Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1952 — Page 6

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Yellow Jackets Defeat Portland, 57-49

Jackets Snap Losing Streak Friday Night The Decatur Yellow Jackets snap- , ped their eight-game losing streak Friday night in convincing fashion, handing the Portland Panthers a 57-49 setbacks the Decatur gym. ( The Jackets, displaying more scrap and aggressiveness than in other recent games, thus registered tfaeir fourth victory of the season as against 14 losses. _ r The first quarter of last night’s battle was a torrid shooting affair, . ending in a 17-17 deadlock, as both teams hit just about everything * they, threw at the hoop. After only three and one-half minutes had been played, Decatur held a scant one-point lead at IP-11. The tempo slowed down only slightly in the second period, with the Yellow Jackets outscoring the Jay county quintet by four points to take a 31-27 advantage into the ibcke'r room at the half. Jim Moses and Gene Vetter, with three field goals, paced a third quarter splurge for the Jackets , which gave the Decatur lads a 13po ntbtulge, 47-34, as the teams entered the final eight minutes of play. ! The Panthers threw a mild scare into the Yellow Jacket fans midway through the last period, cutting i pecafuf’s lead down to only six paints at 53-47 bitt the Jackets tallied a couple of duick ones to put the game out of Portland’s reach. Moses topped the scoring with 19 points. Vetter tallied 13, and j Gene Morrison, playing one of the best games of his career, netted 11 points, all i» the fipst half.- Bob Mumaugh and Jack Gibson shared offensive honors for Portland- with 14 points each. The Jackets had only nine chances from the foul line, converting five, while Portland connected on 11 of 17. The Yellow Jackets will meet 1 Fort Wayne Central 0 North Side in Fort Wayne tonight, and will wind up their season next Friday, entertaining the Garrett Railroaders at the Decatur gym. Yellow Jackets.. 4 FG FT TP Morrison L-— 5 1 11 Vetter ------— 8 1 13 - 3 17 i Moses -—i --j— 9 1 19 Pollock —--—Oil I Koons —— T -—— 3 0 4 , Holter —- 0 0 0 *--' - - ■ i Totals - 26 5 57 Portland , > FG FT TP Mumaugh 4 6 *l4 Deffenbaugh ------- Oil T Mays 5 \ 1 11 Gibson 6 2 14 Conley 1 0 2 Sanders —— 10 2 Fret man 11 3 Beard —— -1 ,\ 0 2 -■ - - —... ; . Totals 19 11 49 t Officials: Lieberum, Collyer. Preliminary Decatur 36, Portland 18.

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County* I Basketball Teams Saturday Yellow Jackets at Fort Wayne Central. (North Side). Spartans Beat Union Center By 67 To 56, Pouring 26 points through the net in the second quartet’, the Pleasant Mills Spartans carried op to a convincing 67-56 tlriumph! over the strong Union Center Badgers of Wells counter Friday night at the Pleasant Mills gym. I The Spartani, trailing the first peroid, 12-9, limited Unipn to cnly eight points in second quarter and left the floor at the half with a 35-29 advantage. Thqy maintained thi| 15-pdiqt margin through the third period,. 49-3 4. Jerry Price topped the victors With 19 points, | while three pother Spartans were iin double figures, lloopingarner and Fisher qach tallied 17 for Union. The Spartans, wind up th«j season next Friday, meeting the Jefferson Warriors at Pleasant Mills. { Pleasant Mills .I'o t ,J FG FT TP Raudenhush 4 6 14 Case —4— ( 6 1.13 y Johnson 0 1,1 Price 8 3 19 Painter L m-j—’_ 8 11 || 17 Edwards - |_ 0 0 0 NOll ——J-.j.—_ 11 3 King 0 OfHo Frey I.—o 0 0 ’ ~ • i i ■■■/[' j— TOTALS -■.j— 27 13 67 Union Center FG: FT Tp Hodpingarner 8 1 17 Carl -I 4 —l 0 2 Andersoq 1. 5 0 10 Mcßride;-. i—4 0 0 0 Fisher .. 8 1 17 Leimenstall U--4 0 0 O' Dafforn t—-—-J—l 0 2 R. Hoopingarner—4 1 0 2 Hanauer .. 0 0 0 Boxell 3 0 6 . - —m-} TOTALS — j.J— 27 2 56 Officials: Kioto.' Wiegman. Preliminary Pleasant Mills -29, Union 11, Seek To Unravel ( Mystery Os Death ‘ Gaston, Ind., keb. 16.—(UP)-* Authoritibs sought to unravel today the mystery of the death of Arley Brimhall, 70, a retired carpenter. Brimhall was found shot to death in his bed at, his home in Gaston yesterday. A rifle lay op his partly dressed body. Coroner Eugqne Eissman said Brimhall had been dead about 12 hours whenjfopnd by town marshal Chester O'Conjnefl. There were two bullet wounds in the heawi/l|| Police said the angle of the bullets indicated Brimball could not have shot himself. But there was no evidence of a struggle and no clues to indicate ihe was slain. ><; B —l—Trade in a Good Town — Ddcatur

