Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1955 — Page 6

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Willshire In Final Tourney At Cincinnati Willshire's Rearcats, roaring along with 28 victories without a loss for the season. Saturday won their way to the Rig Four of the Class B tourney in Ohio, with an easy triumph in the regional final at Toledo (Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats whipped Sycamore, 66-49, in the regional final Saturday afternoon to qualify for the state final tourney, to he held at the Cincinnati Gardens Friday and Saturday. Willshire will meet Pleasant City, with a record of 27-1 for the season, in the first game of the state finals at 1:30 p. m. Friday. The second game will pit Lockland Wayne (25-1) against Vienna (20-0). The Friday afternoon winners will battle at 2 p. m.' Saturday for the Ohio Class B championship. In the Class A final tourney. Akron Central (20-1) will p|ay Zanesville (20-3) at 7:30 p. m. Friday, followed by Cincinnati Hughes (24-1) against Columbus East (26-1). These winners will clash at 8 p. m. Saturday for the Class A title. Willshire, m winning its first trip to the state finals, was paced by 6-8 Gary Kesler, who dropped in 34 points for the winning Bearcats. Kesler, who celebrated his 17th birthday Sunday, has piled up the amazing total of 813 points this season. The Bearcats led at all periods Saturday, 18-14, 35-26 and 50-38. Merle Black, with 12 points, was the only other Bearcat tn double figures. Noggle counted is points for the losing Wyandotte county quintet. — - Willshire FG FT TP Koch 3 2 8 OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY March 26th MOOSE Tonight & Tuesday Giant Screen—ln Color! JAMES STEWART RUTH ROMAN —■ “FAR COUNTRY” With Walter Brennan ALSO — Shorts 15c -50 c O—O— Wed. A Thurt,—Linda Darnell “Thia Is My Love” — Color First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thurs. from ,4:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! —o—o Coming Sun.—Spencer Tracy, “Bad Day at Black Rock"

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Attucks Wins Net Crown As Records Fall INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Attucks Tiger burning bright swept Butler Fieldhouse Saturday night and with it about every record in the books in winning the Indiana high school basketball tourney title. The Ray Crowe-coached five kept 15,000 fans glued to their seats only by the awesomeness of the scaring parade as theF Tigers swept by a gallant but outmanhed Gary Roosevelt Panther team. 97-74. Crispus Attucks put on a sloppy afternoon display in pulling away from an equally careless New Albany five, 79-67. Gary Roosevelt, on the other hand, showed talent except for the final three minutes of its 68-66 win from Fort Wayne North. Jim Henry, New Albany senior who won the Trester award for mental attitude, paced the bulldogs and all afternoon scorers with a 27 point display that had New : Albany in contention most of the ; first half. George. Taylor (you should pardon the pun) nearly sewed a shroud on Roosevelt in the frantic final frame of the second afternoon game- Taylor coaxed 16 tries at the free, throw line and hit 13 of them. He led North with 1-9 points. The records fell with the first afternoon games and. were bound to since none of the four teams ever had played in » state title game although all except Gary had been in the final four at least once. For Gary, a 1939 joiner of the ISHAA, this was its first trip outside Us sectional. So in addition to having the first all-Negro school in .the title game, Hooslerland’s annual hysteria featured two-thirds of the .state’s allNegro school quintets. Evansville Lincoln, the third of the trio, went undefeated through the regular season but lost in sectional play. And there was little doubt from the beginning of the title game that Attucks, if not actually the finest team, was putting on one of the finest displays of both offense and defense ever to be seen in the expanse of the Fieldhous. One veteran observer said in 25 years of tourney attendance believed only the 1936 Frankfort team compared with Saturday night’s fearful Tiger team. Crispus Attucks started Indianapolis on its way to its first state hardwood crown in 45 years by l accuracy at the free throw line with 13 In a row before Willie Merriweather missed one. At the same time, it was the fouls committed by Gary defenders that dulled the Panther’s claws as Dick Barnett, with a total of 18 poinjs, and Randolph Williams picking up three in a hurry in the first half. This was not the night for the slave’s second largest city to win its first basketball title. Attucks attack also was working from <he field and by halftime, the Tigers led 51-32. With 3:15 showing in the third quarter. Attacks had tied the one-team scrotng record of 68 points set by Muncie Central, 1952, and Shelbyville, 1947. The record fell seconds later Forty-five seconds into the final frame the two-team title game total of 136 set by Shelbyville and Terre Haute Garfield in 1947 had fallen. About the same time, Willie Robertson, Attucks' great commander, broke the old four-game scoring record of 91 points set by Bill Garrett, of the 1947 Shelbyville team, and Dee Monroe, of Madison, 1949. Wilson Elson,' who was tossing them in from the hallway for Gary, picked up two fouls frm Robertson, who committed his first of the game at S:(W of ~the“flnal period, and passed the Attucks ace by two points for the record, of 97. E'isbn finished the night with 31 points to Robertsoh’s 30. Attucks. which lost only to Connersville 58-57 on Feb. 5, scored 77 points per game to 53 for each of its 10 tourney foes. The Tigers ended the year with a 30-1 record. They hit 35 of 81 from the field and 27 of ,33 from the free throw line compared to Roosevelt’s 28 of 71 and 18 of 31. It was Roosevelt's first loss in 22 games and only the third of the season in 30 games for the 1933-38 National Negro High school basketball kings. Coach John Smith smiled and said he and his team would like to return. Junior sensation Oscar Robertson (who needed no consolation at all) may return to the finals next year for the record he had and lost this lime. Fort Wayne Pistons Win Playoff Opener By International News Service The Fort Wayne Pistons are one up over the Minneapolis Lakers in the National Basketball Association's best-of-five Western • Division playoff finals. The Pistons, regular season division champs, won the opening game of the playoffs Sunday, 96 to 79, at Elkhart, Ind. The Eastern Division playoff finals between the Syracuse Nationals and the Boston Celtics get under way Tuesday night.

