Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1924 — Page 6

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Elkhart Claims 11. S. Grid Championship Elkhart. Qec. I.—Turing back the Bicknell teain, that traveled from Knox county to dispute the Indiana high school title with the Elkhart eleven on a snowy field here Saturday. the local team won 28 to 6. Elkhart, as a result of its victory, claims the unofficial Indiana title. The team was undefeated, and its goal line was crossed but twice, once by Mishawaka and once by Bluknell. Its season’s total was four hundred fourteen to thirteen and nine ts/ <, it played. Captain McCrary, Bicknell, made his team’s only points when he crossed the line after the ball had been carried nearly the length of the field by a teammate as the result of an intercepted pass. Three of Elkhart’s touchdowns were made by Quarterback Brannan. | Captain Peterson made one touchdown and drop kicked a field goal for Elkhart. Four thousand fans saw the game. The players were greatly handicapp-l ed by the slippery field, from which three inches of snow had been dear ed before the game. o Caging Stars At I. U. Preparing For Season ■ Bloomington. Ind.. Dec. I—With the | Wabash game only a little more than a week off. Coach Everett Dean and his Indiana I’niversity basketball team plan to get down to serious practice. Daily scrimmages this week will give the net mentor a better idea of the ability of his varsity squad, especially of the five men who joined the varsity at the close of the football season. Although it is too early yet to predict any possible lineup for the first game. Alward and Easton are the two most likely looking backguards rs the squad, with the former captain having a slight edge. Fast competi- ' ion at floor guard prevents any hoice of a first string player, since mong those competing are such players as Ijorber. Sopnsler. Beckner, Johnson, and Nicholson. Captain Barker is having a hard time keeping his old position at center. Sibley. Bordner, Benzel, and Moyer are pushing him. Krueger and Ixtgan are the two outstandings forwards, with Ricketts. Harrison, and Druckamiller a.-, relief men. Tobin and Nessell. sophomores who were on the football squad, are unknown quantities as forwards and may push Krueger to file bench in another week. . Director Clevenger has not completed the schedule of preliminary games. Kentucky State, at Lexington. Dec. 18. and Mercer, champions of the South, at Bloomington Jan. fi have been signed. Other possible opponents of the Indiana five are DePauw. J’tnler. Franklin, Rose Poly, Grinnell, .Votre Dame, and Ohio Wesleyan. o Basketball Coaches To Meet In Fort Wayne Bloomington, Ind.. Dec. I.—(Special to Daily Democrat I—High school and industrial basketball coaches will assume the role of pupils at a school for net mentors at Fort Wayne Central high school, Dec. 5 and 6 with Z G. Clevenger, director of athletics at Indiana university and member of the national basketball rules committee, and Everett Dean, varsity basketball coach of the, university, as instruc-

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tors. I This short term of basketball instruction is being given witii the idea Jot glking the average couch of the ) small town of industrial team a com- ( prehensive idea of the principles of t the net sport with as much specific instruction as time will permit. The motion picture film. "King Basketball.” which was taken at I. XT. last summer under the direction of Coach ( Dean and Director Clevenger will be •lifted during the course. An unusual feature of the course I 'will be special instruction for high school principals on the relation of I riHiletie-- to the school and the various .'school and athletic problems which most concern them. Most of the high school ami inll dust rial coaches of the* northwestern J section of the state are expected at this short term, as well as several from other parts of Indiana. Floyd I Neff, is director of the I. V. extension 'division center at Fort Wayne which is sponsoring the course. LEADERS PUT MUNCIE TEAM • Fast Muncie Merchants Coming For Game Here Tuesday Evening —» — The Decatur Leaders will meet strong opposition Tuesday evening when they take the floor against the speedy Muncie Merchants quintet. The Muncie team formerly was the Muncie Meadowgolds. Included in the Muncie lineup are Harrold and; Thornburg, former stars at Muncie Central high school. They are supported by a fine array of basket tossers. The Leaders will have their, regular lineup on the floor. Walter Geller, of Fort Wayne, will referee! the game. | A preliminary game will be played, starting at 7:15. and the big game will start at 8:15. The teams have not been selected to play the preliminary game. o ARMY TEAM PRAYED West Point, N. Y., Dec. 1. —The action of the victorious Army team in pulling off helmets and standing with bowed heads immediately after defeating their ancient rivals from Annapolis, was explained by Ed Garbisch in his valadictory as football captain. "We have prayed before every game this season, not for victory, but that we might acquit ourselves like men. At the conclusion of * Saturday’s game, when 1 think our ‘ prayers were answered, we jerked off our helmets and thanked God fervently for the victory." —o z — Field Goals 1 By Mark M. Upp v, 1 1 If there was anyone who didn’t ■ think tthe football season was over ■ last Saturday, this weather this morning ought to convince him. The Decatur sport program for this

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1924.

