Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1949 — Page 24

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"ond since 1928.

year, Amo's citizens and players

~ basketball team’s starting five— all with A-minus or A averages.

Only 75 Pupils, but

Members of Starting

Team Spirit Is Sharp

Squad on Honor Roll;

Mentor Schudder Says They're ‘Coach’s Dream’ By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS, Times Sports Writer.

AMO, Ind.

interested to know there's just no end to the psychological stones ‘the -staté’s little Davids can Hurl at Indiana's basketball Gollaths

in this Hoosier hardwood war of Add Amo’s Aces, as a case in the high school here. This little

stuffed in the forward hold of a

battlewagon and still have roo for an ice-cream social, .

Its inhabitants number vague“ly 335. Amo is in East Clay Township and Coatesville, once-

obliterated by a tornado, been ship, U. 8. 40.

But it-doesn’t take long, once & bearing has ‘been made ‘ on Amo, to find that the axis of the world around Amo goes through its number one. pride and joy—

its basketball team.

Amo is proud of its Aces, their 19 and four record. It's elated Aces . knocked off Marion County's “two-time

over the fact that the

Plugs Won Last Year

This year's triumph over the Sparkplugs was especially juicy because

the Aces were defeated by a. point by Speedway last

felt badly. But they don't today. They're just as proud of their team's academic achievements as they are its athletic prowess. Of the eight pupils on the school's honor roll, five of them are members of the

That's good for the propaganda grist mill, Any one of the five starters might k a time out that “Coach, we can screen better on that play because my guard can't go to his left as well.” :

Or, -Amo's basketball players /c

Mar. 4—Tech, Fortville,and Summitville might be

built as West Clay TownTost north of Stilesville off

champions, . Speedway, | : ogg? 51 to 44, to win their first sec-|P0)" [TOM iast- year and hes

_since 1944 and their sec

report to his coach -during|a

nerves at tournament time, point. There are only 75 pupils in pocket-sized community could be

McCammack and Myron Wheeler, Center Harold Applegate and Guards Tom Crews and Merold Weatherman. Wheeler; juniors, are the only underclassmen and Crews is the only non-letter-man. Ivs a good five will, think first and play basketball second when it meets Fortville inthe regionals. And for physical superiority, the sixfoot, three-inch Applegate can hold his own. He got 23 points against Speedway, a good night's work against the Plugs and he's made 360 points in 23 games, averaging 15.6 points per outing.

second year at Amo, lost two

looking for big things from his

The congenial, mild-mannered mentor, a graduate of Central Normal, spent eight years coaching at the state's smallest school —Raub High School-—before he became an Infantryman with the Army during the war. He says: “This is the best all‘round bunch of boys I've ever had.” His players” practice at night because many of them work around home, “We have no training problems,” he comments and adds: “They're a coach's dream.” He might be right. . Season Record

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‘Amo’s Aces Eye Role High School Boasts

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Tom McCammack (seated), Harold Applegate, Tom Crews and Myron Wheeler (left to right) give their coach, Wendell Schudder, a bad time the night before Amo meets Fortville in the first game. of the regionals at Butler Saturday. ‘All of Amo's five starters are among the eight pupils on Amo's honor roll with A averages, and four of the Aces are shown “cracking” the books while Coach fw Schudder fries talking basketball. Merold Weatherman, the fifth member with an A average, was absent with the flu, but will be available tomorrow.

Tech Seeks 10th Regional Crown Against Summitville

Amo to Meet Fortville

dianapolis Sectional championship

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8 » se small AMO fo : - (Won-19, Lost 4) No. Name Ht. wt. Yr. ‘Pos. 24 Tom McCammack ..... 5-10 150 “Senior ¥ 21 Myron Wheeler ........ 56 135 Junior F 29 Harold Applegate ...... 6-3 170 Senior Cc 25 Tom Crews ...sceiensss 6-0 160 Senior G 26 Merold Weatherman .... 5-11 160 Junior G 23 Don Jones ...ccvvvevnee 5-6 140 Senior ¥ 28 Connie Cress SevsseInen 59 145 — Senior F <2 Kenneth Kersey ........ 510 © 155 Junior Cc 22 Bob Lewis ....coeveees 55 120 Junior G 20 Maurice Bombe! ......+ 5-8 150 Senior G

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(Brown's 18-year tenure. Amo has

Logansport defeated Tech, 26

At 1 p. m. Tomorrow in Butler Fieldhouse Tech's resourceful basketball team, one-point winner of the In-|

hopes for a state championship alive in regional net play tomorrow afternoon at the Butler Fieldhouse. . ‘ z Loos The Big Green, sporting amazing comeback powers throughout 4 ithe season, tangles with a well-regarded Syynmitville aggregation

in Opening Game

last ‘week, will try keeping its

the second game following the

Fortville at 1 p. m. Winners of the semi-final tfits will clash for the regional title tomorrow night at 8:15 for the right to battle the winner of the regionals in the semi-finals next Saturday. { For the local combination, {will mark the tenth time a {hardwood team will seek regional laurels. Fortville has won six |sectional crowns in Coach Lloyd

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captured three sectional diadems| and Summitville, having defeated] Markleville 68 to 43 in the Anderson tourney, won {its first sectional crown since 1926. Of the four re al teams competing here tomorrow, only Tech has advanced into the select 16 in the past. The Greenclads have gone to the semi-finals four times and to the finals twice.

