Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1957 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1957

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Attacks Coach Says Team Is Well Relaxed INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-On the surface, you’d think a team that has a chance to win the Indiana high school basketball tourney for the third straight year to tie a 35-year-old record would be all “hepped up.” Not Indianapolis Attucks. The Flying Tigers, / said coach Ray Crowe, are as “relaxed as could be.” “The past two years the pressure was on us," explained Crowe. “First, the, pressure was on us because we tried to give this city its first championship. The next year we had a chance to become the first team to do it with an unbeaten season record.” When Attucks finished last March with its second state title and a record 45-game streak, most observers figured that was it and Attucks would fade out gradually. 'With such stars gone as Oscar Robertson, Bill Brown and Stan Patton, the theory seemed reasonable. But theories are just so much hogwash in this game. Tech Eliminations Key Attucks dropped five games during the past season. In six previous seasons under Crowe, the Tigers, had lost a total of only 14. Then followed one of the tourney’s prize upsets in the Capital City sectional, a 50-44 win over crosstown rival Tech—and Attucks was on its way. ‘Winning the sectional was just the shot in the arm we needed,” said Crowe. "These kids have lived in the shadow of the championship teams so long they are determined to make names for themselves.” Besides, said Crowe, it's “a lot more fun to win when you are not . supposed to than it is when everybody is sure you will.” This Attucks crew is entirely different from the two championship clubs Crowe molded. The players are younger and more inexperienced. But they never gave up. “The other Attucks teams didn’t have to come as far as this one did,”, said Crowe. “I think their best will come out this week. It ar FAMILY NIGHT W EVERY - SAT. 7:30 P. M. IS U«A J 40 War (/■ 10:30 p - M - THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN SKATE FOR SI.OO Admission When Accompanied By One Parent. Clamp Skates Furnished. Shoe Skates' For Rent. HAPPY HOURS ROLLER RINK Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Miller, OWNERS _ - ■- 1 . —X — ——

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I can ask is that they give their best." Attucks had the second-highest scorer in last Saturday’s semi-state—6-4 Albert Maxey. He also was a demon on the backboards. Edgar Searcy and Odell Donel, 6-5 and 64, respectively, also are fine rebounders. Little Laverne Benson, whose outside shooting killed Tech, is the court strategist. Jerry Hazelwood is the No, 5 man. Study Scouting Reports Although Saturday’s state finals • ’is "easier" cm Attucks from a > psychological standpoint, it’s ' tougher on the playing floor "because we’re not as strong as the last two years,” said Crowe. , However, the Tigers are eager to go against favored Terre Haute 1 Gerstmeyer, the team that clipped their record winning streak in the season opener last November, 63-57. ■ "Thit’s the one they have been waiting to play since the first of the season," grinned Crowe. Attucks practiced only three days this week. Today, the players studied Gerstmeyer’s scouting reports—nothing more. Saturday, they hope for Lady Luck and revenge. J But regardless of the outcome, Crowe’s coaching record pf 179 wins against 19 defeats in seven seasons will take some doing to beat. , The roster: Player Ht. Wt. Cl. A. Maxey 64 168 Sr. E. Searcy ---6-5 177 Jr. O. Donel 64 216 Jr. L. Benson 5-8 138 Jr. F. Upshaw —— r 6-l 168 Sr. J. Hazelwood 15-11 150 So. L. Mclntire 5-10 143 So. D. Palmer ...., 6-3 175 Jr. R. Barbee 6-1 200 Jr. D. Spencer 6-2 163 Fr. One-And-One Rule Apparently Doomed KANSAS CITY. Mo. (UP)—College basketball coaches today had all but killed most of the one-and-one free throw rule in efforts to “halt the parade to the free throw line." The coaches, at their 31st an- . nual convention, voted 77-23 Thursday to adopt a modification of the rule along lines used in the Big Ten Conference this past sea- , son. Under that setup the one-and- ; one applies only after a team has -- committed six fouls in each half. Research showed that it usually was 13 to 15 minutes before teams committed six fouls, and since a half lasts 20 minutes, this would do away with the one-and-one for about three-fourths of the game. The one-and-one rule, designed to make a foul more costly, has been in effect only one year. It provides that if a player fouled while not in the act of shooting makes his first free throw he gets a “bonus” try. The coaches' recommendations will go to the National Rules Committee which meets here Sunday and Monday. Approval by the rules committee is almost automatic. Four Crewmen Die As Bomber Crashes PINECASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. <XUP) — A 847 Stratojet bomber crashed near, here shortly before dawn today, killing all four crewmen. The public information office at this Strategic Air Command base said the sleek medium bomber fell to earth and burned about I miles from the south runway.