I I LEADER IN 192.’. •* •“ . HR X * f BBr' w * * I '■W I I ral ■ w 11 -A ■ - ' Hrs -k e- - 4 O > , JL, '■ j. iw SI I Wl ,1 FRED HENDERSON. i The above photo presents Fred, Henderson, who has been elected, captain of the Maroon football squad' for 1925. He plays tackle. (week includes the following menu: I Tflesday night. Leaders vs. MuncieI Merchants, here; Thursday night. G. E. vs. Lima Leads, ivre; Firady night. D. H. S. at Portland, and D. H. S. vs. (’. C. H. S.. at Fort Wayne. “Garlic of Summitsville has nothing ■on Gass of Roanoke.” says Casual ‘comment in the Vincennes Sun. We have a “little” Gass on the Decatur Catholic high team. too. With a week in which to get two i now forwards moulded into the Yellow Jacket outfit, Coach Kennedy will have a quintet that ought to give Portland a real battle Friday night. Leonard and Swearingen worked good against Kirkland last Friday night considering the fact that they had not been working regularity with the first team. Captain Miller and Real, will be out of the game for at least three weeks, until they can brine their academic work up to standard. Coach Cooter’s Catholic High five is getting ready to lick [he Centra! Catholic quintet at Fort Wayne Friday night and get revenge for, the defeat in football this fall. o Advice for Poets To the poet, as to every other, we say first of all. “See.” If you cannot do that, it is of no use to keep string- ; Ing rhymes together, jingling sensibilities against each other, and name \ yourself a poet; there is no hope for I you. If you can. there is. in prose : or verse, in action or speculation, all manner of hope.—Carlyle in “Heroes and Hero Worship.” o Waters Within the Earth t The amount of water within the r crust of the earth is enormous. ‘ amounting to .■C.'i.000.000.000.m0 cubic yards. This v:,>; accumulation. If placed upon the earth, would cover its entire surface to a uniform depth s of from 3,000 to IVi.ltqo feet.

Sen. Jones, Washington, New Republican Whip Washington. Dm . 1 Senator Wesley Jones, of Washington, was appointed repuhlh.in whip today bv Senator Charles E. Curtis, new republican leader. Jones replaces Curtis, who was ►lot ted to the leader- hip vacancy left by the death of Senator Lodge. He has been in the senate since illtott and has taken an active part in the workings of the republican party. . — — O , “ i1 ■' 1 CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat: Dec. $1.5::%, May I July $1.43'4. Corn: Dec sll4. May.l I $1.21'4, July $122. Oats: Dec. 52c; I May 58'4c. July 57c. -1 o ■ ' 1 i. Os Historic Interest An old California homestead recently yielded up Interesting relics which had been walled up :n it partition. They included an American flag with US stars, and several school readers of IXII. ■ ■ i hi- ii ■ n ii O"” 11 / Cow and Hog Lead The Department of Agriculture saya that, considering the amount of food sot numar.s produced by the animals from the food raised on an acre of lam', the dairy cow leads all others. Next to tl * dairy cow in fiexl production from the yield on an acre < f land i onus the hog o Populous Ants’ Nests Lord Avebury once estimated tltht ' a single ant's nest might contain as 1 tunny as 400.<Kk> in<llvhlu::l insects. Recent researches have shown that I these figures were too lufgtiyet the i actual fmis an- aston.shr.ig enough. Raindrops Flat at Ends Raindrops are not perfectly round ! ; Motion pictures show that, contrary I I io popular opinion, they ere tl it a- - toil and bottom, apparent') -me .• air pressure. Ihe flatten n : to.- > each droji eir-q-ar :h. half it« expe. ted het, I ADJOURNS AFTER SHORT SESSION THIS AFTERNOON (Continued from Page One) hour, when Albert B. Cummins. a< ting president pro tern in the a.r sence of a vice-president, declared the upper house in order. There was . a scurry for positions. The buzz of | the galleries subsided. Senators! stopped their handclqpping. their i joking and their back-slapping and stood with bowed heads at theiri desks while the chaplain prayed fori guidance of'the Divine hand. Speaker Frederick H. Gillett, who i next session will take his seat in the ' senate, directed a similar scene in the house at the other end of the capitol. Immediately after prayer there i were quorum calls to place upon of-i ficial register the names of absentees.

■WTOHWIIIII'MUBW WIIIW Fl'll IIIFIFW <nr riBWWWFIIHniWrWMW?? BASKET BALL DECATUR LEADERS vs. MUNCIE MERCHANTS I DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Tuesday Nijrht, Dec. 2 Preliminary Game at 7:15 , Big game at 8:15. Walter Geller, referee.

. - The clerk at his desk henentih the 1 president's chair snapped out the ’ names In ttlphnbetlciil order) The first name was that of Alva B. Ad.am i, of Colorado, defeated in the ilovlioii while filling the unexpired term of the late Senator Nicholson. Ills place was taken by Rice W. 11 Means, who marched to the presi- , dent's desk and presented his credentials. There was no answer to , the name of Senator Bnmdegee. He killed himself during the recess because of financial difficulties. William M. Butler, the new active leader of the republican party, came] forward nt the call of the name of Henry Cabot Lodge, whom ho rej | places. He was accompanied under amient custom by his present colleague. Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, of Miissaehtisetts. Butler’s seat was in the back row at the right near the seat of Magnus Johnson, the dirt farrnfr: Shipstead. the oiher new farmer-iaborite. and some republicans who also do not share his ideas. .les e Metcalfe, of Rhode Island, came to replace Senator Colt, who died. All three of the new senators, with their right hinds upraised, promised to fulfill to the best of their ability the obligations placed upon them. | Motions then were adopted officially notifying the president and the house through committees that the senate "is in session and ready to do business.”

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•>! This formality concluded, Senator > Charles E. Curtis, the new republi-, » 'cun leader, ordered the presentation 1 • of resolutions respecting ‘he deaths iof the three members. It was thereupon proposed that the senate u d J ' jotirn until Tuesday In their memory ' and with the usual closing formal-' ities, the opening session was sum-; marily ended. 1 1 The house took somewhat longer for its program. It requires only a j few minutes to call the senate last.' but it takes half an hour to cull the | roll of 435 house members. In due ! time, however, under motions from . Representative Longworth, leader of

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