Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1964 — Page 7

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Karters Kart Home Gold

w BBHjH *' : ■ Ik"■ ? w ■al TROPHY WlNNEßS— Recipients of special awards at the Sportsman’s Karting association year-end banquet were: front'row, left to right, John Bartkus, Floyd Mcßride, La Verne "Moe” Brewer, Larry Myers and Allen Bogner. Second, row, left to right, Bruce Schnepf, Joe Beavers, Mrs. Melba Doster, Otto Pruitt, Mrs. Connie Brewer, Keith Ranly and Lloyd Wilkin.—(Photo by Mac Lean) GOLD COLLECTION— Winners of class awards for final point standings in the Sportsman’s Karting association were: front row, left to right. Bill Bartkus, Jim Eiting, Brad Mcßride, Robert Cavinder, Dale Dolby and Neal Keller. Second row, left to right, Bruce, Schnepf, Lloyd Wilkin, Floyd McBride, Bob Brown, Larry Wilkin, Bob Sowles, Keith Ranly, Ofto Pruitt, Larry Myers and Alan Bogner. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Cadets Defending Title:

4 NEIC Games Friday

All but two of the 10 Northeastern Indiana Conference members are involved in league play Friday night, in the conference’s biggest slate of games yet this season. Only four NEIC games have been played thus far this year, Sectional Wrestling To Open On Feb. 13 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— The three-stage Indiana high school wrestling championships will open on the sectional level Feb. 6 and sectional swimming meets will be held Feb. 13, the IHSAA announced today. Sectional wrestling sites are Crawfordsville, Crown Point, East Chicago, Elkhart, Evansville, Franklin Central, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis (2), Lafayette, Lawrence Central, Marion, New Albany, New Castle, and South Bend Adams. Wrestling regionals will be held Feb. 13 at Bloomington, East Chicago, Indianapolis, and Lafaye te, and the state finals will be at Southport Feb. 20. The preliminary swimming meets will be staged at Columbus, Frankfort, South Bend and Valparaiso, with the finals at Indiana University's Royer Pool Feb, 19-20. Southport and Columbus are defending wrestling and swimming champions, respectively. Hull Sent Down CHICAGO (UPD — Dennis Hull, brother of the Chicago Hawks’ star wing Bobby Hull, was sent down to the club’s St. Louis farm team today. The move was made to reduce the number of players to the National Hockey League limit of 17.

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but the action picks up this week with the four-game schedule. Bluffton entertains Angola, Columbia City hosts New Haven, Elmhurst will be at Concordia, and Kendallville travels to Garrett. In two non-conference games, the Decatur Yellow Jackets will visit Fort Wayne Central Catho lie," and Auburn will be at Eastside of Butler. in other contests involving Northeastern Indiana Conference teams this week, the Yellow Jackets are at Berne Tuesday and the following five games will be played Saturday night: Elmhurst at Monmouth (at Decatur) Huntertown at Auburn, Prairie Heights at Garrett, South Side at Kendallville and Central at New Haven. Auburn, Garrett Lead Auburn and Garrett lead the NEIC race at this early stage with perfect 1-0 records each. Columbia City and Concordia have each split a pair of NEIC engagements, and Angola and Kendallville have each lost one Seats Available At Berne For Tonight Tonight’s Decatur - Berne reserve game will start at 7 o’clock, varsity game win begin at apDecatur high athletic director Bob Worthman said this morning. The proximately 8 o’clock. Admission is 75 cents for both students and adults, and plenty of seats wiU be available, according to information received by Worthman from Berne. Worthman also said that Friday’s game with Central Catholic will be played at the Bishop Dwenger gymnasium, located oh the Washington Center Road, north of the city. The reserve game will begin at 7 p. m. Friday, and tickets will be $1 for both students and adults. Student tickets priced at 50 cents, however, may be, purchased at Decatur high school.

