pit • the Jefferson Warriors against the Kirkland Kangaroos at the Berne 1 auditorium. —oOo — The Yellow Jackets will wind 1 up their schedule with a tough ■ assignment Friday, traveling to Portland to meet the Panthers. 1 Portland last year won the Hart- ' ford City sectional and the Hunting'on regional crown, defeating the Hartford Gorillas in the reg--1 ional - final. Four other games on ’ the schedule Friday are: Union 1 Center at Monmouth; Montpelier at Berne; Geneva at Hartford, and ’ Jefferson vs Pleasant Mills at the ’ Berne auditorium. ! . - oOo — Schedules for the sectional, regional,, semi-final and final tourneys will be drawn Wednesday afternoon at the offices of the Indiana high school athletic association in Indianapolis, but will not be released for publication until Thursday morning. The Daily Democrat will have the schedules as soon as they are made available for release. —oOo — The Decatur sectional, with the 10 Adams county teams competing for the title won last year by the Hartford Gorillas, will open Thursday night, Feb. 24, with two games scheduled. T,wo more games wifi be p’ayed Friday afternoon, two Friday night, with the semifinals Saturday afternoon and the championship affray Saturday night. —oOo— As in past years, the local sectional is expected to be a sellout in season tickets, with no single session sales at any time. With indications pointing to a wide-open tourney here, the clamor for tickets is expected to be louder than ever in Adams county. —oOo— However, the hundreds of fan* unable to obtain ticket* will have a break this year when the Decatur aectional, for the firat time in history will be broadcast over radio station WANE, Fort Wayne, under sponsorship of thr ’ First State Bank and the Leland Smith insurance agency, both of this city. i . —oOo—j John Stanley, veteran Geneva . forward, apparently has a strangle hold on the county scoring chain- , pionship. Stanley, despite missing one game because of an injury, has compiled 267 points in 17 j games for a fine average of 15.71

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points per tilt. Milt Ilabegger.. Monroe veteran, is in second place, 26 points off the pace. —oOo— / The 10 leading scorers, with games played, total points, and average points per game, are as ( follows: Name G TP Ave. Stanley, Geneva — tV 267 15.71 Habegger, Monroe- 18 241 13.39 D. Arnold. Kirkland 20 228 11.40 Smitley, Jefferson. 18 210 11.6. Dubach. Hartford— 18 206 11.44 jJ. Arnold, Kirkland 20 203 10.15 • Troxel, Kirkland .. 20 200 10.00 1 Wall, Jefferson — 18 199 11.06 ’ Graft, Monmouth.. 20 190 9.50 1 Harvey, Monmouth 20 183 9.15 ’ —oOo—- ’ Results one year ago this week: ’ Jefferson 41, Madison 38. * Fort Wayne C. C. 54. Commo- > dores 42. ’ Monmouth 51, Pleasant Mills 29. ’ Port’and 52, Yellow Jackets 47. Monroe 59, Commodores 38. Kirkland 84, Markle 26. Hartford 30, Geneva 12. Monmouth 45, Union Center 25. Berne 53. Montpelier 50. H. S. Basketball Fort Wayne Central 55, Fort I Wayne South 52. Fort Wayne North 12, S< cth Bend Washington 41. . Fort Wayne Concordia 52, Howe > Military 32. . Richmond 72, Huntington 58. , Mooseheart, 111. 38, Hartford City , 31. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 68, Decatur, 111. 46. ( Winslow 58, Evansville M&morial 48. Indianapolis Howe 47, SouthpoH ! 38. , Indianapolis Tech 54, Indianapolis . Crispus Attacks 53. Michigan City 52, Gary Wallace ! «’ Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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