Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1962 — Page 7

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Decatur Commodores Win Over West Union By 60-52 Wednesday

By PEIS REYNOLDS Decatur’s Commodores pulled themselves above the JOO mark again Wednesday night as they defeated the Union Sharpshooters from Huntington county, 60-52, at the Decatur gym. It was the seventh victory for Leon Youngpeter’s lads as compared to six defeats for the season. Union drew first blood on Don Anthony's free throw after only 15 seconds of play, but field goals by Ed Ketone, Steve Blythe and John Kohne gave the Commodores a 64 lead after two and one-half minutes of play. But the Sharpshooters, led by Ron Kline and Tim Shafer, worked to a 10-7 lead, only to have the Decatur lads go into a 12-10 advantage at the end of the first quarter. The Huntington county lads were limited to only six points, four on free throws, in the second period, and the Commodores rolled to a 16-point advantage at the half, 3216, led by Tom Kohne’s six points. Lead By 19 Pointe The visitors fell fartherin arrears in the third quarter, dropping to 19 points behind at 42-23. An all-court press by the Sharpshooters bothered the Commodores considerably in the final eight minutes, although the Decatur lads were never in serious danger of losing their lead. Kline, of the visitors, was the game's top scorer with 27 points on nine field goals and the same number of free throws. A late flurry gave Tom Sieberns 12 markers. Steve Blythe led the Commodores with 19 points, nine on foul tosses, while the Kohne brothers, Ed and Tom, scored 10 markers each. Neither team was consistent from the charity stripe, the Commodores converting 14 of 29 attempts, the Sharpshooters 16 of 27, as 19 personals were assessed each team. The Commodores face a rugged test Friday night, entertaining the Allen county tourney champions, the Knights from Fort Wayne Bishop Luers, at the Decatur gym. After Friday, the Commodores will have only one more home game, the season closer Feb. 16 with the Harlan Hawks. Commodores r FG FT TP E. Kohne 5 0 10 Villagomes 2 3 7 Heimann 2 0 4 Blythe 5 9 19 J. Kohne ..... . 2 0 4 Hake .. 3 0 6 T. Kohne . 4 2 10 • — TOTALS . 23 14 60 West Union FG FT TP Anthony 0 11 Sieberns 5 2 12 Folk , , 0 0 0 Kline . ..... 9 9 27 Shafer 3 3 9 Hosier Oil Thomas 10 2 TOTALS 18 16 52 Officials: Lee. Van Houton. Preliminary Decatur, 48-26. Collegeßasketball Tri-State 91, Grace 78. Hofstra 57, Army 45. Bellarmine 74, Transylvania 69. Arkansas 99, Tulsa 77. Air Force 58, Denver 56. Pro Basketball NBA Results Los Angeles 136, Cincinnati 123. Philadelphia 122, Chicago 108. Detroit 111, Syracuse 102. St. Louis 135, Boston 126.