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Larry Crockett Is Killed During Race - LANGHORNE, Pa. (INS) — Two accidents, which took the life of one driver and hospitalized another, marred the opening of the AAA eastern big car auto race season at Langhorne speedway Sunday. ' Larry Crockett, 28, of Columbus, Ind., died of injuries suffered when his car spun out of control, crashed through a fence and rolled over into the infield. Al Keller, of Bloomfield, N. J.. sustained a fractured left thumb and head and shoulder bruises when his car collided with the vehicle driven by Johnny Thompson. of Springfield, Mass., during a qualifying heat an<F> overturned. Thompson’s auto was put out of action. - The featured 25-mile eastern inaugural sweepstakes was won by Mike Nazaruk of Bellmore, L.’l„ in t4.39.tf5, an average of 102.383 miles per hour. The 28-year-old Cambridge City native had moved from far back in the pack to second place at the time of the accident. Last year, Crockett finished ninth in the Indianapolis race after setting a rookie qualifying record of 139.557 mph in a Federal Engineering Special. Heavy Workload On Social Security February Report Issued By Luecke The Fort Wayne social security office has been a very busy place since widespread changes were made in the social security act in September, 1954, Christian H. W. Luecke, manager, said today in submitting his report for February. 1955. One part of the new law has add ed materially to the workload at the social security office is the change that became effective on January 1, 1955. This provides that any worker who has reached his 72nd birthday may receive his regular monthly benefit payments even though he continues working regularly. The report for February 1955 follows: Account number cards issued 992 Assistance to employers on wage record reporting .... 47 New claims cleared 400 Beneficiaries eerved 540 General inquirers served .... 1181 A total of 3,160 persons were served by the Ft. Wayne office during the month of February. This was an average of 166 per day, Luecke said. The Ft Waype office is located at 717 Fulton street and is open from 8:30, to 4:30, Monday through Friday. Part-time offices are maintained in Angola, Auburn. Berne, Bluffton. Columbia City, Decatur, Huntington, Kendallville, and Ligonier. * JOIN! By arrangement with the U. S. (Air Foi.tfe, the American Red Cross can speed emergency supplies to sister Red Cross societies when their lands are hit by disaster. Last year such supplies were airlifted to Haiti, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, G«r many, Austria, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Algeria. To help this work continue, join the Red Cross and support its fund campaign generously.

