Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1960 — Page 7

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Pete Rozelle Commissioner Os Pro League MIAMI BEACH Fte (UPl>— Prtc Rozelle. a 33-y ear-old Californian who waa a protege of the late Bert Bell, took over the office of National Football League cornrniMloner today to help put over George Hal**' expansion program. Roselle, youngext commissioner in the 40-year history of the league, was elected Tuesday night as the surprise compromise choice of the hitherto sharplydivided owners. Rozelle was given a three-year contract at 150.000 annually. The handsome, slender Rozelle., who was Installed by Bell as general manager of the Loe Angeles Rams tn 1957 to straighten out a bitter stockholders' feud that had been brought to court, finally was elected on the 23rd ballot cast by the owners. Ta Talk Expansion Having disposed of one of the big problems which took them seven days to solve, the owners convene today with expansion the first order of business. Halas, who said he bad the sup-| port of 10 other owners, made: commitments several weeks ago for the NFL to admit Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul next season. George Preston Marshall, stormy owner of the Washington Redskins. said be would oppose the move. Rozelle made it plain he was on the side of expansion. "I share the viewpoint of all 12 NFL owners that expansion is essential." he said. “There may be a difference of opinion on the matter and the timing of expansion. Cites Interest In Game “But the popularity of the game and the medium of television have promoted tremendous interest in pro football.’’ he added. “This Is the top spectator sport in the country. Other cities want franchises. The game must obviously expand.” Rozelle said he would set up the league office at Bala Cynwyd, Pa„ the Philadelphia suburb from where Bell operated. The new commissioner said he planned eventualy to transfer the office to New York. Christened “Avin Ray at South Gate. Calif.. Rozelle is married and the father of a 16-month-old daughter. He is a Navy veteran who attended Compton Junior College and the University of San Francisco. He played basketball and tennis but never participated in organized football. Re-Elect Gunsel Immediately after electing Rozelle, the owners unanimously reelected Austin Gunsel. the popular 50-year-old former FBI man, as league treasurer. Gunsel, whom four Eastern owners had supported for the commissionership, rec e i ved a $5,000 salary increase to sls,wu and a SIO,OOO bonus for filling the commissioner’s office since Bell s death last Oct. 11. “We feel that we have a man who wiU suit both parties.’ said President Carroll Rosenbloom of Baltimore, who had backed Gunsel but nominated Rozelle at Tuesday night’s meeting. Bert Bell brought Pete into the league. He’s a fine young man.”

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Willie Mays Signed j To $85,000 Salary SAN FRANCISCO 'UP!' —Maybe Jackie Jensen t* finished With baseball but Willie Mays tai stickling around The San Francisco Giants i oigned their legendary center fielder to a one year contract TVeaday calling tor approximately BM.OOU which made him the highest paid I ballplayer la existence The club did not disclose the terms but President Horsce I Stoneham said that estimators who talked In terms of eighty-five I grand "would ba around the right figure." This amounted to a $5,000 boost over last season when Mays apI peered in 151 games, batted 919 smashed 24 home runs tor an alltime club record and stole 27 bases to lead the National League for the fourth straight year. Mays pledged at Tuesdays ceremonies that he would hustle as usual to try and help the Giants win the pennant after the team's late season collapse in 1959. “We missed out because a lot of the buys got tired, including] myself." Mays said. "We lost! some games at third base after | Jim Davenport was injured. We j might have eased in if he hadn’t been hurt.” Pro Basketball Detroit 121, Syracuse 114. New York 123. St. Louis 119. Bowling Scores Classic League Final First Half W L Pts. Budget Loan Co. — 38*4 15*4 53*4 Leland Smith Ins. . 34*4 19V4 47t4 West End Restaur. 30’4 23*4 39>4 Don’s Texaco Serv. 28 26 37 Decatur Farms 28 26 37 Peterson Grain Co. 27 27 37 Ortho Shoe Clinic -- 26 28 34 Acker Cement 24 30 32 Kelly Dry Cleaners 22 32 28 Gerber’s Super Mar. 124* 4144 1544 High series: Snook Marbach 609 (183-223-203); Jim Parent 600 (175-190-235). " High games: D. Reidenbach 214, L. Reef 222. B Custer 206. G. Baumgartner 201, A. Foltz 216, R. Werling 212, L. Hoffman 223. J. Harkless 227, C. Mies 211, C. Knittie 201. R. Lord 214-201, W. Petrie 204. Women's Major League W L Pts. West End 5 17 Hoagland Lumber ---- 4 2 5 Two Brothers 3 3 Adams Trailer — 3 3 4 Three Kings 3 3 4 Shaffer’s Restaurant . 3 3 4 Mirror Inn 3 3 4 Ideal Dairy - 2 4 3 Gene’s Mobil ......-----2 4 3 Smith’s Pure Milk .... 2 4 2 High series—M. Ladd 513, F. Rowdon 507. S. Schnepp 503. High games: F. Rowdon 191, B. Reynolds 187, M. Mies 183, M. Ladd 183. S. Schnepp 182-175, L. Cali 181, V. Gallmeyer 178, P. Clark 176, L. Nelson 176, A. Gage 175, M. Kleinhenz 173, H. McClure 170. V. Smith 170. Splits converted: A. Gage 5-10, J. Reidenbach 5-10, S. Schnepp 310.

