1 5 FIRST AND. BEST- AS USUAL INDIANA, CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1961 FIRST AND BEST- AS USUAL SPORTS SECTION THE MARION CHRONICLE SPORTS SECTION 40 44 42 32 54 24 30 22 PLAY OAK HILL--These are the Bluffton High School Tigers who Bob Purkhiser, Roger. Keller and Randy Edington. Standing are will play Oak Hill in the second game of the Marion regional Dan Deam, Brad Bounds, Coach James Rosentihl, Steve Hart and basketball tournament Saturday afternoon at Memorial Coliseum. Dave Ross.
Bluffton is the defending regional champion here, havSeated (left to right) are Steve Heller, Dave Durr, Mike Flowers, ing defeated Oak Hill with a rally in the 1960 championship game. Bluffton Gains Stature By LARRY SULLIVAN Sports Editor Bluffton News-Banner BLUFFTON The Bluffton Tigers, who face Oak Hill- in the game of the Marion regional basketball tourney Saturday, have come up with a basketball be reckoned with after starting the year with more modest plans for a season of rebuilding. Gone from last year's squad which pulled the big upset of the state high school tourney by ousting highly ranked Kokomo at the semi-state level are three players who formed the nucleus of the team. Mike Milholland, Don, Wasson and Ted Collins all ence first team were the three named to the all confer-. ating starters.
I Two other regular relief men, Doug Beatty and Jess Absher, departed with diplo-. mas and Coach' Virgil Kirkpatrick also moved on to rence the situaton which faced Coach: Jim Rosentibl in his first year at Bluffton was half of experienced varsity. If this season was one of rebuilding, more teams should try it. After a shaky start which saw the Tigers break even at 44 before the turn. of the year, they rebounded into a 17-6 record going into.
regional action. The have won 13 and lost two since Jan. 1 and at one point had an eight game winning skein. Ace sharpshooter of the squad six foot Bob Purkhiser, who moved back to a guard, spot after serving as forward last year. He sports a flashy 23-point season average and was far ahead as individual scoring champion of the Northeastern Indiana Conference with a 24 point mark in league competition.
The other returning starter is 5-9 Dave Durr, 'considered many as the most important cog in the Tiger machine. Although fourth in scoring through the reg. ular season, Durr provides the stablizing influence on a team which otherwise tends to run and shoot with wild abandon. In the sectional, as Purkhiser was able to see only limited action after a bout with the mumps, Durr filled in with of 29 points over Rockcreek and. 24 against Ossian.
In the cahmpionship, a slow-down 43-30 again was high with 17. victory over Petroleum, Durr His average was 9.5 during the season but he picked up 31 points in a 92-65 romp over Auburn. "Purk's" move to guard was to make room in the forecourt for 6-5 "sophom*ore Brad Bounds. A soft shot similar to that of Wasson's last year has made Bounds the second high scorer with: an' average of 13.4 points per suite the Flowers, other 6-1 forward senior who post ad- is vanced to the state regional track meet as a high jumper. He bears more than his share of the rebounding and carries 10.5 scoring average.
At the center post is Steve Hart, 6-4 junior. He has shown. considerable improvement in the difficult. task of replacing Milholland. He has hit for an average of 6.2 points a game.
Highlights of the 1960-61 campaign found the Tigers victorious over Fort Wayne South Side, 52-44; Garrett, 73-61; Kendallville, 74-60; Huntington, 51-46; Fort Wayne Concordia, 98-89; and Berne, 60-58. In they breezed over Rockcreek, 73-47; downed Wells champion Ossian, 71-61, and' then outlasted a catand-mouse game against Petroleum. Bluffton may not be able to come up with anything to match last year's 89-85 overtime thriller over Kokomo to gain the final eight in the prep cage race. But it could be this rebuilding campaign hasn't hit its climax yet. Rebuilding Brings Winner Regional Contenders Drill At Two of the teams which will compete in the regional round of the Indiana High School Athletic Association state basketball tournament.
