Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1954 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1054

Decatur Pony League Teams Enter League Announcement was made today that Decatur’s two Pony League teams, organized here for the first time this year, have been entered in the Wells county Pony League and will compete in the regular schedule of games in that league. The Pony League, as organized here, is an expansion of baseball activities for boys of Decatur, which was luanched here last summer with formation of the Decatur Little League, which proved so successful. The Pony league is tor boys 13 and 14 years of age, above the Little League age limit and below the Junior American Legion league age. Boys who will not be 15 until August 1 or later will be eligible. The Pony league will be operated by the officers and directors of the Little League and ts a definite expansion of the Little League to care for more boys of the community. There will be six teams competing in the Wells county league, with a possibility of two more teams from Wells county. At the present time, the league is set up . with the two Decatur teams, three from Bluffton and one from OsHome games for the Decatur teams will be played on Monday nights at Worthman Field, also the honie field of Little/Leaguers. No double beaders wjn be played in the Pony League, with the probable starting time of games • set at 7:30 p.m. Funds for operating the Pony League have been included in the Little League, budget, which will operate this year under the same program as in the 1953 season. Al Beavers is president of the Little League, 'R. O. Wynn, in charge of playing facilities and equipment for the Little League last year, has been active in organization of the Pony League and will continue in that capacity. Mauagers- of the Pbhy -Leagueteams will be Floyd Reed and Al Gillig. Coaches under Reed will be Quentin Crist and Robert Mutschler and assisting Gillig will be Mel Ladd .and John Kable: Plans for initial tryouts for the » Pony League teams will be announced within the near future. It is planned to start Pony League play some time after the close of school, probably the second week League officials emphasized that full insurance will be carried on the Pony League players, managers and coaches, the same as in Little League. The insurance will cover games, practice sessions and travel to and from such games or practice sessions.

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Ko met s End Regular Season Friday Night FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The Fort Wayne Kamets close their regular •season of play Friday night at the (Memorial Coliseum here against the Troy Bruins in what promises to be a bang-up finale to the 195354 International Hockey League campaign. The Kotnets, who six weeks ago were all ibut counted out of the tHL playoffs, roared into the stretch drive with a winning streak that carried them into fifth place in the tight race. The Fort Wayne skaters were ten points out of fifth place just a month ago. BOWLING SCORES Central Soya League W L Pte. Spares 17 7 24 Feed Mill 16 8 23 M & R 13 .41 17 (Erasers 13 11 16 Wonders 11 13 16 Truckers 12 12 15 Bag Service 11. 13 14 Blue Prints ... 9 15 11 Hot Rods : 9 15 11 Master Mixers .... 9 15 11 MEN — High series: Bayles 537, Morgan 546, Hoagland 518, Way 572. High games: Magsaman 182, Morgan 209, Snyder 187, 187, Bayles 181, 196, Dalzell 192, Nash 195, Hoagland 197, Eady 187, Mauller 181, 186, Ross 203, Stevens 176, Johnson 180, Way 218, 197. WOMiEN — High games: Bowman 187, Smith 174, Woodward 172, Kortenber 187. College Basketball Yale 66, Columbia 64?*""''' Brown 74, Dartmouth 71. National Invitational Duquesne 69, St. Francis (Pa.) 63. Holy Cross 93, St. Francife (N.Y.) 69. X Ivy League Playoff Cornell 46, Princeton 44. Southern Conference Playoff Kentucky 63, Louisiana State 56. NCAA Playoff Notre Dame 80, Loyola (Louisiana) 70. Penn State 62, Toledo 50. Bradley 61, Oklahoma -City 55., ! Santa Clara 73, Texas Tech 64. NAIA Tourney ” t?eneva "88, InHiana State 82. Lawrence Tech 7§, Carroll College 70. Southeastern Louisiana 77, Georgetown (Ky.) 76. Southeastern Oklahoma 68, Montana State 62. Pasadena 79, Bridgeport 60. St. Benedict s 68. East Carolina 61. ” St. Ambrose"?". North Dakota 705 „ Ptq Basketball Rochester '7O, Minneapolis' ' New York 72, Milwaukee 65. Approximately 5,800,000 square miles'—about 10.2 percent of the land area of the world—are covered by glacier ice. About 98 percent of this ice is located in Antarctica and Greenland.

