Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1954 — Page 6

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Milan Indians Are New State Prep Champions INDIANAPOLIS UP — After 39 years of patient waiting, the door finally swung open today for the fourth Indiana high school basketball tourney champion from the small-down ellte-Mitan’s sensational Indians. Perhaps Milan's magnificent showing the past two years, climaxed with a thrtlling 32-30 title game triumph over Muncie Central’s tour-time champions, also gave a lift to hundreds of other unsung quintets overshadowed year after year by their big»town rivals. Marvin Wood’s club showed that a combination of confidence and skill can get the job done, even in a school of jpst 162 students. Muncie’s enrollment is 10 times larger. • •‘Fourteen - thousand fans went home happy," said one observer Saturday night after Trester medal winner Bobby Plump’s jumpshot with three seconds to go wrote a dramatic finish to the championship game. The other 1.000 fans Who piled into Butler Fieldhouse were Muncie rooters, but even they weren’t too downcast. “We tost playing it to the hilt “ said Jay McCreary, who had a winner in his first year at Muncie iD 1952. “I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe the final score.” Milan, which went to the finals for the first time last year, “warmed” up for the pay-off game by hitting .490 of its shots in a rousing 60-48 upset over topranking Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, the Wabash Valley champion and runner-up last year. In that game Plump hit 10 of 15 shots ami added six tree throws for 26 points and scoring honors in the three-game session. His brilliant afternoon performance convinced the IHSAA’s board of control that no other player should even be considered dor the coveted Trester medal, making this the first time in the 44-year history of the tourney —... that the top individual trophy went to a player from the winning team. Muncie, which gained the grand ' finale by ousting stubborn Elkhart, 59-50, gave Milan a battle right down to the wire. Midway in the second period Milan ran up its biggest lead, 22-13, but the big Bearcats gradually trimmed the margin and it was 26-all going into the final eight minutes. Five times the score was tied and the lead changed hands seven times. Gene Flowers’ lay-up with 48 seconds to go in a slow last stanza, with Milan freezing the *■"' ball as minutes ticked off, tied the count for the last time. With *’lß seconds to go Milan called time for the crucial, last-ditch maneuver, and the sh'ow was Plump’s. He cut for the basket, let go from about 12 feet, and it was all over, and Milan was ready to be crowned the first small-town champ since Thorntown in 1915. “It was a gamble, but it worked," said Wood. “It wasn’t the best game we played, but it was the happiest." Milan, which employed its deliberate offense and a zone defense, couldn't buy a basket in the third period, and only two in the last —but it was enough. Scoring honors went to Milan guard Ray Craft with 14. Flowers paced Muncie with 11. Plump hit 81 in his tour final games to top all shooters who reached the “Sweet 16” Howard Sharpe said his Gerstmeyer club was beaten by Milan “in the first 13 minutes when our defense let them run through us.” But Sharpe offered no alibis. “We got beat by a good ballclub. They're doggone tough when you get behind them.” Milan’s zone was so effective against Gerstmeyer the usually high-scoring Arley Andrews caged Tonight & Tuesday/ Wide Screen —In Colorl “RED GARTERS” Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Cass Daley ALSO—Shorts 14c-50c Inc. Tax, O—O Wed. A Thurs.—Richard Carlson, “It Came From Outer Space” First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thurs. from 1:30 BE SURE TQ ATTEND! :J O O Coming Sun.—Lyejlle Ball “LONG, LONG TRAILER”

