Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1964 — Page 7

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1964

Michigan And f Ohio State In Tie For Lead CHICAGO (UPI) — The Big Ten basketball race appeared today to be heading for a deadheat finish between Ohio State and Michigan. When the final buzzer sounds on March 9, Michigan may still be seeking its first undisputed championship since 1948, and Ohicf State is very likely to have a share of an unprecedented fifth consecutive title. Michigan, however, will go to the NCAA tournament if the Big Ten race ends in a tie. League policy says that the team which last, won the title would not go to the tourney. Ohio State has won or shared the title for the past sour 1 ' seasons. Michigan and Ohio State wound up their eighth week of the 10-week campaign still deadlocked for the league lead with identical 9-2 records. Each has three more games to play, all with inferior opponents. OSU Closes With MSU Only one of the six teams is a first division occupant. That’s Michigan State, slated to close the season with Ohio State at Columbus. Meantime, the Buckeyes are host to Indiana next Saturday and then travel to Illinois before returning home for the Spartan engagement. Michigan has nothing but low rung foes ahead starting with Saturday’s home clash with Illinois. The Wolverines play at lowa and wind up their affairs as host to Purdue. The Buckeyes and the Wolverines registered their ninth victories Saturday night. The Buckeyes defeated Northwestern 72-61, and the Wolves overpowered Wisconsin 103-59. Bradds Held to 12 Northwestern could claim a defensive triumph over Ohio State by holding sharpshooter Gary Bradds to only 12 points. But the Buckeyes moved up smaller firepower and managed to stay ahead in the late stages of the televised game. < Bradds went into the game < with a 38.2 average in the Big Ten. But he had his troubles in trying to shake Northwest- i ern’s Phil Keeley and Don 1 Jackson and had to settle for ] three field goals out of 21 shots. Wisconsin had no such luck

ADAMS CENTRAL I. H. S. A. A. SECTIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AT THE ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL GYM FEBRUARY 26, 27 and 29 WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY NOT ICE! GAME TIMES ARE LISTED ON EASTERN STANDARD TIME WEDNESDAY Game 1—7:00 p. m.—Geneva and Decatur Game 2—8:15 p. m.—Berne and Monroeville THURSDAY Game 3—7:00 p. m.—Adams Central and Hoagland Game 4—8:15 p. m.—Monmouth and Decatur Catholic SATURDAY Game 5—12:30 p- m.—Winner Game 1 and Game 2 Game 6—1:45 p. m.—Winner Game 3 and Game 4 Game 7 — 8:15 p. m.—Winner Game 5 and Game 6. Doors will open to ticket holders ONE HOUR before the first game. <„ * Everybody must have tickets — regardless of school age — including small children. ■ ! ' . Ty

Sectional Extra Published Today The Decatur Daily Democrat’s annual “Sectional Extra’’ accompanies today’s regular edition. i The sectional edition includes many items of interest to local basketball fans in its 18 pages. Included are pictures of each of the eight clubs in the Adams Central sectional, their top performers and each team’s, cheerleaders. Other pictures throughout the addition show some of the past regular season’s action, and there is a photo of the IHSAA trophy which is being given at each of the 64 sectional sites for the first time in history. The photographs in the sectional addition were taken by Dave Cole of Decatur, the Daily Democrat’s photographer. Records are many to be found, including scores of each game played by each of the eight clubs during the regular season. The certified lists of each club and the seniors competing in their last sectional are given. Two feature stories relive some of the past memories provided by teams from Pleasant Mills and Hartford Center, no longer sectional competitors, and a third feature notes the change in this year’s sectional field. Pete the Picker announces his choices in the edition, and the county’s top 14 regular season scorers are pictured on the final page. These are just some of the items of interest to basketball fans. i Pro Basketball Saturday’s Scores Cincinnati 107, Los Angeles 105. St. Louis 95, Boston 88. New York 125, Detroit 119. Sunday’s Scores Philadelphia 114, New York 105. Baltimore 129, Detroit 104. San Francisco 109, Los Angeles 108. in trying to defense Michigan’s celebrated one -two scoring punch of Bill Buntin and Cazzie Russell. Buntin led his team with 28 points and Russell had 26. In other games, Illinois broke a five game losing streak and shattered Minnesota’s title chances with an 86-78 victory over the Gophers. Michigan State picked on lowa for more than 100 points again, defeating the hapless Hawks 107-89, and Indiana leaped from last place to eighth with a 92 - 79 decision over Purdue.

BMP I * ! mu , # > : ®i| 1 ibmh ' fir 11 '• -.,Jk 'ji:* ii i II jB v .? EIGHT TEAMS in the Adams Central sectional tournament will be vieing for the trophy shown above. The IHSAA, for the first time, has allowed the ’awarding of trophies to sectional champions, and sent trophies to the 64 sectional sites across the state.

