Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1954 — Page 7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1954

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I Speculate On I Great Sports I Stars Retiring new’York ins) — it is not given -to many of us to quit ahead I of the game, and that is, perhaps, a point begin taken strongly into consideration by Otto Graham and Ted Williams, men of immense pride, when they discuss retirement plans. Unquestionably, each could string out his career another year or two or three. It may be that the salary offer for next season, when it is made to Ted by the I Boston Red Sox and to Graham by the Cleveland Browns, will be blatant enough to override even I pride. I But it's "great to quit while youI 're on top,”, a* Graham put it, I and certainly his performance in Sunday’s Natinoal Football League I championship game was as* magnificent away of saying ‘‘goodbye’’ as any man could imagine or desire for himself. Nobody ever had a day like it—at least in a championship game. And not even Graham can honestly expect it to happen again. Williams, too, would be quitting on a high note if he sticks by his resolve. Theodore hit".4o7 in his brief 1953 return from Marine air duty, .345 (enough to lead the league if he’d been at bat 14 more times) after recovering from a broken collarbone last season. Maybe, as has been said, they’ll change their miqds. Graham’s boss, Paul Brown, indicated he believes so, as has Tom Yawkey, who signs Williams’ pay checks. The two situations are not identical, -of course, and what one decides to do will not. hold true for the other. Williams, for example, is said to have a strong feeling of personal loyalty toward Yawkey — perhaps strong enough to try it once more if tfte boss asks him to. - It is no secret, however.--t-hat Graham and Brown/are less than buddies off the field. Business -4 partners in making the Browns click for nine championships in as « many years, pals., jjo. - Graham listed two reasons for his decision to retire—pro football, which, now stretches over almost half the year, ‘‘keeps me away from iny family an awful lot.” and the mental pressure "gets worse every game." Those could be tough objections to overcome. Certainly the pres-

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Week's ■ Schedule QfAdams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Yellow Jackets in holiday tourney. Jefferson vs Poling at Geneva. Wednesday Yellow Jackets in holiday tourney. sure on Graham has been, tremendous. Seldom has any team in any sport been built so completely around one man. Even Williams, for all his stature as a hitter, never bulked so important to his team’s, success or failure as did Graham. « "It’s a good way to get ulcers,” said Graham. Something important and exciting will be missing from football if Graham quits, and from baseball if Williams stays out, But many of their well-wishers would have it that way. Memories" persist of Joe DiMaggio moping through his last season with a .263 batting average and Joe Louis spilled through the ropes by a Rocky Marciano right. The really great ones deserve a better exit line. College Basketball St. Louis 80, Indiana 78. Northwestern 81, Butler 74. Stanford 65, Seton Hall 63. Furman 93, New York U. 85. Tulsa 71, Arizona 49. Holiday Festival UCLA 88. Niagara 86. LaSallae 103, Syracuse 54. Dayton 70, St. John’s (Brooklyn) 56. Duquesne ,87, Villanova 68. Dixie Classic North Carolina 67, Southern California 58. North Carolina State 95, Cornell 61. Minnesota 81, Wake Forest 73. Duke 92. West Virginia 79. Southwest Conference • Alabama 70, Baylor 67. Texas A.&M 66. Texas 61. Arkansas 73. Rice 66. Texas Christian 74. Southern Methodist 71. Motor City Wayne 71. Penn State 66. Detroit 76. Toledo 58. Kentucky All-American Cinrfnnati 78, Mississippi’7o. Evansville 96. Denver 81. \ * Big Seven Oklahoma 73, Colorado 71. Missouri 75, Nebraska 58. Kentucky Invitational Eastern Kentucky 84, Western Kentucky 81. Louisville JOS, Murray State 83. '1“ —— Seattle—pne-half of the nation's remaining timber stand is believed to lie west of the Cascade mountains. -- -

Ohio Stale's Stars. ■ '.’L' • - ' "S' Reported Improved LOS ANGELES (INS) — Doctors have finally decided that Howard (Hopalong) Cassady's rib is not broken after all and he will presumably be in tip-top condition when the Ohio State Buckeyes trot onto the Rose Bowl playing field. . ... Dr. Walter E. Duffee, after watching Cassady go for a long swim, declared: "If a person has a broken rib, even a hairline {fracture, there is pain connected with -it Cassady has no pain. Os course, he would admit none if both legs were broken, but I saw him swim, so I believe him.” -w However, Cassady was apparently shaken up when he was hit hard in last Friday’s scrimmage and he did not appear in the Buckeye’s backfield Monday when they resumed practice. Fullback Hubert Bobo, whose injured leg was expected to keep him out of the lineqp, was on the field Monday and appeared to be in much improved condition. ■v ; i & . £ . jLJ Roger L. Henriksen, 19. with U.S. marshal (right) in federal court, Boston, for arraignment. * e r v 1 Milford W. Eutsey, 20. TWO "PHANTOM SAILORS," Roger L. Henriksen of Quincy, Mass., and Milford W. Eutsey of Chester, Pa., are under arrest by the FBI as being involved in a senes of 10 highway robberies and kidnapings in three states. Henriksen was seized at his home while on leave, Eutsey was arrested at the Philadelphia Naval base. (InternationalJ

