Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1955 — Page 6

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Fort Wayne North Side Takes Regional Crown; Eagles Lose To Auburn

The Fort Wayne North Side Redskins won their second consecutive regional championship Saturday night, defeating the Auburn Ref Devils, 66-56, in the final game at the Fort Wayne coliseum. The Monmouth Eagles, making their third straight appearance in the regional as the Adams county sectional champions' were pumped by Auburn in the second afternoon tilt. 82-67, after North Side had whaled the Avilla Panthers, 80-6-1, in the tourney opener. North Side, by its victory, will meet Sheridan, the winner at Kokomo. in the second game of the Elkhart semi-final at 2:15 p. m. Saturday. The first tilt at Elkhart will match Mishawaka, winner at Elkhart, against Hartford City, the victor at Marion over Bluffton, 51-46. Redskins Triumph Auburn was realty fired up for the regional final game, battling the hsghJyfavoted Redskins on even twins throughout the entire first half and midway through the third quarter. ■North Side held a scant 16-15 lead at the first period, but the Red Devils pulled into a 34-34 tie at the half. The Redskins came back roaring for the third quarter, and by the end of the stanza had built up a 10-point cushion, 52-42, and maintained a comfortable margin for the final eight minutes. . Henry Chapman paced North to its regional title with 22 points, but had valuable aid from Charley Lyons with 16 and 'Barna Aldridge with H. Jerry Heffley topped Auburn avith 19 markers, and Fred Quartce counted 12. Avilla Battered North Side lost little time in settling the regional opener, roiling up a 16-3 bulge over the Avilla Panthers before the first buzzer sounded. . The Redskins boosted their big lead to 3542 at the half and North's reserves played much of the sec- . ond half, increasing their advantage to 53-24 after three quarters. North had five players in double figures. Chapman 15, George Taylor 12, Aldridge 11, Ron Stellhorn 11 and Bruce Applegate 16. Jim Krock tallied 13 to lead Avilla, Whose season-long scorer, Ray Grocock, was limited to only one field goal in scoring seven points. Eages Eliminated Mnmouth's Eagles stayed close to the Red Devils for the first six minutes of the second afternoon tilt, but Auburn then pulled away and the Eagles could not work back into serious contention in a game marred by over-whistling by the officials. Monmouth drew first blood when John Myers hit from the field, and led again at 4-2 on Paul Fuhrman’s two-pointer. Jerry Heffley hit two in a row from the field and Stew Schnepf's brace of foul tosses evened the score at 6-6. Bill Kilgallon then gave Auburn a lead which they never relinquished, and the Red Devils were in fornt at the first quarter, 1946. The Eagles came within six points of the Red Devils five times during the second period, but Auburn boosted its margin to 13 points, 40-27, at the half. The Red Devils, making their seventh consecutive regional appearance, put the game away for keeps in the third quarter, which ended with the Eagles on the short end of a 62-40 score, and a late flurry by Monmouth could only cut the final margin to 15 points. Norb Witte, Monmouth's scoring leader all season long, contributed a big 31 points on 11 field ogals and nine of 14 free throws for the . tourney's high single game scoring effort. Paul Fuhrman, only senior on the Eagles’ tourney squad, closed out his high school career with 16 points, and Stew Schnepf tallied 12. Three players likewise carried the brunt of Auburn’s offense, Bill -KilgaHo» w4tb«^,—Jerry Heffley with 19 and Jim Blevins with 15. . The officials whistled 47 fouls in the contest, 34 of them in the first half, and had both teams in constant foul trouble. The Eagles bat John Myera on- personals, and Auburn lost Nick Beers. Witte sat out portions of both halves because of early foul trouble, but still contributed his 31 points. There were 25 fouls on Monmouth, 22 on Auburn. Fort Wayne North FG FT TP Lyons 3'l 7 Aldridge V——— 5 1 11 Berghoff ■ .... 11 3 Chapman —7 1 15 Taylor 5 2 12 — .-Applegate --Sr-.- 10 < Ttellhorn 5 i U Hick ox 1 0 2 . Baughman 0 0 0 TOTALS . 34 12 80 Avilla FG FT TP Krock ... 3 7 13 Raynolds ... 0 0 0 Sneary ... 2 1 5 Grocoek 15 7 Gillian 1 1 9 J. Vendrely 113 I