West Virginia Back In Action Against Pitt By I'aited Proa* International Woat Virginia. Ute nation* third-ranked college baxketball i team, return* to artton after an 11-day "receea" tor mid-term exi amination* by visiting Ptttaburgta tonight on Ute flrat teg of a thrccgamc road trip. It will be the Mountaineer»’ : first outing since Jan. II when I they knocked oft previously-un-beaten Villanova. 89-81. on their home hardwood West Virginia, which ha* teat only to California in II games thus far this season, should enjoy easy plckin s against Pitt. The Panthers have won only six of 14 starts. Seventh-ranked Villanova (19-1* and eighth-ranked Utah <l4-1* also will sec action tonight The Wildcats. who bounced back from their West Virginia debacle with victories over Seton Hall and Penn, visit Army <9-3) while Utah entertains Loyola of California (9-4). Kentucky, upended by Georgia Tech Monday night for the second time this season, hopes to bounce back against Georgia. Furman visits South Carolina. Virginia Tech is at Dayton, and Wisconsin entertains North Dakota in other major games. A last second basket by Larry Pennington carried Alabama to a 54-52 victory over touring Oklahoma City University in the best game on Tuesday night s slim schedule. It was the Crimson Tide’s first victory in their last 12 outings. Jim Mudd, one of the nation s top scorers, tallied 31 points in helping North Texas State to a 95-88 overtime triumph over McMurry. Hofstra rolled to an 82-62 victory over Williams, and Jerry Verwey’s 21 points helped Loyola (III.) down Washington <Mo.), 74-69.

| Today's Sport Parade | (Reg. U.S. Pat. _ Off. ) By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International NEW YORK <UPD — Forty 1 years ago this spring, when Babe Ruth was in his first year with the Yankees, he beckoned imperiously to the bat boy. “Here,” he said, handing the 14-year-old some money, “I ate too many hot dogs. Run out and get me the biggest box of bicarbonate you can find.” The Babe helped the youngster on his way with a friendly whakc across the seat which propelled the boy halfway across the locker room in the eld Polo Grounds where the Yankees and the Giants both played their home games. “I can still feel it today.” wryly grinned WiUiam Bendix, more noted now as an actor than as a one-time bat boy for such as Ruth. Wally Pipp. Bob Meusel and such Giant stars as High Pockets Kelly. Home Run Baker, George Burns, Ross Young and Truck Hannah. “He wasn t exactly a gentle soul.” Played Semi-Pro Ball “I played some semi-pro ball, worked in a grocery and then wound up on the stage,” Bendix says "But it’ was quite a thrill when, in 1948, they asked me to play Babe Ruth’s life on the screen.” There was another whack on the seat for this one. This time it came from the critics. “The director ordered things you knew were wrong,” he recalls bitterly. It was a turkey and I wonder that it didn t kill me in this business.” It didn’t, as testified by the Bendix career in front of the cameras where he currently is filming a weekly one-hour television series called “Overland Trail.” One of his brightest memories of the Ruth “atrocity” concerns the Sunday the camera crew went into Yankee Stadium to recreate the immortal 60th hofnet which the Babe hit. Shaking Like A Leaf “Del Webb gave us 15 minutes before game time and there was a crowd of 45,000 in the stands, Bendix remembers: “I was shaking like a leaf. After all. I had been a pretty good hitter but I batted right banded and now I had to bat left handed like the Babe.” Lefty Gomez, the one-time Yankee pitcher, dressed in a Washington'uniform to take the . part of Tom Zachary, who had thrown the 60th home run ball to Ruth. “I feel great,” Gomez needled Bendix. “My fast ball should be really hopping.” Bendix squirmed, stepped up to the plate and “by some miracle” swatted Lefty’s first pitch into the right field bleachers.

