Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1952 — Page 6

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Four Teams In Running For State Crown Indianapolis, March 17.—(UP) — The cast is only slightly different hut the finals of Indiana’s 42nd annual high school basketball tourney shaped up today as a repeat performance of 1948 when \ three North Central conference Yearns and a southern delegate battled for the crown. ■ Muncie Central's defending state champions and perennial title contender Lafayette Jeff, plus Indianapolis Tech, and New Albany from ,£he “deep south” comprise the final four. But only Tech's "arrival’ in the "charmed circle” was ‘ surprising. Four years ago the Butler fieldhouse, foursome was composed of Muncie Central, Lafayette and Anderson of the NCC and Evansville. Central from the south, with Lafayette trimming Evansville Central in the finale to capture its second crown. r - ■ Muncie, which tangles with\ New Albany in the finals opener Saturday. had a surprisingly easy time with Auburn's Northeastern conference champs. 64 to 39. then had to struggle to outlast favored Kokomo. 62 to 60, in a real thriller on Carl Miller's looping one-hander in the fina '4O seconds. Kokomo, second only to New Albany in the United Press "big ten," dumped Muncie during the season, $7 to 48. ' New Albany, in the finals for the third time but never the champ, has the best record of the ' surkivors from' an original field of 7so hopefuls. The Bulldogs have won S2O games in a row since their mid-season loss at East Chicago ■Washington—-their only setback all year. - Coach Gordon Raney’s “alleyball” boys resorted to some stalling tactics after getting out in front of Vincennes and Evansville Central. They drubbed Vincennes, 56 to 49, but barely beat off Central’s young Bears,, 52 to SP, mainly on some phenomenal long-range shooting by their six-foot-four eenter Jim McLaughlin. Jeff and the wiley Marion Crawley gained the championship round for the third straight,, year. The Broncos turned the trick .by upending Elkhart’s east NIHSC champions,- 39 to 37, and beating NCC foe Logansport with a spirited third-period plurge 54 to 37. Logansport turned in another upset by derailing Hammond’S Wildcats, 45 io 43, in the Lafayette semi-final opener, r Tech, ip the finals for the first timer since 1934 and also shooting 7 for its first winner, wasn’t given much chance when the four-week toutney opened because of towering city rival Crispus Attacks. But the big green knocked off the Flying Tigers in the sectionals, stumbled past Anderson in the regional, and had an easy time Saturday with Greencastle and Shelbyville. Greencastle got the bounce, 66 to 52, and Shelbyville collapsed, 60 to 33. ’ Tech's big Joe Sexon, who pnmped (27 points through the > hoops against Shelby for the highest individual scoring teat of the third round, also led semi-final shooters. He collected 14 fielders and H freethrows for 39 points to nose out Dave Kelley of Shelbyvifle by a single point. New Albany’s Bill Maetschke was third with 37 markers, folowed by Muncie's Jim Sullivan with 35. Muncie carries the best statistics into the finals, averaging 64 points in eight tourney games. Th.* Bearcats also licked their rivals <by the widest margin—22.3 points. Tonight & Tuesday in Exciting Technicolor! JAMES STEWART “BEND OF THE RIVER” Julia Adams, Arthur Kennedy ALSO—Shorts 14c-44c Inc. Tax O—O Wed. < .Thues-—Wa Lupino, 7 "On? Dangerous Ground" - First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thurs. from It3o BE SURE TO ATTENDI O—O Coming Sun- — "Lone Star" Clark Gable, Avs Gardner

