Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1960 — Page 6

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I.U. Chances Are Shattered By Ohio State CHICAGO 'UP!'—Ohio Stotr'* Buckeye*. who now reign a* rote tith> favorite, get a chance tonight to also claim thr undisputed teat ur lead in the Big Ten batkrtba” raea The Buck, can make the move white piaying Delaware in a nonconference afatr. At the same tima. Michigan State and Purdue who now share the tend with Ohio State, must k»e to lowa and Illinois respectively. Thr Spartan, abd the Hawkeyes tangle at lowa City and the Bottermaker* are bust to Illinois, tn two of fokr league gaf”**Bpekeyee Trim Indiana In the others. Indiana meets Michigan at Ann Arbor and Northwestern la at Wisconsin Ohio State shattered Indiana s chance, Saturday night when Larry Stepded scored his only basket of the game with five seconds to, play tar a victory. It WO* the third straight loss for the Hoosier,, once cofavorttcs I with the Buckeye,, and put them, in g teat place berth with winless | Wisconsin. Purdue and Michigan State kept pace The Spartans ran wild over Michigan. »-58. and the Boilermaker*. who started the Hoosiers I into their current tailspin, also scored their second Big Ten win. 9MO over Wisconsin. • Last Time Tonight - 3 STOOGES “HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL” A "BANDIT OF ZHOBIE" Victor Mature—tn Color -0 Fri. A Sat — "5 Gatea to Hell” A ‘Here Come the Jet,.” -0i Comtat Sun.-JAMES STEWART “F. B. I- STORY” — in Color

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Tearns Thursday County tourney al Adam, Cen trai IMday County tourney at Ada ma CmI trai Auburn at Yellow Jackets. ‘I County tourney r* Adams Con trai. lowa Take* lourth lowa moved into fourth place. | beating Northwestern. 73-Sd. and | llinois. a kwr to Ohio State in it, first time out. bounced into a ' MB statu, by whipping Minnesota j*>R2 l | Siegfried. Ohio State’, second; beat marksman after sophomore I Jerry Luca,, got only five point,, including three free throw,. , against the Hosiers. Luca, was, hrld U> a relatively small total ot ;» point*, but Mel Nowell, another ' sophomore took up the slack, sink- , mg 26 for team honors The Spartans, minus a pair of academically ineligible first string- i ( ern. got their top scoring pcr|formance from Horace Walker 1 who canned.i 4 . i-a 1 The Hawkayeg. offense was led Ibv Don Nelson, a sophomore, who I cotteeted Z1 pointer WiUie Jone■> kccounted for 26 for the losing! i Terry* Dischingen Purdue’s 6 feet 1 inch sophomore center.' I bagged 30 poirtts in his team s ( | romp over the Badgers. High School Basketball fort Wavne Central Catholic SO. Fort Wayne Concordia 55 1 Mishawaka 43. Fort Wayne South Fort Wayne North 69. South Bend Riley 64 (overtime). . - I Fort Wayne Central 69. Elkhart 53 Huntington 61. New Haven 53. Leo dfl. Garrett 42. Huntertown 71. Harlan 55. Angola 62. Waterloo 62. _ ■ Indianapolis Broad Ripple 68, Rich-, mond 50. ,' Shelbyville 79. South Bend Central 70 Muncie Burris 65, Monticello 42. Elwood 64. Mississinewa 63. Pennville 64. Dunkirk 61. | Muncie Central 78. Terre Haut. Wilev 38. LaPorte 66. Valparaiso 59. Frankfort 67. Lebanon 60. South Bend Adams 64. Penn 46 Michigan City 67, Terre Haute' Garfield 60.