Saturday at Memorial Coliseum went through practice sessions today at the coliseum. John Hougland, Marion High School principal and tournament director, said Bluffton and Huntington went through drills at the goalery today. The other two participants, Oak Hill and take the. floor Thursday. Oak Hill will practice from 10 a.m.
until noon and Dunkirk from noon until 2 p.m. Tickets have been distributed to the four schools, with Huntington getting the largest number, 1,835. Bluffton received 1.349 tickets, Oak Hill, 1,354, and Dunkirk, 1,088. Enrollment in the ticket distribution. Huntington has 740 students, Oak Hill, 427; Bluffton, 424, and Dunkirk, Marion basketballs fans will 3 have a chance: to buy tickets the shoot if the schools do not sell all their allotments.
Any unsold tickets. must 'be returned to Hougland by noon' Thursday, and these will be on sale at Memorial Coliseum Thursday and Friday afternoons and Saturday before the games. Huntington and Dunkirk will meet in the first game at 12:30 p.m. and Dunkirk and Bluffton will play in the second contest. The two winners will play for a spot in the Fort Wayne semi-state tournament, at 8:15 p.m.
Doors will open one hopr before each session. Hougland also announced the officials for the tournament. Game officials, assigned by the IHSAA, will be John Hilligoss and Fred Marlow of Richmond and James Beyer and Dwain Laird of Waldron. Official scorer will be Raymond Anderson and official timer will be Larry Atkinson. Both are Marforlion school teachers.
'Liberal' Profession' Johansson Says He Doesn't Owe Any Taxes To U.S. NEW YORK (AP) -Is ex-world heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson engaged in a "liberal profession?" Johansson apparently thinks so and indications today were 'that he might use the rule to avoid paying the United States more than a half-million dollars in income taxes. The government disagrees, Tuesday took action tie up Ingo's purse in his third title fight with Floyd Patterson in Miami Beach on March 13. Johansson's argument is that he is a resident of Switzerland and employed as a business agent for a Swiss corporation called Scanart, S. A.
He says neither he nor Scanart owes taxes because, of a covenant between States and Switzerland which provides tax exemption for income-producing activities not involving permanent trade or business. The Internal Revenue Service claims Johansson owes the gov. ernment $598,181.92 in personal income tax for. his two title fights with Patterson here in 1959 and 1960. In twin court suits Tuesday, here and in Miami, the government obtained orders from two federal judges restraining Johansson from transferring any money? AY 4-4 By DALE BURGESS Associated Press Sports Writer They haven't painted it on barns as an inspiration, but Southern Indiana high school basketball fans are still smoldering over the record 102-66 score which Muncie Central plastered on Bloomington to open last year's state tourney finals.
By the luck of the draw, the first game March 18 again will match. the Evansville semistate winner against the Indianapolis winner. The question is: Does any of the 16 teams left in the Southwest regionals have a chance of avenging the 1960 humiliation? The answer seems to be "No." The four regionals this Saturday which feed the Evansville semistate will be played at Evansville, Bloomington, Huntingburg and Jeffersonville. The field does not include a single team rated among the state's top ten. Regionals feeding the Indianapolis semistate will be played at Indianapolis, Connersville, Columbus and New Castle.
They are loaded with four rated teams No. 3 Indianapolis Attucks and No. 5 Indianapolis Manual in the Capital meet, No. 4 Muncie Central at New Castle and unbeaten No. 6 Madison at Columbus.
There is always a chance, course, that some team will catch, fire in the tourney as Jasper did in 1949. A seven-time loser, was unranked but it went all the way. If there is a bomb waiting to this explode in it the Southwest again year, could be Jasper again (with only four losses this time), an Evansville Bosse quintet that bloomed a Bloomfield team that has lost only twice, or perhaps Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, often a tourney surprise. Tell City, in the Evansville meet, is the only one of last year's regional winners still functioning in the Southwest. Bloomington, New Albany and Carlisle, the other '60 winners, already have been retired.
7- in the Jeffersonville, regional, has a string of nine victories going and may surprise somebody. Saturday afternoon it plays Silver Creek's ball control specialists, who put New Albany and Jeffersonville out of business. If Brazil beats Gerstineyer and Bloomfield gets past Ellettsville in the Bloomington regional, there trill be a night rematch of the key game in the Wabash Valley Brazil inflicted' Bloomfield's first defeat of the season 52-50. Two of the rated teams in the Indianapolis semistate area are in the Indianapolis regional. 'At- victory over.
