Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 5

CATUHDAY, JANUARY 13, TIlS DAILY JOUHNAL-G AZHTTE nj CCr.r.IEr.CUL-STAn, MATTOON, ILLKOI3 MHS Battles Maroons In Road Game Today Pekin, Crane, Molina Close Call in Prep Mm A I 'llvt springfield; hi. -JJ-f I Undefeated Pekin, (AP) Chicago vided Pekin's scoring punch, hitting for the game high of 31 Crane Tech and Moline were forced to go all out to survive The defeat dropped Richwoods strong upset bids in top Illinois into a second place tie in the high school basketball action Midstate Eight with Peoria Cen-Friday night. tral's Lions, who walloped Spald- Galesburg and on-r ushi 55-37 for their 10th straight 'mir" r-T vsmM i pulled to within three at 4643 with 1:28 remaining. Then came the turning point, as Mattoon relinquished the ball and Evans drove for the basket unmolested, but blew the cripple. Burge sank three free throws to put the Wave out of reach at 49-43.

Defense was the key to the Wave victory, as" Its rone moved quickly to block off passing lanes except for occasional lapses, barred the Senators from gaining a high percentage shot. Burge's perfarmance was spectacular, as he 1 a steadily on offense, sank crucial free throws and sparked on defense. On numerous occasions en twice by Centralia earlier in the campaign, gained sweet revenge with a 75-53 victory over. Centralia at Mount Vernon. The victory moved toe Rams' into first place ahead of Centralia in the South Seven Conference chase.

The defeat was, the second straight for the had won 40 league games in a row prior to last' week's defeat to Benton. In the Big Twelve, Urbana toppled Lincoln 53-39 and Mat toon nipped Springfield Decatur took over the- league -lead Thursday by handing Danville its second loss, 56-53. Springfield Lanphier proved no match for Jacksonville, falling 6649. r. i Ik, j- Mount Vernon also scored tri- iphsr.

Pekin, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll, raced to a 32-26 halftime lead, then held on for a 58-53 victory over Peoria Richwoods in a crucial Midstate Eight encounter. The five-point victory margin was the lowest of the campaign for the defending state champion Chinks, unbeaten in 14 starts. Guard Dave Colden pro- Basketball Results Illinois High School Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mattoon 51, Springfield Decatur MacArthur 74, Springfield 63 i Monticello 62, Bement 48 Nev.ian 62, Villa Grove 58 Sullivan 75, Cerro Gordo 70 1: Effingham 53, Pana 48 Taylorville 69, Vandalia 54 Oblong 48, Robinson 39 Brownstown 80, Mulberry lllini May Have Cost By JERRY PARSONS Mattoon High School's basketball team will seek to gain two consecutive Big 12 Conference wins to use as a springboard into the Shelbyville Invitational Tournament, as it battles Champaign on the road tonight after spilling Springfield, 51-47, here Friday in a Big 12 encounter. The "injection of youtn ana height into the Green Wave lineup, plus the steady and aggressive performance of a veteran player, helped the team to rise from its basketball dol drums 10 snocK uie improving Senators.

Addition of juniors Alan Gark and John Hamilton and sophomore Pat Stuttle to the Wave alignment gave the team a boost, while senior guard Don Burge turned in his top effort of the season by hitting 20 points to tie Springfield's Dan Evans for game scoring honors. It was the first time a Wave player has reached the 20-point total this season. The new Mattoon lineup showed up well the tip-off, as it used a stiff defense and consistent shooting to roll to an 11-3 lead. Springfield led briefly on a lay-in by Evans which opened scoring for both teams, and a free throw by Ed D'Elia after Burge's tip-in had tied It at A pair of 20-foot toimn-shnts bv Stuttle DUt Mat- toon Into the lead, 4-3 with 5:15 minutes left in the' opening stanza. The Wave led the rest of the way.

Mattoon led 13-6 at the quart' er and held a 21-16 advantage At intermission after a some what slower second period. One of Mattoon's better third period efforts of the season opened up a 34-28 lead. With 2:42 remaining in the quarter the team held a 10-point advantage, 32-22, as the result of four baskets without a miss by junior Done Cone, who was working in a relief role, a lay-in by Burge and a charity toss by Stuttle. Cone's baskets came on a tip-In a driving lay-in and two arching, fall-away 15-foot jumpers. Springfield began to make its move in the final quarter behind the inside shooting of Evans.

