Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1951 — Page 8

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jfew 'Little' Jeams Likely to Win Saturday s* Indianapolis, Feb. 28.- (IJl 1 )- 1 - ijtwo dozen “little" teams and firsttjiine winners still celebrated wii lij today their sectional [triumphs •.'tn the first-round of Indiana's jiinnuul high school basketball tournament. ) it was a good thing they did. For experience indicated few of dlreiu xYonld be around after next Saturday night, when the field of (>1 titlists dwindles to 16 regional winners. I Among the group, representing i|earlyi 4(<‘ percent of the sectidnai ('hainpions, were six xyinnera who hadn't figured on tiiirvWing at all, and a lot of sit.prise [victors who tasted the sweet Lectar previously. f But at least two “little” schools .are making sectional championships a habit. Bookston of White county grabbed its fourthjtitle ,\in a;, row at favored Monticello, ■-B

■ y>us the fifth straight year .that (roach Ken Norris’ Bombers ha 1 eliminated tlje host Indians. \ ? Central’s Bobcats ; won their third title in a row at ' Bluffton and hoped to giv4 Wells | < jfrupty its first regional crown J, i.| Marion in 12 years. . > I' ■ Lancaster’s first regional op || lament will be another small school and first-time winner, Roll.. | champion at Hartford City. Roll !■ won after 23 years of trying, and h «bach Cletus Johnson after 13 years of piloting pet crews in | sectional play. ’ ! \ f . [ South Bend was not wholly uuj. expected, due to tlteifaine of Don | Sihlundt high-scoring center 1 who L ipiarched along at nearly a 30- * polnts-a-game \dip this season, i Hut in winning. Clay had io knock but the S out h Bend, perennial | pow erhouses. , v i\ I , Two teams in the Greensburg I regional are first-time 'winners J, * Jack Hon Twp. of Decatur county ,t| and Edinburg-and both entered < L the spotlight in the second yeai 's [ of aarvice for the couches who them. | [Glenn's undefeated Vigo county s and Indianapolis Oris? * | pns Attacks joined Washington j (jjcjay as perhaps the most. re|sfieeted of the first-time champs I (Nobody would be greatly surprised I they survived regional play. I [But regional crowns for the I would ,he ujwetsl not likely | l happen, if tradition is followed If |ip.; Saturday’s firing. They include

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j Today's Sport Parade I (Reg. U. S Pat. Off.) j By Oscar Fraley 1 o | n New York. Feb.!2B—(VPl — With spring training in.-its second week,; the big league clubs which expect-; cd the national emergency sayei them contract dollars were dis-[ covering today thall World .War ll military service was paying off for a near ri’corq list of holdouts. Major• league’, moguls;, expected! last wihter’to have no trouble signing their "stars. Their feeling waA; that public opinion would be an) automatic weapon against hold-' outs;'that playetif would back off; fearing adverse publicity in suclii critical times. ! \ ■ j They Reckoned Hvithbut tire facts tlia|| the diamond stars who did; their bit in blue or khaki the last time out would'have that factor in their, favor when| they stubbornly! insisted on more mom y. ' - . Such battery acts ds Bob Lemon! of the Cleveland) Indians. Yogi Berra and T-nnnjy Byrne of the Yankees. Jim Hetirn of the Giknts and Howie Pollet iof the Cardinals should have started ! training It) days’ago. Instead:, they are await ing better offers -alojng with such other stilts as E'|die Yost of the Senators, and Red Scihoendienst of the Cardinals ! Il is significant 'hut each and every ope of th< m‘is tit veteran. • Which means that,now the tight shoe is ,on the-ojheV foot. These lads, with patriotic service ! behind ' them and a willingness to go again If they are needed, don’t have to flinch from ptiblld opinion. Without panic, they are after what they figure is due thpm!- and-their clubs realize that any [pennant aspirgtionA demand the services of thest\ stars. Lemon. 31, led; the American league with 23 victories' last season. He has riseii to the heights since. serving three years in the navy. Who’s to blame him? Berra, 26, is the determined sort who would hold (bill for the $.”,0,0(10 he is seeking even if he hadn't served three years.! in 1»q11 bottom-edtrousev,-participating in the Normandy invasion. l v Heain. 21», won 11 games for the Giants In half season and\had the leagued lowest earned run averagb. Offered $14,000, he, asks s2o,otm - backed upj by fmlr years in the army including service in the Philippine-. ; lYost, shooting fpr an increase from $U ()00 to $18,0(10, served three years in tile coast}! guard. Pollet was in the.air force p>i three years; Schoendiensu in the army; Byrne in for two 1 y'ea'rs. and [Johnsoh for a dike period. [ IS' - H ■; ■■ ’

