Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1960 — Page 7

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Coonan Speaks At Commodore Banquet Here Tvrry CoonM. Fort Wiyß» Central Catholic basketball mentor, humorously entertained an owe flow crowd of parent*, fan* and fiund, al tka annual Decatur («tt*4ic high school basketball banquet 'n>ursd*y night telling numeroue sports incident*, highlighted on the lighter vein Dr. John Terveer served aa master of ceremonies, introducing those seated at tne table of honot. The Very Rev Simeon Schmitt, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, and hia two aa> sutanU, the Rev* Robert Content and Robert Jaeger, all delivered abort but inspirational messages for the team and the guests DCHS coach. Al Lindahl presided at the presentation of the brsketball awards, giving a few well chosen remark* about the season and the individuals on the ball club. Coonan. the former Indiana University basketball and baseball player, told the team member* “that the spirit of cooperation is the moat important phase of athletics " He said that the game should be played in a wholesome. ideal environment, preparing the boy for life, and good citizenship. The father of seven. Bve boys and two girls, the New York native added that an athlete must first learn to take orders before he can become a leader. In paralleling life with athletics. Coonan further said that “in a competitive society sueh as ours, the competition of athletics is a good beginning for a youth." Coach Lindahl presented the varsity basketball jackets to co-captains-elect Steve Omlor and Don Baker. Jim Omlor. Tom Gross, and Jim Heimann, all departing seniors. The nucleus for the 1960-61 squad also received athletic awards with juniors Don Kitson, Phil Lose, and Ray Reed being named. Sophomores Steve Blythe. Jerry Heimann, Tom Kohßk/’eted JMm Itohnmafco mere honored. Jim Rumschlag received a baseball award, but he also played on the reserve basketball team. Cheerleaders Bonnie Hake, a three-time award winner, and Susie Baker, who received her second chevron, brightened ‘the scene almost as much as the newly remodeled interior of the Knights of Columbus hall. Mike Baker. Ron Baker, Jim Cancino. Pat Ellenberger, Larry Hake. Fred Kauffman and George ' Mulligan were members of the reserve team, with bows for managers Bob Boch and Bob Tricker. The Rosary society and C. Y. A. girls prepared and served the banquet. The Very Rev. Schmitt gave the blessing at the start of the evening, while the Rev. Contant closed with benediction. CAR WAXING 112* 9S SPECIAL Conrad’s ‘6B’ Service 2nd A Jockson Ph. 3-2601

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Lofoyette K. Os C. Wins State Tourney Th* Decatar Knight* of Qslum* bu* basketball warn lost • first round match Saturday to thr eventual winner* of the *tate K of C ba*krthail tourney Tbe local team bowed to Lafayette, f? . 46 Lafayette s team wa* augmented by former Purdue and Lafayette Jefferaon basketball Lafayette subsequently whipped teams from Fort Wayne. Vincennes. and M*gr Downey of Indianapolis for the 1860 title. All Star Teams Are Selected By Conference All-star baseball and basketball teams of the Eastern Wabash Valley conference were selected ot the first annual meeting of the conference, held Thursday evening at the Dutch Mill in Bluffton. Trophies were awarded to Berne for the conference baseball championship. to Adams Central. Berne and Geneva, who finished in a three-way tie for the basketball championship, and to Berne for the cross country title. Tom Peck, of Monmouth, was presented the trophy for the individual cross country championship. The Eastern Wabash Valley loop also presents an all-sports trophy, and Berne is leading in points toward this honor. Members of the all-star baseball team, who were presented baseball charms, are as follows: catcher. Fex Kreigh, Ossian: pitcher. Dick Smith, Berne: first baseman. Jim Blum. Berne, second baseman. Stan Augsburger, Berne; third baseman. Dean Archbold. Ossian; shortstop. Al Kruetzman, Lancaster Central: left fielder, Rich Habegger, Lancaster Central: center fielder, Roger Graber. Berne: right fielder, John Habegger, Berne. Rex Kreigh, of Ossian, who batted .533 for the season, was awarcted the batting championship trophy. Members of the all-team basketball team, who were given miniature gold basketballs, were: first team— Larry Foreman. Adams Central; Phil Sprunger, Berne; Dean Archbold, Ossian; Larry Baumer, Geneva: and Doyle Long, Geneva: second team —Waldo Bultemeier, Monmouth; Rod Schwartz. Berne; Jim Hill, Berne; Jim Brown, Adams Central. and Al Kreutzman, Lancaster Central. Ed Trexler, principal of the Leesburg high school, and a former player, coach and official, was the principal speaker. During a short business meeting of principals and coaches, the date of Wednesday. May 4. was set for the conference track meet, which will be held at Berne. County Coon Hunters Will Meet Saturday The Adams county coon hunters will meet Saturday at 8 p. m. at the Reineker school, in Monroe township. All members and friends are asked to attend.