Berne Scores 5039 Victory Over Auburn Berne’* Rear* tuned UP for the| cuunty tourney Saturday night by defeating the Auburn Red Devils. | 10-39 nt the Auburn gym It wa»j Herne's seventh victory a, against I .mlv three Imsoa. j The Bears ware out In front at i •.jUp main intermission. 24-17. and I increased their final margin of , victory to 11 point* at the Dnal, ' M Rod Schwartz was Berne’, j leading scorer with 16 point,, i trailed closely by Phil Sprungcr] with 13. Three Auburn playora.l long. McKinley and Cochard, j , each counted nine pointe The Bears will meet the Monmouth Eagles in thr second game, of the county tourney Thursday night. Bento FG FT TP Smith 2 2 « Sprungcr - - J Schwartz — ® 0 | i H ‘ u 2 r ? Von Gunten 1 Graber 1 J ! ' I Blum 108 I TOTALS 22 6 W Auburn FG FT TP' I King «- 8 2 ® j i Martin 1 0 8 i Long 3 3 8 i j McKinley 4 1 9 . | Bruce P 3 * j Seagraves ........... 0 1 , Cochard — -— 3 3 9 I Gaskill 1 0 8 i - - TOTALS U 11 39 Officials: Strickler. Butz. Preliminary Auburn 42 - 41. Spartans Beat Ohio City For Second Victory The Pleasant Mills Spartans registred their second victory of, the season Saturday night, whipping Ohio City, 0.. 66-49 at the I Pleasant Mills gym. The triumph snapped a six-game ; losing streak and enabled the Spartans to move out of the celler I in the county standings with a 2-12 ! record for the season. [ Pleasant Mills was out in front at all resting points, 12-5. 32-22 and 42-33 Dwight Brunner topped the Spartans with 20 points, Jack Butler added 17 and Mel Ohler 14. Krugh was high for Ohio City with 16 markers. • The Spartans will meet the Decatur Commodores in the opener of the Adams county tourney Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Adams Central gym. Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Brunner — 8 4 20 Ohler ... 4 6 14 Jackson 10 2 Death 2 1 5 Butler —- —7 3 17 Snyder .... 0 2 2 Smith 3 0 6 McGill 0 0 0 King 0 0 0 TOTALS 25 16 66 Ohio City FG FT TP Krugh 8 0 _l6 Gribler 2 2 6 Pritchard 2 4 8 McHugh —— 0 0 0 D. Blossom ...... 0 0 0 J. Blossom ..... 2 3 7 Agler 12 4 Bixler 3 2 8 TOTALS -18 13 49 Officials: Reed, Hobart ” Preliminary Ohio City, 46-22. ‘ -4 South Bend Man Is Dead Os Suffocation SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD— Latcher Todd, 57, South Bend, suffocated Saturday in a fruit cellar beneath his home. Authorities said he apparently died of asphyxiation when he lost his way in dense smoke while seeking the source of a fire which 4amiaged his home.

