Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1957 — Page 7

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—- Prep Quintets Open Tourneys On Wednesday INDIANAPOLIS (UP)- The 739 entries in Indiana’s 47th annual high school basketball tourney which gets underway Wednesday went into skull sessions today to figure out how to outsmart each other. Some plotted upsets, others hoped to stay alive on “breaks.” But regardless of their strategy, it was a good bet about half of last year’s 64 sectional winners will be spectators in this fourweek show by Saturday night. Last yeat, 36 sectional winners abdicated and nine brand-new first-round champions were crowned. The term “solid favorite” is used cautiously in this hardwood free-for-all, but a survey showed about a dozen of last year’s sectional titlists were strongly entrenched and should come through aggin. The list included unbeaten South Bend Central and once-defeated Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, ranked 1-2 in the state all season, and such other powers as Hartford City, Greencastle, Michigan City and Muncie Central. The South Benders risk their 20-game streak against city rival Adams, which Saturday night -finished with an eight-game winning streak and a 63-31 lacing of East NIHSC rival Fort Way n e North. Strong Mishawaka was expected to be the South Benders’ second opponent, but coach Elmer McCall’s quintet rated as favorite by virtue of its brilliant season record.

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Gerstmeyer Should Win Gerstmeyer also may have its hands full in Vigo County, but like South Bend Central should come through on the strength of superior height, ability and balance. Other “solid” favorites include 1956 tourney runner-up Lafayette, Logansport, Princeton, Richmond, Seymour, and Dale at Tell City. Defending state champion Indianapolis Attucks got the big big break in the pairings and its e chances for survival were no • worse than 50-50 aS Cfojstown foe • Tech must worm its way through - the tough lower bracket in order J to sjay alive, t Among teams least likely' to make successful sectional stands 5 were Monmouth at Adams Central, Vevay ,at Dillsboro, Ambia • at Fowler, Jackson Twp, at JTrankf fort, Eastern at Kokomo, Jeffer--5 son Twp. at Noblesville, Akron at • Peru, Milan at 'Versailles, and Vincennes. 5 Four perfect-record clubs— the z same number as last year—will s start the long grind. But Windfall, at Noblesville, was the only 5 “untouched” team which never T has tasted the glory of a sectional l title. Such other small-town powers ■ as Etna Green at Syracuse, Gas--1 ton at Munpie, Union Twp. at Michigan Gity and Sandborn at 1 Vincennes also were shooting for 1 first-time sectional honors. None 1 was licked more than twice dur- } ing the season. Other Crowns Shaky 1 Other sectional crowns shaky were those of Anderson, South- ■ port at Center Grove, Columbus, 1 Hammond at East Chicago, Elkt hart, Evansville Lincoln, Gary • Froebel, Greensburg, Cleark Creek • at Huntington, Marion, Morgan- ! town at Martinsville, Middletown at New Castle, Scottsburg, and ! Warsaw at Syracuse. 1 Meanwhile, final statistics ’ showed every major conference ' pennant changed hands except in 1 the Southern Conference, where Princeton and Evansville Central repeated. The other winners, last year’s in parenthesis: Central —Hartford City (Monticello) . South Central —Southport and Shelbyville (Seymour). North Central—lndianapolis Tech (Kokomo). Northeastern — Garrett (Columbia City). Western —Terre Haute Gerstmeyer (Terre Haute Garfield). Southeastern—Aurora (Madison and Mitchell). • East NIHSC—South Bend Central (Elkhart). West NIHSC — Gary FroebeL hmrawmonffr - -

