Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1924 — Page 3

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I! LOSE £ BATTLE in* dame To ?rchants Last t, 35-32 ' set baeketball Karnes season, the Decatur sated by the fast ! at the hiKh school -ht by a score of 35 shifted many times t and the score was rtly before the final game a thriller. Delime, 15-14. >n the Muncie team Thornburg, stars on al high school team to years ago when le final game in the . Thornburg palyed e last nifcht, ese second half. The the Muncie quintet ich experience. 1 a big night with night, caging eight tne free throw. Two *ndenhall and one Deals in the lead, fi-2 le game. The score 6-6, and 8-8. Then 8 lead, but the Deadind ran the count to or just before the te second half Munto 31 to 24, at which 5 rallied again and A field goal by y Shafer and a free put the game on ice. w the game and the r pleased with the je. The Leaders will play the a from the Pennsylvania shops in i Wayne at the high school gym \ Tuesday night. The Fort Wayne |d is composed mainly of former le A. C. players, namely the two jk brothers, Whiteman, and Judav. neaps and summary: ►catur (32) Muncie (35) F Harrold jtenhall F Thornburg B fat ions: Oliver for Amlrne B coals: Andrews, MendenHills, Christ, l: llanold, ■ f tThornhurg. fi : Shafer, c w-irren. S throws: Mendenhall. 1: liilD. ■ 2; fcrist, i ; Harrold, 2; Warren, l. I Geller. I o § ' -v ■Field Goals | Mark M. Upp I* rW — ■ . ✓ j topgiht. Looks liko Wed-

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nesday nlgld would one o) i|„, r „ w rest nights for local basketball funi ibis winter, with the two high school teams, the lenders and (1. R, teams plnylng out-of-town teams through•ut th#» ‘l‘jiHon I.n'-t night's bottle between Ihe I.eudi rs and Muncie Merchants was about all that could be desired tn the way of basketball plnylng. True, the Deeatur five lost, but after all its a reu! houest-to goodness basketball gume that the fans desire more than a victory at any cost and any score. The high school second team, with Miller and Meal, who are ineligible pnlying forward, downed the varsity in a practice game preliminary to the Leader-Merchant tilt last night. if Miller and Meal would go as good in their studies as they did in basketball last night, they would he eligible to play. Thi> BlufTton Phi Delta won from the Portland A. C. five at the Bluffton gym last night, 32 to 15. The Leaders likely will meet the Portland quintet this season. The Phi Belts and leaders will meet at BlufTton on the night of December 30. It will he a hot night in December tn BlufTton that night. Fanny Fanette says she thinks its a shame that that man Harrold on ihi Muncie Merchants quintet doesn’t.

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[hays a last mime i Ihe Limn Ijeeds, who meet the fi. I cuget-1 here Thur clay night, have -, an enviable record. The members of t l| ’"‘ ,onm have hen playing together 11 f°r tlu> la d five or six years. 11 4 1 Tennvllle caßers, sectional champs , In 1324. will perform before Decatur fans ngulnst. Catholic high Friday edit, at (tie new high school gym. Ihe Bulldogs have a good team Again (his aoason, 8. E. TEAMS PLAY | : THURSDAY NIGHT 1 , Mon Open Home Season With Lima Leads; (Jirls Play Dudlo Team r, i : Tlie me.n's and girl's basketball 1 I teams front the local plant of the Genrj ! » oral Electric company will open their homo season Thursday evening at the u high school gymnasium. The men’s [■• team will meet the fast Lima, Ohio, e Leads and the girls' team will play [ d the girls’ team from the Dudlo Manu- j s fracturing company, of Ft. Wayne. The i girls' game will be played first, start- ■ ing at 7:13 o'clock. Miss Agnes Sellci meyer, of this city, will referee. The men’s game will start at 8:15 and Itiggin, of Van Wert, Ohio, will officiate. : j The management of the men's team .renounces that the lineup will he l. ,*' -o’.ger than that of last year, when

.the electricians won the'city title j'i’he players on the (i. IC. roster this season include, Meyers, a star on the Lancaster high school team two years ago, who was mainly responsible for his team’s victory over BlufTton in the |• i i f lon.'il tourney at forward: Oliver. I' enter; I.animlmnn, former D. 11. H. star, guard and forward: Jack Teeple, former I). J|. H. star, and Klelnknight, veteran (!. E. eager at guards; and Undent an, also a G. K. veteran, as utility. The men won their first game „f Itlie season at Rockford. Oiho, last | week, but the girls were defeated in a j close contested gnnm at the sameI place. The admission charges to !I he games Thursday night will he ihirty five cents general admission, and twenty rents for school children. The Lima Leads is one of of the fastest independent teams in thej vicinity of Dima. It is strickly a road team, playing all of its games on I foreign floors, and out of a total of fi t games has lost only IC. o Inlerurban Hits Cow And Is Overturned Hartford City, Dec. 3. — When a north bound ear on the Union Traction company's line struck a cow | three miles south of Montpelier Mon- | STOP I “Cift Hunting” I.et ns solve your Christmas Gift Problem. 12 Photographs 12 Friends $ Edwards Studio 1 Phone 9(54 P Open 1-4 p. in. on Sundays B until Christmas. f

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