Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1951 — Page 6

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Foreign Floor Jinx Ended By Big Ten Teams ' | 6hicago f Jan B—<UP)—The age ow “foreign floor jinx," which has plagued Rig Ten basketball teams virtually since the conference was & organized. seemed ended today. < Five of seven Visiting teams doffed the superstition and triumphr ed in games from home in the ’.''-opening week; ot the season. Saturday thfree of the five victors - were visitors.’Michigan State. Wis> copsin. and Indiana, and only 1111and lowa, two of the top rated clubs in the conference, upheld the hdme teams Mth wins. Earlier visiting teams won both games, as Illinois dropped Wisconsin at Madiwin and Michigan aU Purdue at Lafayette. '' I (Considering last year’s show, when the "foreign; floor jinx” was HZ Its usual peak, the opening week this Reason promised a rough and tumble campaign in which anything could happen. \ For the entile 1949-50 season only 18 visiting teatns posted victories In the 54 game schedule and thus the lame teams had a .667 winning percentage. And last year 22 games 'were played before five visiting .tenths were win. Thus far tlife season the home teams have ft winning percentage of Only .286, far below laift year’s mark and five visitors already have ' won Tonight twoof the floor leaders, Illinois and lowa. meet at lowa 1 CWy In the, stand-out scrap of a gpme car4i > Apolher of the undWlated leaders. Michigan State, A entertains Wisconsin while the remaining games pit Northwestern at Michigan and Ohio State at Minnesota. Both ' and Michigan State were upstet winners Saturday. The Spartans, rated S points worse than Northwestern tipped the Wild Call. 67 to 62. With a fire cracker shooting percentage of 46 percent from the floor. Michigan, a five and one half point favorite over Wlsjcpnsin? also went down, 61 to 52. as the Badgers' Pete Anderson dropped 16 jmipts and Ab Nicholas and Jim Clinton 14 each. Indiana, with the[ best overall recbrd of any conference club, swatnped Ohio State. 77 to 62. as li|it<jarrett made 23 joints. Illinois had tbo much speed and shooting for.Minnesota and took a 70 to 62 decision while lowa’s height over i! ‘came Purdue handily, 73 to 63. The'standings! W L Pct. ■1 Illinois. -i. 2 o 1.000 i Indira -1 0 1.000 State 1 0 1.000 Iq#| \ 1 0 i.ooo Michigan —1 1 .500 Wisconsin .*2.2 I 1 .500 \ Okid State .000 Minnesota -—Uj_. ~i 0 1 .000 Northwestern j ——jo 1 .000 Purdue X-— T - IO 2 .000 < • t College Basketball \ /Indiana 77, Ohio State 62. i lo#a 73. Purdue 63. Michigan State 67, Northwestern '7'62.7 ;L ■■ ■ ; 'T- r / - . 6k Michigan 52. Illinois <O, Minnesota 62. , . Indiana State: 71, Valparaiso 59. * Alderson 61, Franklin 59. ■j Holier 59. Ball State 54. V Evansville 67, Eastern Ken- - tacky. State 63;/ \ * Indiana Central 88, Earlham 65Taylor 85, King’s College 48. • Hanover 82 Manchester 56. 3 , .Kansas State 60, Missouri *43. Xavier 67, Chicago Loyola 65. , Kansas 66, Nebriskk 41. ■ Toledo 48, San Francisco 35. low State 46, Oklahoma 44. / DHroit 82, Drake 68. St . Louis 52. Cafiisius 40. * Repton Harbor 66. Concordia 56 •»! ' ■ f , 1 /’ An alphabet of 74 phonetic char- .. ’ acters and more than 50 ideographic signs was In use during the preHomeric period of the Greek King Nestor. The symbols are on tablets in. the king's 3,000-yeai> ■•old palace Pylo£, Greece.

