Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1955 — Page 7

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SPORTS

New Albany Favored To Win At Bloomington BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (INS) — With the exception of people’s choice Switz City, the Bloomington semifinal hopefuls of the Indian> high school basketball tour-, nament were kissin’ cousins during the season. Vincennes, New Albany and Evansville Reitz played a roundrobin series in which the Bulldogs of New Albany beat Vincennes by eight points and Evansville Reitz by two points and Vincennes took Reitz by two in double overtime. Switz City has one opponent in common with Vincennes and Reitz —Terre Haute Garfield. Vincennes beat Garfield by 16 points while Reitz lost to Garfield by nine.

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The Ipfthanded (three of thieir snipers are southpaws) Swiss rattled Garfield in the Wabash Valley tourney championship game and shot the Purple Eagles down by 14 points in the Bloomington regional opener. Pairing and the upsets in sectionals of Jasper and Evansville Lincoln led to a matineq at the Bloomington semi-final this Saturday. Switz City, the winningest team in the tourney 29-2, carries the weight of the Wabash Valley title, into the battle against the tourney’s offensive leader. New Albany, an 87 point per game shooter. , New Albany’s SIAC champs hold the best average margin of victory in the Bloomington meet, 30.3, which Is second in the Sweet 16 only to Crispus Attucks 30.8. The Switz City quintet is the most defensive minded team in the show, having held opponents in six games to 42.3 compared to 56.8 allowed by New Albany in five. — The second game rates as an added -attraction but in this year of mighty upsets in Hoosierland's private hysteria, the added attraction may turn out to be the feature of the bill by nightfall. . Vincennes and Evansville ißeitz are (as their double overtime game indicated) fairly evenly matched teams. Rei£z has a 56 point per game offensive average and a 48.7 defensive average, in six games, which represented a slight increase offensively and a slight decrease defensively over sectional figures. The erratic Alices, on the other hand, lost ground offensively while opponents gained, as Vincennes turned up after six games with a 61 point output and a 50?3 intake. Naming the winners for either game would be a matter of guesswork. But guesses cost little so here goes nothing. New Albany’s tougher competition and greater scoring machine (assuming Pop Warner was right in saying the best defense is a good offense) should prove too much tor Switz City. Vincennes has been lucking through to a number of two point wins, including the overtime victory over Washington in the regional title ganie at Huntingburg. The Alices are going to lose one of these games and wince they

beat Reitz once in double overtime, it would seem this would be the time to lose the game, even possibly in overtime and by two points. But in either case the first game winner should waltz home at night. New Albany should be the team to represent Bloomington in the March 19th final which will have winners from Indianapolis, Elkhart and Lafayette in the scramble for the state title. National Invitation Play Opens Saturday NEW-YORK (INS) — The 18th Annual National Invitation Basketball Tournament opens Saturday in Madison Square Garden. Eight unseeded members of the 12-team field will scramble for quarter-final berths in a ten-hour marathon session. Louisville plays Manhattan in the first part of an afternoon doubieheader (2 p.m., EST) and Niagara meets Lafayette in the second half. The one-man (Maurice Stokes) team of Loretto, Pa., opens the evening competition against 1363 NIT champion Seton Hall. Connecticut plays Missouri Valley Conference co-champion St. Louis in the nightcap. The four seeded teams, Duquesne, Dayton, Holy Cross and Cincinnati, drew Uyes into the quarter-finals Monday and Tuesday. Top-seeded Duquesne, the nation's fifth-ranking team, plays the Louisvilte-Manhattan victor in the opening quarter-final round and fourth-seeded Cincinnati takes on the Niagara-Lafayette Survivor in the Monday afterpiece. Defending champion Holy Crons, seeded third, battles the St. Fran-cis-Seton Hall winner Tuesday night. Second-seeded and sixth ranking Dayton winds up the quar-ter-final action against the Con-necticut-St. Louis winner. The semi-finals are set for Thursday and the final for the following Saturday. Duquesne comes to the Garden with a 19-and-4 record and one of the most powerful one-two punches in the college game, Sihugo Green and Dick Ricketts. Green is an International News Service All-American and Ricketts, a second team All-American choice. But Green and Ricketts will not go unchallenged for individual honors. There are four honorable mentions and one other secondteam All-American in the running for the most - valuable player award, captured last yea»«by Holy Crops’-Togcr-Palazzt.- ’ Jack Twymtn, Cincinnati’s allaround threat, is (Ricketts’ AllAmerican teammate and Tom Heinsohn of Holy Cross, Stokes. Dick Boushka of St. Louis and Jack Horan of Dayton comprise the also-rans. p ro Basketball Fort Wayne 93, Philadelphia 91 (overtime). Minneapolis 96. Syracuse 93. S New York I*l4. Boston 95. College Basketball NAIA Tournament Arkansas Tech 93. Alderson-Broad-dus 74. Western' Illinois Macomb 50,. Gus-tavus-Adolphus 49. East Texas State 66. Beloit 57. Southeastern Oklahoma 96. Steubenville 77.