Detroit Red Wings Win Playoff Title DETROIT (INS) — The Detroit Red Wings won their seventh straight National Hockey League title Sunday night by whitewashing the “Rocketless” Montreal Canadiens, 6 to 0. The shutout enabled goalie Terry Sawchuck to capture the- Vezina trophy, awarded the netminder with the best record. Cary Middlecoff Is Petersburg Winner ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. (INS) — Dr. Cary Middlecoff’s sure-fire putting has earned him another victory—top honors in the $12,500 St. Petersburg Open golf tournament. He overtook front-running Jay Hebert of Woodmere, N. ¥., Sunday in the final round, shooting a 67 for a 274 total, as Hebert was settling for a 74 to 276. HEAVY TOLL OF (Continued from Page One) of Vevay. Three other persons were injured. Lawrence E. Matthews, 44, of Danville, 111., was killed when his fast-moving car skidded into a truck on U. S. 136 five miles west of Covington. Patrick Connor, 26, and John Hunt, 26. both of Hammond, lost their lives in a Sunday crash at a Chicago south side street intersection. James R. Tankey, 34, Flint, Mich., was killed neat', his former home in Gary in the headon collision of his automobile and a truck on U. S. 12. Larry Lee Jackson, 20. of Elkhart, lost his life in a*crash at Flint Mich. The youth was attending the General Motors technical institute school at Flint. Peter Guelden, 70, of Indianapolis, died following a two-car collision on an Indianapolis street Sunday. Death was attributed to ,a blood clot near the heart. A body found on the Lake Michigan beach near Long Beach, Ind., has zeen identified as that of W. Herbert Knight, president of the Knight Advertising Company, of Columbus, O. He and a companion died when their plane crashed into the lake Jan. 17 but the second body was not immediately recovered. The bodies of two other men were recovered from rivers in additional separate tragedies. Russell George Wilmer, 53, Hamilton, O, drowned Sunday in Whitewater river near Lawrneceburg when his home-made boat upset after hitting a log. The body of Charles Martindald, 42, a Spencer county farmer, was recovered from White river near Bloomfield, ending a month-long mystery. A verdict of suicide was expected in the death of Martindale, who has been missing since Feb. 19.

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—_ San Francisco And Duquesne Win Tourneys NEW YORK (INS)—San Francisco’s Dons have been selected as the nation's No. 1 college basketball team for the 1954-55 season. < the sensational Dons easily topped the field in the final International News Service nation-wide survey. The Pacific Coasters, who capped a spectacular campaign by winning the national collegiate (NCAA) championship Saturday night, were accorded first place over Duquesne, winner of the national invitation tournament. LaSalle’s Explorers, dethroned by San Francisco in the NCAA title game at Kansas City, came in third in the final survey. San Francisco, lightly regarded in the pre-season estimates, wound up with a 28-1 record. Their convincing decision over the Explorers gave coach Phil Wollpert's defense whizzes a string of 26 straight victories—longest of the season. . The Dons suffered one setback. They bowed, 47 to 40 to UCLA in their third game. But San Francisco whipped the Bruins, 56 to 44, two games later. On Feb. 6 the Dons took over first place in the INS survey and they kept that spot the rest of the way. The NCAA tournament — their first—was to be their big test and they came through handsomely, defeating West Texas State, Utah, Oregon State. Colorado and LaSalle. While both the NCAA and NIT tournaments figured prominently in determining some of the final ratings, the survey disclosed that some of the teams in the top 10 were ranged ahead of others despite tourney play. Kentucky, a loser to Marquette in the regionals, took sixth place while the Warriors came in sev- 1 enth. lowa, a winner over Marquette, was 10th. The final INS top iv includes: 1. San Francisco; 2. Duquesne; 3. LaSalle; 4. North Carolina State; 5. Dayton; 6. Kentucky; 7. Marquette; 8. Utah; 9. Colorado, and 10, lowa. San Francisco, proving that it is definitely not a “mythical” champ, scored a 77-to-63 victory over thd Explorers. The dramatic wiii was achieved as San Franclaco All-America center Bill Russell outplayed LaSalle’s All-Amer-ican whiz Tom Gola.

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Three basketball greats took the spotlight at Madison Square Garden as Duquesne defeated Dayton, 70 to 58, to cop the 18th NIT championship. Duquesne All-Americans Sihugo Green (33) and Dick Ricketts (23) dazzled the 18,496 crowd by scoring 56 of their team's points and taking 31 of their teams 41 rebounds. The most valuable player award, however, went to Maurice Stokes of St. Francis by unanimous designation. Stokes, 6-6, 235-pound center, tallied 31 points as his team •was beaten. 96 to 91, by thirdseeded Cincinnati in an overtime consolation duel. SEN. GEORGE (Continued from Page One) He added that the Soviet Union could at least withhold from the Chinese “arms and ammunition’-' and thus "stop a war.” but Jwhether they could with safety veto any movement” by the Chinese "is a question.” The foreign relations chairman said he might be willing to participate in a high level conference, as did his predecessor, the late

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