Major League Teams Playing In California - F' s < • -; By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer California fans, who hope to have major league baseball within three years, get a look at the brand of game they’re bidding for in exhibitions tonight at San Francisco and San Diego. The San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League open a three-game series with the Boston Red Sox and expect to draw, about 20,000 fans for each contest The Cleveland Indians and New York Giants carry their pre-season rivalry into San Diego tonight. The games come on the heels of an announcement that San Francisco and Los Angeles have joined forces in an all-out drive to lure major league teams to California. Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco and Mayor Norris Poulson met Thursday to plan Strategy to bring big league Ball first to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco. . Yanks Trampled Again Meanwhile, back at the Florida training "r anc h es," National League teams continued to make merry at the expense of the world champion New York Yankees. The Cincinnati Redlegs thumped the Yankees and Don (No Hit) Larsen, 2045, on Wednesday and the St. Louis Cardinals took advantage of three errors to whip the champions Thursday, 9-2. St. Louis took a 4-2 lead against Johnny Kucks in the first seven innings and scored five runs in the eighth off Ralph Terry. The Yankees, playing without Mickey Mantle, got only five hits off Herman Wehmeier, Larry Jackson and Hoyt Wilhelm. Mantle has a bruised left thumb. Charley Neal and Don Zimmer, who are trying to win regular jobs with the Dodgers, hit two-run homers in the seventh inning at Miami as Brooklyn rallied to whip the Kansas .City Athletics in a night game, 6-3. , Cincinnati, fresh from the battering it gave Larsen, gave Robin Jtoberts of the Philadelphia Phillies the same treatment Thursday at Clearwater. The Redlegs slammed Roberts, one of baseball's finest pitchers, for 14 hits and seven runs in five innings enroute to a 13-10 victory. George Crowe got five of the Redlegs’ 22hit total. Braves Also Blast Away At Tampa, shortstop Johnny Logan and outfielder Wes Covington each hit three homers and accounted for all the Milwaukee runs as the Braves defeated the Chicago White Sox, 10-7. At Lakeland, Frank Lary tossed six scoreless innings and second baseman Frank Bolling drove in five runs with a three-run homer and a two-run triple to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 9-2 victory over the Washington Senators. Eddie Bressoud's triple and Ossie Virgil’s sacrifice fly enabled the Giants to edge the Baltimore Orioles, 2-1, at Scottsdale, Ariz. At Mesa, Ariz., shortstop Ernie Banks, making his first appearance of the spring after nursing a sore arm, included two homers among his four hits to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 54 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Sen. Langer Taken Off Serious List WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) hospitalized for over a month with pneumonia and pleurisy, today whs taken off the serious list at the Bethesda Naval Medical Renter. I | /$ your home just I HALF I INSURED? i i I The cost of replacing your | ■ home and its furnishings is i I just about twice what it was » 10 years ago. Examine your | fire protection now — not i after the fire—and find emt I | if you’re only half insured. | [*y] fthrysfofaMr Tor I STATE FARM ArmM FRED CORAH I Insurance Agency 207 Court Street I Phone 3-3656 .