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Giants Launch Spring Season With Indians ' * ; . • ‘ -4- - ’ T . * 1 , ■ ’ By International News Service The world champion New York Giants go lor their fifth straight win today over the Cleveland Indians. The Dorochermen, who humbled the Indians in tour straight in the World Series last October, opened their spring exhibition season against the Tribe amidst much hoop-la at Phoenix, Arisons. The Giants, who trail the Tribe, 132 wins to 124, in the 22-year exhibition rivalry of the two clubs, will parade through the streets at the Arizona capital in >1 flashy convertibles and will be led to the ball park by 365 high school musicians and 28 civic dubs. There, with the exception of rightfielder Don Mueller, second baseman Davey > Williams and catcher Wes Westrum, they will field their World Series team tor th* first of 31 exhibitions — 18 with the Indiana—that will carry them right up to opening day, April 12, at Philadelphia. The Giants will parcel out three-1 inping pitching assignments to i Jim Hekrn, Joe Margonerl and Reuben Gomez and the Indians will trot out Don Mossi, Mariah Murszewski and Art Houtteman. The Indians looked over four pitchers in Thursday's opening 9-to-7 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Tucson. Veteran Mike Garcia twirled the first three innings to gain the win over rookie Joe Stanka. The Baltimore Orioles, also idle Thursday, get their baptism today at Daytona Beach, Florida, against Cincinnati. The New' York Yankees play St. Louis at St. Petersburg, Milwaukee faces Brooklyn at Miami, Washington meets Pittsburgh at Fort Myers, Philadelphia takes on the Chicago White Sox at Clearwater and Detroit plays Boston at Sarasota. Kansas City and the Chicago Cubs sit this one out. Biggest surprise in Thursday's action was the rout of the Yankees’ big gun, strikeout king Bob Turley. • The big righthander, key man in the 18-pl ayer winter trade with Baltimore, made his debut in a Bomber uniform and wound up on the short end of a 7-to-0 blanking by St. Louis. Turley,.got the first three men, then was nailed for five runs on five hits in the second inning and two more runs on three more hits in the third. While the Cards were blasting the jittery Turley for eight of their nine hits, including two doubles and a triple, the Yankee batting order was held to one scratch single by four rookies who hadn't boasted a single inning of major league experience among them. Larry Jackson was credited with the win, witnessed by a record crowd of 7,095 at St. Pete’s Al Lang Field. Whitey Ford, Tom Morgan and finally Jim Konstanty followed Turley. Six games in Florida and ope in Arizona marked the opening-day schedule. The Chicago White Sox defeated Cincinnati, Iff to 7, in their inaugural at Tampa with Minnie Minoso hitting a grandblam homer in the fourth inning. Both teams experimented with a total of ten pitchers. The Dodgers used Pete Wojey, Tom Lasorda and winning pitcher Ed Roebuck to whip Milwaukee, 3 to 2. Thursday night at Miami. Don Zimmer homered for the Brooks and Del Crandall homered twice for th* Braves, whose Chet Nichols was charged with defeat. Boston defeated Washington. 6 to 3, at Sarasota. Al Curtis got the win and Camilo Pascual, the loss. Ted Lepcio homered for the Red Sox. — Bill Wilson smashed the first homer in Kansas City’s major leatrue history, with a mate aboard, but the newly-franchised Athletics lost to Pittsburgh In ten innings. 9 to 8, at Fort Myers. - ■ ■■■■ . _ ÜBM ’"■WT’J ar' «It ; fi fib - < HARVARD economist John K. Galbraith tell* the Senat* bankBlg committee in Washington that th* government should tqke drastic action to curb •t*cg market speculation if th* boom continues. He said he thought a Wall street collapse “improbable,” (International)