Eagles Close Schedule With 92-77 Victory Monmouth’s Eagles, after trailing throughout the first half, started rolling in the third period and kept on going for a 92-77 triumph over the Areola Aces in the closing game of the season Saturday night on the Monmouth floor. Areola was on top at the first quarter, 25-19, and at the half, 42-41, but the Eagles pulled ahead in the third period, 63-56, and bolstered their victory margin the final quarter. It was Monmouth’s 13th victory in 20 games. The Eagles again had well-bal-anced scoring. Gene Bienz led with 28 points, Bob Brandt scored 24, Danny Conrad 20 and Dean Schieferstein 14. J. Phillips topped Areola with 19, trailed closely by Thatcher with 18. » Monmouth FG FT TP Schieferstein 5 4 14 Luginbill 10 2 Conrad 6 8 20 Buuck 0 0 0 Scherer -.2 0 4 Libv — —0 0 Holle 0 0 0 Brandt — 9 6 24 Hakes ' 0 0 0 King 0 0 0 Bienz 12 4 28 Fuelling - 0 0 0 Totals ——..- 35 22 92 Areola FG FT TP Schock 6 2 14 R. Phillips — 0 0 0 J. Phillips 7 5 19 S. Hilger 0 0 0 J: Hilger 3 2 8 Schultz 1. 0 0 0 Eviston —5 4 14 Trahin 0 4 4 Thatcher ..9 0 18 Totals — 30 17" 77 Preliminary Monmouth, 46-32. H. S. Basketball Huntington Catholic 53, Monroeville 51. _____ Anderson 73, Granville Wells 48. Elkhart 65, South Bend Central 55. Gary Roosevelt 106, Hammond Morton 64. Gary Tolleston 93, Lafayette Catholic 80. MUncie South 75, Madison Heights 66” : Bloomfield 49. Washington 47. Rushville 95, Muncie Burris 62. Indianapolis Attucks 100, Valparaiso 98 i overtime).

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Hoagland’s Sprague Sets School Record

Adams county basketball fans will not only see Hoagland’s Wildcats in this week’* sectional tourney, but will be treated to the performance of the school’s alltime individual scoring leader. Dave Sprague, 6-2 senior forward, became the top man in the individual scoring ranks of Hoagland high school this season when he passed the 800 mark in total career points. Going into the sectional meet this week, Sprague had totaled 826 points, surpassing the previous high mark established at the end of the 1954-55 Season by Larry Beerman. Beerman ended his Hoagland career with a total of 762 points. Thus, Sprague not only becomes the all-time individual scoring leader for the school, but is the first Wildcat to surpass the 800 mark in total points. These records were supplied the Daily Democrat by Erwin Klein,

Three Indiana Prep Quintets Are Unbeaten INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—lndiana’s high school basketball tourney, opening on the sectional level Wednesday, will have three unbeatens for the fourth year in a row, with San Pierre and Selma the leading “people’s choices.’ The two small-town quintets will carry 21-game winning streaks into the four-week grind —San Pierre at Knox and Selma at Muncie. San Pierre completed its regular season schedule with a 68-48 triumph over Wanatah Saturday night. Columbus, second only to Lafayette in last weeks UPI coaches’ board ratings, boasts a 20-game string this season and finished regular firing Friday, as did Selma. Gary Roosevelt, Anderson and Elkhart, all members of the UPI “Big 10,” also wound up pre-tourney play successfully Saturday. ' Roosevelt, No. 3, trounced Hammond Morton, 106-64, to advance to die Steel City sectional with a 16-game winning streak. Only city foe Tolleston has managed to stop the Pan-, thers, 70-68, last December. Anderson, No. 8, and Elkhart, No. 9, finished with 17-3 records. Anderson romped over Granville Wells, 73-48, while Elkhart beat South Bend Central for the Northern Conference crown, 65-55. "Die South Benders were runnersup to Muncie Central for the 1963 state cfown but are only 11-8 this trip. In other top games winding up the regular season, Gary Tolleston beat Lafayette Catholic, 93-80; Indianapolis Attucks edged Valparaiso in overtime, 100-98, and Rushville dumped Muncie Burris, 95-62, for a 17-3 record, the best in the Lions’ history. The field of 597 in the 54th annual state tourney gets a few days rest before sectional warfare explodes at 64 sites. Every preliminary center will be in action by Thursday nighL Meanwhile, records showed that three major conference, champs retained their honors, but Huntington, which shared Central Conference laurels with Alexandria last year, had to settle for a first-place deadlock with Tipton this time. The other major champs, last year’s In parenthesis: jNorffi Central — Lafayette”* (Muncie Central). South Central — Columbus (same). Southern — Evansville Central (Evansville Rex Mundi). Western —Terre Haute Gerstmeyer (same). Northeastern — Fort Wayne Concordia (Columbia City). Northern — Elkhart (South Bend Central and Goshen). Northwest — Gary Froebel (East -Chicago Washington, Gary Tolleston, Hammond).

