The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 December 1968 — Page 4

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, December 19, 1968

County cage squads wind up

With the Hong Kong flu still at large (but at last finally bidding this writer farewell) and basketball teams still as unpre - dictable as ever, six county cage squads wind up action for the year 1968 this weekend. The lone holdout to this being All teams close out play on Friday night with the exception of Greencastle, which travels to Plainfield Saturday night after playing Friday night at home against a rough and unbeaten Spencer ball club The Tiger Cubs will enter the

Friday night affair with a 4-1 mark, their latest win coming over Clinton, 97-72, last Friday. The 97-points totaled also represents the greatest point-pro-duction by Coach Dave McCracken’s quintet so far this year. While Cloverdale should be putting down Needmore with little trouble on its way to victory number eight, Bainbridge will be picking up the pieces after last week’s heart-stopper, a 7675 loss to county rival Cloverdale. Cloverdale, now with a season

mark of 7-1, the only loss coming to Greencastle the first of December, doesn’t figure to have any trouble in disposing of Needmore, but, in Indiana basketball, anything can and often does happen. The Pointers will have their sights set on re-constructing a new winning streak after seeing the one they had built up to sixgames disappear Saturday night at the hands of the Clovers. E minence, another team not considered by anyone to pose any major problems, will be the

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callers at the Pointers gym and can be expected to be the foundation for a new winning streak for Bainbridge. In other county basketball games tomorrow night, Fillmore takes on New Ross at New Market while county rivals ReeIsville and Russellville square off on the latters floor. Fillmore, now with a 4-5 mark, following Saturday’s two-point loss to Cascade, 59-57, hopes to get back on the winning track and even up its record heading into the new year. Reelsville, still unable to put any kind of a winning streak together as it is still accustomed to winning one, losing one, then winning one and so on, has to be the favorite at Russellville since the Bees have

NEW YORK (UPI)-For the fourth time in the past five seasons, the Baltimore Colts’ quarterback was selected to United Press International’s National Football League AllStar team. N etolicky, Lewispace Pacer win

Indiana rode the 39 points of Bob Netolicky into a tie at the end of regulation play against Miami in an American Basket. ball Association game Wednesday night, then got a yeoman performance from Fred Lewis in overtime to post a 122-118 victory. Netolicky was shut out in the extra period, but Lewis tossed in two field goals nd four free throws in the overtime and himself wound up with 29 points for the night. In other ABA games Wednesday night, Larry Jones connect, ed on four free throws and a field goal in the final minutes of play to propel Denver to a 111102 triumph over Houston; New Orleans rallied for a tie with three minutes left then nipped New York 117-113; and Kentucky charged back from an eight-point halftime deficit to defeat Los Angeles 115-107. Indiana, winning in overtime for the first time this season, gained its fourth victory in the last five games. Skip Thoren got 28 points and Les Hunter and Willie Murrell aded 20 apiece for Miami.

But this time, of course, it’s not the same quarterback. John Unitas, who was selected in 1964, 1965 and 1967 (BartStar won the honor in 1966), sat on the bench with an ailing elbow this season and watched Earl Morrall direct the club to a 13-1 mark—the best in the NFL since Green Bay posted an identical mark in 1962. That enabled Morall to win the quarterback slot on the 1968 NFL team selected by a panel of 48 NFL experts around the nation—three from each league

city.

Morrall, who played for four teams before finally making the All-Star at Baltimore, is joined in the backfield by Leroy Kelly of Cleveland—the top votegetter with 47 of a possible 48 votes—and Gales Sayers of Chicago. Sayers made -the club

Mike Curtis of Baltimore at the linebackers. Bobby Boyd of Baltimore and Lem Barney of Detroit are the cornerbacks with Larry Wilson of St. Louis and Willie Wood of Green Bay are the safeties. There were only four repeaters on the offensive team this season—Neely, Tingelhoff, Kelly and Sayers. There were six repeaters on the defensive unit — Jones, Olsen, Lilly, Robinson, Butkus and Wood. Baltimore had five players named to the first squad while Cleveland and Minnesota had *hree each.

Scores

won only one game in eight previous starts. The Indians, now 6-4 on the season, boasts one of the area’s leading scorers in Will Rowan, a 6-foot 2-inch junior whose season and career high is a 41point production. All county high school teams will be idle until after the new year is rung in, with DePauw University being the only exception here. The Tigers, currently rated 12th in the UPI small college poll, will be involved in an eightteam holiday affair in Massachusetts. The first teams on the county level to see action at the onset of 1969 will be Bainbridge and Greencastle in the latter teams own somewhat delayed holiday classic with Madison and Warsaw in McNally center gymnasium on Jan. 3.

