Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1953 — Page 7

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1953 ;

Yellow jackets Upset By Stalling Gorillas; Spartans Down Geneva

Decatur’s sectional tourney turn-i .ed into a crazy quilt pattern Thurs*' day night a» two of the pfelourney: [favorites,-the Geneva Cardinals and; Decatur Yellow \ Jackets, were knocked out of the running, the Yellow Jackets in one, of the most stunning, upsets in years. Geneva was blasted from contention in last night's opener by $ tremendous scoring burst by the Pleasant Mills Spartans, 79-48. i Put the Hartford Gorillas, pullefy one of the biggest surprises in local sectional history when th<y stalled their way to a 49-38 triumph ovef the Yellow Jackets, winners of the sectioiral crown for the past' foul years. - ."• \•• - |j The four teams left in the running rested today as tickets for the Saturday session wsmt op sale by the participating schools. The Berne Bears and Mpnmouth Eagles will clash in*’the first semifinal tilt at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, followed by the Pleasant Mill‘d Spartans and the Hartford Gorillas, The- tourney final will be played at B:ls_p.m. V ' ; ■' ' ' Saturday’s games will be broadcast over radio station WG|j, Fort .'Wayne. \ 1 . t Spartans Triumph , The Pleasant Mills Spartans.gained sweet revenge for two earlier, losses at the lTands.it of the Geneva [ Cardinals, as the Spartans ran wild in Thursday night’s opener to whip IQie Cardinals, 79-49. JEktneva took an earlV 3-0 lead on Tom Ctraig’s field goal and a free throw by Jerry Tester, but the Spartans pulled into ties at 6-6 and 8-8 -and Jejry PUce put the Spartans in front to stay on a free throw and a held goal. - - \ The Spartans rolled oh to a 19-12 advantage at the end of the first quarter and boosted their matgin tb 13 points at the half, 39-26 on the sharpshooting of Les Painter and Jerry- Price. Pleasant Mills boosted its advantage to 17 points at the end of three periods, 54-37, and turned the game into a rout with a 25-point final quarter? Les Painter, who Sat out his teai.’s last three regular gainT because of a knee injury, showed little effect of the injury as he led Spartans with 25 points. Little Jerry price counted 18 points and Bud Case 14. Jerry Tester was the only Cardinal [up so-. fotm, scoring 18 points for the only Geneva player in double figures. 'Larry Hanni, the team's leading [scorer • all- season, was limited to eight points, all in the second half. The Cardinals converted 21 of 29 free throws, the Spartans 15 of; 29, Twenty fouls were the Spartans, 19 against Geneva. Hartford Surprises If rhe fang were v startled by the Pleasant Mills margin in the open-

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j _ |er, they were totally unprepared ’■Jor the bizarre second game in J which the Gorillas stalled their kray to. victory over the heavily-favored Decatur Yellow The Gorillas, apparently, figuring their only hope of upsetting the ■ aiellQw Jackets was by retaining -possession of the ball? did Jfhat for the whole ball game, holding' the ball out and forcing the jackets to come after them. j Rather, it was Jerry Augsburger. tour-year veteran of the v Gorillas, held the ball, dribbling around ’|he Renter of the floor’ a^rd-oc-casionally passing off to one; of his spates and then taking a return |ass. to keep up hU “keep-away” tactics. .? When Augsburger wasn’t holding the ball, he was parked at the foul llpe for free throws. Fouled time after time as the* Jackets battled far possession, the Hartforp Veteran hatj the amasing total of 39 chances at the charity strife converted 2-4 of them. To thpse he a|ded two field goals for a leading total of 28 points. ■ Hartfprd walked up an early lead p| 5-0, all on Augsburger free throws, be.fore.Kent Koons and Ferris Kohne hit field goals for Decatur. Gary Brewster then scored Hertford’s only field goal ol[ the finst period and the Gorillas held a 9-6 Ifead at the first quarter. Hertford continued its slow-down tactics in’the second quarter and increased its lead to fivetpoints. 20-15. •r The third \ quarter was more of the same, although .cut its deficit to points, 31-28, going into the final eight minutes of play, i The Yellow Jackets kept battling away. and finally pulled into a tie at on Koons’ fielder. AugSburgefhit his second field goal of the gaiile .but Gene Morrison knotted’it at ’3t;37 on his ninth fielder, with '.Rightly more than four_ jhinutes yet th play. Th’| Jackets, however, counted only ’-one point in the final four minutes, while the Gorillas kept parading to the foul line to boost Cfyenr fin-al margin to 11 points. - Augsburger led all the scorers With his 28 points, and Brewster counted 19. Morrison was; just about the whole Decatur [offense With nine field goals and two foul tosses’for 20 points-. ■ .. The ’ Jackets outscored Hartford Jitom the field, 1A (to 9, but the took advantage of repeated fouls as the jackets fought femxfedly for possession. The Gorillqs corivrrtr i 31 iof 6} free thrown, the a s nine’ of ohly* 22. There'wer, uis called on Decatur, as the Jackets lost five player# oh personals, while 14 were called ton the who lost two starters. X t Pleasant Mills ~ v ‘ FG FT TP King — Jy- 4 (ML ■ 8 Wolfe-L. 2 0-2 4 Case l-_——J- 7 0-2 'l4 Price 1 L- 8 2-4 - 18 'Painter 8 9-15(25 Byer -s I-- v 2-3 ( 8 K>rey —o| H ‘ 1 Fot : o 1-2 I; 1 j L.-^ej<l.--A—o 0-0 (0 Raudeiibush -0; j>-0 ■ 0 > > _—* i | ; Tp|als 32| 15-29 :79 I ; ! . Geneva * L ’ ■ k- f 4 FT TP [ Hanni' L.-A ----H 2 I 4-6 r 8 Cra|g 3 j 3-4 • 9

