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SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1951

PAGE 15

vington 3 Batesville 42 (Final)

Features, Page 25 Editorials, Page 26

~ New Albany 68, Winslow 53 Evansville Reitz 56, Glenn 46

Evansville Reitz 65, New Albany 51 (Fina) | Muncie Central 53, Auburn 39 (Final)

ington

At Ko komo Muncie Central 60, Kokomo 44 Auburn 57, Marion 4l

At Lafayette

Elkhart 43, Brookston 26 Lafayette 60, Gary Froehel 49 (Overtime) Lafayette 65, Elkhart 50 (Final)

Crispus Attucks 62,

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The Flying Tigers of Indianapolis Crispus Attucks and Evans-

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New Albany Is Upset | By Evansville as Jeff, Muncie Central Win

Tigers 16 Carry Indianapolis Banner “in Big Windup Here Saturday

By KURT FREUDENTHAL

Suds = - 2

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ville Reitz, two brand-new title threats, and old-timers Lafayette Jefferson and Muncie Central, tonight blasted their way into fourteam finals of Indiana's 41st annual high school basketball tourna-

“gut AN stops, "and against their] - fast-breaking ‘attack and a tight!

' the final

ment,

The drawing for Saturday's three pay-off battles matched

Reitz ‘against Crispus Attucks in the opener, and Lafayette against Muncie Central, with the winners shooting for the “Hoogier Hardwood Hall of Fame” at 8:15 p. m. Attucks, the capital city’s allNegro combination, brushed aside Batesville in the semifinal title clash before 15,000 fans in Butler Fieldhouse, 62 to 42. It was the Tigers’ 26th triumph in 27 games, and their 19th in a row. It also was the first time that they have cut any ice in tourney play ce

mighty Gary Froebel, knocked the Steel City quintet off in a sizzling overtime tussle, 50 to 49, snapping its victory string at 26. A spunky 5-foot-11 guard, Bob Pierce, became Jeff's hero when

the overtime struggle. ; Dumps Glenn 5 Reitz, usually in the background in the crowded Pocket City hardwood show, dealt Glenn's]

joining the THSAA in 1943. Pulled Out Stops

wrt mmin Pov Orpen haves. sellnds

zone-defense, Batesville didn’t] have a chance, J Attucks’ brilliant trio of Bob] Jewell, Hallie Bryant and Willie| Gardner saw to that. They got | 40 of their team’s 62 points in the! night session. | Reitz upset New Albany, 65 to 51, in the only “derailment” of the semifinal round. Sl Powerful New Albany, a state finalist a ‘year ago but never a champion, looked like a sure winner tonight when veteran forward Don Belcher sparked the Bulldogs into a 31-t0-23 halftime lead. He hit another fielder opening the third stanza and a 10-point bulge when Reitz cénter Jerry Whitsell got hot and pulled his club three points ‘as the period ended, 46 to 43. Whitsell’s Show

It still was Whitsell's show In stanza. He tied the] score at 47-all, and then he got help from his teammates to shower the Southern Conference champs to the sidelines. Belcher topped the scoring with 19 points and Whitsell got 186. Lafayette - Jeff, runnerup to, Madison last time and the United Press state title choice, nipped Elkhart in a tight game, 55 to 50.! Jeff ousted top-ranking and wun-! beaten Gary Froebel in an after-; overtime thriller. % { Wily Coach Marion Crawley’s Broncs eyeing their third crown,! led throughout the game by from] three to nine points, but Elkhart’s| tall Blue Blazers stayed in con-| tention until the final whistle. 1 Schaible Gets 22 Chuck Schaible led the winners] with 22 points, and Ralph Kauff-| man garnered 16 to lead Elkhart.

