Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1964 — Page 7

TUEBPAY, DECEMteI U, 1964

IShraluka ’s Slants I By Bab Rhnriuka

‘Good Show, 9 D.H.S.- And Congrats Congratulations to Decatur High School for a very successful wrestling tournament last Saturday. Not only were we and many fans impressed, but so Were the three Fort Wayne schools, Central, Central Catholic and Concordia, who were entered in the fourteam meet. In fact, all three visiting coaches were well-pleased with all facets of the approximately halfday they spent In Decatur. The teams began arriving around 8 a.m. for the 9 o'clock weigh-in. First round matches concluded around 12 noon and the teams were then served a most delicious training meal received in the school cafeteria. The meal (much better than the one we received at New Haven’s tourney last year) was prepared by the school’s cooks. All three visiting squads were not only impressed by the way the tournament was handled, but by the good-sized crowds that attended the matches. None will probably wrestle before that many people in their remaining matches combined this season. Several students and a couple of former wrestlers, Sam Baumann and Rog Conrad, along with Ted Hill and John Butler, handled the clocks, scoreboard, and kept the team totals. And recording the team totals — accurately anyway — is no simple task. Most responsible for organizing and planning the tournament, and presenting a fine image of the school for the visiting schools, was athletic director Bob Worthman. After the Friday night basketball games (in which he coached the Yellow Jacket reserves), Worthman went to work in preparing for the next day. The mats were laid down, the gymnasium cleaned up, etc. Also, a table was situated along the south wall on the floor, covered with a blanket, and the trophies were displayed there. . The Decatur grapplers showed their appreciation to the veteran teacher and coach by refusing to have a team picture taken until Worthman joined them for the shot. When the final bouts were completed, Worthman went back to work in removing the mats, getting the gym cleaned up again, etc. When that was done it was home for for a quick bite and back to the school for Saturday night’s game with Concordia. And we were always under the impression that athletic directors “had it mdet" The beautiful team trophy, the 12 individual trophies, the runner-up ribbons, and two referees shoved expenses up a bit, but we think it was well worth it. Congrats to D.H.S., and “good show, chaps.”

St. Henry Squeaks By St. Joe In CYO Loop St. Henry squeaked out a 35-33 decision over St. Joseph of Decatur at the Central Catholic gymnasium in the Fort Wayne CYO League Sunday. Tim Bolinger was the top point producer for Decatur, with 15 tallies on six field goals and three free throws. Ron Massonnee contributed six tallies to the attack, while Dan Pierce scored four, Jim Laurent and Jim Blythe three each, and Pat Kohne two.

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Purkey, Craig Are . Involved In Trade ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Knuckleball righthander Bob Purkey moved up to the world champion St. Louis Cardinals today in a trade that sent ex-Naw York Mets pitcher Roger Craig and outfielder Charley James to the Cincinnati Reds. The two-for-one deal was announced -by Cardinal General Manager Bob Howsam, who last week obtained—Tracy Stallard from the Mets for outfielder Johnny Lewis and pitcher Gordon Richardson. The two trades were designed to bolster the Cardinal pitching staff and assure the National League club at least one more regular starter besides Bob Gibson, Curt Simmons and Ray Sadecki. Craig had wanted the starter role. He had been used as starter and reliever in his first season with the Cardinals after he was picked up from the Mets where he became known as the “losingest” pitcher.