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Coaches Os Four Finalist Teams Are All Veterans INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A "Who’s Who” on the four coaehes in the Indiana high school basketball tourney finals: Ray Crowe, Indianapolis Attacks —Age 41; graduate Whiteland High School and Indiana Central College: 7th year at Attucks, only head coaching position he has held. Has won six sectionals, six ' regionals, four semi-states, two i state titles (1955-56). Elmer McCall, South Bend Cen- ' tral—Age 40: Frankfort High School and Venture Jr. College and Fresno State, Calif., graduate. Has coached one year at Bloomington High, three years at Delphi, five years at South Bend. Has won five sectionals, two regionals, two semi-states, one state title (1953). Marion Crawley. Lafayette—Age 48; Greencastle High School and DePauw University graduate; finishing 26 years of coaching, 15 at Lafayette. Has won 23 sectionals, 15 regionals, rune semi-states, three state titles (Washington 1941-42, Lafayette 19480. Howard Sharpe, Terre Haute Gerstmeyer—Age 41; Gary Wallace and Indiana State Teachers College graduate; 17 years coaching, including 13 at Gerstmeyer. Also coached at Clinton Twp. (LaPorte Co.), Monon and Honey Creek. Has won six sectionals, five regionals, four semi-states. Three Coaches Say Team Members 111 INDIANAPOLIS (ffl — Coaches of three of the four teams scheduled to battle it out Saturday for the Indiana high school basketball championship listed a total of eight players today as “doubtful starters.” ♦ Only Ray Crowe of Indianapolis Attucks’ defending champs reported his boys were in tops shape and ready to go. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, according to coach Howard Sharpe, has three starters with virus infections and one with a “bad ankle.” Lafayette, according to coach Marion Crawley, has two boys out of school with flu and one being treated for a sore throat. And South Bend Central’s star guard Herbie Lee still has that ’ sprained ankle that has bothered him all week. Sharpe listed as virus victims ' guards Bill Newton and Ronnie Greene and center Howard Dardeen. He said' forward Charley Hall has a bad ankle. He said he’s hopeful all will start but indicated 1 that if they do they may not toe ’ “at their best.” ' Coach Elmer McCall of South 5 Bend said Lee is expected to play . but may not be in the starting * lineup. • Crawley reported three of five ! starters ailing. ’ Crawley said two are out of • school with flu and another has a sore throat The flu victims are forward Larry Butz and guard ' Lynn Cooper. And guard Dave J Price reported to the school in- ‘ firmary with a sore throat. Ctawley was rather pessimistic about the chances of Butz and Cooper to be ready for the team’s first test in the finals, a battle to determine the right to play the winner of the Terre Haute Gerst- - meyer—lndianapolis Attuck contest for the state championship Saturday night. Only Minor Damage Caused In Accident Only minor damage was caused in a collision of two vehicles on Court street Thursday at 1:30 p.m. A car driven by William Don Workinger, 24. of Decatur, route five, turned off Third street onto Court street just as J. F. Sanmann, 65. of 228 North Third street, started to back his car out of a parking space. The Sanmann car hit the side of the Workinger vehicle. Damage to the Workinger car was estimated at ?45. The other car was not damaged. I BLACK irai

Shortstop Is Big Weakness ■ Os Phillies CLEARWATER, Fla. (UP)-r-Un- : less they come up with a high , class shortstop, the Philadelphia Phil Hes appear doomed to another . second division finish. * Manager Mayo Smith feels he , has championship pitching, but admits he has “a glaring weakness . at shortstop and we might have a gap in right field, too.” However, he doesn't agree with , those who feel the Phillies lost power when they traded Del Ennis to the Cardinals for Rip Repulski. “Rip hits the long ball, too, and don’t let his last year's figure fool ■ you,” Smith said. “Also, he strengthens our defense.” Repulski out-hit Ennis .277 to .260 last season but had only 55 RBl’s to Ennis' 95. In'Robin Roberts, who failed to win 20 games last year for the first time in seven years, and southpaws Curt Simmons and Harvey Haddix, the PhillieS figure they have the best three starting pitchers in the league. Hopes For Meyer Jack Meyer was a disappointment last season when he won only seven while losiiig 11, but baseball men figure he has the potential to get into the select 20game circle. He could give the Phillies the best starting fourin the league. Smith also is high on the prospects of Jack Sanford, who got out of. service last year, and believes Jim Hearn, the ex-Giant, can help in spot starting roles. Holdovers Bob Miller (3-6', Saul Rogovin (7-6) and Ron Negray (23)a losprobably will remain. Smith wouldn’t trade his catcher, Stan Lopata, for any other in the league and declares that Lopata will only catch this year and will not be used at first base. Behind Lopata he has Mack Burk and Joe Lonnett. The only infield post with which Smith is satisfied is third base where Willie Jones holds forth. Rookie Has Chance Rookie Ed Bouchee, who hit .294 at Miami last year with 94 RBl's, will be given every chance to win the first base job in order to free Marv Blaylock for the right field post if necessary. At second, Ted Kazanski, another bonus player : who can field but lacks power, probably will get the nod over the veteran Solly Hemus. Unless the Phillies deal for a shortstop, it will [ be either Bobby Morgan or Roy > Smalley for the post—both of them far short in both fieldlrig and hiti ttoS-’ r Granny Hamner remains a big , question mark. Because of a left ’ shoulder injury, Hamner cannot , swing a bat properly and the former star shortstop is trying to bes come a pitcher. Thus far the exi periment has been far from suc- > cessful. t In the outfield, the fleet Richie . Ashburn is set in center and Repulski in left. Bob Bowman, a .277 hitter with Miami in 1956, is being given the preference over Blaylock and veterans Elmer Vaio and Frank Baumholtz in right field. Glen Gorbous also is up for another try. Boston, St. Louis Win Playoff Openers By UNITED PRESS The Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks, division champions in the National Basketball Association this season, opened their bids for the playoff title Thursday night ' with easy victories. The Celtics, sluggish in the first half, came back strong in the late stages of the game to defeat th# Syracuse Nationals, 108-90, while the Hawks, paced by little Slater Martin and big Bob Pettit, downed the Minneapolis Lakers, 118-109. The Eastern series resumes Saturday afternoon at Syracuse, while the Western series resumes Sunday afternoon at St. Louis. The winners of the best-of-five division playoffs meet for the league title. Polish Coal Mining Experts Visit State WASHINGTON (UP)-The State Department has announced that a delegation of Polish coal mining experts will begin a 2,500-mile tour of six states Sunday, including Indiana. The group is scheduled to stop at Elberfield, Ind., officials said. American experts are slated to visit Poland later this year.