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Week's Schedules For Adams County Basketball Teams PlMtag Berne •< OmmoAw** Yellow Jacket* at Angola. I‘ennviß* at Adam* (.antral lautcaator Central al Monmouth. Pleasant Mill* al WilteMra. Hartford at Rod. Warren at Geneva. kale rd ay Huntington at Yellow J achate. Ossian at Berne <1 pm.). Hartford va South Whitley at ( Berne

Results Are Listed ' In Lutheran League Emmanuel at Soest edged Bethlehem of Ossian. 21-90, in an overtime battle, and Immanuel of Utalon defeated Fiatrock. 31-14, ita Lutheran grade league game* at the Hoagland school gym. Soeat FG FT TP Bcarman 2 0 4 Rohrbach — 0 0 0 D. Dressier 2 2 6 R. Dressier 2 1 5 Saalfrank I 9 6 —i • ■ 1 "■ Totals I 5 91 Bethlehem FG FT TP Dettmer - 3 17 Diers 2 0 4 Stoppenhagan 0 11 Nahrwald 3 0 6 Adams 0 ® ® Hetherington — 0 11 Trevary Oil Totals 8 4 20 Union * FO FT TP Bird < 1 Grote 0 0 0 Weiland 0 0 0 J. Krueckeberg 0 0 ■© Bienz - 5 0 10 Bischoff 4 0 8 Bleeke 0 0 0 G. Krueckeberg 2 0 4 Totals —- 15 1 31 Flatrock FG FT TP Gephart —-- 0 0 0 Baker - 0 0 ® Springer -1 ® ” Hoile 0 ® Mclntosh 3 0 D. Reynolds 2 2 Hockemeyer 0 ® 0 Bullerman 0 0 0 K. Reynolds 0 0 0 ’ Totals 6 2 14 Geneva And Warren Game Friday Night The Geneva Cardinals will meet the Warren quintet at the Geneva gym Friday night. The game was originally scheduled for Tuesday night but was later changed. However, this office was not notified of the change in date. West Virginia Youth Sets Scoring Mark . BURNSVILLE, W. Va. <UPD — A Burnsville High School basketball player is the proud holder today of a new national scholastic scoring record following a 135point spree Tuesday night. Danny Heater, a six-foot senior, made the mark by dropping 53 of 70 field goal tries and 29 of 41 fouls in his team’s 173-13 victory over Widen High School. The previous record of 120 points was set in 1953 by Dick Bogenrife of Midway High in Sedalia. Ohio. Chet Ostrowski To Quit Pro Football WASHINGTON (UPI) — Chet Ostrowski, former Notre Dame star and veteran defensive endtackle of the Washington Redskins, announced his retiremeht from professional football Tuesday. Ostrowski asked the Washington management to put him on the reserve list because of an injured knee. He has played for the Redskins for six years. He said, however, that he is studying several coaching offers, but had made no definite decision. High School Basketball , Lancaster Central 48, Bryant 44. Madison 69, Shelbyville 68. Whiting 76, Gary Emerson 65. Peru 72. Oak Hill 52. Hammond Clark, 87, Hummond Tech 68. Frankfort 76, Thorntown 72. Evansville Bosse 58. Evansville Memorial 53. Franklin 81, Greensburg 60. Lebanon 71, Sheridan 68.

Madison Cubs Barely Escape ' Firs! Defeat INDIAN APOLlfi (UPD — When Buster Briley jta* > Cold night. Madison’s Cube are a* vulnerable a* any other Indiana high school jbaaketbeU club. But the 64 lUr of the atate’* fourth-rated quintet hit the big one with the chip* down Tuesday night-a 15-foot fling from the corner with nine aeeonda left—lhet saved M«di»oo’a unbeaten record at Shelbyville. 6948 That made it 14 in a row for coach Bud Ritter'* Ohio River city eager*, although it waa their closest call all acaaon. Shelby, although losing Ita ninth game, and Doug lackey In particular. held BrOey to a »kimpy 12 point*. Big Buster, who ha* been averaging better than 32 a game, hit only 4 of 11 shot* from the field He was guarded closely by Lackey, who fouled out in the third period. Madison led in the first period, but Shelbyville took over in the second and it was close from then on. Madiaon waa in front. 38-37. at the half. Shelby led 6665 with about 30 seconds test. Hank Bente hit a two-pointer tor Madison, and when the Cuba regained possession. Briley drilled the gamewinning bucket. Don Firth of Madison canned 23 points. Steve Totten got 19 for Shelby. Madison was the only highranking club in action Tuesday night. . Individual scoring honors for the night went to Rollin Myers, who poured in 50 in Lima's 110-47 rout of Topeka. Whiting dealt Gary Emerson its 13th straight loss, 7665, and Hammond Clark tripped neighboring Tech, 87-68. in the West NIHSC Whiting's Robert Wilson collected 29 points. Oak Hill, not beaten since its season opener, was bounced at Peru, 72-52. snapping a 13-game winning streak. . Frankfort, trailing at the first three stops, caught Thorntown in the final minutes, 76-72, behind Doug Reid’s 26 markers. Joe Rayhill s gift . shot gave Mitchell a 63-62 overtime triumph over Orleans. In another neighborhood tut. Bosse licked Memorial in Evansville, 58-53, also a Southern Conference affair. Not all crows are black. The Clark’s crow is gray and white with black trimmings. It was named after the explorer of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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Younger Players To Seek Jensen's Job BOSTtIN <VPI« 4MIIV Jurge. b<>l*» to ftU Uk "gnidrn boy**’* •hoes by platonolng several of hi. younger player. In right field for the ik»u>n Red Sox "B’s tough when you lose ■ guy like Jackie Jensen." the Rad Sox manager aaid after hearing that the broad-shouldered outfielder had quit tha team "Sure It hurts. But you've gotta figure there'* always somebody to take hu place ’ Jurges, who took over for Mike Higgln. midway through last season. aaid ha would try Gary Geiger. Marty Keough and rookie Lou Clinton In right thia reason ‘•l’m going to have Gene Stephens in center and of course 'Ted> Wil llama in left." he said That still left several questions unanswered. Williams won't be able to play regularly if he decides to play at ail. Ted has hinted in the past he may call It quits in spring training if he finds his ailing neck too bothersome to continue playing. In addition, the Red Sox have Jim Busby. Bobby Thomson and rookie Jerry Walcott to expert ment with in the outfield. None, however, are considered talented enough to hold a regular job. Red Sox General Manager Bucky Harris first learned of Jensen's retirement Monday when Jackie telephoned him from Callforms But he didn't disclose the news until Tuesday . Harris said he was shocked by Jensen s decision to quit.