just nine points. Gerstmeyer led only once—at the beginning. Craft tied the score at five-all. Plump, Ron Truitt and Gene White doubled the score at 16-8, and Milan led the rest of the way, Elkhart, which ousted 1953 state champ South Bend Central in the tegionals, led Muncie also only once, Ron Stork hitting a freethrow as the game opened. However. the score was tied four times before Muncie gradually pulled ahead. Elkhart's prolific Ray Ball got only 14 points, while Jim Hinds, Flowers, and little Phi! Raisor hit in doublefigures for Muncie. Warren Spahn Hurls 7 Scoreless Innings By UNITED PRESS Spring training games don’t amount to a row of grapefruit seeds, but you can't convince Milwaukee’s Warren Spahn. who displays the same bear-dowm brilliance whether he's pitching for money or marbles. Spahn, a 23-game winner with the Braves last season, exhibited mid-season steam at Bradenton, Fla., Sunday as he baffled the Phillie batters and hurled seven scoreless innings in his team’s 10-0 triumph. The veteran lefthander, first Milwaukee pitcher to go seven innings this spring, yielded only four singles in throttling Philadelphia. Jim Wilson relieved Spahn in the eighth and didn’t allow a Phillie batter to reach base. Like the Phillies, the Red Sox didn’t collect many hits, either, but they put their safeties to better purpose. Limited to two hits by Gerry Staley and Tom Poholsky, the Red Sox took advantage of four walks, an error, a passed ball and a wild pitch to score two runs in the eighth and nip the Cardinals. 3-2. Rookie Tom Alston collected two of the six hits off Red Sox pitchers Leo Kiely and Truman Clevenger, including a home run. The Yankees snapped thein sev-en-game losing streak as Harry Byrd and Tom Morgan pitched them to an 8-2 triumph over Brooklyn. It marked the Dodgers first loss" in 12 games and Yogi Berra was the chief culprit with a homer and two singles. There was some bad news for the Yankees, too, however. Dr. George Bennett of Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, Md.. examined Mickey Mantle’s mending right knee and told Yankee officials that the young outfielder definitely would not be ready for the season opener, April 13. Eddie Joost’s surprising Athletics scored their ninth exhibition victory in 11 games by defeating Pittsburgh, 7-5, at West Palm Beach, Fla., despite Pirate homers by Frank Thomas and George Freese. A walk to Clyde Vollmer with the bases full in the ninth inning gave Washington a 10-9 decision over Detroi.t Cincinnati pounded Virgil Trucks hard in the early innings to gain a 5-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Tampa, Fla., while at Los Angeles, the Giants defeated Cleveland. 9-1. thanks to the fine pitching of Jim Hearn and Ruben Gomez and home runs byFoster Castleman and Hank Thompson. At Yuma, Ariz., Frank Baumholtz collected five-for-five to pace the Cubs to an 8-2 conquest over Baltimore. Red Hols Defeat Klenk's, 97-95 The Pleasant Mills Red Hots edged Klenk’s of Decatur, 97-95, at the Pleasant Mills gym Sunday afternoon in the final game of the season for both teams. The Red Hots led at all periods, 20-15, 57-37 and 74-67. Both teams had five players in double figures. Jim Price leading Pleasant Mills with 24 points and Strickler tallying 24 for Klenk’s. Red Hots FG FT TP Raudenbush 9 1 19 Ballard -A.—,.-— 9 1 19 'Hpehammer 7 4 18 Jerry .Price 8 1 17 Jim Price 8 8 24 Young — 0.0 0 Miller ... 0 0 Werling— fr 0 0 Ehrsam 0 0 0 TOTALS 41 15 97 Klenk’s FG FT TP Reed —7 4, 18 Heller 10 1 21 Strickler 11 2 24 Morrison —7 0 14 Moses ,—4 2 10 Crist 3 2 8 TOTALS 42 11 95 i Trade in s Good Town — Decatur