A tip by D'Elia with 5:22 remaining brought the Senators to "within three points at 38-35. Two free throws by Burge, a pair of free throws and a lay-in by Clark and a charity toss by Hamilton, sandwiched around a jumper by D'Elia moved Mattoon out in front, 45-37, with 3:24 left in the game. Again Evans began clicking under the basket and Springfield UCLA Undefeated win. The Lions' only loss was to Pekin in a season opener. Galesburg, ranked second, upped its slate to 9-0 with a 74-57 pasting of Peoria Manual.

Crane Tech and Moline were harder pressed. Tech's third-ranked Cougars downed Chicago Marshall 68-63 and Moline, ranked fourth, edged Central of Davenport, Iowa, 59-56. Crane is 12-0 and Moline 10-0. Mount Vernon's Rams, beat Year ing the Bruins to their 22nd straight victory in Pacific Athletic Conference play. He was high scorer with 23 points and three of his baskets came after he had stolen California passes.

Princeton's All-America Bill Bradley became the first Ivy Leaguer ever to score 2,000 career points as he flipped 41 against Columbia, leading the Tigers to a 7848 victory over Columbia New York. College Results College Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EAST Holy Cross 93, Dartmouth 74 Princeton 78, Columbia 68 Cornell 76, Penn 65 Boston College 89, Colby 54 Rutgers 70, Bucknell 66 SOUTH S. Carolina 75, The Citadel 69 Washington Lee 81, North Car. Wesleyan 43 MIDWEST Monmouth 84, Rion 78 So. 111.

100, Ky. Wesleyan 75 FAR WEST UCLA 73, California 54 Arizona 75, Brigham Young 73 Utah 97, Ariz. St. U. 90 So.

California 75, Stanford 59 Col. St. U. 64, Idaho St. 57 Washington St.

75, Oregon i Seattle U. 103, W. Tex. St. 57 Washington 79, Oregon St.

70 Springfield Team Stays Overnight At Sullivan High At least two high school basketball teams will try again today to return home after being halted by drifting snow Friday night while returning from, hardwood encounters. Springfield's Senators, who lost, 51-47, to Mattoon, spent the night at Sullivan when they found route 121 from Sullivan to Decatur closed. The players spent the night sleeping on mats in the Sullivan High School cafeteria. Cerro Gordo, which played Sullivan at Sullivan, got as far as Lovington before it was forced to stop for the night. Sullivan had won the game, 75-70.

MHS Sophs Bow, 54-50, To Senators Mattoon High School's sophomore basketball team lost, 54-50, to Springfield in the preliminary game here Friday. Kim Harris paced the Green Wave underclassmen with 17 points. The team was playing without tthe services of regular Craig Seaman who is out with a kidney infection. Mattoon Stewart Sawyer Harris FG FT TP 0 0 0 4 5 2 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 4 7 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Baum Watson Bruner Dunn Fuller Elston Birdsong, Dean Pierce If. a MM Grove 52 Ramsey 49, St Elmo 32 Dietrich 77, Noble 63 Blue Mound 45, Macon 42 Findlay 77, Moweaqua 68 (ot) Jack- 66, Sprinefield Lanphier 49 Lawrenceville 66, Fairfield 59 Crab Orchard 45, Woodlawn 37 West Frankfort 54, Benton 45 Johnston City, 73, Herrin 64" Mount Carmel 68, Flora 52" McLeansboro 78, Sparta 68 Pinckneyville 70, Murphy s- Boro 68 Carbondale 69, Da Quoin 59 Lyons 72, Arlington 55 Champaign 58, Bloominsrton 47 Urbana 53, Lincoln 39 Pekin 58, Richwoods 53 Galesburg 74, Peoria Manual 57 Peoria Central 55, Peoria Spalding 37 Salem 58, Bridgeport 55 Mount Vernon 75, Centralia1 58 1 By TED MEIER Associated Press Sports Writer More and more it is beginning to appear that Illinois may have cost UCLA a second straight 30-0 unbeaten season in college basketball, a feat that would have equalled San Francisco's 60 game all-time winning Illinois beat the national champions 11043 in the opening game of the season early in December at Champaign.