Muncie’s Bearcats had an eas-| T 7 fer time than expected with Au-| gayto . ge 5. hh

burn’s Red Devils, 53 to 39. lg Muncie also will be after its, third toga. Auburn got the first]

after a 6-all deadlock. Still, it was a close contest, the reading!

being 14 to 12 at the quarter, and cy gy, Xavier of South 50 (con-| tr |delphia. in the other night game, | CIAA AT WASHINGTON, D. OC. while Seton Hall walloped Beloit, {North Carolina College 81, Lin- 71-57, and Dayton turned on a second half spurt to lick Lawrence Tech, 77-71, in the after{American University 84, Johns noon doubleheader at Madison {Square Garden.

26 to 21 at the intermission. Jimmy Burt did yoeman duty under the boards and Charley Mock was Muncie's production

‘man. Mock tossed in eight field-|

ers and six free throws for 22 points, Auburn could snatch only two buckets in the third stanza as Muncie pulled away by nine points and ran out the game. Auburn, a finalist two years;

ago, was the only team in the Cornell 69, Dartmouth 48.

for the third!

“sweet sixteen’ straight time.

fayette ousted. Glenn and Froebel, |

the only unbeaten teams in the Penn 74, Princeton

show, to make sure history would | prevail and no undefeated team would capture the crown. | Lafayette, shooting for its third| state title and rated second only| in the United Press “Big Ten" to

Evansville Reitz {on New Albany =n ,l g p € i a ¥ 4 Belcher t 8 3 1; RaiyellT 8 3 sOlovert 2 1 3 AT BLOOMINGTON t ¢ 1} linc 2 0 5 tf 1 1 5/Maetschke.c 0 1 3| Winslow .e..eeev..B3 Whitsell.o $ 3 or 3 4 1 New Albany ......51 " 1 Imels 10 3LHenrye 0-0 of New Albany ......58 . ( Evansville Reitz ..... 24 17 200 Totals 19 13 16 ena Hiifiime spore New Albany 46, Evans-| Evansville Reitz Evansville Reitz ...65! ville J . ed—D. Henry, Marvel, - plise throws f ited D. Her McLaugh: | Glenn ceseensrvecns : £& 7 ra Bi ale Manus and Loren 1pm Lehman: | AT INDIANAPOLIS Lafayette Jeff (55)! Elkhart (30) | Edinb 87 fg ft p UIE ssesensss molds.f 1 q 2 Kautfman.t $ s 3 . ; Batesville ...c00...42 . rant, ! ’ dy Sehaibie.t ' ' 2 Starner.{ 3 2 : Batesville cocssees 45 fhe x { Ds, ® Seen Durnn.c 3 0 3Cappeilettix 2 0 2| Covingtom «ceoesess.81 n * ( Orispus Attucks : Hines Alger 12 9 Crispus Attucks 77.62 « 00 1 | Crispus Attucks ....71 Blinds. s 4% | A ovde.¢ 2 0 9 3] : 31.13 17 Total 19 13 14 | mili “peor” afayetts Jetterson| AT KOKOMO F . Kokomo .secsesenn Tree misged—Lafayette Jeffer-| n: t sible 3 Ehehare: suffman 4. | 0 Muncie Central ...53 cian hh Hilligoss, Cyril Birgs, | Muncie Central ... Mundie. Ca Manele (33) Auburn (39) | ' Mun ntral “...o0 Ratvoidd " n By tler.t 1" % Bi Auburn .eveeseess 87 ertbow. | Garns. . t Aubu | Ki 50 12 uburn (i000 al 3 ? 3! Michaelf 00 0 Marion <ievsssves dl fares 34 {Soman 2:41 2:15 p. m. ol men.c » v . ; aco.s 1 0 iMverss 213 AT LAFAYETTE |Hathawayg 1 1 3 fd ar Delgrange.g 0 1.0; Brookston vane ure 28 Ep onanne 99 1 : Elkhart ..o.ooe.. 50 211113 Totals 16 714] EIKhart .cccooepes 48

«Totals 6 - Muncie 26, Auburn 21. : e at half Muncie ab r Ts

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156 to 46. The two-time Wabash|

| Central.

