Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1954 — Page 7

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1954

Willie Mays Is Named League's Most Valuable r NEW YORK (INS) -tWalloping Willie Mays, who never won anything in his life, today was named the National League’s most valuable player for 1954 The 23-year-old center fielder of the New' York Giants, who predicted flatly last month that he wouldn’t win the most valuable player award “because I never won anything in my life,” polled 283 votes to 217 for his nearest - rivah--’Cincinnati first baseman Ted Kluazewski. The major league batting and slugging champion received all but eight of the first-place votes cast by the 24t$ia$ committee of the Baseball Writers Association of America. . Mays, who returned from two years of military service to spark the Giants to the world championship, received two second-place votes, three third-place ballots and . a fourth, fifth and seventh-place designation. ballots count 14 points, second place nine points and the remaining place run con's secutively from eight points down to one for the tenth choice. Teammate Johnny Antonelli, brilliant World, Series lefthander

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams , Friday Jefferson at Adams Central. Geneva at Hartford. Lancaster Central at Berne. Monmouth at Bryant. Pleasant Milla at Willshire. whose 21-7 record was taps in the league percentagewise and whose 2.29 earned run average was lowest in the majors this past season, finished third in the MVP race w’ith 154 votes. Kluszewski, who beat out Mays by eight and Gil Hodges by seven for the homerun title with his 49 circuits, received seven first-place votes while Antonelli received none. But the 24-year-old former Braves hurler polled enough second and third-place votes to make the difference. Six other Giants made the list but only one drew a first-place ballot. Shortstop Alvin Dark received one first-place designation to windup in fifth place with 110 votes behind Brooklyn’s Duke Snider, who polled 135. The top ten also included St. Louis slugger Stan Musial in sixth position with 97 votes, Philadelphia’s National League strikeout king Robin Roberts next with 70 Milwaukee's Joe Adcock eighth with 60 votes and Brooklyn's Pee Wee Reese and Gil Hodges in that order, with 53 and 40, respectively. Boston — A single female oyster may lay 500 million eggs within one season.

Eastern Indiana Standings Listed Three Eastern Indiana conference games are scheduled Friday night and two next Tuesday, as five teams are still undefeated dn j conference play. ’ Games Friday are Geneva at Hartford, Monmouth at Bryant and Montpelier at Albany. Tilts next Tuesday are Berne at Geneva and Roll at Montpelier. Team Standings , All EIC Games W L W L Berne v— 2 0 71 Montpelier .... 2 0 8 1 ' Redkey 20 5 2 Albany 10 5 0 Monmouth ..... Iff 4-4 Bryant 11 5 2 , Geneva 0i 5 2 , Pennville 02 3 5 Roll o'2 2 4 : Hartford 03 2 6 -XI ’ ■ College Basketball Purdue 78, Notre Dame 58. Valparaiso 63. DePauw 53. Marquette 83, Michigan 78. Illinois 97, Miami (O.) 72. North Carolina State 91, South Carolina 62. Penn State 110, Colgate 75. Western Michigan 60, Toledo 52. Wyoming 50, Oklahoma A & M 43. Missouri 77, Arkansas 58. Dayton 71, Louisville 67 (overtime) St. Louis 82, Mississippi 68. - LaSalle 76, Lafayette 60. Pro Basketball Philadelphia 99, Fort Wayne 90. Rochester 99; Minneapolis 97 (overtime). New York 88, Syracuse 81. Boston 117, Milwaukee 106.