Yankees Beaten By Brooklyn Dodgers St. Petersburg, Fla., March 17.— (UP) —Manager Casey Stengel is fast becoming convinced that if his New York Yankees are t 6 Win their fourth straight pennant, :age will have to give way to youth. Rookie Bob Cerv, making a strong bid for Joe DiMagglq’s center field job, hit his third home, run of the training seasph yeiter-' day, but two comeback-bent pitchers. Johnny Sain and Frank (Spec) Shea were hit hard as the Yankees lost to the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 7-4. Cerv’s clout was a 420 foot blast off lefty Preacher Roe. Sain; in his second straight disappointing exhibition showing, was rapped for five runs in the sixth inning. Shea yielded two runs and foujr hits in the last two frames. Lefty Ed Lopat shut out the Dodgers during the first four innings. The Yankees play the Washington Senators here today. | *.j r Phillies Clearwater, Fla., March 17.— (UP) —Manager Eddie Sawypr Was cheered today by the Philadelphia Phillies’ best game of the spring training season. Eddie tWaitkus, Del Ennis and Dick Young hit home rubs and Karl Drews and lefly Ken Heintzelntan' combined to yield only six hits yesterday as the PhHs blanked the Philadelphia Athletics, 8-0. The A’s made six errors. The Phillies play the St. Louis Cardinals here today. Giante Los Angeles, March 17.-HUP) — manager Leo Durocher. today as Jifn Hearn was chosen to start by the New York Giants opened a week-long west coast tour with a game against the Chicago’ Cubs. The Giants* game against the St. Louis Browns was rained out yesterday. The Cubs’ scheduled contest against the Los Angeles Angels also was washed oiit. Indians Burbank. Calif., March 27.—(UP) —The Cleveland Indians, whose pitchers have not been Scored upon in their last two Complete games, met the St. Louis Browns today. Early Wynn, Lou Brissie and Mike Garcia combined to ,pitch a three-hit, 4-0 shutout against the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast league yfeiif&rday. Rookie Quipcy Trouple hit a tworun homer In Cleveland’s 13-hlt attack. ji Red Sox Bardenton. Fla., March 17—(UP) —Thunder from the bats of Tecf Williams and Walt Dropo snapped the Boston Red Sox out of the,ir seven-game losing streak. Dropo’s solo blast and William*’ three-run wallop touched off a seven-run, second inning outburst that enabled the Red Sox ;to beat the Cincinnati Reds. 10 toi G, yesterday for the ir first victory since the opening day of the spring training season. Lefty Mickey McDermott and Ellis Kinder combined to strike out 11 men.! The Red Sox play their ifttra-clty rivals, the Boston Braves, here tlo day. The Braves edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-2, in 13 innings yesterday when rookie Jack'Daniels walked with the bases loaded. 1 New Albany has the next-best average, scoring 62.3 points per game and clubbing its fops by a margin of 19.3. A qquadruple overtime lj session —the first in the history of the semi-final tourney—also went into the books. Evangsville Central and Terre Haute Garfield were the struggling qquintets at Bloomington, with Central finally emerifing with a SG-to-54 decision on sub guard Wayne Salmon’s one-hander in the fourth extra period.! Central won the game the hard way, blow* ing a 13-point lead going into the last period. - :~7 Auburn ranked fifth in the U.P. elite and Elkhart eigth, leaving top-ranking New Albany and seventh-place Muncie from the "big ten” and Tech and Lafayette, both in the second ten, to fight it out Saturday. OFFICIAL IS (Comttnme* From Owe> ; Tracy . . . no, Tracy!”’ She fired seven times. '? Six of the bullets struck Keil, j .Sobbing, she told police,she killed him because ‘T knew shooting him was my only chance to live.” Kell died a short time later at St. Louis county hospital. 7; 6 . j | ' :• I J The average lowa motor car consumes about 8,000 gallons of gasoline in its lifetime and, at present rates, its owner will pay the state and federal governments about |435 In taxes on that gasoline. | YOU ARE INVITED j TO SPECIAL SERVICES AT THE .'H FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TONIGHT