Winless Fives In Battle Tonight All County Teams Play Friday

Either Monmouth or Monroeville, two teems with e combined record <rf 0-I*, will eater the victory column for the first time tonight when they collide at the Monmouth gymnasium. The Sne opens an eight-game week Adams County basketball teams. A single game is on tap Wed-

n. • By J/V Bob & Shraluka The Top Ten numbers 11 this week, and has a new leader and three new faces. Monmouth's Danny Conrad is the new leader in average, while Terry Myers and John Lose of the Commodores and Dave Smith of the Yellow Jackets make their first appearance. Conrad, the veteran Eagle senior, pumped in 43 points in a pair of encounters last week, boosting his average to a county high of 19.9 points per game. A sterling defensive performance by Sam Schwartz of Geneva helped Conrad to take over the spot. Schwartz held Berne's sophomore sensation, Larry Beer, to just seven points last Friday. The seven point total dropped Beer’s average from 21.5, high last week, to 18.6. The jumping jack center retained the runner-up spot, however, with his 93 pointe in five contests. The Top Ten this week includes 11 players, as Smith of the Jackets, and Commodore Terry Myers are tied for the tenfii spot with averages of 11.4 each. Lose, the speed demon Commodore guard, vaulted from 11th to 7th spot in the listings as he boosted his average from 11.0 to 13.8 with a 25-point performancAnghinst -Bedkey Friday night. Conrad leads in field goals with 65 and in free throws with 49, but has, of course, played at least two more games than any other player in Adams County. The blond sixfooter came up with the week’s best point total, 43, in two games, and his 27 against Eastside Saturday night was also the top individual job. In addition to Lose and Conrad, four other players had 20-point nights last week. Pat Gage, of the Commodores, had 24 against Redkey; Rog Schnepp, Jet center, scored 22 against Ossian; Smith, of the Jackets, tallied 22 against Columbia City, while Berne’s Dave Flueckiger counted 21 against Geneva. Flueckiger’s 21, the best scoring night of his career, boosted his average into double figures, 10.2. Three other county players are scoring at better than 10 points a game. They are Sam Blythe of the Jackets; Doug Bixler, Geneva; Jim Schultz, Commodores. Blythe and Bixler were in The Top Ten last week. The Commodores, rolling along with four wins and a single loss, have their entire starting five averaging better than 10 points per game. Bill Bolinger and Gage have the top mark, 15.4 each, while Schultz if fifth with a per game average of 10.6. The Commodores, who blitted Redkey Friday with 93 pointe, ift the county’s highest scoring outfit. The green and gold are averaging 71 pointe per contest, while Adams Central has the best defensive average, allowing 55.9 points a game. Following the Commodores in the offensive department are: Adams Central, 64.9; Geneva, 61.6; Yellow Jackets, 55.0; Monmouth, 54.2; Berne, 53.8. Ranking behind the Jets defensively are: Geneva, 62.6; Commodores, 64.8; Yellow Jackets, 70.0; Monmouth, 77.0. The Top Ten, listing games played, field goals, free throws, total points and average, is as follows:

GP FG FT Ptg. Avg. Dan Conrad, Monmouth 9 Q 5 49 179 19.9 Larry Beer, Berne 5 34 25 93 18.6 Ron Bollenbacher, Geneva 4 25 15 67 16.8 Rog Schnepp, A. Central 7 40 32 112 16|0 Bill Bolinger, Commodores 5 27 23 77 15.4 Pat Gage, Commodores 5 32 13 77 15.4 John Lose, Commodores 5 20 29 69 13.8 Steve Smith, A. Central 6 29 17 75 12.5 Tony Ehrsam, A. Central: 7 29 24 82 11.7 Terry Myers, Commodores 5 27 3 57 11.4 Dave Smith, Y. Jackets 5 27 3 57 114

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nesday night, five Friday evening and one contest Saturday night Tonight's battle of the winkas opens the week’s action. The Eagles, who reach the halfway mark of their regular season schedule with the Monroeville contest have dropped nine straight The Cube, under new coach Lee DeTurk, have dropped seven in a row. Both clubs are young teams, and a victory tonight would be most welcome by either Eagle mentor Don Elder or DeTurk. The Cubs travel to Roanoke Friday. Commodores Travel The Decatur Catholic Commodores, who have run up a fourgame win skein after a seasonopening loss to Adams Central, are the lone county team seeing action Wednesday evening.