in one start. Decatur, New Haven, Elmhurst and Bluffton have yet to play a conference game. In games played thus far, Auburn defeated Columbia City, 6459; Garrett whipped Concordia, 93-54; Columbia City defeated Angola, 83-45; and Concordia downed Kendallville, 88-54. New Haven Unbeaten The New Haven Bulldogs are the only NEIC team that remains unbeaten in all games thus far. They have won three times in three outings, while all other teams have lost at least once. The Yellow Jackets play their first of nine NEIC contests a week from Friday, December 11, when they host the Columbia City Eagles. The Jackets then Friday, December 11, when they host the Columbia City Eagles. The Jackets then take on Concordia's Cadets on Saturday night, December 12, in another NEIC battle. The Cadets are defending the NEIC crown they won last season. Following are the league standing as of today, and the way the 10 teams finished the 1963-64 season, including tournament games. League Records Cons. AU WL W L Auburn 10 2 1 Garrett 10 2 1 Col. City 112 2 Concordia 1112 DECATUR- 0 0 0 1 New Haven 0 0 3 0 Elmhurst 0 0 12 Bluffton Q 0 1 2 Angolao 10 3 Kendallville 0 10 5 Last Season Concordia - 8 1 20 3 Elmhurst 5 1 13 6 New Haven 5 3 10 11 Garrett 4 4 20 7 Col. City 4 4 18 7 Auburn 4 4 16 7 Angola ; 4 5 9 12 Decatur , 3 6 4 18 Kendallville 2 7 8 18 Bluffton 2 7 4 18

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

Shraluka’s Slants By Bob Shraluka

Save A Life This Winter Want to save a life this winter? Well,' not a a human life, but a life anyway. We learned from a reliable source, but one who wishes to remain anonymous, that everyone in Decatur has an opportunity to to save a life in the next few months. And not by fastening seat belts either. Seriously, our source tells us that the city is unusually crowded with squirrels this time of the year, and explains the reason for this is due to a lack of nuts, or food for the squirrels. According to the information we received, the rural areas, especially the wooded ones, are without nuts, believed to be the result of an early frost this spring. We’re told the little fellows can’t find food in the usual places, and thus have moved into the city looking for something to eat. The same source tellls us that if city resi- ' dents don’t provide the squirrels with food, most of them will die from a lack of food. How do you remedy the situation? There are several ways, and all of them are easy. The easiest is to take a wooden box, such as a cigar box, and nail it to a tree in your yard.- Take some ordinary field corn, any kind of nuts, or even apples (cut into quarters) and just place them in the box. Don’t worry about the food being found. You’ll discover it will be gone within 24 hours, and if you keep an eye on the tree, you’ll get a big kick out of watching the squirrels devour the food. *•■ • ♦ • If you check the box scores of the I. U. basketball games this winter, you’ll more than likely spot a similar name. The name is Inniger, and it is getting to be an important one down Indiana way. We ran into the likeable guy at the hockey game the other night, and Erv said he knew he wouldn’t be starting this season, but thought his chances of seeing some action were quite good. Now 6-3 >/ 2 , and weighing 180 pounds, Inniger is being used at guard by McCracken, and he’ll have plenty of height for that position. Erv * stated he was out to do his best this season, his sophomore campaign. No wonder, there are seven seniors, listed on the 17-man team roster released recently. Speaking of Erv reminds us of Rick, whom we have noticed is hitting double figures consistently for Peru. He was really coming on strong for Berne toward the latter part of last season and will be sorely missed by the Bears this winter. And speaking of Inniger and Inniger reminds us of another name from Berne to keep an eye on in the future. The name is Neil Schwartz, and he is the younger brother of Rod. He has now stretched to the six-foot mark and is leading the frosh team in scoring. A case of rhuematic fever some years back doesn’t appear to be hindering a budding basketball future. Here are some dates of events coming up at the Memorial Coliseum that you might be interested in: Dec. 10, Auburn vs. Garrett; Dec. 11 12 & 13, Rod and Custom show; Dec. 21, Indiana vs Notre Dame; Dec. 27, Detroit Pistons vs. Boston Celtics; Jan. 10 & 31, USAC midget races; Feb. 5-7, Shrine Circus.

Season Tickets Good Bev. Denis Blank, Decatur Catholic high school athletic director, reminded Commodore season ticket holders this morning that their tickets will be honored Saturday right at the Adams Centra] gymnasium. Due to a previous commitment at the local gym, the Commodores will play Larwill at the Adams Central gymnasium Saturday night. The Larwill-Commodore game was postponed on November 20. Annual City Series To Open Next Tuesday The annual seventh and eighth • grade City Series will open next Tuesday night. The parochial St. Joseph team will meet the public Junior High quintet at the Lincoln gymnasium Tuesday night, December 8, in the first game of the best-of-three series. Seventh grade teams will play at 6:JJO p. m., with the eighth grades meeting at approximately 7:30 p. m. Admission will be 10 cents for students and 25 cents for adults.

JT7io They Play Basketball TUESDAY Yellow Jackets at Berne. A. Central at Monmouth-x. FRIDAY Monmouth at Commodores. YelloW Jackets at Cent. Catholic. A. Cen’ral at Dunkirk. Madison at Geneva. Churubusco at Monroeville. Huntertown at Hoagland. Lancaster at Berne. batukday Larwill at Commodores.* Elmhurst at Monmouth-x. x— at Decatur gym. • —At Adams Central gymnasium. Wrestling THURSDAY Decatur at Manchester. SATURDAY Decatur at New Haven.