Easl Chicago Is Favorite At Lafayette By KURT FBimNOrrWAL United Pre** lnlrm«U.n.l INDIANAPOLIS 'UPI' — Th c »aying goes that the nwthw»»tern »eml »teir route in Indiana * high school basketball tourney I* the I moat treacherous of the four from lan up*et standpoint, thank* to the shrewdne** and hardwood aawy of veteran coach Marton Crawley The Lafayette mentor ha* hit Bronco* riding hard sgain, but | they’ll have a difficult Um* convincing Covington tn the secund afternoon game at Purdue University Saturday. And that may be ju«t the break" East Chicago Washington need* to gain the "Fieldhouse Four" for the first Umc since 1947 East Chicago’s Senator*. West NIHSC champ*, ranked fourth in the state and checking in with a healthy 14-1 record, tangle with defending aemi-state champoin Logansport in the first afternoon game at Purdue The Senator* have never lived down their 56-52 up*et loss to Lafayette in last year’* »emi-«tate afternoon round, which was only their second loss all year, and coach John Baratto is bringing some of those back— especially Ron Divjak and Phil Dawkins. Baratto Confident It's been five years since the Calumet last was represented in the state finals and 20 years since that district has won its lone state title, with Hammond Tech picking up all the marbles. But this time. Baratto apparently is convinced he has the horses and the desire to make the payoff round. „ “We have a team of battlers, he said after his proteges battled through the state's toughest regional at East Chicago last Saturady, edging Gary Roosevelt in the title scrap. 60-58. “Ron Divjak and Phil Dawkins are clicking again and Darryl Williams played his best game Saturday.” said Baratto Im confident if we play the basketball we’re capable of, well win at Lafayette. “We won't face anyone as tougn as Gary Roosevelt there.” East Chicago has not md any of the other hopefuls, but Lafayette beat North Central Conference rival Logansport during the season, 70-58. Lafayette ‘ Hurting Logansport, 17-8. bent Lafayette for the semi-state j-61-56 The Berries still have Dan Farrell and Tim Wagner from that crew, but must rank as underdogs against the East ChicagLXyette. 18-7 and absent from the state finals since 1957 (although they've made it 11 tunes , had its personnel troubles early in the week. Two regulars, center Don Dykhuizen and guard Jerry Fickle, were hospitalized with respiratory ailments; Tom Miller, the No. 6, nursed an injured eye. and veteran guard Bill Bresnahan had a charleyhorse. This is another typical Cra ,W‘ ley quintet,” not too big, but with plenty of muscle, determination and know-how. Covington, the only in this foursome, could be the most dangerous. The Trojans sport a 29-3 record, were runners-up m this year's Wabash Valley tourney, and sport good balance Larry Woodrow at 6-5 is their tallest. They feature good shooting ana ball-handling, and were ex to make the most of their third trip to the semis in the last 16 years.

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Officials Named For Semi-State Tourneys INDIAN AIKXJB (UFt l — Th* Indiana High Krtowl AtttoUc Aaaoelation today ,i>nmmc«d IB* to*lo*ia« oaßriato tor Raturdays tour *eml-Mato basketball touraamoata _ . _ At Evansville- Jam** Ito#wa*i. Roy Gardner Paul Grime*. James Patterson. Jerry BtaIRRP. Dee William* At Fort Wayne—Cyril Birge. Maurice Crtawall. John HlUUto**. Wesley Oler. Robert Rom. Jack Small , At Imlianapoßa—Uhßluy Dub**. Rill Larkln.Don McCoy. Joe Mullin*. Frank Smith. IJoyd Whipple At l«a<*yctte- Roland Haker. Everett Campbell. Dno Ltoberum. Don Mcßride. Frank Sander*. Marvin Todd Open Regional Play Tonight In NCAA Heel By TIM MORIARTY United Pre** International California. Cincinnati and Ohio State are heavy favorite* to zoom to victory tonight in regional eliminations in the NCAA college basketball tournament Cincinnati, led by all-tima scoring champion O*car Robertson, and Ohio State’s Big Ten champions will be making their first appearance in this year’* jamboree and. on the basis of their regular-season exploits, rank as defending champion California's strongest challenger*. California, voted the nation'* top team by the United Press International Board of Coaches at the completion of the regular season, opened the defense of it* NCAA crown by clobbering Idaho State. 71-44. in a Far West match Tuesday night. Second - ranked Cincinnati and third - ranked Ohio State drew first round byes. Here are the pairings for tonight’s regional games, with wonlost records in parentheses: East at Charlotte. N.C. —West Virginia <25-4) vs. New York Universit y'2O-3<; St. Josepto’Sj (Pa.) (20-5) vs. Duke <l6-10). Mideast at Louisville, Ky. — Ohio State <2l-3> vs. Western Kentucky (20-6); Ohio University (177) vs. Georgia Tech <2l-5) Midwest at Manhattan, Kan. — Cincinnati <25-1) vs. DePaul (166); Texas (18-B> vs. Kansas (18-8) West at Seattle, Wash. — -California (25-1) vs. Santa Clara <2l8) Utah (25-2) vs. Oregon (18-9). The winners of the regionals will advance to the national semifinals at San Francisco next weekend. Warriors And Nats Open NBA Playoffs By GARY KALE United Press International Wilt Chamberlain, who parlayed a rags-to-riches dream into the greatest scoring performances in professional basketball history, opens Philadelphia’s quest for its first National Basketball Association championship since 1956 Friday night against Syracuse in a best-of-three playoff series. The fabulous flipper with the devastating fall-way shot set the NBA’s all-time scoring record of 2,707 points in his rookie season and out-rebountled Boston's great Bill Russell to take the carom championship with a record high of 1,941 retrieves. Wilt is up against a Syracuse team that boats such stars as former scoring champion George Yardley and all-time scoring leader Dolph Schayes. The Warriors hold an 8-5 series edge over the season and are tabbed as favorites, for the opening game of the Eastern Division playoffs at Philadelphia. The series switches to Syracuse for a Sunday televised game and if a third game is necessary it will be played in Philadelphia, Monday, March 14- The winner then faces the Boston Celtics in the division finals. On the Western Division front. Detroit opens first round play by hosting the Minneapolis Lakers in a Saturday TV game. Dick McGuire, with a brand new Piston coaching contract, will have a rough road to hoe before he can pass the Lakers and go on to a section set with the £t. Louis Hawks. A second game will be played at Minneapolis Sunday and a third, if necessary, at Detroit on Monday. The division champions will nost the semi-final rounds on- Wednesday. March 16. in the start of best-of-seven series tests. Minneapolis ran down the curtain on the regular season Ihursday night asJglgimßaytor scored 37 pointe to lead the Lakers to a 133-108 victory over the New York Knickerbockers. The Knicks ended their schedule with the worst record in the club s history, 27 victories and 48 defeatsPro Basketball Minneapolis 133, New York 108.