Juniors Winners Os Interclass Tourney Th* juniors whipped the sop’ao mores. 75-59. Thursday night to win the interclass tourney at the Decatur Catholic high school. The juniors led at the first quarter, »«< but the sophomores held A 36-33 advantage at the half. Th* juniors were back on top at the third period, 63-48, and pulled away in th* final minutes. Joe Wilder of the winners topped all scorers with 86 points, while Ron Meyer counted 17 and Pat Teeple 10 tor th* aophs. In the consolation game, the freshmen defeated the seniors, 6453, as th* seniors finished the game with only three players because of foul trouble. Kahle, With 19. T. Meyer with 18 and Hake with 17 led the freshmen, and Miller, with 16, Mowery with 14 and C. Voglewede with 13 were high for the seniors. Freshmen FG FT TP Kahle 9 1 19 Hake 8 1 17 1 4 6 Beal 2 0 4 T. Meyer 7 4 —ig Kohne d e 0 TOTALS . 27 10 64 Senior* FG FT TP Mowery 7 0 14 Murtaugh 2 2 6 Miller O. Voglewede 5 3 13 Titus 1 2 4 TOTALS , T 8... 21 11 53 Junior* FG FT TP Faurot* 4 6 14 Lengerich 0 2 2 Wilder 17 2 3« Costello 4 g , u Zehr 0 0 0 Omlor 3 3 9 Meyer Oil TOTALS 28 19 75 t Sophomores rc FT TP Heiman 6 1 13 Teeple 7 2 16

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Litchfield T . 0 0 0 R. Meyer 7 3 17 Laurent 0 0 0 Ford 3 4 10 Hoyt 1 0 g Ehlnger 000 Ehler 011 TOTALS 24 11 59 Wednesday Fights Switch Networks NEW YORK (INS) —The “Wednesday night fights” series will switch from the CBS to the ABC television network effective June 1. A spokesman for the sponsor said Thursday night the change in networks wss decided when CBS proposed that, beginning next fall, boxing occupy the 10 p. m. (EST) period only two Wednesdays in every three. Bouts will be presented every week on the new network. Lafayette College Net Coach Honored NEW YORK (INS) — Bill Vad Breda Kolff of Lafayette college. Easton. Pa., was named college basketball coach of the year Thursday night by the New York basketball writers association. The award, *won last year by Notre Dame's Johnny Jordan, goes annually to a coach who does an outstanding job with unheralded material. Van Breda Kolff, a Princeton alumnus and former New York Knickerbocker star, led Lafayette into the current national invitation tournament with a 23-2 regular season record, Continuation Os Mild Weather Is Forecast INDIANAPOLIS (INS) -*-Heojsiers can plan on five more days of mild weather according to the extended forecast released today by the U. S. Weather Bureau at Indianapolis. The forecast calls for temperatures four to seven degrees above normal highs of 50 and lows of 31 in the north and 12 degrees above normal highs of 60 and lows of 37 in the south. 7

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