Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1954 — Page 7

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Berne Defeats Ossian To End Losing Streak The Berne Bears broke a sevengame losing streak and registered their fourth victory of the season Saturday night, edging .the Ossian Bears, 68-67, in an overtime battle at the Berne gym. Ossian led at the first quarter, I|-U. the teams were tied at 31-31 at the half, and Ossian was in front at the third quarter. 49-44. Berne trailed at 61-54 with three minutes to play but rallied to knot the count at 62-62 at the expiration of the regular playing period. The Wells county champions broke a 66-66 tie with a free throw by Larry Hunter with 15 seconds to go, but Ben Sprunger hit a field goal to give Berne its victory. Stu Miller with IS and Sprunger with 17 led Borne, while Hunter tallied 18 and Spencer IT for Ossian. - Berne will play the Tigers at Bluffton Tuesday night' Berne FG FT TP L. Lehman 5 4 14 Nussbaum Oil Sprunger .... I 5 17 Miller 8 2 18 Ehraam , 6 0 12 Kircbhofer 14 6 Rabine 0 O’ 0 Smith 000 Totals 26 16 68 Ossian FG FT TP Bauermeister 2 5 9 Bryant . 2 2 6 Spencer 7 3 17 Scherrer 3 3 9 Qeisel 10 2 Bryan ...... Oil Hilsmter 3 —t— 5 ■ Hunter .' 5 8 18 Totals 22 23 67 Officials: Casa. Armstrong. Preliminary Berne 29-22. Bryant Officially Accepte Texas Job--LEXINGTON,; Ky., UP *- Paul (Bear) Bryant, who recently said he hoped “to stay at the University of Kentucky forever," officially accepted the job today of head football coach and athletic director at Texas A and. M. Immediately after Kentucky’s athletic association accepted his resignation Sunday night, Bryant, whose contract still had nine years to run, wired Texas A and M President David H. Morgan acceptance of his new posts. Trade in a Good Town — Decatu-

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Bingen Winner Os Lutheran League Bingen, with nine victorias and no losses, won the Lutheran grade school league championship. The league is sponsored by the Lutheran laymen’s league. Final Standings W L Pot. Bingen . 9 0 1.000 Flat Rock ...... 7 2 .778 Friedheim 6 3 .667 Fuelling « 3 -»67 Union .... 6 3 .667 Soest —. 4. 5 .444 Bethlehem 3 6 .333 Decatur ... 2 7 .222 Preble .. 3 7 »32 Trinity . 0 9 .000 Decatur defeated Trinity, 38-20, and Bingen downed Soest, 47-26. Decatur FG FT TP Scheimann 1 0 2 Witte . 2 0 4 Ru. Kleinknight 0 0 0 Krueckeberg 10 2 Sheets 10 2 Lytle .. 8 2 6 Bleeke ...... Oil Caston .............. 1 0* 2 Kinerk 6 0 12 Conrad 10 2 Ro. Kleinknight .... Oil Dersch -1 0 2 Totals IT 4 38 Trinity FG FT TP R. Grant 11 3 J. Grant ............ 0 2 2 L. Grotrlan ......... 12 4 E. Berning - 0 0 0 McCoy -1 6 8 L. Thompson 0 0 ‘ 0 Walters ... 113 Totals 4 12 20 Bingen FG FT TP Kraus ........ 0 1 H. Schieferstein .... 6 O 12 J. Schroeder ........ Oil Bradmiller ..... 0 0 0 D. Scheimann 3 0 6 Schuller ............ 0 0 0 J. Reiter 8 0* • Bulmahn 2 0 4 Zelt 2i--—- ff. 0 0 Schearer ........... 102 R. Schaumann 5 1 11 Markeuke —— Oil “C-- Wchettmaft#* 2 0 4 Melcher ............ 2 15 Totals ......... 31 5 47 Soest FG FT TP Braun - 3 2 8 R. Saalfrank ........ 0 11 Bearman ........— 0 0 0 Rebber 0 0 0 Linkhart ............ 0 , 0 0 Behrman ... 5 5 15 Schlandroff ... 0 0 0 Doctor ........ 0 0 0 L. Saalfrank ~.i 1 0 2 Reisgies ............ 0 0 0 Totals .......... 9 8 26

Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams ,> Tuesday New Haven at Yellow Jackets. Pleasant Mills nt Monmouth. Jefferson at Madison. Berne at Biutfton. Petroleum at Hartford. Wednesday Adams Central at Commodores. Friday Portland at Yellow Jackets. Corrnnodores at Pleasant Mills. Adams Central at Monmouth. Geneva at Albany. Berne at Montpelier. Jefferson va Willshire at Geneva, Hartford at Roll. Saturday Yellow Jackets at Winchester. Red Hots Win Over Ohio City, 123-94 Defense went by the board* Sunday afternoon at the Pleasant Mills Rde Hots whipped Ohio City, O„ 123-94, at the Pleasant Mills gym. The Red Hots led at all quarters, 38-12, 68-35 and 95-66. Ballard led Pleasant Mills with 40 points on 19 field goals and two free throws, keber topped Ohio City with 36. Red Hets PG FT TP Raudenbush ... 15 1 31 Young ... 5 0 10 Jim Price 8 0 6 Ballard ... 19 2 40 Painter ..... ; 9 5 23 Ehrsam ... 4 19 Miller 2 0 4 Totals ......... 57 9 128 Ohio City FG FT TP Keber .... 16 4 36 Scheldt 6 2 14 Emerick 10 2 Multiuser . 5 3 13 Galloway 13 2 28 Grable Oil •i Totals 41 12 94 Two Teams Tied In Saturday League

