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*4By FRED CASADY Bulletin Sports EditorA long talk, condensed, by Coach Butler Fieldhouse, and lessons Marvin Wood of Milan: learned in that bitter final gameThP co.s back home can milk *»'* •* forgotten, themselves for awhile now. It s “They won’t have such kids as wonderful. I never had so much Crawford and Agullana and Benny fun in my life” Fellerhoff and Max Abrell andCoach Wood’s wile. Marv Lou. Terre Broadwater, but they'll have 1 said to the Milan team after the ™ Hind, and Gene Mowers and crest win. It s very nice to be im- John Casterlow, and Phil Katsorpnrtant. but more .mporlant to be Jm Barnes and Lddie Collin.and Tom CurtisniceThey’ll be bigger and strongerThe long 8^ mile trek from In- and a year older. They 11 be ready1 dian*polls back home for the Mi* this time, ready to answer every* lan team was a short one as an es- question.9 timated 40.000 fans along the route “And in the meantime, kind ; cheered, played band music and friends, don’t waste any sympathygave the proper homage to the on us Muncie folks.champions as they passed through get over that two-point‘ the cities along the way home Sun- near.miSs.day- I We’ll get well—we U live.The official reception caught the' get over it in a hurry.team at Greensburg, where a 6 we nee(j js three or f0urmile long caravan formed.1, months.time it reached Milan a double -stream of cars 13 miles long hub- One thing Bob has forgotten, a»■ ’ Hrto-hub followed the winners home new Renaissance came into being A large banner stretched across Saturday. It is true that perhaps the* «treet in Milan told one and only 1,000 in the Butler Fieldhouse al! that the town was now known were pulling for Muncie to win and as Woodville. in honor of the 26- it.000 for Milan It wasn’t entirely vear-old coach, who led them to Milan. It was for the awakening the final four last year and came of one of the 700 odd teams that back this year to go all the way. had never made the charmed cir* Coach Wood said to the team. cle. Now more than ever the so-Last year we went to Indianapolis called little teams will become and didn’t bring anything back; great and the larger cities who this time we vowed we would win have never tasted the cup of plenty something. And. by golly, we dam- w1r feel urged to go out and do a ed rear brought everything back better job. No team at this writing Before each game we reminded has next year’s crown won.ourselves of the four things neces- -sary to win the championship— Another Indian team put on a determination, confidence, alert- scalping party Saturday night and ness and a little bit of luck” came up with the Kentucky highWmT w -w - - — — — — — J w w W --Wood closed his remarks with school basketball championship be the statement that everyone in In- f0re 13,000 wilding cheering fans in dians knows now, “These boys are the Kentucky University Fieldhouse a coach's dream.” at Lexington, The Inez Indians, asmall school with an enrollment*^The demands of U. S. sportsmen onjy 225, won its second Kentucky and women are currently taxing crown. It went all the way in 1941. the capacity and imagination of -phe team of pint-sized players clob-some 800 manufacturers of sports bere(j Newport, a team of giants, equipment to the tune of a billion 63..^ jn the final game, dollars a year.goodsGeorge Beard of the Burgetts-les will produce 94 million piecesof fishing tackle, 36 million golf league rolled three consecutive balls, 5 million baseball bats, 14,league series of 499 million football, baseball and basketball suits.Golfers will spend a record 80millions on golf supplies. Fishermen and hunters, the biggest sporting group in the country, will spen' 350 million dollars on equipment.With a boom in water sports, both on the surface and underneath, it is estimated that 310,000 cratt. from dinghies to yachts, are expected to be sold this year. Boaters will spend 780 million dollars on outboard motors alone.The trend in the latest products in fhe various sports fields is that the manufacturers of sporting ; goods are substituting light metals, plastics, and synthetics for steel and wood.USE LESS GASMueller Climatro!GAS FURNACESCENTRAL HEATING2301 MainPhone 28570The Columbus Ind., Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the Hoosier Sports Car Classic to be run at the Atterbury Air Force, Base, rain or shine, starting at 10 a. m. Sunday, May 30. Last year the event was held at Stout Field, near Fort Ben Hairison. jThe first race will he for 10 laps for production cars of less than 150-0 CC. picton displacement.The second race, 15 laps, will be for production cars greater than 1,500 CC.The third race will cover 20 laps, for modified and production cars less than 1500 CC.The final race will be 25 laps in length for modified and production cars greater than 1500 CC.Among the sports cars will be 1 Jaguars, Siatas, MGs and the like. {Aslt abouteasyGconvenientbudget planSays Bob Barnett of the Muncie Star about the Bearcats:And they’ll he back next year, determined that nobody will block their way to the throne.lt;lt;Anderson, IndianaPHONE 4485Saturday303 Pendleton Avt*
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Anderson, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 23, 1954
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