Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1953 — Page 7

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1958

Monmouth Wins First Sectional Crown > ■ . • \ h ■ ’ A ' - ■. ■ V • • < :

Eagles Rally In Final ' Period To Take Title | Game By 55-52 Score | ■ \ \ k iuh

> Monmouth’s Eagles today are \ sporting the first sectionpl championship in the school’s history after the Eagles battled from behind to defeat the Pleasdnt Milla Spartans, 55-52, in a rip-roaring sectional fjnal game at the Dec*-; tur gym Saturday night. Tiie Eagles wrpn their way ’to the finalsXby eliminating the Berne Bears. 55-39, in tile first semi-final Saturday afternoqn, and the Spartins whipped the Hartford Center 1 1' Gorillas, 62-32, in the other semi-l final, clash. I I Monmouth now will'carry the backing of Adams county fans into •.he regional tourney -at the hew coliseum in Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon, the Eagles meeting the * Kendallville Comets in the meet opener at 1 q’clbck. Fort Wayne Central willjangle at 2:15 o’clock with the Aubjurn -Red Devils, regional champions for the past four ; , years. The afternoon winners will ' 'clash at 8:15 o’clock for the right to compete in the semi-final tour-/ s ngy, also to be.held kt .the Fort Whyrie coliseum, Saturday, March - M- . Eagles Rally To Win The Eagles won their first sectional crown the hard way, rally-' ing in tke.final, period after trailing the' fepartans most of the game. j ' 4 I Pleasant Mills held a scant 4941 margin the teams entered the flnhl eight minptes of play. George Sonner converted two free throws when fouled on successive playa and the Pleasant Mills lead -Was only 49-47. _ A field goal' by Tom Drew knotted the spore at 49-49, but Herman Fox dropped in a foul toss to reT gjain the lead for the Spartans at 50-49 With just four minutes to play./ Dick HarvdJ’s fielder, shot the Eagles back in front at 51-50, and foul tosses by Dick Bultemeyar and Harvey built the Monmouth (bulge to 53-Bf). Dee Wolfe kept the Pleasant Mills hopes alive when he connected? «> r a two-pointer with only 40; seconds of playing time rerriaiiynjg, but Harry Myers ii d tW crown for the Eagles when he hit fielder ©f ■ the game... | 1 ’ Thp first quarter was a nip and tuck battle wjth the score tied at 6-6, 7-7 and 9-9, with the Spartans hanging on to* a -narrow one-point ( margin, 16-15> at the end of the' period, paced jby Jerry Price’s seven points. 1 • The championship battle was,, i tied at 17-17 and 18-19, before Les i Painter and.: Price took charge with 10 points to boost their bulge J-, to 28-18 before Harvey hit a foul ‘ tos» with less than three minutes V-to'go in the half. The Spartahs hdld'on to an eighLpoint margin at the half, 37,-20.. The Eagles began whittling away at the deficit and by the end of the third; quarter had. cut, the Pleasant Mills lead to four points, 49-45. _ :• , Harry Mv*rs was the hop point i producer for the new sectional champions, bagging 21 points op

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5 —1 f Ik ALL-SECTIONAL TRAM { ' || I Player Team s \ Position r Harry Myers Monmouth Forward Dick Harvey Monmouth 1 Forward Jerry Sprunger | Berne Forwufd] Steve Gass . \ Commodores Forward Bud Case | Pleasant Mills Centefi’ George Sonner Momjiouth j- Centeth' ; Les Painter Pleasant Mills GuardHj Jerry Price ’. Pleasant Mills Guardi ; Jerry Augsburger Hartford . Guardi Gene Morrison Yellow Jackets Guardi