Notre Dasne and the Junior Commodores tied for first place in the Saturday morning league at the Catholic school 'gym, each with ■seven victories and three defeats. ■ The Pistons had a 4-6 record and DePaul, 2-8. Results erf final games Saturday: DePaul M, Pistons 39; Notre Dame 36, Junior Commodores 34. Leading scorers: Gross, Junior Commodores, 15; D. .Baker, .Notre Dome, 34; Schultz and J. Baker, Pistons, 11 each; J. Coyne, DePaul, 33. Notre iDame and the Junior Commodores will meet for the league title at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Saturday the St. Joe eighth grade reserves will play the Saturday morning league all Mars to conclude the Saturday morning activities. All-Star selections are as follows: D. Baker, J. Hess, D. Schults, D. Kitson, T. Gross, P. Gross P. Hess 6. Omlor, J. Omlor. R- Reed, ■D. Gage. A. Hackman, J. Baker, C. DeLaßiveria M Durkin, J. Meyer. High School Basketball Fort Wayne 'North 45, Michigan City 40. Fort Wayne South 62, Gary Froebel 66. Harlan 60, Leo 46. Kendallville 64. Goshen 48. Butler 86, Albion 48. LaPorte 46, Brazil 45. ■lndianapolis Tech 66, Broad Ripple 47. South Bend Riley 51, Hammond Clark 48. ■Elkhart 67. Warsaw 48. Vincennes 50, lEvansville Central 48. _■ - Dunkirk 64. IjnpeljiffgajE, Middletown (0.) 82. Rjclntfond 46. Conners v-iHe 75, Batesville 39. Hammond Noll 69, Indianapolis At. tucks 62. 'Logansport 76, Huntington 50. Muncie Burris f>3, Monticello 30. Silver Creek 38, Salem 31. Mtssissinewa, 43, Converse 46. Indianapolis Howe 73, Naw Albany 71 t overtime I. — : . Rushville 58, Lawrenceburg 51. Pro Basketball NBA Results Saturday Syracuse 93, Fort Wayne 87 (ov- ' ertime). Minneapolis 97. Philadelphia 94. Boston 104, Rochester 81. New York 98, Baltimore 83. Sunday Fort Wayne 90, Minneapolis-83. Baltimore 75, Rochester 73. New York 87, Boston 78. Syracuse 88, Milwaukee 73. BOWUNG SCORES CENTRAL SOYA LEAGUE W L Pt* Feed Mill S 3 13 Spares 8 4 11 M£ R 9 3 10 Blue 'Prints . 6__ 6 JL | I

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Team Standing* W L Pet. Geneva ... 16 3 .842 Monmouth .13 3 .813 Adams Central ... 9 7 .568 Pleasant Mills ...... 8 8 .500 Commodores ... 8 10 .444 Berne .... 4 11 .267 Yellow Jacket* 4 12 .250 Jefferson ... 3 13 .188 Hartford 2 14 .125 —oOo— Adams county high school teams, entering their last two weeks of the regular season, face a rugged schedule this week, with a total of 14 games carded, ineluding a heavy Tuesday night of five tilts and the usual busy Friday card of seven tilts. The Decatur Yellow Jackets have th* toughest road, with three games on tap, two at heme and one on the road. The Jackets will entertain the NEIC leaders, the New Haven Bulldogs, at the Decatur gym Tuesday night, host the tough Portland Panther* here Friday night, and travel to Winchester Saturday night to a tilt with another brand of Yellow Jackets. Four other games on tap Tuesday are: Berne at Bluffton, Pleasant Mills at Monmouth, Petroleum at Hartford and Jefferson at Madison. —oOo— The Decatur Commodores will engage in the lone Wednesday night battle, hosting th* —Adam* —Central Grayhounds at the Decatur gym. These teams mot twice pre-' viously, both at the new Adams Central gym, the Greyhounds winning a rgeular season contest, 54-53, and the Commodore* registering a 5250 triumph in the semi-finals of the county tourney. It will also mark the last home game of the season for the Commodore*. —oOqAll nine of the county teams will be in action Friday night. In addition to the Portland-Yellow Jackets game at Decatur, the Commodores will be at Pleasant Mills, Adams Central at Monmouth. Jefferson vs Willshire at Geneva, Berne at Montpelier, Geneva at Albany and Hartford at Roll. The lone Saturday night game sends the Yellow Jackets to Winchester. Looks like the Berne Bears are tuning up for the sectional. The Bears, who had won only three games previously, Saturday night knocked off the Wells county champion Ossian bears in an overtime battle to register Berne's fourth victory of the season and also snap a seven-game losing streak. And only the previous week, the Bears forced the sectional champion Monmouth Eagles to the limit before losing by a single point. Larry Hannl, of Geneva, maintaining his torrid scoring pace, zoomed his season's mark to an even 400 points last week, an average of 81.1 points per game, to just about sew up the individual scoring title for the season. The county's top 10 scorers, with games played, total points, -and average points per game, are as follows: GP TP Ave. Hanoi, Geneva 19 400 21.1 Tester, Geneva .... 19 285 15.0 H- Myers. Monmouth 16 277 17,3 J. Wilder, Com dores 18 250 13.9 Byer, Pleasant Mills 14 232 16.6Beer. Adams Central 16 228 14.3 Butcher, Jefferson. 14 218 15.6 Kircbhofer. Berne _ 15 199 133 A. Egly. Adams Cen. 16 197 12.3 York, Commodores .18 192 ttr.T