Showdown Week In Conference College Ranks By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Push all those blue chips to the center of the table—this is “showdown week" in college basketball for as many as eight major conference titles and maybe the national scoring championship, too. Kentucky and Texas Western can open the hand by clinching league crowns tonight and, with the.,(berths in the NCAA tournament. Before the week is out, champions may also be decided in the Big Ten, Pacific Coast Conference, Missouri Valley, Skyline, and. California Basketball Assn. Each of these carries an automatic bid to the big NCAA carnival. ’Cats Can Clinch Kentucky, the nation’s No. 3 team, can wrap up its 12th Southeastern Conference title in the last 14 years tonight by whipping Auburn at home. Die Wildcats already have clinched at least a tie for the crown with two games to go. Texas Western can clinch the Border Conference crown by winning its fipal league game tonight at home against New Mexico A&M. A loss would give Hardinsimmons a chance to tie for the title by beating the same foe on Friday. Should both favorites win, they will swell the field for the NCAA tourney to six teams. Connecticut and Canisius were already in when Southern Methodist joined up by clinching its third straight Southwest Conference title Saturday night and Idaho State clinched the Rocky Mountain Conference bid. As for that pesky scoring race, three of the top five contenders finish their season this week. Here’s how they stand: Player A Team Pts. Avg. GL Joe Gibbon, Miss. 605 30.3 1 Grady Wallace, S.Car. 723 30.13 2 W. Chamberlain, Kan. 584 29.2 3 Elgin Baylor, Seattie 641 29.13 2 Chet Forte, Columbia 579 28.95 4 Gibbon, Wallace, and Baylor all finish this week, except for tourney games. Saturday night play was marked by three upsets of high-ranked teams and by Gibbon’s move to the No. 1 scoring spot. Bradley (ranked No. 5) was beaten by 20th-ranked St. Louis, 73-66, and lost first place in the Missouri Valley Conference. Louisville (No. 6) was tumbled by DaytoA, 50-48, another thriller in their always-close series. lowa State (No. 10** had tts-Big-Beren hopesjust about wiped out by Kansas State, 86-77. Gibbon fired 46 points for Mississippi in an 83-76 victory over Louisiana State to pass Wallace, who had “only” 43 in South Carolina’s 94-81 loss to Duke. Chamberlain had 30 in Kansas’ 87-60 win over Nebraska. And idle Baylor moved to fourth ahead of Forte, who scored only 23 in Columbia’s 82-64 win over Brown. Full-Page Tourney , Scoreboard Carried In Today's Democrat Northern Indiana Public Service company is again going all out to help the people of northern Indiana enjoy the Indiana state high school basketball taurnament this year. Today's edition of the Decatur Democrat as well as every other daily paper in northern Indiana, carries a full page tournament score board prepared each year by the utility for use by the public in following the annual affair from beginning to end. ' The chart begins with the winners of the 64 sectional games and lists the pairings for succeeding play-offs — the regionals, semistate, and finals, until the last game is played on Mar. 23 at Butler Field House In Indianapolis. The surviving team of that exciting contest will be the 1957 Indiana state high school basketball champion. In addition. NIPSCO will distribute more than two thousand 48inch by 40-inch tournament score boards to schools, social and fraternal o r g a n i z a ti o ns, church groups, service stations, barber shops, and business establishments* all over the northern third bf the state. These easy reference charts, of which the newspaper charts are smaller replicas, have been distributed by NIPSCO for more than 20 years. P-o Basketball Saturday’s Results New York 102, Fort Wayne 94. Rochester 101, St. Louis 86. i Syracuse 103. Minneapolis 101. Sunday’s Results ’ Minneapolis 123, Fort Wayne 115. St. Louis 113, Philadelphia 112. Syracuse 109, Rochester 93. Boston 97, New York 85. Big Ten Standing W L Pct TP OP Indiana 9 2 .818 885 795 Michigan St. —8 3 .725 787 743 Ohio State —.B 3 . 725 821 765 Minnesota ..—6 5 .545 829 812 Illinois 6 5 .545 950 925 i Purdue —6 6 .500 845 843 j Michigan 5 6 .455 798 811 lowa .4 6 . 400 709 718 Northwestern -.2 10 .167 833 918 I Wisconsin 1 9 .100 616 734

