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ournamentEverythingMuncie9GersfmeyerMilanPoisedBv RON GILBERTINDIANAPOLIS lt;*-Thc 41th Indian* high school basketball cham-apionship tournament Saturday seems to have just about everything except enough seatsI Even that deficiency is beingpartly taken care of by near blan ket television coverage Ten TV stations are carrying the games this year, compared with three a year ago.The draw itself offers a rarematching of sluggers and boxers.j The first game sends out Muncie Central and Elkhart — two power houses with size, height and speed to burn The second pairs Terre Haute Gerxtmeyer and Milan — stylists with a deft artistry and amaddening change of pace.The championship game, of course, will provide a contrast l»e-tween the two styles of play.There are plenty of other con trasts in the picture, One team is shooting for its fifth champion ship, and the others are hungryfor a first.Muncie Central fans have en joyed four titles, a number matched only by Frankfort, and would like to be the first to bag a fifth The Bearcats are in the final four for the 10th time, a total exceededonly by Anderson.The Muncie pi a vers themselves haven't had enough of the victory fare to he blase, though. The start ing five is composed of three jun iors and two sophomores, who were freshmen and eighth graders when the Bearcats won two years ago And for the first time in a good many years a team from a small town is conceded a real chance to crash through.The Milan Indians aren't favori ites, but nobody is writing them off. They came this far last year, losing to South Bend Central in the afternoon, and they’re not likely to be frightened by big town teams this year.Milan is a town of 1,100 popula tion with a school enrollment of 162, of whom 73 are boys. Only Wingate (1913 and 1914) andThom town 414)15) took champion ships back to town also small.You have to go back to 1946 to find a town under 2,000 in the final four. Flora made it that year Back in 1940 Lapel was one of thefour finahsU. They don't come often.Gerstmeyer was runnerup last year by a single point and has that bitter memory to spur it on. That was the Black Cats’ first closeapproach to the title.Elkhart is in the final four for the first time The Blue Blazers need that trophy for the fine new gym they're building./LaKlt;hiicodaTfnetwofaneole;bemtoiCoach Dick Pme Sr'sGRACE METHODIST HONORS JUNIOR CHAMPS—Members ofGroce Methodist Junior basketball team (above* were guests of honor at a dinner of the Grace Methodist Men's Club held lost night in the church basement. The Groce squad swept oil season and tourney honors in the Junior Sunday School Division hardwood leagueAppearing (left to right) are standing—Jerry Coon, Terry Pickard, Don ‘Roudebush,Dale Copeland, Manager Roger Roudebush, and Coach Dick Pme Sr.; kneeling—Dick Pme Ir. Max Ptckel, Ronnie Roudebush, John McGuire, Ralph Worley, John Thompson and DonthikeHolliday.1 Herald Photo)Group WillScrap TaxCage Scores HasIFiScbrColleoe Gainesly TH« Aitoootdd ErtiiNCAASt/mi-E.oqI*idSotlw 49, P#rm 54•roH'#y 74, $Ovth#rn C* t*9'nlt;a1:39.3 Markratic71Bv IIF.RB M.TSCIH LLSenateF rid a y on all athleticWASHINGTON lt;.*—The*Finance Committee votedto scrap the federal tax regular season college events.The fax is now 20 per cent A hill passed by the House earlier this week would cut the levy to 10 per cent, but the Senate commit voted to end the tax alto gether.Some Capitol Hill source* said it was a good bet now. that thetaxes would be wiped off the books The House Ways and Means Committee approved the 10 percent lew “bv an-- - ^ ^ -W yrr 'TW ipf ■ wmargin, one source iNATiONAt A UUSet * D *90 Vikoivo 63 M $*HOk a . Ctmmon d»f| 50 UilNOlS HIGH SCMOOl€h.