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Berne Bears Are Defeated By Montpelier * The Berne Bears saw their brief Friday night, as the Montpelier two-game winning streak: snapped Pacers ran to a 63-33 victory on the Montpelier floor. Montpelier led at all periods, 17-5, 35-11 and 49-22, as the Bears hit only one field goal in the first half and only eight of 68 shots in the entire game. Jackson led the with 14 points, and Jerry Spfunger was high for Berne with 13. The Bears were without the services of Phil Khehr, regular, out because of illness. * Berne will close its season Friday, playing at Redkey. Montpelier , - FG FT TP Bell 1 2 4 Jackson 6T 2 14 Morris 3 | 2 8 E. Ford 2 15 D. Ford 0 3 3 Love 3 0 6 Everhart . 4 3 11 Ramseyer u 2 j 1 5 Wilson 1 | 2 4 Hawk 1 |O. 2 Needier -- 0 11 TOTALS 23 17 63 Berne \ FG FT TP J. Sprunger 4 ‘ 5 13 Miller 0:1 1 Bertsch 14 6 Smith 1 ; 1 ,(3 Lehman 0 2 2 P. Sprung'er 2 i 3 ' 7 Bixler _0 ! 0 0 Baumgartner 0 11 J. — TOTALS ... 8‘ \ -17 33 Officials: Garrett, Acton. • Preliminary | Montpelier 41, Berne 3|. CORONATION - (ConHaueC From Page One> | the ceremony would be held in the fall, j The reasons are these:: Elizabeth would want to make the tour t<h Australia in what are the summer months In the southern hemisphere. So if the tour is not to be postponed for two years, the coronation would have to be held in 1952. Britain will want the coronation ceremony in the mild j weather here. A secondary, but quite important consideration is the hundreds of thousands of tourists it will attract to the British Isles. And very important is! the fact that Elizabeth is known to Want several more children. This royal obligation of bearing a large fami?y cannot begin until the Australian tour is concluded. This capital seemed peculiarly businesslike today after the great pomp of yesterday’s funeral procession. j L

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* 4 L \ ■' Adams County Rural Youth Defeat Grant T]he Adams county rural youth basketball team, leading all the way. defeated the Grant county rural youth team. 44-34, at' the Jonesboro gym in Grant county Frday night. The local team was out In front ft all periods, 8-6, 22-12. 32-18, 44-34. e Henry Getting led the Adam's county team with 16, followed by Homer Arnold, Jr. with 10, and Raymond Worden with 0. Adams county rural youthen will play Blackford copnty in their next game. j Adams County FG FT TP Getting ~i. 8 0 I’6 Merriman \. — 2 O' 4 Busse 2 0 JI Worden 3 3 9 Arnold 4 2 IQ Byerly 0 1 I Worthman 0 0 0 Totals 19 5 « Grant County FG FT Ts D. Westfall . 4 0 8 K. Westfall L 3 2 8 Frout __. ' t (f 8 Heiser 4 0 8 Miller 1 o' 8 * ■ j Totals 16 2 34 ' 1 : Fro Basketball Philadelphia 112, Indianapolis 91, High School Basketball Auburn 57, Bluffton 49. New Haven 56, Kendallvilee 51. Garrett 47, Albion 37. Fort Wayne- Concordia 60, Columbia City 58. t ! Warsaw 62, North Manchester S 4. Ggry Froebel 39, Fort Wayne South 38. Fort Wayne North 57, South Bend Adams 51. ' . . ! l Hoagland 54, Arcola 39. Lancaster Central 70, Rockcreek 39. ' Huntertown 58, Huntington Catholic 40. Tipton 55, Hartford Clty 53. Angola 45, Elmhurst 37. Kokomo 65, indianapdlis Tech 56. Indianapolis Crispus At tucks 64, Ladoga 35. I Martinsville 51, Southport 48. Bedford 55, Bloomington 48* Huntington 60, Plymouth 59 (overtime). Lafayette Jeff 44, Richmond 39. Brazil 46. West Lafayette 41. Anderson 77, New Castle 67. Evansville Bosse 54, Vincennes 49, , Frankfort 43, Muhcle Central 38. South 'Bend Central 48, Elkhart East Chicago, Washington 62, Whiting 47. Madison 51, Lawrenceburg 42. New Albany 62, Evansville Central 58. Alexandria 62. Wabash 40. Cambridge City 6s, Morristown 59. ' ' Marion 62. Logansport 55. lowa contains 25 percent of all the grade A soil in the United States.