bight fieldgoals and fiv» frete throws. The Spartans’ veteran guards paced Pleasant Mills, Jerry Price counting 17 points ai d Les Painter 16. The Eagles concerted 17 of 33 free throws, the Sp|artans 18 of 57. | Both teams suffered from “four trouble as 22 personals were called on ‘Monmouth and 21 on Pl ?asant Mills. Jim Fleming of the Eagles got into trouble early with three personals after only three minutes of play had elapsed, and aft ar sit-. , ting out much of the game, finally went out on five fouls Ijate In the third period. The Spartans lost both their top scorers in the final quarter. Price with about si* minutes to play, and Painter y ith a minute to go. Baars Eliminated Berne led only once in the first semi-final game, Stu Miler’s* field ■ JTield goal putting the Bears on top at 2-1 after Willie Bulmahn opened the scoring \Wlth a free throw. Two- foul tosses; by Jim Fleming and one each by Dick and Harry Myers gave Monmouth:a 5-2 lead and the Ragles were never headed. Monmouth held a margin of 11-7 at the \first quarter and increased this margin by only one point to 23-18 at the half. k Each team • tallied 13 points in the third period, with the Rears spurting from a 10-polnt deficit, 35-25, with a little over a minute to play, to cut their deficit to SCSI at the end of tie quarter, j The. Bears \lost Jerry Springer on fouls after three) minutes df the final period, and the Eagles began to pull steadily aiay for their final 16-point victory? : ( ’ v Harry - Myers. also topped the ■Eagles’ scoring in this tilt, hgain ' with 21 points, for the only player , on either team to reach dpiible figures. Three Bedrs each thliied K seven points and tiiree scored six. Monmouth made good on 19 of foul attempts. Bene on 13 of 27. The Bears lost on fouls*, Jerry Sprunger, Ned Bixler and Ches : ter Smith, while Monmouth lost Dick Harvey. • Spartans Blast Gorillas - The Hartford (gorillas, Whose possession game knocked the defending champion ibeedtur Yellow jackets out of sectional contention in the Thursday nisht content, attempted the\ same strategy against Pleasant Mills, find it worked fairly well for the first quarter. Free throws by Jprry AugslburgI er and Kenny Wi>|fe gave Hartford a 2-0 lead but Jerry Price’s set shot knotted it at 2*2, The teams traded points: in a slow first i quarter, with Priced hitting from the field for a 9-8 Spartan le*dThe Spartans s<qred 12 -points in the second quarter before Wolfe finally broke the ice for Hartford after six minute* of play and Pleasant Mills was on top, 23-12, at the half. , ' ; With Hartford forced to abandon its possession ganie, the Bplartdns began to roll sfod at th ® d n d :of the third period held a 44-21 advantage. Reserves saw plenty of action in the final quarter Jas Pleasant Mills cairied on to jits 62-32 triumph. , i s . Painter topped the Pleasant Mills scoring with 22 points amd Price addedil4. Gariy Brewster v|as the duly Gorilla ini double figures i With 11 points’ Tho Spartans;cbn- ■ verted eight of 21 free throw i chances, the i T venty-one fouls were .called on pleasant Mills, 11 qp Hartford. Monmquth 'FG FT TP - — -i— 8 3-5 21 'ftarvey i-.-r+f 2 5-7 j /9 'Bulmahn ---!+• i- r 1 1-4 j 3 ' bre w —J-U 1 A 2-6 ; 4 I Fleming —3. 3-4) 7 bnlHneyer 0 0 fiuuck --14 0 o '° 0 i Conner -L- 2 4-8 8 -r 0 1-1 1 Orandstaff Ik- 1 <4-2 2 i ? ■' h —’ | 'j ■ Totals j-i 18 19-37 55 i Berne , | L . r . FG FT TP ■rM. Lehman Ju-—u 2 2*B 6 |BUIcr ............pi 3 1-1 .’ 7

