Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1954 — Page 6

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Milan's Coach Says Team Is Much Improved INDIANAPOLIS. UP — “We’re not tall, but we have improved in about every other respect. "I guess the best way to prove that they were wrong about us last year is to keep on winning.” That’s modest Marvin Wood. Milan’s master-mind, speaking of his modern - day "wonder - five” which has crashed through to the Indiana high school basketball 0 1 0 — Last Time Tonight — Wide Screen—ln Color “BOY FROM OKLAHOMA” | Will Rogers, Nancy Olson j ALSO—Shorts 14c-50c inc. Tax : 0 0 WED. & THURS. •o : o OUR BIG DAYS! First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 1:30 ( BE SURE TO ATTEND! T o- o HER FIRST PICTURE IN I Technicolor! I I IWJ pCA I y I The intimate. ■ ,we RUt THE t s,ory MUSIC IR I||B| the sultry notes THta-G-n iw of a torrid tECOIOS 11 1 torch singer! Bitsa I ML ffimum- - - r •Joan Crawford ' in M-G-M's Michael Wilding, Gig Young —o Coming Sun.—"RED GARTERS" Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson

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finals for the second straight year. Milan’s seven tourney victories were no fluke. And few would dispute the Ripley county boys were the best of the lot in the local semifinals when they ousted Montezuma and high-ranking Indianapolis Crispus Attucks to qualify against 1953 runner-up Terre Haute Gerstmeyer in the pay-off round. , Wood, only in his second year at Milan and a coach for only four, indicated he has plenty of respect for his Saturday afternoon foe. “1 know Gerstmeyer is strong,” he said. "I understand the two games they lost they were at their lowest of the season. "Gerstmeyer’s the team to beat Saturday, so we’re not worried about any other team right now . . .” Last year, Lady Luck hovered over the Indians. They needed a double-overtime verdict .over Knightstown Memorial in the regional and an overtime decision over Attica in the semi-finals to keep in the running. They were comparatively green, too. but learned fast. Two victories short of the state title they were stopped by South Bend Central’s eventual champs. “I felt last year’s season was just a week too long for us,” said Wood. So this time he speculated and played a long shot. ,"I told the boys to play each game up to tourney time just as they would in practice,” the former Butler Universitv player said. Ao a result, Milan played without pressure and lost just two regular - season ball - games — to Frankfort in the holiday tourney, 49-47, and to Aurora late in the season. 54-45. Milan evened the score with Aurora in the Rushville regional, 46-38. before winning the Indianapolis semi-final title, with a sound 65-52 victory over Attucks. It was a cool and collected bunch of veterans which rolled into the state finals, with fine ballhandling, passing and shooting. They hit better than .500 against Attucks. Team-work is Wood's formula for success. "All boys have been leading scorers at least once,” he said. But 5-foot-10 Bobby Plump is still his playmaker and floor general. Wood lost only center Jim Wendehnan through graduation, and the starting five is an all-senior outfit. They are 'Ronnie Truitt and Bob Engel at forward, Gene White at center, and Plump and Ray Craft at guard. All of which leaves no doubt that thousands of “neutral” Hoosier hardwood fans will be pulling for this colorful crew to become the first small town champ since Thorntown in 1915. . Net Games Thursday At Adams Central Monmouth dnd Adams Central P.T.A. will sponsor two. basketball games at the Adams Central gymnasium Thursday evening at 7 o’clock. , The first game win match the fifth and sixth grades of each school, and the second game will be between the male members of each P.T.A. Admission will be 25 cents for anyone wishing to attend. If yßu nave something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

