Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1953 — Page 7

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Monmouth Wins Meet | Opener; Two Games | On Schedule Tonight I

Monmouth*® Ragles advanced to the second round of play in th® Decatur sectional, as th® Eagles defeated the Adams C&ntFal Greyhounds, 60-42, in the tourney ogpeiv er played Before a crowded Deleter gym Tuesday night. The Eagles will clash with the Decatur, Commodores in one ot the early features of the sectional in tonight’s second game. Play will resume at 7 o’clock this evening, with the Berne Bears meeting the Jefferson Warriors, followed fry tfhe Monmouth-Comrm?-dtfhe'battle. •>. ® Two. games Thursday night will complete the preliminary play, setting the stage for the semifinal and final contests Saturday' afternoon and evening. \ The Geneva Cardinals an 4 Pleasr ant Mills Spartans will open thfe warfare Thursday evening at. o’clock.jfollowed toy the defending champion Decatur Yellow Jacket** against the Hartford Gorillas. There wiH be no garnet Friday.; with the day off devoted to tribution and sale of tickets fox* the Saturday sessions to fans oft the four schools still in the run/; ning Cor the sectional crown. ' Halt Grtyhound Rally $ Monmouth, after running up i big early leiad in the meet’s lid» lifter, had to ’beat down a •mined Adams Central rally lata: In the third period and early iif the fourth quarter before elimint ating the Greyhounds. | it .was all the Eagles for the first quarter, with Monmouth pili.: up an 18-6 margin in the first eight mhiutes of play, with alj five Monmouth starters breaking; into the scoring column. | The Eagles still had what ap| peared to be a comfortable eush{ ion at 28-18 as the teams went td the dressing room for half-time rest and instructions., ,• j h 'Monmouth still seemed intent on a runaway with the opening oB the' second half, boosting their! margin to 34-18. but Roger Long* enberger hit s four set shots in a row from fairly well Out to bring the Greyhounds, aqd the crowd, to life, and Adams Central finally had. the margin trimmed to only' four points at 35-31 with less than a minute to go in the third quarter. Willie Bulraahn’s only field; goal of the game gave Monmouth a 37-31 margin at the end of the period. . a Bon Dick’s fielder slashed Monmouth’s lead to’ four points at 37-' 33, but the Eagles pulled away again and managpd'tq stay frond . five to eikht; points out in frontl for the.' rest of the game. I Dick Harvey of the Eagles was! the game’s, top point' producer! with '2D points, and Harry Myers! added 12 for the victors. Longen-I

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berger. with 13, was, the » only Greyhound in double figures. The Greyhounds cqnvierted Orly 16 of ?5 free throirs, (he Eag es 14 of 2,1, as 21 personals were assessed Monmouth, IB top Adams Central. Nonmouth FG |FT TP J. 4 j 4-6 12 Harvey jl 8 \ ft-4 20 Sanner 1 p - ® \ 5 Fleming' f- 1 12-3 4 Drew l-._4._i'2 I; lp-0 4 Buuc'k l-';0 \ 0 Gallnteyer oh-0 0 Bulmahn /- 1 p-5 2 Bultemeyer 1 i-2 3 Grandstaff L_ 0 'b-0- 0 TOTALS .-J 18 11-25 50 Adams Central j FG TT TP Dkk 3 1-7 7 Longenberger ---j- 5 ?-6 \l3 Hendricks -\3 lj-4 7 ■\Heare i ; iJL.I.O; IpS ' 7 J, Nussbaum /--J- 0 E. Nussibaum I__4_ 0 1-1 1 1 Beer 4 0 2-3 ' 2 1 Bluhm \'-i- 1 , j’2 ’3 Arnold 1 6-0 .2 i Osterman i 4. 0 o|o 0 i TOTALS 13 l(-35 42 Score by quarters! Monmouth __4__L__ 1$ 28 37 50 ? Adams Central 6 J;8 31 42 Officials. Tioirmin, Shook. ' v —tT - ■ ' ~ ? Sectional Scores At Dedatur ( Monmouth; 50. Alanis Central 42. At Bluffton Lancaster' Cdfttrai 55, Rphkcreek 34. t At Wabash j I Chester Twp.; *51.; Urbana 35. Noble Twp. 6|4. Lhrgo 52, ; Wabash 55, South Whitley 53. At South Bend j) South Bend Central 54, South Bend Riley 50.' ji | ' Washington-Clay 158, North Liberty' 48 ’ ! ip Mishawaka 84,;Soiuth Bend Catholic 37. j |i ' ' At Auburn Auburn 72. Hamilton 41. Qrland 57, ChuiruUusco 52. At Garrett : ' Salem Center 05. Ashley 0Fremont 67, Scott Center $9. | | _ —4—j r' iCharqe Is Filed For Violation Os Law, 4 An action was filed in 'jdvehile court today by the state pgainst an Adams county resident alleging a violation of ; tjie compulsory sfchool The fharge states that I the mthor child wao not being sent | school. ’ i | c 4-, 4 1- ..........I—ATrade in a Good Town—Decatur!