PPm- jßfff I. I*JL Ummf: - j*2mm IS; s - IMS ■i iiM jr ; - All-Time Leader a Hoagland resident, and not only the biggest Wildcat booster, but one of the state’s best basketball fans. Will Add Yet Sprague finished the season last Friday at Waterloo with 12 points, 1 for his total of 826. Each time he scores a point in the sectional (and regional?) he will add to his high-water mark. His 337 points this season led the Wildcats in scoring—he also was the top team scorer in 196263—and gave him a per game average of 17.7. The husky senior is a member of Hoagland’s high-scoring and rugged front line this season. The other two members “up front,” Don Thornell and Dennis Johnson, scored 332 points and 233 points, respectively, as the three scored a combined total of 902 points. A four-year veteran, Sprague was located in 13th place in the Hoagland scoring ranks to this season, but closed with a rush to move to the top of the list. 14 Frosh Points Sprague got into enough varsity games in his freshman season to score 14 points, and in 1961-62, his sophomore year, he scored 58 field goals and 63 free throws in 23 games for a total of 179 talr lies. In his junior campaign, Sprague tossed in 122 field goals and 52 free throws for 296 points, as he led the team in scoring. This gave him a total of 489 points entering the 1963-64 season. Scoring consistently in double figures this season, Sprague kept climbing up the list from his 13th spot, and took over as the alltime Hoagland scorer near the end of the season. Beerman, now the runner-up in all-time Hoagland scoring, tallied 762 points in 62 games for the school, and is one of four exWildcats to score over 70^career points. High Scorers Larry Saalfrank ranks third with 719 points, and Roger Scheumann is fourth with 707 career points. Tom Beerman is fifth with 704 point s, just three back of Scheumann. Saalfrank played in juest 50 contests, Scheumann 63, and Tom Beerman, 61. Dene Reynolds ranks sixth with 695 points and Jack Braun is seventh with 642 career points. If Sprague can score 35 points in tournament play this year, he also could establish a one-season high for the school. Saalfrank currently owns that honor with 372 points in 22 games in the 1961-62 season. Other Records According to other records furnished by Kleine, Hoagland teams have had 14 winning seasons, including the one just concluded, and nine losing seasons, and broke even in one other, since the 1940-41 season. The best one-season percentage enjoyed by the school (all records include tournament games) came in the 1957-58 season. The Wildcats of that year won 19 and lost only 3, for a fabulous winning percentage of 8.64. The regular season record Was 19-2. That season .five players. Tom Beerman, Keith Bqhnke, Robert Miller, Roger Scheumann and Dale Fry all scored over 200 points. The ‘Cats of 1941-42 won 19 of 23, and in 1950-51, and 1951-52, Hoagland teams won 17 and lost only four in each season.

Final Team Standings W L Pet. Adams Central .... 16 4 .800 Commodores 14 6 .700 Monmouth ~k . .... 13 7 .650 Berne 9 11 .450 Geneva 9 11 .450 Yellow Jackets .. 3 17 .150 — 000 — The Adams Central Flying Jets topped the Adams county team standings for the season closed last week with a 16-4 record. Only two other teams finished above the .500 mark, the Decatur Commodores at 14-6, and the Monmouth Eagles at 13-7. The Allen county quintets who wlil compete in the Adams Central section this week had records of 10-9 for the Hoagland Wildcats and 2-17 for the Monroeville Cubs. — 000 — But past records are forgotten as the teams prepare for the annual sectional tourney, which opens at the Adams Central gym at 7 o’clock Wednesday evening. The Daily Democrat today publishes its annual tourney edition. Pictures of the eight sectional entrants, other photos, senson records, statistical data on the certified players, and many other interesting features are included in the 26 pages. —- 000 — The Fort Wayne Concordia C" dets won the Northeastern Indiana conference championship with eight victories in nine NEIC games. The Elmhurst Trojans were second with a 5-1 record. The final standings: All ~ NEIC Games Concordia 8 1 18 2 Elmhurst 5 T 13 5 New Haven .... 5 3 9 10 Garrett 4 3 14 6 Columbia City — 4 4 14 6 Auburn 4 4 14 6 Angola 4 5 9 11 Decatur 3 6 3 17 KendaUviUe .... 2 7 5 15 Bluffton 2 7 3 17 — 000 — Mike Newcomer, by closing the season last week with a walloping 61 points hi two games, copped the county individual scoring race, edging out Greg Ladd, o fthe Decatur Yellow Jackets, the sea-son-long leader. Newcomer finished with 418 points for a 20.9 average per game while Ladd averaged 20.95 with 401 points. Hie top 10 scorers, with games played, total points scored, and average per game, follow: GP TP Ave. Newcomer, Geneva 20 418 20.9 Ladd, Y. Jackets - 20 401 20.05 Schieferstein, Mth. 20 355 17.7 Wanner, Berne 20 323 16.1 Bienz, Mth. 19 265 14.0 Kohne, Commodores 20 279 13.9 Conrad, Mth. 20 264 13.2 Egly, A. Central „ 20 262 13.1 D. Lose, Commodores .... 20 262 13.1 Inniger, Berne 20 260 13.00 Big Ten Standings W L Pet. Pts OP Michigan 9 2 .818 965 832 Ohio 9 2 .818 1004 917 Minnesota 7 4 .636 937 901 Mich. State .... 6 6 .500 1023 1025 Northwestern .. 5 5 .500 765 753 Purdue ........ 4 5 ,444 778 786 Illinois 4 5 .444 766 771 Indiana 3 7 .300 858 879 lowa 2 7 .222 684 781 Wisconsin 2 8 .200 767 879