Coach Bob Boyle wiU send his charges, who are averaging 71 points per game, against the Huntington Catholic Ramblers at Hunington. The Ramblers squeaked out a victory over Hoagland last Friday night. The Commodores, who have gotten off to one of their best starts in recent seasons, have their entire starting five averaging between 10 and more than 15 points a game. Five Friday Five games feature the Friday night schedule, with both Decatur clubs playing. The Commodores take one day off after their Wednesday night test and then meet Arcola’s Aces Friday evening at Monmouth’s gymnasium. The Aces have a 3-4 record to date, and are coached by Clark Stahly, former basketball star at Hartford Center in this county. The Yellow Jackets seek fheir first victory after five defeats Friday night when they travel to Bluffton to meet the Tigers in a Northeastern Indiana Conference game. The Tigers have several returnees from last season, including Dave Terhune, one of the NEIC’s top scorers, and Ted Mahnensmith, but haven’t jelled and own a 2-3 record thus far. Hoagland, 3-4 will try to snap a four-game losing string Friday at Geneva. Hie Cards have won three of five but may be without the services of veteran star who is nursing In other games the same night, Adams Central will host Berne Junior High Downs Parkway 52-29 The Decatur Junior High used a 17 point fourth period to romp to a 52-29 victory over the Parkway, 0., Junior High Monday at the Willshire gymnasium. Decatur held a 16-6 lead after one period and a 25-14 margin at the half. Parkway cut one point from the margin and trailed, 3525, entering the final quarter. Decatur, however, exploded for 17 tallies and easily pulled away. Mike Schnepf led the winners’ attack with 15 points, while Tom Miller contributed 11 markers and Alan Bedwell chipped in with 10. Gibbons’ 15 was high for Parkway. Score summary: DECATUR FG FT Pts. MUler 4 3 11 Curtino 0 0 Bedwells 0 10 Fisher 10 2 Adams 10 2 Johnson 0 0 0 Hutker 0 2 2 Schnepf .... 6 3 15 Winteregg 3 2 8 Smith 10 2 TOTALS 21 10 52 PARKWAY FG FT Pts. Kettering 0 0 0 McMillen 3 0 6 Miller .. 1 0 2 Gibbons 71 15 Skinner . 3 O ' 6 TOTALS 14 1 29 College Basketball Miami, O. 114, Marshall 90. Michigan 80, Wichita 85. Loy ala, HL, 117, Middle Tenn. 85. Detroit 123, Xavier 110. Drake 56, Idaho St. 41. Eastern, 111. 86, Milliken 66. North Mich. 94, Stevens Pt. 70.

in an inter-county battle and Monmouth wiU host Bishop Luers of Fort Wayne. Luers has a 2-2 mark thus far. The game will ba played in the Decatur gymnasium. Despite the contrasting records of the two clubs, the game at Monroe may be an interesting battle. The Jets bad their win skein stopped at five by Ossian last Friday, but bounced back the following night to upend Wood lan. The Bears, who have two victories in five outings, are a young and Inexperienced squad but have surprised on a couple of occasions. Geneva will be back in action Saturday night, hosting Selma of Delaware County. County neigh-

