Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1955 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1955

SPORTS

Roosevelt Os Gary Seeking First Crown INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Gary Roosevelt's Panthers enter the Indiana high school basketball tourney finals at Butler Fieldhouse Saturday as the team with the shortest history and the longes streak. The steel-city quintet also would gladly surrender the national Negro high school basketball crowns it son in a six year reign B 1933-38, to take the first state title back to Gary this year. It also would be only the second won by a far northwestern team — matching Hammond Tech's surprise run through in 1949. Probably the most striking thing about this team is its resemblance to the excellent Crispus Attucks team that went to the state finals (as the first all-Negro school to make the trip) in 1951. Gafy (Roosevelt, as the Attucks of 1951. played a schedule that left lots of air space for breathing — viz: the Panthers’ first five games in order were with Griffith, South Bend Central, Merrillville, Lafayette Jeff and Hobart. Roosevelt lost that tilt with Lafayete, 39-45, and dropped its only other game a few weeks later by another six-point margin, 47-53, to Hammond. Since then, which was Dec. 18, Coach John (my boys haven’t hit their peak yet) Smith has guided Roosevelt to 22 straight wins. The

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wins have been doubly sweet in Including tourney victories over both Hammond and Jeff. The tourney trail (once out of Gary) has been first-rate and GR has shown the brilliance Attucks showed in 1951 (remember Anderson and Bailey Robertson). > And like that same Attucks team which played as good a schedule as it could arrange in 1951, GR didn’t duck any battles but only three of its 21 season opponents were generally considered in the top 10 of the state during the year and GR lost to two of them. It's brilliance and potential championship form was displayed in the tourney where it has won seven of its 20 straight including victories over four of the top teams in the state — Hammond, City (in the regionals) and Crawfordsville and Jeff (in the semis). Whether the lack of heavy opposition during the season will prove as disastrous for Roosevelt as it did for Attucks in that fall-apart game with (Reitz of Evansville remains to be seen. Certainly the Panthers have shown no tourney fright to date. And any weakness has been more than matched by strength and-or opponents mistakes. In 28 games to date. Gary has an offensive average of 60.6 points (not high for a fast break) compared to a defensive average of 45.4 points. The first round opponents is more near the fast break offensive average with 67 points in 28 games but Fort Wayne North’s defense has been slightly sieve-like allowing 59 points per contest. Whereas GR has the longest winning streak. Fort Wayne has the shortest, being confined entirely to its eight tourney games. Neither has tasted the sweetness of the state championship. Fort Wayne has been in the final tour only once before and that was 22 years ago. one year after Smith moved in as head coach at Gary Roosevelt. Both want to, play for the title Saturday night but you don’t have to go past your second finger to realize only one can make it. New Champ OKLAHOMA CITY (INS) — A 1,572-foot television tower at Oklahoma City has taken the title of the world’s tallest structure away from New York—City’s Empire State Building. Five years ago the Empire State Building add 7 ed 222 feet to its height by construction of a television tower. It now rises 1,472 feet.

