Walkerton Independent, Volume 82, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 April 1959 — Page 2

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IT’S JUST ABOUT BASEBALL Time again! In fact, basehalls have been flying around Florida and Arizona for some time now as the 16 major league teams are rounding into shape. However, the official sta-t of the season isn’t until April 10 for most of the teams with a lidlifter one day earlier in the nation’s capital. THERE ARE A FEW OTHER items that we would like to dwe 1 on for a few minutes before we turn the column over to baseba’l for a. few we^ks. First of all, the playoffs in the National Basketball Association are nearing the final series as many thrills still remain, but many very exciting minutes have already passed us by. THE NBA HAS RECEIVED A shot in the ami by the televising of their Sunday afternoon games over the NBC Sports Network. For the playoffs, they have even tossed in Satuiday games which has given many fans a chance to watch the way they play the game in that league. Action in the NBA is rough. That is certainly a statement that one could dwell on for some time, but nevertheless, exciting. The boys that are in that league arc basketball players. They

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, are the ones that were outstanding s in college despite the fact that I some weren’t the most publicized. l ‘ THE PROS HAVE STRESSED . shooting in their trame. This is a i necessity as the fans like to see ; the scoring. They have adopted the, i 21 second rule for several years now, and it has been a lifesaver! to the league. In addition, the fans । ■ like to watch the big men that can । move and perform like the small ( ■ man we are used to seeing. J GETTING BACK TO PLAYI offs, in the preliminary round, MinI neapolis had little trouble dispos- , ing of Detroit and Syracuse ran : over New York. This moved the Lakers against the defending league champion, St. Louis Hawks, ! who ran away with their half of , the league. However, the boys from Minneapolis had a few ideas ’ of their own as to how the game t should be played, stressed the de- ( fensive chore of stopping Bob Pet- , tit and Cliff Hagan, and dumped the high-flying Hawks 4 games to 2. Rookie of the year Elgin Bayklor ‘ was the big gun both offensively and defensively. : PRO BASKETBALL HAS A ' tendency to follow the home court

when it comes to winning, but the i Lakers, after splitting the first i four games, charged back with two more wins to sew up the shot at the finals against Ihc winners cf the Eastern half of the league. I Using thetr defensive talents to the (greatest, they held Pettit and Hagan well below their record pac3 they carried during the season. Pettit set new records this year by totaling well over 2000 points for the regular season and with Hagan chipping in with an average of almost 25 a game, they formed the greatest one-two punch ever assembled in the game. THE LAKERS HAVE BEEN coming late in the season as they have some real talent od the squad । with such as Bob Leonard, Dick iGarmaker and Hot Rod Hundley 'nt guards, Larry Foust and Del Krebs in the pivot and Vern Mikkleson teaming with Baylor at the regular forward spot. Their defense has to be man-to-man as that is all that is allowed in the NBA, so the outstanding work stopping these two stars is all the more remarkable. Baylor's assignment in the series of games was Hagan. Cliff is one of the toughest in the game at his 6’4” height. He was a pivot man on an undefeated national championship team in Kentucky and his talents of under the basket play are matched by his ability at forward or wherever he may play. PETTIT ON THE OTHER hand is one of the bigger boys in the league at 6’9”. He is a remarkab e shot and is dangerous within fifteen or so feet from the basket. With his agility and size, he is specially tough on driving shots and close in play. Minneapolis collapsed quite a bit on Pettit to give ; Foust or Mikkleson, whoever was ; on him, some help. At any rate the । defense in the offensive minded game payed off. i IN THE OTHER HALF, Boston land Syracuse will have the showdown for the right to oppose the Lakers in the final best of seven series. Syracuse has been a real strong team late in the season. With the acquisition of George Yardley from Detroit in the trade a month or so ago. the Nats picked up one of the best scorers in the game and some real help for their drive for the title. Teamed with Dolph Schayes at forward,! .this gives th^n a real hot shooting » duet ^ith mg John Kerr in be- ! tween on the pivot. This front lin6 is one of the best if not the best scoring wise at least in the league., WITH A SLIGHT CHANGE IN the offensive pattern to keep the rebounding star Bill Russell out from underneath, Kerr has been limited a little in scoring, but Yardley and Schayes have carried on in great form. Yardley has been working the pivot with Kerr and Schayes and can hit from anywhere with almost any kind of a shot. Their guards of Costello and Greer with Blenke on the bench, gives them good playmakers and scorers who can also chip in with those 20 point efforts. Their series is tied at 3 and 3 right now with tire deciding game Wednesday .night in Boston. The winner will open play against the Lakers on TV Saturday afternoon in the final series of the season. BOSTON IS A GREAT TEAM and everyone knows that. They have Russell. No more need be said for their center spot. Tire guard spots are dominated by two of the greatest to ever put on shoes. Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman. The scoring from the forward spots is carried best by Tom Heinshon, a I