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United Slates Regains Davis Cup In Tennis SYDNEY, Australia (INS) — Tony Trabert of Cincinnati and Vic Seixas of Philadelphia regained the Davis Cup for the U. S. today and ended Australia’s fouryear reign as king of amateur tennis. The Americans followed up their, opening day singles triumphs over Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall by blasting the Aussie whiz kids. 6-2. 4-6, 6-2, 10-8 in doubles at White City stadium in Sydney. The victory before a record crowd of more than 2&.500 gave the U. S. a 3-0 lead" In the best of five series for the coveted bowl emblematic of world amateur tennis supremacy. The final singles matches will be played Wednes4ay with Ham Richardson of Baton Rouge. La., possibly replacing Trabert or SejAas. Seixas, the. 31-year-old U. S. champion, was outstanding in the American doubles win. He held his service throughout the match and scored often with his fine volleys. The 20 - year -old Australians broke Trabert’s service only once —in the third game of the second set—and that break enabled them to wintheir only set of the match. Rosewall. Australia’s No. 2 player, was broken three times and Hoad dropped hla__ service twice as the American duo repeated its four-set victory of last August in the V. S. national doubles finals. Cheers went up from the jammed stadium as non-playing U.S. captain Billy Talbert, a top-flight doubles player himself, raced onto the grass court to embrace his victorious players. It took the Americans less than two hours to wrap up their triumph in the oppressive summer heat. Trabert and Seixas. brimming w-ith confidence following their singles victories, handled their opponents’ services well and concentrated on scoring with sizzling first serves. The Australians, jittery over first day losses, found difficulty returning the booming serves and were often erratic with their returns. The U. S. duo toolT a lY’Tead in t)ie first set when Hoad, Australia's top player, missed- .two apparently easy volleys and dropped his service. Trabert. 26-year-old ace, made it 5-2 on his own service and the Americans took the set when they broke through Rosewall at love. The Aussies forced the Americans into errors early in the second set and after capturing Trabert’s service in the third game ran it out, Trabert And Seixas won the third set handily as they forced the Aussies into playing badlytimed. shots and gave them little opportunity -to get into position. The- Australians' first service gave them .trouble and the Americans grabbed the initiative by rushing to the net and scoring on kills . , HoAd and Rpsewall strove desperately in the fourth and final set to stave off defeat, but they frittered away their chances of forcing the outcome of the challenge yrnnd into the third da\ with hurried, careless shots. Harry Hopman, non-playing Aus- i tralian captain, Summed up Mon-1 day’s Aussie defeat as a case of i lost opportunities nad today's result fell into the same category. For Trabert and Seixas it was their fourth attempt to bring-back i the famed cup from doWn under. | where it had gone in 195ff.'when Frank Sedgman. Ken McGregor I and John Bromwich combined to. wreat’the trophy frrtm Ted Sehroe- | der, Tom Brown and Ghrdnar Mqlloy at Forest Hills, N. Y. ' -Si i 4 ’ mW I ;■ ft- 1 v 5 . t T W'' I • u 1 ■fk •xa i [. i ’ * [* MAXENE ANDREWS, one of the Andrews sisters who were split last January when Patti quit , tne act, is shown with her [ housekeeper. Vera Zslga, in Los Angeles after being released from hospital It was the house- { keeper who found Maxene after ' the singer, police Say, took 18. | sleep mg pills, (international)

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BOWLING SCORES Major League W L Pts. Heart Club 30 18 41 Beavers Oil 30 , 18 40 Ifcies Recbeation . 2814 1914 3814 First, Stater Bank .26 22 35 State Gardens __ 2414 2314 3214 Hoagland Im'ment 23 25 31 Burke’s Service 2214 251/4 29)4 Mansfield 19 27 Painters No. 2 17 28 23 Midwestern Lifers 1814 2914 2114 200 games: D. Burke 217, Schnepf 202, Ulman 211, T. Eichhorn 213, Murray SO2, Mitch- 204, Snider 227, E. Reinking 213-230-165 (608 series). Billy McNeece Is Winner Over Dykes NEW YORK SINS) “Youthful Billy McNeece trf Islip, N. Y., gained a . split decision over veteran Bobby: Dykes of Ausii.u. Texas. Mofiday'iiight.it, a ten-round bout at Ist. Nicholas -Arena. McNeece weigher 165 to 164% Tor Dykes.