1,319 TICKETS ij | Gail Grabill, Monmouth h flh school principal, announced today that the school has bfcfen allotted 1,319 tickets for !t|ie Fort Wayne . regional tourdey Saturday at the war memorial coliseum. The tickets are priced at $1.60 each for the two seseions. All seats are reserved. I The tickets will go on at the Monmouth school Tuesday morning. All Monmouthseason ticket holders 'be first taken care of, and lhe tickets remaining will therijbe sold on a first come, first Served basis. Deadline . Ifor purchase of the tickets Jis Thursday noon, when any iinsold must be returned to Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne Cent9hl was allotted 3,832 tickets, Ap-\ burn 1,579 and 1,700. —— .- i I.’ Smith J 5-6 ii: 7 J. Sprunger _— 3 1-1 -j|’ 7 Miller 2 2-8 ;i 6 L. Lehman 0 ff-0 || 0 B. Sprunger 0 0-0 Hi 0 Ehrsam 0 0-0 : J’ <1 Kirchhofer 2 6 • • ■' t i Tptals 13 13-21 39 \ Score by quarters: I «ul ' Monmouth Lll 23 36 ’j. 55 Berne k 7 18 31 jji 39 Officials: Shook, Tiernan. H|| Pleasant Mills \ FG FT’ TP King —a- 0 2-3.iH 2 Wolfe ... 1 0-1 2 Case -— 2 2-26 Price' u 7 0-2!j’l4 Painter 10 2-4 |;'22 K. Frey I—l—'"2 0-0 | 4 1 1-4 | 3 Raudenbush. 0 1-2 ||: 1 R. Frey-L.u —- ? 0-0 : 4 Fox . £ 0-21; ,4' Totals J 27 8-2li 62 Hartford ‘jl FG FThTP Moser - ' 4 1-S\j 3 Short 1 'O-2 | 2 Brewster — _ 3 5-9j.tt.ill Augsburger 2 3-3 7 Wolfe 4-----T 4 l$ ; ' 8 Graber T 0 0-0 J' 0 Alt -_J„_\ 0 0-0 i ; 0 Stably v 0 I' 2 l 1 1 Bixler - J 0 0-0 Q Miller ___j __-d 0 0-0 I 0 Totals 9 14-34 32 Score by quarters: , ; ! Pleasant Mills __ 9 23 44 ! i 62 Hartford 8 12 Sli|ij32 Officials: Tiernan, Shook. 'F i \ FINAL GAME Monmouth 1 ,' " y i . FG FT iTP Myqrs 8 5-8 L 2)1 Haitvey ...J- 2 S*B L 9 Sonner =— 2 4r5 |L 8 Fleming ! 0 0-0 s'' 0 Drew‘‘J.,— 3 0-3 J' 6 Bulmahn 1 1-4 |i ’’ R*»ltemeyer 3 2-5 L 8 Totals. 19 17-33155 Pleasant Mill* ii] FG FT |TP King 2 .0-4 L 4 Wolfe - -I 2 1-6 lii 5 Case J__„.-J 2 3-7 7 Price J 6 5-11 |pl7 Painter 5 6-8 | 16- ' Byer 4-~- 1 1 0-0 2 R. Frey <r— 0 O’-O 0 Fox — 0 1 1-1 .iijivl ’ Totals 18 16-37 ;'jfi2 Score by quarters: Ih 1 Monmouth ,i__ 15 29 45 155 1 Pleasant Mills . 16' 37 49 *&2 Officials: Tiernan. Shook. H i ' ’ll i College Basketball; ; Indiana 91,' Illinois 79. * ii Michigan State 77J Purdue 72,L ! Wisconsin 69, Ohio State 63. i|H lowa 93, Northwestern 78. i Minuesota 83, Michigan 69. jl' St. Louis u t 78, Drake 66. jJ • Brarfley 59, Oklahoma A & M all. Kansas State 88. Colorado 69. T: Oklahoma 78, Nebraska <O. j j A. I Ii i