Blotkamp -,- 0 0 0 Coil — A 0 0 Gadomski -...i...... 1 3 5 TOTALS 11 24 46 Score by quarters: North Side — 16 35 53 80 Avilla 3 12 24 46 Officials: Dubis, Criswell. Auburn FG FT TP Blevins 6 3-4 15 Quance 2 3-3 6 Beers 13-6 5 Heffley ... 5 9-10 19 Kilgallon —7 1143 25 Spade' 0 0-0 0 Rieke 3 2-2 8 Staggs 0 2-3 2 Hildebrandt 0 0-0 0 Gorden 10-0 2 .... . 1 TOTALS 25 32-41 82 Monmouth FG FT TP Fuhrman 5 6-6 16 J. Myers 2 0-3 4 WitteL. 11 9-14 31 Fuelling 0 0-3 0 Schnepf — ... 5 2-2 12 Macke 0 0-0 6 Keuneke .... 0 3-4 3 Worthman... 0 0-0 0 Brown 0 1-3 1 w. Myers 1. 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 23 21-35 67 Score by quarters: Auburn 19 40 62 82 Monmouth 10 27 40 67 Officials: Straith-Mliter, Geyer. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Fort Wayne North FG FT TP Lyons .... 7 2 16 Aldridge 6 2 ,14 Berghoff 4 0 8 Chapman, 7 8 22 Taylor 3 0 6 : Hickox ... 0 0 0 TOTALS 27 12 66 Auburn FG FT TP i Blevins 3 0 6 - Quance 4 4 12 i Beets 3 17 i Kilgallon 408 , Heffley 7 5 19 - Riekeo 0 0 I Hildebrandt '.O 0 0 Gorden 10 2 Spatje 10 2 s Staggs 0 0 0 : , TOTALS 23 10 56 , Score by quarters: t North Side .... 16 34 52 66 i Auburn 15 34 42 56 Officials: Dubis, Straith-Miller. ; Regional Scores ’ * At Bloomington f Switz City 55, Terre Haute Gar- • field 41. i Brazil 51, Bloomington 43. )’ Switz City 66, Brazil 58 (final). At Columbus 1 Greensburg 59, Franklin 54. Columbus 58, Scottsburg 51. c Columbus 33, Greensburg 32 (fin8 al). 3 At Covington Fillmore 61, Clinton 53. r Crawfordsville 46, Attica 29. Crawfordsville 58, Fillmore 42 r (final). 1 At Elkhart t Warswa 65, w Lapaz 53. 5 Mishawaka 52, Nappanee 48 (over- >■ time). Mishawaka 63, Warsaw 52 (final). At Evansville 1 Evansville Reitz 56, Tell City 42. s Newburgh 70, Patdka 58. i .Evansville Reitz 57, Newburgh 52 ’ (final). r At Fort Wayne • Fort Wayne North 80. Avilla 46. '' Auburn 82, Monmouth 67. f Fort Wayne North 66, Auburn 56 ’ (final). At Hammond ' Gary Ro®sevSn‘6'6, Hanimorid’s7. _ 3 Michigan City 55. Chesterton 51, Gary Roosevelt 58, Michigan City ’ 51 (final). At Huntingburg 1 Washington 65, Gill Twp. 63. 3 Vincennes 54, Huntingburg 45. • Vincennes 62. Washington 60 (ov5 ertime, final). At Indianapolis 1 Anderson 46, Speedway 43. • Crispus Attucks 95, Wilkinson 42. ’ Crispus Attucks 76, Anderson 51 (final). At Jeffersonville > Paoli 70, Seymour 60. F New Albany 77, Silver Creek 66. I New Albany 88. Paoli 60 (final). 1 At Kokomo i Northwestern 60, Peru 43. > Sheridan 54, Wabash 52. ) Sheridan 57. Northigjptern )al);- ~... At Lafayette ! Lafayette 48, Frankfort 47. I Zionsville 39, Fowler 37. Lafayette 63. Zionsville 41 (final), i At Logansport Francesville 65, Goodland 54. 1 Monticello 73, Rolyal Center 60. : Monticello 53, Francesville 48 (fin1 al). At Marion Bluffton 49, Fairmount 48.' Hartford City 56, Huntington Twp. 17.