«o'jo Du Sob*#* 10 OvtMf 66Moun* Vwroon 73.. Mol 59 idP-r-c* ty* # 61 of Hflfv* y 47♦2-Mile RaceUi(cBradley, LeSalleCLEVELAND — Michigan’steam ran the university two-mile relay in the fastest time of the H indoor season Friday night, 7 mm utes, 39.3 seconds, to edge Ford ham in the Knights of Columbus 5* 14th annual track meet.c«PIGNCAABv BLN PIILEGARBclt;CFine Raise CausesSain To Forget HisRetirement PlansMIAMI P — Even Manager isey Stengel was surprised F ri-ty at the news that veteran pitch-Johnny Sain was coming out of tirement to rejoin the New Yorkinkees.Sain left his Walnut Ridge, Ark , me Thursday by automobile for e world champions’ camp at St itersburg. Reportedly he has a ntrart in his pocket calling for$30,000 salary, a raise of about,000 over last year.The Arkansas pitcher, who won and lost 7 for the Yankees last ar, bought an automobile agen-at Walnut Ridge last October d announced he was through th baseballAsked about Sain’s return, Sten 1 replied: “It’s news to me I ven’t heard anything about it.” iMiller John Ross of Michigan overcame a 10-vard Syracuse lead at the halfway mark by overtaking Bill Persichetfy, On the last lap. Fordham’s Tom Courtney put on a burst of speed to take,second, three yards behind Michigan's Pete Gray. Michigan State cameKANSAS CITY — Bradley’s * fourth, awfully clo-o fighting Braves and the explorers The Michigan meet record was aid from LaSalle Friday night moved an even second under GeorgetownWhile this was good news to the into the finals of the National Col- University’* mark here three years ^ college men who have been be legiate Basketball Championship. a?°-wailing the drop in atflt;*ndancc, the The Braves came out ahead of Olympic star Harrison Dollard Senate committee bill wa^ bad Southern California 74 72 in a rous- won the 45 yard high hurdles—the news to the sponsors of horse rac- mg duel decided in the final mm- ninth year in which the Cleveland inc ard dog racing utes. LaSalle waltzed in 69 54 over athlete has copped this event ofFor the committee voted to keep a Penn State team that couldn't the local meet. In outrunning Illi-the federal tax on racing at the have been colder outdoors in Alas- nois' Willard Thomson and Von present level of 20 per rent. The fca. Bruner, formerly of Michigan. Dil- jHouse will knock the tax down to a sellout crowd of more than lard posted a fast 5 5 second time. * 10 per cent as of April I. 10,000 at Municipal Auditorium A Baldw in-Wallace College fresh-Senate committee aides tald the gaV(, tj,c teams the slow handclap man. Abe Butler, upset Willie Wil philosnhy was to keep the admis- in the nightcap and filed in droves liams of Illinois in the semi final 'the books as a short toward the exits before the final heat of the 45-yard dash and thencopped the final in 4 9 seconds. ' Penn State’* vaunted pressing Williams, who won the event here zone defense didn’t stop LaSalle two years ago. said he had trouble but it made the explorers look bad. getting off the starting blocks JJ LaSalle and Bradley meet at Freshman Bob Gordon of Ohio £ 11 10 pm. (CSTi Saturday in the State ran second, ahead of Edgar B nationally televised finals. Brabham of Michigan State.Trying as ho would. Coach El- Veteran Mai Whitfield, smooth-mcr Gross couldn't find a Penn striding former Ohio State athlete.sion tax on ___________of “luxurv” i!«*m involving sports period was half over, events where there is substantialgambling.The exemption on college athletic event« d«M?s not apply to post season games The tax on thoseevents would drop from 20 to 10per cent The Senate committee voted some relief, too. for high school sports. All sporting events wherethe if1m*sion in less than SO cents |e 5hotlwould require no tar im o r the _ y,,,committee version of the bill Other admissions would carry a 10 percent levy.The legislation now goes to theSenate floor for debate.600W ■**' ^ —r -y ^ -W —■ -- - — —■ —hit the basket or pass in closeThe zone kept All-America Tom Go!a bottled up through the firstOlvmDic star took over on the sec *4 ond lap to show the way to Le Roy Ebert of Iowa Gene Maynard, Illinois’ Big 10half and he didn’t score a field champion, had a similar easy timein the 1.000-vard run. He led fromthe second quarter.SPORTSMAN'SfrciAhiDIGEST ^ ha! shdrpHOWA• • • • •^ ............ t the start and came home 15 yardsLaSalIe led*”bv *5 points at the ahead of Ohio State’s Bob Wead-at the half and 13 after *lt;*. «h° staged a late drive to passBill Conrardy of the Chicago Catholic Youth Organization.Another meet record fell in thethree of' his chinces «* relay which a LoyolaUniversity quartet clipped off in three minutes, 25.7 seconds, com S( pared with the three-year-old mark of 3:27.3 that Michigan Normal 0ctquarter, II three quarters.Gola wound up with 19 points, nine of them on free throws. Hehit all but at the foul line.Penn State wound up with a shotting average of only 25 percent, hitting 20 of 79 from theki
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