Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1953 — Page 7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, lUI

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—7— *-r — i i ; — Kentucky Is Rated Tops In I College Teams NEW YORK UP A Kentucky, whicl| way barred frortr the sport last season because of recruiting r irregularities, today took over the I-i No. 1 spot in the''•United Press basketball ratings. The Wildcats, who had won all six of their games through Saturday. Dec. 26, shot into the lead ? Indiana, which was first in the pre-season selections and which • / had led in the first two weekly ratings of the season, was defeated by Oregon Stat®. I k The 35 outstanding coaches who j make up the -United Press rating 1 board gave Coach Adolph Rupp‘s | quintet 19 first place t votes and a total of A 5 points while Indiana, I with only-r six first place votes, 1. dropped td second place with 277 points. Both Kentucky and Indiana appeared on each of the 35 /ballots. Undefeated Duquesne, although receiving more first place votes than Indiana — seven to six failed to move up, retaining third I’ place with 259 points. ~ 7 | Oregon .State, making the biggest jump of the week, moved into the fourth spot with an even 200 I pointe, getting > two first place votes. It marked the west coast team’s first appearance, ih the select 10 this season. Last week, OreS.e ranked 11th. \ was one other Change in 10, Brigham Young taking the lOth 'ranking with 37 points after being tied for 25tb place , last week. lUCLA and LaSalle dropped out qf the select ’group to make room for Oregon State and ..Brigham Young. V Oklahoma A. & M., with one. r first place vote, jumped from sixth to fifth place with 183 points while f, Minnesota dropped from fifth to sixth with 140 points and Illinois

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dropibed from fourth to seventh withg 133 points. North Carolina StatA. seventh last week, dropped to eighth place with 75 points while Fordham held the ninth slot in the ratings with 43 points. Ti e coaches cast their ballots on gam s played through Saturday, Dec. 26. ? W stern Kentucky, 14th last weel| jumped into Uth place while LaSt He dropped from 10th to 12th. Folic iving in order were Louisiana Statt Rice and UCLA, tied for 14th, Holy Cross, Wyoming, Califbrni ~ Kansas State and Navy. J Pro Basketball NBA Result Philadelphia 69, Milwaukee 63, v j .. 'x 7 V J. . ; Hui ter Shoots Four Tinies, Bogs Own Cor • ■ . iTH iNTON, Ont. UP — Harold Sinci dr spotted an object in the u'sh while hunting near here, fired y vq ley of four shots and then ran o see what he had bagged. It ras his automobile. i '__ _A_ - . ; j • . ■ \ . Adams Central Game At Hoagland Gym Tt 5 Adams Central-Monroeville tam| next Tuesday night, Jan.’ 5, will be played at the Hoagland gwm Don Arnold, Adams Central .oac , announced today. It is a ‘ Mon oeville home game, shifted t© tl e Hoagland; gym. \ Mic dieweight Champ Wi| Meet Rindone : NHW YORK. (UP) — Middleweight champion Carl Bobo Olson of San Fraiicisco will 1 meet Joe Rind me of. Boston in a nationally elevised 10-round non-title k boht at San Francisco. Jan. 23, i| w,s announced today. It will marl [ Olson’s first fight ®ince he Won | the 160-pound crown from Rant p Turpin in October. .-1 : ■ L ’ - i i : V <

Klenk’s Eliminated In Holiday Tourney Klenk’s of Decatur was eliminated from ths Zion - invitational tourney Monday night, losing to the Sandpoint Merchants, 78-60, in a quarter-final game. The Merchants were on top at all periods, 16-11, 35-28 ahd 54-42. The winners used only five players throughout the game, all scoring in double figures, topped by McClure with 21. Hjillinger, with 15, was the only Decatur player double figures. Sandpoint FG FT TP Spiker 4 4 12 Burris 6 3 15 Couftney .... 5 1 11 Snodgrass 7 5 19 McClure \7 7 21 —.... . ... ■ —- ■ TOTALS ...., 29 20 78 Klenk’s \ FG FT TP Ballard 1 2 4 Reed 3\ 2 Heller v 3 3-9 Hullinger 71 - 15 Hoehammer 2 1 5 Jerry Price 2 15 Jim Price \ 2 Meyer 2 0 4\ Tomlin 2 1 5 TOTALS 24 .12 iW 100 Indiana Youths To Be Reclassified INDIANAPOLIS, UP — About 109 Indiana youths classed as 1-C in selective service will be subject to reclassification and possible induction because of a presidential executive order. \ Lt. Col. Frank R. Kossa, state draft director, said the 100 or so Hoosiers were among 2,000 to 3,090 nationally affected by an ex? ecutive order signed Dec. 11. < The order will result in the reinduction of men who were reC. leased from service after serving as, little as one or two days of active duty. The revision calls for a minimum of six months