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Both Lincoln Teams Win In league Play Lincoln B and Lincoln A remained in a first place tie in the local Sth and 6th grade league with victories over the Northwest and Southeast, respectively, Wednesday aftemryw. Lincoln B downed Northwest by a 20-12 score at the Lincoln gym? and Lincoln A was victorious over a stubborn Southeast team, 27-16. The Lincoln quintets have identical 4-1 records, while Northwest and Southeast show 1-4 marks. Lincoln B led all the way in defeating the Northwest. Conrad topped the winner's scoring with six points, and Helm was high for Northwest with six. After a scoreless first period at the Southeast gym, the host five moved into a 10-8 halftime margin. Lincoln A rallied, however, and took a 20-14 advantage into the final stanza. Dave Winteregg led the winners scoring with eight points and Hess topped Southeast with six. Final regular season games will be played next Wednesday, with Lincoln A traveling to Northwest, and Lincoln B entertaining Southeast. A play-off will follow the regular season. Lincoln A FG FT TP Merriman 0 0 0 Cummings 3 0 6 Smith 0 0 0 Cass 3 17 Schwartz ...... 1 0 2 Mankey .... 2 0 4 Winteregg 3 2 8 Brown 0 0 0 Zwick 0 0 0 Pettibone 0 0 0 TOTALS 12 3 27 Southeast FG FT TP Hess 3 0 6 Williams 10 2 Adams 10 2 Strickler ............... 1 0 2 Gause 2 0 4 Ellis 0 0 0 Wolfe o 0 0 TOTALS ........ 8 0 16 Lincoln B FG FT TP Curtin 10 2 Miller . 2 0 4 Fisher o 0 0 Coolman ... o 0 0 Townsend ... 113 Affolder 0 0 0 Haggerty 0 3 3 Conrad 3 0 6 Eloph 0 0 0 Noack 10 2 Brown 10 2 Brown 0 0 0 Shaun 0 0 0 TOTALS ..Z~B 4 20 NORTHWEST FG FT TP Hutker o 11 Koos 0 0 0 Helm 3 0 6 Myers 113 Tankedsley o I T Reynolds 0 0 0 Burger j—j Jones .... o 0 0 Rutherland ... 0 0 0 Schiederer o 0 0 Rickord ....... 0 0 0 Hower .................. 0 0 0 Rash ... 0 0 0 TOTALS ..~4 Fl 2 Publicity Director Is Named For ABL CHICAGO (UPD — Eddie McGuire, ex-publicity director of the St. Louis Cardinals, was named Wednesday director of publicity for the American Basketball League. He will continue to serve as the publicity director of the Chicago Majors in addition to his extra duties as league chieftain. Second Perfect Game Rolled In 24 Hours INDI AN APOUS (UPI) — The second perfect game in as many nights was registered in league bowling here Wednesday night. Paul Schoch, 21, came up with a 300-gamc, 31 pins better than his previous high in league competiton. night, city champ Jack Ackerman turned the trick. Annual Benefit Game - By Cubs, White Sox CHICAGO WPlt—The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox will play their 13th annual benefit game for boys’ baseball in Comiskey Park May 14, it was announced today.

South Bend's Central Upset By City Foe INDIAAPOLIS (UPI) — South Bend Central, ranked seventh this week among Indiana’s high school basketball teams, may be in for some trouble over the remainder of the aeason. The Bears were upset, 73-69, Wednesday night by unranked South Bend Washington and it could be a portent of things to come. Central, which suffered its third loss in 16 starts, had dumped Washington, 77-66, las manth in the finals of South Bend’s holiday tourney. It appeared for most of the way Wednesday that the Bears would do it again. Washington trailed 1 until the start of the final quarter when it took a brief lead and trailed, 69-68, with a minute left. But a three-point play by Recie Bethel put the Panthers ahead, 71-69, and Dave Davis hit a basket with 23 seconds left to clinch I Washingon's eighth victory . against seven losses. The game marked the last ap- , pearance of Central’s high-scoring Ed Samelton who is ineligible for further high school competition be- ‘ cause of his age. He led the scoring for both teams with 24 points. And the Bears will miss Samelt ton Saturday night wien they tangle with Anderson on its home ’ court. Anderson has been in and ’ out this season but boasts a victory over Muncie Central which edged the Bears earlier. While South Bend Central was J having traubles, top-ranked East ' Chicago Washington ran its vic--1 tory string to 14, downing West IHSC foe Hammond Tech, 70-49. ! The Senators led by only two 1 points 25-23, at halftime but 1 pulled away in the second half 1 and wrapped it up with a 29-point 1 fourth quarter. Bernie Rivers led ' the Senators with 26 points. Wash- ; ington is now 6-0 in the conference. North Caston, one of the smaller schools but boasting the best season record in the state, made it ; 17 straight Wednesday night, ; downing Idaville, 38-29. ' But Rockville, another Small ' power, came to the end of its 1 string, bowing to Covington, 47-46 in the quarter-finals of tlje Wa- ’ bash Valley tourney. Quarter-final * action in the tourney ends tonight. , Gary Edison got a 28-point per- , formance from Rich Edwards and ' held a 13-point halftime margin over Calumetbut still wound up 1 on the short end of a 77-71 score ! in a non-conference game. ' Another upset was turned in ' by unheralded Indianapolis Howe, ‘ which worked the home court to ' the best advantage by rolling over ' highly-regarded Columbus, 68-52. ; Beaten seven times, the Hornets ' took command in the second pe--1 riod for a 29-23 halftime edge and 1 gradually pulled away for their seventh victory of the season. Co- * lumbus is 12-4. Indianapolis Shortridge served , notice it may be a team to be reckoned with in the sectionals by winning handily at Terre Haute ! Wiley, 68-46.

