Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1959 — Page 7

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 19»

Decatur Commodores Defeated Wednesday Night By Arcola Aces

A spunky Decatur Catholic team lost to Arcola Wednesday night, 78-64, on a neutral New Haven floor, as the Aces poured the ball through the hoop at a .461 clip. Don Baker, Commodore high scoring” athlete, virtually assured himself the Adams county scoring crown as he eased 27 points through the nets. Game honors, however, went to smooth Bobby Bell of Arcola, with 32. Led by the jump-shooting Bell, the Aces waltzed to a ten point lead early in the first quarter, while the Commodores couldn’t buy a ticket. Then through the efforts of Baker and Glen Wilder, they put on a scoring spree that knotted the game on Baker’s drive-in, going ahead, 15-13, at 2:32 on Wilder’s two free tosses. The Aces, however, slipped back into We lead at the quarter’s end, 21-17. ' ’ : ■ • i The Commodores fell behind 12 points in the second period with :53 seconds to play in Ute half, buj managed to stay close as the half ended. 45-35; Hie Aces closed the half-time scoring with a -500 field goal average, 19-38, while the Commodores hit only 13 of 31. Arcola lost two of their better ball players on personals, but not before the damage had been deme. Pepperpot playmaker Bill Brumbaugh sat down with 3:18 to play in the’ third period — the score, 00-49. Tall Len Kurtz was lost at 2:47 of the final stanza, the count at 69-57. Kurtz played little of the second half, hampered by four fouls the first half, still he hit for 12 points. The Commodores threw a zone defense at the Aces to open the third period and confused them for a few W a . lso full-courted the jump-shooting Aces, confusing them a little fut fwhen the. smoke clear•fl a way,‘ Codh man's, ootott durtajhthe < .entire t>all tte I Jell 14 (joints HadkHSfSeU Jtwo. free ihn’Ws after the WJW *ms over. Efee throws cu ? tpargj|; 011 U" After -wwWflilOlWJBI! day. the CommoaoKgs .win against Monmouth in„tlje opening found of the tional. ” .' ’ ’ * _ Commodores y, < Hcler FGross jm - Baker- » ’I-'WEot’ Hh T. Gross 6! > 3 Lengerich — — ft- (k. 0 S. Omlor - 0 0 0 Lose 0 0 0 <£., - '-t • - 1 TOTALS' -.r-'i-- 23 ’’ IB 64 FG FT TP Bell ----- « 38 Abbel 5 2 12 iturtz 6 0 12 Brumbaugh 4 3 11 Shanks -L- z< 2 2 6 Henschel) 13 5 Benz 0 6 0 Lydy 0 T'T TOTALS - ■- 30 18 78 Officials: Hollman, Ijienelt. Pretfmtoary . t • Arcola, 45 - 42. P'C Basketball New York 118, Cincinnati 416. Minneapolis 105, Detroit 95. Hockey Results National League Chicago 4, New York 2. International League Indianapolis 10, Toledo 2. GOT A THINGS-TO DO LIST? I • »«•«*• i .ww**** I 1 • > 1 .Kitcb* | jdWOi . & St«W*** I O Vl I ARNOLD LUMBER A CO., INC. “Your Complete Builders Supply Dept. Store” Winchester St at Erie R. R.

