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Indiana Toastsi; (Continued From Page 8)ment of the year in basketball-! wise surroundings, for Wood’sirresistable Indians walked offwith virtually all the marbles.They upset four-time cham-i pion Munice Central in the payoff game. 32 to 30. on a weil-caleulated play Wood rigged after he called time with 18 second to go and the score tied, j He called on Bobby Plump, his top performer, to drive rightdown the middle and fire. It jworked to perfection, with just three seconds to go. Time ran out before Munice had a chance to tie the score.Minutes earlier, things didn't ]look too good for Milan. Muncie led, and Wood’s instructions, although they trailed, were to stall.iI ii“I told the boys not to worry ?! about the score,” he explained. “I:! told them if necessary, we’d settle j this thing in the final two min-! utes/** ^ ;j With the long season over, Wood : said he would rest for a while, j “I’m worn out,” he said. I’m mentally fatigued, but boys likethese make my job a dream.”What about . his future plans? Wood has two more years to go | on his contract, but he already ; received several lucrative offers • from bigger high schools. So far-he remained non-committal regard-1 ing his plans. I“I’m going to take it easy, then coach baseball,” he said.Should he stay at Milan, he isn’t worried about next year's basketball chances, although he will lose his starting five.I “We’ll be bigger next year,” he grinned. “We’ve got boys comingup who were on our unbeaten fresh-: man team two years ago.”Which is another way of sayingWood hopes to have a few more surprises up his tricky sleeve next i year.
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1954
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