Pirates.the ‘“sudden-death” blow,

Valley 30] Begots in Rom i ‘Lafayette, runner-up to Madison. for the state crown last year and the United Press title choice this time, was joined in the “final eight” by finalists New Albany, and such other perennial contenders as Auburn and Muncie

RY Ton SLAG 7 FES

But Marion, the fourth of last

he pumped in the winning two-|§ pointer with 18 seconds to go in|# 9

cut down the oined Muncie Central, Lafayette Jeff and Evansville Reitz in the IHSAA final round.

LADDER OF SUCCESS—Grinning Crispus Attucks Tigers ® licked their chops and Batesville and then climbed the ladder to nets. Coach Ray Crowe enjoyed it, too. The Tigers

Zz In Finals Opener

Tigers Claw

Batesville,

62-42, to Boost City’s

Hopes for State Title

Fifth Indianapolis Team to Make-Big Four +.

Warms Up by Trouncing Covington, 71-31 ! By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS - y A methodical, vastly-superior Crispus Attucks baskets

ball team, which plays commensurate to the caliber of its ~ competition, sits on the doorstep of the 1951 IHSAA hard.

wood championship today.

big four championship round

year's finalists, was run into the ground by Auburn, 57 to 41. Others who won were Crispus Attucks and Batesville at Indianapolis and Elkhart at Lafayette. The Lafayette-Froebel fracas, billed well in advance as .the “bombshell special” of the preliminary semifinal rounds, turned out to be just that.

Wage Bitter Battle The two northern powerhouses w hitter a battle as was expected. In the end, it was sweet revenge for the Buckin’ Broncos who had suffered a 54-to-44 sel» back by Froebel in the holiday tourney last December, The score was tied at nine-all after the first period, and Jeff led 23 to 20 at the intermission, and kept the lead until the final five minutes of play. Then 6-foot-5 Johnny Moore, Froebel's classy pivotman, went to work. He pumped in three hook-shots in succession to give

a 42 to 38 lead. But Charley Reynolds’ booming long shot tied the score at 44-all

Division, the race for third will, center around Pittsburgh, Cincin-| nati and St. Louis.

saw any possibilities of finishing) second go out the window as they|

lost last night. Hershey dropped caps’ performances since he was) the Flyers, 5 to 3, in Hershey and sont from Detroit, drilled the win-|loney) climbed to within two points of nino goal at :54 in the overtime '"®®" 13:30. Penalties —Maloney. Buffalo, Cin period. It was Carveth who reg-| 3 INDIAN the Northern Conference champs|cinnati was a 5 to 2 victim of istered the hat trick last Thurs-| Cleveland, the Western leader. In day against Cincinnati in a vieleague game, tory that put the Caps into the Springfield pulled one point ahead playoffs.

the only other

By United Press

Caps Nail 2d Place, Whip Pittsburgh, 4 to

in the American Hockey League's Western Division race last night saves for the Caps, approximately! Elkhart with a 4 to 3 overtime victory in Ptitsburgh. Milwaukee for the second ime]

While Indianapolis will attempt to pile up more points in its Pittsburg.

post-season playoffs against the secon

runnerup spot in order to get the home-opening advantage in the d-place team jin the Eastern

