Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1959 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY M, 1958

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Writer Picks Madison For State Crown EDITORS NOT& In the following dispatch Indiana UPI sportswriter Kurt Freudenthal makes his aimual state prep basketball tourney championship selection. He’s picked the winner 4 times in 11 years. By KURT FREUDENTHAL United Press International INDJANAPOLIS (UPI) — They average better than 43 per cent from the field—and it takes that kind of shooting to win the crown. Their coach says they're the best shooting team he's ever had. And they can run all night. They play their best games away from home—ask Evansville Bosse, Columbus and Franklin. They've been mastered only once all season. They’re the Madison Cubs, the United Press International choice for the Indiana high school basketball crown. New Albany on Jan. 24 wrecked the Cubs’ bid for a perfect regular season, 60-55. What happened? “We hit only 36 per cent of our .shots," said Julius <Bud) Ritter, “and just had one engine going that night—Buster Briley.” And despite the fact that the 6-4 junior scoring machine is one of the best in the state, it takes more than one hot-shot to tame a Bulldog. Home Floor Small Madison’s own floor is too small tor Ritter’s fast break.. That's why his boys have been going all-out away from home. They’!! be routed through the Scottsburg sec- j tional—never a soft touch—and if , they survive advance to the j Columbus regional and from there * to the Indianapolis semi-state, where they could meet powerful Muncie Central in a showdown j collision. “We know we’ll have a hard J time in the sectional and every 4 place else," said Ritter, “but if j we shoot the way we have been, ; we can get the job done.” Ritter, who said tills is the best : shooting team he ever had, . scouted Muncie recently. “They looked awfully good, they ’ would give us a rough deal,” said ' the former Evansville prepster ’ who played on Herman Keller’s ; two state championship teams in the 19405. “ " * I ’ Credits Hot Shooting ’ But Madison has its own press clippings. The Cubs hit 49 per cent ; of their shots against Columbus, ,

SECTIONAL TICKET DISTRIBUTION Herman Frantz, principal of the Adorns Central high school and sectional tourney manager, has announced the distribution of tickets for the Wednesday and Thursday sessions of the Adams Central sectional. „ „ • . The distribution is made on an enrollment basis. Bulk of the tickets anil go to fans of the four teams competing in each session. Tickets are priced at 50 cents for each of the Wednesday and Thursday sessions. i Each of the four schools not competing in the session will re- ■ ceive 25 tickets for a total of 100. Another distribution of tickets will ; be made following the Thursday night session for the schools com- , peting in the semi-finals Saturday. The Saturday tickets, for both afternoon and evening sessions, will be priced at sl. —— , The breakdown follows: r ( Upper Bracket , School Enrollment Pro-Rata Enrollment Total i 10% 90% * < Berne ....—241 52 829 881 j Hartford .. 57 52 196 248 ’ Geneva 153 52 526 578 , Pleasant Mills 96 52 ‘ 330 382 i Lower Bracket “ School Enrollment Pro-Rata Enrollment Total s 10% 90% : Adams Central 245 52 507 559 1 Decatur ... 365 52 756 808 1 Monmouth 148 52 307 359 1 Decatur Catholic 150 52 311 363 j - ■ ■ — _ , 1

/jdaßP ~— l — " ■ — li Sectional Tournament Schedule WEDNESDAY 7:00 P. MA \ Berne I Hartford J SATURDAY 1:00 P.M./ I WEDNESDAY 8:15 P. MA • I -1 —- r Geneva l , ‘ I Pleasant Mills /SATURDAY smp.m. THURSDAY 7:00 P. MA I ( Adams Central / \ YellOW Jackets SATURDAY zus p. m./ / ■ THURSDAY 8:15 P. MA I Monmouth ComiHo(lorCs Officials: I—Charles Northam 2—Robert Showalter. .. ■ . . -

Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams • WEDNESDAY Commodores vs Arcola at New Haven. FRIDAY Winchester at Yellow Jackets? Commodores at Harlan. Bluffton at Adams Central. Hoagland at Pleasant Mills. Petroleum at Hartford. Monmouth at Montpelier. Berne at New Haven. Geneva vs Parker at Farmland. SATURDAY Berne at Monmouth. Sectional Tourney Tickets Friday To Yellow Jacket Fans Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal, this morning outlined plans for sale of sectional tourney tickets to YeQow Jacket season ticket holders. The Yellow Jackets play Adams Central at 7 p.m; Tb©r|day. Tickets for the Thursday kession.prieed at 50 cents, will be sold to students Friday morning. Tickets for adults will be on sale Friday afternoon and the. office be open Friday night for adults. Season ticket holders must obtain their tourney tickets by noon Monday. Any unsold at that time will go oh sale to the general public. In event the Yellow Jackets win their opening game, tickets, priced at sl, for the two Saturday sessions will be sold to students Friday morning. Feb. 27, and to adult season ticket holders Friday afternoon and night. Adults are asked to bring their season tickets with them when obtaining tourney tickets. Franklin and Seymour, 46 per cent at Bosse in a 102-79 slaughter last Friday in their peak performance of the season. Briley, who jumps .center but also plays forward, and 5-10 senior guard Larry Shingleton are Madison’s key players. “Brfley is a terrific outside shooter and the No. 1 man on our fast break,” explained Ritter. “We shuffle seveig. boys around and these guys do more things right than any other team I’ve gver had.” I The others include forwards Larry Humes and Don Firth, Harold Lake man and Mike Sullivan, both also guards, and a new “find,” 6-6 center Nate Perry. Thejt know they’ve got their work Cut out, but Madison went “all the way” in 1950 to reward this corner with the first of- four “championships." and they’re “due” again.

Gorillas Score 18th Victory Tuesday Night The Hartford Gorillas scored victory number 18 of the season and their 10th in a row Tuesday night by whipping Madison township of Jay county, 65-44, at the Hartford gym. The Gorillas have lost only two games this season. Hartford led at the first quarter, 13-4, but Madison pulled ’ within a single point at 21-20 at the half. The Gorillas, however, assumed command with the opening of the second half and held a 42-28 advantage going into the final period. , Fred Miller, Hartford’s big center, led the scoring with 20 points. Del McCune added 13 points and Phil Hoover 11. Francks' topped the Jay county quintet with 10 markers. The Gorillas close out their season Friday night, entertaining the Petroleum Panthers at the Hartford gym. Hertford FG FT TP Bixler 3 0 6 Pharr 10 2 Maier 7 6 20 McCune ... 6 1 13 Hoover 5 1 11 Mwhberger 0 4 Zuercher ..j 10 2 Moser * 2 15 Owens 0 2 2 Thomas 0 0 0 Totals 27 11 65 i Madison Twp. FG FT TP Francks ._■*.... 2 6 10 Murphy 12 4 Parks 12 4 Haworth 4 1 9 Wulliman I's 7 Addington ...1.2...... 10 2 Shauver4 0 8 Totals . 14 16 44 Officials: Matthews, Fisher. Preliminary ~; Madison, 44-28. "— Veeck Exercises While Sox Option CHICAGO (UPD—Bill Veeck has plans for the Chicago White Sox, blit he won’t reveal them until he is certain he has charge of the fortunes of the Comiskey-founded baseball “You don’t spend $2,700,000 without thinking., about what you’re going so do,” he said, “but we’re not going- to say anything about our plans until we know we own the ball club;” Veeck and his seven associates Tuesday picked up their option to buy the 54 per cent stock interest in the White Sox held by Mrs. Dorothy Rigney, and said they expected to complete the purchase by March 31 or earlier. The major stumbling block to earlier completion would be the position of Vice President Charles Comfekey, who holds the other 46 per cent of White Sox stock. Veeck left no doubt that he wanted Comiskey in the organization. “We’d like to have him as an equal partner,” Veeck said, “with equal authority.” Veeck said that he and Hank Greenberg, former general manager and major stockholder of the Cleveland Indians, would be the major operating officials of the White Sox, but that Comiskey could become a third member of the group on equal terms. To do so, however, Comiskey would have to sell part of his stock holding to Veeck and his associates. Veeck said he had talked to Comiskey “two or three times” and would meet him again to try to convince him he should join the new group.

