Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1955 — Page 7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1955

Kentucky Host To College Net Tourney Tonight By International News Service Lexington, Ky.. will be the scene tonight of the first round of the Kentucky invitational basketball tournament. Such teams as Utah and Dayton and Minnesota and Kentucky will see action. The Gophers from Minnesota battle the Kentucky Wildcats, ranked seventh in this week’s International News Service basketball ratings, in the first game. The second pits third-ranked Dayton against fourth-ranked Utah. In the Carrousel tournament at Charlotte, N. C., Monday night, Tennessee won over Boston university, 80 to 77; Clemson routed Florida State, 94 to 76, Colgate ran over Davidson," 86 to 51, and Wake Forest triumphed over Mississippi State, 95 to 68. Ohio State .ranked 12th in the INS poll, defeated Tulane, 72 to 66, Monday night even though famed Robin Freeman was held to 21 points. He was high man in the victory but the big factor was the

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Jefferson at Commodores. Ossian at Adams* Central. Petroleum at Pleasant Mills. Ohio City at Hartford. Thursday Geneva at Berne. Friday Yellow Jackets at Columbia City. Hartford at Ridgeville.’ rebounding of teammate Frank Howard who got 20 rebounds and scored 18 points. Tulane’s Roy Stoll bottled up Freeman most of the night. Vanderbilt, ranked fifth, won its fifth game of the season against no defeats with an 85 to 61 thumping of Georgia. Alabama, listed in the 20th spot, outlasted llth-ranked Holy Cross, 89 to 84. Rice, in 14th place, defeated Kansas, 75 to 66. Duquesne, in 17th place, subdued Loyola of Los Angeles, 71 to 55. Illinois took De Paul, 97 to 79, Xavier of Ohio won over Georgetown of Kentucky, 90 to 52, Wisconsin finally got the range to conquer Nebraska, 71 to 52, Wichita beat Texas Christian, 79 to 69, and Indiana humbled Cincinnati, 80 to 61.

Billy Pierce Os White Sox Tops Hurlers NEW. YORK (INS) -Chicago southpaw Billy Pierce was the big thing going for American League pitching prestige in 1955. the first campaign in the 65-year history of the Junior circuit which did not produce a single 20-game winner. Official statistics released today showed that the little White Sox lefty won the major league pitching championship with a sparkling 1.97 earned run average. That was .87 percentage points better than his National League counterpart, Bob Friend of Pittsburgh, and .65 points better than his closest American League rival, Whitey Ford of New York. The t2B-year-old 5-foot-10 Detroiter, who had a 9-10 won-lost record and 3.48 ERA mark in 1954, appeared in 33 games this past season and posted a 15-10 record. He allowed only 45 earned runs in 206 innings. There were five other hurlers under the three run mark, three of them southpaws. Southpaws also took down launels which included a record strikeout performance by Herb Score of Cleveland, the wonlost percentage championship by Tommy Byrne of New York, top complete game performance by Ford and shutout honors by Detroit’s Billy Hoeft. Ford won 18, exclusive of his two World Series victories, to tie for most wins with Boston's towering Franklin Sullivan and Cleveland’s Bob temon. — Behind Pierce in the earned run ratings was Ford with a 2.62 mark,; then righthander Early Wynn of' Cleveland (2.82), rookie of the ' year Score (2.85), righthander Sul-’ , livan (2.91) and Hoeft (2.99).. Score won 16 and lost 10 in his . first year, but more than that, he j ■ fanned 245 men to lead the circuit I and establish a new mark for | strikeouts by ,a pitcher in his first ! season in the majors. The old j mark of 227 was set by (Grover i Cleveland Alexander of the 1911 ■ Phiilies. ; : i Byrne's 16*5 record gave him ’ first place in the won-lost percent-1 . age table. j Suliivah pitched the most in- i ! nings (260), started the most! games (35), and pitched to the most hitters (976) in addition to tying for most wins. Yankee fastballer 6ob Turley walked the most men (173) while Ned Garver of Detroit alowed the most hits (250). Garver also gave up the most runs (115) and mast earned runs (102). Most games lost was 18, by Jim Wilson, white I : Detroit's Steve Gromek allowed I the most homeruns, 26. Cleveland I relief specialist Ray Narleski api peared in the most games, 60. : There were eight one-hit pitching perform'ances-two by Ford and one each by Turley, Score, Wynn, George Susce of Boston. Alex Kellneir of Kansas City and Feller. New York was the club leader i with a V.unfulative earned run ' average of 3.23. Chicago was next I j with 3.37. | Squads Drill For North-South Game • ■ ■ I* MIAMI (INS) —Rex Enright of South Carolina and Wally Butts of Georgia, the coaches who are preparing the South squad for its game against the North next Monday night sadi today they were satisfied with the. first day of practice. The south’s squad of 2' men was at full strength for yesterday's first drill. The coaches said: “George Welsh of Navy and Nick Consoles of Wake Forest, who wTTI lead the team on the field adapted quickly to our T plays and pass patterns.” Bernie Crimmins of Indiana and Art Lews of West Virginia, who are coaching the North team, called an hour arid a quarter opening-day-session. ' Crimmins said, “It was about j what I expected.” Freddy Wyant of West Virginia i and Jim Miller of Wisconsin concentrated on passing while Gene Kapish of Notre Dame was on the receiving end of the tosses. Three Army members of the team, Pat Uebei, Ralph Chesnaskas and Don Holleder are due in the North camp tomorrow. Washington — The U. S. government buys about 10 million'tons of coal a year.