Penrod -—j-2 M 5 Mapklin 0 2-3 2 Testet —l. —-L-, 5 8-10 18 Long i fl-- ——7 2 Haineso 0-0 0 Stucky :i_, \— 0 0-0 O' BlOwers , 1 2-4 4 Schlsler. 0 1-11 • I ' Totals 14 21-29 F 49 Officials: Shook - \Tiernan, Hartford FG FT TP Augsburger 2 24-39 28 Short -a 2 M ! 4 BrFWstei* 3 4-8 10 JVo’jfe ; 1 2-4 4 Stahly 1* ' s o-0 2 Bixler>_o o\o T) Graber 0 0-0 . 0 Moser 0 1-4 , 1 Toitals 9 31-61 49 j Yellow Jackets FG FT •TP Kohne 2 1-4 5 Vetter 0 1-3 11 Koons 0-0 4 Pollock 0 -1-1 1 Morrison 9 2-4 00 Haltermanno 1-2 1 Ditto 1 2-4 ' 4 Custer '.J O 1-2 1 Duff _4 r — 0 O'® McDougal -0 1-2 1. Totals 14 9-22 38 Officials: Tiernan - Shook. "■ ' v ' \l. ■ \ Tourney Notes For t|ie 'third night running the Decatur gym was jam packed with Adams ; county fans prepared to see two Tip-snorting court contests, rough ajid tough every step, of the way. Both duels demonstrated the vagaries of the game. (Should anyone have said Geneva, would lapse by points he would have been trundled off post haste to Richmond. Yet, it happened, and hereafter tet any self appointed oracle of the sport retire to his cups aiid talk to himself because there won’t be anyone else to answer or shake his head in agreement. —oOo— ■ A casual glance at the four routine sections at the gyiu last nighL lent \ a peculiar insight into the thoughts of each of the groups, Btrpngly enough,, and paints a picture of the seasbri record of each respective team. The Decatur Yellow Jacket crowd, in the northwestern of the gym, fbr instance, exuded a confident calmness, eyes roving leisurely about the gym, looking at nothing in particular, perhaps a laughing whisper once 1 or twice. Befitting NEIC champs followers. ■ —oOo \ i ! 'l I'lr The Hartford Gorilla bunch, directly opposit the YJs. probably realizing thpt their chances were slim, stared straight ahead, neither smiling nor laughing, and just the slightest bit nervous. , —°o°T7 The only wajr to epitlomize the appearance and attitude of the Geneva birds is th say it confident. They sat straight, the elders smilipg wisely, the all agiggle, as children are Wont to Ho when they think they're on the “good” side. No rancor* here as they smiled benevolently upon their foes-to-be sitting opposite. ■ —oOo — ' The Spftrtans of Pleasant Mills looked to be a glum (punch? a few biting their nail#, evidencing anything but calmnesi. A few sat arms akimbo, heavy [lidded as if in a yoga trance. They weren’t giving themselves much rope tp swing the contest their way, not in the face of the record, at any. rate. *' —oho— And the whistles blew and the boys were off and running. Everyi one, with the highly probably; exception of Geneva, was happy to see Les Painter \back in action. His recuperation from a Imdly hurt knee was amazingly swifti . \„. —oOo — Ix>well Smith’s announcement betote the game is y beginning to set a 'few people chortling to themselves. He says something that sounds like “pass out” when leaVJng the gym at any any time, what be means, of course, is clean: get a pass before leaving the building.\ But his choice of Words implies that to pass out at least one time: during the night is a must, and i besides that, |he greatest. V Sheriff Bob Shralulta’s boy,' Bob. Jr., got so excited dhriqg the Jack-et-Gorilla match that tie delivered a jab to the ribs of a »buddy sitting alongside on the stage z to let off steam. They pommiserated with each other later. —“Obo— This business of letting off steam is bo joke. A lass in s the Hartford section, when it became evident that Hartford was successfully stalling the Jackets into dej feat, just sat there und screamed her brunet head oft.