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j _l__ L IpgMiLl CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EiAGLES AND COACH PORRYJ j j, — oOo— . . The Mdjnmouth Eagles, in winning fheiff first sectional cham\ pion?hip. jii the school’s history, dame through* in true championshipl stjHe? in Saturday’s thrillpacked filial, rallying in the final period tio 'overcome a fine e.nt Mill* ,i|eam. | | —oOo— And th® Eagles had to co4e through tHe liard >V a y- Monmouth, through tlfo fortunes of the draw, was fohceu to play four games to come through to victory aS a result of hieing drawn, for the Tuesday rfikht encounter. i, -000With thfej sectional victory, the Eagles ‘brought their season recjord to an excellent mark of 18 triumph* dtod six defeats. ♦ ■■■ ■j., —obo— Adams county will back the Eagles Saturday as they carry on tojreglonal play at Fort * Wayne, she Eagles vyill meet the KeincfollVille Comets in the regional Opener at 1 o'clock i Saturday'; afternoon. In the j second encounter, the Auburn Red Devils, regional champions tlh J 'past .four years, will open thefr title defense against the Fort; Wayne Central Tigers. Foil the first time, the. regional Will, be played in the beautiful,l spacious new Allen , county tolar memorial coliseum. j . j 1 . t — oOo— . J | \ The big. a urprise of th|e sectional, of cchtirsb, was Hartford’s elimination olf the Decatur Yellow Jackets, itojrney champion* for four successive years. That game win be plajpd qyer and oyer for •Winy ye*r^ } aq Wd most unusual *n I most form-reversing contests ever played in a Decatur sectional.;: , jjecond in line of surprises. also,'ot the Thursday night session, the mercHess drubbing the P easant Mills Spartans gaye tlie C qneva Cardinals after losing, twi-e previously to jthe Cardinals. . 1 . ■ J .J :— oOo— , Those Ossian Bears continue to 1 pH. The Bears maintained ti dir undefeated season record hy winning the Blufftoh jiiectional Saturday. Ossian’*, 1 ©ughest game was against (he. Bluffton Tigers, whom they defeated, 57-55, in the semifinal's. Beating Bluffton on 14s' Own floor is a tough (task at asjiy time. | oOo— ’ ; Another, t iidefeated teiain, North Webster. I;lit merrily on its way by copping Hie Warsaw: section-]!, blit the static’s'other two quintets uhbhaten Hiring the seison, MiL dietbwn Reu*isviUe. fell n Saturday's iltiy. | \ J ,j L- j. Klenk'sj Winner Os Vim League Tourney Klenk’s ol| Decatur to oh the Vi:ji\ league toi?:t|d.v chainpiciiship Sunday night. 11 defeating Rousseau Bros.. in the final game, played ash | preliminary to the Zoillner Fjptjms.-.Milwaukde Hjawks NBA gaihe jat the I Feri Wayne coliseum. * , Klenk’s jiefc gs the first quarter. 13+4. and a* the half, 20-14, but Rousseau mpved into a 33-29 advantage ajt tfhe third ! period but coitld not halt Decatur’s final-quar-ter jsplurga. ■ i Ojrvl Reed. J with 13 points, was the! only IfoiAtur. player in double, figures. Betriing tallied 12 and Burris 11 ho nts. for Roussehu. J. * nKlenk’s • !im FG FT ’TP Doan 1... ;• 2 0 4 Ballard . Ii 6 S Reed 4 5 13 Hoehammer ■> 11 3 Cfist J.;.' J 2 4 8 Moses ti......: 3. 2 8 Price 0 2‘ 2 TOTALS 13 ’ 20 4$ Roiisseau Bros. FG FT TP Bryson ...44.4 0 11 Bernlnx j... 5 2 Burris -4*4,1 4;-\ 3 11 Marquette : J 11 \(I 2 Hanley, ....ijjjju j 2 1 5 Krouse J 0 0 0 Mcßride 4,4 3 0 6 Huguenard Ju 1.1 3 TOTAL 16 S 10

: ' — —...— . — . - ■ . - 'J' J-V , • FIRST-TIME SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS j {v.-- XLwl.'soiW s_, 5 _ , I * 1 Bb l -fl Zlh -I Mr JI : jfr.. u .. wn MiMWffrf 1 1 in ,* y J|T Z.. tj.L ,jj:. a jj.j. f . \ jH-ont row. left to right—Dick Bultemeyer, Tom Drew. Harry Myers, Gerry Grandstaff. Jim Fleming. Don Gallmeyer. Don Christianer. 6 Bear row, left to right—Charles Holt,-coach; Larry Andrews, student manager: Paul Fuhrman. Dick Harvey. Willie Bulmahn, |*oni Buuck, George Sonner, Dick Schiefersteln, student manager; G. M. Grabill, principal. . j 1