County Coon Hunters Will Meet Saturday The Adams county coon hunters association will meet Saturday at 8 p.m. at the (Reichert school located two miles west and one mile south of- Salem. All coon hunters are invited to attend. North, Muncie Are Favorites Al Fort Wayne INDIANAPOLIS, UP —Unbeaten Mississinewa and Kokomo won’t go to Fort Wayne Just for the ride, but it stands to reason the Fort Wayne North - Muncie Central winner will represent the northeastern district in the Indii ana high school basketball tourney finals. The two season - long powerhouses collide in the first game at the Memorial Coliseum Saturday, North's Redskins seeking their second triumph over the North Central conference champions. It won’t be easy. North, ranked third in the state and the United Press state title choice, bad a rough time in its sectionals, while Muncie’s fourtime champions haven’t been extended in five tourney games. Fort Wayne’s 53-43 triumph at Muncie early In the season came before Jay McCreary revised his line-up, sacrificing some height for better ball-handling and shooting by underclassmen. It paid off to such an extent that the Bearcats whipped such teams as Hammond, Elkhart, Lafayette, and Kokomo, all still in the running for the cherished state crown. Mississinewa or Kokomo, which tangle in the second afternoon game at Fort Wayne, may give the dope bucket a healthy shaking, however. With 26 straight triumphs, Mississinewa is the only unbeaten club left, and is also in the third round for the first time. While the other three northeastern contenders depend on team balance. Mississinewa probably has THE session’s No. 1 player in lanky Larry Hedden, who averaged better than 22 points during the season. Kokomo has reached the “Sweet 16’’ 20 times but the title round only twice, the last time in 1944, losing to Evansville Bosse. Muncie, a semi-finalist for the 17th time, won the title in four out of seven years it reached the pay-off round. Fort Wayne's beet showing to date was in 1933 when it gained the four-team finals only to lose to Martinsville. Only Kokomo advanced to the semi-finals in this district last year. The Wildcats were upended Jby Hartford City in the opener . then, 71-58. — Archie Moore Is Winner Over Baker MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP — Manager Charley Johnston declared today a ''built-up’’ lightheavyweight champion Archie Moore is ready to challenge Rocky Marciano for the heavyweight title. “Archie’s ready for the big one now — with Marciano,” Johnston said after Moore scored a technical knockout over Bob Baker of Pittsburgh at 2:08 of the ninth round Tuesday night. Moore battered Baker so badly that his blood spattered the canvas add ringside spectators in the late rounds. No involvement Os U. S. In Indochina —lke Says Congress To Exercise Right .WASHINGTON, UP—President Eisenhower said today the United States will not get directly involved in the Indochinese war unless congress declares war. Mt. Eisenhower was asked at his weekly news conference what the United States would do if any of the American technicians now ■ in Indochina were captured or killed. The questioning reporter pointed out that some Democratic senators had said there was a danger of this country becoming involved in World War HI in this way. Mr. Eisenhower replied emphatically that there is going.to be no involvement in this country in war without congress exercising its constitutional right and declaring it. That, he added, was the complete answer to the question. Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Mlss.) said in (he senate Tuesday that the United States is daily “coining nearer to a fighting role’' in the war between French-Vietnamese forces and Communist Informed sources said - meanwhile that secretary of state John Foster Dulles plans to make a personal effort to get France to approve a U.S. training program for. native troops in Indochina. Woodchucks, or groundhogs as they are often called, aye primarily \ egetariauo. •

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Kentucky Wins, Refuses NCAA Tourney Berth NEW YORK UP — Despite Kentucky’s refusal to accept a tourney berth, the NCAA basketball tournament virtually completed the field for ite lour big regionals today, while the national invitation tournament filled Its semi-final round with seeded teams. Kentucky produced double-bar-reled news Tuesday night when it first won the right to represent the Southeastern Conference in the NCAA carnival by whipping Loufsiana State — and then declining to accept. State was immediately named as a substitute. Meanwhile, Cornell qualified for the NCAA by beating Princeton, 46-44, in a special playoff for the Ivy League crown. And the Big Seven race ended in a tie between Kansas and Colorado when Mis- ■ souri upset Kansas, 76-67, in the season finale —a tie that will be broken at 5 p.m. today by a fateful coin toss tn the league commissioner's office. NCAA first-rount: pray at three sites saw Peirn State and Notre Dame advance to the lowa City regionals, Bradley move into the Stillwater, Okla., regionals and Santa Clara gain the Corvallis, Ore., regionals. Top-seeded Duquesne and thirdseeded Holy Cross each came through with a victory at New York’s Madison Square Garden Tuesday night to gain the semifinal round of the national invitation tournament — the first time in the tourney’s 17-year history that all four seeded teams have gone this far. Duquesne will clash with fourth-seeded Niagara and Holy Cross with second-seeded Western Kentucky Thursday night. Duquesne advanced with a 69-63 win over St. Francis of Loretto, Pa., surprisingly close since the Dukes had beaten the Frankies by 30 points in their last meeting. The Frankies’ Maurice Stokes was the individual star, keeping his team in the game all the way with 28 poinnts, 16 rebounds, and brilliant all-around play. Holy Cross was hard-pressed for only the first period In trouncing St. Francis of ’ Brooklyn, 93-69. as Togo Palatzi scored 25, but may have incurred ' an important injury when starter ( Joe Liebier suffered a “muscle ' sprain” in his right leg. ’ At Nashville, Tenn., Kentucky , downed Louisiana State, 63-56, in a meeting of the two clubs that , went unbeaten through the Southeastern Conference season. Center stars Cliff Hagan of Kentucky and Bob Pettit of !LSU balanced each other with 17 and 16 points respectively, but Frank Ramsey turned the tide for Kentucky with 30 points, mostly on outside shots. At 'Philadelphia, Henry Buncom’s hook shot at the final whistle gave Cornell Its title-winning victory over -Princeton and qualified the ' Big Red to meet Navy at Philadel--1 phia Friday. At Columbia, Mo„ Missouri surprised Kansas, 76-67, to force the Big Seven coin-tossing 1 ceremony as Bob Reiter led the way with 28 points and Norin ■ Stewart added 22. In the other NCAA play: At Fort Wayne, Ind.; Notre Dame led all the way to beat Loyola of the South, 80-70, as Dick Rosenthal set the pace with 31 i points and qualified for a “revenge” meeting with Indiana at lowa City Friday; Penn State rallied to beat Toledo, 62-50, although Toledo’s -Phil Martin took scoring honors with 26 points. At Peoria. Ill.; Bradley finally took charge in the fourth quarter to beat Oklahoma City, 61-55,al-though City’s Arnold Short outscored Bradley’s Bob Carney, 2927. The Braves will meet the Big Seven champion in the Stillwater regionals game at that site matching Rice and Oklahoma A & M. (At Corvallis, Ore.; Santa Clara rallied from a one-point halftime deficit to beat Texas Tech, 73-64, qualifying to meet Colorado A & M in the Corvallis regionals on Friday. The completion of first-round play in the NCAA tournament at Kansas City saw Geneva College of Beaver Falls, Pa., surprise by . eliminating former champion Indiana State. &8-S2. Other wins were notched by Laurence. Tech, Southeastern Louisiana, Southeastern Oklahoma, Pasadena Nazarene, St, Benedict’s, St. Ambrose, and Arkansas City. Second-round play is scheduled tonight. Overtime Parkers Foiled At Denyer -DENVER, UP — Authorities , struck back today at overtime parkersf who spot the policemen's yellow .chalk mark on their tires . from office windows and then slip dowqstuli*- to erase it before they can be'.given a ticket. ; Police patrolling parking meters ■ were ilsucd black chalk. visible Irum utl; a tew feet ltd away.

