Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1964 — Page 7

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Hoosiers Rip N.D., 107 - 81 FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Indiana's Hoosiers ran their unbeaten string to seven Monday night, clobbering Notre Dame by a 107-81 score at the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne before a capacity crowd of 10,003. Notre Dame led just once, 9-8, before the Hoosiers took command and rolled to an 11 point lead, 54-43, at halftime. The Irish got within 10, 63-53, with 15:05 Erv Gets Six Points Ex-Berne star Erv Inniger scored the 98th through 101st points for Indiana last night during the Hoosiers’ victory over Notre Dame. Inniger ent-' ered the game late In the first half, bit his first shot, and then missed two. He missed a shot late in the game before hitting the four consecutive free throws that put I. U. past the 100 mark. Inniger is a sophomore at Indiana, and now has 18 points in four games. left in the second half, before I. U. began pulling away. The Hoosier’s biggest lead was 29 points, 105-76. The vaunted I. U. press forced Notre Dame, winners of four in seven outings, to commit 20 ballhandling errors, Tom VanArsdale paced the winners with 21 tallies, while Ron Peyser, 6-8 center, chipped in with 18. Little Al Harden and Steve Redenbaugh scored 14 each, and Dick VanArsdale added 11. Larry Sheffield and Jay Miller topped the Irish with 15 each, while Walt Sahm contributed 13 and Ron Reed 12.

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The Rhubarb That Wasn’t

BY 808 SHBALUKA (Democrat Sports Editor) A rumor spreading through Adams County today that alleges Geneva coach Tom Agler to have struck an official during Saturday night's game at Selma, was found by this reporter to be completely false, after talking with principals of both schools. It was heard in Decatur Monday that Agler, the former Hartford Center mentor who took over the Cardinal fortunes this fall, was to have come onto the floor at Selma Saturday night to break up a fight between players and ended up striking an official. This entire story was quite Lions Fire Coaches But Retain Wilson DETROIT (UPD—Once again auto scion William Clay Ford has tinkered with his $6.5 million toy—more popularly referred to as the Detroit Lions Football Company. In his second regal decree Monday, Ford announced the firing of assistant coaches Don Doll, Les Bingaman, Bob Nussbaumer, Sonny Grandelius and Aldo Forte. Then, he met with one of his remaining subjects, head Coach George Wilson, and made a proposal—Wilson could join his aides as members of the unemployed, or he could find five new assistants and continue as the ex-officio chief-of-staff for an indefinite period. Wilson, being 50 years old, the father of five children and not independently wealthy, selected the latter option.

false, however. In fact, the referees working the game, Fred Stanley and Gene Lillie, told officials of both schools that they did not even intend to report the matter to the Indiana High School Athletic Association, so minor was the incident. Selma Satisfied Joe Naumcheff, principal of Selma High School, a small school located a few miles east of Muncie in Delaware County, told this reporter Monday afternoon that “to our satisfaction, everythihg was settled.” Geneva principal William Mor* ris agreed, and his pension of the incident coincided with that of the Selma principal’s. The incident occurred with approximately two minutes remaining in the game at Selma, which the hosts won by the of a single point, 67-66. A scuffle, which the Selma principal described as one of those that happens every so often in “a heated game such as this one,” broke out among a couple of players near the Geneva bench. To Break Up Agler, both principals concurred, came off his bench only to attettipt to break up the tussle before any fists were thrown. “A Civilian Defense man,” Naumcheff explained, “also jumped to the playing floor to calm htem (the players) down.” Before it was over, however, the Selma resident had been struck on the jaw by a flying elbow. Naumcheff said that the Civilian Defense personnel are used to handle parking at the games, and this particular individual had come into the gymnasium to watch the game when his duties were completed. “Nobody hit anybody,” Naumcheff stated, “and the referees didn’t even get there, as they were at the other end of the floor.” Morris, the Geneva principal, said the man “grabbed Tom.” "I would almost swear he (Agler) didn’t even toueh him,” Norris added. Agler was ejected from the game, but Morris said that apologies were made by everyone concerned after the contest and that ended the incident. So, once sgain a rumor was just that —a rumor!