Pro tfaskftbaff * Indianapolis 9G, : Baltimore 71. . Rochtsier 100. N4w York 90. Philadelphia sG,‘ Syracuse 72. 1 , 1 J iRoU, Jackson Twp., Cambridge City. Edinburg and Lapaz. Among 15 other small-school powers who unn at least \ once previonsly-’i were P<«sey Twp. .(at Brazil), Carlisle (at Sullivan); Cayuga (at Rockvilje)' Brookston ML St. Fancis (at t*aoli), Middle (at New Cafctiek Rollins Prairie (at Porte), Winslow (at Jasper). Fillmore (at Greencastle), I anklin Twp. (at Greenfield). Union Twp. (at Sluntington) Rossville (at FraAkpprt). Wavelang (at Crawfordsville), Brownsburg (at Danville),. Otterbein (at Ambia), aind Lancaster Central. Chrysler To Pace 500-Mile Classic . . I . ' -i v Indianapolis, Fel>. ,2.8 — ( UP) — The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced today a Chrysler stock convertible will pace' the 33 racers across the starting ijne al the 500ah'ilo Memorial day Jrace May, 30.,

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10th Arrest Made In Net Fix Scandal /New Yotk. reh. 25 -fi’l'l The attest <>( a 10th basketball player on charges of “ hrowing” games spurted deteet(vis today in their starch tor the heed man of a m w bribery ring District attorney Frank Hogan, making arrests a almost a one-a-day dip in his driye to dean up the sports scandal, l»st night added Floyd Ixiyne of Ci v College of New York to his “cate) *’ of players who took bribe ttionej Layne, , six root, three-inch negro speedster, t lined over to the D.A.’s men S2.B!H. >f\the $3,000 be confessed- taking «s his share for throwing games against Missouri, Arizona. mui 80.- on ('ollegt-. Even while was making his damaging admissions in, Hogan's office, stunned (t.fLN.Y. cal) ed off, the rest of its basketball Reason -if move made last week byLong Island when that school was rocked by the arrest of four (now.five) of its players oil bribery charges. '

While Hogan said Layne was in-, vplved with, the ring already discovered, he. stressed, that his men wire working hard to uncover still another ring they are sure exists. [Hogan based his belief in a new ring, on the arrest of L.l V. player Nathan Miller Monday night. He said the money paid to Miller for “dumping” two games played In IH4B came from a different "fixer" from the man already unde) arrest. Salvatore Sollazzo, Hogan revealed that his office bad provided with 10 additional detectives to hunt out this new rmoney man.” [ Bui. while Hogan switched his fire ao another ring. U.S. seen i service agents admitted they are taking an interest in gob! made by Sallazzo, the 45-year-old former convict accused ' of, giving bribes to C.C.N.Y. players Layne. Ed Warner, Ed Roman, and Al Roth, and L.l V. players Shermaif White. Leroy Smith. Adolph Bigos, and Eddie Gard. “We have been checking him as far as gold violations , are concerie ed, ’ said chief U. E. Baughman of tlie secret service in Washington. The investigation is io find out if he has been buying ♦ xcessive amounts in violation' of the gold reserve act.” In a recent series of spiuggling cases brought before the federal courts, the government has charged there is a wefl-Ofganized ring smuggling millions of dollars in gold out of the country.

p—- ■ n.■' ■ I AL ROGES, former Long Island university basketball player whe quit the L team a month ago, reads about current scandal in Los Angeles Examiner; where he is quoted as saying he and other rpembprb of knew there was Something fishy going on during the season. Ix>s Angeles is Roges’ home. (international;