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Chicago While Sox Tops In Team Fielding NEW YORK (INS) —The Chicago White Sox, team champions for the third straight year, landed three players on the American League defensive all-star team for 1954. " The While Sox finished third behind Cleveland and New York in the pennant race but won the de tensive championship with a .982 club fielding average—three per- ' centage points better than either the Indians or Yankees. Every club but Bfcltimore and Philadelphia mads the draam team with Nellie Fox, Chico Carrasque and Virgil Trucks nailing down three berth# for the Chisox. Fox was tops for second baseman with a .989 fielding percentage, committing just nine errors in 80il chanced. Carrasquel had a .975 percentage, one point under his leagu? high for shortstops last year, with his 20 eirois in 79-2 chances. Twenty six pitchers fielded the4r positions flawlessly but Trucks topped the list by handling the most chances, 58. First base honors went to Washington’s Jim Vernon, whose .9924 aveiage nipped that of "New York's Joe Collins by the microscopic margin of nine-tenths of a percentage point. Grady Hatton, whcm the White Sex traded to Boston the later pan of May, captured third-base laurels with a .969 average, one point better than Washington's Iron man, Eddie Yost. Cleveland’s league champs landed two men on the squad, Larry Doby and Jim Hegan. But Doby came in second for. outfield honors behind Detroit's Jim Delslng. Doby's defensive average of .995 was one percentage point «under the mark posted by Delslng. Doby, however, played in 153 games as compared to Delsing's 108 games and handled 427 chances to Delsing's 227. Hank Bauer of the Yankees claimed the third outfield berth with a .989 average. Hegan set the pace for backstops with a .994 average made in 127 gkmes. Hegan had four errors in 714 chances. Club statistics show that New York made the most double plays (W 8 one under the total with which Cleveland led in 1053. White Soy catchers had the fewest passed balls (4) and had a collective total, of f ewes t errors for the year (108). Boston's backsloppy depaitmept was charged with ’ balls (B 3 The Red Sox also committed the most errors (176) bur handled the most chances (6.244). BOWLING SCORFS American Legion League Fuellings won two from Mies Recreation, Macklins won two •from Burke Insurance. Bultemeier Construction won two from First State Bank, and Ashbaucher wonthree from Team No. 8. W L Pts. First State Bank .31 11 4ff Bultemeier Con. .29 13 37 Burke Insurance . 23(4 18 37(4 Fuellings ........ 23 19 27 Mies Recreation .22>4 19 27 Macklin 22 20 25 Ashbaucher ... 16 26 18 Team No. S 0 42 0 200 scores Gallmeyer 202, Delong 204, Mutschler 211-209, Farling 202, Bienz 2J4. E. Bultemeier. 203. 600 series — Mutschler 603 (2-11-183-209),

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Fordham Drops Out Os College Football NEW YORK (INS) —Fordham has joined the ranks of colleges forced to drop intercollegiate football because of <inwicial losses cause by lack of support. Announcement of the decision to abandon the grid sport was made Wednesday night by the Rev. Lau- • rtence J. McGinley, president of i the Bronx university, through Jack Coffscy, graduate manager, of ath- . letics. U. S. Jakes 2 To 0 Lead Over Sweden BRISBANE, Australia, (INS) ? — The United States took a comminding 2-0 lead over Sweden today tn the first two singles matches of the Davis Cup interzone finals. Tony Trabert scored a compare--1 lively easy 6-4, 6-3. 6-4 victory over Sweden s ace. Sven Davidson in the opening match which was delayed by rain which fell interihittingly through the first set. Vic Seixas, the American champion, followed with a hard-fought 1 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 decision over 1 Lennert Bergeiin. The Americans are strong favorites to win the doubles Friday, thereby earning the right to meet Australia for the cup, Dec. 27-29. Trabert, who has been in a slump in recent weeks, showed a sudden reversal of form today as ■ his hard service bit the corners. Davidson's game unproved when ’ he stormed the net but by the [ time he changed tactics it was too lale to catch the confident Ameri--1 can. ; Bergeiin gave the American contingent a real scare as he forced Seixas to travel five brilliant sets. I The turning point came In the ; sixth game of the third set. Seixas ' had pulled up from 0-3 to 2 5 when , he gave Bergeiin an easy smash I which the Swede appeared to have put away for an easy winner. But Seixas almost leaped into 1 the stand to make a marvelous . return and won the point. Thereafter Seixas' strong service and . passing shots were unbeatable. The match was finished hfsemi- , darkness. High School Basketball New Haven 71, Monroeville 47. • Uniop Center 74, Arcola 40. I Jefferson Center 47. Huntington Catholic 46. * J ~ : Indianapolis Attucks $7, Indianapt oils Tech 47. Ejwood 56, Noblesville 47. Gary Roosevelt 71. Gary Emerson 33. .. Logansport 72, Elkhart 43. South Bend Washington 71, South 1 Bend ‘Riley 59. ►„ ■ - Mishawaka Youths Taken In Custody SOUTH BEND. Ind. (INS) - Three Mishawake youths were held in St. Joseph county jail, less than a mile from the beginning of a short-lived ferltne they hoped would take them on a nations tour, Heid under 33.000 bend tach and charged with.conspiring jo commit 'robbery a[e Benjamin W. iarxton, : 23: Robert Lee Scheibelhut. 19, ! and John Dea Palmer. 19. Laxton is married and the father of a child. Democrat Want Ad« ur’nq