Berries Downed Tech lto ‘18, for the state title in 1934 and in 1929, Frankfort eliminatled Tech, 29 to 23, for the coveted ITHSAA diadem. : Coach Herman -Hinshaw's five will try for its first regional success since 1946 when Anderson’s

[state champions--eliminated. Tech| -

{in the finals of the regional play. | The success of the local entry

{tomorrow may depend in part

lon—the recuperative powers of]

{Tech's big gun, Tom Pollom, who was In bed one day this week ~ith a touch of the flu. Pollom ran a 102 fever for three hours {but had recovered sufficiently jyesterday afternoon to engage {in a light drill for the first time {in three days. Coach Hinshaw {believes the Tech athlete will be ready for a starting assignment

opening tilt between Amo and|g Be The : 3_have

lost only to Anderson, Jeff's state| champions and Frankfort,

{that time held the upper hand

six of nine NCC battlés and

the | last named by one point and Jeff by two. ~The Indianapolis entry is com-| peting tomorrow only after a great fourth-quarter rally in the final two minutes that enabled Tech to defeat Southport, 49 to 48, in the last second of an overtime period in the sectional finals Saturday. The Cards, prior to] and a seven-point lead before losing three of its five starters in the final minutes via the personal foul route, The triumph was Tech's 11th| straight and its 17th in 21 games. | Amo ‘and Fortville each has) won 19 and lost four while Sum-| mitville' has a record of 16 vic-| tories in 20 starts.

by dropping Marion Speedway five,” 51 to 44, in the

| tomorrow,

Another flu victim,

able action against Fortville. :

i Tech's chief weapon of survi(val lies in its ability - to with|stand physical’ punishment and

{pull a lost cause out of the fire] as it has on nine occasions this|

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Merold | Weatherman of Amo, was. abed] two days this week but was ex-| pected to be ready for consider-!

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LE h Coach Wendell Schudder ««:"'my best all-round boys." sectionals. Fortville downed Franklin Township, 53 to 32, in the Greenfield sectional. “A capacity sellout crowd of

15,000, nearly 9000 of which are lexpected to. be Tech backers, will] ..

attend the hardwood extravaganza. No tickets will be sold at the gate.—J. A.

Edgewood Wins Title

lers In-

Greyhounds Pack Up for

NAIB Tourney

Get Invitution to -Kansas City Meet Starting Monday

‘With shrieks of joy ringing

through the Indiana Central College mpus, the IC cagers were packing their. gear today in

préparation to leave for Kansas City, Mo., where they ‘will par|tieipate in the Natignal Association of Intercéllegiate Basketball Tournament next Monday through Saturday. The 10-man squad, a student manager and Coach ‘Angus Nicoson will leave the campus by autofat noon tomorrow. Pairings will be made Sunday and com-

| {petition for 32 of the nation’s

leading small college teams will begin Monday. Squad Members. Indiana Central has a 16. won and 8 lost record for the season land a 9-1 record in conference play. They clinched the conference title Feb. 17 by defeating Earlham on the latter's floor. ; of the squad making the. trip are; Bill McGrath and Hiarley-Griffith, ‘hoth of Fowler; Dwight Swails, Wendaill Roberts, Duane Robertson, Jini Blevins, all of Indianapolis; Woody McBride and Norman Harner, both of Washington, Ind.; Don Stevenson of ~Cory,— and —Bob -Robison—of Brownstown. But. Central won’t be the only Indiana ‘representative

morrow. - - Accompanying the state team {will be John Longfellow and Bob | Turnock, coach and assistant, re- | spectively.

Sports Events Here and There Today, Tomorrow

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TRIDAY, MAR. 4, 1049

cal Regional

Schools

Make Big News

But Yeah, Tech! Greenclads Carry City's Title Hopes 5 :

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By Eddie Ash

Times Sports Editor |

THE littie schools, whi

Indiana state high school basketball Sectio

living in the clouds this week

als. . . . The Mighty Mites have made

ch seldom get through the nals, have been as they approach the Region« *big news although

the odds are against most of them to survive tomorrow's

hardwood battles in 16 centers. . . . How many little reach the Semi-Finals is’ anybody's guess. . . . not meant to detract from Indianapolis Tech's, \deserve the support of the city’s

fellows will This discussion is Greenclads, who

sports goers. . . Indignapolis

never has had a state champ and Tech could be the darkhorse °

this year. . .. At any rate, Yeah, Tech! . . . Get the ball, keep the

ball, put the ball in the basket.

