Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1925 — Page 6

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G.E. WILL PLAY PORTLAND TEAM Fast Independent Team Coming For Gaine Here Thursday Night The Genera) Electric basketball team will play the Portland Independents at. the high school gym'here Thursday evening. The Portland team comes to Decatur with a string nr con'ecutive victories to its credit. Tiie lineup will include Brubaker. Eddy, Crane and Monks, forwards: Ford and Gullion. centers; and Oren. Pyle and Fleming, guards. Manager Earl Blackburn will use the mime lineup against Portland that defeated the Warsaw Phi Dells l.ere two weeks ago, ho staled today, namely Claude Clark and Gale, forwards; Oliver, center; Topple and Whiteman, guards. The Decatur Wonder Five will play Doe Fryback’s merchants in the preliminary game. LEADERS DEFEAT LAGRANGE TEAM Locals Win Sixth Straight Game Last Night, Score 29-18 The Decatur Leaders won their sixth consective game last night when they defeated th" American Legion team at the high school gym by a score of 29-18. The game was fairly closely contested, especially during the first half and the early '■ part of the second half. Only a fair sized crowd of fans saw the gaino. Manager Yager of the Leaders was forced to send a patched up lineup into the game, due to the absence of Murray Mendenhall and "Tabby” Andrews. but the combination worked well together and showed a superiority over the visitors. Mendenhall was unable to he with the Leaders last night because the Fort Wayne j Central high school team, which he coaches, played South Side high i school last night. Andrews was suffering with a heavy cold and was not in condition to play Jack Teeple. i member of the G. E. five played forward with Claude Clark last night and contributed two field goals and | one three throw' to the score. Cliff 1 Clark and Kennedy held down the < guard positions and Oliver played ' center. The team played well con ’ sidering the fact that the players : were not accustomed to playing together. Oliver wns high point man < with six field goals and three Tree i throws to his credit, lie made three 1 or four senrationul baskets during the - !

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game one of tletn Horn the center i.f ill.- tiihu Tin l.eaun < were ahead [ll io 7 at the '-nd of the half The (visitors started strong in the second half and went into the lead. 11 to 11. Wore the Deader* I'mtiid themsi Ives. The Leaders will go to Bluffton Tue 'day night of next week to play the Bluffton Phi Detls. Lineups and summary’Leader-. (29) lagrange (18) Teeple . . ..... F .. . I/Wis 11 Claude Cl.-irl. .. F Davis “- Oliver . <’ .... IVrn jCliff Clink . G Kessler ] Kennedy G Foster ? Field goals: Teeple, 2; Claude Clark, 2; Oliver. C; cliff Clark, 1; Kennedy, 1; Lewis. 2; Davis, 2, K« ■ • ler. I; Foster. 1. Free throws: Teeple, 1; Claude Clark. 1; Oliver. 3; Lewis. 1; Kess-i . ler. 1; Foster, 6. I Referee; Day. ( —o ■ — - Field Goals By Mark M. Upp that Central high school of Ft. Wayne coached by Marl; Bills and Murray Mendenhall two popular members of the Decatur Leaders quintet, defeated the South Side aggregation in the first game of the city series la-d night. The score was 2518. The Bluffton Phi Delta, with their lineup bolstered by the addition of Crane, Hartford City sharpshooter, lost to the Montpelier K. of P. quintet at Montpelier Monday night, 43 to 33. Montpelier led throughout the game. Down at Wabash. Indiana, they have a bunch of cats that have more than the proverbial nine lies each. Although the Wabash Thom Cats have been beaten in nine consecutive games this season, they are still kick ing and now are declining that their first victory will be over Fort Wayne South Side at Wabash Friday night. Can ya beat it ? Beat Berne, Cruch Central Catholic and Crock Columbia City. Berne qnd Kirkland the two leading contenders for th* ►’•"*’ —» • - the county tournament here Saturday both havi to r for Friday night, and likely will be pretty tir-r! when they start the toi rnament, Berne meets Decatur Catholic High at Berne and Kirkland is sceduled to journey Lancaster. ; Tonight’s the night when the Kirk- I lend farmers and the Decatur mer- ' chants how how much basketball tin y have forgotten since they played ’ before and how much they have learn- . <d by watching tin' high school eas-

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ier* perform it- at the hirh achool gvm at 7 30 O'lock tonight Be there ’ The C. F. vol have stron,’ . opposition in the Portland Indepeti i dents here Thur May night tool ■ ( like ii i.muld he ~ battie royal t The Yellow Jackets are '•.tinging] under the spell of three successive defeats. Will they get mad and get revenge at the expense of Columbia City, Friday night We hope so, but they will have to get together, play basketball and above all HIT THF RASKFT AND FIGHT. Catholic High 1-0, • gunning for victories Nos. 11 and 12 Friday and Saturday night. Berne and Central CathoNe of Fort Wayne wHI try to stop the green clad speeders. The Fort Wayne game, especially, i-. ox jieeti'd to be a battle royal. Thoso orange and black striped jerseys worn by the l.ipiaug" players last night made n.or el han one fan dizzy. Their nickname ought to be "Zuhras.” > Central Defeats South Side Quintet, 25 to 18 Fort Wayne, Jan: 21.—Central high school defeated South Side high school in lhe South Side gymnasium last night, 25 to 18, in the first game ■

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of lha Lit” bHTcfn the two I uamv The gam? was Intkroitieg and well fllayad and wa t witn*’ied by a capacity crowd — Exam.*, Practice And Gaines For I. 11. Athletes Blohmlngton, lud , Jan. 21.—Final exams, practice, ami hard contents all come at once foi Indiana Lnlver•n'ty athletes this week. Thursday and Friday they meet their professors in i final bid lor semester credits. Saturday nighs they lock horns with Chicago and CiS'-innati for basketball ind wrestling honors, respectively on the local floor. In addition, some 1. V. swimmers will compete in th* Indiana Kentucky A. A. IT. championh.p events Saturday night at Indiani polls. Preparation t for the Indiana-Chi-cago basketball game here Saturday evening will hold the center of interest ns this will be the first Big Ten iio.iie conte t of the season. The Maroons got off to a bad start against Illinois in their first conference cont<-. i. but are developing, according to Chicago dispatches. Coach Dtjan is drilling his men particularly again 'this week on basket shooting. Ho declares poor basket eyes have caused much of the difficulty in the games thi' Hoosiers have dropped this season to Illinois and Ohio State.

HG'.PiTAL HOTfT -•' ■ - ' Mn. Henry Heller. has b ' , ' n a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital for the past few days,, having had the misfortune of falling on the icy pavement, is eloWlx , Improving. Mrs. David Ritter, of Patterson street, entered the hospital for tnedi--1 cal treatm-nt this morning. Mrs. Robert Chronister, who figured m the Baker automobile accident here January 11, remains about the i name 1 I Mrs. Fred Smitt entered the Adams County Memorial Hospital this morning to receive medical treatment.

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