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SENSATIONAL pitching by Mickey Lolich and a grand slam homer by Tiger Jim Northrup in the sixth game (above) gave the Detroit Tigers a World Series victory over Cards in St. Louis. The classic event went seven games.

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The defensive teams has three rather familiar names in the front line— Merlin Olsen of Los Angeles and Bob Lilly of Dallas at the tackles and Deacon Jones of Los Angeles at an end. But Carl Eller of

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12th rated flu-bitten Tigers at Indiana Central

DePauw will try to flag down a Greyhound Thursday night at Indiana Central but it’s not sure who it’ll leav e the driving to. The flu-bitten Tiger basketball club apparently has lost number six man Larry Johnson, a 10 ppg performer, plus reserve guard Ralph O’ Brien. Regular guard, Dave Browning missed work Monday, trying to recuperate fro m a weekend siege. Coach Elmer McCall is keeping a wary eye on the Tiger’s collective health, hopeful he’ll have a workable group to tackle the 4-1 Greyhounds in the 8 p.m. battle. The game will be aired by DePauw’s WGRE-FM.

Central, which played at Wabash Tuesday night (Dec. 17) has won four of its first five games. The veteran-laden team has smashed Taylor and Millikin (91-88) on the road, whacked Tri-State (94-91) and Northwood (101-82) at home and lost only to Eastern Illinois. The loss to Eastern, champion of the recent IIAC tourney, was a 71-69 decision at Charleston. The club DePauw plays at the Central gym is virtually the same one the Tigers clipped in Greencastle last year, 10175. But Central is much deeper this year and DePauw is thinner. “I’ve watched Central play and they are a very outstand-

ing ball club.” McCall said Tuesday. “They work well together and they get the most out of their height. They’re all good shooters.”

Central’s main unit appears to be 6-2 Ed Zeigler and 6-0 Bob Smock at forwards, 6-5

John Beebe at center, and 6-0 i anova and 5-10 John Swank and Alan 71.54

Williams at guard. Coach Angus Nicoson can summon 6-7 Ron Smith, 6-5 Dave Stillabower, and 6-4 Ron Gresk if

need be.

Barring any new flu cases

to win a game under his tutelage at Indiana Central. The Tigers do lead the series, however, 9-4. Central last won,

92-87, in 1963-64.

DePauw carries a 3-3 mark into the game. Two of the three losses have been to university division teams—Vil-

89-63, and Bucknell, Illinois Wesleyan de-

feated the Tigers, 87-78 , on

the road.

All DePauw’s wins have come at home. Wabash fell, 102-88, California Western stumbled,

McCall will go with 25.5 point: 86_69 > and Friday night DePauw per game forward Tom McCor- disposed of Wheaton, 109-87.

Atlanta Hawks within 4 games of frontrunner

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Thursday’s Games

Willie Davis of Green Bay. Dick Butkus of Chicago is the middle linebacker and Dave Robinson of Green Bay and

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The Atlanta Hawks have moved to within 4 1 / / 2 games of the first-place Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Division of the National Basketball Association thanks to what may be the most accurate trio of shooters in the league. Zelmo Beaty, Lou Hudson and Joe Caldwell aren’t super stars like the Lakers’ Wilt Chamber, lain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor but they’ve been the key men in the Hawks’ six-game winning streak. Each has a season field goal percentage of better than 45 per cent. Beaty scored 27 points, Hudson had 21 and Caldwell added 18 Wednesday night as the Hawks downed the Milwaukee Bucks 122-116 at Atlanta. A

crowd of 2,683 saw the Hawks Loughery had 26 points for the take a 62-46 lead at halftime Bullets, who broke away from a

and lead by at least three points the rest of the way. Len Chappell and John McGlocklin each had 23 points for the

Bucks.

The Baltimore Bullets defeated the San Francisco Warriors 109-100, the Detroit Pistons downed the San Diego Rockets 124-112, the New York Knicks beat the Boston Celtics 104-98, the Phoenix Suns overcame the Cincinnati Royals 123-114 and the Philadelphia 76ers topped the Seattle Supersonics 115-111 in other Wednesday night games. Gus Johnson scored 21 points and had 23 rebounds and Kevin

72-72 tie in the third period after leading the Warriors by 14 points early in the game. Jeff Mullins led the Warriors with 30

points.