Dodgers Heavy Favorites In National Loop MIAMI, UP — The Brooklyn Dodgers are out to win a third straight National League pennant and the betting is they will do it. They are going into the race with the best hitting club in the league, the best defensive team, one of the game’s top catchers in Roy Campanella, and they also may come up with the best pitching. Mix them altogether and you can discount the fact that they are going to the post under a new manager—Walter Alston. There is no doubt about it — Alston, the freshman manager, has been given the horses. He’s expected not only to win the National league pennant, but the World Series as well. After all. Chuck Dressen was let out as pilot of the Dodgers in, October because he couldn’t beat the Yankees in the World Series of 1952 and 1953, after two straight pennants. Although he doesn't talk much, Alston does pot appear worried. Neither does any one else in the Dodger family front president Walter O’Malley on down. As a dub. the Dodgers are set except for their bench—and whatever players win those' reserve spots, it is sure to be the strongset in the league. Those reserves probably could play regularly on most other teams in the league. At first it will be Gil Hodges, at second Junior Gilliam, the 1953 rookie of the year; at short. Pee Wee Reese, the sparkplug of the club; at third, fancy-fielding Billy Cox. In the outfield it will be Jackie Robinson in left, Duke Snider in center and Cart 7 Furillo, the major league batting champion, in right, with Campanella be- ' hind the plate and Al Walker to spell him if necessary. Most of them had their best major league years in 1953 and it could be that age will catch up with Robinson, 35; Reese. 34; Campdnella, 33 and Furillo, 32. But, if it does, the Dodgers have the best crop of rookies in the majors. Fellows like third, baseman Don Hoak, shortstop Don Zimmer, outfielders Don Thompson and Dick Williams and catcher Charlie Thompson are ready to take over. Age is. no problem on the pitching staff exft/’pt for Preaches. Roe. who is *36. But" he is a cagey, old southpaw who gives fittf to contending clubs such as the Cardinals and is sure 'to be spotted against them and other clubs whose batting strength is lefthanded. But the Preach doesn’t figure in the starting rotation. That will be Don Newcombe, back from the service after winning 20 in 1951; Carl Erskine, the World Series all-time strikeout king who won 20 last year; Russ Meyer (15-5), Billy Loes (14-8) and young Johnny Podres (9-4), who probably will be the only lefthander on the staff besides 'Roe. Behind them there are such as Erv Palica, whom a lot of managers feel could become a real star; Clem Labine, an ace in relief last season; Joe Black, who looks more and more every day like he did in 1952“ when he won 15 and lost only four; Jim Hughes, another bullpen ace; and such youngsters as Tom LaSorda, Glenn Mickens, Bob Milliken, Ray Moore and Ken Lehman. If they don’t make it, there are a half dozen others ready to take over. The Dodgers have everything it takes—on paper. Alson is confident they will have it on the field, too. Don Budge Quits Pro Tennis Tour AUGUSTA, Ga., UP — Pon Budge, who ruled the world’s tennis courts in the late 19305, prepared to bow out of Jack Kramer's professional tour today with a tip.-es his hat the Pancho Gonzales as “the best in the world right now.” The 38-year-old Budge, who swept the Wimbledon. United States, Australian and French amateur singles crowns in 1938, announced he would quit the tour Thursday at Jackson, Miss. He’ll return to his job as resident pro and manager of the exclusive. Town Tennis club in New York. Cubs Trade Smalley To Milwaukee Braves BRADENTON, Fla., UP — The Milwaukee Braves obtained shortstop Roy Smalley from the Chicago Cubs for pitcher Dave Cole and an undisclosed amount of cash today, and some observers regarded the trade as a possible first step in a Milwaukee-Phila-delphia Phillies deal. Smalley, who was scheduled to join the Braves today or Tuesday from the Cubs’ west coast camp, waS acquired to add infield strength. Manager Charlie Grimm said Johnny Logan would keep Tils regularshortstopberth.