Columbus, favored over Greenwood in the second game there. Muncie Central, beaten, only twice, will be heavy. favorite over Cambridge City. in the first game at. New Castle.
Lewisville, stopped only three times and by Marion Pierce, state scoring champ three straight years, will play Ward-Jackson in the second Fur Southwest Regionals Aren't Apt To Produce ce 4-4 Champion tucks, 22-2, goes against ria, 17-6, in the first game and Indianapolis Manual, 23-2, meets Plainfield, 16-10, in the second. It looks like Attucks and 'Manual at night. Attucks defeated Manual in a sizzling city tourney game, 59-54, Dec. 30. Madison goes after its.
23rd straight victory against North Vernon 'at Columbus. The Cubs beat North Vernon 84-57 early in the season, And they hold a 69-59 Zionsville Completes Field For Regionals Bluffton Roster Player Class Pos. Ht. Dave Mike Steve Heller Roger Keller Bob John Archer Randy Edington Steve Brand Dan Deam Dave Rose Dan Taylor starters. Bluffton (Won Lost 6) 52-F.
W. South-44. 60-Dunkirk-65. 77-Ossian-64. 57-Columbia City-59.
49-Angola-66. -Mississinewa-56. 82-Decatur-66. 73-Garrett-61. Kendallville-60.
54-Elmhurst-52. 51-Huntington-46. 98 F. W. Concordia-89.
5- 9 Sr. 6- 1 5- 9 5-11 Sr. 6- 1 5- 9 5- 9 Jr. 5 3 So. 6- 4 6- 0 6- 0 5-10 Record 60-Berne-58.
92-Auburn-65. 49-New Haven-57. 78-Portland-70. 79-Adams Central-66. :7 Holiday' Tourney 69-Decatur-71.
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ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) anon today owned its first al basketball championship since 1954 and is never likely to win another under the same circ*mstances. The Tigers defeated Thorn- Hoosier I- Swimmers Aim At Title BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Indiana University's swimming team, unbeaten in dual competition over two seasons, will try to win its first Big Ten championship Thursday through Saturday at Ohio State. After beating Michigan's defending champions 62-39 this season, the Hoosiers looked like cinch for the conference title but Coach Jim Counsilman says that isn't necessarily so.
Places and points will be carried 12 deep this year, instead of the previous six, and Michigan has exceptional depth. Indiana and Michigan won eight first places apiece last year in swimming events and the Hoosiers led 130-125. But Michigan picked up 25 points in diving to Indiana's 5 and won 155-130. "Michigan can count on least four places in each of the two diving events," Counsilman points out, "and while our diving has improved enough that we'll score some points, it's a tremendous advantage to Michigan." Each team has seven of its eight 1960 individual champions. town's defending champions 62-58 Tuesday night in the Zionsville sectional, first in the 50-year-old tourney ever to have one day all to itself.
It was one of 11 interrupted last Saturday by one of the worst winter storms in Indiana history. The 10 others were played off Monday. Beaten only four times all year, Lebanon was expected to defeat Thorntown, whose ancestors won the 1915 state tourney. It was quite a struggle, however, with the score tied 8 times before Lebanon got a 30-28 lead at the half. The Tigers improved it to 46-39 at the end of the third quarter.
A capacity crowd of. 3,775 watched Lebanon's balance overmatch the game-leading 21 points of Thorntown's Dave Williams. Mark Cavin was high for Lebanon with 18. Lebanon 'trounced Whitestown 85-40 in the afternoon and Thorntown defeated Pinnell 40-31. Thorntown was the 39th sectional champion.
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tax, on there earnings. The source said, however, he could not clarify the definition of a "liberal profession." is training, Johansson a said he had In Palm Beach, where he no comment. i William D. Fugazy president of Feature Sports, promoter of the fight, said that the action would Have no effect on the bout. MATCHES HEAVIES: SAN FRANCISCO -Pro moter Abe Acquistapace has announced the signing of heavy.
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