..~ That's the simplest system we

know of. . . . But back to the

Mighty Mites, . . . The little fellows who. made big news in the Sectionals have color and. spirit to match any of their bigger rivals, . . . Go stand outside the Butler Fieldhouse" tomorrow and watch the eager, happy youngin to get behind their team. coaches in the Indianapolis Regional are graduates._of Central Normal College, now Canterbury, at Danville. . . . Coach Lloyd O. Brown of Fortville was graduated in 1928. . . . followed in the mid-

dle Thirties by Coach Paul E.|

Bradford: of Summitville and

TODAY

BANQUET | Manual High School basketball banquet, {school cafeteria, 6:30 p. m. 3 FIGHTS Four four-rounders and two eight-round-jers on the card at the National Guard {Armory, 711 N. Pennsylvania St., first bout, 18:30 p. m.

Exhibition {Strauss & Co. 4p m

GOLr and ‘clinfe, 6th floor, L. » 10 and 11 - WRES Western Conference Indiana University.

SWIMMING Western Conference championship meet iat - Purdue University, 9:30 a. m, =

| Western Conference championship mest at Purdue, 9:30 8..m. ome ; | PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL ation of America { Ft Wayne at Boston. | HOCKEY American League Springfield at Washington. i AMATEUR BASKETBALL

| city Independent tourney at Dearborn p. m.

Gym, 7:1 { TOMORROW { HOCKEY ! American League | Providence at Cleveland.

i uis at Hershey. i ashington ‘at Fhiladelphla. 1 Buffalo at elon ad New Haven at Springfield.

p GOLF Exhibition and clinic,

Strauss & Co, 10, 11 a. m. and 3, 4 p. m. SWIMMING

IAC Senior Boys’ team vs. Cincinnati

t . | The Edgewood Bulldogs won | Saivertity boys, IAC Girls against Riviera

the Perry Township Grade School Pool 3 p. m

téam, 18 to 15, last night.

{due University. -

Western Conference championships, Purm

Amo advanced to the regionals championship by defeating the | gue University pool, 9:30 a. County's University Heights basketball] TRACK

{ Western Conference championships, Pur-

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

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Coach Wendell Schudder of Amo.

in. thel. .-. Tech's chief hardwood men-| tourney. Indiana State, last year's|tor, Herman Hinshaw, received runner-up, is gleaving by auto|his A. B. degree in 1932 and his from Terre Haute at 9 a. m. to-|

master’s de in 1938, both

from Indiana University.

=» "= BUDDY HICKS, 1948 St. Paul infielder now in training

camp with the Brooklyn.

Dodgers, halls from Downey, Cal. . . . And he was scouted by Tom Downey, former big league infielder. . . . Hicks, who played shortstop for the Saints, is being tried out at third by Dodger Skipper Burs Shotton. "#

THE New York Yankees have a rookie outfielder in camp who answers to the name of Clarence Wotowicz. . . . Even if he is a whizz Joe DiMaggio’s job appears safe. . . . High finance: Larry McPhail and Bob Hannegan each pocketed $2,000,000 from their

a.m; 3 and|regpective Yankee and- Cardinal

clubs after brief terms as presi-

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pressure and well-heeled to boot. . « +» Smart hombres.

3 = ” # + WINNERS in tonight's Golden Gloves finals in Chicago will battle the Eastern Gloves champs in New York’s Madison Square Garden on Mar. 28. « « « After which, in May, the International Golden Gloves show is to be staged in Chicago

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. » | §F YOU think your high s¢hool {basketball team had more than lits share of bad luck in the Sec~ [tionals, you're dead Wrong. . . . One team had ALL of the bad breaks. . . . One member got a {badly bruised hip, another's heart lkicked up and both were on the

lout before the Sectionals. , +. A

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and hiz-doctor ruled-him-out.- . + +» Then in the last tilt before the Sectionals one of the stars sprained his ankle. . . . Only seven of the 12 the coach had planned. on were available at. [tourney time.

» » » | THE White Sox (Pasadena, Cal.) and the Yankees (St. Petersburg, Fla.) plan to swap training camps for a one-spring experiment within the next _ three years. . . . The Yanks want to show off Joe DiMaggio in his home state and the Sox “think they can pick up some extra gate receipts from the many Chicagoans who winter in Florida.

- St. Joseph Wins To End Season .. . Times Special : RENSSELAER, Mar. 4 — 8t, Joseph's closed its 1949 basketball schedule last night’ with an 80-to- ° 77 victory over Valparaiso. Valpo °

pulled abreast with 2 minutes left in the game .and Bill Schroer

in an overtime. Ray Patterson hit for two baskets in the extra period to put St,

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