Four Teams Entered Here: Pairings, Plans Made For Wrestling Meet On Dec. 12

Decatur high school athletic director Bob Worthman announced today plana and pairings for the four-team wrestling tournament to be held in this city Saturday, December 13. Entered in the wrestling meet the first ever to be held in Decatur, will be teams from three Fort Wayne schools, Central Catholic. Centra' and Con in addition to the host Decatur team. First round matches will begin, at 10 a. m. December 12, with weighing-in for the athletes to be held from 9to 9:45 a. m At 1:30 p. m., the championship and consolation matches will start. Admission is 50 cents for each session. There will be four entrants in each of the 12 weight classes, with the two winners in the morning meeting for the championship in the afternoon bouts, and the morning losers battling for consolation honors. Trophy Awarded A trophy will be awarded to the team champions, and awards will also be made to the first and second place winners in each division. The morning matches will begin with the 95-pounders, with Decatur and Central pitted against each other on the mat 1 and Central Catholic and Concordia grapplers meeting on mat 2. Mat 1 will be located at the east

Tribe, Nats In Deal, New Draft Proposed

By ED FITE UPI Sports Writer HOUSTON (UPI) — Organized baseball was expected to follow the pattern of pro football today and take its first actual step toward passage of a radical new draft that would mark the end of six-figure bonuses. . i The general feeling was that both major and minor league officials will endorse the unprecedented free agent draft which is employed by all pro football teams. Under the free agent proposal, all college, high school and sandlot players will be grouped together and the 20 major league teams will make theft selections in reverse order of their standings at the end of the season. Players drafted by a particular club only will be able to negotiate with that Club, thus discouraging the cut-throat bidding that has led to lhe payments of astronomical bonuses. Minor league officials already have indicated they will vote in favor of the proposal Wednesday following final discussion of the plan today, and the majors were expected to follow suit on Friday. Meanwhile, in what might have been the last restricted draft in baseball, the majors arid Class AAA and AA minors shelled out $924,000 Monday with 107 players changing hands. The majors drafted four players in the regular draft at $25,000 per player for a total of SIOO,OOO, then paid but $472,000 for 59 firgt-year players; the AAA clubs, picked 30 players at an outlay of $288,000 and the AA teams., 14 players at a cost of $64,000. Friedheim Wins Over Flatrock On Sunday Friedheim withstood a fourth quarter rally by Flatrock and posted a 31-30 victory in a Lutheran Laymen’s Leagud game Sunday at Hoagland. The winners held what appeared to be a commanding 27-15 lead at the start of the final period, but Flatrock put on a big rally, only to fall a point short. Freidheim’s scoring was well-balanced, with D. Buuck’s nine and Scheumann’s seven leading the way. Qonrad had six, Neujrge five, and Miller and Gallmeyer two each. J. Mueller had 13 for Flatrock and R. Melcher 11, while Hoffman added four and Franke two.

end of the local gym, and mat 2 at the west end. At the conclusion of the 95 pound match on e;ch mat, no matter how much sooner one may be finished than the other, the 103-pounders will take over the mat In case of forfeit, the winner wil ladvance to the championship round. Point System Team points are awarded as follows: Ist place, five points; 2nd place, three points; 3rd place, one point; forfeit winner, one point. In addition, each wrestler is awarded one extra point if he wins by pinning his opponent, and each of the 24 wrestlers winning in the morning round gain an additional team point for advancing to the championship round. For example, if Adams of Decatur pins his opponent in tfie morning, he gets one point for the pin and one point for advancement. If he wins again in the afternoon, he gets another point for the pin, plus the five points for being champion, for a total of eight team points. Following the morning matches, a training meal for wrestlers from each of the four schools will be served in the school cafeteria. John Smith and Al Thomas of Muncie will be referees for the meet. Following is the draw, as made by teams; Meet Pairings 95—Central vs Decatur, Con-