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■ hard driving fellow with the great|P qt assortment of shots off of h s drive that anyone ever will see. He stands 6’7” and is useful in that sense also despite the fact that Jim Luskatoff is carried as a starter for his rebounding ability although not too tall. They have some great subs in Frank Ramsey, probably the toughest 6th man ever to play ball; Gene Conley, the misplaced Milwaukee pitcher and the Jones boys, K. C. and Sam and so on. ' WHOEVER EMERGES THE winner will have deserved the title they win this year and won’t do is without a struggle. The NBA is becoming tougher all the time and interest has been spurred tremendously by the televising of games. If the title march goes five or six games, there will be televising cf the Saturday and Sunday tuss’e up until the time the majors start taking the spotlight on their game Os the WP plf fA- nq j । MOVIE REVIEWS From THE I RIALTO Marjorie Main, the fabulous Ma . Kettle of Universal-International's series of hilarious “Kettle” films, the latest of which, "The Kettle® on Old MacDonald’s Farm,” is now playing at the RIALTO until Saturday, was indignant when she learned she had been named by a Hollywood gossip columnist as among the world’s worst-dressed women. “That woman (the columnist) must be crazy,” she exploded. “I’m one of the best-dressed women in Hollywood. What I mean is that I’m dressed and the others are mostly undressed. Marjorie, a rugged individualist who sets her own styles, said today’s women make a mistake in exposing too miseh of themselves to public view. “Keep ’em guesssing,” she said archly. She scoffed at such modsrn de-' vices as girdles and gartei’ belts, I explaining that “I’m a corset girl. I like some, support for my body.” | As far a.s dress materials go, REES •’h mniith. Indiana Thursday, Friday & Saturday “Tom Thumb” In Color RUSS TAMBLYN, ALAN YOUNG, TERRY THOMAS ...The Happiest Fairy Tale evejr i filmed! You’ll laugh with de- ! ight! Color Cartoon and News Ist Show 5 P. M. Saturday Sun., Mon., Tues, and Wed. “Rally Round The • Flag, Boys’ Color By DeLuxe PHIL NEWMAN, JOANNE j WOODWARD, JACK CARSON ! Frenzied High-Jinks and Sheer Unadultrated Slapstick in this Hokum-filled Comedy! Also Color Cartoon Monday thru Friday 7 & 9 p.m. Sunday Continuous from 2 p.m.

Marjorie prefers ginghams and T " h. -'-L silk for what ®he calls “Sunday-ge-to-ipeetin’ dresaes.” As in every enterpriM in which he has ever taken part, Mickey Rooney dominaten “Francis in the Haunted House,’’ the new Univer-sal-Internat’onal comedy which plays on the same program with Ma and Pa Kettle, and that should be good news to millions of the-atre-goers who have come to feel that no year is complete without at least one new “Francis” picture. The teaming of Rooney With the famous talking mule wha truly an inspired bit of casting. As is known to everyone who has followed the career of this still young Hollywood veteran, Mickey is a fine all-around actor and has done many a serious role with great distinction, but it’s still a fact that he’s the happiest doing comedy. It was uproariously evident as the new “Francis” film unfolded on the screen of the RIALTO, theatre, that in his latest role the ebullient Mr. Rooney has lost none of the magic of communicating pleasure to audiences that established him as one of the great names of Hollywood while he was still a teenager. i A production in which emotions and action® are as gusty as its title, “Raw Wind in Eden”, Unima Scope drama co-starring Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler opens Sunday at the RIALTO for 3 days .also starring Roseana Podesta, Carlos Thompson and Rik Battaglia, with the special participation of Eduardo de Filippo. Filmed in its wild natural setting along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast of Italy, the picture is tauff with suspense and ripe with the varied angles and attractions arising from the proximity of . two virile men and two beauttiful women struggling against themselves and each other on a surfpounded rock. - f Luscious Esther William® couples wild magnetic beauty; a AUsome figure arid a great new. dimension of acting tajgpt j^ ht u ’ n । in the most forceful and sedpctjve I performance of her career!As । mysterious adventurer ! whohas I chosen to lose himself । ding place, Jeff Chandle^ p^rt^ays ione of the outstandingly dynamic characters of his lo^g, f successful career. ... . RIALTO WALKERTON, INDIANA, Thurs., Fri., Sat.—April 2-3-4 “Ma & Pa Kettleon nr Old MacDonald’s FArm’’ -' 2nd Feature "Francis In The * ] Haunted House” ’ MICKEY ROONEY •»< • * n San., Mon., Tues. — April 5-6-i । La- i — i { 4| MONDAY, APRIL CW k in HOLLYWOOD! TuneToCHANNELIS 9 30 W 1 •F. iooriagi