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Hoosier Prep Teams In Holiday Action INDIANAPOLIS UP — Fortyfour Indiana high school basketball teams step up to the tiring line today in the first round ot holiday tournament action while Evansville Central meets Princeton in a downstate championship battle. \ . The Evansville tourney, the only one to oiien Monday night, was favored Central go into a final period scoring spree to down Winslow, 70-49, and Princeton trip Evansville Reitz, 52*45. Jerry Clayton with 29 points paved the way for Central which ranked) ninth in the United Press coaches poll. It was the Second thne Central this season. Prihpeton turned in the night's big surprise with its last minute victory ovej Reitz. The game was tied at 43-all in the final minute and 15 seconds when Princeton went ahead to stay. Gary Stoll led the winners with 20 points. Another major holiday outing tonight, a first round affair, will send unbeaten Jeffersonville, the second ratet} team in state, against South Bend Central and Fapiyette against Elkhart in the Lafayette tourney. • Also among the elite, thirdranked Michigan City, will tangle with East Chicago Washington and LaPorte will meet Whiting in the Michigan /Jity tourney. City tournaments will at Gary and Hammond, and other meets will be at Martinsville. Ply- . mouth, Rensselaer, South Bend and Washington. bowling scores AMERICAN LESION LEAGUE Macklin wbn two from Bultemerer; Burke Standard won two from Non Coms; Ashbaucher wort two from Mtes Recreation. W L Pts. Burke Standard2B 17 38 Mie* Recreation 24 21 32 Non Coms -K—-,24 21 32 Bultemeiers 22 23 30 Macklin * 21 24 27 Ashbaucher + 16 29 21 High games: j. Coghran 205; C. Codk ’201; K. Geisler 223. College Basketball Purdue 78, Rutgers 69. Northwestern 70i Butler 57. . Kentucky 74, Minnesota 59. Columbia 75; Pittsburgh S 4. Wisconsin 6tL Denver 48. Michigan 89, Loyola (Chicago) ss. Yale 66, Marquette 57. Bradley 79, Arizona 53. Holiday Festival Manhattan 80, NYU 64. St. Louis 77, St. Johns 47.! 1 Duquesne 69, Brigham Young 47. Niagara 69, LaSalle 50. \ Dixie Classic Navy 86, North Carolina §2, North Carolina State 72, Seton Hall 70. •p- ■ , > X-' Duke 71. Oregon State 61.pr_C Wake Forest 72, Tule 65. Kentucky Invitational Western Kentucky 91, Houston 61. Eastern Kentucky 74, Siejia 58. Louisville 79, Vlllanova 65. Xavier fO.) 69, Murray State 49. Motor City Tournament Toledo 64, Wayne 62. Detroit 72. Georgetown 68. Midwest Tournament Central Missouri 74, Indiana Central 71. North western Louisiana 70, Wheaton 62. Big Seven Tourney Nebraska 78, Kansas State 74. Oklahoma 87, Waahiugton 77.

U. S J lakes Lead "I \ In Tennis Matches ' MELBOURNE. Australia UP — The United States needed only one more victory today to “bring the Davis Cgp back to America and end -an Australian monopoly that started ip 1949. And p|nic . seemed to be sweeping the Australian tennis world is Tony Trabert of Cincinnati prepared toimeet the Aussies’ 19-year old Lewjs Hoad on the Kooyong courts infthe match that eould cinch the cup tor the United States. Philadelphia’s Vic Seixas, a guy who finally regained his confidence Monday while helping Trabers rip the Aussies In the doubles, watCitnofticially slated to meet Ken in the other -a Ing4 »• I Bia tab. -Both matches wty be .played even if the cup is decided after one of them. The uhderdog Americans justified the faith of their captain, Billy Talbert, j when they belted Hoad and; Rexi Hartwig in straight sets 6*2i,_6-4. |6-4 to sweep into a 2-1 lead in tie best of five match challenge ro|nd. The defeat left it up to Hoad and probably Rosewall to pull the Aussies put of the hole. Hoad was rated a jcinch to play but Risewall, wlg> was lifted out of doubles ’match Monday and replaced b|r Hartwig, also could be placed by southpaw Mervyn Rose in a desperation measure. Jf you have s -mething to sell ar rooms f<|r rent, try a Democrat w “‘ 4 “ brl ’ Bß rMul ‘ B -