Johnny Sain May Return To Yanks ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. UP — 01’ Long John Sain may yet come out of the Arkansas hills to pitch for the Yankees this season, General Manager George Weiss said hopefully today. 1 “I think we'll know in about a 1 week whether John will be with ’ us,” Weiss said. “We’ve been in touch with him and I think he ' reafly wants to put In another year of baseball. 1 “After all, he left us with a good arm and Casey Stengel always has said that he was a lot better pitch- ' er at the finish than he was when he came over to us from the Braves.” The principal consideration with Sain, Weiss said, was money and ' not Yankee money, either. Sain has set up an automobile agency in his home territory around Newport, Ark., and according to Weiss has made a considerable investment in it with a partner. . “Now he feels if he returned to baseball for another year he might lose some of that investment and that is his principal concern,” Weiss explained. “He likes to pitch and he likes the game an dhe has given us a ' lot of help. But I still don't know if he will be with us.”

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American Loop Is Leading In Spring Games By UNITED PRESS It’s the same old story tn spring or fall — the American League is beating the stuffing out of its National League rival. With less than a week of the Grapefruit League season passed, American League teams have plied up an imposing total of 12 victories over their National League foes while suffering only four losses. N.L President Warren Giles ordered his teams to buckle down last spring when the games followed a similar trend and probably will do so again this spring. The National League has won the last three all-star games but hasn't had a World Series victor since the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox in 1946. Grapefruit League games don’t count in the standings, of course, but Giles is interested in reversing the annual ritual of the American Leaguers' viewpoint is the fact that the erstwhile St. Louis Brownsnow the Baltimore Orioles — have been Inflicting the most damage.

The Orioles, who probably will be a unanimous selection to finish last again this year, have scored four straight victories over National League opponents —two over the Chicago Cubs and two over the New York Giants. The Orioles remained unbeaten in citrus play when they scored two runs in the ninth inning Tuesday to: beat the Giants, 10-9. The Cleveland Indians, continuing their tremendous demonstration of power, overwhelmed the Cubs, 17-6. . '1 The Detroit Tigers, scoring the winning run on a ninth-inning tri-, pie by rookie Harry Bright, defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, ■ 6-5, for the American League’s ' third victory Tuesday over a Na- ! tional League team. The St. Louis 1 Cardinals gained the N.L’s only win Tuesday when they beat the ‘ Chicago White Sox. 10-9, in a shabby game marred by seven errors. Solly Hemus, recently on the trade block, sparked the Cardinals with four hits, including a bassesloaded triple In the 11th Inning that provided the winning run. The Phillies were encouraged by a brilliant, one-hit, five-inning performance by lefty Curt Simmons, a 16-game winner in 1953. Sim--1 mons figures he'll win 20 If he avoids Injury this year and said he was highly encouraged by his initial test under game conditions. Trade In a good Town — Decatur

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