Sectional Scores At Decatur Monmouth 55, Berne 39. I Pleasant Mills 62, Hartford Cenler 32. Monmouth 55, 1 Pleasant Mills 52 (final). \ , At Kendallville :• Kendallville 69, LaGrange 55. Avilla 62, Wolf Lake 58. Kendallville 76, Avilla 69 (final). At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne North 56, Elmhurst 55. Fort, Wayne -Central 64, Fort WAyne Concordia 44. Fort; Wayng {central 53, Fort WAyne North 49. \ At Auburn AubWUJ >5. Angola 46.;-« ; Butldr 62j Fremont 59. AnUgrn 69. Butler 56 (final). f At Bluffton Central 62, Chester Ceptej 49. Ossipn 57. Bluffton 55. ' Ossian 75, Lancaster Central 55 (qnal). J At Hartford City Hartford City 57, Portland 43. Montpelier 60. Harford City 92. Gray 53 (final). t \ At Marion Falrniount 49, Van Bi(ren 47. Misslssinewa 61. Marion 34. Mift*issiQewa 69, Fairmount 49 (final), Y At Huntington - Huntington 44, Clear Creek 25. rdonnment City 63, Lancaster 58. Huntington' 38. Monument City 37 - (dyertime, final’. ' At Warsaw Sidnqy 59, Leesburg 48. \[ ’ North Webster 56. Silver Lake 52. North Webster 53, Sidney 34 (final). Local Officials To \ Work In Regional; Two Decatur .officials. Gerald ' 'StrfcMler and Lores Lehman, have been assigned to regional tourney* Saiufilay. Lehman will be the Nd. 1 official at Kokomo and Styicklef the Nb; 1 official at Hammond. Other referees at Kokomo are Paul Grimes. Stan jDubis and J. C. LaFollette. Otheirs at Hammond are Burl McKenzie, Walter Bonham and De.hn Geyer., , [ Officials for the Fort Wa.vne regional are Victor Griewank, EJ L- AldriicH, Eugene G|aze and Eddie Hei.bert. Pro Basketball NBA RESULTS i Saturday New York 85,: Fort Wayne 74. Baltimore 77. Syracuse 74. Milwaukee 87, Philadelphia 73. Rochester 92, ; Boston 85. i s Sunday Fort Wfoyne 76, Milwaukee 74. Syracuse 79, New York 64. \ Minneapolis IQ2. Philadelphia 80. j

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L St. Joe Winner In CYO Grade League St. Joe of Decatur whipped St. Joseph’s of Fort Wayne, 33-14, in a CYO grade league game Saturday mornihg at Fort Wakne. \ Decatur led at all periods, 7-3 19-$ ( Km 25-10. R. Meyer was high acorer for Decatur with 14 points, and Teeple tallied 12. Teders was high for Fort Wayne with five. Deeatur FQ FT TP Kable 0 1 \ 1 Hake ...r.^?..ri.:r.~... *tr —fr — q R. Meyer h .. 7 0 14 Tteeple J... 6 9 12 Heiman 1 0 2 TOTALS :16 tl S 3 Ft. Wayne FG FT TP O’Brien ? i, 11 » Teders 2 15 Miller 1 '0 2 Glaser . ' 10 2 Minick , J 10 2 Flepack 0 O' 0 Howard :...., J...A. 0 0 1 0 TOTALS 6 2 *l4 ■ ; w Mr K' 4- *' ' ’IjK MMk DR. CLARENCE R. DECKER, president of the University of Kansas City. Mb. for 15 years, resigned in a faculty controversy over the administration of the college. The 20-year-old university haa 1,900 students. The faculty controversy erupted into the open when four top staff member*, including the vice-president, resigned Thia wa* followed by student mass meetings and a partial boycott of classes.

