Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1956 — Page 6

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EAGLES RETAIN COUNTY NET TITLE

Eagles Whip Decatur Commodores In Final Game Saturday Night

The Monmouth Eagles continued ttielr dominance of Adams county high school basketball Saturday as they walloped the Decatur Commodores. 79-45. in the final game of the county tourney at the Adams Centra! gym for their second consecutive county championship. The Eagles have also gone all the way for three straight years to take the sectional crown. Norb Witte, veteran Monmouth center and the county's top individual scorer, poured a big 35 points through the hoops in Saturday's final as the Eagles Jumped off to a running start and never let up the pressure on the Commodores. The Eagles advanced to the tourney final by eliminating the Hartford Gorillas. 65-54, in the first semi-final tilt Saturday afternoon, after which the Commodores ousted the Berne Bears, 69-57, in what was probably the best played game of the entire meet Witte and Stew Schnepf gave Monmouth a 4-0 lead on a pair of fielders in the first minute of the championship affair. Pan) FaUrOte connected twice from the Joni line to cut the CommodoreS'ifMlait to two points, but the Eagles J then moved to a 10-2 advantage fefor* Joe Wilder hit Decatur’s firsi field goal. ~~ f The Eagles held a IM advantage at the end of the first quarter, and increased their margin two more points, 32-20, at halftime. The closest the Commodores came in the second half was within eight points at 32-24 as Faurote hit from the field and Jerry Voglewede added two free throws in the first minute of the third quarter, but the Eagles theu started to pull away and held a 56-34 bulge as the teams went into the final eight minutes of play. Witte topped all scorers with his 35 points, while Schnepf, pretty well throttled in bis first two tourney games, tickled the draperies for 19 points. Voglewede led the Commodores with 13 points, and

PUBLIC AUCTION COMPLETE CLOSE OUT SALE REAL ESTATE and PERSONAL PROPERTY 8 FARMS Consisting of 744 ACRES TWO DAY SALE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 and THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1956 \ PERSONAL PROPERTY FIRST DAY STARTING AT 9 A.M. REAL ESTATE ON SECOND DAY STARTING AT 10 A.M. -~ LUNCH WILL BE SERVED PERSONAL PROPERTY SALE WILL START AT 9 A. M. PROMPT ON JANUARY 18TH COME EARLY AS THERE ARE MANY, MANY ITEMS TO SELL LOCATION: 1 Mile East of Decatur, Indiana on the Belmont road to Junction of Piqua Road. Arrows will guide you. Signs on the farms to identify each one. Land known as “THE H. H. STONER FARMS.

REAL ESTATE 10:00 A. JANUARY 19 FARM No. 1 43.2 Aereo, has a 7 room home with bath, garage, granary With driveway, corn crib with granary above. Land lays level and is all tillable. Paved road on two sides of this farm makes it a potenI ~ ■' ■ tial suburban home addition. FARM No. 2 57 Acres, has a 7 room bungalow type home with i_-• “ 1 hath rooms, basement an! furnace. Extra large corn crib with driveway, two hog barns, all tillable land. FARM No. 3 239.4 Acres, has a 9 room brick home with 2 bath rooms; 2 large barns. 2 corn cribs, machine shed, chicken house, hog house. There are 44 acres woods and pasture, balance farm land. FARM No. 4 73.5 Acres, has a 6 room home with bath, garage, corn crib with attached shed, large barn. This farm is all tillable land. This farm with No. 7 makes a fine unit. — . FARM No. 5 127 Acres, has a 6 room two story home with bath, barn with driveway and crib attached, machine shed and chicken house. There are 3 acres of woods, balance in farm land. This farm with No. 6 makes a fine unit. FARM No. 6 82 Acres of bare land. There are about 9 acres of woods and pasture, balance farm land. FARM No. 7 120 Acres of bare land. There are abput 27 seres of woods and pasture, balance is tillable. There is 60 acres of fine wheat on this land. FARM No. 8 A 3 Acre suburban home site with a 6 room home with bath, 2 garages. These farms all lay together and have been operated as one farm, but the present owner is splitting the acreage so the buyers can purchase small tracts, giving everyone a chance at different site farms. The St. Marys River Is the boundary line on the south and there is quite a lot of fine river bottom land on No. 3, No. 5, No. 8 and No. 7. No. 5 and No. 6if purchased together would make a nice 209 acre farm, and No. 4 and No. 7 purchased together would make a nice 193 acre farm, then all farms would have adequate buildings. For complete inspection and information please contact the Auctioneers. POSSESSION—March 1. 1958. TERMS ON REAL ESTATE—2O% Cash on Day of Sale, balance upon delivery of Marketable Title. If financing is needed please contact the Auctioneers before or on day of sale.