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Junior High, Frosh Split Double Header The Decatur freshmen and junior high teams divided honors with Berne in a double header Monday night. The local freshmen whipped Berne, 41-30, while the Bgrne junior high was victorious, 39-38, in a double overtime battle. Decatur Jr. High FG FT TP Reldenbach 2 6 10 Smith 0 0 0 Gay 2 5 9 Butcher 3 0 i 6 Knodel 0 0 0 Kinerk „1 6 1 13 Cowans ....... 0 0 0 De Vosso 0 0 Grablli 0 0 0 Nelson.— 0 0 0 TOTALSts 12 38 Berne FG FT TP Sprunger 10 2 Kingsley 0 ' 0 0 Schwartx 6 1 13 Mason 0 0 —O, Bluhm'2 0 4 Inniger3 0 6 Hill 2 2 6 Nussbaum 0 0 0 Stucky 3 2 8 Von Gunten 0 0 0 TOTALS 17 5 39 Decatur Freshmen FG FT TP Holtsberry 5 0 10 Franklin -10 2 Canales 3 2 8 Vergara 0 0 0 Murphy 3 17 Bracey 1 0 2 Ritter 3 0 6 Daniels 0 0 0 ! Thiemeo 0 0 I Dellinger -i3 0 6 i Bleeke 0 0 0 | Lytle 0 0 0 TOTALS 19 3 41 Berne FG FT TP Augsburger 1 0 2 Watanabe 0 0 0 McAlhaney'o 0 0 Lautzenheiser 4 19 Klopfenstein 12 4 -StmirF - r _ 7 Collier 2 15: j Amstutz 11 JI TOTALS 12 6 30 | . Welterweights Fight To Draw Monday N E’Ci’ fbfe K’ n Ns') — Niagara Falls welterweight Gene Poirier and Carmine Fiore of Brooklyn battled to a draw' Monday night in a nationally televised ten-rounder at St. Nicholas arena. The upstate New Yorker weighed 150% to Fiore's 14914. Two Are Fined In Mayor's Court Here Justiae Luginbill, rural route four. Bluffton, pleaded guilty to charges of public intoxication today in mayor's court after an arrest last night. She was fined $5 and costs, totaling 818. ' Dr. Edward Peck, rural route : five, Decatur, was fined $5 and cost for speeding. The fine totalled 919.75. Mark D. Zeller, Huntington. was arrested for speeding on highway 27, three rniles south of Decatur, He will appeal- in court later.

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MERGER of Japan’s two leading conservative political parties, the Democrats and Liberals, will cause a change in the prime ministership in six months. Prime Minister Jchiro Hatoyama (above), Democrat ' leader, will resign to make way for Taketora Ogata, Liberal leader. The merger followed a regrouping of the Socialist parties. Thus the conservatives can present a stronger front agairftt them. (International)

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Strader Is Ousted As Coach Os 49ers SAN FRANCISCO (INS) — A new word has been added today to sports lingo — it's “incompatible” —the word San Francisco 49er boss Tony Morabito used to explain his firing of head coach Norman P. “Red” Strader. Morabito called a news conference Monday to announce that Strader was through after one year at the helm during which the 49ers won four games and lost eight. • Morabito declared: “There was friction but no open rebellion. Red and the players just weren’t compatible.’’ The 4!)er president's announcement to the effect that Strader and the players were not able to get along together was denied by the axed coach himself. -jStmdfir*.* star fullback at little St. Mary's of California college and later coach at his alma mater and head man/ of the now defunct i' New York Yankees, took his dis-' iHissal, as he said, “like an old 1 Strader called his own news conference and said: “I have beenschooled to meet adversities like this in athletics.” Strader was fired almost a year to the day after his predecessor, Buck Shaw, got the heave-ho from Morabito. Morabito said he hopes to name Strader’s successor before the Jan. 17 National Football League meeting in Los Angeles. College Basketball Indiana 80, Cincinnati 61. Earlham 103. Aurora 87. Eastern Illinois 98, Anderson 73. Indiana Central 95, Bellarmine 86. Vanderbilt Freshmen 88, Oakland City 61. Illinois 97, DePaul 79. Ohio State 72, Tulane 66. Wisconsin 71, Nebraska 52. Rice 75, Kansas 66. Duquesne 71, Loyola (Los Angeles) 1 55. Missouri 81, Idaho 57. Xavier (O.) 90, Georgetown (Ky.) 52. Carrousel Tourney Tennessee 80, Boston U. 77. Clemson 94; Florida State 76. 1 Colgate 86, Davidson 51. I Wake Forest 95, Mississippi State . 68. : Trade in a Good Town — Decatur :