- Duke Snider, 5 Jack Sanford s . . ' Fit For Season * By FRED DOWN 1 United Press International Duke Snider and Jack Sanford, e who never did get going in ‘SB, ' indicated today that everything’s, * going to be just fine in '59. * Spying training hasn't even of- * ficially opened byt both the Los l - Angeles Dodger outfielder and the k San Francisco Giant pitcher al*. 1,- ready have accomplished their No. 1 goalsgetting down to play2 ing weight. h Snider, who weighed 212 pounds !, at the end of the 1958 season, e suited up at the Dodgers’ Vero Beach, Fla., training camp e Wednesday at 195 pounds while Sanford checked into the Giants’ ►. Phoenix, Ariz., site at 191 pounds —2l less than when he reported r to the Philadelphia Phillies last i spring. . ” Snider is eager to bounce back 1_ from one of the poorest seasons of his career. One of the National ! > League's most feared sluggers I, from 1952 ; through 1957, Snider hit t only 15 homers and knocked in <t oilly 58 runs th' 106 games last r season. It was a sad “homecom--t ing' ’ for Shider, one of the few Dodgers who openly applauded a the team’s transfer from Brooke lyh' to Los Ange Ms. n “Sanford In Fine Shape” o g Sanford, acquired by the Giants * in a winter trade, is next to Wittie .. Mays probably the key man of £ j A.hArd-tarowfog. hander, befog' ebunted upon tost WHhiJ Salford * shape'' andjereditpfl eighlMpN of e minatal(baths and at ■ s teudkhonr ' hls y * idJ ’ WittF two -'ether African League t Sffitttle-butt in the base is tl« ? ’hUtfidiaer'Roier 'Maris is a kfir 44rare.,jBi.ttw..- t FerrW said tejlpH Carroll will discuss ’ ’toeir pabkage deal in Florida "(next —- -4 Ntfo'-Slgtr Hyde 4* - "The Washington Senators nabbed one of their top hands ' when relief ace Dick Hyde agreed P to & rms for an estimated $14.00, f an increase of about $6,000 over l 1958. Hyde, a 155-pound worfc- ! horse, compiled a 10-3 record and a 1.75 earned run average in 53 ; games last year. The Yamcees announced the gigftykjcr of pitcher Don Larsen and first-basemen Marv Throne- " berry and Frank Leja. Larsen, ' the perfect-game hero of the 1956 World Series, started like a whirlwind in 1958 but tapered off badly and wound up thfe season with a 9-6. record. He is believed to baye resisted a 20 per cent Cut and signed for the same $17,000 he got last. year. Ten of ttie, world chantpions remain unsigned. Pirates Sign Skinner Bob Skinner, who blossomed in to -a star- last season, agreed te terms with the Pittsburgh Pirates the Milwaukee Braves signed m fielder Mel Roach and outfielder - Andy Pafko, and the Baltimore “ Orioles signed outfielder Bob Nieman. Skinner hit .321 and drove in 70 runs last season to help spark the Pirates to their second-place finish. Roach, 26, is considered the mostly likely replacement for ailing second-baseman Red Schoendienst.' Pafko, 38, will be starting his 17th season in the big leagues. Nieman, 33, bW 325 and blasted out 16 homers last season. Other egmp news: Lindy McDaniel, the St. Louis Cardinals’ $50,00 bonus pitcher, suffered appendicitis attack in Meridian, Miss., whete an emergency operation was performed. . . Infielder Ossie Alvarez signed with the Tigers . . . Giants’ President Horace Stoneham announced that Manager Bill Rigney, injured in an auto crash on Sunday, will check in’ at Phoenix, on Monday . Dodger Manager Walt Alston announced stepped-up schedule of spring workouts in accordance with club President Walter O’Malley's “get-tough - policy” • • • • Smokey Burgess, catcher obtained from Cincinnati, signed with Pi- ■ rates.

Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams 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. Today's Sport Parade (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) — Extra heart and extra hustle can make the liffle man a success in professional as well as college basketball, “Easy Ed” MacAuley of the St. Louis Hawks insisted today in a studied sneer at statistics. The facts, of course, would seem to belie the statement. Because MacAuley’s" own Slater Martin, a “midget” of „5 feet. 10 inches, is the wily 'man under 6 feet currently playing in the National Basketball Association. “Even so,” MacAuley argues, “a man can be 4- feet tall and make the grade if he can do the things he’s supposed to do.” In basketball, this would seem as improbable as Frank Sinatra taking a course at Slenderella or Willie Shoemaker playing Tarzan in the movies. But MacAuley from the top of, his 6 feet, 8 inches, thinks that the smaller fellows accept defeat too easily. Attitude Most Important “Sure, the little guys need more >ptiysfc#l gbitttyri M iwell as, added desire and dedication,” he says. “The most imfxjrtant thing, however, is attitude. If the little man has, the right one, it has more effect than all the physical endbwnients in the world.” IT this is so, yew might begin to wonder if Eddie Arcar could be the heavyweight champion of the world or whether Bill Veeck’s midget might not have wound up a better chnteffieftfir i than Joe DiMaggio, MacAuley takes a firm stand fdr thfe' Tittle ’ Loe* at Ben Hogan,” he points out. "He could have been told that hh was too little and too skinny to hit a golf ball, with the bruisers. But he had the determination and will to win. Look at Don Hennon of Pittsburgh. A lot of people told him he was too small for college basketball at 5 feet, 8 inches. But you’ll notice he’ll get a lot of AllAiherica votes.” v Height Level Up MacAuley, on the other hand, I admits that the basketball height level goes up and up each year and the big boys have to become ever more proficient. “Bob Pettit is 6 feet, 9 inches and he used to be worked exclusively.. to the pivot,” the coach of the St. Louis Hawks aid. “Feltows that tail once were referred to as ‘goons’ and nobody thought they,could move. But he can, all right.” Pettit, the spearhead of MacAuley’s team and the man who has been rewriting all the pro scoring records the last two years, is regarded by Easy Ed as “the greatest forward who ever played basketball.”

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Indianapolis Semi-Slate Is Explosive Area By KURT FREUDENTHAL United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —The Indianapolis semi-state area to the Indiana high school basketball tourney is perennially explosive—and this year is no exception. Among toe red-hot contenders for a state finals berth are Muncie Central, Madison and toe Indianapolis sectional winner— that could be Attucks, Shortridge or Tech, all city quintets. Muncie, most of toe season toe state’s No. 1 outfit and beater, only at Kokomo by two points, is the class in its sectional-regional district New Castle could pose a problem in the regional, but Muncie licked the eighth - rated Trojans on their own floor three weeks ago by 12 points. Muncie After sth Muncie hopes to finally land that fifth state title—a recordafter missing by only two games last year and tty just one in 1954 when Milan came through with that memorable 32-30 upset to toe title clash. Like Muncie, Madison has tost only once this season. The Cubs rank fourth in the state, have one of foe finest one-two scoring combination In Buster Briley and Larry Shingleton and must travel ; ’the Scottsburg-Columbus sectionalregional route before reaching foe Indianapolis semis. On paper, at least, the Columbus regional, should be easier for Madison than toe sectional at Scottsburg, ufoere the host Warriors could make things uncomfortable. . Rushville or Conhiersvflle should get the nod from the Connersville regional district. Rushville won from Connersville by 17 points early in the season, but the Spartans upended Attacks and New Castle recently and could be razor sharp for the tourney. Thriller In Capital Despite toe fact that severtl Indianapolis teams have been shifted to neighboring Southport, toe Capital City sectional affair should be a thriller. Shortridge beat Attucks twice this season, but the Tigers nearly derailed high-flying East Chicago Washington on the road last Saturday to their best game. Attucks, on toe i other hand, tripped Tech twice and the latter upset Kokomo last Friday. 71-64. Shortridge has lost only twice, Attucks five times, but most ob-‘ servers believe it’ll take some doing to beat Attucks in the sectional, which the Tigers grabbed the last six years. It should be Southport- or Indianapolis Manual in Southport’s brand - new sectional. Oddly enough, the two rivals clash Fri- ■ day night at Southport in their re-gular-season finale, but don’t be surprised if both play “under wraps.” Manual and Shortridge split _eyen_during foe season, so the Redskins cannot be ignored if they survive the Southport shoot. Net Player Stricken At Independent Game MONTICELLO, Ind. (U PD— Howard Eugene Stangle, 32, son of the DeMottee school principal, died an ambulance enroute to a ‘ hospital here Monday night shortly after he was stricken with a heart attack following his participation ’ with an independent basketball team in a game at the Buffalo high school gymnasium.