Today's Sport Parade I (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By Oscar Fraley ) 0 o NEW YORK, UP — Big Nell Johnston, pro basketball’s leading scorer for the last two years, today credited a sore arm with making all his sports dreams come true. Johnston, scoring star of the Philadelphia Warriors in the National Basketball Association, came out of nowhere’to become a Court ace. Originally, he had been trained by his hopeful father for a big league pitching career. "The sore arm changed all that,” Johnston grins happily down from his rangy six feet, eight inches. He was in the Philadelphia Phillies farm system just three years ago, a promising fast ball pitcher who was a bdnus player signed while still a sophomore at Ohio State. His father was happy but Neil wasn’t. "It was my dads’ dream to see me play big league baseball.” the lanfern-jawed Johnston recalled. “He would rather see me play one baseball game than. 50 basketball games." So Neil went his father’s way, pitching at Terre Haute in 1949 and 1950 and posting an 11-12 record in each of those years. In 1951 he was moved to Wilmington of the Interstate league and there his arm started "tightening up.” “They sent me to Tri-Cities in the Western International league in 1952 but the arm was gone,” the towering blond explained. “I was a fast ball pitcher without a fast ball.” That gave Johnston his “opt.” Unable to pitch, he maneuvered a meeting with Eddie Gottlieb, own-er-coach of the Warriors. Gottlieb took one look, whipped out a tape measure and found that Neil was six feet, eight inches instead of the six, six which he told Gottlieb he stood. “Maybe some people think I was taking a second best course.” said the young man from Chillicothe, Ohio, "but actually I was always more interested in basketball than I was in'baseball.” He had played a bit of basketball at Ohio State before becoming ineligible by signing a baseball contract. But he was rusty and, in addition, the Warriors had the sensational Paul Arizin. Thus, that first season, despite his height Johnston stood in Arizin’s shadow. But then Arizin was called into service and since then Johnston has come into his own. - “And he’ll be even greater in the next few .years,” Gottlieb lauded. "He learns fast and he works hard to correct Ars faults. ”“~ There are those in pro basketball who snicker at Johnston’s “awkwardness.” But nobody among the opposition laughs at the way he pours the ball through the net. “Awkward or not,” Gottlieb declared, "he gets his points on accuracy with a fine hook shot and a good outside shot. And Neil has more moves .and deception than any big man I ever saw.” He’s durable, too, this slowspeaking, fast-moving man who was honored by the New York writers Monday as the outstanding pro player of the year. In two years he has never missed a game and in 72 games this year he averaged 46 minutes per contest. Another thing which makes him happy is Gottlieb’s admission that even when Arizin comes back there will have to be a place for Neil. Maybe his dad isn’t happy, but Johnston is one pitcher who is delighted that his throwing arm went bad. NBA Playoffs Will Open This Evening FORT WAYNE, Ind. —- The Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons are eager to give the National Basketball Association’s dope bucket an-.other-kicking -in—the- western d viision playoffs. ’ , Last year the underdog Zs jolted Rochester out of the playoffs and carried Minneapolis to the limit and they’re determined to repeat that performance this week. They meet the world champion; Lakers at the Coliseum Thursday night and host the raging Royals Sunday night. Roadwise, the Zb are at Rochester Tuesday night and at Minneapolis Saturday night. Wrestling Program Next Monday Night FORT WAYNE, Ind., — Buddy (Nature Boy) Rogers, tabbed by many wrestling promoters as the top attraction in the game, will meet Frankie Talaber in one of two main events which will headline next Monday night’s big wrestling program at the Coliseum. The Great Mr. Moto, greatest- Japanese wrestler of modern times, will oppdse muscular Len Hughes in the co-feature. There will be two preliminary matches preceding the double-windup. More than 4,300 fans saw the last big show at the Coliseum, largest crowd ever to see a wrestling card in Fort Wayne. Starting time Monday -night will be-8 p.ur. Tickets are on sale at all Zollner box offices.

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Athletics Are Undefeated In Spring Gaines By UNITED PRESS Eddie Joost, who hasn’t lost a game since he was named mariager, had his undefeated Philadelphia Athletics at the top of the Grapefruit-League standings today and many experts agreeing that they are "the most improved team” in Florida. The Athletics won their sixth straight game of the spring by beating the Boston Red Sox. 10-7, Monday, but even more important, as far as Joost’is concerned, the winter trade with the Yankees is continuing to pay off. Don Bollweg, one of the players acquired from the Yankees, slammed his second homer of the spring as did big Gus Zernial. Ray Murray and rookies Tommy Giordano and Lou Limmer also homered .for Philadelphia. Phil Cavarretta of the Cubs, on the other hand, keeps wondering when his club is going to win a ball game. The Cardinals beat the Cubs for the fourth time in a row, 16-7, at Fresno. Calif., and the loss was Chicago’s eighth in nine games thus far. Stan ..Musial, Ray Jablonski and Wally Moon each hit homers for St. Louis. The Yankees continued having their troubles, too, as southpaws Fred Baczewski and Harry Perkowski limited them to six hits while pitching Uincinnat! to a K victory at St. Petersburg, Fla. It marked the Yankees’ sixth setback in nine games. Held hitless for seven innings, the Dodgers finally defeated Washington, 2-1, thanks to Don Thompson’s single with the bases loaded in the ninth inning. Home runs by Ray.Katt, Monte Irvin, Davey Williams and Willie

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Mays accounted for nine runs and were instrumental in the Giants’ 13-8 triumph over the Baltimore Orioles. It was the Giants’ fourth •traight victory and only the second defeat in 10 games for the Orioles. Six-hit pitching by 18-year old Joey Jay, Ben Johnson and Dave Jolley, coupled with Jim Pendleton’s two-run homer, helped” Milwaukee defeat Detroit, 7-1. Despite the fact that starter Robin Roberts was combed for eight runs in five innings, the Phillies overcame a six-run deficit to nip the White Sox, 12-11. Roberts, Granny Hamner and Stan Jok each hit homers fdr the 'Phillies while Cass .Michaels and BUI Wilson clouted homers for the White Sox. In a game between two “B” squads at Clearwater. Fla., the Phillies massacred Cincinnati, 21-8, with five-run clusters in the first and fourth inningsEddie Waitkus Is Sold To Baltimore CLEARWATER, Fla. UP — The Philadelphia Phillies today announced the sale of first baseman Eddie Waitkus' to the Baltimore Orioles in a straight cash deal. Waivers were obtained from other National League clubs in order to complete the deal, the Phillies said. The amount of cash involved was .not disclosed.

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Wilhelmi Resigns As Coach At Berne Norm Wilhelmi has resigned as coach at the Berne-French school, effective May 21 when the curlreht school term ends. He served three years on the school’s faculty, teaching U. S. history, physical education and health? Jig has not announced his futurhfplans and the senool board has not yet named a successor to the Baar coach. DEMOCRATS TO (ContluurU From Page Que) sioners. It also would cancel scheduled cuts in corporation taxes. “It is a tax plan designed to be fair to all,” said the President. The Democratic reply tonight will be presented by Rayburn, Syn. Walter F. George D-Ga., Rep. Jere Cooper D-Tenn. McCarthy (Continued From Page One) promise to supply the names of officers responsible for the honorable discharge of Maj. Irving Peresf, an army dentist who refused io stay whether he was, a, Communist and whose case tbuciM ed off the McCarthy-army row. If you nave romethlng to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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