Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1955 — Page 7

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1955

Yellow Jackets Drop 53-55 Tilt Wednesday To Bluffton's Tigers

Failure at the foul line wai costly to the Decatur Yellow Jackets Wednesday night as they dropped a closely-fought battle to the Bluffton Tigers, 55-53, at the Decatur gym. The Jackets converted only 11 opportunities at the foul stripe in 28 chances, while the Tigers made good on 21 of 31 conversions. The two old rivals, very obviously on edge, went for nearly three minutes without a score, with Rocky Strickler finally hitting one to give Decatur a temporary 2-0 lead. The Tigers began to roll, however, and by the end of the first period had built up a big 14-6 bulge and looked to be on the way to an easy victory. Larry Moses and Gene Baxter paced a Decatur rally that cut Bluffton's lead to 20-18 midway through the second period, but the Tigers built their advantage up to six points, 28-22, at the long intermission. The Jackets began whittling at their deficit with the opening of the third quarter and finally passed the Tigers at 34-33 on Baxter’s fourth fielder of the period with four minutes to play. The Tigers again bounced back to hold a 43-39 advantage as the, final stanza opened. The last quarter was a battle all the way. It was 49-48, Bluffton, with three and one-half minutes to play, when both teams lost two of their scoring leaders' in the space of a tew seconds on personal fouls. Don Lockwood for Bluffton and Larry Moses for Decatur. Tony Kelly, having trouble all night finding the hoop, finally hit one at 1:40 and Decatur was on top, 50-49, but Wade Hammond retaliated 10 seconds later and Bluffton was in front. 51-50. A brace of foul tosses by Ted Wasson made it 58-50 with 40 seconds to play. Strickler dropped in a foul toss and when he missed his second one, Kelly tipped in the rebound and it was all knotted up at 53-53 with 21 seconds to play. Bluffton failed to score and the Jackets .took the ball with 10 KILLS-- Rats & Mice" OllM WAR-X * 1 KILLKR YOU CAN NY X tATS* MO to act rid of R»ts and Mice in —fifteen days or purchase price refunded. ASK FOR WAR-X STIEFEL GRAIN CO.

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1 seconds to play. A long shot failed 1 to connect and Charlie Uptgraft 1 was fouled on the battle for the ' rebound, and with just one second to play, the Tiger reserve calmly ' dropped in both free throws for i the victory. 1 Gene Baxter was the game's leading scorer with 22 points. Larry Moses tallied 12 points for the * only other Jacket to hit double 1 figures. Wasson topped the Bluff- ■ ton scorers with 19 points. Lockwood scored 12 and Dave Flowers • tallied 10, all on free throws, hit- ' ting all 10 in a row and then miss- ' ing a pair of the final period. There were 19 personals called on Decatur and 16 on Bluffton. The Yellow Jackets Will meet ■ the Fort Wayne Concordia Cadets ' in the first game of a double head- - er at the Fort Wayne Coliseum ' next Friday night, Dec. 2, and meet : the Berne Bears in their next home game Friday, Dec. 9Yellow Jackets FG FT TP ■ Kelly 3 2 8 , Kirkpatrick 113 Murphy 0 0 0 1 Baxter ...10 2 22 ' Strickler 1 2 4 ' Moses 5 2 12 Banks 12 4 Totals 21 11 53 Bluffton FG FT TP Flowers 0 10 10 Hammond 2 2 6 Wasson 7 5 19 Lockwood 5 2 12 Grove ... 0 0 0 Uptgraft 0 2 2 Tangeman 3 0 6 1 Totals 17 21 55 Officials: Todd, Dornte. Preliminary Decatur, 34-32. College Football Cornell 39. Pennsylvania 7. , Colgate 25, Brown 0. Miami (O.) 14, Cincinnati 0. William & Mary 6, Richmond 6 , (tie). Texas 21. Texas A & M 6. Wichita 54, Tulsa 0. Denver 6, Wyoming 0. Utah 14, Utah State 13. Bradley 7, Southern Illinois 7 (tiel ' Chattanooga 25, Memphis State 7. , qPRO Detroit 24, Green Bay 10. Pro Basketball Wednesday’s Results New York 115, Boston 111 (overtime).*’ Philadelphia 104. Syracuse 101. St. Louis 90, Rochester 88 (overtime). Thursday's Results Fort Wayne 104. Rochester 93. Syracuse 111, Boston 103. Philadelphia 118, New York 97. , Minneapolis 107, St. Louis 99.