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Semi-Final Scores Al Munoie Muncie Central 64, Auburn 39. Kokomo 62. Marion-58. Muncie Central 62, Kokomo' 60 (final). At Indianapolis‘S i Shelbyville 46, Batesville 34. ■i Indianapolis Tech 66, Greencastle 52. Indianapolis Tech 60, Shelbyville 33 (final). .. . At Fafayette Logansport 45, Hammond 43. Lafayette Jeff 39, Elkhart 37. Lafayette Jeff 54, Logansport 37 (final). At Bloomington - Evansville Central 56, Terre Haute Garfield 54 (four overtimes). New Albany 56, Vincennes 49. New Albany 52, Evansville Central 50 (final). , I ■ . ■ '7 ■ KNETZER MAKES (C<m«iaw»a From Pawr Oml one connected with the case. Giffin said Knetzer asked him to wait in the lobby and told him he would call when he got to the room. The bailiff said Knetzer, or some one who purported to be Knetzer, called within a few minutes and assured him negotiations were proceeding. Giffin said he receiyed calls for six hours at half hour intervals before he became suspicious. — CIO Will Not Back Sen. Robert Taft Denver, COlo., Mar. 17—(UP) — The CIO won’t back Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-O.) in his bid for the this year, says Allan S. Haywood, executive vice president of the labor organization. In a speech before the p’Nqi B’Rith yesterday, Haywood also said that the CIO won’t announce its support of a presidential candidate until after the national conventions. Speaking of Taft, Haywood said, “he never labored a day in his ■llfe.ij He was born with a silver

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No Tickets Available For Final Tourney Indiapapolisi March I7r— (UP) — If you’re scouting for a ticket to Saturday’s Indiana high school basketball tourney finals you have lots of cotppariy. Buller fieldhouse, siite of the fourteam finals, holds “only” 15,000 fans. Tickets, as usual, are distributed by the liidiana; high school, athletic association Its members. “Don’t contact us for tickets,” IHSAA commissioner L. V. Phillips said. He added if you can’t get into the fieldhouse.' “there’s always radio and television.” Fro Basketball FINAL NBA STANDINGS Western Division W L. Pct. G.B. Rochester 41 25 .621 Minneapolis 40 26 .606 1 Indianapolis 34 32 .515 7 Fort Wayne .— L 29 37 .439 12 Milwaukee 17 49 .258 24 Easterih Division ; W L Pct. G.B. Syracuse' .7.40 26 .606 Bdstoh 139 27 .591 1 New York 37 29 .561 3 Philadelphia __ .1 33 33 .500 7 Baltimore 20 46 .303 20 •j Saturday's Results Boston 118, Rochester 106., New York 97, Syracuse 90. Philadelphia 105, Milwaukee 86. Sunday s Results Fort Wayne I’ll. Indianapolis 92. Bps,ton 96, Philadelphia 89. New York 90, Syracuse 84. Minneapolis 11!6, Baltimore 82. I spoon in his mouth. He couldn’t be expected: td> understand the struggle for human betterment and security.” The worlds, highest waterfall is Angel Falls in eastern Venezuela, hemmed by juggle In a canyon seen by a few men. Spurting from k cliff more than half a mile high, water falls free for 2,648 feet, then crashes on for a total drop of 3.212 feet. This is 15 times higher than Niagara Fdlls.