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Week's Schedule Os Adam County jh Batkotball Ttam Jj ThwM., . GsMMf towtwy si lfecat'if \ Friday x tourney at Demttit at Herne \ Saturday | 'A Connfy tourney at Decatur. Yellow Jackets at Garrett . — j ,-j;. ■' Fuelling, Decatur • ; x '' ' I Win League Games ! Fueling and Decatur remained undefeated In Lutheran grade . school n league games Saturday night, f -- ‘j ■ I Fuellingjdowned Bethlehem, 41- • 11. in the opener, and de- ; seated Friedheim, 50-14, irt the nightcap. Fuelling held h, 25v3 lead at the half and Decatur Was on top, 20-7, at half-time. ] , I Decatur will meet Preble at 6:30 p. ml. Saturday at the Monmouthy gym, followed by Flatrock and Fuelling at 7:30. i t / Fuelling / | FG FT TP; C. Fuelling, f 71/ 15 i M. Fueling, f 0 0 0 N. Wittp, c—- 7 2 16 j Berger, g 0 0 0 D; Busick, g __A_L__\2 1 5G. Fuelling, f _-_l- 0 0: 0 ? L. Buslek, f .../— (l 0 o J .Witte, g —- 0 0 o I D. FuelMng, g 1 0 2 D. Gerk/p, g 1 1> 3 TOTALS IS 5 41 Bethlehem A > FG FT TP Bauermeister, f 2 h 4 N. BaueAmehiter, ; f.. o o o Franke, c — 2 2 6 RchUlle, g X\o 0 0 Werling, g A- 0 0 Bauermeister, f ji_. o i i f ....o " o o • Gronan, ig —.j 'o' o o A. Werling, g —A.-- 0 0 0 ■' ' ‘ff j ' / S P 1 7-4—4-TOTALS li • i\ Decatur \ FC, FT TP Meyers, f 3 <> 6 Zwick, fA. 4— 1 \ 0 2 Hancher, c 11. 3* Johnson, j g ....y—. 0 o,\ 0 , McDougal, g 11 1A 23 Schnepf. f ......... 4 1 .!» Gerke,, f’S .... j. (>A 2'l Krueckebierfi. f — 0 Oj oi CbrHtianer, g 2 1 5 Sheets, _A._.; 0 0| 0 TOTALS —23 4' 50 Friedheim : FG FT TP Eicher, f» 4__ 2 2 6 Ruprigpt.* f t __ 0 0 0 R. Keuneke, c —J— 2 2 6 Nuerge, g 0 0 0 Bauermeister, g —„ 0 0 0 N. Detltmer, f —j.- 0 0 -0 D, Dettmer. f . 4 0 i 2 B. Keuneke. g. 0 0 0 Reifsteck, g 0 b . ' 0 TOTALS 5 4 114 AVALANCHE OR (Continued From PBRe bee> Schrickeri early in the session on its findings during a probe of state highways’. T BR TISH ADMIT (Continued From Page One) manifest pnity of purpose. \ ’’Wr know it may be necessary to taki? action which might result in a real cleavage between China and the free world. That would be fraught with dangerous possibilities for all the world, not the least Chin/a.” -»

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i 4 Pro basketball Saturday’s Results Fort Wayne 91, Washington 76. indianapoll# 75, Rochester 73 (6 overtime#). Baltimore 64, Philadelphia 57. Syracuse 87, Nt w York 85 (overtime). Sunday’s Results ■ New York 79. Fort Syracuse 73, Balt moire 65. , Trl-Cltic# S 3, Indianapoli# 79. J’ > Boston 91, Washington 86 (over; time). ioHKf'A <* A ’3MR MM; t ■ "z ■ • '

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,— High School Basketball Auburn 51. Elkhart 49. | Fort Wavin’ North 55, South Bend Riley 46. > ’ i Gary Froehel 53. Fort Waynh South Peril 43. Fort Wayne Central Harlan 64 i.afeyet.te Central 1£ All ion 13.’ South Whitley 39. ' Michigan Citv 39. p.ia/il 33 | Southport 54. Seymour .Whitittg 15, Terre Haute (Ur? field .397 | MartlhuvHk.’ 73. Shortrh|gp 56. ItKlianapuH-. Tri h 16. poll# Wifelpngtotl 38. , LogaflHport M, R<>< he-ilcr 3V, ’ ‘ Weihs Qo. Tourney Petroleum 49. Jackson 45. Ossian 39. = Lancaster. Central 36 - Petroleum s<‘. Ossian 46 (final) DeKalb Co. Tourney Ashley .61A Waterloo 46. i Garrett 59 f Butler 43. \ Ashhy, 6'4 Garrett, 49 (final). Steuben Co. Tourney Fremont 72, Orland il Salem; Center 5-i. ((amiltpn 45.' ; Fremont 67. Salem Center r>t» j (final.).- ■ | .1 ’ ic j ’ 7 | ARREST TWO (Continue,! From Pnice Oner 17 cells here hir further questioning to deterniine who was directly responsible fpr the popitlar student’s, ,deaths Policy said ; Olson decided to admit taking part in tip’ niurdef when detectives pointed out liiiiJ. four-year-old daughter would suffer. He was jfeparaked from his wife shortly before Carolyn' wgs slain. : The two, who* ham not e.ith other since their | arrest, agreed that 4hey pjvkpd up Carolyn ip Olson’s car libinit 10 p. m. durihg a blizzard. : Both admitted driving her to ft country road arid I assaulting her. P Each said;!that —after the other her - they \ carried her body into a-nearhy field and hi<| it In a snowdrift. , A , farmer discovered the body after a week’s search by hundreds. Her underclothing lay across the rbad.