California Governor To Seek Reelection SAN FRANCISCO (UPD— The battle lines were drawn today for an all-out fight for the governorship of California between incumbent Democrat Edmund G. Brown and Richard M. Nixon. .Brown formally announced his candidacy for re-election Wednesday night at a SIOO a plate dinner which raised more than $175,000 for his campaign. Ignoring two other Republicans who say they will challenge Nixon for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the June 5 primary election, Brown concentrated his fire on the former vice president. “I tell you the people of California will not permit him (Nixon) to convert the governor’s office into Nixon-for-prsident national headquarters,” Brown said. The 56-year-old governor claimed that Nixon “has no time for California" because of his national ambitions. Nixon, in a statement released from his headquarters in Los Angeles, replied that Brown’s candihscy offered "four more years of the indecision and bungling which have become his copyright political trademark.” " Nixon repeatedly in earlier statements has disavowed any ambition to seek the presidency in ,1964 and has promised that if elected governor he will serve the full four-year term which would not end until 1966.

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams FRIDAY Fort Wayne Bishop Luers at Commodores. Yellow Jackets at Angola. Penville at Adams Central Lancaster Central at Monmouth. Dunkirk at Geneva. Ohio City at Hartford. Berne at Portland. SATURDAY Van Wert at Yellow Jackets. Ossian at Berne Adams Central at Leo. Ohio Stale In Spot To Tie Modem Record CHICAGO (UPI)— Ohio State’s basketball team, leading the Big Ten in almost every statistical division, will be going for a share of a modern consecutive victory record in its next start. The unbeaten Buckeyes have won 19 straight Big Ten games and by beating Purdue next Monday would equal the modern record set by .Indiana in 1952 and 1953. The league record of 23 straight wins was set by Wisconsin in 1912-13. Ohio State, 4-0 in the Big Ten this year and unbeaten by a conference team last season, leads the league in five team statistical divisions, official records showed today. The Buckeyes are first in field goal shooting, 50 per cent; in free throw accuracy, 72.2 per cent; in scoring, 88.8 per game; in defense, allowing 66.8 per game and in rebounds, 55 per game. Only in individual scoring is Ohio State behind with its star, Jerry Lucas, in third place with a 25.3 average, and John Havlicek seventh with a 21.3 average. Indiana’s Jimmy Rayl was first in scoring with a 30 point average, and Don Nelson of lowa second with 28 points per game. Purdue’s Terry Dischinger, league scoring champion the last two seasons, was fourth with 25.2 and Eric Magdanz, Minnesota, fifth with 22.2. Others in the top ten in scoring were Ron Jackson, Wisconsin, 21.5; Dave Downey, Illinois, 19.7; Bill Small, Illinois, 16.7, and Pete Gent, Michigan Sate, 16.2.

Lucky Tourney Opens Today In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — The stars of the pro golfing firmament tee off today in the $50,000 Lucky International tournament with most of them quaking in their water-logged boots over the condition of the Harding Park greens. It's the first round of the tournament that lats year served as a springboard to fame and fortune for young Gary Player of South Africa. -But —it's too late now,’* —said rans have made a shambles out of the greens. “I can’t complain about that, however,” said Player after turning in a fine three-under-par 68 in the pro-am event Wednesday, for which he picked up $375. on a tie for second place. “I knocked in a half-dozen good ones." But m ost of the others had “The greens are just terrible.” said Billy Casper, the former National Open king, who generally is considered the peer of the current putters. He carded 71 while missing a half-dozen putts of less than five feet in the proamateur. “Just don’t quote anything I have to say about the greens," said Doug Sanders, one of the top three money winners of 1961. He carded a 73. The snow and cold sent frost into the greens and they haven’t had a chance to dry out. Officials rolled them Wednesday night to try and squeeze out some of the water. The only other former chamBobby Rosburg, who had a 72. Par on this municipal course, which is open 365 days a year, is 36-35—71. It is 6.672 yards long. There is very little roll on the fairways. - — i Hockey Results National League Detroit 3. New York 0. Chicago 2, Toronto 1. International League Minneapolis 4, Fort Wayne 1.

