Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1954 — Page 7

FRIDAY, OCTOBER IH4

Commodores In Daily Drills For Opening Os Net Season November 2

The Decatur Commodores, under direction of Dave Terveer, coach, are holding daily practice drills in preparation for the opening of the 1954-55 basketball season, slightly more than three weeks away. The Commodores lost two regulars, John York and Ed Wilder, and two reserves, Bill Kruse and ißon Loshe, by graduation from last season’s sectional squad. Returning lettermen around whom Terveer is shaping fats squad are Chuck Voglewede, Walt Mowery, Joe Wilder, Jerry Voglewede. Paul Faurote and Henry Costello. Twenty-seven boys are engaged in the daily workouts for the first and second teams. The Commodores will open their season Tuesday night, Nov. 2 (election night/; meeting the Pleasant Mills Spartans at Pleasant Mills. First home game of the season will be Tuesday, Nov. 16, with the Monroeville Cubs as the opposition. One change in the away from home schedule was announced today by Terveer. The Huntington Catholic game at Huntington has been shifted from Dec. 3 to Saturday, Dec. 4, because of a conflict in dates at Huntington. Candidates for the team are as follows: Seniors—Chuck Voglewede and Walt Mowery. . Juniors-—Joe Wilder. Jerry Voglewede, Henry Costello, Paul Faurote and Tom Omlor. Sophomores—Pat Teeple, Ronnie Meyers. Steve Litchfield, Ronnie Ford, Dave Voglewede, James Schnepp, Eddie Laurent, Tom Ehler, Hugh Hoyt, Jr., and Dave Helman. Freshmen—Phil Reed, Dave Kahle, Tom Meyer, Bill Beal, Joe Kohne, Dale Hake, Mike Ellenberger. Dave Kltson, Don Gase, and Ray O’Campo. Season Schedule Nov. - 2— Pleasant Mills at Pleasant Mills. Nov. 16—Monroeville at Decatur. Nov. 19—Monmouth at Decatur. Nov. 23—Hoagland at Hoagland. Dec. I—Chester Center at Bluffton. Dec. 4—Huntington Catholic at Huntington. Dec. 10—Adam»-Central -at- Deca- , tur. Dec. 14—Harlan at Decatur. Dec. 21—Jefferson at Berne. Jan. 4—Hartford at Hartford. Jan. 7—Anderson St. Mary’s at Decatur. ' Jan. 13-14-15 —County tourney. Jan. 18—Willshire, 0., at Willshire. Jan. 28 —Marion Bennett at Marion. Feb. 2—Geneva at Decatur. Feb. s—St.5 —St. Mary's at Anderson. Feb. B—Adams Central at Adams Central. Feb. 11—Pleasant Mills an Decatur. Feb. 18—Lancaster Central at Decatur. Bears Down Lions In Junior Football The Bears of the Junior high football league chalked up a 20-7 victory over the Lions in a game played at Worthman field Thursday evening. The Bears scored in all except the third quarter, while the Lions counted their lone touchdown in the final period. Call scored the winners' first touchdown in the opening period on a 12-yard run, Costello tallied in the second on a six-yard run. and climaxed the tilt with a Soya rd touchdown gallop in the final period. Points after the first two touchdowns were scored hy Vergara, both on passes from Beldenbach. The Lions tallied their touchdown tn the fourth quarter on a 10-yard pass from Kinerk to Shraluka. A pass from Kinerk to Van Horn added the extra point. Score hy quarters: Score by quarters: Bears 77 0 6—20 Lions (I 0 0 7—7 Scoring—Touchdowns: Bears — Call. Costello 2. Lions — Shraluka. Conversions — Bears: Vergara 2 (passes); Lions: Van Horn (pass). ■Evaporated milk will make >better whipped cream if the bowl and beater are thoroughly chpied before using.