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Hotshots Beaten In First Match Monday The Hotshots, rifle club of the Decatur Catholic high school, engaging in their first match of the Season Monday night at St. 'MatyS, 0., were defeated by the Sertoma Junior rifle club of St. Marys, 1799 to 1728. ~,Top individual scorers was Mary Schethy of Sertoma with a 375, on scores of 100 in prone position, 95, in sitting position, 93 in kneeling position, and 87 in offhand. Others in the top five for the winners were: Gary Schulte, 95-96-94-84, for a 369 total; Doug Grider, 97-96-91-81; for a 365 total; Terry, Finky, 98-81-97-73, total of 351; and Bruce Grider, 99-89-83-68, total of 339. Al Converse! topped the Hotshots with a 354 total on score of 98 prone, 93 sitting, 85 kneeling and 78 offhand. Others in the top five for Decatur were: Jerry Selking, 97-95-87-72, total of 351; Jim Becker, 98-94-84-69, total of 345; Dave Braun, 97-91-83-70 .total of 341; Jim Miller, 90-88-74-65, 337. Other Decatur scores were Dan Heimann, 91-81-87-67, total of 326; Steve Colchin, 97-88-69-58, total of 312; Mike Reynolds, 95-96-97 (prone position only), total of 288; Mike Rumschlag, 92-79-70-61, total of 312; John Martin, 96-88-79-67, total of 330; John Schirack, 94-84-87-34, total of 299; Dan Salsbury, 95-95-78-59, total of 327. Hawk Veteran Pettit Sidelined Ten Days ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Veteran St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit’s injury was diagnosed today as fractures of the first four lumbar transvere processes on the right side of the back, enough i damage to keep him sidelined J for another 10 days.. g The 32-year-old Pettit was in- * jured in last week's gam e 3 against the Los Angeles Lakers 3 when he was said to have col-a lided with Rudy Laßusso.

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bor Hoagland will entertain Clwrubusco the same night Teaoi Reeerds With Adams Central's toss at Ossian, Adams County was left without an unbeaten quintet. Two of the six county teams, the Yellow Jackets and Monmouth, are still without a vicitory. The six teams stand as follows: W L Pct. Adams Central (2-0) 6 1 .857 Commodores (1-1) .4 1 .800 Geneva (24)) 3 2 .600 Berne (1-1) 2 3 .400 Yellow Jackets (0-1) 0 5 .000 Monmouth (0-3) .... 0 7 .000 Record against county teams ini parentheses. I

iiWbiiim II II I Who They Play Basketball Tuesday Monroeville at Monmouth Wednesday Commodores at Huntington Catholic. Friday Arcola at Commodores* Yellow? Jackets at Bluffton Berne at Adams Central Hoagland at Geneva Bishop Luers at Monmouth** Monroeville at Roanoke. Saturday Geneva at Selma Churubusco at Hoagland * — at Monmouth gym. ♦* — at Decatur gym. Wrestling Tuesday Cent. Catholic at Decatur.

Three Victorious In St. Joe Grade League The Hornets won a 21-19 decision from the Celtics, the Globetrotters nipped the Monsters by a 25-24 score, and the Hawks downed the Hillbillies, 31-15, in the St. Joseph grade league Sunday. » Rick Closson paced the Hornets with 14 tallies, while Tom Schurger added four, Dave Schurger two and Mike Baker one. Mark Keller’s eight led the Celts, while Dave Schirack and Bruce Hackman scored five each and Greg Keller one. Ron Kuhnle had 14 markers to pace the 'Trotters, Jesse Mendez scored four, Steve Gase three and Kev O’Shaughnessey and Jim Kuhnle two apiece. Jerry Ulman tallied 12 points for the Monsters, Mike Gage contributed 10 and Lenny Razo two. John Baker's 17 points for the Hawks was high for the day, and Joe Lose chipped in with seven, Jim Brazill five and Jim Ranly two. Roger Gage scored eight for the Hillbillies, Dave Eichhorn five, and Jim Inskeep and Bill Heimann added one each.

Ex-Bluffton Star Sparks Purdue Win

By UnNed Preen International Indiana's Hurryin’ Hoosiers were 5-0 in pre-Big Ten basketball competition today but Purdue was slightly less than convincing in its Monday night home debut. While Indiana shot DePaul from the unbeaten ranks, 91-78, Purdue barely beat South Dakota, 80-78, on Bob Purkhiser’s last-minute heroics. Indiana, 10th in this week’s .UPI coaches’ board rating, had its hands full with the Demons from Chicago before tossing in 15 consecutive points late in the game for a big bulge. j The Hoosiers started moving d when Jon McGlocklin replaced ■ Ron Peyser at center and their