Geneva Hands Hartford 2nd ■; »r • -1 J fk '■' Season Loss . The Geneva Cardinals pdlled one of the season's biggest upsets Friday night, downing the Hartford Gorillas, 63-44\ at the Geneva gym, for only the second loss of the season for the Gorillas, who have racked up 18 victories, and tnelr only other loss to the Okbian Bears. The Cardinals led at the first quarter, 18-11, which the Gorillas cut to ohe point, 29-28, at the half. Geneva's margin was 44-39 at the third period and Hartford was limited to only five points in the final quarter. ? Scoring was well balanced; for both teams, with foiir Cardinals in double figured, led by Jerry Tester with 13 points. Jdrry Augsburger topped Hartford with 12. Jack Meyer, the Gorillds* and county’s top scorer, who Jias been ill, played only about half of the ghme, scoring only eight points, and DiCk Ziegler, another regular, bothered by a bad ankle, failed to score. Both teams will wind up their seasons next Friday, Geneva playing at Ossian and Hartford entertaining Poling at Hartford. Geneva FG FT TP Hanni 3 4 10 Pyle 3 S 11 Penrod 3 3 9 Tester 6 1 13 Macklin 6 0 12 Craig 3 0 6 Koons 0 2 2 Kelly a. 0 0 0 .• ■ ' TOTALS ... 24 15 63 Hartford FG FT TP R. McCune ... 3 2 8 Brewster 3 0 6 Noll „ u 2 15 Meyer — 4 4 0 8 J. McCune 1 3 5 Augsburger _J 4 4 12 Ziegler 0 0 0 Moser 0 0 0 L' TOTALS 17 10 44 Officials: Murray, Ball. »j . i Preliminary Geneva 34, Hartford 18. Correction Made In Doubles Event T. Taylor and JI. Strickler rolled a 1242 in the city tourney douW«» event, It was announced today, 04 not a . 1223, as published Friday. Members of the Weat End R 0 tourant team, which won the event, were A. J. Zelt, Wilbur Petrie, Bob Andrews. 1 Oran Schults and Andy Appelmap. Soldier Is Ki led - When Hit By Truck Indianapolis. Feb. 18 — (UPL-'t-Pre. Donald Robertsoh, 19, Haymond. Wash., stationed at Ctmp Atterbury, was killed today viton be was struck by a truck driyen by Paul E. Hale, 27, Indianapolis.

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Junior High Wins In Two Overtimes Decatur Junior high edged out Berne, 37-35, in a double overtime thriller Friday afternoon at the Bp catur gym. ' J J' Berne held a 17-15 edge a| the halt but Decatur pulled into a 33-33 tie at the expiration of the regular playing time. Each team scored two points in the first extra period but D. Strickler tipped in a rebound for the winning field goal in tha second overtime. D, Strickler paced the winners with 16 points, while Nussbaum was high for Berne with 12. I Decatur . FG FT TP Fryback x—_ 2 0 4 Moser 3 0 6 D. Strickler -7 2 16 Kelly 4 1 9 Bowman 1 0 2 R. Strickler 0 0 0 Myers -|_ 0 0i 0 . ■ < . •—"I 1 Totals .j. 17 3 37 Berne ' > { FG FT TP Nussbaum 6 0 12 Whitehurst O ' 0 0 Yoder J 3 0 6 Hanni 11 0 2 Ehrsam 1 5 0] 10 Lloyd -------—-—-- 2 1 5 f-'-.f . i “ >4... .. Totals 17 1; 35 r • I St. Joe Is Winner Over Adams Central St. Joe junior high wound up its regular season schedule Friday afternoon, defeating Adams Central, 43-25, at the Commodore <l®- j ’ ' ■|. Adams Central led at the first quarter, 9-6 and at the half, j. 4-13, hut St. Joe rallied for a 31-18 margin at the third period. Wilder and J. Voglewede led the winners with 16 and 14 points, while Baum* gartner was high for Adams Central with 10- \ St. Jbe finished the schedule with 13 wins and three losses. They will play in the county junior high tourney and will also comfgetyjlp .the CYO tourney in Fort Wayne next month. St. Joe FG FT TP Lengerich -4—-—— - 0 0; 0 Helman .. 0 0 R.. eyer — 0 0 0 Teepie 2 0 4 Rumschlag s 0 0 6 B- ioyer o o e dpshsno b o 0 ‘>ossr 7 2 16 0 0 0 |ta&by ’.- 090 JiC VdMewede 6 t 11 0 0 0 ■ 9 81 0 TdUln . 4 19 5 43 Adams Central 4* v' | fg’ft'tp UtfUanheisdr - 0 3 3 >OIO • 4 000 fiabmgattnef ..— 5 0 10 wdsidr —4 p 3 2 8 —l 0! 2 Rowden 0 or 0 Btoiner 0 0 0

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fire. Three enemy® MIGs were shot down during the week, two of ' them by Davis iin his final dogfight last Bunday. Decatur Conservation Club i Meeting SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16th 8:00 P. M. j Red Men Hall REFRESHMENTS and ENTERTAINMENT Important ‘ Matters of Interest to Everyone will be Discussed, il n — l l ’ • DON’T MISS THIS ’ f MEETING! I ' |: 1 vIK ■ -.b-