Collection Friday For March Os Dimes A collection for the March of Dimes campaign for funds will be taken between halves of the Decatur Commodores-B erne Bears game Friday night at the Decatur gyma Junior High-Frosh Meet Here Saturday A freshman-junior high tourney will be held at the Decatur high school gym Saturday morning and afternoon. Competing in addition to Decatur teams will be Adams Central. Bluffton and Portland. Adams Central and Bluffton junior high teams will meet at 8:30 am, and Portland and Decatur junior highs at 9:30. In the freshman tourney, Adams Central wiU play Bluffton at 10:30 a.m„ and the Portland and Decatur teams at 11:30. The junior high final will be held at 2 p.m„ and the freshman title game at 3 o'clock. Admission will | be 25 cents for the two sessions, ■ and 15 cents for single session I tickets. ,

Adams Central Wins Tuesday Over Badgers The Adams Central Greyhound, marked up their llth victory of the Mason aa against tour defeat* Tuesday night, whipping th* Union Canter Badger*. 54-43. at the Adams Central gym The Greyhounds built up a M 18 advantage at the half and stay rd out in front throughout the second halt Adams Central displayed a wellbalanced scoring attack, with Larry Foreman leading with 16 points. Claude Striker adding 10 M Bradburn tallied IS and V Bradburn 11 tor the Wells county quintet. , Th<- Greyhounds will cloee the home part of their schedule Friday night, entertaining the Pennville Bulldogs at Adams Central. After this week, the Greyhounds have three gamee left on the card, all away from home. Adams Central FG FT TP Steiner ♦ 1 Brown 4 0 • Striker 4 2 10 J Funk 4 ° 8 Foreman 8 0 16 L Funk 0 2 2 Strickler 0 0 0 Hirschy 0 * 1 TOTALS 24 « 54 East Union FG GT TP Mcßride 3 1 J M. Brpdburn 6 0 12 V. Bradburn 4 3 11 Norris 1 0 Smith 3 0 8 Slater 2 0 4 Tomei —- 0 1 * TOTALS 19 5 43 Preliminary Adams Central. 15-21. Hockey Results International League Fort Wayne 5. Omaha 1. Toledo 5, Minneapolis 1.

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New Pro Foolball League Confusing DALLAS. Tex <UFD -The ir. American Football Uague wasted IMUe lime prewing that the rival Naims I FoOtto.il League .torsn t have a mnstopuiy <* confusion It took only one day of the league'* first full fledged meeting to present a "craay. mixed • up kid" impression with a series of b«filing pronauncr meats thst left newsmen scratching <eir heads in wonder It all boded down to the fact that the league's sevtov-membrrs heard franchise applicants from Atlanta and Oakland ton postponed any definite action until at least Thursday after a hearing from still another Udder • San Francisco—tome time today. About the only facto coming from the meeting without contradiction were that Commissioner Joe Foss and President Lamar Hunt were formally elected to the jobs they had been holding down for many weeks. College Basketball Indiana Tech 88, Coaaordia 47. Valparaiso 83, Ball State 70. Ohio Northern 81, TrLStato 70. Kent State 101. Marshall 70. Loyola (Ill.) 74, Washington (Mo.) 80. Alabama 54. Oklahoma Qty U. 52. Seattle 108. Creighton 81

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