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Tourney Notes I Some Sectional firsts. \ First tipoff—awarded to pionmouth out of bounds. First shot, missed—-Harry K yers, Monmouth. First field goal—George Soaner, Monmouth. First personal soul —Jim ing. Monmouth. First free throw, made —itbger Longenberger, Adams First free throw, missed—Junior Nussbaum, Adams Central. |h| First time out—called by AfSams Central. jji First substitution—Roddy ’Beer, Adams Central. . ,i L . First player out of game o$ [personal fouls—Jim Fleming, 1 |?onmouth'. - Ji 7 —pOo—i !j ‘Over 2,000 people lilnto the Decatur gym last night tc .witness the opening salvo of the“l9s3 sectional tourney as the E hgrles of Monmouth came to grips the Adams Central Greyhoun&s. —oOo►— The basketball court wtyb an island of- varnished' wood, freckled with 10 basketball i!two white or black striped , shi ss—surrounded by faces, all of ytlihich were open, bright-eyed, sad < for the losing team, or wildly liiippy for being on the winning side; la' —oOo— ' J L They clung, hung, sat, stood], or leaned, and displayed, if not ; of the emotions, certainly Wery expression possible for the himian face’ to contort into. One jlady winced with pain when alma mater didn’t do so snod. 'Should one of the refereeslkall one against “Our Side” tl*eti|j,thc certain spirited fellow got tp|his feet issuing adjectives that wfruld. burn the fuzz from a young psach ... he ijad lots of r —oOo—- — it becajilie>a sad truthj|for Adams Central to have to ijteel itself against a loss at the; hands cf the Eagles, they did so quiltly. Monmouth raising into a rode at each attempt successfully completed. Kind of looked like a sepfeaw going up one end only as Atkins Centrals chances for a kiej!ory faded. 'J, r —OOO There weren’t any fights oii or Off the floor but there was qnelfel-, low who got his lumps any ho wJ'Unfortunately for him, he was sitring' hear the Adatns Central cheen;lection on the floor and was thqljunhappy recipient of a megaphotlft in the choppers each time one o'Othe girls on the cheer squad would |:let fly when teasing talk to go ; into her aerial maneuvers. Stout fe low though he was.* sitting there[ ibelabored and buffeted by a (rdsurfaced squawker which smaqked him one® every minute or soi/i he picked it up an<| was aboum to heave it at the girl bn the fiitor, which certainly would have knocked her unconscious but forjiiihe staying hand qf an Adjacent justly. He could be seen to retreat wke a turtle into his shell girls ominously rose for a iqtle more of the old rah-rah. , . 4 —oO0 — As the first rbund in the IftmJ the annual Indiana mildness ended, which has no similiaritj|tu anything else in the country,jrahd or rage, the glassy stares re' urned rind thoughts turned to the games Scheduled for tonight at DBCmmihigh—Berne vs \Jefferson, 7 pith.; Commodores vs o’clock. \ \ • Ts. ■ ' * — ! i Yellow Jackets Are ; Favored By Pickers ; ” 'i The Holthouse Drug stove, s|i >h-‘ sors of the annual pick-the-win |er contest for the sectional toura iy, announced today that 1 the oil jirvfhelming favorite is the Yejsw Jackets. Seventy percent of thO,351 people who filled, in blanks the Jackets ovef the resfflif the field with the, runuerup Geneva Cardinals with 11 pere;|nt bjf the total. • The Decatur Commodores stimd [next in, line <• .pping 8.5 perceniltof ’ the choke. Pleasant Muis with* 7 percent and Monmouth with ,8.5 i pen ent. The other teams cU|md , Ibss than one percent which. t|k- ' ing a sidewise look at the gamq|of ba.sketJlMdl ahd ail its incohsist®ii- ; cies. doesn’t lessen their changes 1 aU - '* I iiri ■]

