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THE DAILY JOURNAL, Franklin, Indiana, Wednesday, December 23, 1964 Cooper Hasty battle for top spot; Greenwood has best county record I After the i Shoutin' By REX REDIFER Sports ditor items, well almost. Lehman jumped ahead of his brother in the percentage race with a 19.5 average. However, Raymond is only one point back at 19.4. TOP SCORERS Inches make difference to coaching profession Team FG FT Tp AVG Greenwood 8 79 41 199 24.8- Clark 10 95 57 247 24.7 Trafalgar 10 88 50 226 22.6 Nineveh 8 74 29 177 22.1 Franklin 8 70 18 158 19.7 Whiteland 10 68 59 195 19.5 Whiteland 10 72 50 194 19.4 Center Grove 8 46 55 147 18.3 Franklin 8 54 30 138 17.2 Edinburg 9 62 25 149 16.5 Player Ron Cooper Bob Hasty 3ob Hynds. Randy Bright Stan Splcer Lehman Helton Raymond Helton Steve Hardin Phil Moore Dan Patterson The one thing certain about sports is its basic uncertainty.

-It's a fluid business. Games are won and games are lost by Inches. Careers are made and destroyed by the same much for the Morgantown boys as the Eagles turned over the leadership In the county to Greenwood and Center Grove by blasting the Trojans. When the smoke cleared from Friday night fracases, Green-wood and Center Grove were at the top of the mountain, both with 6-1 records. That was Saturday night.

By Sunday morning Jack Nay and his Woodmen had the mountain all to themselves. Squatter's rights were established on the peak by Greenwood's win over Decatur Central and Center Grove's loss to Beech Grove. In the team scoring race Greenwood has replaced White-land as the leader. The Warriors, who had held that number one position since the first county statistics were released, dropped to an average of 77.1 points a game. Greenwood, with two productive nights against Avon and Decatur Cen-, tral, jumped to a 77.8 average.

None of the faces in the top ten scorers changed although the positioning underwent a considerable shake-up. Take Nineveh's Randy Bright for example. The chunky Eagle sharp-shooter was last week's seventh place holder with a 19.0. average. This week, he inhabits fourth place with a 22.1 average.

The Helton twins, Raymond and Lehman, are identical By HARRY McCAWLEY A red hot scoring race and an elusive first place character, ize the county hoop statistics this week as basketball In the area closes up shop for the holiday break. The red hot scoring race is between Ron Cooper of Greenwood and Bob Hasty of Clark. Currently Cooper holds the lead, but just barely. Through eight games the high scoring forward has peppered the basket with 199 points for an average of 24.8 points a game. However, Hasty, who last week was in third place, leapfrogged into second on the strength of a 43 point performance against Clarksburg and a 30 point encore against New Palestine.

The high flying forward now has an average of 24.7 points a game and 247 points. But the changing scoring statistics are nothing in comparison to the hot potato battle for first place in the county standings. In the space of a week, four teams occupiedwthat pinnacle, only to be knocked down. The musical chairs began last Tuesday when Morgantown and Trafalgar shared the top billing with identical 7-1 That situation was changed Tuesday night when John Milholland and his Whiteland crew dumped the Redbirds at Trafalgar. jj That left the Trojans on top of the heap all by themselves.

However, prosperity and Nineveh's Randy Bright were too TEAM STANDINGS A bounce of the ball can make all the difference in the realm of sports, and coaches are largely? left to the mercy of that bounce. Pet Pts Avg 71 .875 623 77.8 72 .777 558 62.0 6 2 .750 533 66.6 7 3 .700 771 77.1 73 .700 668 66.8 53 .625 573 71.6 44 .500 537 67.1 37 .300 699 69,9 27 .222 562 62.4 Team Greenwood Morgantown Center Grove Whiteland Trafalgar Nineveh Franklin Clark Edinburg So often they are held responsible for the won-lost column which Is a mere matter of chance. Seldom do sports fans recognize a good effort, or a representative team, or a tough schedule or a million and one other hazards that attend the coaching profession. I For example: Little more than a year ago students at Indiana University hung basketball coach Branch McCracjken in effigy. Clark wins Tight contest 1 They said "Big Mac" was through, that he had been in the business too long, that the game had passed him by, that he was a recruiter and a basketball Hasty gets 30 as Lions roar N.