» State Champ Milan Ousted In Regional INDIANAPOLIS (INS) Turning out of the backstretch, the Indiana high school basketball tourney is ieaderless and wide open with only 15 furlongs to go. A new state champion was assured when Rushville ended the Milan myth that had that impossibly small Ripley (Believe It or Not) county team ending a 39year hold on the title by "big time” schools. Rushville ended Milan’s two year hold on that regional (and the Indianapolis semi-final) title by a 53-42 count The numerical odds are three to one in favor of a brand, spanking new' champion coming out of the pack since only four are operating and none is an odds on favorite even for any of the semi-final crowns. Two of the* surviving state champions are in the Lafayette , semi —C rawfordsville, winner of the first tourney in 1911, which opens with Gary Roosevelt,’ and Lafayette, 1916 and 1948 winner, which meets Monticello in the. second afternoon game. Lafayette Jeff is the only defending regional king to return to this next-to-last-stop show. Elimination of Milan, more or less spoiled a sportswriter’s dream story. Had the Indians come through, the Indianapolis semi-final would have shown two return engagements. As it is, Crispus Attucks and Columbus engage in the only renewal of the entire state semi-fi-nal tourneys when the Tigers and ; Bulldogs meet in the first game at Butler Fieldhouse. The second afternoon game pits Muncie against Rushville, the North Central Conference king i against the South Central Conference king. A Milan victory would : have brought on a repeat of the 1954 championship battle, which Milan won from Muncie, 32-30. i As it is. sportswriters are certain to spend a week in rhapsodic ; speculation of the possible Indiai napolis semi-final title game between Muncie Central (the INS pre-season choice for state champs) and Crispus Attucks. Each team has lost but one game, and their conquerors are no longer with us. Mtfncie, seeking an unprecedented fifth state title, has a 25-1 record, and Attucks, hoping to bring Indianapolis its first state crown, is moving with a 26-1 mark. The tourney’s offensive leader, a people's choice, and the fourth “living" state champ are bunched in the Bloomington battle for a spot in the final foursome. New Albany’s SIAC titlists head the field with an 87 point per game average. The Bulldogs face Switz City’s Wabash Valley champions and the state's winningest five (29-2) in the first game at Bloomington. Vincennes erratic Alices (winner in 1923) take the state’s least impressive mark held by Evansville Reitbz, 17-8. No regional defenders return to the Indiana University Fieldhouse for this year’s semi. In the Elkhart semi-final show set in the ’’World'! largest high school gymnasium” only Fort Wayne North of last year is back. Mnrth by virtue of the shift of Muncie Central to Indianapolis tuis year, is top banana at Elk- | Mtrncie knocked North out at Fort Wayne in the first afternoon game last year. North moves against a darkhorse Sheridan squad which beat Northwestern’s conquerors of Kokomo in the second game at Elkhart, while Mishawaka tangles with Hertford City in the first game. Saturday's 12 games will reduce the field to four and leave only three games to reduce the original field of 752 teams to one state Champign on March 19th. Hartford City 51, Bluffton 46 (final). At Muncie Richmond 70, New Castle 57. JUuncle. Central 73, Farmland JL. MThhcie' GenMfri”'67,. jHeWmbnd 56 (final). _■ At Rushville Milan. 42. Connersville 40. Rushville 57, Vevay 41. Rushville 53. Milan 42 (final.) DULLES MEETS from Page One) of’ both parties for a briefing on :he current situation in the 'Far East. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur I '•v