Since then the top-ranked Bruins have bowled over 12 straight opponents including Marquette, Bos ton College, Southern- California, Arizona, Minnesota, Utah, and California. Their victory over California came Friday night, 76-54, and highlighted a thin national pro gram on the college narawooas. No other team in The Associated Press top ten saw action. Once again it was ULLAs fast break and Gail Goodrich's all-round play that produced a 17-3 outburst in the second half and broke the game wide open. Goodrich was effective both on defense and offense in lead I Pro Basketball National Basketball Association By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday's Kesuits Boston 104, Philadelphia 95 Cincinnati 124, Los Ang.

106 New York 89, San Fran. 87 Today's Games New York at San Francisco St. Louis vs. Baltimore at Chicago Fight Results By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WORCESTER, Mass. Dick French, 148, Providence, R.I.

stopped Al Sewell, 152, New York, 6 Western Ave. the senior's cat-like moves enabled him to steal the ball or to force Springfield into com mitting errors. Clark, who stands 6-3, re sponded to his first starting role by snaring nine rebounds and blocking several shots. He managed only one field goal but sank all four of his free throws, which came in the fourth quarter. Cone's brilliant shooting in the third period spurred the team to its biggest advantage of the night.

The Wave conquest of Springfield halted the Senators' bid for prominence in the con ference after, the team had spill jreyjouslyjmbeaten Danville last week. The'victory for Mattoon snapped a two-game losing streak to conference teams and set the stage for its battle with Cham paign. The win boosted Mattoon's conference record to 2-4 and its over-all mark to 5-7. Spring field is now also 2-4 in the Big 12 and owns a season record of 5-7, Box Score Mattoon Clark Hamilton Jerdan Stuttle Burge Foster Cone Rowe Totals Springfield Evans Coe D'Elia Vanselow Stutler Kessinger Totals FG FT 4 3 0 1 8 1 0 0 17 FT 0 0 2 TP 1 1 0 2 6 1 5 1 17 FG 10 2 6 1 1 1 21 5 0 5 20 3 10 21 S1 TP 20 4 15 4 2 2 47 Mattoon Springfield 13 6 13 10 17- 51 21-47 tm- II oot I I 1 1 1 VViWUII replacement of two players at on time The committee members have been told not to express their opinions outside the meeting room But an off-the-record sampling of sentiment indicated that the8 second rule is the one likely to pass. Many administrators and ath-1 etic directors feel that what the coaoK warn i 7n.zr: t.t:.' comnuiiee uuuruuui ivctu nu best served if he is taught to iWll 1WVUOU 40 OW MV nmmittwi will ffo a onff With It.

The rule expected to pass would kill the gimmick coaches used last year to get in their defensive units on fourth down Platoon substitution was al lowed only between quarters and while the clock was stopped. Rather than waste a time out, coaches ordered a de liberate rule violation and took a five-vard penalty to stop the clock and Switch units before Duntine. The nroDosed rule. Williamson said, will reauire more coachine of offensive teams on punt coy- eraee but will eliminate the need for cheating on the rule. I TITIillHnaajH.

flm.MiMit I muuuuavM, wimo uuuuuug that the committee would make i said ne tnouent wis ruie would be well received. The committee defeated by 13-8 vote a proposal that coach- es be allowed to confer with one of their players on the sidelines durins a cnarsed tuna out. 1 1 i a NCAA May Okay Platoon Totals 17 16 50 Springfield FG FT TP Lammert 10 2 Maxwell 10 2 Stoddard 10 3 23 Muntz 3 0 6 Barnett 113 Langford 3 3 9 Shanklin 3 0 6 Fryhoff 113 Totals 23 8 54 Mattoon 13 13 12 12r-50 Springfield 14 10 18 12-54 Carver 91, Bowen 62 Crane 68, Marshall 63 Moline 59, Davenport. Iowa, Central 56 ZIPPO LIGHTERS Ref. $150 Now $2.29 HAROLD SHORES 1800 Broadway Mattoon By J.