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SPORTS BULLETIN NEW YORK (INS) — Thp Long Island Press said today that a syndicate of six eastern businessmen headed by former Chicago Cubs Infielder Cy Block has made an offer “in excess of two million dollars” for the Detroit Tigers. The newspaper said Block, now a well-known New York insurance underwriter, made the offer for the franchise and Briggs Stadium to Walter O. (Spike) Briggs, president of the Tigers. BOWLING SCORES Rural League W L Fariings ..... 38 12 Marathon 32% 12% Preble Tavern 26 19 Faurote Home Builders 25 20 Kenny’s Ice —4 23 22 Holthopse Furniture — 19% 25% , McConnfeUs ...4-.it T 9 26’ H Willshire K. P. 17 28 Sautbine. & Slmerman . 15 30 Plumleys 15 30 ! Minor League W L Pts. Moose„ 28 14 38 Clem Hardware .. 28 14 37 Smith Dairy2s% 16% 35% August Cafeteria .21 21 29 Western Auto .... 22 17 28 Decatur Ready Mix 17 22 24 Schafer Store .... 17% 24% 23% Two Brothers 17 25 21 Kohne Drug 17 22 21 Goodyear Service . 11 28 15 200 series: Geimer 203-214. Smith. Sr.. 202, Bultemeier 201, L. Fennig 20ff. Notes: Moose rolled a new 3game high team series of 2545. Classic League W L Pts. Leland Smith Ins. . 28 14 38 Burk Elevator 25 17 32 Acker Cement 22 20 31 Riverview’ Gardens . 21 21 28 Anderson's 21 21 27 Butler’s Garage —— "20 22 26 Peterson Elevator . 18 24 24 Mies (Recreation 13 29 18 High series: Robt. Reynolds 613 (183-195-235); Bill Tutewiler 604 (222-192-190); Ixse Ulman 600 (203-195-202). High games: D. Terveer 223, G. Baumgartner 203, R. Eyaneon 211, L. Reef 214-213. P. Bleeke 202-207, 1 J. Ahr 207. F. Ahr 200, R. Ladd | 225. F. Hoffman 218, L. Schindler 218, W. Snyder 203, E. Bultemeier , 218, R. Mutschler 229.

Preble And Soest Lutheran Winners Preble edged Flat Rock, 33-29. and Soest squeaked past Union, 33-32, in Lutheran grade school league games Sunday afternoon at the Monmouth gym. Preble led at the half of its game, 22-12, and Soest was in front at the half, 23-15. In games Saturday night, Decatur whipped Friedheim and Bethlehem defeated Trinity, but scores and box snores were not made available. r Preble FG FT TP Bultemeier ..10 0 20 R. SelkingOoo L. Bieberich —1 0 2 D. Bieberich 5 1 11 (R. Bieberich 0 0 0 Bulmahn ,0 0 0 Stoppenhagen 0 0 0 Totals 16 1 38 Flat Rock FG FT TP Melcher 0 0 0 Mclntosh— 2 1 1J Richman 4 2 10 Grotrian 3 2 8 Reynolds 2 0 4 Koeneman .10 2 Totals ... 12 5 29 Soest FG FT’ TP B. Saalfrank4 2 10 Reisgies — 0 0 0 JSghrman 4 0 8 'Rebbero 0 0 • Dietrich—l'2 0 4 Doctor 0 0 0 Mueller — 3 0 6 Linkhart O’ 0 0 L. Saalfrank2 15 Rhodeso 0 0 Totals ...-.15 3 33 Union FG FT TP Bulmahn 4 2 10 K. Bleeke 0 0 0 Springer 0 0 0 M. Blakey 5 2 12 M. Thieme 3 4 10 J. Thiemeo 0 0 Totals 12 8 32 Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Connie Mack Leaves Hospital Today PHILADELPHIA (INS) — Connie Mack leggiea Presbyterian hospital today 'M spend his birthday and the Christmas holidays with his son, Roy; in Bryn Mawr, a Philadelphia suburb. The grand old man of baseball, who will lie 93 Friday, broke his hip in a fall on Oct. 1. He returned to the hospital last Thursday for X-ray examinations of the fracture. Doctors reported he was com* ing along satisftctorfly. Connie plans to fly to Fort Myers, Flai, early next month for a visit with another son, Connie Jr., if his condition permits. 15-Year-Old Boy Rolls Perfect Game PHILADELPHIA (INS) — Ted Hoffman, Jr., 15-year-old Roman Catholic high school pupil, rolled a 300 bowling score for the HlSpot team in the Classic League Monday night t Hoffman's perfect score came be- • tween tallies of 223 and 201 for a 724 series and he recorded 18 straight strikes over the first and second games. Tony Trabert Scores Win Over Gonzales SAN FRANCISCO (INS) — Former amateur tennis king Tony Trabert trails his arch-foe Pancho Gonzales by only one match today in their national professional tour. Trabert came from behind Monday night to whip Gonsales in two out of three sets before a crowd of 3,571 fans at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. The scores were 3-6. 6-2, 7-5. • Chicago—More than 25,000 inland American communities depend solely upon motor trucks for their freight service. , TEE P L E MOVING & TRUCKING Local and Long Distance PHONE 8-2607