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we»wl i The 1954-55 basketball season for Adams county high school teams was brought to a close Satqrday afternoon as the Monmouth Eagles, sectional champions here for the past three years, bowed out of further play at the hands of the Auburn Red Devils in the second game of the Fort Wayne regional tourney. — oOo — Fort Wayne North Side then put an end to Auburn's hopes in the regional final, to give the Redskins their second regional title in a row. —oOo — The Redskins are given an excellent ehance to move on to the state’s Big Four, as next Saturday's play in the four semi-finals will cut the original starting field of 752 teams to just four, who will meet in the Butler Fieldhouse at Indianapolis in the state tourney finals Saturday, March 19. —oOo — • North will meet Sheridan, winner of the Kokomo regional, at 2:15 p.m., Saturday at the Elkhart semi-final. In the first tilt, Mishawaka, winner at Elkhart, will play the Hartford City Airdales. winners over Bluffton in the regional final at Marion. The semi-final tourney, held the past two years at the coliseum in Fort Wayne, was moved this year to Elkhart. The coliseum is not available for any more basketball play, as work got underway today for the national tourney of the American Bowling Congress, which opens March 26. —-000 — A new state cnampion for 1955 was assured Saturday night, when little Milan was ousted by Rushville, 53-42, in the finals of the Rushville regional. Milan, however, which lost its starting five by graduation and whose coach moved on to New Castle last summer, engineered the big upset of the regionals by ousting favored Connersville, 42-40, in the regional opener. Muncie Central and Indianapolis Crispus Attucks, odds-*long favorites for the 1955 championship, had little difficulty in regional play Saturday, and appear headed- for a titanic struggle in a clash next Saturday night at the Indianapolis semi-final, always provided, of course, both survive afternoon clashes. —oOo —- Coaches of other Adams county schools are already worrying about those Monmouth Eagles, come another season next November. Os the 12 men certified for tourney play this year, the Eagles have only one senior, Paul Fuhrman, regular forward. That, however is quite a loss as Fuhrman undoubtedly carried his team to their third straight sectional crown, with his fine shooting and excellent work off both boards. And Paul wound up his career with 16 points Saturday afternoon. —oOo — And as the curtain drops on Adams county high school basketball for the season. Basketbawl also bows out of the picture until another hoop-hitting campaign is launched next November. Semi-Final Pairings Pairings for Saturday’s semifinals of the Indiana high School basketball tourney, afternoon games at 1 and >2:15 p.m., championship games at 8:15 p.m., all local time: At Indianapolis Indianapolis Crispus Attucks and Columbus. Rushville und Muncie Central. At Bloomington Switz City and New Albany. Evansville ißeitz and Vincennes. At Lafayette Crawfordsville and Gary Roosevelt. Monticello and Lafayette. At Elkhart Mishawaka and Hartford City. Sheridan and Fort Wayne North Side. BOWLING SCORES Central Soya League W L Pts. Spares —l7 • 7 25 Feed Mill — 17 7 22. Erasers -J. 15 9 * 19 Lab ....1 12 12 18 Hot Rods 13 IL 17 Dnbr 11 % 12% Bag Service 11 13 14 ‘ 8% 15% 11% Master Mixers ... 9 15 ■ 11 Blue Prints 6 18 8 High scores and series: MenSchlickman 200-204 (565); Stevens 214, Keller 204, Friend 182-191 (520), Hutker 235 (585), Gressley 234 (510), Christen 199 (520), Magsamen 186, Fisher’lß7 (511), Bowman 188, Bayles 205 (515), Fennlg 181 (503), Alton 191 (503). I Women — Kortenber 178. ’

St. Joe Winner In First Tourney Game St. Joe of Decatur won its first start in the annual CYO grade school basketball tourney Sunday afternoon, defeating Queen of Angels, 45-26, at the Central Catholic gym in Fort Wayne, where all tourney games are being played. The Decatur boys, coached by John Kable and Pat Briede, led at all periods. 6-4. 19-9 and 38-13. Wilder led the "winners with 20 points, and Creigh was high for Queen of Angels with nine. St. Joe will meet Sacred Heart at 1 o’clock next Saturday afternoon in a quarter-final game, all of which will be played Saturday. Sacred Heart eliminated St. Hyacinth, 32-27, Sunday. The semi-finals will be played next Sunday afternoon and the championship game Sunday night. St. Joe FG FT TP Wilder — 9 2 20 Litchfield 1 0 2 Coyne 4 3 11 T. Gross 12 4 Baker 2 2 6 J. Omlor Oil Gage 0 0 0 S. Omlor 0 11 P. Gross 0 0 0 Meyer 0 0 0 ■ ■ I TOTALS 17 11 45 Queen of Angels FG FT TP Neuhaus 12 4 Anderson 0 0 0 Creigh 4 19 Waning 10 2 Schimmele 2-1 5 Locke 0 0 0 Barille 1 1 3