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r-J&n. j&L Tap By Bob Q Shraluka For the second week in a row, The Top Ten numbers 11. And It is dominated by those amazing Decatur Commodores who continue winning the close ones with phenomenal balanced scoring from their starting five. , Os the leading 11 scorers (a tie for 10th spot, five of them wear the Decatur green and gold. Starting with junior Bill Bolinger and ending with senior Terry. Myers, the Commodore starters are separated in per game averages by just three points. Bolinger’s 14.9 a game is high, while Myers’ 11.9 per contest is low. Between those two are Pat Gage, 14.0; John Lose, 12.9; and Jim Schultz, 12.0. Schulte, scoring 31 points in two games last week, is making his first appearance in The Top Ten. His 17 led the Commodores to their sixth victory in a row Friday night, and with just seven games completed, the Decatur lads have had every regular as high scorer in at least one game. Monmouth’s senior veteran, Danny Conrad, pumped in 24 tallies in the Eagles’ first victory last Tuesday night, and added another 20 Friday night, boosting his couhty - leading average to 20.3 points per game. Conrad continues to hold the top spot in both scoring total and average among county players, with Berne’s Larry Beer, the first week’s leader, runner-up for the second week in succession. Beer scored 13 points against Adams Central Friday night, and Rog Schnepp, of Adams Central, is closjng in on him. Schnepp dumped in 25 markers in the same contest and now trails Beer by just six-tenths of a point in the steerage race. IC w Both Bolinger and Schnepp moved past Geneva’s Ron Bollenbacher, who scored just 22 points in a pair of games. Steve Smith, of the Jets, dropped from eighth spot to a tie with Myers for 10th, and Decatur Yellow Jacket senior Dave Smith dropped out of the first ten. .Smith was held scoreless at Bluffton Friday night. In addition to The Top Ten, plus one, two other county players are averaging in twin figures. Sam Blythe, of the Yellow Jackets, has an 11.8 mark, while Dave Flueckiger, of Berne, owns a mark of 10.3. This is a very “quiet” week for county teams. Geneva plays at Winchester tonight in the only game involving a county quintet this week. The Commodores host a holiday tourney next week, and the Jackets play in a fourteam affair at Hartford City the same,, nights. Monmouth and Adams Central play in the Jet invitational on Friday and Saturday nights, January 8 and 9, while Berne and Geneva are entered in a holiday meet, at Winchester on Saturday, January 2. Adams County’s six teams have a combined record of 1219 against non-county foes. The Commodores led the way with a perfect 5-0 mark, while Adams Central is 4-1 outside the County. The Jets are 3-0 against comity teams, and Geneva has won both of its starts within Adams County. The Top Ten. listing games played, field goals, free throws, total points and average, is as follows:

GP PG FT Pts. Avg. Danny Conrad, Monmouthll 74 75 223 20.3 Larry Beer, Berne 6 39 28 106 17.7 Rog Schnepp, A. Central 8 49 39 137 17.1 Bill Bolinger, Commodores 7 37 80 104 14.9 Ron Bollenbacher, Geneva 6 34 19 89 14.2 Pat Gage, Commodores 7 38 22 98 14.0 John Lose, Commodores 7 30 30 90 12.9 Tony Ehrsam, A. Centralß 34 29 97 IXI Jim Schultz, Commodores 8 33 18 84 12.0 TerTy Myers, Commodores 8 38 7 y 83 11.9 Steve smith, A. Central 7 32 19 83 11.9

ibw > rnMMUvni • Muncie Back In IHSAA

INDIANAPOLIS (tlPl) - The IHSAA today announced the reinstatement of Muncie Central, Indiana’s only five-time high school basketball champion, as at Jan. 1, 1965, on a “probationary” basis. In Muncie, principal John Huffman said “it’s the best Christmas present we could have received.” Muncie was suspended by the IHSAA last Jan. 4* on charges Dickens Resigns BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPD —lndiana University football coach Phil Dickens resigned today, less than a month after the campus newspaper said editorially that 20 years of losing football is “intolerable." The resignation was announced by President Elvis Stahr, Jr., "with feelings of official regret and genuine personal reluctance.” Stahr said under a new “open end” contract which Dickens received only last September, the former Wyoming coach will bcome general manager of the university’s off-campus physical facilities on Feb. 1. Dickens, who earlier denied speculation that he would resign, called it quits after a 2-7 season, one of the most disappointing in recent IU history, and after the campus newspaper Indiana Daily Student said the 1964 season “has been harder to swallow than most of the others in the last 20 years.” Stahr, former- Secretary of the Army and himself a former athlete, told the annual IU football banquet recently he did not . come to the university to watch lithe demise of intercollegiut football. “Indiana University is on the move and football will move with it,” Stahr said. Dickens took most of his Wyoming staff here in 1957 to succeed the coaching regime of f Bernie Crimmins. He had nwr ’ experienced a losing season before in 10 years of head coaching, but his Indiana tenure was , shadowed by misfortune from the very start.