Vernon tops Lancers, 69-57 Wj All of this came in the wake of anieight-game Hoosier losing streak. The Hoosiers had lost 9 of 14 Big Ten games and finished in eighth place Yet, few realized that six of those nine losses were by a total of 15 points. and boost North Vernon into 2 46- By DAN RANSDELL EDINBURG Edinburg's Lan six years, coaching 60 games per season in junior and senior high school. 35 lead going into the final per. Iod.

cer's put up a strong battle against a powerful North Vernon Branch Mccracken had been winning basketball games for 23 years, and owns the best won-lost njark in the league, but this was not sufficient proof for sports fans. We didn't actually play as North Vernon then matched basketball team Tuesday night, but the visitors went home with well against New Palestine as BY MIKE RICHARDSON CLARK TWP. Ted Thomp-son's scrappy Clark Lions came alive in the second half here last night and snapped a two game losing streak by dumping New Palestine 72-61. Junior forward Bob Hasty pa-ced the winners with 30 points. But the Lion team showed New Palestine a matching 2-3 defense during the last two quar Edinburg basket for basket the rest of the way to chalk up the victory.

in those last two games," the likeable j. Clark mentor noted, "but it's nice to have that win." Today, playing with essentially the same team in essentially the same fashion (with a few adjustments) Mccracken owns a seven-game winning string, Indiana is ranked eighth In the nation and fans are talking national a 69-57 victory. It was a tight contest through, out, but a cold second quarter, and only a mediocre third per. iod hurt the Don Holoway's crew after they jumped to a first period lead. The victor was especially wel.

come to Clark fans who have wat Dan Patterson again led the Lancers with 14 points, while Dave Colglazier added 10 and Charles Bills had 9. For North Vernon, it was Cook with 14, Gil-bert with 10 and Howe with 9. ters, began to rebound more strongly than In the sluggish first A little over a year ago, Notre Dime's Moose Krause was in Indianapolis telling fans, "Notre Dame is not dead, we'll be i ched the Lions lose frustratingly close contests on several occas-sions this season. Clark Is now 3-7 for the year. Thompson had picked his team for a .500 showing at this point, Edinburg led at the first break, half, and left the Dragons drag, glng their tails.

The Lancers now take a break 18-16, and trailed at the half by only three, 28.25. The first half finished a dismal 2-7 The contest has been a tense, for the holidays before returning to the basketball wars against Triton on its home court Jan. 2. Few believed him. The Irish lhad season in 1963, and it looked hopeless.

scrambling affair for the first but a series of injuries have limited his team's potential two periods. Clark's greatest lead of the first half was at 22-16, but by the end of the se was pretty well controlled by the Lancers, who were waiting for their shots while N. Vernon em-ployed a full court press. But, the third quarter proved a bad span of minutes for the Lancers who were plagued by mistakes. Also, a little guard by sharply.

Hasty's game-high 30 points was backed up by senior guards Mike Dougherty and Bill Har- cond quarter New Palestine had Last week Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghlan was voted coach of the year, Notre Dame finished the season 9-1, and quarterback John Huarte won the annual Hlseman trophy award for the outstanding football performance of the season. whittled the lead to only 33-31 bert who each picked up 13 Clark subs win. 40-37 The Clark reserve team set A Thompson gave his charges a rare oratorical injection dur the name of Bob Cook came off the bench and canned six fielders to turn the tide of the game ing the intermission changed his defense slightly, and the Lions returned to the floor as though someone had put gasoline on their Coaching? but, Parseghlan inherited a team that had been recruited and put together; by deposed coach Joe Ku-harich, whose main complaint through previous years was, can't keep them uie pate iui lueu vai any counterparts Tuesday night by defeat- points and added several assists apiece in the night's work. The Leary brothers Randy and Brent set the scoring pace for the Dragons with 14 and 10 points apiece. New Palestine swallowed defeat for the eighth time this season against only one victory.

il Dragon coach Jess Black- tails. Box Score Although the game was tied briefly in the third quarter at 39-39, Clark soon tore through the Dragon defense and built an in surmountable 16 point lead well former Southport high lng the New Palestine reserves 40-37 with a strong second-half surge. George Wallen paced the Little Lions with 13 points. Dale Tharp garnered 10 and Bob Venable added nine for the reserves who picked up their sixth win against four defeats this season. The Clark reserves started the season slowly but have come strongly In their last outings.