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Timmins 10 2 Heerschn Oil TOTALS —lO 6 26 Pro Basketball • Saturday’s Results Minneapolis 107, Rochester 104 (overtime). « Philadelphia 95, Boston 85. Sunday’s Results Boston 108, Fort Wayne 104. Milwaukee 100, Minneapolis 98. Syracuse 107, Philadelphia 101. New York 101, ißeeheeter 96. W -- ir -, -- - - L College Basketball Indiana 83. Ohio State 66. Wisconsin 78, Minnesota 72. Illinois 81, Northwestern 69. Michigan State 83, Michigan 68. Notre Dame 85, Marquette 64. Colorado 77, Nebraska 66. St. Louis 71. Oklahoma A&M 59. Tulsa 77, Wichita 62. Missouri 90. Kansas State 71. Kentucky 104, Tennessee 61. Atlantic Coast North Carolina State 87, Duke 77 (final.) Southern Conference West Virginia 58. Oeorge Washington 48 (overtime, final.) College Top Ten NEW YORK (INS) — Here are this week’s top 10 college basketball teams in International New's Service’s nationwide survey: 1. San Francisco (23-1). 2. Kentucky (22-2). 3. LaSalle (22-4). 4. North Carolina State (28-4). 5. Duquesne (19-4). 6. Dayton (23-3). 7. Utah (23-3). v 8. lowa (17-4). 9. Marquette (23-2). Iff. Oregon State (21-7).

Fort Wayne Pistons Win Division Crown . 'By International News Service The Fort Wayne Pistons have won their first division title in the National Basketball Association. The Pistons "backed in” td the Western Division crown when the Minneapolis Lakers were upset, .100 to 98, by the Milwaukee Hawks, while Fort Wayne was beaten by the Boston Celtics, 108 to 104. Montreal Canadiens Maintain Loop Lead By International News Service Montreal’s Canadiens maintained their three-point margin over the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hocky League race Sunday night when they defeated the last-place Chicago Black Hawks. 4 to 2. The second-place Red Wings edged the New York Rangers, 2 to 1, and Boston Bruins downed the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 to 1. atomiEblast (Con tin tied from Page One) the test would not be the "biggest yet” in Nevada. In the past, a few explosions at the test site have cracked windows in lais Vegas. A force of 90 aircraft participated in the detonation at Yucca Flat on the north end of the AEC proving ground. " GOP FACTIONS (Continued from Page One) Increasing the limit on wrongful death damages from >15,000 to >25.000. Permitting policemen to arrest known narcatics addicts for disorderly conduct when they appear In public places. j —_

MONDAY, MARCH ?, 1955

Adams Central FFA Sees Hockey Game Friday evening, the Adams Central F.F.F. boys attended the last » home hockey game of the year at the Fort Wayne coliseum. Grand ißapids defeated the Komets by a score of 4 to 0, eliminating the Komets from the playoff. Twenty-eight F.F.A. boys and 16 Rekamemoh girls attended the game. Martin Watson, vocational agriculture teacher, and N(r. and Mrs. Lorris Rich, accompanied the group. LABORLEADERS (Continued from Page One) Ladles* Garment Workers, and Alec Rose, president of the AFL, Cap I and and Millinery Workers. Plans for the meeting with the ' President took form during the AFL-CIO talks that led to a meri ger agreement between the two ' organizations recently at Miami, 1 Fla. The fact that a joint delega- ' tion of the two groups is calling at the White House is evidence of Che unity climate in labor ranks. INDICT WOMAN . (Continued from Page One) had told FCC lawyers earlier that ■ she and Lamb had attended four i alleged Communist party meet- ! ings. 7. and 8. Denied in February that she had told the FBI agent she would be willing to go to Washington to testify in th* hearing. The Lamb case began when the 1 FCC announced that it would not renew his permit for television station WICU at Erie, Pa., until allegations that he had Communr ist connections were cleared up.