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I 1 ■■■ *— DflSKgfiOL Final Standings w x. r* Hartford * 20 1 .952 Geneva ,-’ 15 5 .750 Yellow Jackets 15 5 .750 CommodOfes 12 7 .632 Berne .- 12 9 .571 Adams Central 7 12 .368 Pleasant Mills 7 12 .368 Monmouth 3 16 .158 The aero hear approaches! —oOo— Indiana’s annual sports classic will get underway Wednesday, with play opening in many of the 64 sectional tourneys throughout Indiana, with 739 teams in the battling for .the state basketball championship captured by Crispus Attucks of Indianapolis for the past two years. —oOo~~ The eight Adams county teams will start firing Wednesday night at the Adams Central gym, with two games Wednesday night and two Thursday night. There will be no games Friday, with the semi-finals Saturday afternoon and the championship game at 8:15 o’clock Saturday night. In the second section of today’s Daily Democrat, the anual sectional edition of this newspaper, will be found photos of all eight county teams, the season records of all teams, and the roster of certified players for the tourney. Also, Basketbawl’s annual forecast or the winners. —-000— This year’s tourney is likely to be hard pressed to equal the thrillers staged in the 1950 meet. As a reminder of what happened a year ago, following are the scores of the 1956 sectional tourney: Monmouth 45, Hartford 41. Pleasant Mills 67, Geneva 57. Monmouth 78, Adams Central 61. Decatur Commodores 87, Jefferson 62. Decatur Yellow Jackets 65, Berne 63. Monmouth 70, Pleasant Mills 64. Decatur Yellow Jackets 63, Decatur Commodores 61 (double overtime). Monmouth 72, Decatur Yellow Jackets 71 (final). —-000— Die Monmouth Eagles, who won the sectional title for the fourth consecutive year in 1956, went to the finals of the regional tourney akjbg Fort Wayne coliseum before being eliminated by the Fort Wayne South Side Archers in a hard-fought final game. Scores of last year’s regional: Monmouth 80, Fremont 58. Fort Wayne South 64, Avilla 54. Fort Wayne South 66, Monmouth 59 (final). • —oOo— Ivan Nevil, the fine center of the Geneva Cardinals, copped the individual scoring championship of Adams county teams’; Nevil connected for a fine total of 414 points in the 20 games his team played, for an excellent average of 20.7 points per game. Pete Schug, of Berne, likewise a senior, and the county scoring leader much of the season, finished a close second with 391 points. However, Schug played one more game than Nevil, and had an average per game of 18.6 points per game. Ron Meyer, of the Decatur Commodores, had a fine average of 18 points per game for the third spot. The 10 leading scores, with games played, total points scored, and average points per game, were as follows: GF TP Ave. Nevil, Geneva 20 414 20.7 Schug, Berne H 391 1!.« R. Meyer, Commodores 19 342 18.0 Steiner, Adams Central 19 336 17.7 Craig,Geneva 19 334 17.6 Frey. Pleasant Mills „ 19 317 16.7 Williamson, Plea. Mills 18 316 17.6 Kelly, Yellow Jackets 20 300 15.0 Moser, Hartford 21 295 14.0 Stahly, Hartford 21 293 13.9 German Heavyweight Makes U. S. Debut NEW YORK IV) — Heavyweight Willie Besmaoff of Germany, making his U. S. debut, is favored at 8-5 to register his 12th straight victory tonight in a 10-rounder with Calvin Wilson of Philadelphia at St. Nicholas Arena. It will be televised by Rumont at 10:30 p.m. EST. More Teams Named To Small College Tourney NEW YORK (UP) — The 32team field for the NCAA’s brandnew small college basketball championship tournament was half-com-pleted today wjth the addition of four conference champions decided during the weekend. Teams named swelled to 16 with the addition of Mt. St. Mary's of Maryland, Jackson College of Mississippi, Florida A&M, and the University of Nevada. First and second round games in the small college tournament will be played at home court sites to be determined by the draw. First round games will be played March 2-5 and second round games March 9. Quarter-finals, semi-finals, ai|fi finals will be~played March 13, 14 and 1§ at Evansville, Ind.