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Dayton Edges 'St. Francis In Overtime NEW YORK (INS) — The script for the national invitation basketball tournament was factual but I unexciting today. It disclosed that top-seeded Duquesne will meet second-seeded Dayton in tomorrow night’s final. But the story was incomplete, somehow. , Duquesne breezed into the championship round with an easy, 65-to-51 win over Cincinnati, while Dayton just squeezed in with a' 79 to 78 overtime decision over St. Francis, in a semi-final doubleheader at Madison Square Garden last night. What will be remembered most by the 16,485 Garden tans, however, was the performance of Maurice Stokes, a remarkable basketball player who had the unique distinction of being beaten by two clubs —- Dayton and his own St. Francis teammates. Stokes, who poured in 43 points as the icing to one of the greatest individual efforts in the 18-yeai history of the NIT, just missed leading his Loretto. Pa., cohorts to a whopping upset over the high nnd mighty Flyers. And he missed be cause his team failed him by blowing powderpuff layups that he se. up for them throughout the game. John Horan. 6-8 flyer forward, played brilliantly and scordd 30 points and sriven-foot center Bill Uhl wound up with 20 after an in and-out demonstration that made the big boy something of a Jekyl and Hyde. But the fellow the Flyers ear ried off the court on their shoul ders was 5-11 substitute Carman Riazzi. whose jump shot with five seconds remaining tied the scort at 67-all and sent the game intc overtime. But Stokes wasn't finished. He tallied two of his team’s three bus kets in the overtime, kept fighting for the ball and snared key rebounds to run his game-high total in this department to 19. With the score tied 7171 H<..an and Ray Dieringer hit on four straight free throws for a lead the Flyers never gave uh. Stokes, directing and feeding, wound up with only two assist! only because the Frankies .displayed a, borrendoua, game-tong taieiu ■ sos -blowing -hanger hanger. Maurice did a magnificent job of disorganizing Uhl, Horan "arid Sallee for 26% minutes. The agile 235 - pounder opened with nine straight points. He had 20 when the Frankies were on top, 26-19, and 26 at the half even though a Sallee-Horan spree of seven had put the Flyers ahead 42-10 at the intermission. Duquesne’s one-two punch of AllAmerica's Dick Ricketts rind Sihugo Green didn't have to carry too much of a sting iy the anticlimactic second game. ( Ricketts bagged 21 points, Green got 14' (a poor night for him) and the Dukes, who had oeaten the Bearcats twice in the regular sea son. were never in trouble after taking a 36-22 halftime lead. Dave Plunkett (14). Jack Twyman (13) and Phil Wheeler 'l2), j led the Cincinnati point parade—but the outclassed eßarcats had ! more misses than an old maid’s home. i - The Duquesne-Dayton final will

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be the fourth meeting between the two team* this Mason. Th* Duke* beat the Flyer* on the way to winning the Garden'* holiday festival last Christmas, but Dayton won the next two games. Neither ha* won the NIT, although Duquesne was a finalist against Holy Cross last year. Montreal Fans Riot, Game Is Forfeited MONTREAL (INS) — Furious Montreal fan* — with overshoes, eggs, fruit and a smoke bomb — hurled the Detroit Red Wing* into uncontested first place today in the National Hockey League. They pelted League President Clarence Campbell, rioted and battled police in an emotion protest in the Forum Thursday night against suspension of Maurice (The Rocket) (Richard. The riot made it impossible tor the game to continue. Officials declared it to Detroit at the end of the first period. with the Wings leading, 4 to 1. Richard, the league's leading scorer, had been ordered suspended by Campbell for striking Boston'* Haly Laycoe twice last Sunday with his stick and punching linesman Cliff Thompson. The league president had ignored warnings of trouble and arrived at the police-guarded forum midway in the first period. The restive crowd greeted him with yells, and pelted him with overshoes, fruit and eggs. Campbell kept his coriiposure. The tension mounted among the 14.000 fans through the remainder of the period. Then a smoke bomb exploded. Hundreds of spectators and Campbell made for the exits. A man. claiming he was a friend, got passed througji police lines, offered Campbell his hand, and then swung. Police dragged him away screaming and kicking. Outside the forum, police hauled a number of demonstrators away. Several pieces of fire apparatus roared to the scene. The milling crowd threw rocks and bottles and pulled down some trolley wires. Cliff Barker Signs To Coach At Eaton MUNCIE, Ind. (INS) —Formei National Basketball Association player - coach Cliff Barker was named today to coach Eaton high school’* basketball team. Barker is a graduate of Yorktown hign who played with the “Kentucky University teams of 194749. The Muncie-area assignment is the first high school coaching job for Barker. BOW UNG SCORES American Legion League First State Bank won three from Macklin. Bultemeier Const, won three from Burke Insurance, Team No. B.«won two from Fuelling, and Mies Recreation won three from Ashbaucher. W L Pt*. First State Bank . 17 7 23 Bultemeier Con. _ 16% -7% 22% Macklins 13 11 17 Mies Recreation _ 13* 11 17 Team No. 8 12% 11% 16% Burke Insurance . 11 13 15 Ashbauchers 8 16 19 Fuellings 5 19 7 200 scores: Ulman 227-220, Mies 203, Terveer 207, Bulmahn E. 214. Bulman D. 203-204, Schamerloh 206, Hoffman F. 212-201, Frauhiger W. 201, Bultemeier E. 212. 600 series: F. Hoffman (212-193-201) 606, Ulman (227-179-220) -626.