to a 62 to 42 victory over . un Batesville in Butler Field-| ORISPUS ATIUORS (82) 2 FTP house last night. Davis, F .......3 2 8 8 The Tigers’ Indianapolis semi-| Gardner, F ..... 7 2 1 16 final tournament championship| Jewell, C ....... 4 1 2 9 was another convincing triumph|Bryant, G ...... 7 1 2 15 for what has become one of In-IB, Cook, G ...... 1 3 8 5 dianapolis’ greatest all-round high Boyd, ¥ ........ 1° 0 1 2 school basketball - teams in his-| Robertson, F ... 2 1 0 5 tory. West, C .....000 0 0 1 0 i The triumph marked the first|Toliver, G ...... 1 0 38 ' 2 time in history a Negro high|C. Cook, G .:seec 0 0.1 0 , school team gained entrance into Jy — the state finals in 41 years. And} Totals ........28 10 17 62 it gave Indjanapolis fans their BATESVILLE (M2) : greatest hopes for their first state LL PA FE-PF TP title in history next week. Wernke, F ...,..4 0 2 8 " oo —. ay ; - Barring Attucks’ way to Indi- Dickman, F ..... 8 1 1 17 i Times photos by Dean Timmerman. ) nawal wn |Baas, C ........ 8 2 1 . "DILL" PICKLES ONE—Willie (Dill) Gardner (13] of Crispus rips" Long awaited ae Cr Peete 6 ores 1 5 2 1 Attucks went in for a successful shot in the first quarter of the state representative also making Surfs 6 asaeen : 2.8 3% Tigers' semifinal championship battle with Batesville. The Batesville It Initial grand entrance into PF ores 223 defender was Denny Peetz (34). the seject Enrcle, ; : Sehulte, Ws, ° . : * : : | : Attucks vs. Reitz Kile, OY 0 2.0 + Reitz, 65 to 51 vi over New Fri G sareny 0 . 0 0 0 (Gehrmann Upset | ho th po a it | 2 d Ti m \ R Bloomington semifinal, battles; Totals ..,.....16 10 14 43 | &d 1IMe IN KOW |ittucks in the first game at 1| HaMtime Scors — Crispus Ate B G M wil p. m. In the second game, La-|tucks 35. Batesville 17. y =vian int fayette Jefferson's veteran oe Free Throws Missed — Davis, | - champions square off a|Bryant, B. Cook, West, Wernke 8, | MILWAUKEE, Mar. 10 (UP)—| rugged ne Central team, Dickman, Peetz 2, Burst, Fields. : Inigan tied the count for the Hor- Fred Wilt, New York FBI agent, Jeff won its own semifinal with; Officials — Don MeBride and The Indianapolis Caps scampered into undisputed second place nets at 10:13. Jim Henry had 40 upset slim Don Gehrmann of a 55 to 50 triumph over a taller|Walter Bonham, five,” while Muncie twice as many as Gil Maver for, wheeled through a bigger Au : | goals in nine attempts in the Lo ia a the Fictteam. 33 1039, at Kokomo. reco quart vol hit séven of Hockey Summary _ i Muwaukee Journal in. Attucks: final round +” attembte. Tn. the : ge. BO eer, EN nah, Join: Wilt fin hed at least 20 yards| Ripple lost, 37 to 35, to Evans-| field while The Bulldogs Hannigan, Armstrons, Kobussen, Smith, ahead of Gehrman in 4:08.9. The ille Bosse in the afternoon game|t0 8nother lone fielder in 11 at-

Cincinnati and St. Louis also

Eastern leader.

(Continued on Page 1800 ¥'Only St. Bonny

College Basketball

St. Louis, St. Bonaventure, Seton

NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (UP)—

St. Bonaventure 70, Cincinnati 67)

| TUSKEGEE, ALA. TOURNEY field goal, but Muncie pulled away |, 5." & M 66, Clark 57.

Hall and Dayton whizzed into the

NATIONAL INVITATION

TOURNEY vitation Basketball Tournament

{tonight—and only one of them 2 {grazed trouble.

of Providénce in the Eastern race {by whipping the Reds, 7 to 2. Indianapolis returns to its Col-|gagian, iseum tonight to face Buffalo.

Jerry Reid and Freddie Glover had the assists on Carveth’s win-|

| INDIANAPOLIS Goal, Henry: defense Kraftcheck; center, McNab; wings

| Morrison, Sclisizszl. Spares—Polk, = Woit

Officials—Walt Russell and Clyde Adams

Secon 3 APOLIS, Morrison (Sclisizsl { MeNab) 7:15. INDIANAPOLIS [Belisiazl) 7:34. Penalties—QGlover, 2, thers. Third Period: 5. INDIANAPOLIS, 1:50. 6.— Pittsburgh, Hannigan strong, Horton) 10:13. Penalties—None. ertime Period

ning goal Ye 034 CORE BY PERIODS The Hornets had taken a 2-0 Pittsburgh Sad ais 0 Has NIT Trouble [lead in the first period on goals INPTANAPOLIS ......0 2 —t

by Tim Horton and Rudy Migay. On the Ice {Then Indianapolis tied it up with|

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE Western

St. Bonaventure needed two (double overtime).