. <MIII I nil! I. IBM—a^auwm— MOnlhw - rftbcL. J T«»m ttandlng* W L Pct, Harford ...... 11 1 917 s y»llpw 8 3 ,727 Jeffer-wm J-./... 7 6 .583 3 MMillionth . .... 7 6 -.538 Cto.ndva l 3 7,3 M ('(impiodores ... *>2 8 ,200 ij A(|:iUis T’cntnil 2 8 .200 glfenie ... 2 9 .182 4Ph :isa»it Mills .. 2 9 .182 s| ; ooA - 4 d fThe annual Adams county J toprney takes the spotlight of j players, fans, coaches and ofT iidials this week, with the meet' | opening at 7 o’clock Thursday ' evening at the Decatur gym. L . 1 ' —odo—: j'; . 5 Sfe/Ven of the county’s nine teams ’ will | battle . for the \ championship, w< ns4ast year by tbfe Decatur Com- , modi>»es- The DecatUr Yellow Jackj Cts kbd Berne Bears do not comIm .ei in the ebunty tourney, taking pai4' instead; in (he .annual four-. ’ te:‘,ni holiday meet. h x 1 *—oO<A---'.-j lltirtford’s Gorillas; with an outstamliiiK record of 11 and onisA one defeat, are the favorites to cop 'the county title. TheHhoillas were further blessed by; the fortune of the draw, being j given the bye directly into the first semi-final game Saturday afternoon. Only two other of the county teairbi have a better than 50-50 rec-' ord for the season. Jefferson with Revell wins and five defeats, and Monmouth with a 7-6 mark. Geneva h.i - wj'n only thr<e games and the (’oniin/>don-s. Adanm (Central and ph asa|nt Mills only two each. — 000 - The / defending champion Commodores wilt open the tourney at 7 p,m. Thursday, meeting the Jefferson War- " ridrs. -In the second tilt, Plea--'taht Mills plays Adams Central. In«the Friday opener at 7 • o’clock, losers of the Thursday tilts, will meet in a consolation game, followed by /Mdnmouth against Geneva. J | 000 - ... Tlie first semi final will, he at 1.2: l| pin Saturday, ‘pitting Hartford -against the winner of the Jef-hiS<|n-Commodore.4 game. The second Semifinal will match the Pleasant Mills-Adams Central winner the Monmouth-Geneva 1 winner. The tourney championship J eaih»t will be at 8 o’clock Saturday I rd: hr, matching the semi-final vibI ten s . Tht re will be no preliminaijy Iconfesi. - , ' ' : —oOo — . I Season ,tickets for the county .’m» e: are now on sale at all participating schools. They aie priced at $2, go d for all seven games of the nfetit| Single session ducats, priced at 60-cents, will be sold only at the igym. Officials for the tourney will -be Loris Jacobs of Zanesville ' and Darwin McAfee of Bluffton. | A x —oOo— 1 Two trophies will be present*ed fit the close of the title contest.': The Decatur Daily Democrat trophy will again be pre- ' j ■ ’i ; LOOK FOR ! j Haflich & Morrissey’s f| ■ Brownbilt Shoe Store, WHITE ELEPHANT SALE ; jin Tomorrow’s Paper. \ .■ A Three Days' Cough Is Your Danger Signal Creothulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and neal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial membranes. Guaranteed to please you or moiiey refunded. Creomulsion has ' stood the test of millions of users. CREOMUUSION rallmt tMgh>, ChMt v Cold«. Acut« Bronchitis

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