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Marquette To Floy In NCAA Tourney MILWAUKEE (UPI) — Marquette University, with the challenge of “on a given night we can beat anybody in the country,” filled the first berth today in the NCAA Major College Basketball tournament. , The Warriors, with a 17-3 record under the first year coaching of 1 inspirational Eddie Hickey, acr cepted the NCAA bid after a meet- ’ ing of the Marquette Athletic ' Board Tuesday. Marquette had to 5 reject an offer to play in the Na- ’ tional Invitational tournament to j accept the NCAA offer. ' South Side Or Kokomo Rated 1 ' Tops In Area' INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The . Northeastern semi-state district in the Indiana high school basketball tourney harbors two of the finest i major-school pointmakers in the I state —Tom Bolyard of Fort Wayne , South and Jimmy Rayl of Kokomo, j One of them could crash through I to the state finals here March 21. South Side’s Archers went “all the : way” last year with a classy bunch J of which Bolyard is the only left- : over starter. He is also the most [ prolific scorer in Fort Wayne prep • history with a per-game average 1 of better than 29 points. “He was our unsung hero last ’ year,” said South coach Don Reichert. “Tom was definitely one of ' our mainstays but you didn’t hear > as much about him because of our I 7-foot boy Mike McCoy.” I. Both Bolyard and Rayl scored as ) many as 48 points in one game this r season and both should be a cinch ! for “All Star” honors. ! South vs Central Again? South is expected to have its secI tional tourney troubles next week just as last year when it survived ah overtime struggle against city foe Central. Since then, the two rivals have played two more overtime games, South Side coming out on top both times. Besides, two other Fort Wayne teams might turn the tables on the more routed contenders. The firstrouted winner will be favored in the regional. Kokomo, like South Side a member of the United Press Interna tional coaches’ board “Big 10”, shouldn’t be challenged seriously in eßher sectional or regional, but Elkhart and Mishawaka sectionals will be hotly-contested. Elkhart’s Blue Blazers will have to worry about Goshen and Concord, which hopes to gain the tourney with a perfect season record. Three South Bend Teams could win at Mishawaka, .jwith 1957 state champ South Bend Central slightly favored. The Bears’ hopes will rest on the broad shoulders of big Syb vester Coalmon, a star of the titlewinning team two years ago. Kokomo Year? At any rate, the Mishawaka victor and the first-round survivor from Elkhart will be co-favored in round No. 2, at Elkhart. The Marion regional district is fairly well open. Marion’s Giants will finish the regular season with a losing record, presumably 8-12 since they collide with Muncie Central Friday, but they may be strong enough to weather two rounds of tourney warfare. Another state champ from the Fort Wayne semi-district is a distinct possibility. Fort Wayne Central is weakened by the loss of Bill Boyd, who used up his eligibility when he turned 20. The tigers were champs in 1943. Kokomo has knocked on the gate three times and got to the championship game twice but is still looking for its first IHSAA trophy. Joe Platt has been grooming a champ for 9 long years—and this could be it.

Well-Balanced : Tourney Paths For Favorites } INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Most “big shots” in next week's Indiana high school basketball sec- ’ tional tourneys should hurdle their ! initial opponents without working 1 up a sweat. The IHSAA Board of Control, 1 which mapped out the tourney chart for the four-week grind, was kind today. For the most part, it will be a well-balanced tourney path. For instance, defending state champ Fort Wayne South and city foe Central, the Archers’ top rival, cannot meet until the sectional title game Saturday night. South won from Central in overtime in their last three meetings. •Q; Title Games Setup Sectional title game clashes also were possible for Jeffersonville , and New Albany at Jeffersonville, ( Anderson and Elwood at Madison j Heights, Southport and Indianapo- , lis Manual at Southport and Gerst- ’ meyer and Wiley at Terre Haute. Also, Shelbyville and Columbus are in opposite brackets at Columbus—ditto powerful East Chicago Washington and. Hanftnond at East Chicago. At Gary, Froebel has the easier road, while city quintets Roosevelt and Tolleston could clash in the ■ sectional semi-finals. South Bend ' Central and Adams could also tangle in the semis, at Mishawaka. Shortridge and Attacks at Indianapolis will probably knock ' heads Saturday afternoon, while Indianapolis Tech should gain the sectional finals without too much trouble. —j Os course, there will be a few hard knocks right off bat. Bedford and Shawswick, the only team to lick Springs Valley this season, collide at Bedford next Wednesday night. The same goes for Goshen and Concord, which hopes to reach the sectionals unbeaten, at Elkhart. Jasper and Huntingburg are lumped into the latter’s tourney lower bracket. Richmond meets once-beaten Fountain City headon in the Wayne County tourney. Berne Drawn First The 710 teams were paired off swiftly this morning in the IHSAA offices. Board of Control member Arley Winkelpleck of Freeland Park drew the first team—Berne in the Adams Central sectional. Fort Wayne South, No. 9 in the sttite, opens defense of its state title against Monroeville Wednesday night. The other 1958 tourney finalists fared this way: Crawfordsville - Waynetown Wednesday afternoon: top-ranking Muncie Central-Cowan Friday afternoon; Springs Valley-Otwell at Huntingburg Wednesday night. w To Open Disaster Field Office Soon A temporary disaster field office, to receive applications for loans to repair and rehabilitate real and property flood damage for residents of Adams, Allen and Huntington counties, will be opened by the small business administration Feb. 24. William H. Kelly, Chicago regional director of the SBA, said a representative of SBA can be reached every Tuesday until further notice at the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, 826 Ewing St., Fort Wayne. Under terms of SBA authority, loans may be granted to homeowners, renters, businessmen, corporations or partnerships which suffered flood damage. Farmers suffered damage should contact the farmers home administration. Disaster loans by SBA are to be repaid in monthly installments with interest at the rate of three per cent per annum. Final maturity is not to exceed 20 years. Futher information will be available by calling at the temporary field ofice in Fort Wayne between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays. Preliminary information and application forms may be obtained at the main offices of Fort Wayne banks. Bible contains 774,746 words. The King James Version of the *i!la 4f>H I■ • I l