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MigmwL Team MoMteta W L P«t Geneva 8 1 Adam, Central .... 9 3 730 Bern*- 7 3 700 Hartford 6 3 545 Commodore, 4 7 8M Yellow Jacket, 3 8 273 i Pleasant Mill, t 1> 143 Monmouth ......... 1 • -100 —oOo— The aecmte meat tmnertaot batkrlbaU week es the ,eaaew romo up lM< week |i the annual Adams ceoaty tearney open, Thursday night at the Adam, Central gym. —oOo— The tourney open, at 7 pm jlhurMlay. with the Pleasant Mill, '! Spartans meeting the Decatur Commodore,. At 8:15 p.m. ’Diur,iday. the Berne Bears meet the I Monmouth Eagles Friday nt 7 * p m., the county second team i championship battle will be con- ■ tested, followed by the Geneva j Cardinals against the Adam, Central Greyhounds The first semii final Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock. will match the winners of the Thursday night games. The second semi-final at 2 15 p.m. will send the defending champion Hartford Gorillas, who drew the first round bye, against the winner of the Geneva-Adams Central aame. i ry>e rhamoionship game will be staged at B:lsjpmr_Saturday. First round games tn the second team tourney will be played this evening at the Berne gym. Adams I central meets the Commodores at 5:45 p.m.. Pleasant Mills plays Berne at 6:45. and Hartford tangles with Geneva at 7:45. Semifinals will be played at Berne TuesIday night, with the first game at '6:45 p.m. matching the winners of tonight's first two games, ahd at 8 p.m., Monmouth, which drew the first round bye. will play the Hartford - Geneva winner. The championship tilt will be held at 7 p.m. at Adams Central. , I Season tickets for the county tourney are now on sale at all participating schools, priced at $2 each for the four-session event. .Single session tickets, priced at 75 cents, will be on sales only at the Adams Central gj m prior *o each session. Admission to the second team tourney games at Berne tonight and Tuesday will be 25 cents tier session. - —oOo— Trophies will be presented to the championship teams of both tour-, neys by the Decatur Daily Democrat. This office will also present the junior high championship trophy to the winner of that tourney, which will be held the week following the sectional. The Limberlost bell, now held by Adams Central, will also go to the tourney champion. The Decatur Yellow Jacket, will entertain the Auburn Red Devils at the Decatur gym Friday night. It will be a battle to move out of the Northeastern Indiana conference cellar, as Auburn has lost all three of its loop games, and the Jackets have dropped their first four NEIC tilts. The Jackets’ game with Huntington, originally scheduled last spring for Saturday night, has been changed to Saturday. Jan. 30, at the Decatur gym. „ ——oOo- - - The NEIC rac£ was really scrambled last week, as the Concordia Cadets were upset by Kendallville for the Cadets’ first loss of the season in the conference. Id addition to Auburn at Decatur Friday. Garrett will play at Angola and Bluffton at Kendallville. NEIC Standings W JL PCtConcordia 4 | “J Garrett ' 1 Angola 3 2 .600 New Haven - 3 i Bluffton —- 2 2 -500 Columbia City -— 2 2 .500 Elmhurst 11 'ZS Aulgurn ... J ’ «» Decatur —oOo— The race for the county scoring leadership is waxing hot. Larry Foreman, of Adams Central, Is oo top by a scant two

St. Joseph Winner In CYO Loop Game I, t h St Joseph of t>*utur romgtedl over Bt >An thu BapU*t. 44 30 . L u» a CYO grade league game ®un : I day .herm.wt al th* | Catholic high »ebonl gym in F**’. Wayfta. Tls* victory kept •**! Pirate* undefeated through HP game* Ocatur *»» out la front at all aUiMang point*. 111. IM. and 31 > 1 11 13. Kohn* l*ji th* Ptrate* with i H point*, toitowed by Gaau with j; i |0 Lauee wai high for St John 11 with Sevan marker*. M. Jaarph I FG FT TP !h- —- : : ' i Kohne ’ ! a I Peterson ’ Omtor > * ! Case — 4 3 10 Harshman .... I ® X)ta » 2* 1 I Blvto* — « ® J ! JackMn y -- « ® ? M£ra — 0 ® ® Reynold* ® ® ® • TOTALS It 6 44 84. J*kn FG FT TP Vail — 0 ® • Cavacinl 1 ? , Kelleher 0 ? 2 Carr 1 » > Sovo ® ® ® Caughlin 0 0 Pio — 0 0 ® Jacob* 1 0 2 Pabst ...—.-r- 0 « 0 Brown 0,0 0 Keefer 0 0 0 Teagarden 1 J. Lauer .........---- 0 0 0 TOTALS 6 8 20 I ■ ■■>■»' ' —— ■ ■ point* ever Don Baker, of the Decatur Commodore*. However. Dayto Long, of Geneva, has the top average per game with a 1» 5 mark and ha* 175 pointe, despite sitting out the Mon month game Friday because of a knee injury suffered at Adams Central last Tuesday. Foreman has 213 points in 12 games, while Baker, playing one leas game, has 21# pointe. The top 10 scorers, with total games played, total points and average points per game, follow: GP TP Ave. Foreman, Adams Cn. 12 212 17.7 Baker, Commodores . 11 210 19.1 Brunner, Pleas. Mills 14 207 14.8 Long, Geneva ....... 9 175 19.5 Butler, Pleasant Mills 14 163 11.6 Sprunger. Berne .— 10 159 15.9 Bollenbacher, Y. J. 11 156 14.2 Bultemeier. Monmo. 10 147 16.2 -Hoover, Hartford — 9 146 16.2 Moser. Hartford .... 11 146 13.3 Results one year ago this week: Huntington 7<, Yellow Jackets 60. Auburn 56. Yellow Jackets 47. First Team Tourney Hartford 48, Commodores 46 (overtime). Berne 56. Monmouth 37. Adorns Central 34,. Geneva 33. Hartford 45. Berne 41. Adams Central 76, Pleasant Mills 43. Hartford 53, Adams Central 45 (Anal). Secund Team Tourney Geneva 28, Berne 21. Adams Central 48, pleasant Mills 35. Commodores 26, Monmouth 23. Geneva 26, Adams Central 24. Hartford 27, Commodores 25 (overtime). Geneva 38, Hartford 16 (final). WHATS WRONG?