Four Post Triumphs In Lutheran League Preble, Bethlehem, Bingen and Soest were winners Sunday in Lutheran Laymen League games played at Hoagland, and Monmouth. IO ' ,1)4! Preble blasted a team that was not identified in the report, 45-14. The Preble scoring: Wefel, 10; J. Reinking, 9; D. Bieberich, 8; Hoffman, Weigmann, and D. Reinking, 4 each; Reinhart, Schaekel, Bulmahn, 2 each. Hoffman had 8 and Dietrech 6 for the losers. ’ Bethlehem nipped Friedheim Zion, 30-27. T. Graft led the winners with 13, Hoffman added 8, L Graft 5 and Nuehouse and Dettmer 2 each. Scheumann and Neurge had 9 each for Friedheim, while Buuck scored 3 and Kiess, Miller and Gallmeier 2 each. Bingen whipped Zion of Decatur, 45-28. R. Bultemeier had 16 for the winners and other scoring was as follows: Hoile, 8; Berning, 7; S. Bultemeier, 5; G. Schuemann, 4; T. Scheumann and L. Graft, 2 each; J. Bultemeier, 1. Steele led Decatur with 15, while Moser and Davis added 5 each, Kenney 2 and Conrad 1. Soest rang up 56 points to just 14 for Fuelling. Soest scorers were: S. Zelt and Rohrbach, 10 each; Braun, 8; Lepper, 8; G. Messmann, 7; D. Messmann, Stan Oehler and Widenhoffer, 4 each; S. Oehler, 1. Franz had 8 for Fuelling, J. Fuelling 4, Matthews 2 and G. Fuelling and Scherer 1 each. Sian Francisco CHICAGO (UPI) — The Chicago Bears have signed UCLA guard Kent Francisco. Francisco, who was drafted 14th as a “future” a year ago, is 6-feet--2 inches tall and weighs 245 pounds.

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pressing zone defense paid off handsomely. It was only 42-41 Indiana at the half, but the second-half rally preserved the Hoosiers’ perfect record. Both teams had four players in double figures. McGlocklin led Indiana with 24 points and Tom VanArsdale had 22. Steve Redenbaugh contributed 18 and Dick VanArsdale 12. Jesse Nash paced DePaul with 23. Purkhiser, ■ who had a hot hand in Purdue's win at Butler last Saturday, hit a jump shot with 42 seconds to go to give the Riveters a 78-77 lead and he canned a pair of freethrows with three seconds left to ice the victory, Purdue’s third m four starts. The senior from Bluffton hit 23 points, second only to teammate Dave Schellhase’s 29. However, no other Purdue player hit in double figures. Winless South Dakota had three players in double, figures, led by Bill Bruns' 20. In the only other game involving Hoosier teams, Concordia of Fort Wayne dumped Be’hel, 100-89, for a 4-5 season record.

Local Grapplers Seek sth Win Here Tonight De* star High School’s wre.tling team, fresh from a smashing victory in its own fo’-r-tram torr ament Saturday, seek their fifth victory of the rr«i tonight. Tie undefeated local grapplers will host Fort Wayne Central Catholic tonight at the Decatur gymnasium, beginning at 7 o'clock. The Irish wrestlers placed second in Saturday's njeet, 38 pointe behind Decatur’s winning total of 80. Tonight’s match will be the last one at home for nearly a month as Manchester visits Decatur on January 14.

Golf To Have World Champion Next Year DUNEDIN, Fla. (UPI) — Golf is going to have an official. world champion next year thanks to a television idea. The World Series of Golf, originated three years ago as a television gimmick and which matches the winners of the PGA championship, the Masters, the USGA Open and the British Open, was recognized Monday by the Professional Golfers Associatiouas their official World Series. The prize money, although still not counting in the official earnings list, is a sizeable enough incentive for the competitors. First prize is $50,000, second is worth $15,000, $7,500 for third and $5,000 for fourth. Tony Lerna won the jackpot this year while Jack Nicklaus added SIOO,OOO to his bankroll by winning it the first two years.

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