Olson Retains Title On TKO Win Wednesday SAN' FRANCISCO (INS) — Middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson tiirned to thoughts of Christmas shopping today with** plenty of crisp cash provided by his 11th round TKO triumph over Pierre Langlois of France. Olson, in command throughout Wednesday night’s scheduled 15round title bout at the San Francisco Cow Palace, was far ahead on pointe when referee Ray Flores stopped the fray on the advice of Dr. Robert Laddon, state athletic commission medic. The unhappy Langlois had a wide gash over fits left eye, a wound inflicted by the slashing Bobo in the sixth and a target which the champion admitted afterward, he kept aiming at once he knew he' had the French challenger in trouble. Olson didn’t miss the target. Langlois* troublesome gashed eye grew progrejsiYely wqrse until referee Flores decided it was time to get a medical opinion. Fifty-eight seconds of the 11th round had elapsed when Dr. Lad don climbed into the ring, inspected the Frenchman's injury and pronounced it too serious to allow Langlois to continue. Langlois and his manager, Jean Bretonnel, complained excitedly about the doctor's decision and accused the doctor of causing the wound to bleed afresh when he touched it. 'Referee Flores retorted; “If Langlois thinks the doctor opened the cut. what do you think Olson could have done with an overhand right." The fight. Olson's third title defense in eight months, grossed $107,660 and netted $93,369 at the gate after federal and state taxes. National television rights added to the financial success of the affair which was witnessed by a near capacity crowd of 16,450. Rushville Store Is Robbed Os Jewelry RUSHVILLE. Ind. (|,NS) —Police of Rushville sought no sophisticated jewel thieves today but the brickbat variety for the robbery of Cooper's jewelry store. Authorities said thieves tossrd a large rock through the store window and stole 16 women’s diamond rings valued at $1,219, Wednesday. *

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Minnesota Star To Play In Winnipeg MINNEAPOLIS (INS) —Minnesota buck field star Bob McNamara, who had been drafted by the Cleveland Browns, signed a $25,000 contract Wednesday night with the Winnipeg Bombers of the Western Canadian Football League. Although he had been dratted by the Browns of the National Football League in 1952, he aaid after completing the 1,954 season * that he would sign with th a club that offered him the most money. Governor Opposes Gas Tax Increase Announces Plan To Forestall Increase INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Governor George N. Craig aaid today lie had a plan to forestall an increased in the gaspline tax proposed by the legislative advisory commission. The governor said that the threat of being unable to match federal road allowances could be removed by adding 150 engineers to the state highway department staff and by advancing the fuel tax and motor vehicle license receipts to a monthly rather than a quarterly basis. Craig added that Indiana already is able to match the $1,667,492 on which the deadline in June 30 and $12,366,975 which must be matched by June 30, 1956. Another $13,697,571 caii be matched by June 30, 1957 by stepping up the fund distribution and a similar condition exists with respect to a June 30, 1959 deadline for an additional $21,021,328, according to Craig. CT FRL SAT. SUN. Continuous Sat. & Sun. TWO ACTION HITS! WILD BILL ELLIOTT “BITTER CREEK” — ADDED THRILLER — “ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG” Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine ’ ONLY 15c • 30c

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