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Pistons, Knicks Out Os Playoffs By UNITED PRESS Think the National Basketball Association playoffs are slightly complicated? You haven’t heard anything yet. If the Boston Celtics. beat the Syracuse Nationals at Syracuse’tonight In the tinal preliminary game of the <Elastern Division round-robin series, each team will have an identical 31 playoff record, necessitating the toss of a coin to determine at what site the odd game in their best-j|t-three semi-final series will be played. Syracuse -and Boston wound up tied for second place in the eastern division during the regular sea-son. and the winner of the current playoff between them — including the semi-finals, of course—will receive the second place money being held in escrow. Simple, isn’t it? The Nationals won their third straight playoff game by defeating the New York Knickerbockers, 10399 Sunday, but Syracuse center Earl Lloyd suffered a broken right hand during a second period scramble. Only 2.539 fans turned out to see the Knicks, winners of the eastern division title during the regular season, suffer their fourth straight defeat. They were eliminated earlier in the roundrobin. Rochester handed Fort Wayne its fourth straight defeat, 89-71, thereby eliminating the Pistons from the league’s western division round-robin. The Royals, with a 2-1 playoff record, meet Minneapolis, holder of a 3-0 slate, at Rochester Tuesday night in a game that has no bearing on the round-robin since the Royals already have qualified to meet the Lakers in the semifinals. The winner of that series will meet the winner of the eastern semi-final series. BOV/LING SCORES G. E. ALLEYS Men’s Factory League W L Office . .... 18 12 Flanges ... 17 13 Stators ... 16 -■ 14 Rotors 10 "20 600 seriets: G. Laurent 607 (193-203-21 D 200 scores: H. Shoaf 238, S. Jackson 235, M. Hoffman 210, G. 'Schultz 203. R. Schuster 223. G. E. Fraternal . ... W L Riverview Gardens 22 8 West End Restaurant .. 18% 11 Vi Teeple Truck Lines .... 17% 12)4 Peterson Elevator 15 15 Elks ; 12% 17% K. of C: 12 18 Monroeville Lumber ~i 11% 18% G. E. Club 10 20 600 series: Al Buuck 675 (208-203-264) 200 scores: E. Bultemeier 216200, R. Mutschler 215, R. Lord 200, A. Appelman 235. D. House 212, G. Baumgartner 215, G. Strickler 223, G. Alton 203, C- (Mclntosh 220, G Laurent 211, J. Murphy 203. G. IE. Women’s League W L Last Frames 18 9 'Hi-Spotn 18 9 G. E. Office 10 17 Spares 8 19 High scores: Plasterer 176, Miller 161. CRACKDOWN (Continued From Pane One) visement, because he said that he believed Brown’s only offense was driving on a permit without a license holder in the car with him. Fern Freeland, 30, Decatur paid a fine of $1 and costs amounting to $14.75 in justice of peace court on a charge* of speeding. In the Lough and Deßolt cases the mayor took up the drivers’ licenses until the boys showed evidence of having properly registered their cars and also had new 1954 plates. SENATE TAKES (Continued From I'aice One) Ham F. Knowland said he hopes to get a vote on the resolution Tuesday afternoon. He would not speculate on the outcome. The Democrats hold a one-vote edge in the senate. Hennings, who issued a-strongly-worded minority report Saturday, said he thinks Chavez will win the test With the votes of “Republicans as well as Democrats.” Democrat Want Ads Bring ResulU MAUMEE PIC WORMS* Non POISONOUS MIAMI CHEMICALS FORT WAYNE, INDIANA

LaSalle Takes NCAA Tourney From Bradley KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP — La Salle’s iExporers. who placed two men on the al-tournament team, set five of 12 new records and tied another in winning the 1954 NCAA basketball championship, looked today like a team to beat In 1955. Among the eight men whose court play won the for the Philadelphia entry, only one will graduate this year—threeletter senior guard Frank O’Hara. Six of the eight are sophomores. The other is one-man destroyer Tom Gola, an All-American junior whose performance against both Penn State and Bradley in last weekends championship tournament kept sell-out crowds on their feet. is •' "It looks like it’s going to be some time before La Salle is knocked off its perch,” one opposing coach conceded ruefully today. "This has been a wonderful year (La Salle's record was 26-4) for us.” said La Salle Coach Kenny Loeffler, "and this has been a wonderful trip to Kansas City. 1 hope we can come again—soon.” Cola was the only unanimous selection for the all-tournament team that was announced Sunday, following La Salle’s 92-76 finals triumph over Bradley Saturday night. The 6-foot, 7-inch rebounding giant also was voted the tournament’s most valuable player —- 'Penn State captured the consolation game Saturday night by defeating Southern California, 70-61. Cola scored 38 points in the two games here, 19 in each, and personally sparked the third period drive that transformed a tight title battle with Bradley into a rout. The 12 new records and one tie established in the tourney were announced Sunday night by Walt Byers. NCAA executive secretary. Six of the records were for a five-game series and were written Into the books for the firstjthne, since the 1954 