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Most (Favored Teathj: Still In State Tourney TNDIANAJ jp*LIS, UP — Defending champion Muncie Central and a handful oL other top teams advanced a nowh in |he Indiana high school baslc&tbaU sectional tdurneys Thursday night while jexchatnpionkV Idartlnsville and Fort Wayne Spihtn dropped out of the running. ’ [[; Muncie. Becking a third straight title, humbled, Albany in its opener, P 4 to Ml, nd moved ahead with such other npwera as Elkhart, Alexandria inq( Connersville. Martinsviillp lost in overtime to little Morgantown, 42 to 39, and Fort WaytteTSouth fell victim to city\ rival Hjjefttral, 58 to 52. Decatur and also bowed. Despite tho; upsets and eliminations of ‘"biigl names” in prep circles over the’Vears, favorites still, were in abunl|an<e as the tourney moved mtb ii je heaviest with 244 khqtes to determine 256 sectional genwijfinalists oh the Friday card. ! It wak'a hcMOQI holiday in most) Hoosier chtihs as "hittipg ttte books” took 4 backseat-to the am nual hysteria (which will keep the state’s gymnasiums packed from morning to night. Firing got underway at 8:30 a.m., with last; gain i|s scheduled nearly j\2' hours later [i Seventh-ran sing Elkhart marched Into | the semi-finals with an easy 52-to-Sb l v j!n over East NIHSG rival Gosheit. [I Alexandria, he once j beaten Central conferee ij champ, apd South 1 Central :Connersville hurdled first but Northeastern confertem e winner Decatur and Gary Frneiiel, co-holder of the West NIHHO ■ rere derailed Thursday ' Alexandria Anderson St. M,aVy>, I into 36, for its 20th win. Conner# 1 (lie poured it on Laurel, 65 t[d 19. Hertford Center upset Decatut, 38, and Gary Roosevelt totik (ivirtt'-ity foe Froehel, 44 to . 412. jiAlso liT the Steel City. JVfann (tip jet Along with ipecatur, defending sectional tiillisi Rosedale. Valparaiso, Speedy aft and Union [Twp. also bit the dvst Thursday. Rockville licked ;bi isedale, 58 ,\to 52. Potage shaded i Valpo, 60 to 59. Avon beat ■ iSp sedway, 69 to 53. Franklin, the binly team to win the crown tlhifce years running, dumped Union |wp. 64 to 49; Ousting df M irtin&ville and Fort Wayne South n kde it four former winners on tjhf || Undefeated Jssian and Reelsville\collected heir 22nd straight victories to! j<|ti MiddletOwp in Saturday’s Ossian eked out!A 64-to-60 win over Union Cfenter tt Bluffton, while Reelsville bills led Cloverdale at Greencastle, 88 to 50.' \ Lafayette, (an of last year’s “final fou>y,” t< jred with Monitor in its opener. 5‘ (to 38. Lebanon hndL Sullivan centers displayed the! fi ist doubte:overtime struggles of |he ‘[tourney. At Lebanon, I»15 chain: IjThorntown edged Pike Twp.. 612 tjo 60, on Russell Hall’s lib played with the reserves durjmg (he season -while Fairbanks shad s|l Hymera by the same score. ,;; * r . ;■ ■ Family For ConservaMn Club The Decatur Conservation club will observe iai (liy night at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Red Meh hall. A movie. “RJith (ig Trip on Florida Everglades’’ jjvill be showhj and refreshments'se’ ycs. The movie is by Dodd, author ijf jhe Mark Tram cartoon. if .'ll Majority 0 : Pickers Are Out Ot Contest About 80 pc|ct (it of the entrants In the Holth(>Hi!lu| Drug store’s an nual pick-the.4w'i iners contest are (out of the r|(bijng with the defeat last night Decatur Yellow Jackets the hands of' the Hartford - Gorillk a, Some 70 per pent went with fthe Jackets while over eight pet cfept went with the Commodores, j ialfeii losers. Therefore something freund 250 whose Choice went ,with’,|he four teams to play tomorrow; Monmouth. Pleasant Millj* a id Hartford, have any dbance. at ’all, provided, of course, they picked the in •the contest cor kctly. Bob HolthouAe will anj&oijtoce the winners next Monday. l[ || ■ . All Aboard Rescued As WASHINGTON [,UP — A Navy patrol plane ditdlted in the midAtlantic today ai|d all 10 persons aboard were picked up by the cogst guard < utt dr Coos ’ Bay in 35; minutes, the Davy reported. , The plane we 4 down In the ocean at 1b:32 <. ii. The plane, a J* iV:\Neptune landbased patrol itiiaffc whs about halfway from Berwufl|a to the Azores vilitp one of iti tw engines failed. ’ (