47 seeonds of the second overtime

[Amherst 61, Williams 52.

{Morris Brown 67, Florida 65. This afternoon, Reitz and La- North Carolina State 94, South-|

55 solation).

coln 79. MASON-DIXON TOURNEY

Hopkins 62. OTHERS Brown @8, Providence 64.

| | 1

Kansas 37, Oklahoma A&M 27,

ern Conference All-Stars 70,

Rutgers 53, Lafayette 49.. Washington 71, UCLA 54. Yale 72, Harvard 70.

Big Score for Canucks

MONTREAL, Mar. 10 (UP)—|round {Maurice Richard and Bert Olm-i 1:39 | stead each scored three times tonight as the Montreal Canadiens {racked up the most goals of any [National Hockey League club this season in beating the Chicago Black Hawks 12 to 2 at the Forum.

St. Louis coasted to a 73-61!

fumph over LaSalle of Phila- (UP) — New Mexico A&M and! {West Virginia State will play the 2prinsfeld at Providence,

lopening game {tournament here at 11 a.

{(CST) Monday, it was announced today as the brackets were drawn,

and opening round schedule = AHucks' Success Story:

top-seeded

driving layup shots in the last/gqLcyille in NAIB

period to whip foul-plagued Cin- First Round Match {Morris Brown 58, Xavier of South|¢innati, 70-67, in one night game. |

of the

nounced. | Evansville College, plays New

Westminster College

Wilmington, Pa., in a first upper bracket game at

p. m. Tuesday.

Leafs Turn Over, 5-3

TORONTO, Mar. 10 (UP)—The Toronto Maple Leafs earned a 5 to 3 victory over Boston Bruins {in Maple Leaf Gardens tonight,

Sweet Sixteen Now Fieldhouse Four

SEMIFINALS, MAR. 10

Lafayette Jeff .... Gary .

Lafayette

‘

FINALS, MAR. 17

AT INDIANAPOLIS

Lafayette deft sevens Jeft ....58

8:15 p. m.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Mar, 10, Cleveland 5, Cnet

NAIB

Sess NIIRNRIRRIIRINS

| | INDIANAPOLIS 4, Pittsburgh 3 (over- | Springfield 7, Providence 3. nnati 2., Hershey §

Buffalo

{ Cincinnati, Pittsburgh at St. Louis, NATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal 12, Chicago 2. Toronto 5, Boston 3.

TM. Detroit 3. New York 2.

A Love for B

From ‘Dust Bowls’ to

Final Four—That's Attucks’ Tigers

By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS | This is the simple story of Crispus Attucks’ High School bas-|jumped Batesville into an 8 to 4] ketball Tigers. But it might be the story of any basketball team lad at the wutset: —in Podunkville, in Quail Creek, in Twin Forks — somewhere in

Indiana. It is a story about Crispus | state's largest Negro high school {in the ancient, 41-year-old story of Indiana prep basketball. For the first time in history, an all-Negro prep basketball team

nobly and honorably into the

best teams in Hoosierland. : Seven hundred # fifty-nine teams came. But only four have been chosen. And Crispus =| Attucks, Indianapolis’ team of | destiny, is one of the distinI | guished quartet battling for Hoo-

o Angelopolous on

>» | sierdom’s most cherished school-!

boy dreams—a state basketball

3 championship —at the Butler]

| Fieldhouse next Saturday.

in, The name of Crispus Attucks

{has swept the length and breadth!

[of Indiana’s basketball-saturated |state like a wind-swept fire fed with gasoline.

