Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1953 — Page 7

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Hoosier Prep Year Featured By Underdogs

: .INDIANAPOLIS, UP Underdogs, primarily from small towns, enjoyed one of their best seasons' iij manj? years, a final survey of the 1-952-53 Indiana high school basketball 'campaign showed todgy. { ]' I There were thrills and spills by 1 (the dozen, but none greater than ; little Milan’s sensational tourney .• play to {give the “people’s choices” ; something to holler about for the ; first time in seven years. There were hitter disappoint-ments.-too, probhbly none greater than the of pre-season favorites Seymour, Indianapolis • Crispus Attacks, ' Jeffersonville [arid Evansville Central. V Seymour, built abound beanpole {Harold Wilson, couldn’t even survive its own sectional. \ Fort the straight season, inone of the major .quintets reachleg the four-week tourney tunbeaiien. JeffersoßViilfe’s powerful Red Devils lost a Friiiay-the-lSth game •■■ iati Columbus. 73 Ito 62, two weeks 'before the state tourney opened—{their only regular-season less — ithen got the ax in the semi-finals. "J New Albany’s Bulldogs, lipked [just once during the last campaign saw their 51-game home winning streak blasted in their opener by icpirydon, 48 to 46. The Bulldogs jtlhrn dropped seven successive gapnes before breaking into the i {wiih column. : piere were oddities, too. such * its {New Castle's Walter Hassfruderfusing oxygen to give “pooped4>ut”‘ players a shot in the\ann on the! side lines. Hassfruder claimed the device has merits, but the extra; air went' back into the cooler dftbr rival coaches protested. 1 The controversial “one-and-one” j free- throw rule came in for plenty of comment soirrO pro, but mostly ip the none of the coaches hdd a better idea, although uiany of thent apparently 1 favored that it be junked. ; {Some teams", like Milan, liked ’ tiJfe idea.' Coach Marvin ‘Wood’s' profited by Hje rule when . they indoctrinated their deliber-'t-W '

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ate game which sidelined tone favorite after the other during the tourney. T\hey cashed in plenty from the free throw line while their (opponents tried desperately to gain possession of the ball. ‘ Four small outfits reached the tourney unbeaten —North. Webster Ossian, Middletown, and | Reels* ville. \ I \ 1 Ben Davis and Hol and ; turned In the top sectional upsets—over once-beiten Indianapolis Tech and Southern Conference champ Huntingburg, respectively. Milan and ZionsVijle became brand-new regional champions and the stage was set for the crowning of a new “king” when Richmond shaded Muncie Central in a double-overtime. The accent remained; o£ little Milan when the Ripley '■county boys derailed Shelbyville after the latter bumped Attu^jkb—-for the Indianapolis semi-final championship. score: 43; to sl. Shelbyville's advice -to ; South Bend Central. afternoon •foe in the title round; “You’d better, get out in front early if you hope to wih." They did, top, winning easily,\sd to 37, and shattera “people’s choice" dream Os the cherished titlfe to a small town for the first time since 1915. Terre J-iaute Gerstmpyer. dumped Richmond, arid the u Sout|i Benders- shaded Gerstmeyer, 42t0 41, for the - crown— their first -rand a tremendous {plum for coach; Elmer McCall,. whcl succeeded: in Jiis ijnitiaf attempt at .1 thie upstate school. *

Gerald Strickler Named By Officials ‘ Gerald Strickler, Decatur real estate operator associated with Kent Realty and Auction Cb.. and •for many years one of northern Indiana’s leading high school <athletic officials, was elected- vicepresident of the Northeastern Indiana- officials association at {the annual \ election held at. Fort Wayne Tuesday. Striekler was named vicQ-presi-dent to head the division gbvernIhg basketball officiating. Qther officers named include: Don Liebhrum. president: Glen Stebing. vice-president in charge of football; \George Collyer, secretary-, treasurer, and \ Lawrence plater, 4ergeant-at-artns. ; i' New . directors include: :L|oyd Bryan, Richard Duffield ani|\ William Miller. j . ■■; r— : : | ' Candy Firm Robbed Os $4,000 By Pair Fi' ■ I • ■ BEDFORD. Ind. UP — Twp men who /'robbed the Taylor Candy Co. of ILOOO in cash and clhecks w|re sought today.

t Police said the men, dresSed work clothes and armed w|th retook the money and checks fronUa counter as they were befog ported-Tuesday. hStdte police feared- they eluded blocks and escaped in ; a par polked nearby. -—l—- — Back From Convention ; . jt ■* ,i|r ’Lawrence * (Bud) Anspaugh. Dephotographer has retarded from French Lick Springs where lie attended the three-day convention of the Indiana photographers association. Seven of prints chosen for exhibition in the photographic salon, whiqh includes the best 300 prints and color ’transparencies submitted by members of the group. More than 40ft Indi* aija professional photographers attended the three day session.