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Faurote, with 10, was the only other Commodore in double figures. Gorillas Stubborn The Hartford Gorillas put up a whale of a battle for some 19 mlnlites in the first semi-final contest before the Eagles were able to take command. Monmouth held sway through the first four minutes, when they held an 8-4 lead, but Bob Biberstein chipped lb with a three-point play, and Dean Stably hit twice from the floor and Hartford held an 11-8 margin. John Myers hit for the Eagles but Stably collected his third fielder of the quarter, and Myers’ second two-pointer made the first-period score 13-12, Hartford leading. Witte’s two free tosses put Monmouth back in the lead, 14-13, and the Gorillas were never able to regain the lead, although the score was tied at 14-14, 16-16, 18-18 and 20-20. A pair of buckets by Clint Fuelling and one by Witte gaye Monmouth a 26-20 advantage, which Hartford sliced to two points, 28-26, at the half. ' The champions began to pull away with the resumption of play after the main intermission, and held a big 48-33 advantage at the end of the third period, chiefly on 12 points by Witte. Coach Porky Holt sent his second string into the game in the final period but was forced to rush his first line back into action when Hartford moved to within six points at 58-52 with slightly more , than a minute to play. ' Witte topped all scorers with 28 points, while Stably starred for . Hartford with 21. Biberstein had 11 for the Gorillas, and Joyce , Zuercher and Roger Moser each tallied 10, Dave Brown had iff for . the Eagles. - Commodores Advance The second semi-final was a close battle all the way until midway in the final quarter when the Commodores began to pull away i and eliminate the Berne Bears by 12 points. • Berne took an early lead on

fielders by Fred Whitehurst and 1 Tom Ehrsam, but the Commodores moved into an 8-8 tie at the halfway mark. The teams were tied at 10-10 and 12-12. with the Commodores then moving into an 18-15 lead at the end of the period. Berne never took the lead in the second quarter, although pulling into a 26-26 tie with two minutes to play. Wilder and Ron Meyer scored for the Commodores and Ehrsam for Berne to make the half-time score 30-28, Decatur in the van. Pete Scnug’s free throw and Ehraam’s fielder gave Berne * 3130 lead in the first minute of the third period, and the game was knotted at 33-33, 35-35, 37-37 and 39-39, with three minutes to play. Bob Dilie and Ehrsam then adored for a 43-39 advantage but the Commodores fought back to a 46-43 bulge going into the final stansa. Whitehurst cut Decatur’s margin to a scant one point at 46-45* but the Commodores then started pulling away, building up an 11-point lead at 58-47 with only four minutes to play, and Berne was out of the tourney. Ehrsam was the game’s top scorer with 21 points and was given a rousing ovation when he fouled out with less than two minutes to play. Ohly other Bear In double figures was Schug with 11. The Commodores had four players above the 10 mark, Wilder leading with 18, trailed closely by Faurote with 17, while Voglewede and Ron Meyer each scored 13. Monmouth FG FT TP Fuelling 3 0-0 6 J. Myers 3 2-3 8 Witte ..<-12 4-4 28 Brown 5 0-0 10 Schnepf . 1 0-0 2 Macke —. 2 0 0 4 Keuneke'....-....-..."'2" 0-3 A Hildebrand 0 0-0 0 Worthman ... 0 0-0 0 W. Meyers 0 2-4 2 Totals 28 8-14 64