Willshire Bearcats Win Regional Test The Willshire Bearcats racked up their 27th victory without a loss Thursday night, whipping Montgomery Local, 88-69, in the first round of the Ohio Cla** B regional tourney at Toledo. The Bearcats were far ahead all the way. Gary Kesler, 6-8 center, led his mates with 33 points although playing about half the game. Willshire will meet Sycamore in the regional final Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Sycamore eliminated Archbold, 63-50, in the other Thursday night game. The winner of the Saturday afternoon game will advance to the four-team state final tourney, to be held at Cincinnati Friday and Saturday. March 25 and 26. Muncie Coach Given Three-Year Contract MUNCIE, Ind. (INS) — Jay McCreary got a St. Patrick’s Dey present of a three-year contract to gtjftfe the fortunes of the Muncie high school basketball team. In four years, McCreary has led Muncie to 98 vic’ories and 16 defeats. His 1952 team won the state title. In 1953, Muncie lost in double overtime to Richmond in the regional. The 1954 squad lost in the final game to Milan. And this yean Muncie’s number one bearcat* lost to Crispus Attucks in the semi-final. Railed Coal WASHINGTON (INS) — More then seven million ears of coal and coke move every year on U.S. approximately 326 coal trains a day, or 842 car* every hour.

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Adult Farmers Class Meets Monday Night Ken Holliday, fieldman for the Pittsburg Coke and Chemical cempany, will speak at the meeting of the adult farmer class Monday evening at Deca ur high school. “The Use of Agricultural Chemicals” will be the topic of Holloday's talk- He will discuss their usep rimarily in weed control. Slides and specimens will be shown to illustrate his temaik*. William Journay, vocational agriculture instructor at Decatur high, has announced that this will be the last meeting of the class this year. He Urges all farmers who ar® interested to attend. New-Born Baby Dies In 'Puff Explosion KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (INS) — A 16-hour-old baby died today of burn* suffered in a "puff” explosion of oxygen in an incubator at McCray memorial hospital in Kendallville. The victim, Mark Oren Weible, was burned shortly after he was born Thursday night to Mrs. Glenn Weible, of Kendallville. Phil Buck Signs As Coach At Rossville ROSSVILLE. Ind. (INS) —lndiana University freshman basketball coach Phil Buck was signed today as head coach at Rossville high school, where he started as a prep player. Buck coached at Flor* in 1954-52 and then served in the army before taking the IU job- He replaces Alien Niewonger, who resigned last week.

The Training Camps (By I. N. 8.) ■_ Cleveland fans know what the score is. It’* Herb Score, their candidate tor American League rookie of the year. The Indians lost to the Chicago Cub*, 8 to 7, in 11 innings yesterday at Tucson. But there was one bright spot.. Score, a 360.000 bonus rookie who struck out 330 batters in 251 innings pitched for Indianapolis in the American Association last year, came out to the mound to hold the Cubs hitless for his threeinning stint. .- Three other Tribe pitchers were not so fortunate. The Cubs got four runs—including a homer by Ed Miksi* — on five hit* off Mike Garcia in the first two innings. Ray Narleski relieved Score in the seventh to give up a two-run homer to Ted Tappe. And the Cubs scored the winning run in the 11th off Art Houtteman. In another overtime game, Baltimore defeated Brooklyn, 5 to 4, in 10 innings at Daytona Beach when Gus Triandos rapped a sharp roller to rookie shortstop Chico Fernandez. Instead of a routine double play, Fernandez let the ball roll away from him and Gene Woodling scoreds from second. A ninth-inning run by Al Kaline gave the Detroit Tigers a 3-to-2 victory over the Philadelphia Kliilliea at Lakeland. At Sarasota. Boston capitalized

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on the wildness of Milwaukee’s Glen Thompson to snap out of a three-game losing streak, 8 to 5. An error by Alex Grammas and a two-run double by Elston Howard gave the New York Yankees three runs in the eighth inning and a 7-to-4 victory over St. Louis at St. Petersburg. Grammas and Hal Smith homered for the Cardinals as did Hank Bauer for the Yanks. Eddie Yost and Tom Umphlett paced Washington to its fourth straight win, a ft-to-4 victory over Cincinnati at Orlando. At Tampa, the Kansas City Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox, 8 to 2, on throe runs in the first inning off Billy Pierce.

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