Crispus Attucks has become the

by-word of Indiana basketball folklore toda Few teams in the history of AA have packed

the-drama and the prestige now (hough a hoop so much that he|

enveloping the sharp-fanged Tigers. Few teams have earned

| Gravelie: Reid. Glover” Podoisky. J. ‘wi. [rom a bad cold made a hard bid

The veteran Joe Carveth, who son L. Wilson, Caryeth, as helped immeasurably with the,

SCORING: First Period: | 1S Titshureh, Horton (Hannigan, Ma3:33. 2. Pittsburgh, Migay (Sol-

|Gehrmann at the New York| dropped out in daylight games.

+ McNab Knights of Columbus one week!

Podolsky, Smith, Raglan, Blair, Ma- 280 after finishing behind the fort in the 19290 finals and the

(McNab) | races. (Arm- |

7.—INDIANAPOLIS, Carveth, (Reid, Glo-

1-9-3 Ray of the New York Athletic/in 1933 and Manual dropped a 30

Attucks’ Tigers entered the elite company of the state's

next Saturday by coasting

|young Milwaukeean,

suffering|in 1945. Overall Attucks becomes the |at the finish but he had too far|fifth team in local history to ‘ito go. qualify for the select foursome, {Tech having lost twice w he , «1 nshi ame an ort- | ~ WILT won his first victory over rp 3 Ripple having

Tech lost, 29 to 23, to Frank-

|Milwaukeean in eight previqus 1934 Greenclad team dropped a {26 to 19 championship game to Ashenfelter of the Logansport. Penn Athletic Club at Quincy, Shortridge lost, 31 to 28, to {Mass., was third tonight, Stuart Greencastle in the afternoon game

Horace

Club was fourth, and John Joe to 18 decision to Thorntown in Barry, unattached, of Villanova, the 1915 afternoon game of the Pa., fifth. | sweet sixteen tourney at Indiana

47 to 21 third:

tempts in the third session. This time Gardner hugged the

rim on closeups for a trio of two-

pointers and Attucks sped to a -quarter lead after holding a 35 to 17 halftime

margin, a

Two Attucks reserves in th

third period were joined by the rest of the bench most of ‘the final frame. That's when Batgs-

ville, held to only six field goals

in three periods, found range in the closing stages.

18 for Gardner The Bulldogs hit 10 of 17 in

the final eight minutes with Dickman hitting a hot streak, getting five of six flips, including one on

a second period burst that pro-| Division [the way at the final gun. rter finals of the National In- duced two scores in 19 seconds by INDIANAPOLIS : & a I s of 28s 4 n Era university. | He led hig mates with 17 points, qua {Rod Morrison and Max McNab. | Pittabureh oo. i an 3 3 i 83 ROBERT RICHARDS, national Easy Triumph | first time Attucks didn’t win highIndianapolis went ahead, 3 to|Cincinnati ide 38 33 § 8 181 210/pole vault champion, cleared 15| Attucks’ victory last night was Point honors in eight tournament 2 Sen the thi Flog on Eastern Division oc feet, % inch to win his event. |probably the. easiest semifinal tri-\8ames. : i ’ {Buffalo ........68 37 28 4 78 288 270, The distance medley relay went umph in the 15-year history of | Gardner racked 16 and Bryant |Sorinatield ©..." 68 2 3 8 5 341 344 to Indiana’s t f Robe the four-site playoffs in Indianap- nailed 15 for the Tigers, whose |Srsingtield “uN INN a’s team of Robert Rich- olis. balanced attack found range for RESULTS LAST NIGHT ards, Kevin Grindlay, Roy White-

It was in direct contrast to the 26 of 68 tries from the field for

(8:30), Cleveland at

has fought itself

select circle of the state's four]

the respect and admiration of!

man and Jack Hagan. They beat out Michigan State in 10:18.3. David Norton of Indiana skimmed over 6 feet 5 inches in the high jump to win the event. Robert Dellinger of Indiana itook the two-mile run.