"* —oOo — Results pne year ago this week: Anderson St. Mary’s 63, Commodores 52. Monmouth 53. Pleasant Mills 50. Commodores 60. Adams Central 5G’. Yellow Jackets 71. Portland 68. . Berne 46. Montpelier 45. Jefferson 51. Madison 45. Monmouth 59. Adams Central 45. Geneva 59, Hartford 45. Union (Wells) 66, Pleasant Mills 54, '' Yellow Jackets 59, Winchester 49. —oOo—'Erasers 6 6 7 Master Mixers 4 8 5 Hot Rods 3 '• 9 4 Bag Service . 3 9 3 M'EN—dirgri series: Nash 575, Judt 672, Morgan 568. Eley 565, Way 546, Hoagland 524, SchlK’kman 516. Rowden MR High games: Nash 194, 1-S*. 201, Judt &16. 192, iMorsan 202. 192, Eley 190. 181, 194, Way. 201, 187. ■Hflalffland 188, -1 »chlKkipan I§2. Rowden 193, Keller 191, Baker 164. 'Bayles 150,... . ' WOMEN:—(High -game: Kortem ber J 72.

St. Joe Clinches CYO League Title ■ J 8L Joo of Decautr clinched the CYQ grade school league championship Bunday afternoon by detecting St. Jud*, 30-26, at the Fort Wayne C. C. gym. tiecatar has one league game to play n*xt Sunday against St. Pat’s but can not lose the title regardless of the outcome. St. Joe’s league record la nine victories without a loss. The regular league season close* next Sunday, and wIU be followed by the regular loop tourney.. St. Joe’s record for the season is 18 triumphs and only one loss, to Hartford Center, in the second game of the season. — St. Jo* - rFG FT TP Kable 14 6 Beal 10 2 (Reed 71 15 Mey*r ...... 2 3 7 Wilder P O 0 Totals 11 8 30 St Jude FG FT TP Bosler ...... 0 0 0 Wolfe ........ 4 0 8 J. Pelkington 4 0 8 Colligan 10 2 Piory s. 11 3 Hollein ..... « 11 R. Pelkington ....... 0 o’o Shaab —1 2 4 Totals ... H 4 26

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Adams County Rural Youth Team Winner Adam* county rural youth b*s- ■ ketball team defeated Howard ■ county rural youth, 77-48, Satur- > day night at the Pleasant Milla high school gym. This was the , first game of the district IV tour- ! nament. Finals will be played at . the Wabash high school gym Sat- , urday. Miami county and HuntI ington county teams will meet at 1 p.m. and Adams and Wabash county rural youth teams will . play at 2:30 p.m. The winners of the afternoon games will meet in the evening game. Winner of this district tournament will then com- ’ pete for the state title iu Indla--1 napolis on March 14. i l._The local rural youth club was , in front at all periods, 14-12; 43- . 34; 60-38; 77-48. Jim Price red the Adams coun--1 ty scoring with 23 points followed by Jim Merriman with 17. W. RilH ey ted tha Howurd county scoring with 12. 1 Aaama County ■>. FG FT TP ’ Busse ... 2 0 4 • Worden 4 19 : E. Yoder —... 2 15 : Merriman .. S 1 IT I C. Yoder — 0 0 0 Dick —- 4 8 11 Neuenschwander .... 3 0 6 I Price — Iff 3 23 Drew- ... 1/ 0 2 ; Totals 24 9 77

Howard County FG FT TP W. Riley - « 0 12 A. Kelley — 4 19 Carter 2 0 4 Neuby 0 0 0 Rees 000 Riley ............ 4 2 10 Lindley 3 0 6 Kirkendall 3 17 - Totals 82 4 48 College Basketball Indiana TO, Michigan State 74. Minnesota 67, Purdue 64. Wisconsin 79, Ohio State 73. Illinois 87, Michigan 68. lowa 73, Missouri 63. Notre Dame 59, DePaul 53. Evansville 71, Valparaiso <l. Indiana Central loe, Trt-fetat* 69.

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