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Tourney Tickets On Salt Tuesday Night The Rev Robert Jsegrr athletic director of th* Decatur Catholic high eebooi. gfwuuiwnad today that K>K* ticket* tor th* Adam* county tourney will ba placed rwi sale at the *chm»l'« athletic office al T o'clock Tuaeday *vsuing. Th* sale will ba conducted on a Jirrt come, first.aervad basis. The ticket*, good for th* tour tourney «es*taas. are priced at W Single session ticket*, on *ai* only at lh*| Adams Central gym. will be priced! at 75 cent* Th* Commodores mret th* Pleasant Mills Spartans In the! [ opening tourney game at 7p m [Thursday Results Are Listed In Lutheran League In Lutheran grade league games | played at the Monmouth gym. Im- ■ maneul of Union township edged i Emmanuel of Soest. 23-19. and Flatrock defeated Preble. 29-11. Immaauel (talon) FG FT TP Bird > • ® Grote I— ® ® ® .< Krueckeberg 10 2 E. Bieni ----- 8 1 C. Bischoff 4 0 8 Weiland i ® ? Thieme ----- • ®• ® T. Krueckeberg ..... 0 0 TOTALS ......... 11 1 » Emmanuel (Sweat) FG FT TP R Bcarman 113 J LePP*' r ® J 2 A. Beaman 1 0 ? D. Dressier - 2 2 M Lepper 0 ® ® R. Saalfrank 2 0 4 TOTALS 8 3 19 Flatreek FG FT TP Ophart J J J Baker 1 0 ‘ Mclntosh - 8 1 17 D. Reynolds 2 1 5 Springer ® 0 ® K. Reynolds 10 2 Hoile - 0 0 ® Bullerman 0 0 0 Hockemeyer ------- 0 0 0 Tyler -—- 000 TOTALS 13 3 299 Preble FG FT TP Schullenberg 10 2 Jeffret 2 0 4 Erxleben 0 Weber 0 0 ® D. Reinking 10 2 Schuller 0 0 0 Fucks 0 0 0 Bieberich - ® 0 0 Bleeke —- 10 2 R. Reinking — 0 0 0 TOTALS 5 1 11 * ■■ ■ -.'r: a Big Ten Standings " ‘ W L Pct. Pts. Op. Ohio State .. 2 0 1.000 193 168 Mich. State.. 2 0 1.000 180 138 Purdue ... 2 0 1.000 178 145 lowa - 2 1 .667 205 193 Minnesota 11 -500 152 151 Northwestern 11 .500 120 130 Illinois 11 .500 163 179 Michigan 0 1 .000 58 89 Indiana .. 0 3 .000 228 236 Wisconsin 0 3 .000 212 261

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