Jimmy Walker and Happy Hairston scored 27 points each, offsetting a 40-point effort by Elvin Hayes, to give the Pistons their first victory under new coach Paul Seymour. Hayes had 19 rebounds but his teammates were guilty of 33 curnovers. Walt Frazier scored three points with 1:02 remaining to give the Knicks a 102-97 lead after they and the Celtics battled on even terms through

mick (6-5), 6-5 Larry Downs, who scored 35 against Wheaton, 6-8 Mike O’Connell at center, and 6-0 guards Dale Barrett and John Tolle or Browning. Downs has a 14,3 average. According to McCall’s recollections, the Tigers have yet

Dedication Not Enough VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (UPI) —In a society where value is determined by money, garbage men still are paid more than missionaries. The Rev. Norman R. DePuy, American Baptist editor, writes in the denomination’s magazine. Mission. The Rev. DePuy says he is all for the garbage men but is also concerned about the deep crisis involving American Baptist professional leadership. “Dedication is usually both the reply and the apology to those who raise questions about garbage men deserving more than missionaries," he says. “But dedication is totally irrelevant at the bank, at the grocery store, and in a society which, when it is honest, determines everything by dollar val-

After the Central game De Pauw takes an eight-day rest before heading into the Worcester (Mass.) Holiday Festival Tourney. DePauw’s first round opponent will be Amherst.

Bowling

Cody

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Giltz

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Taylor

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Storm

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Fox

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Jordan

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Cockrell

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Scott

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Porter

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Collins

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High Team

Game, Giltz, 605.

Dallas, Cleveland meet for conference

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Montreal

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Boston

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Toronto

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New York

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Chicago

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Detroit

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St. Louis

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DALLAS (UPI)—The two most potent teams in the National Football League— Dallas and Cleveland—collide Saturday for the Eastern Conference title and Cowboy coach Tom Landry believes it is clear the key factor will be defense. “Our defensive effort is the big thing in this ball game,” Landry said Wednesday. "We have to stop people like Leroy Kelly and Paul Warfield. But the their defense has got to stop us.” The defenses will have a lot of work. Dallas led the NFL in total yardage, rushing and passing for 5,117 yards. Cleveland was runner-up in that category, picking up 4,889 yards. “They are a great running club,” said Landry. “We have to control that running game first and if we don’t it’s going to be a tough game.” The Cowboys have controlled Cleveland well the last two times they have met—in last

year’s Eastern Conference championship contest and during the regular season this year. Dallas controlled Cleveland to the tune of 52-14 last year in the title affair, but Landry does not look for any of that again. “We were not that much better than Cleveland,” he said. “If you reach a point where you think you can’t win, then the game can get out of hand. It’s all a mental game.” Landry seemed optimistic that his defense, best in the league against the rush, can handle Cleveland and that optimism was bolstered Wednesday by word that defensive tackle Jethro Pugh was showing signs of improvement from a knee ligament injury that put him out of last weekend’s New York Giant game. On the offensive side, Landry said his quarterback— Don Meredith—had been throwing well all week and showed no signs of continuing his poor performance in the early part of the New York game.

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Reed and Dick Barnett had 24 points each for the Knicks while Bailey Howell had 31 for the

Celtics.

Gail Goodrich’s 34 points led the Suns to their victory over the Royals despite 24 points by Jerry Lucas, back in action after an attack of the flu, and 23 by Oscar Robertson. The Suns took a 9-0 lead and never trailed during the game. The 76ers scored their 18th victory in 21 games as Chet Walker scored 30 points, Billy Cunningham had 23 and Hal Greer 17. Len Wilkens scored23 for the Sonics.

High Team Series, Giltz, 1629 High Ind. Game, Helen Taylor,

210.

High Ind. Series, Kathy Scott,

505.

Women’s High Series, B. Ashworth (sub), 543, K. Scott, 505, D. Cody, 486, H. Taylor, 472, E. Jordan, 471, E. Porter ( sub), 462, B. Douglas, (sub), 458, M. Storm, 454,

Wednesday’s Results Chicago 3 New York 1 Montreal 2 Los Angeles 2, tie Toronto 5 Oakland 2 (Only games scheduled) Thursday’s Games Los Angeles at Boston Chicago at Detroit Minnesota at Philadelphis (Only games scheduled)

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