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Junior High, Frosh Lose Double Header The New Haven junior high and freshman teams inflicted a pair of defeats on Decatur teams Tuesday evening at the Lincoln school gym. The Decatur junior high lost in the opener, 41-80. Decatur led at t the first quarter, 9-4, and at the ■ half, 14-10, but New Haven took the ' lead at 23-19 at the third period. Lippatt, of New Haven, topped all ! scorers with 17 points, and Gause led Decatur with eight. ’ A big fourth quarter carried the . New Haven freshmen to a 42-32 win in the nightcap. Decatur led r at the first quarter,' 5-4, at the half, 18-11, and at the third period, 21- > 20. Haver led the winners with 10 > points, and Marbach was high for Decatur with eight. I Decatur Jr. High i FG FT TP i Conrad 2 0 4 Magley 2 15 Gause 3 2 8 , Martin 2 2 6 , Beery 1 2 <4 Bixler 1. 0 0 0 Gay 10 2 Totals 11 7 29 New Haven L.... FG FT TP Lippatt 8 1 17 ' Cirele 10 2 Girardot 4 1 9 Murphy 2 2 6 Hazelet 2 1 5 Armstrong ... 10 2 Totals 18 5 41 Decatur Freshmen FG FT TP Ru. Kleinknight 0 6 6 Ro. Kleinknight 10 2 Marbach 3 2 8 Townsend 2 2 6 Walters 2 2 6 Frauhiger 1 2 4 * Totals .......Z... 9 14 32 New Haven FG FT TP Faust ... 10 2 ’ Heath 2 1 5 Grotrian 4 I*9 Fritche 3 2 8 Stoppenhagen j.. Oil Haver 5 0 10 Kummer 3 17 Totals 18 6 42 Pro Basketball Minneapolis 97, Detroit 90. Boston 95, Philadelphia 84. New York 112, St. Louis 93. High School Basketball Harlan 90, Bellefountain 76. Columbia City 68, Albion 54. Butler A3, Riverdale 67. Lancaster Central 56, Union 52. Indianapolis Attacks 8?, Indianapolis Wood 54. Terre Haute Wiley 80, Terre Haute State 42. New Albany 65. Jasper 62. Jeffersonville 74, Connersville 73 (overtime). Gary Froebel 82, Hamond Clark 60. ' Gary Wallace 52, Whiting 42. Hammond 74, Hammond Morton ; 44. Michigan City 87, South Bend 1 Riley 73. Shelbyville 53, Bloomington 48. Milan 56, Napoleon 34. Springs Valley 60, Dubois 50.

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Monmouth Junior High Wins Tuesday Monmouth junior high edged Hartford, 24-23, at the Monmouth gym Tuesday noon, after an overtime battle. Brown led the Monmouth scoring with 19 points and Habegger was Hartford’s top scorer with 10. Favor Home TV For Championship Fight NEW YORK (UPI) — The nation’s armchair fight fans may yet be treated to a “home telecast" of the upcoming heavyweight title bout between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. Promoter Bill Rosensohn and Patterson's manager, Cus D'Amato, revealed Tuesday that they now favor home TV “regardless where the bout is staged.” College Basketball Manchester. 86, Ball State 60. Indiana Tech 84, Concordia 67. Indiana State 77, Evansville 64. Anderson 63, Indiana Central 62. Benton Harbor 76. Tri-State 75. Lawrence Tech 68, Franklin 65. Marion 84, Hanover 68. Oakland City 74, Vincennes 64. Valparaiso 72, St. Joseph’s 70. DePaul 70, Louisville 63. Cincinnati 102, Miami (O.) 73. Duquesne 65, Dayton 57. Georgia Tech 59, Tennessee 49. Duke 85, Wake Forest 78. " Do H yourself! 11l < but LET US I help i) Ideas, short-cuts and materials for every Handy Andy! See us now for a complete choice of popular West Coast lumber, the quality material. » ARNOLD LUMBER CO., INC. “Yeur Complete Builders Supply Dept. Store” Winchester St. at Erie R. R. Open Saturdays till 5 P. M.

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