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Memphis State And Bradley Play Final NEW YORK (UP)— So now this upset-happy National Invitation Basketball Tournament comes to a showdown between Bradley, a team that’s “tearin’ the joint apart,*’ and Memphis State, a dashing dark-horse that has surprised three straight times. That’s the hard-to-pick lineup for Saturday's nationally-televised finale at 2 p.m, EST in Madison Square Garden —a pairing produced by eight upsets out of 10 preliminary games. Bradley became only the second favorite to win a game in the whole carnival Thursday night when it romped to a 94-66 victory over Temple in a semi-final. In the other, Bob Swander's onehander with three seconds left in overtime gave Memphis State a 80-78 decision over St. Bonaventure in the tourney’s most exciting game to date. “I kind of like Bradley in the final,” said defeated Coach Harry Litwack of Temple, and it anpea r e d that the hot-shooting Braves from Peoria, 111., will be favored over the Tennessee Tigers by game time. That means that Bradley will be getting another shot at the title it narrowly missed in 1950, when it was beaten by CCNY’s “double champions” in the finale, 69-61— the same year it lost to the same team in the NCAA final. It also • means that Memphis State gets an amazing chance to grab the gold ring on its first ride ‘on the merry-go-round, its first appearance in the NIT. And oddly enough, the final matches the team coached this i year by Bob Vanatta (Memphis State), with the team he coached last year —a situation unprecedented in a major tournament. Finalists' Coaches Honored At Luncheon INDIANAPOLIS W — Coaches of the four finalist teams in Saturday’s Indiana high school basketball tourney wind-up were honored today in the annual Kiwanis Club “Hardwood Roundup." Ray Crowe of defending champion Indianapolis Attacks, Elmer McCall of South Bend Central, Howard Sharpe of Terre Haute Gerstmeyer and Marion Crawley of Lafayette were the center of I attraction at a noon Inucheon attended by nearly 700 persons.

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200 games: H. Strickler 230, C. Lindemann 203, N. Bultemeier 217, D. Bleeke 233, L. Reef 204, R. Dedolph 235, P. Smith 200-210, Erxleben 209, E. Witte 200, G. Thieme 203, P. Bleeke 220. Pilot Becomes 111, Aitplane Crashes SEYMOUR, Ind. (UP) — A light airplane crashed near here Thursday when its pilot became ill. Robert Wright, 35, Maplewood, Mo,, told police he looked for Freeman Field to land when he was overcome, but blacked out. The four-seat Cessna monoplane smashed into a. pasture just west of the city and was demolished. Wright, a Marine Corps pilot during World War 11, was spared serious injuries by his safety belt, authorities said. 7:77 7