Sectional Scores At Deeatur I \ Pleasant MUls 79, Geneva 49. . Hartford 49, Yellow Jackets 38. At Bluffton Qasian 64, Union Center 60. Bluffton 65, Jackson 51. At Fort Wayne >Harlah |67, Woodburn 44. j ' Leo 51.'Huntertown 4&. Fort Wayne Central 58,’ Fort ’ j Wayne 'South 52. Fort Wayne Concoydia 74\ \ New Haven 54. \ ( ! Monroeville 61, ( Central 56. , At Hartford City Pennville 54, Madison Twp. 43. Montpelier 74, Pojing 67. Roll' 59. Bryant 67. At Huntington Clear Creek 72, Union Twp. 49. • Huntington Catholic 64, Bippus 58. ■ p Jefferson Twp. 59, Wayne Twp. 37. Lancaster 65, Markle 49. Polk Twp. 57, Jefferson 43. t At Kendallville Kendallville 36, Wawaka 22. • Ligoinief 7K Springfield Twp. 39 AyHla 59, Lima 44Cronrwell 41, Topeka 35. Wolf. Lake 52, Brighton 39. At Warsaw Leesburg '47, Pietceton 40. Larwill 58, Claypool 50. \ Mentone 58, Beaver Dam 56. Silver Lake 71, Burket 47. Warsaw 77, Columbia City 42. ; j 1 Pro Basketball NBA Results Syracuse 89. Fort Wayne 77. Boston 82, Baltimore 81. Minneapolis 85, Philadelphia 73. . ' . 1 College Basketball Indiana Central; 82, Anderson 75. Ball State 87, Franklin 57. St. Josetiih’s 66, Valparaiso 64.. Dayton ; 81, Bowling Green 56. 1

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Bob Lemon Highest Paid In American [ By UNITED f»RESS Bob Lemon, who returned to the 20-vlctory class last year after a disappointing 1951 season, was rewarded ■ today with a contract which made him the highest paid player in the American League. Lemon signed for 84,500 —a $5,000 raise—to become the first of the Cleveland Indians’ “big three ot the mound” to agree to terms. General Manager Hank' Greenberg, hoping the others will follow Lemon’q l«;ad, announced he had held a recent telephone conference with Mike Garcia. [ At the same time the New York Yankees, also striving to reduce an unwieldy holdout list, announced the signing of, Ed Lopat, who slipped from 21 victories in 195(1 to 10 in 1952. Lopat was reported to have signed a conditional contract which could earn him as little as *121,000 or as much, as 825,000. The Indians now have six players unsigned while the world champions have seven. 1 At Vero Beach, Pljillies’ Manager Steve O’Nei[trs statement that the Dodgers wopld repeat as National lieqgue champions drew a rebuttal from ManCharley Dressen, while at St. Petersburg, Fla., Eddie Stanky denied that the St. Loulg Cardinals were interested in ■ obtaining lEddie Waitkus from the Phils. , “Robin Roberts isn’t gonna beat us si* times this year, either," said Dressen ip reply to O’Neill. O’Neill said the Dodgers would fail to repeat because they would not beat the second division teams as regularly as they did last year.

Stanky, denying a report by a Phillies* spokesman, said he was not interested in Waitkus and that either Dick Sisler or Steve Bilko would open the season at first base. The Yankees also.denied a report that they are interested in Waitkus with the quip: “Top silly to deny.” ’ | I Ferris Fain, American League batting champion traded by the A’s to the White flox, also was in a qiupping mood. “They did me a favor.’V Fain said. “This club cqn win the pennant.” It wag a sharp thrust since the A’s believe they are a contender, too, as a result of the acquisition of slugger Robinson for Fain. BOWLING SCORES AMERICAN LEGION LEAGUE D. Burke 201-203; L. Hackman 208; L. Ulman 212; C. Korte 200; iffi. Bultemefer 221; C. Stevens 206; C. Leonard 244’; B. Mutschler 222; M. Mies 200-254; H. Strickler 209, High sbries: C. Leonard 606; M. Mies 607. Tantkers won three from Gunners; Mies Recreation won two from Burke Standard; Bultemeier won two from Non Coms; Macklins won two from Ashbaucher. - Team Standings \ > W L Pts. Macklins i.J. 15 6 21 Tankers 1 14 7} 17 Mies Recreation 12 9 18 Non Coms 11 10 16 Bultemeiers 11 10 14 Burke Standard 10. 11 14 Ashbauchers 6 15 7 Gunners i........... 51 J. 6 5 The great fire which destroyed Boston in 1679 a boon to brickmakers. They set up kilns on Boston Cbmniop to make the material to rebuild the coit-.;The bricks were of uniform size —.9"x4”x2” —artd anyone deviating from the norm was deemed a civil criminal.

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