Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1925 — Page 6

sn yellowTackets BEAT VAN WERT Swamp Buckeye Quintet By Score Os 10-21; ('oath Uses 13 Players The D. H. S. Yellow Jackets hail easy sailing in ibeir game with the red clad eagers of Van Wort high school hero Saturday night Coach Kennedy’s men winning by a score of 40-21. The Yellow Jacket mentor used a total of thirteen players in the game and at no time had the full strength of the squad on the. floor. Moser and Strickler, two regulars, were kept out of the game entirely, so that they will not have played in more than twenty games before the tournamentThe Yellow Jackets started out fast and Captain Miller, who played a wonderful game, put his team in the lead with a pretty field goal. The Yellow Jacket leader made eight field goals and one tree throw dur-, ing the time he was in the game. Andrews added two more points to the score with a field goal ami thou the visitors hit the loop for a twopoint marker. The game was played in quarters, compliance with the Ohio state rules, and at the end of the first quarter, the Yellow Jackets wore ahead. 12 to ?>. The helf ended 24 to 8. Shortly before the first half ended. Real who had subtitnted for Leonard. sprained his ankle and had to he assisted from the floor. He will be out of the game for a while. The locals contnued their scoring in the second halt and were leading 29 to 1R at the end of t.he third quarter. Van Wert had rallied at the start of the second half and closed the gap to ten points at one time,trailing24 to 14 The Yellow Jackets continued to pile up points in the fourth quarter, although many substitutions were made, and when the final gun cracked, were leading 40-21. Yeates was ’hi- star of the Van Wort. team, scoring four field goals and one free throw. The Van Wort coach, seeing that his team was outclassed. made several substitutions during the game and used a total of ton pin yers I In the preliminary game the high I school sophomores defeated the sen iors. Lineups and summary: Decatur (40) Van Wert (21) Swearinger .F Hartman Ixonard F Agler Andrews C Fawcett Miller -O Yeates Dierkes Cl Siple Substitutions: Reynolds for Swear inger, Beal for Leonard, Bcbout for Andrews. Breiner for Dierkes, Baumgartner for Miller. Leonard for Beal. I Zwick for Leonard. Lawson for Rev--nolds. Thomas for Breiner. Drury for Bartman. Leaser for Drury. At ha for Agler. Wilson for Fawcett, Edwards for Siple. i'ihl goals: Swearinger 1. Leonard 2; Andrews 4; Miller 8; Beal 2; Reynolds 1; Bartman 1; Drury 1; Fawcett 1; Yeates 4. Free throws: . Leonard 1: Beal 1; Miller 1; Dierkes 1; Bartman 3: Drury 1; Fawcett 1; Yentes 1: Siple 1. Referee: Geller. o HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Bedford. 28: Technical (Indianapolis). 26. Marion, 32; Warsaw. 23. Cutler, 50; Wheeling. 14. Delphi. 32; Bringhurst, 19. Camden. 15: Cutler, 12. Flora. 33; Delphi. 30. Camden. 44; Rockfield, 14. Muncie. 39; Shelbyville. 28. Vincennes. 43; Lyons. 23. West Middletown. 24; Clay Township. 11. C. (’. H. S., Ft. Wayne. 44; Toledo Central. 21. South Side, 35; North Manchester, 37 (Overtime). Ft. Wayne Central, 44; Wolf Lake, 22. Garrett, 27; Auburn, 23 (County tourney final). South Whitley, 20; Columbia City, 16 (county -tourney final.) Millersburg, 19; Goshen, 13. (county tourney final.) Pennville. 29; Dunkirk, 15 (county tourney final). Lancaster. 22; Bluffton, 17 (county tourney’ final.) Hartford City. 28; Fairmount, 25. • COLLEGE BASKETBALL. Indiana. 30; lowa, 28. Notre Dame. 40; Loyola, 21. Ohio State, 24; University of Chicago, 23. Oberlin. 30; Western Reserve, IS. Wooster, 37; Case School, 29. Franklin, 36; Michigan Aggies 14. Butler, 33; Vanderbilt, 13. Culver -Military Academy, 17; Notre Dame freshmen, 31. Syracuse. 36; Army 21. Penn State, 39; Navy, 37 .(Two overtime periods.)

LEADERS MEET 1 BERNE QU’NTEr Two Old Rivals Meet Here Tuesday Night; At Herne Thursday Night The annual Rories between the DeI catur Lenders and the Berne A. c. basket hall teams will open hero Tues- , day night when the twn quintets clash at the high school gym The second game of the series will bo played al Borno on Thursday night of this week. Borne won two out <>t three games played by the two teams last season and the Leaders are anxious to even matters. The Berne fans sent for a block of twenty-five seats for Tuesday night's game. A largo crowd is expected, owing to the rivalry between the two teams and to the class of basketball played by them. Mendenhall will bo with /he leaders in both games this week. Mark Bills will referee the game here tomorrow night. Oliver, who has been playing, with both the Leaders and, the Borno five, will play with the Leaders in the Herne series, since he was under contract with the Leaders first. Manager Ralph Yager, of the Leaders, called the attention of the fans today to the fact that Tuesday night's game will be the last one for which the season tickets will be good. The season tickets were sold for the first twelve games and the Berne game makes the twelfth contest. The Fort Wayne Knights of Columbus will playtile Leaders here on Tuesday night. February 10. ■ - ■ -o Field Goals Ry Mark M. Upp Welirßorne was beaten. Cathedral was crushed, Muncie was mauled and Van Wert was vanished. Now Go Get Gibault. It's up to the Leaders to beat [Bente again Tuesday night. Van Wert defeated Paulding 19 to 14 with comparative ease Friday night, nocording to Van Wert papers Wh.tt would the Yellow Jackets do to Paulding? The high school rooting slipped back a notch or two at the Van Wert game Saturday night. It's true that there wasn’t much interest in the Van Wert game, since that school isn't in the Indiana high school athletic association, but there should have been more pupils in the rooting section and a lot more pep during the game. Let's fill that end balcony for the Garrett game Friday night and help the Yellow Jackets beat the DeKalb county champs. s Indications arc (hat there will be a big and enthusiastic crowd out tonight to see the Catholic High eagers play Gibault and attempt to win their thirteenth straight victory. It should be a good game. Lancaster won the Wells county championship Saturday night by beating Bluffton in the final game. In all probability Lancaster will play in the district tournament here next month and the Adams county quintets are assured of hot competition from the Wells county entry. A comparison of the strength will be shown Friday night when Lancaster plays Kirkland here. In passing we want to record another victory for the Wabash Thom Cats. They clawed a 39-32 victory out of Van Buren Friday night. We haven't heard how the Thom Cats came out at Peru Saturday night, but Just Courting will be telling us about it ; tomorrow. The cross-word puzzle craze has struck another victim, who contributes the following to our column: R. VogleweDo WEmhoff Christen A. Voglewede MylotT LaUrent Meyeßs SC’mlte Holthouse GasS The same fnn contributes the following Big Ten: Anderson, Frankfort. Vincennes, Martinsville, Washington, Bedford. Franklin. Shelbyville. Rochester. Kokomo.

DFCaTIJR DAILY DFMOCMT. MONDAY. iRY 2, 1925

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