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Sonny Liston Predicts Win By Knockout MIAMI BEACH <UPI> — Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston had so little regard for challenger Cassius Clay today as they rested for Tuesday night’s title fight that he not only predicted a three-round kayo over Cassius but added: “There is no possibility of my losing.” That’s a rare statement, indeed, for any fighter to make—perhaps an unprecedented one —before an encounter in which a head-butt, an elbow slash, or an ankle turn might cause a technical knockout defeat. Liston, 30, apparently has less respect for unbeaten Clay, 22, than even the sports writers have for gaseous Cassius. Three writers picked the “Louisville Lip” to wre6t the crown from Liston—among 45 polled. And one of the three forecast Clay’s 20th straight professional victory on a knockout within 13 rounds. Although Clay is doing only roadwork in the mornings and making no public appearances now, he still says he’ll knock out Liston in the eighth round. Fans of the Miami area cer. tainly do not share Clay’s confidence. They are avoiding the box-office windows in regiments. And millionaire Bill McDonald, backer of the “live” fight at the Miami Beach Convention Hall, admits he’ll probably take a financial bath to the tune of about $300,000. McDonald, a retired autotrailer manufacturer, paid $625,000 to Intercontinental Promotions, Inc., for the live show. He must draw about $850,000 to cover the purchase price and his expenses. However, Nathan L. Helpern reported today that the “momentum is picking up’’ at the 271 locations for closed-circuit television in the United States and Canada and there still is a chance that nearly all of the 1,103,451 seats in Ihose locations will be sold —a long chance. A sellout would provide closed-circuit receipts of about $5,100,000, Helpern said. Helpern is president of Theatre Network Tele* in io#, Inc. <TNT >- Rfe,

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Geneva Beats Winchester In Season Finale

The Geneva Cardinals, tapped by torrid Mike Newcomer’s 30 points closed out their season Saturday right with a 72-67 victory over the tough Winchester Golden Eagles at Winchester. It was the Cardinals’ ninth triumph in 13th starts, and only the fourth toss of the season for Winchester. The teams were tied at 37-37 at the half, but the Cardinals came on to win. Newcomer topped all the scorers with 30 points to give the Geneva senior the county’s individual scoring title. Roger Lautzenheiser, with 17, was the only other Cardinal in double figures. Grill topped Winchester with 18 points. Geneva — .. FG FT TP Bollenbacher 2 15 Ellenberger 113 McCabe 2 4 8 Newcomer ........ 8 14 30 Lautzenheiser 7 3 17 Buckingham 2 5 9 Totals 22 28 72 Winchester FG FT TP Sudduth 4 4 12 Moore 3 7 13 Grill 8 2 18 Holdren 2 3 7 White 2 7 11 Chalfant 3 0 6 Totals 22 23 67 Preliminary Geneva, 48-43. Hockey Results NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Scores Montreal 3, Chicago 1. Toronto 5, New York 2. Detroit 3, Boston 2. Sunday’s Scores — Chicago 2, Boston 0. Toronto 4, New York 3. Detroit 3, Montreal 2. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Scores Sort Wayne 6, Chatham 2. Muskegon 10, Des Moines 4. Toledo 4, Windsor 2. Sunday’s Scores Toledo 5, Des Moines 4 (overtime). Port Huron 5, Chatham 1. Windsor 5, Muskegon 3.