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Action Speeds Up Today In Net tourneys INDIANAPOLIS UP — Sectional warfare of'the Indiana high school 'tourney shifts into second geaif H tfejday with 82 scheduled games including the debut of at eight i\firsßround defending champions. Probably * the best dog-fight will take place <gt Fort Wayne, where city North Side, with a 14-6 season l record, clashes with city foe Central Catholic tonight. Auburn, i Gary Tplleston, Hammond, Crawfordsville, 'Knpx, Indianapolis Tech, Huntington and Terre iHjriiite Garfield, defending sectional twists all, also will get their tourh|sy baptism. South i Bphd Riley, last! year’s sectTorialßUhist, was put out of the running Riley bowed to East NIHSC pliUmp Central 54 to 4« Tuesday libiahi in the first “big team" clash; of the tourney. There iiwi'e eight games at, fdur sites. Riley hejtl a 60 to 45 regular season ilwip over Central, but couldn't 'jHoj'.it again. They’re the first of defending champs to go down 'ln the 43rd annual hardwood meiet.' ' ; Central!, ! well-regarded in the, United Preks “Big Ten,” came from heljiitM at the beginning of the final; priori bf a gahne marked by a dosp of. “tourney nerves,” but despite ipioor shooting by both quintets,'' Paul Harvey tossed in; 2U;P°’ E, 'ts before he fouled out in thi? Ghril three minutes. Wabash. sh,e only other sectional champ who'iirled its luck last night, held ont|j> Its laurels by a hair’s breadth. ' wilbning from a determined SdtttW Whitley crew 55 to 53. Also at sbuth Bend, Mishawaka of the NIHjSC rolled over South Bendj Catholic, 84 to 37. and Washington - Clay trounced 'North Liberty 58 to 48. In otnpr opening - gun action, Chester Twfp, outplayed Urbana 51 to 35 -at' Wabash. Monmouth won over Adams Central 50 to 42 at Decatur, ' atod Lancaster Central beat Rock iJireek 55 to 34 at Bluffton. -.J ;i; •; Aubur®, Which grabbed the Fort Wayne reigidtial crown the last four but Wound up with only a 10-10 season this time, faced Hamilton ’this morning. ?■ 1i | College Teams Line Up For Tournaments NEW YORK. UP — Eastern Kentucky entered the NCAA tournament ®hd Tulsa accepted a bid to the national invitation tournament today* Ari the pdst-seasbn carnivals continued their race to sign wp taleniedi teams. The NIT| was expected to announce »ti|l further .acceptances today, speculation centering on Villaiiov® (18-8) and St. John’s (13-5). The NCAA, lagging behind the rival toiirney in the “war” for indepeiidirint teams suddenly spurted late Tuesday to sigh Notre Dame, Fordham, in addition to Eastern Kentucky’s Ohio Valley conference champions. That made a 4!otal of. eight berths nowfilled ipil t|he 23-team nierry-go-round.' :T; " j A. C. (Du<ch) Lonborg of Kansas U., cf the NCAA committee, amnbunced that dates and sites for ; playoffs between the eastern “at large" members will be annouiiceil Jh a few davs. All four|. teams aricrpted Tuesday are in that catb|gqry, along iwitil previousty’anmiiuticed DePaul. Tulsa (14-7) was the seventh team tq enfer the 12-team NIT at New Madison Square Garden. The Hurricanes* title i-hances in the Mlsshprl Valley conference are almost gpne with a 4-4 record, and as Conference “alsjo ran" they aWdjjihqt eligible for an “at large" beiith |n the NCAA. 1 Eastern' Kf >ntu< ‘* <y owns, a 15-6 record, thcliiding a split' with Western Kentucky, an NIT team. Eastern finished ahead of Western in th|e regular steason •Ohio VallWy ijace. j \ Pro ' Bosket baH NBA RESULTS Fort Wfyyire 91, Rochester So. Syracuse 10. Philadelphia 63. New Ydrk'tj, Minneapolis 63. 1 Indianapolis 71, Milwaukee G 9 ( (overtime)l. \ ♦ I Democrat Want Aas bring Results < . ■ 'll;! 17 I

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Women Bowlers In Fort Wayne Tourney Irene Way, of Decatur,-bowling -with the 'HiU-Smith team, in the Fort Wayne city tournament, rolled a 244'game to put her in first place. Dorothy Hoile, with the Hoagland Lumber team, picked up the 6-10-7 split, and the McM>Uen team placed in the money in the same tourney. College Basketball 1 Ball State 77, Butler 54. Taylor :85, Anderson 78. ■ I Frankly 66, Hanover 64. , Indiana Central 87, Oakland Clty-78. 4 Wabash 93, DePauW 92. Manchester 102. Huntington 63. Detroit Tech 84, Indiana Tech 64. Lewis, 111. 82, St. Joseph’s 69. Rio Grande 70, Ashland 63.