Boring was the high scorer for Kuharich came under enormous criticism, and whether he deserved it is doubtful. At any fate thje National Football League Philadelphia Eagles signed Joe to a) 15-year contract mld-way through a tremendously successful tour pn the pro circuit this year. 1 McCracken is having tremendous success this year with the same team he had a miserable time with last season. Par-seghian had a fabulous year with the sme team Kuharich failed school and Butler athlete, is find- with 7:50 remaining in the game at 64-48. The Lions then controlled the ball and the game for the win.

lng the going rough in his first season as head basketball coach. Blocked shot The New Palestine crew will again be in this area's sectional. wnn a year Clark will return to the hard A New Palestine defender moves in to block this shot by Clark's Mike Dougherty in Tuesday's Clark-New Palestine battle. The Lions, led by Bob Hasty's 30 points, took a 72-61 victory over the visiting Dragons. New Palestine with 10 first half wood January 8 and 9 for games with Nineveh and Whiteland before the county tourney start.

After two close defeats to Clarksburg (98-95 in three over, times) and Manilla, Clark's victory swelled into a pleasant Christmas present for Ted Thompson who has been "Mr. Basketball" at the Lion Den for EDINBURG 57 Fg Ft Pf Tp Patterson 7 0 2 14 Smith 0 0 1 0 Colglazier 5 0 4 10 Leohr 2 10 5 Brosius 13 2 5 Baker 2 115 Bills 2 5 2 9 Barker, T. 1 1 1 3 Wertz 1 4 i3 6 Totals 21 15 16 57 NORTH VERNON 69 Fg Ft Pf Tp Howe 2 7 0 11 Schuck 0 0 10 Garretson 3 2 3 8 Carney 0 2 0 2 Olmstead 6 3 4 15 Short 10 2 2 Colbert 5 0 2 10 Cook 7 0 4 14 Shepard 2 13 5 Miller 0 2 2 2 Totals 26 17 21 69 12 3 4 Edinburg 18 25 35 57 North Vernon 16 28 46 69 There's something about the psychology of sports that makes a winning team win and a losing team lose. For some unex-plainable reason, the ball will bounce in inch right for a winner, and the same ball will bounce; an inch wrong for a the coach is pretty well caught in the drift of things. points.

NAMES NEW COACH COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (UPI) Newly appointed Texas Aggie Coach Gene Stalling? has named the fifth man to the A 0 1 1 1 a Which brings us to Phil Box score I.U. looks for coach; Dietzel not interested naisn siau in iwu weens, Phil Dickens lost i the hard way Stallings announced Monday that he had hired Dee Powell a defensive line coach at Ala. bama and his former teammate at Texas in 1954-55-56. Earlier Stallings had signed Elmer Smith, Don Watson, Lloyd Taylor and Jack Hurlbut.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI) "Hie search Is on for a new Orwig, away from the campus Among his credentials were for the holiday season, was said records of 40-16-8 at Wofford in to have started shopping around South Carolina, and 29-11-1 Wyoming. football coach at Indiana University where Phil Dickens has quit after eight frustrating sea At Indiana, Dickens was sons. i Dickens, 50, resigned Tuesday jolted first by a one-Year per Phil resigned as head football coach at Indiana University Tuesday. He resigned in the wake of a 2-7 losing season.

I i Ironically, Phil had been extended a long term contract be-fore the start of the football season, prospects were so bright. I But, in seven years at I.U., Dickens was able to come up with only one winning season, and that a very mediocre 5-3-1 record in 1958. 1 1 Monday. There was speculation that Bob Devaney of Nebraska was under consideration. Devaney compiled an Impressive 24-4 won-lost record in three seasons at Nebraska where Orwig was once athletic director.

sonal suspension and then by an as football coacn dui win siay NCAA four.year team probation. CLARK 72 Fg Ft Pf Tp Handy 2 3 3 7 Breedlove 0 0 4 0 Morris 0 0 2 0 Capllnger 4 12 9 Hasty 10 10 3 30 Harbert 5 3 2 13 Dougherty 6 1 2 13 Wallen 0 0 0 0 Totals 27 18 18 72 NEW PALESTINE 61 Fg Ft Pf Tp Cochran 2 0 2 4 Waltz 0 13 1 McDougal 2 115 Leary 5 0 3 10 Riddle 3 2 5 8 Boring 10 0 2 Leary, R. 5 4 4 14 Callp 3 2 2 8 Reed 2 5 0 9 Totals 23 15 20 61 12 3 4 Clark 16 33 52 72 I New Palestine 16 31 43 61 on at Indiana as general man-ager of off-campus facilities which includes the school's bio- The Following- Insurance Agencies WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY, DEC. 26 logical and geological research In his letter of resignation he told Stahr "our efforts have not yielded the results we had hoped for and which I am sure the university, the student body and our loyal alumni and friends throughout the state had also hoped for." Army's Paul Dietzel, an ear stations. The announcement by Univer Her "possible" notified Indiana Indiana had great expectations this year, but the old Hoosier grid jinx held firm.