■Boxer Is Charged After Brawl In Bar PATERSON, N. J (DPI) — A hearing was scheduled today for middleweight boxer Rubin (Hurricane) Carter on charges resulting from a night club brawl. Carter, 27, and his sparring partner. Clay Thomas, 28, Brooklyn, N. ¥., were arrested on assault and battery charges last Oct. 24. The charges were brought by tavern owner George Shaw, who said Thomas punched a waiter, Alexander Hamilton. Shaw then intervened and Carter allegedly shoved him. • Both Carter and Thomas pleaded innocent to the charges • at their arraignment and were r released on bail. I 1 A. Central Defeats 1 Decatur 7th Graders Adams Central downed Decatur by a 33-23 score in a seventh grade basketball game played in the Lincoln gymnasium Monday night. The winners grabbed an 8-5 lead after one period, boosted it to 16-8 halftime and to 24-12 after three quarters. Kolter paced the young Jets with nine points, while Zurcher scored seven, Liechty six, Minnich, four,. Stoler, Hamilton and Geyer two each, and Rich one. 3 Max Bedwell's 11 markers were , high for Decatur, while Uhrick s and Bonifas added four each, McConnell three and Snyder one.

of "laxities and irregularities" in the administration of its athletic program. The penalty meant that for the first time, the reigning Indiana high school basketball champion could not defend its title. Muncie was called on the carpet in connection with unsportsmanlike conduct of players and fans following Frankfort’s holiday tourney last Dec. 28, and the penalty was to be for one year. Since that time, IHSAA Commissioner Phil N. Eskew reported Muncie school officials “have been making a concerted effort to see that the athletic program meets the standard as set out by the IHSAA.” Earlier his month, Muncie made formal application for reinstatement and Huffman and athletic director John Longfellow went before the IHSAA Board of Control. They said their efforts to follow "all rules Who They Play Basketball j Tuesday Geneva at Winchester. Wrettling Tuesday Decatur at Angola. St Joe Nipped More In CYO League For the second week in succession, St. Joseph of Decatur dropped a one-point decision in the Fort Wayne CYO basketball league. Queen of Angels nipped the Decatur lads Sunday by a single point, 27-26. Tim Bolinger's nine tallies paced Decatur, while three of the scored nine apiece for their club’s entire total. Dan Pierce added seven for Decatur, Jim Blythe six, Ron Massonnee three and Jim Laurent one.

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and regulations’* would eontinud. Eskew said Mun ci a i« “granted probationary membership in the IHSAA” as of Jah.l. Thio means Muncie will be permitted to participate again in all varsity athletics in a full program, Including IHSAA tourneys ahd meets. I%e Bearcats, who have been playing four independent basketball teams in preparation for resumption of regular-season play, will open at home Jan. 2 against Hammond Tech. On Jan. 8 Muncie launches its North Central Conference schedule at Lafayette, the defending state champions. “It is hoped that the entire community (Muncie) will cooperate to the fullest with school authorities in their attempt to resore Muncie Central to its respected position in high school athletics," Eskew said. He added that prior to Jan. 1, 1966, Muncie’s case will be reviewed for full membership in the IHSAA “We just think it's the best Christmas present we could have received," beamed Huffman. “I’m sure everybody in the whole organization is happy." He added that Muncie "certainly has been working at It," to put its house in order. Before the suspension was announced last January, Eskew had been quoted as saying he was growing tired of reports of improprieties from Muncie.

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And after the suspension was announced, Huffman said, "we’ll show the state that Muncie Central can take defeat bravely.” it was the most severe penalty handed out by the IHSAA in 13 years—since little Glenn, which no longer exists, fell afoul of regulations in 1951 and surrendered the Wabash Valley basketball title it had won shortly before. Just a week before the penalty was announced, two Muncie players, Andie Higgins and Billy Ray, were suspended by school officials. In announcing the suspension, the IHSAA Board of Control also issued a stern warning to other schools to keep their players and fans in line or face similar action. “The board respectfully requests," the statement said, » “that all fans review theft /J,responsibility to the total sports program.”

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