championships produced the first -victor that had to go the full five-game route. La Salle figured in five of the new records and tied for another. The Explorers placed Cola and Charles Singley on the all-tourna-ment team. Others chosen to the mythical five were Jesse Amelie of Penn State, Roy Irving of Southern California and Bob Carney of Bradley. Chiang Is Reelected President Os China Nearly Unanimous Vote By Assembly TAIPEH, Formosa (UP)' —Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek w-on reelection to another six-year term as president today by an almost unanimous vote of the National assembly. Chiang received .1,507 votes on the second ballot. When the results were announced, millions of firecrackers were set off in Formosa and messages of congratulations began pouring in. Chiang’s only opponent, Hsu FuLin of the Democratic Socialist party, received only 48 votes. The opposition gave Hsu 72 votes in the first balloting Saturday, enough to prevent Chiang from winning at the start. The unexpected opposition also caused celebrations scheduled for Saturday night to be postponed. A weekend of conferences brought many of the delegates from Chiang’s party, the Kuomintang, back into.line.. and- the generalissimo won easily. In statements to his army recently Chiang said that 1954 would be a fateful year, intimating that his trained army could not wait beyond December to attack- the Chine s e C omni unists. Chiang first was elected to head the Kuomintang government on the mainland in 1927. Although retirement for political reasons occasionally has interrupted his rule, he has been the uncontested leader of the Nationalists since that time. Chiang crushed the Chinese warlords in the 1920 s in his famed northern expedition and unified China for,the first time in its history. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

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Golden Gloves Finals In New York Tonight NEW YORK. UP — America’s best amateur scrappers will toss leather tonight in the 27th annual east-west Golden Gloves finals at Madison Square Garden. More than 12.000 fans were expected to watch the eastern -mittmen tty .to w,ln their first team championship over the west in nine years. They haven't turned the trick since 1945, although they did have four ties. $200,000 In Gems Stolen From Train Startling Holdup On Train In Missouri CENTRALIA, Mo. UP—Officers today believed a robber who got 1200,000 in gems in a startling holdup aboard a speeding Wabash railroad train had escaped from this area. Only a meager description was available of the man who held up and wounded John Gray, 55, a New York diamond importer and salesman, as he sat in the club-diner of the Wabash railroad’s No. 12 from Kansas City to St. Louis Saturday night. dray, who was reported in good condition at a Mexico, Mo., hospital, was shot in the right foot. He said the man suddenly confronted him with a gun. Gray said he thought the weapon was a “toy pistol.” Gray said the robber fired one shot and missed, then began hitting him with a magazine. The man fired again, wounding him. Gray said. The bandit seized Gray’s brief case and fled as the train halted at the station here. George P. Lennertson, dining car steward, said the robber wore a checkered topcoat and was of medium build. Phillip M. Bloom, representative of the veterans administration at St. Louis, said he sat across the aisle from Gray and he said Gray shouted. "No, it’s mine,” as the bandit seized his brief case. After the bandit alighted from the train, a Centralia resident. Walter Wilkerson, saw him enter a brown, late model Pontiac car in which a woman driver waited. Wilkerson believed the car bore an out-of-state license beginning AG-73 or 78. Other witnesses thought it was a Kansas license plate. Gray, and presumably the robber, boarded the train at Kansas City, Mo. Gray said the diamonds were contained in four wallets and an envelope in the brief case, along with about 14,200 in cash. He is a salesman and partner in the firm of Adolphe Adler, diamond cutters and importers. A state highway patrol spokesman said, "we are trying to follow a cold trail or no trail at all,” and added officers were looking for ’’professionals who planned very carefully.” BRITISHFORCES (Continued From Pn*e One! be put in command of EDC forces, it was understood. What is hailed as a "startling” and "revolutionary” British deciNO COLLEGE DEGREE NEEDED HERE! ALL YOU NEED TO EARN UPWARDS OF $l5O and S2OO per week with the famous White Shield Program is good sense, neat appearance and the desire to succeed ... If you have these qualities, you can enjoy KING-SIZE commissions daily and fat renewal money . . . Demand is terrific and constant. The program of Hospital, MedicalSurgical & Lifetime Income Protection is famous. “Leads” galore, Promotion . . . Get set for some amazing facts about YOUR OWN earning potential. SEE BILL TOWNSLEY CENTRAL BLDG. 203 W. Wayne St. Fort Wayne, Ind. Phone E-4593 NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY Open All Day Mon. 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Tues. 9 A. M. - 9 P. M.

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