Indiana Faces Tough Schedule To Take Title CHICAGO (UP) — Indiana, Michigan State and Ohio State head into the final three-game stretch drive of the Big Ten basketball race tonight with the steady Spartans enjoying a slight edge In the remaining schedule. The Hoosiers, still on top with a narrow one-game margin over the second place Spartans and Buckeyes, play at Michigan. It IS one of two remaining contests on hostile courts for the Hoosiers, who play at Michigan State Saturday night and conclude the campaign at home against Illinois a week from tonight. The Spartans, who have proved as victorious on foreign courts as on their own, also have two road games left beginning with tonight’s engagement at Wisconsin and closing a week from tonight at Michigan. The Spartans will enjoy the home court advantage over the Hoosiers in Saturday night’s contest. mini at Columbus The Buckeyes entertain Illinois tonight, then travel to Northwestern Saturday and to Minnesota next- Monday night to close the season. In the fourth Big Ten contest on tonight's card, lowa is at Minnesota. The Hoosiers, Buckeyes and Spartans closed the weekend in their one-two position, each scoring Saturday victories. Archie Dees, the league’s top scorer, bagged 24 points in leading the Hoosiers to an 85-74 triumph over last-place Wisconsin; the Spartans made it eight conference wins in a row with a 70-65 decision over Minnesota, and the Buckeyes walloped Michigan, 9488. Dees got help in the Hoosier win from Hallie Bryant and Dick Neal, who pitched in 20 and 17 points respectively. It was the seventh straight victory for Indiana which now has a 9-2 record. Eighth Straight for Spartans The Spartans knocked off their eighth straight Big Ten foe in downing Minnesota. The Gophers double-teamed bouncing Johnny Green but teammates George Ferguson, Larry Hedden and Jack Quiggle took up the attack, each hitting in double figures. The Buckeyes rallied with 22 points in the final six minutes to erase a five-point deficit and beat Michigan. Larry Huston, sophomore forward, showed the way with 26 points for the Bucks. ,TtF Illini got their, sixth win against five defeats in trimming the Boilermakers, 80-78, to take •vet fifth place, and eighth place lowa defeated ninth-place Northwestern, 74-66, to wind up Saturactivity. Anderson College Conference Champ INDIANAPOLIS (UTi — Anderson, which tied for first plate last year, was the Hoosier College Conference undisputed basketball champion today but the race in the Indiana Collegiate Conference won't be settled until Saturday. Anderson clinched the crown Saturday, routing Franklin 92-67 for a 10-2 loop record. DePauw has ’ clinched at least a share of the ICC title despite a 77-68 weekend loss at Butler and* can take it all by turning back Valparaiso Saturday. If the Dgers lose, first place would be a blanket finish with Evansville, Valpo, and the Ball-State Butler winner Tuesday. Big Ten leader Indiana, meanwhile, faced its most crucial road tests at Michigan tonight and at Michigan State Saturday. The Hoosiers close at home against Illinois next Monday. All secondary college quintets finish this week. The schedule: Tenight—lndiana at Michigan. Tuesday—Notre Dame at Marquette. Butler at Ball State, DePaJw at Wabash, Earlham at Taylor, Manchester at Franklin, Hanover at Indiana Central, Vincennes at Lincoln BibJe. Thursday—Huntington at Marian. , Saturday—lndiana at Michiga State, Wisconsin at Purdue, Notre Dame at DePaul, Valparaiso at DePauw, Detroit Tech at Huntington, If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad — they bring results.

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Maglie Predicts 15 Victories In 1957 r • By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Sal Maglie, as enthusiastic as rookies half his age, today set a goal of 15 victories that would make 1957 his best season in five yedrs. "My target is to win 15 games—if that’s enough to help us win another pennant," said the 40-year old hurler when he checked into the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Vero Beach Fla., training camp. "I don’t Know if I can start for three more years, but I’m sure I can pitch.” Maglie, the hero of the Dodgers’ stretch battle with the Milwaukee Braves and Cihcinnati Redlegs, had a 15-5 record last season and hasn't reached the 15 - victory mark since 1952 when he had an 18- record with the New York GiantsBraves Have Troubles The Braves and Washington Senators, meanwhile, were running into trouble' with some key pitchers. Lew Burdette, the National League’s earned run leader and a 19- winner, Bob Buhl, who beat Brooklyn eight times, and relief pitcher Ernie Johnson all refused to agree to terms with the Braves. At Orlando, Fla., Chuck Stobbs and the Washington Senators still were about $3,000 apart following another conference. Stobbs, who astounded everybody by winning 15 games for the Senators last season, now has Calvin Griffith dumbfounded because he wants about $19,000. Don Larsen, the World Series perfect game hero, arrived unexpectedly at the New York Yankee’s St. Petersburg, Fla., camp amid indications that he may sign for about $20,000. Larsen, who got $14,500 last season, had been offered $17,500 and was demanding $27,500. Parnell Under Knife On other training camp fronts: Manager Mike Higgins revealed that Mel Parnell, who last season, pitched the first no-hitter by a Boston Red Sox pitcher since 1923, underwent a “minor elbow operation" last month. Parnell is due in camp today sjnd his training is not expected to be effected by the operation. Jim Brosnan and Turk Lowns threw extra hard Sunday as the Chicago Cub batterymen put in their fifth day of work in Mesa, Ariz. General Manager Hank Greenberg of the Cleveland Indians dropped in on the Baltimore Orioles' camp at Scottsdale, Ariz., but he and Orioles’ Manager Paul Richards said they did not talk about a deaL _______ At Clearwater,"Fla.', t!l6'"■PlUiadelphia Phillies' top minor league farmhands beat the St. Louis Cardinals star Farmhands, 5-1, behind

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