Tourney Notes A startling thing for one who never seen the basketball fever of Indiana at its hottest, with all the plainly shown 'pdrtisan feeling, is to watch \ how loyalties switch. For example, Hartford, that Thursday downed Decatur, was being cheered on by many Decatut f*n* when they played Pleasant Mills in the semifinals- Saturday afternoon. That’s a tough nut to crack in any state. A strange lot, these basketball fans. ; —bOo— j. It is well known that the IHSAA • forbids any not specifically approved demonstrations of any kind during halftime Or any other time at a sectional, tourney. Several ingenious students of an unidentified school got around that barrigr, however, and used an unraveling roll of toilet tissue as a ping-pong ball and had a gay time at halftime and quarter time, the roll criss-crossing the court finally dissappearing into the stands bouncing off some poor unfortunate’s head. —oOo— • 1 y One aloof lad must have finally become bored with the play Saturday afternoon and propped up against away silting on * metal chair on the floor —reading a gory comic book. + Police protection was at its maximum, fully half the police department -present tb preserve the peace. Nqt *0 much as a high biasing match had a chance Saturday night as many uniformed volunteers of the Deoatur fire department would | have forthwith pounced on it ,to save the day. —oOo— Perhaps the man who did the most to make the job easy tor the * press and officials was Sjtev’e Ever- ■ hart. H* provided lineups of each; of the contending teams before each i game and conferred with the refe-l rees every so often to provide them{ with whatever they might have needed, t • 000 : And so a craiy. hypnotic, heotic. limp-as-a-rag week* fades into his- i tory that it is hoped may set the , pattern for battle among l men in [the future—on a wood court throw\ I lug a ball instead of lead. —- . And the majority of 2.CO* basketbail fans went out of their heads as I the final guu rang round the De-1 eatiir high gym Saturday night an- 1 bouncing' to everybody- and his » brother that little Monmouth had .for th* first time won the sectional tourney crown. In a (lash the rotund “Porky” Holt was in the center of his whooping,’• unbeiieveably happy crew of baskttballers. tugging, be-! ing hugged: everybody kissing, hob; lerlng, jumping, the f*ns choking

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■■ 1 > 11 — ■■ the court to get a good look at the 1953 champs, r And it seems that women aren’t the only species of human beings that cry when they are happy; Tom Drew, for instance, jumped up waving his arms wildly, with a smile that reached around his head and tears streaming down his face. After tourneji manager Hugh J. Andrews presented the basketball to coach Porky the team took him up on their shoulders and paraded L him most of the way to the Ipcker room where Larry Anspaugh waited * with his camera to catch the ex--1 pressions on the faces of the boys' r who may never in their lifetimes 1 feel the same a| they did last Satur- • day night. !. ' ~' 1 Seton Holl Upset By Dayton, 71-65 NEW YORK UP — Daytons upset at record - smashing Seton Hall left only three perfect-record basketball teem* in the nation today—Rio Grande of Ohio. Arkansas Tech, and Fairleigh-Dickinson of New Jersey. . Seton Hall had won 2V straight, a new record for an unbeaten cdub. before bowing to Dayton Sunday night. 71-65. Rio Grande has won 38 games, Arkansas Tech 21, -and FairleighI Dlicklnsbn Is. . \ '■: 1 I ■■4 -'T „ V Hubert Butler Is Guessing Winner Hubert Butler, of Decatur route 5, wx>n the sectional guessing contest conducted by the Holthouse drug store. Butler missed on his predictions op only one gaihe. Other winners were: second, R. E. | route ..1; third. Dale Schnepf; route jl; fourth, Mary Lou Lewfo n > route 1; fifth, Susan Conierset. route 5, and sixth, Dickie Lewton, route 1. One return, fnissing only three games, purportedly was from the American Red I Cross at Idaho, Egypt. • •'

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