La Salle Wins NlTourney From Dayton .New York. Mar. 1? — (UP) —' .Scholarly, jovial Hen Loeffler, coach of, those amazing t* Salle Explorers* who stuftned experts and N.C.A.A. alike by winning the national invitation basketball tournament,! Was showered with praise today for his artful coaching. , And Loeffler, in turn, credited the surprise triumph to —"a bbnch of skinny kids and a flash-pivot offense" i The guiding genius of tfte email, balding Loeffler was greatly overlooked while the Explorers, were sweeping through four ! of the toughest Steams in the nation, led by Frosh whiz Tom Goli and whirling dervish” Norm Grekin< to gain fii place in the Otympic ♦ryouts; starting March 29. ■ Gola end Grekin were Jointly Voted the most valuable player” award. But as coaches and experts sized Up LaSalle's triumph they paid the greatest amount of praise to the red-faced little man in the brown suit. ' I “They were beautifully coached," admitted chagrined coach Tom Itlackburft, whose Dayton Flyers lost in tlie title game to i LaSalle, on Saturday, i “They knew how to take advantage of every opportunity.” Blackburn’s words were an echo of the moan of coach Dudey Moore, after his top-seeded Duquesne team was routed by LaSalle fa the semi-final —“they only hud one advantage over us, a height edge in the third mah. but they knew how to exploit it perfectly.r' To all this praise. Loeffler responded with a. modest trbfate to ' the greatest college team | ever coached!” He pointed out that his players' 'skinniness” gate them speed that paid off in rebounds and loose balls. Theft he elaborated on his, newfangled idea of a basketball attack, which may revolutionize 'the present coaching method. The system was perfectly shown In tfte finale, is the Explorers scored consistently while bottling up payton's htghscorhig pivot man. six-foot, sftven-lnch Don Meineke. \ ' . * Meineke plays a set pivot,” ext ’ained Loeffler. “That means he remains more or less stationary. We don't like to do that, because thefte are too many ways such an attack'can be stopped.” 4 The Explorers stopped “Power Tower” Meineke by cbllapslng around him on defense. The Flyets simply couldn't get l a pass througih to Big Don, and unfortunately for them, they kept trying end faying—and losing thb ball. “No/' said Loeffler. “Instead we like to play a ‘flash pivot,’ that means each of our men slides through the pivot post for pust a few seconds. We get more scoring opportunities that way and find It's much harder to stop.” i; When asked if many other teams •use this system, Loeffler answered with ft tivinkle, “no. but, F think they tftill when they see the success we have had with it.” ■ I' H ' I , | T i ! The last survivor of the Minute* men who fought at the pattie of Lexington! ip 1775 was Jonathan Harrington, who died in 1853 at the gge of 95, DOM I HESITATE TO APPLY TO OS WHEN YOU NEED A LOAN We will make a $25 loan just aa quick as we will a larger one. Your signature and income are the chief security requirements. A small part of your income each month will repay a loan. Special terms are available to farmers or Other persons With seasonable in* come. 1 H Loans quickly and privately made usually on same day you apply. Let > us tell you more about it—no obli-„ gation. C#//, phone er write— LOCAL LOAN COMPANY - | I Ground Heer .1 iH IN ft. Second St.. Brook Bldg. Phene 3-8913 Decatur. Ind.

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SPORTS BULLFT/N New York, March 17.—(UP) —A civil anti-tryet suit against the International Boxing Clubs of New York and Illinois was Died In federal court today, charging them with conspiracy to “restrain and monopolize” the championship fights. Nampd as detoadants were . the IBd of Nev> York, Inc., and ; the- IBC of Illinois which are ftepat'ate corporations; the Madison Square. Garden 'Corporation; James D. Norris of New York, and Arthur M.Wirtz of Chicago. Norris is president of the IBC and Wirtz is his chief associate in the operation of numerous arenas 4 and promotions. Late Winter Storm Rolling Eastward j ' Brings Heavy Snow To Mountain States i . L .’W',’ I’ . * By United Press i ' A laid winter storm that hit southern California with tain, snow arid a baby torhado rolled east want toward the Rockies) today, bringing ‘heavy snow to mountain states. In North Dakota, meanwhile, weary crews set out again to open roads drifted by a weekend blizzard which wiped out five days of road-ciearing operations and i. left many areas snowbound-. Gov. Normna Brunsdale of North Dakota telegraphed a -request to President Truman for emergency disaster funds. He said cattle feed supplies have been depleted and animals are starving. The governor said It might be necessary to revive the “operation haylift” eehnique Od drqp feed from st rawed livestock. The western storm caused four

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sihiHty of raising dust fttoftiilL The California storm jraa Cap-ped-by a freak twister thid swept ♦ hrongh Santa Monica y<*Bterday. It whirled a half-completed skiff through the air,\blew dolm a tile garage building onto three cars knocked over a brick chimney and fireplace, shattered windows and collapsed several other boats. \ ■ ’;!„-A ■' ' ' Safecracking Gang, At Elkhart, Goshen Elkhart, fad.. Mar. 17 -(UF)~ Authorities set out today i.o srftasL a ring responsible for at 1 %ast four -afecrackings here and Hi Goshen in the last few Ways, netting morn tlian |20,000 in cash, checks, ! stocks and securities. K • ’