Muncie Slid Top Favorite To Win Slate INDIANAPOt-fl) lUPl'— Mtototo Coatral. • heavy favorite to become th* third uadetoatod ludton* high M-teaal basketball champton ; should pace tour powerhouse,, Into the stele tourney final* Saturday if Ute form chart hold* At this *(*«» of the tour week i grind, with the "Sweet 16" from •n origin*! field of 6M battling tor working berth* here March If. I virtually anything w** po**ibto But moat obeerver* stuck to, their guns, believing Muncie * I game winner* have too much cles*. firepower and balance for the rest of the field Co*eh John Longfellow lead* hl* Bearcat* ■g•l na t Indianapolis | Tech in the second afternoon I game of the local aeml-rtate tourney Saturday, after unbeaten Madison clashes with Rushville At the »ame Umc. ooeo-beeten Bloomington wa* favored to emerge victorious at Evansville. Kokomo wa* expected to retain It* aortbeastern *emi-*tetc crown at Fort Wayne, and East Chicago Washington wa* the choice at Purdue University. from the northwest . Return Much ( loser Muncie licked Tech by 31 points during the season, and although their second collision was expected to be much closer, the consensus wa* that Muncie would qualify easily against the Madi son-Ru*hvi!le winner at night Should Muncie and Madison collide for the right to represent this area in the state finals. It would have to be considered the key game of the 50th anniversary edition of the "Hoosier Madness ” since Muncie i* top-rated. Madison third, and they would have won 51 consecutive games between them It would also pit Muncie s great Ron Bonham, who rifled a record 53 points against Middletown in the New Castle regional tourney last Saturday, against the Madison bomber, Buster Briley, secondbest scorer last weekend. Host Fort Wayne Central was considered the best bet to derail Kokomo, runner-up to .state champion Indianapolis Attucks a year a ß°- „ Bloomington Favored Bloomington, with a 20-game winning streak, was highly favored over New Albany, which represented the southern semistate in the finals last year, and o>r the Tell City-Carlisle winner toVoU into the “state” for the first tune since 1922. F.as£ Chicago's Senators, running WRwptlet in the alwaysrugged semi-state, must sideline Logansport, the defending semi-state champion, before getting a crack at the LafayetteCovington winner. And that’s no easy pickings. East Chicago’s Senators faltered last year against Lafayette s Broncos, and the year before against Crawfordsville. In fact, coach John Baratot's boys haven t seen the inside of Butler Fieldhouse in their working clothes since 1947 when they lost to eventual champ Shelbyville If a "solid" underdog should crash through tor the first thp e > it would be Covington, which sports an impressive 29-3 record and was runner-up in this year s Wabash Valley tourney. The Trojans go against tourneywise Lafayette in the second afternoon game at Purdue. Alleys Available For Open Bowling With no more tourneys scheduled for several weeks, the Mies Recreation alleys will be available for open bowling on Saturdays and Sundays, Carl Mies, owner, announced today.

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