Eagles Score Sixth Win In Overtime Tilt The Monmouth Eagles were handed a rugged battle Wednesday night before racking up their sixth consecutive victory of the season, being carried into an overtime period to defeat Huntington Canholic, 69-66, at MonmouthThe Ramblers raced into a 21-13 first quarter lead, but the Eagles bounced back to go out in front at the half, 3'2-38, and were on top at the third period, 50-45. Huntington, however, came back to knot the score at 62-62 at the expiration of the regular playing time. In the overtime, Clint Fuelling, Stew Schnepf and Dave Brown each hit from the field to give the Eagles their triumph. Norb Witte kept up his hot scoring spree, leading the Eagles with 29 points, while Schnepf tallied 18. Three men carried Huntington’s load, Darwin Frick scoring 17, Steve Frick 16, and Bill Heck 15. The Eagles will have a pair of home games next weekend, entertaining Hoagland Friday night and Rockcreek Saturday, night. The Ramblers will, meet the Decatur Commodores at the Decatur gym next Friday night. Monmouth ” FG FT TP Keuneke 30 6 Brown . 2 15 J. Myers j_. 3 1— 7 Witte .... 12 5 29 Schnepf6 6 18 Fuellingl 2 4 TOTALS 27 15 69 Huntington Catholic FG FT TP Fisher 13 5 I S. Frick 7 2 16 I Hecks 5 15 Stoffel 1 3 5 D. Frick .- 8 1 17 i Boyle 4 0 8 | Godfreyo 0 0 « -1«~<66 Officials: Armstrong. Hall. Preliminary Monmouth, 43-34- # i Evansville Central Takes City Title EVANSVILLE. Ind. (INS) — Evansville Central won the Pocket City high school football championship Thanksgiving Day with a 39-0 victory over its traditional turkey foe, Evansville Bosse. One other Evansville team also bid, the season farewell Evansville Lincoln, which lost 6-0 to Lexington. Ky., Dunbar. Bernie Crimmins On ' All-Star Coach Staff MIAMT TINS)--Coachingstaffs for the Shrine's north-south College All-Star football game In the Orange Bow-1 on Dec. 26 have been completed with the signing of Bernie Crimmins of Indiana. BOWLING SCORES Major League I Beavers Oil won four points from Ideal Dairy; Midwestern Life won four from Maier Hide & Fur; First State Bank won three from Hoagland Farm Equipment; State Gardens won three from Central Soya; Hooker Paint and Burke Stand rad each won two points. W L Pts. Beavers Oil 29 7 40 First State Bank ... 28 8 38 I Hooker Paint 20 16 .-.28 1 Hoagland Farm 19 17 pT i State Gardens.lß 18 -24 ■ Midwestern Life 18 18— 23 | Ideal Dairy .16 20 21 | Burke Standard ... T 3 23 18 i Maier Hide 10 27 13 I Central Soya ... 9 27 11 600 series: L. Reef 611 (202-188-211). 200 games: Moses 205. G. Ellis 220, D. Burke 200. P. Smith 211, L. Reps 202-2221, E. Bultemeier 210. Meyers 205, O. Krick 206, Gallmexer 201. E. Reinking 206, G. Bienz 200, Thieme 214, Erxleben 217. Merchants League W L Smith Scrap 1r0n25% 10% Krick-Tyndall No. 1 .. 25% 10% Holthouse Drug '...23 13 Old Crown 20 16 State Gardens 18 18 i Blackwells 16 17 vfw is is Farmers Grain .... 14 22 ■ • Zintsmaster 13 23 ■ Krick-Tyndall No. 2 ..12 24 High series: Ross 590. High games: fainter 201, IRoss , 218-203. . - -