PERSONAL PROPERTY 9:00 A. M., JANUARY 18 Includes 4 TRACTORS, 2 COMBINES, 2 CORN PICKERS, Etc. 1954 J. D. 70 Tractor with 13x38 tires and heat houser, this tractor is In A-l condition, 4 row cultivator; 1949 L. A. Case Tractor with 15x30 tires; 1949, D.C. Case Tractor with heat houser; 4 row cultivator; Ford tractor with 2 bottom 14” plow, hoist and grader blade for Ford Tractor; Rear end Manure Loader for Ford Tractor; Ford rear Mount Sprayer; Case 4 bottom 14" Breaking Plow; Case 3 bottom 14" Breaking Plow; 10 Ft. 3. D. Killefer offset Disc, like new; 16 Hole Case fertiliser grain drill on rubber; 8 Ft. Heavy Duty case drill; 10 Ft. Brillion cultimulcher; 4 Sec. J.D. Spike Tooth Harrow; 4 Row J.D. Fertilizer corn planter; New Idea pull type 7 ft. mower; Case 4 bar side rake; J.D. 7 ft Tractor Disc; New Idea rubber tire tractor manure spreader; 194% Case 12 ft. Self propelled combine with recleaner; 1953 A.C. Combine with recleaner; 2 Row J.D. pull type No. 200 corn picker; 1950 New Idea pull type 2 row corn picker: 36 ft. J. D. Elevator with drag and Wis. Motor. 4 RUBBER TIRED WAGONS. 2 J.D. heavy duty rubber tired wagons, with 16 ft. grain beds; Case rubber tired wagon with 14 ft. steel grain bed: Case rubber tired wagon with 12 ft. bed. 2 TRUCKS: V& ton Ford truck with Midwest bed A stock rack; % ton Studebaker Pick-up truck. HOG EQUIPMENT AND MISC.: 4 Double hog houses; 12 single hog houses; 7 self feeders; 12 long wood hog troughs; 4 hog fountains; Wheelbarrow air compressor; Rotor weed mower with 2% h.p. motor; Red Cross corn aheller; Rubber tired wheelbarrow; lots of shop tools including grinders, vises, etc; power lawn mower; chicken feeders; fanning mill, like new; lots of used lumber; lots of junk iron; extension ladders; platform scales; 8 blks. stock treat; aluminum grain scoops; forks; feed sacks; log chains, and many other items. 173 HEAD OF HOGB—I4C head of Hampshire Feeder Pigs, old immuned, weight from 50 to 75 lbs. 6 Shoats about 17d lbs. 20 Hampshire Sows old immuned and bred. lHampshire Boar. GRAU*—HAY—BTRAW—SOOO Bu. Corn; 1000 Bu. Oats;2000 Bales Straw; Some Baled Hay. FERTILIZER—B Ton of Davoco 12-12-12 Fertilizer; Other Fertilizer. * TERMS PERSONAL PROPERTY—CASH. Lunch will be served by The W. S. C. S. Ladies of the Methodist Church of Decatur, Indiana

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

Hartford FG FT TP Zuercher — .. 3 4-5 10 Moser 3 4-5 10 Miller 0 0-10 Biberstein 5 1-1 11 Stahly 6 9-10 21 LG. Dubach 0 2-2 2 " Totals 17 20-24 54 Monmouth 12 28 48 64 Hartford 13 26 33 54 Officials: Lieberum, Dienelt. Commodores FG FT TP R. Meyer 6 1-4, 13 Faurote .i- 6 5-6 17 Wilder 7 4-8 18 Voglewede '...— 3 7-8 13 T. Meyer 2 2-2 6 Teeple. 0 0-0 Reed ... 0 0-0 0 Omlor 0 0-0 0 Kable 1 0-0 2 • Totals 25 19-28 69 Berne FG FT TP Whitehurst 4 0-18 Lehman 2 0-14 Flueckiger 10-0 2 Schug ... 5 1-5 11 Ehrsam ... 10 1-2 21 Ditle —- 2 3-6 7 Liechty — 2 0-0 4 Totals— 26 5-15 57 Commodores —lB 30 46 69 Berne 15 28 43 57 Officials: Dienelt, Lieberum. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Monmouth . . < FG FT TP Fuelling 4 2-4 10 J. Myers 2 0-14 Witte.ls 5-8 35 Brown 3 0-0 6 Schnepf ... 8 3-4 19 Keuneke 1 1-2 3 Macke -0 0-0 0 Hildebrand 0 2-2 2 Worthman 0 0-0 0 W. Meyers 0 0-0 0 Totals -33 13-21 7$ Commodores FG FT TP R. Meyer 3 0-0 6 Faurote3 4-5 10 Wilder t ..— 4 0-2 8 Voglewede — 5 3-6 13 T. Meyer 0 0-0 0 Reed —1 2-3 . 4 Omlor 0 o-i 0 Teeple 0 0-0 0 Kable ......—. 2 0-14 . . Totals .. 18 9-18 4*5 Monmouth 16 32 56 79 Commodores .. 6 20 34 45 Officials: Lieberum, Dienelt. 7