Yankees Fail To Sign Maris To Hew Pad By MILTON RICHMAN United Press International Strangers ' get Roger Maris’ autograph for nothing but the New York Yankees can’t get it even for $60,000. They tried Wednesday and got nowhere when baseball's new home run king paid an unexpected visit to their office, stayed only 10 minutes and then departed without signing after asking for $70,000. “We were friends when I came in and were still friends when I came out,” said Maris about his brief conference with general manager Roy Harney. “I’m not going to discuss my salary publicly.” he added. “Whatever comes out will have to come from the Yankees.” Maris received $42,000 from the Yankees last year and has ’ been offered an SIB,OOO raise. See It Differently Harney, a good businessman and an eminently fair one, undoubtedly is trying to get the fact across that the Yankees are perfectly willing to reward their players, but prefer to do so over a period of years. He can cite the case of Mickey Mantle and explain to Maris how it took Mickey 10 years with the club to earn the $82,000 he will draw for the coming season. Maris, no slouch in the business league himself, has a formidable targument in rebuttal. He’s in a position to say, “I’ve been with this club two seasons •and I’ve won the most valuable player award both years, so why is it necessary for me to wait so many years for my money?” A handful of players on other major league clubs did agree to terms Wednesday One of them was Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who slipped to a 6-12 record in the bullpen last season after an extraordinary 18-1 mark the year before. Takes Fay Cut Face, tagged for 12 home runs last season, said he was through “taking his licks’.’ from rival hitters, but he did have to take a slight cut on his 1962 contract. Outfielder Gus Bell, pitcher Craig Anderson and catcher Clarence Coleman returned their signed contracts to the New York Mets, who now have satisfied 14 of their players for the coming season, while the Cleveland Indians announced that outfielder Tito Francona was their 15th consignee. The Chicago Cubs, first major league club to sign all their players the past two years, look as if they’ll make it three in a row with 31 men under contract already. Rookie pitchers George Gerberman and Wayne Carlander were the latest to agree to terms. Only six Cubs regain unsigned. The San Francisco Giants corralled three rookie pitchers — right-handers Ray Feldman, Paul Colacecchi and Matt Gayeski. H. S. Basketball Huntington Catholic 63, North Miami 62. Indianapolis Howe 68, Columbus 52. ; Indianapolis Washington 74, Indianapolis Manual 52. ” Indianapolis Shortridge 68, Terre Haute Wiley 46. East Chicago Washington 70, Hammond Tech 49. Calumet 77, Gary Edison 71. South Bend Washington 73, South Bend Central 69. Wabash Valley Tourney Quarter-Finals At Brownsburg Danville 57, Van Buren 53. Spencer 56, Pittsboro 46. At Covington Attica 65, Perrysville 53. Covington 47, Rockville 46. At Sullivan North Central 76, Monroe City 57. West Vigo 64, Bruceville 49. At Swiss Sity Linton 63, Loogootee 51. EUetsville 64, Midland 27.

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Southern Association Suspends Operations CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) — A closed meeting to discuss the plight of the ailing Southern Asso* ciation resulted Wednesday in the minor league suspending opera* tions for the 1962 baseball season. The action came after officials of the South Atlantic League rei jected a proposal to merge the . two circuits. The Sally League, however, accepted applications for membership front twin Southern Association clubs—Nashville and Chattanooga. Hal Totten, president of Southern, opposed the idea of the merger that would have made the Sally League a 12-club loop with east and west divisions of six teams. He suggested instead that two of the Sally franchises be transferred to his loop and that each league operate with six clubs. Sally League president Sam Smith was not receptive to either of the ideas. He did not want te lose two teams that apparently function efficiently. Neither did he want to include two distance clubs of the Southern Association — Evansville, Ind., and Little Rock—because of the traveling involved. The Sally League was receptive to applications of Nashville and Chattanooga to join the eight-club loop. But the invitation was contingent on Nashville finding another major league team affilia- ! tion by Feb. 5. Should Nashville fail, neither team would be admitted to the Sally League.

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Wabash Valley Meet To Close Saturday TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPD— Once - beaten Ellettsville today found itself in the role of favorite as quarter-final action neared its end in the 47th annual Wabash Valley high school basketball tourney. Tonight’s action at the four cen-i ters will trim the field to the four teams which will tangle Saturday in the finals here. i Ellettsville took over the role! of favorite Wednesday night when l Covington upset previously undefeated Rockville, 47-46, in the Covington quarter-final. Rockville, which won the first three tourneys in 1916-18 and had not won one since, was one of two former champs eliminated in the first round of the quarterfinals. North Central dumped Monroe City, 76-57, at Sullivan. I upsat winner over Loogootee, pion still in the running is Linton, upset winner over Loigootee, 63-51, at Switz City. Tonight, Lin- 1 ton goes against Ellettsville which { walloped Midland, 64-27, Wednesday night. In other games tonight, Danville will mett Spencer at Brownsburg, Attica will play Covington at Covington and North Central and West Vigo will tangle at Sullivan.

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