Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1951 — Page 8

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Pro basketball Referee Is Held On Fix Charges , New York, Nov. 2.—(UP) — The sports bribery scandal spread -to: professional basketball with the arrest today of referee Sol Levy on charges of taking $3,0(10 in bribes.* Since Levy was the first official of either the college or pro sport !■ to be arrested, that, too. marked* a sudden new turn in the invent i> • station of “fixed” basketball games.' Levy. 41? was arrested th'is morning after alLnight questioning at the district attorney’s office. He was accused of accepting 81,000 - each for three gamjes played in November. 1950=—“to officiate in such a manner that the point spread ' • would be shaved.” . * 1 In other words, Levy was charged with regulating the game so as fp limit the winning margin of one team, holding it below the margin predicted in wagering odds. ; : All three games were played in the National Basketball Association, the “major league” of the.pro ' fessional court sport. District attorney Frank Hogan - named the Nov. 11. 1950 game, in which the . Boston Celtjics defeated the Washington Capitals. 7S to *7 . at Washington, as the first game tor which Levy accepted a bribe, | The second was the following night at Boston - where the saint* Celtics defeated the Indianapolis Olympians. 78 to 75. i -1 j , I A spokesman for the district at- j torney's office said that in ■ two games the ‘‘deal” was for Levy? to "keep Boston’s victory “under” * the predicted point spread,; and hchadded that it “apparently succeed ? ed." " „ 1 : -j In the third game involved, the - Syracuse Nationals defeated the New York Knickerbockers. 96 to 83, ( | at Syracuse, N.Y., on Nov. 19, 1950. ; The spokesman pointed out that f Levy called an.unusual number of “fouls" in this game. 46 against New York and 29 against Syracuse, ji ■Hogan said*that ,Levy received || the bribe money in each case fiom|| Salvatore Sollazzo. who already has b pleaded guilty to charges of “fix- h ing" college games and is awaiting h sentence on those charges.. \ - i DEMOCRATS' ’ ■ (Continued From Fated One) i _ j ■* r —* j smoker following the formal pro- j grain!. • ’ . • / |j . All citizens of Decatur are invb • ted to attend the campaign closing j ' and hear Judge Parrish and Bierly present the! issues. s Headquarters will be open all afternoon Saturday and those arriving early for the meeting, will have an opportunity’ to discUiss. their problems with iliecandidates. •'

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Hartford at Monmouth. Geneva at Berne. Wren at Pleasant Mills. ■ y Jefferson at Madison. Cheer Leaders For Yellow Jackets Are Elected By Groups Cheer leaders for the 1951-52 hksketball season for the Decatur Yellow Jackets were elected at ia meeting Thursday at the high school. , ■ '\ | Elected as leaders were Jacque-j line . Hite. Maryann Swearigen. 1 Carolyn Alger. Ed \Stocksdale and Dan Thomas. The leaders are ejected each year by members of the Howling Hosts and the Pep Champs, who are athletes or purchasers of seasOh tickets, at the school The cheer leaders will be taken to Indiana University Saturday by Arnold Conrad, high school teacher, for an all-day cheer leaders conference, opening at 10 a.m. Points to be\ stressed are sportsmanship. new types of yells, and control of crowds.

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American legion league Tankers won three from Non Destroyers won three from Macklins won two from Burkes Standard; Butyemeiers won two from Ashbauehers. : *- Standings W L Pts. ’Burkes Standard 15 9 20 JBultemeiers i 14 16 20 ;Non Comf. T 13 11 19 ■Aslhbauchers 13 11 16 tTankers 12 12 17 illacklins —-i7 17 9 - 519 5 f High games: C. Gook B. ißieberich 226; F. Hoffman 203-213; |K. Geisler 211; W. Frauhijrer 204; |A. Murphy 202; P. Murphy *2OO. I ’ _ Pro ® Syracuse 90. Fort Wayne 75. | Rochester lOr. Baltimore One Man Killed In Four-Vehicle Crash | Scottsburg. Ind., Nov. 2. —(UP) >—Robert Blue, 35. Anderson, was Skilled yesterday in a traffic accident Involving three cars and a ftruek on U.S. 31 south. of here. | ■ Cheapest of all the earth’s ele!men’.«) is brimstone sulphur, which tsells for approximately one cent I>* i pound.

Michigan And Illinois Play Feature Game Chicago, Nov, 2. —(UP)-r-Michi-gan’s Wolverines, at top strength for the first time this season, entrained today for Champaign, 111., while confident Illinois polished strategy designed to dump them, fpr the second year in a row. 1 i Michigan coach Benny Ooster- . baan said that Capt. Bill Putlch and linebacker Roger Zatkoff were “fit I 1 and ready" after treatment for' early season injuries aggravated by the Minnesota Gophers last Satur-' day. ' ' . I Meanwhile. Ray Eliot, lllini coach, promoted halfback Don Stev- ■ ens to-a first spring post two weeks I after shoving him down jto the reserves. Pete Bachouros will be Stevens’ chief understudy. The i lllini the Wolverines 7 to 0 at Anp Arbor lust-year. But that was only their third victory in the last 14 games between the schools? h ' I Wisconsin’s Badgers, pepped up hy last Saturday’s crushing victory over Northwestern, worked” oh forward passing today in preparation I for their homecoming against Indiana. The defensive platoon, which has the best record in the nation, studied Hoosier pass patterns while Badger quaterback Uohnny Coatta, Big Ten passing feader. Maimed up with a few passes of his own. Coach Ivy Williamson of Wissonsin told, 49 players (o suit up; for the game. \ End Don Lust of Indiana will captain the Hoosiers in tomorrow's contest. Indiana coach Clyde Smith made tentative plans to move re- • serve halfback Bill Holzbach to a first string backfield position after naming a 38>man traveling squad. lowa halfbacks Don Commack and tackle Andy Buntz vAere named co-captains as the Hawkeyes completed practice for the Minnesota game, lowa’s last home game of the season. Coach Len Raffensperger drilled his defensive platoon on Minnesota plays and stressed dangers of the Gophers deceptive running-pass series. Minnesota coach Wes Fesler said that halfback George Hudak, reinstated after being dropped from the squad, may see action against lowa. But the Gophers’ starting lineup probably will include Pap! Giel at left halfback and freshman Don Swanson at quarterback. Skip Engel is expected to start at full-' back in place of Ron Wallin. Purdue left halfback Phil Kletek. one of several Boilermaker cripples, may see limited action against . Penn State* tomorrow, coach Stu . said yesterday. Klezek. t a veteran junior back. was injured against Miami weeks ago. Northwestern coach Bpb Voigts ordered an extended contact drill