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Zion HolfdayMeet - Is Opened Monday Opening games were played Monday night in the annual Zion invitational tourney at Zion, parish hall in Fort Wayne. GE Engineers and Apprentices defeated Central Dairy, 79-48; McCullough downed City-Light, 70-58, and Wheeler of Etna eliminated the lio»t Zion team, 68-57. Klenk's of Decatur will meet Bethlehem Suburban in tonight’.opener nt 6:38 o’clock, followed by Rouseeau Bros, against Purrftu Center and Fisher Tire vs South Whitley. . .• High School Basketball Gary Tourney Froebel 61-, Emerson 51. Roosevelt 54, Lew Wallace 37. Mann 62, Edison 48. Tollestpn .58, Wirt 42,. Evansville Tourney ’*’■ • Central 71, Winslow 56. I Reitz 54, Princeton 44.

College Nel Fare Features Holiday Meets By International News Service Dayton, Lassalle, Duquesne and UCLA, four of the nation’s outstanding basketball -teams, scored opening round victories In the Madison Square Garden holiday tourney Monday night. 7 North Carolina State, second ranked in this week's International News Service basketball ratings, stretched its winning streak to 18 by scoring a fiist round victory in the Dixie classic while ninth-rank-ed Missouri routed Nebraska in the initial round of the Big Seven tournament at Kansas City. •Duquesne’s sharpshooting Si dlreen set a new Garden mark by pumping in 38 points in n furious second half scoring spree to 7 enable the Duke-, to whip-previously unbeaten Villanova. 87 o 68. 'Dayjpn made It eightJn a row by defeating St. John’s of Brookyn, 70 to 56. Senior forward Jack Sallee fed the victorious Flyers with 20 points while seven foot Bill Uhl and six feet seven inch John Horan poured ip 19 and 15 points respectively while dividing renter duties. Although the UCLAns lost- three starters via the foul route, they had enough steam left to kayo a rugged Niagara quintet. 88 to 86. Niagara, previously only had been beaten by S»lle. UCLA picked up. its eighth win in nine starts. LaSalle had little trouble iij/tjout-, ■ Ing Syracuse, 103 to 54. < When the tourney re.’umes Wet J-. needay night, Duquesne meets Dayton and VCLA engages LaSalle. The Wolfpack of North Carolina State won Jta 10th straight game by smashing Cornell, 95 to 61. Cornell's John Sheehy took individual scoring honors in the Dixie classic contest with 28 points while State’s 6 feet 10 Inch center, Cliff Dwyer, led his mates with 25 points. North Carolina advanced to the second round by whipping Southern California, 67 to 58. Th other games at Raleigh, Minnesota, paced by forward Dick Gar;naker, rallied to beat Wake Forest. 81 to 73, while Duke beat West Virginia. 92 to 79. Duke will meet Minnesota tonight while North Carolina will tangle with the Wolfpack. 'Missouri had ah easy time whipping Nebraska, 75 to 58 ks NOr,man Stewart pumped it) 2l poiiits, 'OMsTrtfrnri 73-40 71 over-, time victory, over Colorado jn the other pre-season Big Seven’game. ' •

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Tonight defending champion Kansas meets lowa State and guest team California will play Kansas State. 7 Elsewhere in holiday tourneys, Florida beat Florida State 82 to 79, while Spring Hill (Ala.) beat defending champion Georgia, 78 to 69 in the first round of the 'Gator Bowl tourney at Jacksonville, Fla. ‘Detroit and Wayne university advanced to the finals of the Motor Cityyourney with the Titans beating Toledo, 76-to 58, and Wayne dropping Penn State, 71 to 66. Cincinnati got off to a good start at the All American city tournament at as center Jack Twyhian scored 30 points to pace the Bearcats to a 78 to 70 win ’over .Mississippi. In other games, St Louis beat Indiana’s Big Ten defending champions, 80 to-.. 78, Furman routed NYU, 93 to B's, and Stanford knocked Seton Hall from the unbeaten ranks on a last minute basket to win, 65 to 63. Cesar Brion Wins Over Dan Bucceroni , NEW YORK (INS) —Argentina's Cesar Brion boosted his own heavyweight stock and put a crimp in the "comeback” plans of Dan Bucceroni of Philadelphia Monday night by winning a ten-round split decision at New York's Eastern Parkway Arena. Brion scaled 203 pounds to Bucceroni’s 195 - It was a slow fight, marred by many chinches. Roger Groves Quits Football Coaching (PULLMAN. Wash. (INS) —£ogej Groves, one of the nation's" alltime great football players, is quitting as backfield coach and scout for the Washington State College football team, effective Ffcb. 1. He plans to go into business. As a student at Michigan State, _ Groves won a total of nwie major athletic letters — basketball and football. He turned professional, joined the Green Bay Packers in 4935 and played quarterback while they won three divla'tonal ti/iea amd a national, championship. Groves formerly resided in Decatur. attending grade school here. A brother, Carl, served as high school footbail coAch here. Michigan Motorist Fined For Speeding William W. Mesel, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich,, was fined |5 and costs by justice of the peace Arthur K. MUjjtoan in Berne Monday for »;WJlhjt mtbwMbn hour, through Bernie on highway 27. Mesel, was followed through town and arrest'ed by state police.