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I I ; annual Hoosier tiasketogl,! "which will [wind up Sgt-' uttday, March 17. with the naming o 4 a state champion.’ |,! ! The Jackets wil) meet Kendallville Comets in th® second game of the; regional; tournament at North Side iff Fort Wayne Saturday after® • noon. The Jackets will nos pnly he seeking entrance the regional final ■(light, but will also be r.evenge for a 58-51-defeat thtfi Comets handed the) Jackets oif the Decatur, floor this seahonl r - 000- , | The regional will! open tit,3 1; o’Olock Saturday Aaliiernoon. wfih t'hu Auburn R<-d 1 D»‘vils tanglfc with thd Fort Waynh Central TW-. ei s.. i Alburn is defending ‘ihiffiv pion. having won Hie regjuißd crown for the past two year>. |! < 000 The Fort Wayne regional )oo|s like on»|- , ' l ' ,h< ‘ hest-balAncel lit t.bi ..state. Al hkigh} Decatur l(|d to| both i Kendallville and Auhnifi, thb Jackets gave Central a convit| - ing 60-11 defeat. Central has defeated Auburn, Kendallvij|e and Auburn divided a pai\r >i games durihg the season. —-000 ;i | Auburn had the “inp offpnsii|e mark- of the 61 sectional winnp|s last weejk. averagingj74 points game Decatur averaged isi|3 points, port Wayne; Central anil Keridallville 50. -Kendallvilli|?. defensive average wajs tops-amojfc the four regional coittestants wish lii.2 point,s per i game scori|d against (he Comets. Decatur's flj)imnebls averaged 42,3 points. Aipbmm’s l.» 2 and (’entual’s 46.5. Ailburn's point difference per gniiie over see Iona) opponents was 28Is. Deeaturi; \ 24. Kendall Ville’s and jceniral’s 8.7, ! || ’ - 000 -L { . )|| ( With Decatur receiving 282 tickets for the region«| meet, the scramble for the < pasteboards is atyxut as ,in-a k fehse as for ths sectional i last week.; As a su|t of the shortage of tickets; a drawing was to be beta at the high school this ■ for adult season ticket hold-J ■erL with those whose names 1 Pre drpwn for tickiets to notified by mail. Persons who [s are noit notified to pick up J tickets are; asked not I tjo call the high school, as no | additional tickets wilt be avail-If able. The drawing will again $ be supervised by numbers of t!h« Daily Democrat sport®;’ staff ’ ■ 'i 1 ' 1 , -—»Oo— b iß,' Itjlel'aicl Miller, big Jefferson edm ter.' Was the scoring Ibader of Decatur secllon-iil last week. I'aL lying 63 mints in tln»<<> games.fm| an average 'of 21 points per gahiej Vie. Strickler, of the champioU Yellow Jacki ts, was witb| 53 pofinls, also in three games'. Jins Pii<V, of Pleasant Mips, had the| high ’ individual game’, mark witiig 26- points. Miller tallied 25 points (Ugainst- Pleasant MilD)\ and Sltjcliler i counted 24 \ against

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I • — The 10 leading scorers in the sectional were: Gerald | M Hler, Jefferson, 63;. Vic I Strickler, Yellow Jackets, 53; Harold Bohnke, Yellow Jackj eta, 44; ! Jerry Augsburger, Hartford, 44; Jack Meyer, I Hartford, 44; Jim Moses, Yellow Jackets, 52; Darrel Kuhn Jefferson, 29; George Bair, \ Yellow Jackets, 26; Jim Price, Pleasant Mills, 26; Lyle Turnbleson, Jefferson, 25. ;' r ' -000— Following are some team statistics on the Decatur national: ' Yepow Jackets (3 g.imes) — 75 rficjd goals' in 234 shots, an average ’Of ,321; 49 free throws in 81) atitempts, average .590; 51 personal Hartford (3 games!) — 59 field goal;? in 178 attenfpis, average 331; 41 free throws in 66 at- > tTmirts, average .621; 68 personal fouls. 'J Jefferson (3 games) — 60 field goals in 210 shots, average .286; 19 free throws in 80 attempts, average .613; 63 personal fouls. Berne T 2 gaines)— 3( field goals in 121 shots, average .248; 25 free .throws In 49; attemplts, average .510; 44 personal foula. Pleasant Mills (1 game) s— 20 field goals in 64 sbf ts, average ■■HOj i- . [ PT ■ -

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