Berry And Relzlaff Share Top Honors PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - Ray Ben-yof the champion Baltimore ' Colts and Palmer (Pete) Retzlaff of the Philadelphia Eagles, the “seldom miss" guys among National Football League pass receivers, shared top honors to the department to 1958, official statistics showed today. Berry and Retzlaff each caught 56 passes—the Colt end for 794 yards and nine touchdowns and Retzlaff for 766 yards and two touchdowns — to finish ahead of third place Del Shofner of the Los Angeles Rams. But Shofner, who caught 51, rolled up . the season high mark for aerial yardage with 1,097, and scored eight touchdowns, just one tees toan Berry and Tommy McDonald of Philadelphia,.? wh o shared the scoring honors with nine each. Lenny Moore of Baltimore was fourth with 50 receptions and seven touchdowns, followed by Clyde Conner of San Francisco with 49. The top 10 was rounded out by Woodley Lewis of toe Chicago Cardinals (46); Billy Wilson of San Francisco (43); R. C. Owens of San Francisco (40); Max McGee of Green Bay (37) and Billy Howton of Green Bay and Gern Nagler of the Chicago Cardinals (36 each). Berry finished second in the . standings in 1957, and Retzlaff ’ was 10th. Wilsoh. toe champion I to both 1956 and 1957, ran his NFL career log to 360 receptions, 5,311 • yards gained and 44 touchdowns , in finishing seventh in 1958. Conner, who finished fifth, was 15th . last year. Jim Ort-, Pittsburgh rookie, av- ; eraged 27.6 yards for each of his ’ 33 passes, foe high average mark . for the seasqn. ; The season was well sprinkled with long touchdown passes, with . the longest of the year a 93-yard [ scoring reception by Jim Phillips ! of Los Angeles. ; . Schofner romped for 92 yards r with a scoring pass and Tommy . McDonald caught one for 91 yards while McGee had an 80=yarder. Willie Galimore of the Bears . grabbed scored on a 79-yard pass . Say, Orr had a 78-yard score and Jon Arnett of Los Angeles a 75jrander. TV Crime Blasted CHICAGO — (UPI) — A minister sgys “grime, crime and slime” in television programs are contributing to juvenile delinquency. The Rev. Allen R. Blegen, di rtetor of the Lutheran Broaddftsting Association, told a Ki- '' wanis Club meeting that “the minds of a good many TV producers are desperately sterile in thinking that nothing appeals to youth expect sex and bloodshed.” It’s time producers responsible for such programs “ were let out to pasture,” he said. “Theer is a crying need for new, creative thinking in television.” Emergency Service WINDSOR, Conn, r- (UPI)’ - The Red Book of emergency tele-’ phone numbers distributed to homes and businesses here caused a raft of trouble. Next to the fire department listing was the police department number. Those calling the police number got ambulance service.

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North Carolina Tarheels Beat N.C. State By TIM MORIARTY United Press International North Carolin’s top-ranked Tar Heels have hurled their last major obstacle on the way to an unbeaten season in the tough Atlantic Coast Conference but they still have a 'long row to hoe before they can take another crack at the NCAA championship. Frank McGuire's sharpshooters turned back arch-rival North Carolina State, 74-67, on their home court Wednesday night and can clinch a tie for first place in the ACC by defeating Marhland Saturday. However, unlike most conferences, winners ; of the Atlantic Coast title do not qualify automatically for the NCAA shindig The first eight finishers meet in a post-season tournament, which was described by McGuire earlier this week as “a kinda Russian roulette.” Tough Grind “You knock yourself out in conference play all season and then you have to start all over again in the tournament,” moaned the New York-born Tar Heel coach. “Then if you-’re lucky enough to win the tournament, your guys are physically exhausted for the NCAA championship.” Despite McGuire’s seemingly legitimate grousing, he apparently has the horses to go all the way again this year. Two seasons ago, the Tar Heels went unbeaten in 24 regular season games, breezed through the conference tournament, and then won the NCAA title with a thrilling tripleovertime victory over Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain. . Almost Dissipate Lead This latest Tar Heel club has lost only to Michigan State in 18 games and seems to 'be picking up momentum with each succeeding contest. In Wednesday night’s battle with N.C. State, the McGuire men almost dissipated a 13poMKt second half lead and then caSb on figain to beat the' Wolfpack for "the second time this season. The Tar Heels led by 45-32 ear-, ly in the second half bat State then rallied and trailed } by wily 66-64 witti-1:42 left in the However, baskets br’Lee Shafter and Doug Moe, plus four free throws by York Larese, sunk the Wolfpack. ■ ‘ .Kentucky and West Virginia, two other leading NCAA hopenils, # tuwjgd back Wednesday night. The thirdranked Wildcats avenged an earlier defeat in whipping VfifMetbilt, 83-71, and West Virginia broke loose ifi the second half to defeat Pittsburgh, 90-69. Kentucky Catches Fire Vanderbilt, hitting on 46.3 ’per cent of its shots, trailed Kentucky by* only two points with 11 minutes remaining. But the Wildcats, ted by Johnny Cox and reserve Bobby Slusher, then caught fire and opened a commanding lead. Cox wound up with 21 points, three more than Slusher,Jerrv West scored 27 points and grabbed 22 rebounds in - leading West Virginia to victory at Pittsburgh. Don Hennon netted 25 "for the Panthers, who tired badly in the second half after trailing by only 35-34 at intermission.