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Argentine Favored For Billiard Title CHICAGO UP — Ezequiel Navarra was the leading favorite today to win the wbrld three cushion Milliard championship Vacated by Willie Hoppe, thit the 36-year-old r Argentine personally believed his chances w’ould be better if the games were longer. -■ \ “flaying 5Q point matches,” hd said, “anybody in the tournament} can beat anybody else if x they get a good run. I would be more optimistic about my chances if we wbre playing S«(T point games/* Navarra believed that Japanese Inirey Matsuyama! Mexican ’ Joe* Chaniaco, or Harold Worst, .Grand Rapids. Mich., had equal chances to win. s “They’re all good coippetent playerp,” he said, “and nobody in this tournament is a standout. Not like when Hoppe was playiUg.” Navarra rated Hoppe and Welker Cochran as the greatest three cushion billiard players in history and said only when pressed tpat so far as he knew he was the only player ever to beat both of them, j I Navarra’s tr. ■ ■■ came in 1949- in Argentina when he won a 30-match series, 1,500 to 1!,337j He bsat Cochran in Un exhibition here recently, and said that;Cochran told him later that nobody had ever beat him two blo<M : >n succession until* Navarra beat him ih It straight. ? ' *'! : Jhink I Know more how to play-up here,” he said. “YoU have a , smaller ball,' one <entjmeter s haljer. yes, but that’s the. kame for everybody. But your cushions they pre so much quicker than what we have.”

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Klenk's Winner Os First Tourney Tilt Klenk's of Decatur, after farther net laurels, advanced to the ’ second ipund of the annual post 1 office tourney, \ played at Fort ‘ Wayne, defeating Putt 85-67, Tuesday night. | The Decatur team was ahead by \ only one point, 19-18', at the first { quarter, hut pulled away to a halftime Advantage of 42-31, and a third r pferiod bulge of 60-49. 'I Doelirnian paced Klenk’s with 24 points, and B. Putt led the winners with 21. * <4 Klenk’s will nieet Mahon in a second round game at 6:45 o'clock Friday evening. Klenk’s ,FG FT TP Ballard 1.5 5 15 Tomlin ... 4 0 ,8 Hoehammer ........ 0t 0 0 Reed 4 5 2 12 Doehrman ...... 9' >6 24 Jim Price 6 \ 3 15 Jerry (Price , ... 5 1 11 f ’ ' ____X \ TOTAI.S 34 17 85 Putt Decorators \ : FG PT 'V Kostbff A 1 0 2 Wilson* 10 2 Doehyman ' v 7 4 IS McComb :..., 2 0 4 B. Putt 10 1 21 Stansk| i 2 0 4 Brenizdr .\ 5 4 14 V TOTALS/ 29 9 ,87 ■ JU' I If yoh have something to sell or rooms : for rent, try a Democrat Want; Add. It brings results.

Rupp Seeks Action Against Attorney . CHICAGO, UP —Adolph Rupp, basketball coach at the University of . Kentucky, saye hie attorney will akk federal court disciplinary action; arid bring disbarment proceedings against a Lexington, Ky., lawyer who named Rupp, a gambler and a former bookmaker in a';i573,827 damage suit. \i Th®'suit was filed last Friday by attorney J. A. Eclge in Lexington federal court. It named as plaintiff; Mra. Lucille Chumbley Bradberry of Athens, Ga., and asked triple damages for alleged gambling losses. . \ {Mrs. Bradberry hag asked that thß suit be withdrawn, and said it’[was filed without her knowledge or consent, Rupp said. Rupp, here to fulfill a speaking engagement, sai(k he wanted to use possible means to counteralleged damage to his character. said he was convinced M?s. Brpd<berry was as “innocent a Victini" of the .publicity attendan.t on t|he suit he was. Other defendants in the suit weye New York gambler Frank Costello and Ed Curd, described as a former Lexington bookmaker. "'': i • ’ Injun Territory WILLOUGHBY, O. UP — One of ' the bloodiest battles between the .early settlerip and the Iroquois Indians in the winning of the North wept Territory was fought here; on the present site ojt the Willoughby High School.

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Concordia Loses In College Tournament HUTCHINSON, Kin. UP —Hannibal LaGrange beat Coneordia of Fort Wayne, Ind,, 87 to 74 Tuesday to move into the quarterfinals in the national junior college basketball tournament. Detroit, Montreal Win Hockey Openers By UNITED PRESS .A red-hbt attack and flaming tempers marked the start of the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs as the favored Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Crinadiens got off In front today. The Wings provided the hot attack as they swamped their Boston Bruin "cousins” Tuesday night, 7-0, in Detroit, and the Chicago Black Hawks displayed the tempers as they lost to the Canadiens, 3-1, in Montreal. The second games- in both series will be played Thursday night in the same cities. \ , • ! > ~ \ . . Exhibition Baseball New York (A)\9, Boston 0. \ Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia (A) 1 Philadelphia <’N) 5, Washington 4. Brooklyn 3, Montreal (Into 0. St. Louis (N) 2, Cincinnati 1. New York\ (N) 5. Chicago (A) 3. Chicago (N) 10, St. Louis (A) 5. Pittsburgh “R” 6, Pittsburgh ' "A” 4. trade In a Good Town—Decatur! '■ i

Pistons Edge Royals For Playoff Victory By UNlTfib PRESS Semi-final play in the National Basket ball Association playoffs gets under way tonight with the injury-ridden New York Knicks playing host to their arch-rivala, the Boston Celtics. The semi-final bracket was completed Tuesday night when the Foril Wayne Pistons upset the Rochester Royals, 67*05, on Frank Brian’s hook shot with six seconds to play. The Pistons thus won the series, two games to one, and qualified to meet Minneapolis in the semi-finals. The Knicks headed into the best-of-five. semi-finals with only six

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completely able - bodied players. Amon# the injured are Al Me* Guire, who is weak from lack of food because of a broken jaw, and brother Dick McGuire, who has an Injured instep. Trade In a Good Town—Decaturl

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