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Oklahoma To Meet Texas In Feature Game NEW YORK (INS) — Oklahoma's top-ranking Sooners run into another rugged obstacle blocking their path to college football’s national championship Saturday when they meet Texas in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. The Sooners, winners of 11 straight games, are out to retain the No. 1 spot in a weekend filled with stellar attractions from coast to coast —games which are likely to cause a hasty juggling of the ratings. Bud Wilkinson’s talented team faces the Longhorns without the services of ace quarterback Gene Calame, sidelined with a fractured collarbone. This could be fatal against Texas, ranked ninth in the nation by the six-man International News Service panel of experts. Wisconsin, current co-holder of second place in the standings with UCLA, is slated to see action in the NCAA's television game of the week against power-laden Rice. The UCLAN’s try to break the tie when they engage Washington's Huskies. One of the top attractions of the week pits fifth-ranked Purdue, upsetters of Notre Dame last Saturday, against eighth-ranked Duke. The Irish, who toppled Texas and then were upended by Len Dawson and the Boilermakers, go into their third game as the sixth team in the national picture. The South Benders seek to regain face at the expense of Pitt lowa, fourth team in the INS ratings, goes against a Michigan team upset by Army last week. Seventh-ranked Southern California tangles with Texas Christian tonight. Rugged Penn State, No. 10 team, plays Virginia Saturday. Other top games Saturday include Alabama; Baylor at Arkansas; Georgia at NorthCarolina; LSU at Georgia Tech; Ohio Slate at Illinois; Michigan State at Indiana; Kansas at lowa State; Kansas State at Nebraska; Maryland vs Wake Forest at Winston Salem, N. C.; Northwestern at Minnesota; SMU at Missouri; Navy at Stanford; VMI at Boston College: Rutgers at Colgate; Yale at Columbia; Harvard at Cornell; Dartmouth at Army; Penn at Princeton; George Washington at West Virginia. Saturday night — Fordham at Boston U; Cincinnati at Marquette; Mississippi at Vanderbilt and Clemson vs Florida at Jacksonville. Alleged Bigamist Commits Suicide GREENFIELD. Ind., (INS) — Funeral services for an alleged bigamist who committed suicide to get out of his troubles were planned today. ", - Robert Raymond Alvord, 40, who killed himself on a lonely road five miles northwest of Greenfield, left a suicide note urging his first wife Merle, of Indianapolis, “to be good" to. his second wife, Janice, whom he married in Cicero. Margaret Truman In Missouri Campaign KANSAS CITY, Mo.. (INS) Margaret Truman reportedly will campaign for George H. Christoph-* er, Democratic candidate for congress from the fourth Missouri district. , William Poindexter. district chairman of the Young Itemocrats, said Thursday that the daughter of the former president Harry 8. Truman has accepted the job of spearheading the "Youth-For-Chris-topher" movement. Flower Smoke LONDON. (INS) — The master of a primary school was pleased when hie boys took an interest in flowers and was delighted when they later formed their own flower club. Eventually he discovered that his charges, aged 11 and under, were mixing chopped up dandelion leaves with tobacco and smoking the result.