Logan Govr The Insurance Man Ird floor Montf omery Ward Bafldlaf they reach into your pocketbook On the Move Mattoon's Don Burge (top photo) and Don Cone (bottom) are on the move during Mattoon High School's 51-47 victory over Springfield here Friday. Burge (24) sails through the air for a lay-in after speeding by three Springfield defenders, Tom Stutler (left), Ed D'Elia (be- hind Burge) and Kim Leftwich League Blue Ribbon League Team Pts. 41 39 37 32 30 24 24 23 23 13 All American Ins. Windsor Dollar Wise bhanks Cookies Youlan Yarn Vanlingham Flower Shop Moose No. 1 1 TT '-h Columbia Machine tviuii Mfjct Wrt 9 JSuJSZ game' Je en hlugh Helen i i lm3T: JOS; high earn seiies, mi ininencciu ins.

General Electric 1vrvnnro ad Pts. 50 49 47 42 36 30 30 15 Playmates hi Lites ifij. I TT 1 I Mirrn QirArnrra KfnrrrA Uontim 142; high game Rita Myers 178; high series, Eileen Calhoun 469; Ellis Takes Golf Lead SAN DEGO, Calif. (AP) Any golfer knows golf can be fiendish thing. I mL jl inere me case oi uene ui- tier; He shoots a 62, nine big strokes under par.

Then he has vi, one under par. so is 'itier leading me neid 1 TA nj(Tin ma TniTVI Whiin1 Af tha iVUUU vi 34,500 ban Diego Open tourna- ment Saturday? I r- i i. oecona piace. In the front position was Wes Ellis of West Caldwell, N.J., with rounds of 66-65 131, as play resumedat the par 35-36-i diarausi country uuo. ui- luer irauea wiu oa-vu im.

sA (33). In the background is Mattoon's Pat Stuttle. Burge became the first Mattoon player to score 20 points this season as he hit exactly that total against the Senators. Cone is snown leaping high into the air for a jump-shot, while Springfield's John Vanselow (left) and Rich Coe defend. Mattoon players are John Hamilton (50) and Burge.

Standings high team game, IITYWYBAB 695; high team series, HTYWY-BAB 2,008. Hi Lo League Team Pts. Dels Dry Wall 48 Greyhound Van Lines 46 Saunders Stand. Serv. 42 Mitchell-Jerden 37 Al Bohlens 36 The Belles 34 My Store 34 Welcome Wagon 28 Kull Lumber Co.

24 Bob Peters Ford 20 Ryans Shell 20 WOTM No. 3 13 High average, Dorothy Hoef-ler 154; high game, Letha Rohr 204; high series, Letha Rohr 550; high team game, Greyhound Van Lines 861; high team series, Greyhound Van Lines 2447. A Whole Meal Hamburger, Shake, and FrenchFries Just 45c NOW OPEN 21st and Charleston Proud To Be Growing With Mattoon BEN FRANKLIN ILLINOIS DEAD A driver asks, "Why do automobile liability msurance rates keep climbing?" There are several reasons general Increase In the cost of living, higher hospital and medical expenses, higher costs of repair higher costs of settling claims. But the leading cause for higher insurance rates' is the tremendous increase In the number of insured auto ac cidents. More than 48,000 people were killed on the roads to 1964 far outstripping the increase in cars on our highways." One obvious answer to this dilemma is to drive more safe-, ly.

Drive defensively, don't count on the other fellow to do the right thing he may not If you are a safe driver, chances are your insurance company will recognize this by charging; you less for your policy under the safe driver plan. Another thing you can do urge the focal, county and t. at courts to crack down on unsafe drivers. They don't belong FORT LAUDERDALE, FlaH (AP) College coaches almost certainly will be able to play honest, two-platoon football next season. They probably will not get the blank check for free and unlimited substitution they have demanded for a dozen years.

But the wierd spectacle of a team deliberately jumping offsides or delaying the game to beat the rule Apparently will be seen no more. This seemed a sure bet today as the Football Rules Commit-4o nf the National Collegiate Athletic Association began its second day of secret sessions. After about eight hours of debate Friday, the committee threw out all except two proposals for changes in the substitution rule. One bring back the un restricted rule in effect prior to 1953. This one is backed by 90 per cent of the nation's coaches.

The other would allow substitution of full platoons whenever the ball changes hands and the RobustelliSays He's Leaving Pro Grid Game CTAT ORD. COnn. lArJ iiv Ai PiihiKtelii who has said hofnri has said it again 7' u. cow a flMin he'll Willi C. uao aAv.

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