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Army, Navy To Clash In Grid Feature NEW YORK (INS) —Army and Navy will get most of the fanfare in the 55th renewal of their ancient and colorful series Saturday but around the land quite a few other people will have quite a few other college football fish to fry. Three teams remain to be chosen for “big Four” bowl games on the basis at Saturday's results, and championships will be decided in the Southeastern and Southwest Conferences. \ Mississippi, Auburn, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt, in that order, all have at leant a mathematical chance to win or share the Southeastern crown Ole Miss, with an 8-1 over all slate and a 4-1 mark in conference play, can clinch the league title and a Sugar Bowl appearance by defeating Its arch-rival, Mississippi State. Should the Rebels lose, however, all sorts of combinations are possible among Auburn (4-1-1), Georgia Tech (3-1-1) and Vanderbilt (4-2).’ All, like Mississippi, are playing traditional foes. Auburn meets winless Alabama at Birmingham. Georgia Tach entertains Georgia and Vanderbilt plays at Tennessee. With the SEC winner slated for Sugar Bowl duty opposite Pittsburgh, one of the runners-up probably will get a Cotton Bowl invitation. The other half of the Cotton Bowl card most likely will be furnished by Texas Christian. The Horned Frogs win the Southwest Conference crown If they defeat Southern Methodist Saturday. Texas A & M blew a chance to wrap up the title when it suffered a 21-to-6 Thanksgiving Day upset at the hands of Texas. Sbould TCU lose, A & M still would be conference champion with a 4-1-1 record, but the Aggies can’t go to the Cotton Bowl because they are on probation for recruiting violations. Oklahoma, the nation's No. 1 team, seeks its 29th straight victory — and should get is easily — when it hosts Oklahoma A & M Only other “top ten' 1 rated teams in weekend action are Notre Dame (No. 5) at Southern California. TCU (No. 7), Navy (No- 9) and Georgia Tech (No. 10). The Army-Navy classic will be nationally televised at 1:30 p. m. (EST) by NBC. A capacity crowd b ■ k " is'lw »« .L.L.IL. V. 4. . V A

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of 102,000 is expected as usual to see the game and its accompanying parades and hoop-la at Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium. Navy is a 6%-polnt favorite. West Virginia tries to regain a mite of its lost preetige tonight at North Carolina Stlte. Thursday’s limited action saw Miami of Ohio complete an unbeaten season, scoring twice in the last quarter to down Cincinnati, 14 to 0, in their renewal of the oldest grid rivalry westj of the Alleghenies. Penn was forced to accept its second straight winless year when swamped by Cornell, 39 to 7. More Leading Teams Open Net Schedules INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A couple of Clancys bent on lowering the boom in the Indiana high school basketball party arrive Ute but loud tonight and Saturday. Evansville powers Centra] host to Boonville Saturday night, and Bosse at Bloomington tonight, lead that city’s tourney hopes into regular season action for the year. Hammond and friend Frank Radovich get the lake city’s chief entry into the show Saturday against South Bend Central, which lost a one point decision to Gary Roosevelt last week.

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Hammond Noil, liable to preas high again this year, opened with a win but doesn’t play again until Tuesday—then with Hobart Muncie Central, which came within two points of derailing Crispus Attucks championship express last year gives the hometown fans their first glimpse of major opposition In Fort Wayne North this evening. Muncie has split tn two games so far, losing a 54-50 overtime decision at; Shelbyville in its first test of strength, Wednesday night. Attucks, Itself, has had things pretty mttfch .its own way for some time now aWd is content for the moment to size up city foe Cathedral at Manual Saturday night after scouting the Wednesday night battle of Warren Central at Tech. New Albany was tne last of the' 1955 finalists in action this fall opening against Corydon. The Bulldogs are idle now until Bedford arrives Dec. 2 for a tussle. Columbus opens its home season against Connersville Friday night bringing the last of the South Central Conference into play. Seymour i looks rugged in that loop, particularly after its 69-64 win over Anderson, perrenial power In the neighboring North Central Conference. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer and their peppery coach Howard Sharpe are on a rugged road trip against Indianapolis Broad Ripple

1 tonight before teturalhg SktdrdAjr 1 night tor a home game against I Richmond. Sharpe already ha* tried Attuck* s and failed, 98-52, and declared the ? defending champions as the best r team he’s seen or heard about this i year. f Other top games pit Fort Wayne i Concordia at Auburn; Gary Froebel at South Bend Riley; Tipton at i Kokomo; Martinsville at Rush- • ville; Bluffton at Fort Wayne t South; Jasper at Bedford, and Anderson at New Castle —all tonight. i South Bend Washington at Hami mond Clark; Michigan City at » Whiting; Mississinewa at Peru, - and Southport at Indianapolis ; Tech—all Saturday night High School Basketball New Haven 63, Garrett 50. Elmhurst 45, Fort Wayne Central 43. Fort Wayne Central Catholic 68, Kendallville 42. Monroeville 62, Huntertown 66. ' Avilla 63, Waterloo 62. North Manchester 60, South Whitley 59 (overtime). Edon (O.) 31, Angola 36. ( Coesse 54, Arcola 51. Lancaster Central 56, Petroleum 38. Roanoke 50, Ossian 39. I Shelbyville 54, Muncie Central 50 , (overtime). Indianapolis Shortridge 73, Brazil • 51. 1

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