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THE MONMOUTH EAGLES won their zecond consecutive Adams county championship Saturday night, defeating the Decatur Commodores in the final game at the Adams Central gym. 1 - < i Kneeling, left to right—Ed Bultemeier and Bob Andrews, student managers. First row, left to right—Bob Hildebrand, Wayne Meyers, Fritz Macke, Calvin Worthman, Clint Fueling, Charles (Porky) Holt, coach. Second row, left to right—Marvin K. Wisehart, assistant coach: Stew Schnepf, Dave Brown, Norb Witte, John Myers, Richard Keueneke.

Week's Schedule For. Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Willshire at Commodores. Yellow Jackets at Huntington. Pennville at Hartford. Friday Auburn at Yellow Jackets. — Monmouth at Geneva. Bryant at Adams' Central. Saturday Ohio City at Pleasant Mills. Angola at Berne (2 p.m.) Jefferson vs Gray at Geneva. Tom Ehrsam, Berne, Awarded Individual Trophy At Tourney Tom Ehrsam, brilliant senior guard of the Berne Bears, was awarded the individual sportsmanship trophy at the conclusion of the Adams county tourney Saturdaynight. X . Tl» ’trophy, given by Robert Monnier in honor of Everett Rice, is awarded on the basis of outstanding play and psortsmanshlp. It was presented by Gail Orabill, superintendent of the Adame county schools, who also presented the Decatur Daily Democrat trophies to the Monmouth Eagles, first team champions, and Adams Central, second team champions. The tourney basketball was presdMed by Grabill to the Decatur Commodores, runner-up in the first team tourney. Adams Central Takes Second Team Tourney The Adams Central reserves defeated Berne, 37-34, for the county second team championship Saturday night in the final tourney played as a preliminary to the championship tilt of the first team tourney., The game was close all the way. Adams Central held an 8-5 lead at the first quarter, but Berne was on top by a single point, 14-13, at the half. Adams Central moved back on top at the end of the third period, 23-21, and stayed ahead through the final quarter. Both teams showed well balanced scoring. Byerly paced Adams Central with 13 points, followed by Barger with nine. Stahly counted M for Berne, with Beaty and T. Yoder each scoring nine. Adams Central FG FT TP Michaels ....J0 2 2 Byerly —.... 3 7 13 Ripley „*ls 7 Barger 4 19 Ross ...3 0 6 Baumgartnero 0 0 Hartman ..0 0 0 Totals 11 15 37 ...—., Berne, FG FT TP A. Yoder 2 1 5 Beaty -----—3 3 9 Winteregg 0 11 T. Yoder 8 3 9 Stahly 2 6 10 Collier ..... 0 0 0 Brown ...'......0 0 0 « . .. -■- ... • • • ’ Totals 10 14 34 Score by quarters: Adams Central - 8 13 23 37 Berne 5 14 31 34 Trade in a Good Town — Decatui