Attucks scored over Anderson's |

week ago. Attucks gained the champion-| ship round of the semifinals by waltzing to a 71_to 31 conquest over Covington’s Trojans in the second afternoon game, Batesville, winner of the Rushville regional, made the final round by edging a shaky Edinburg team, 45 to 37, in the first

asketball

the Fieldhouse | Batesville made a game of it| {against Attucks for one quarter.

{and Milt Baas’ two charity flips

But Attucks, whose

|Big Louis Dickman’'s two fielders) Tigers to scale the same ladder |

. {a nifty .382 average. Batesville, great 81 to 80 last-second victory coached . by

Fields, ex-Butler playe: ed 1 player, cann team in the regional finals here a 16 of 55 for a 201 showing.

energetic Walter

The victory was the 26th in 27

games for Attucks and the 20th

consecutive one but it wasn't celebrated with anything resembling the exuberance following the Tigers’ win over Anderson,

Little Hilarity The Tigers displayed little overt

game, {hilarity and created the evening's

most exciting moment when a photographer requested - all the the

for a picture during net-

sniping process.

The ladder collapsed and the

latenti entire team tumbled down. No

power and talent springs forth|one however, was hurt. The net-

Attucks’ magnificent Tigers, the Mostly when the

sights then blasted forth.

John Davis’ two fielders brought it to 9 to 8, Batesville,

thousands of sports-loving Hoo-| siers in such an incredibly short time. but William Gardner slipped Attucks Story Is Simple under for three field goals, giving Few teams have commanded so Attucks an 18 to 14 first quarter

much attention in the three-week | d8e-

period of Attucks’ meteoric rise! 17 Consecutive Points to state-wide acclaim and recognition. |

occasion de- cutting continued orderly thereteam that’s adding a new chapter| mands, took its bearings, set its grter,

Howe's Dwyer,

McMullen Cited

Ed Dwyer and Charles McMul-

{len have been honored by their Howe High School

basketball

Yet the story of Crispus At-|the boards, along with the rest of tionals this season.

tucks is simple. It is one ofthe Butler floor, belonged to Atindividual enterprise and desire to|tucks the rest of the night. excel. It is one of hard work,|

perseverance and tenacity. It is Attucks made

the story of boys who learned to|points before Dickman hit Bates- Letter awards were

Dwyer was given the mental

attitude award and McMullen was

Beginning the second period, voted most valuable player at the 17 consecutive annual awards banquet at Howe.

made to

sacrifice, to respect others and to|ville’s only field goal in 13 at-Coach Elwood Yeager's varsity

|tempts in the period. Bryant hit a and Hornet reserve and freshmen

respect themselves. William Gardner, known as| fadeaway shot and stuffed in four/teams. Willie and “Dill,” is but one] # = = s 5 = example of the secret behind Al Times All-Semifinal Selections Gardner is a six-foot, six-inch] Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Class Sophomore, He Is Sie of te) Willie Gardner, C. Attucks Forward 6-6 170 Soph. nes rst-year varsity men n-| 4 diana prep. basketball has ever, John Davis, C. Attucks Forward 6-2 185 Sr. seen. He is averaging nearly 17| Paul Wernke, Batesville Forward 6° 155 Sr. points a game in 16 games. | Gene Harrell, Edinburg Forward 6-3 196 Jr. Gardner was an average PuPl| pop, Jowell, C. Attucks Center 6-5 199 Sr. ‘hen h ttended de school ? ’ No. 17, reat, door to Crispus At-| Milton Baas, Batesville Center 6-3 175 Jr. ‘tucks. He loved basketball. Hel Hallie Bryant, C. Attucks Guard 6-2 180 Soph. loved shooting a basketball Denny Peetz, Batesvill G i 510 145 Sr. {obtained his own ball and con-| Bennie Cook, C. Attucks Guard 5-11 154 Sr. (Continug on Pale 17—Coi, 1y| Charles Toliver, C. Attucks f Guard 6 :