United States Davis Cup Team Selected NEW YORK (INS) — The fourman team selected to go to Australia as Uncle Sam's Davis Cup representatives contains no surprises. The U. 8. Davis Cup selection committee named national chanf■pion Vic Seixas of Philadelphia, Tony Trabert of Cincinnati, Ham Richardson of Baton Rouge, La., and Billy Talbert of New York to face Sweden In the Inter-sone finals at Brisbane, Dec. TM.B. Talbert is the team captain. Giants Split Record World Series Share NEW YORK (INS) — The New York Giants, who gained glory and prestige through their spectacular four-game sweep over the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, w-ill get the gold to go with it in the form of record 811,147.90 winning shares. A division of the series epSils from the most whopping player’s pool of all time was announced Thursday by commissioner Ford Frick. The Giants, and all other beneficiaries were on the receiving end of record shares. ' The wln n ing G ianFs' Collected Th' excess of 34,000 more than the losing Indians, whose 86,712.50 represented top shares ever accrued by a loser. The Durochermen shattered the 88,280.68 individual take of the Yankees in 1953 — the previous high foliar mark. The Dodgers took second money of 36,178.42 in that series. The Giants, who get an over all 8370,340.76, voted 30 full shares, three half shares and two shares of one third apiece plus gifts totalling 311.750. | . The Indians divided 4heir >246,- ’ 89J.54 stipend into ’STTuII shares. one half share, (our one-quarter shares and gifts totalling 38.600. The entire pool was 5798,763.72 plus 583,000 from a pre-game television program. The also-rans in both leagues also get in on the gravy. The second place Dodgers receive 32,103.43 while their American League counterparts, the Yankees, are to get 31,768,43 per full share. The Milwaukee Braves, third placers in the National League, voted full shares (36) for everyone. This amounts to 31.227.67. This, according to Frick, wu a unique share-the-loot vote. The White Sox. who were third in the AL, voted 33 shares of 81,224.67. The fourth place Phillies draw 3648.36 apiece while the fourth place 'Red Sox get 8595.79. Syracuse Chiefs Even Playoff Series SYRACUSE, N. Y. (INS) — The Syracuse Chiefs and the Louisville Colonels are all even at two wins apiece today in the “Little World Series." The Chiefs squared the best-of-seven test Thursday night by nosing out the American Association playoff victors. I to 0. before 4,432 fan* at MacArthur Stadium. There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that the older generation didn't outgrow. — Advance, Kossuth County. lowa. A survey Indicates that fire losses in the United States will exceed 31.000.000,00(7 this year—the highest in our history.

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- ..... .... ;—■ 6.0. P. Flayed For Appeasing McCarthy Stevenson Speaks At Wichita Meeting WICHITA, Kas. (INS) — Adlai Stevenson has flayed the Republi- . can adminiil.ration for “its apI peasement of Sen. Joseph McCar--1 thy.” The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate, invading President Eisenhower’s Kansas stronghold, lashed the GOP in a speech before some 4,500 persons in a Wicbita ballroom Thursday- nigh t in touching upon the Wisconsin Republican senator. Stevenson, using the KansasNebraska bill of 1854 as a premise, assailed those who “compromise when basic moral principles are at stake.” He said: “After the Kansas-Nebraska bill was compromised allowing each to remain a territory, bloody war followed and eventually the Civil War ; in 1860. That is what happens when nations and individuals are appeased." Thfjfvrmer. Illinois governor added: ' ’ - ' •lln a different dimension we saw what can happen to that sordid exhibition last spring of the combined efforts of the Republican party to appease Senator McCarthy. “The Republicans wanted both ways. They abused and used Sen a(or McCarthy at the same time.” .. . . — . — . -WHfwr ywl /I miami C s 'ttm Mp > J- T■ ■ T™* M PHYSICAL CULTURE fanatic'Bernarr MacFadden sports a beaut of a mouse under his left eye as he appears in a New York court. He charges his son Berwyn, 30, with planting it with a "real good right." MacFadden, 86, claims his son stormed into his office and belted him because he sent a letter to a dance studio where Berwyn was being schooled which caused Berwyn to be dropped as a nunil /International)

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Motorist Survives Fall Os 1,000 Feet MONTROSE, Colo. (INS) — A 22-year-old Lowry air force base airman survived a 1,000-foot fall when his car plunged off a highway into the Animaa river canyon in Colorado, suffered minor cuts and summed up his experience by saying, “My number just wasn’t up.” The motorist, Airman 1-C Escar L. Kimmel was found staggering along the Rio Grande railroad narrow guage tracks some distance ' from the crash acene about four miles south of Silverton, Colo. Churchill Attends Party Conference LONDON (INS) — Prime minister Winston Churchill left London today for the Conservative party conference In Blackpool amid increasing speculation that he will retire soon. The 80-year-old statesman and his wife given a rousing send-off by a crowd which gathered at London’s Euston Station. Churchill is scheduled to address the Conservative coftference Saturday. Trade tn a Goo<> i own — nenatur

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