Team Standings . W L Pct Monmouth..-. 13 1 .929 Commodores 11 3 .786 Berne 7 .500 Pleasant Mills 77 -600 Geneva 6 6 .500 Yellow Jackets — 6 • ' .500 Jefferson — 4 6 .400 Adams Central — 4 8 . 333 Hartford 4 9 -.308 —oOof— Congratulations, Porky Holtend Monmouth Eagles! ... * . , —ooo—- — Eagles, for the second'year in a row, won the Adams county tourney Saturday, whipping the Decatur Commodores in the final game. The Eagles showed true championship form, in their . very first tourney start, overcoming an 11-point first h deficit to oust the Adams Central Greyhounds in the tourney opener Thursday, and the Eagles then showed improvement in their next,, two tourney tilts, climaxing the meet with a terrific performance in the final contest —oOo— By their victory, the Eagles, in addition to winning the Daily Democrat trophy, also regained possession of the Limberlost Bell, traveling trophy for the county teams, which the Eagles will retain until losing to another county team, with the exception of sectional tourney play, when no,trophies may be at stake, —oOo— Teams will now settle down to the last five weeks of regular spason play, but building up towards the sectional tourney, which will open at the Adams Central gym Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 22. Feature of this week’s ninegame schedule Will be tie Tuesday night game between the Decatur Commodores and the Willshire, O-, Bearcats at the Decatur gym. Willshire is undefeated In 12 games this — season, including a pair of victories over the Pleasant Mills Spartans. The Bearcats won 29 games in a row last season before losing the final game of tne Ohio Class B state tourney, dary Kesler, their huge center, is averaging more than 40 pointe per game. The Decatur Yellow Jackets also face a rugged foe Tuesday nlgh,t, traveling to Huntington to tackle the big, rugged Vikings, who appear to have one of their best teams in several seasons. One other game Tuesday sees the Hartford Gorillas entertain the Pennville Bulldogs at Hartford, , —■oOo— The Yellow will return to tnelr home floor Friday nignt, hosting the always dangerous Auburn Red DevilsAuburn Is apparently not as tough as In the past several years, but still possesses a dangerous punch and should provide Decatur fans with one of the best games remaining on the schedule. a* * - 000 The Limberlost Bell will be at stake Friday night when, the coun-i

AIX-TOURNAMENT TEAM Player Team Position Paul FauroteCommodores Forward John Myers Monmouth Forward Ron Meyer Commodores Forward Clint Fuelling Monmouth Forward Norb WitteMonmouth Center Joe Wilder Commodores Center Tom Ehrsamßerne Guard Stew SchnepfMonmouth Guard Jerry Voglewede Commodores Guard Dean StahlyHartford Guard

ty champion Eagles put it on the line against the Cardinals at Geneva. In Friday's only other game, the Adams Central Greyhounds will host the Bryant Owls at Adams Centra). Three games are on the Saturday menu, featuring a matinee affair at Berne. The Bears wil play the Angola Hornets at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. This game was changed from Friday night because of union church services In progress at Berne. Ohio City wiU meet the Spartans at Pleasant Mills Saturday night and Jefferson will meet Gray at Geneva, also Saturday night. Norb Witte, sizzling the nets tor 79 points in the three tourney games last week, boosted his individual point total to 367 In 14 games, a per-game average of 26 2 points. The 10 top scorers, with games played, |otal points, and average points per game, follow: -— ~ GP TP Ave. Witte, Monmouth — 14 367 26.2 Ehrsam, Berne 14 247 17.6 Light, Pleasant Mills 14 225 16.1 Voglewede, Comm .. 14 209 14.9 Wilder, Commodores 14 195 13.9 Stahly, Hartford — 13 188 14.5 Hunt, Geneva V.—— 12 183 15.3

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Faurote, Commodores 14 180 12.9 Kelly, Yellow Jackets 12 179 14 9 Mitchel, Adams Cen. 12 172 14 J —oOoResults one years ago this week: - Yellow Jacket* 59, Huntington 55. Willshire 100, Commodores 68. Adams Central 66, Jefferson 48. Pennville 65, Hartford 42Roll 61, Monmouth 60. Auburn 62, Yellow Jackets 61. Bryant 81, Adams Central 70. Jefferson 42, Gray « (overtime). Pleasant Mills 74, Ohio City 73. Berne 50.- Angola MGeneva*. Poling 50. ; Geneva 81, Jefferson 48. .

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