Sonny Liston Wins Over Mike DeJohn r MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPD— Heavyweight contender Sonny Liston, with 16 straight victories under his belt, apologized today for uppercutting Mile DeJohn while he was “down,” and yelled, for a fight with a higher ranking contender. “I want Eddie Machen, Zora Folley or Nino Valdes for my next fight,” declared Liston of Philadelphia, who floored De John of Syracuse, N. Y_., twice Wednesday night with solar-plexus punches for a technical knockout in the sixth round of their TV fight After Referee Jimmy Peerless had stopped the bout at 2:43 of the sixth session before 3,858 at the Miami Beach Exhibition Hall, the fight was almost resumed in DeJohn’s corner. When the victorious Philadelphian danced across the ring to shake hands with vanquished Mike, DeJohn refused to shake •nd angrily accused Sonny of uppercutting him when down on one knee the second time. Mike called Liston a name. Liston swung at him and missed. Their handlers separated them. Listo, weighing 209 Vi pounds and' standing 6-feet-l, admitted later, “Yes, I uppercutted him all right; but I didn’t know he had a knee on the floor. I thought he was just squattin’ like he did a couple times earlier. I'm sorry about it but he’s so tall, .1 didn't realize he had a knee down.” Sonny was favored at 12-5. Assistance Rendered NOWATA, Okla. — (UPD —Bill Osborn, Nowata’s assistant fire chief: says a woman drove up to the firehouse one day and pleaded for help. So Osborn swatted the wasp that was buzzing around in her car.

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Three Adams County Officials Assigned Thred Adams county officials recevied assignments to referee tn sectional tourneys in Indiana next week, Gerald Strickler and Floyd Reed, of Decatur, were both assigned to the Churubusco-Auburn two-site sectional. David Habegger will work in the Richmond tourney. Jerry Steiner, of Indianapolis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Steiner, of this city, was assigned to the Kokomo meet. Charles Northern, of Winchester, and Robert Showalter, of Muncie, will officiate the Adams Central meet. Working with Strickler and Reed at Churu-busco-Auburn will be Hans Dienelt and Robert Cowan. Bluffton officials will be William Goshert, Wayne Crispen and M. N. Delph. Officials at Fort Wayne will be Thomas Dean, Marion Acton, William Findling and Gene Butts. High School Basket bo 11 Lafayette Central 80, Huntington Twp. 68. Lafontaine 49, Huntington Catholic 42. Indianapolis Shortridge 54, Southport 42. East Chicago Washington TO, Gary Emerson 49. Gary Tplleston 51, Hammond Noll 50 (overtime). Terre Haute Gertsmeyer 74, Terre Haute Garfield 44. Brazil 70, Glenn 61. College Basketball Evansville 78, DePauw 57. Loyola (Ill.) 81, Washington (St Louis 69. , . Navy 72, Georgetown 47. Army 93, Williams 77. West Virginia 90, Pittsburg 69. Villanpva 67, Buffalo 54. Kentucky 83, Vanderbilt 71. Virginia 62, Maryland 50. North Carolina 74, North Carolina State 67. Georgia 65. South Carolina 57.