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Duke Wallops Oregon State In Big Upset NEW YORK UP — Duke’s a«toniahing upset of skyscraping Oregon State and Niagara’s surprising rout of La&alle caused a quick revision in th«£, sheets today ab the holiday tqdMament season moved into high gea«* Duke, beaten three times alrea’v in this young season, sprang on® of the major surprises ol the year Monday night when ft ousted Oregon State, recent conqueror of national champion Indiana, from the Dixie Classic Tournament at Raleigh, N. C., 71-61. The victory qualified the Blue Devils for a semi-final shot tonight at WaK& Forest, while the classic** perennial champion North Carolina State meets high-scoring Navy in th® other. , ~ ~ Niagara, though unranked, nationally,: had been a three-point choice OYEr lSth-ranked LaSalle in tn® <4 the holt day festival at New York’s Madisoq Square Garden. The Purple Eagles had beaten LaSalle once before but no one was prepared for the way the Eagles’ Charley Hoxie outplayed AllAmeriean Tom Gola to pace a 69-50 rout. (Niagara earned the right to meet Duquesne, the nation’s thirdranked team; tn the festival finals Wednesday btghl. The Dukes wo.f ’heir semi-final in impressive style, 69-47, over Brigham Young. The two-day Sugar Bowl Tournament swings tonight with Fordham, th® nation’s ninth ranked team, opposing 13th-ranked Louisiana State in the feature wUh the Rams’ chief problem how to setop State’s 6-foot, »-inch star Bob Pettit. The other game finds 16th ranked Holy Cross a heavy choice against DePaul. The semi-final round is on tap tonight in three big tourneys, the Kentucky invitation at Louisville, the Big Seven kt Kansas City, and the Southwest Conference at Ho’;«ton. while first-round play wilt he completed in the All-College Tourney at Oklahoma City. Oregon State led for the first eight minutes but then Duke took ©ver and led the rest of the way as 5-11 Joe ,jßelmont and 64eot Rudy D’Emilio raced around State’s Tail. timbers tor sqore 19 points ©a«b -snd epark jth©.. upset Seven-foot, 8-inch Swede Halbrook of State scored points, but onty five field goals as double-teaming cut hi* effectiveness. North Carolina State barely defeated Seton Hall, 72-70, with the losers upset about a last-secortd ”n---cident which saw time; run out while they were trying to put the Jrall ip play. Tn other first-round games, Navy trounced North Carqliqa, 86-62, as Don Lange tallied 29 points.a nd Wake Forest beat Tulane, 72-65. In other games Munday night: Toledo beat Wxyne* 64-62, to move into tonight’s final round of th© Motor City journey at Detroit against Detroit, which beat Georgetown) 72-66; Wesern Kentucky, . s;--

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ru " t '"T" • ranked ifth"-‘nationally, crushed Hou»!ioh 'IA-a' hfst-round Kentucky Invitational game, >1461, while Eastern Kentucky beat Siena, 74-58, Louisville downed Villanova, 79-(»£>, and Xavier Ohio beat MurGeorgia Tech, 66-64, and Georgia Teachers downed Florida, 99-86 in first-round Gator Bowl games; Kentucky, the nation’s new No. 1 team, blasted sixth-ranked Minnesota. 74-6®. for its seventh straigh* and the Gophers' first loss; Jim Barron’s 29 paints led Michigan to an 89-58 win over Loyola 111.; Purdue handed Rutgers Its first loss, 78-69; Northwestern beat Butler, 707; Wisconsin beat Denver, 67-48; and soph Joe Sturgis’ 26 points led Penn to a 67-54 win voer Miami, Fla. - - .

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Young Boy Killed By Falling Tree ANDERSON, Ihd„ UP —Three-\year-old Timothy Messerschmidt was injured fatally Monday when I a tree fell on him as he rode his tt-icycle in front of his parents' home. Workmen were cutting down the free on the campus of the Great Commission echoed, a religious boarding institution. The boy was watching. Workmen said the tree twisted and did not follow the path of fall they had planned. The boy was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Messerschmidt. who teach at the school. The father was in Mexico.