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P ' F. ' - • -k ► —,• «... L -o ‘ Today's Sport Parade f (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) / | By Oscar Fraley \ o— + e New York, Nov. 2.—(UP) —The ( Brooklyn Dodgers took the biggest fold up dlveof the sports year and it Ih expected today that Charley Dressen, the man who stood at the helm when the ship went down, will know by Monday" whether he’ll get another chance. Public sentiment had\sharpened the axe for the brash little man but a tempering of the fans’ indignation at the Dodger' blow, and other factors, have led to opinion that Dressen will be retained. But it has been a close thing for I voluble Chuck, and one fashioned by his own doings. \ ‘ There was, a storm of letters ! from outraged rooters when tfie highly-favored Dodgers blew a 13 Vst game and then lost tfee threegame National league play-1 off to the Cinderella plants. Most I of them attacked his mahageritfl I tactics in the stretch run. ? j Two Incidents drew most of the protests. The first was Dressen’S final playoff game decision to pitch Ralph Brgnca in elUteth relief. Branca’a home run pitch to Bobby Thomson cost the Dodgers the first playoff game. Yet Dfesseh came back wify Branca in the ninth inning Dodger chamber of horrors which coH the Brooks pennant. I)on Newcombe had weakened and there were two , on. the Dodgers leading ,4 to 2 in the ninth, when Thomson came \to bat. Dressen yanked Newcom be-r iand sent Branca out tp face the man who must have had the pitchjer thinking about a home run ball. That’s when lightning struck again. <. There were many protests, tob,i about the manner in which Dresyesterday as his squad had thejr last workout before playing Ohio State at Columbus. Voigts emphasized blocking and tackling by linemen. Coach Woody Hayes of the Buckeyes shifted George Jacoby, tackle, and Jim Reichenbach, a freshman guard, from the offensive tinit so replace the injured Julie Wittman and guard Steve Ruzich. John Hlay subbed yesterday for another Buckeye casualty, Capt. Bob Heid, but Heid was expet-ted to start. v Michigan State stepped up practice sessions with a heavy scriinr mage yesterday as coach Biggie Munn plotted his attack for the Notre Danie game a week frond . tomorrow. Munn*said he’ll stage a ( dress rehearsal forHhe Irish game tomorrow in the stadium. \ ' INSURANCE Leo “Dutch” Ehinger FIRE WIND ‘AUTO 7W No. 3rd St. Phono 3-2004 ' • -

nen gave up on Clem Lahine. The pitcher had won four complete games when the Phillies gave him a drubbing. Dressen didn’t start Lablne afcaln for more thoji two weeks. Then Lablne I went but and won the second playoff game.' Had Labine been usexl in that etormy windup period, many fans contended, there would have been no playoff necessary. Dressen’s ever-ready tongue, and his “I am” attitude, also helped put him behind the eight ball. Dur<ing the Dodgers’ last western trip, when the eliding Brooks already hud dissipated half of that oncetat'lead, he popped: “How did Burt Shotton ever with this club?” The widespread animosity to Dressen among basehall men was madet clear this week when Birdie Tebbets said in a speech that all the cjube were glad to see Dressen \ lose. Tebbetts struck at Dressen's mid-season attacks on pitcher Erv Palica. However, owner Wa'lter O’Maii ley is said to hesitate about namling a new pilot. He doesn’t have ’the baseball background to etart shuttling managers in and out without losing the confidence of potential employes. Also, the tenor of the flood of fan letters has altered since the world series, another case of time’s healing • powers. ‘ __J -V Many Bridges In its more than 1500-mile Ipngth from Dawson Creek, Canada, to Fairbanks. Alaska, the Alcan Highway 'crosses more than 200‘ streams u‘nd rivers. ... And We Quote Eveiy measure undertaken with temerity is liable to be perplexed with error and punished by misfortune.' Tonight,SAT. & SUN. Continuous Sat. & Sun. 2 ENTERTAINMENT HITS! »i — 'RE RAYS THE GIANTS TOWERED YE THEM ALU \SUPERciheCOUJR jbsm it flWAll SMAH htiictiu GEORGE MONIGOMEIIY£r?I GALE STORM A BOMMHIW-miKflY.k nuttiißw lafiSp I. Sk» riot of ? v XS i ’ j * * /jzR J A, mJ H WARREN DOUGLAS mimi agugl,a K LEON BELA sco '' «<— X ►» owes t - X MO< ramuv » Only 14c-30c Inc. Tax

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