Mos L—noteworthy of thte four regular draft deals * was the New York Yankees’ selection of Leon (Duke) Carmel, a 27-year-old former failure of the Cardinals and Mets, A flurry of trading Monday among . the convention visitors was climaxed by a midnight announcement of the Cleveland Indians obtaining outfielder Chuck Hinton from the Washington Senators for outfielder Woody Held and first baseman Bob Chance. Earlier, the Philadelphia Phillies made their third deal of the meeting by trading outfielder Danny Cater to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Ray Herbert and sold Vic Power back to the Los Angeles Angels. The Senators also got catcher Dolph Camilli in a cash deal from the Los Angeles Dodgers. slh And 6th Grade League Will Open The sth and 6th grade basketball league begins play this week with three games scheduled 7or Thursday afternoon. Six teams are again entered this season, including Monmouth, the defending regular season champs, the Decatur Lutheran school, and the four city public schools, Northwest, Southeast and Lincoln. Northwest has two teams entered. Northwest A and Northwest B. Each team will play seven games, and at least one with every other member of the league. Games consist of four quarters of five minutes duration each. Following the end of the regular season, a tournament Will open during the first week of February. This Thursday's games see Northwest A at Northwest B, Monmouth at Lincoln and Lutheran at Southeast. The remaining schedule is as follows: Dec. Ift—Northwest A at Southeast; Lutheran at Lincoln; Monmouth at Northwest B. Dec. 17—Monmouth at Northwest A; Southeast at Lincoln. Dec. 18— Lutheran at Northwest B. Jan. 7 —Lutheran at Northwest A; Southeast at Monmouth; Northwest B at Lincoln. Jan. 14—Lincoln at Northwest A; Northwest B at Southeast; Lutheran at Monmouth. Jan. 21—Northwest A at Southeast; Lutheran at Northwest B; Lincoln at Monmouth. Jan. 28—Northwest A at Monmouth; Lincoln at Northwest B; Lutheran at Southeast.

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cordia vs C. C. 103—C. C. vs Decatur, Concordia vs Central. 112 —C. C. vs Concordia, Central vs Decatur. 120—Concordia vs Decatur, Central vs C. C. 127— Concordia vs C. C., Central vs Decatur. 133—Decatur vs Central, C. C. vs Concordia. 138— Decatur vs Concordia, Central vs C. C. 145—C. C. vs Decatur, Central vs Concordia. 154—Concordia vs Central, Decatur vs C. C. 165—Central vs Decatur, C.C. vs Concordia. 180—Concordia vs Central, Decatur vs C. C. Hvyt. —Central vs C. C., Decatur vs Concordia. Bama Ist, Irish 3rd, UPI Poll NEW YORK (UPI) — The South has risen to college football's summit once again with today’s naming of Alabama as the nation’s No. 1 team by the United Press International Board of Coaches. Alabama gained the 1964 national championship wi'h a spotless 10-0 record garnering 22 first place votes to seven for runner-up Arkansas, which likewise finished their 10-game schedule without a smear. The Crimson Tide won the national title in 1961 but fell to fifth in '62 when Southern California reigned and was rated ninth last year while Texas held sway. United Press International will present Alabama with a trophy symbolic of the national championship at a date yet to be announced. Although Alabama Coach Paul Bryant was claiming his squad deserved the honor, Notre Darners couldn’t surpress the feeling that they had given it away. NEW YORK (UPI) - The final United Press International major college football ratings with first place votes and won-lost records in parentheses: Team Points 1. Alabama (22) (1(H)) 333 2. Arkansas (?) (10-0) 301 3. Notre Dame (4) (9-1) 275 4. Michigan (2) (8-1) 241 5. Texas 6. Nebraska (9-1) 166 7. Louisiana St. (7-1-1) x 99 8. Oregon State (8-2) 81 9. Ohio State (7-2) 66 10. Southern Cal (7-3) 48 x—Has not yet completed season. Second Ift— 11, Florida State 35; 12. Syracuse 13; 13. Princeton 8; 14 (tie) Penn State and Utah 7; 16. (tie) Tulsa and Missouri 4; 20. (tie) Mississippi and Michigan State 3. Others receiving votes: Arizona State, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Washington. Fighter To Recover, Off Critical List HOUSTON (UPI) — Heavyweight Cleveland (Big Cat) Williams, off the critical list after being shot by a state pa’rolman, started the second phase of his recovery today in a new hospital. Doctors ordered the boxer transferred from Ben-Taub General to Methodist Hospital Monday so that he could rest in complete quiet. Williams was still under sedation and was not allowed visitors at his hospital room. The 31-year-old second-ranked heavyweight contender was shot Saturday night by highway patrolman Dale Wit'en, who arrested the fighter for drunken driving. Discontinue Team CINCINNATI (UPI)—Bill DeWitt, owner of the Cincinnati Reds, announced Monday that the club discontinued its Macon, Ga., franchise in the Southern League and purchased the franchise of the Knoxville, Tenn., club.