It started when theHoosiers were nudged by Northwestern in the opening game and jit stuck through the entire season. that he was not interested. sity President Elvis Stahr said nothing about Dickens' sal arv which as football coach Life as Indiana's football coach was nothing but jolts and disappointments to Dickens who FRANKLIN INSURANCE REALTY. Inc. was $17,500 a year.

The campus newspaper, The Indiana Dally Student, recently The hunt for a new coach was apparently launched about arrived on the Hoosier campus 736-5412 51 E. JEFFERSON editorialized that 20 years for losing football was "Intolerable" with one of the nation's best 24 hours before Dlcken's resig Indiana's 1964 football team was good. It battled some of the best teams in the country pn even terms and with just the least little luck, Dickens might have had a banner year but, Indiana traditionally is a football loser and they lost this i I When Dickens came to Indiana he owned one of the best I coaching records. nation. Athletic Director Bill and that last season "has been JOHNSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU INSURANCE AGENCY harder to swallow than most." Dickens' open-end contract winning records in the nation, had never coached a losing Evansville Bosse stops i 736-6129 733 HAMILTON AVE.

His luck switched quickly at I.U He was suspended his first year. That took the edge off. Two years later the school was put has 12 years to run. It terminates automatically when he reaches 62. The contract pro-vides that Dickens can request reassignment of duties or the athletic director can recommend such reassignment.

on a four-year probation. That kept the edge off. memorial by 77-59 MITCHELL INSURANCE AGENCY 53 E. JEI 'TEH SON 736-6631 SECREST INSURANCE AGENCY luck. It was a calculated It certainly was not all a matter on trouncing a highly-regarded INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The and Indiana University Hammond Tech, with Danny Wright hitting 35 points, set a school scoring record with its campaign by certain persons to keep Phil dwindling ranks of Indiana's Chicago Carver team, 109-89.

Rick Mount led the Tigers with down, and it has been 94-68 victory over Northwestern! 33 points in their last game be 736-3444 112 W. JEFFERSON will breathe a sign of relief i A lot of Hoosief football fans Conference foe Gary Emerson. resignation is overdue. I that Phil has resigned they believe major unbeaten Ijlgh school basketball teams lost another member Tuesday night and the defeat was more than a little em-barrasslng for Evansville Memorial. CAtv fnp Rnssp.

which had Inst fore the Dec. 29 Lafayette tour-ney. Lafayette's defending state champions, who have had their In the Northeastern Conference, once beaten Garrett downed Bluffton, 58-50. Several holiday tournaments I don't believe that. I can remember too well when the scores were hopeless, and Indiana not even representative downs this season, ups and were up Tuesday night to de- in the league.

True, Phil did riot win many, but he lost a lot of We Will CLOSE for Christmas 12 noon, Thursday, Dec. 24 Open As Usual, Monday, December 28 Federal Land Bank 242 E. Jeff. Franklin STEPHENS INSURANCE AGENCY 16U E. JEFFERSON 73Q-6S19 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT UNION BANK TRUST CO.

1 JEFFERSON them by a touchdown or less. .10 laoi kill gaiiica OUglll Memorial flat and handed the Tigers their first defeat in six rail Indianapolis Attucks, 77.72. The Bronjchos pulled the game out in the last 1:30 minutes to eive then! a 4-5 season record wound up Tuesday night and another got started. Waterloo beat Fremont, 79-42, in the finals at Hamilton, Paoli downed host Mitchell, 69-56, in another windup and Star City edged Walker ton, 64-62, for the title at Tyner. His teams from 1958 to the; present were teams, and even if another cdach crimes in and by some high blown miracle manages to convert Indiana to a football winner, he'll do it only because Phil put in seven miserable, hopeless, impossibly brilliant years.

lost. starts, 77-59. Bosse led from the end of the first period and was ahead at times by as much as 29 points. Once-beaten Lebanon regis-tered its seventh victory, while Attiicks slipped to 5-3. Bloomfield won its ninth game against pne defeat, dumping Terre HaateGerstmeyer, 82-44..