Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1925 — Page 6

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LEADERS LOSE ■ AT PORTLAND Rally In Final Minutes Give .lay County Team Victory, Score 38-26 A rally in the last five minutes of play brought victory for the Portland Independents over the iM'catnr Leaders in an exciting game played in the armory at Portland last night. The final score was 38 to 26. • The two teams battled on even term during the first thirty or thirty five minutes. The first half ended 1 16 to 14 in favor of Portland and with only about five of six minutes to play the score was 26 to 24 in favor of the winners. Thon Gullion, White and Armstrong, Portland's throe star ofrensive players, "got hot" and caged several points, giving their team a comfortable lead which they held until the final gun. Murray Mendenhall, Leaders forward, was the star of the game. He caged seven field goals and two free throws. The Leaders wil play the third game of the s'erios with the. Berne A. quintet in this city Thursday night. February 26. Each team has won one game and the third contos is sure to be a hard fought game. Lineups and Summary: Decatur (26) Portland (38) Andrews F Armstrong Mendenhall F White Oliver (' • Gullion Kennedy G Hatfield Christ G Oren Field goals: Andrews, 3; Mendenhall. 7; Oliver. 1; Armstrong, 6; White, 5; Gullion, 2; Hatfield, 2. Free throws: Andrews. 1; Mendenhall, 2; Kennedy. 1; White, 2 Gullion, 1.. Referee: Browning. 0 X—- /—■ . Field Goals By Mark M. Upp Shootin’ ’Em. the premier columnist who-dishes out the dope for th' readers of the Indianapolis News, is 1 picking Vincennes to win the state championship. That’s tough luck for Vincennes, is Shootin’ ’Em has had a habit of picking the wrong entry. It is generally ag’eed over the state that Vincennes has an easier schedule in the final tourney at Indianapolis than any of the other socalled favorites. A news story in the Indianapolis News says Cathedral high school will play its last game of the season Friday against Washington Catholic high, the "undefeated champions of Catholic High Schools of Indiana.” How do they get that way. Decatur Catholic High eagers are Che Catholic champions of Indiana this year. Evidently Indianapolis sport writers have forgotten that the locals defeated Cathedral twice this year and that they haven't lost a game this season. We've been asked why we didn't pick ilre winner of the state championship. W>’re not quite ready yet, tut Irive simmered the list down to four, namely, Frankfort, Vincennes, Martinsville and Anderson. Frankfort plays Martinsville Friday night, so that ought to reduce the list to three, Sturgis, Michigan, eagers, opponents of the Y'Zlow Jackets next Friday night have lost only one game Iliis seaion. according to reports zrtiching this city. They’ve lost one, though, gang, so they can be beaten. The Leaders have dropped three straight games, now. It is time to apply the sand on the track. February 26 would be a good time to start winning again, when the Berne A. C. five plays here. Even though the attendance in the district tourney here March u and 7 may not be as large as it would be if there were more larger towns represented in the play, indications are that there will be some mighty hot battles. No less than six of the nine teams are considered up in the running for the district title and who knows, maybe one of the other three may prove to be a dark harse. Its anybody’s tourney. The team that follows training

iiiles the closest from now mill) iho , tourney starts and during the tour uey sill have one big rdvantago over I I the others when Ihe play starts. Plenty of sleep, the right kind of food no smokes and close attention to the i uai h's Instructions will do wonders. v — o Catholic High Goes To *1 iintinßtonThursday Night 1 The Catholic High school basketI ball team will go to Huntington - Thursday night to play the SS. Peter ami Paul quintet of that city. This kill bo the. first contest fur the green } clad eagers since they won their , fourteenth straight victory of thoj I season in a contest with the St. . Patricks parish team of Fort Wayne ,on February 6. Coach Confer has , sent his mon through stiff practices I this week after easing up on the workouts last week. On next Monday I night the St. Johns high school foam | from Lima. Ohio, will meet the locals in the new high school gymnasium. ‘ —n . Monroe Varsity To Play Yellow Jacket Hopefuls Principal Walter W. Krick, of Decatur hgih scholo, announced this afternoon that the Monroe high . school first team will play the Deca ! . tut high school second team in a pre : litninary game to the Decatur-StuPg is. Michigan, contest here Friday . night. This contests, alone, should provide plenty of entertainment, as local fans recall the old time rivalry, between the Monroe and Decatur high school teams. The Monroe team is handicapped through lack of gym I nasinm facilities this year, but has been making a good showing. The! Yellow Jacket Hopefuls will have to I work hard to defeat the Monroe! township lads. In the first game of! the evening, starting at 6:30 o’clock. | the Bluffton eighth grade team will play the Central school eighth grade eagers The Decatur Seconds-Monroe game will start at 7:30 o’clock" and the big attraction, between Decatur and Sturgis, will get. under way about 8:30 o'clock Three good games are assured. Gibbons Is Confident He Can Whip Dempsey > By Henry L. Farrell, (United Press Sports Editor) New York. —(United Press). Tom Gibbons seems to be getting into the breaks at last after having had more bad luck than any other boxer of his prominence. Gibbons never complained about the breaks that went against him ami perhaps that is the reason that fortune has turned for him. G bbons is signed to meet Jack Dempsey next summer in a return bout for the heavyweight champion shin and it is said that his agreement with Tex Rickard calls for $150,000. That is a lot of money. Ho also can get $50,000 or more before the indoor season closes if he decided to accept the offers that are pouring in on him. Tom has never been in the b'g clough. His best chance was the ' gamble he took with the promoters i at Shelby when he stood to get $150,-1 000 as his share, but the show wasruined by bad management and he didn't get enough for bis end to pay

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I expenses Gibbons coni'! Imve docke d J Shelby and gone Mime other |>l:.< • I with Hemp • I"' "" i, l,i-cd to do it. He could hate- gone ‘ back <m the promoters in London las! ■mmmer when they didn’t have enough r money to pay him his pm o for fight--1.1 in- .lac k Bloomfield, .hut ho refused f I to CIO it. i "There's something else to this 1 same" than money,” he raid, when he Was ask'd why be was willin'' to sac rifice ci much ratliet than go back I on Io word. And he me ant it "Pox i Ing is my huslne e. mid ii Ims-be •n_ a good busim ss for me. I haven't made as much money as some champ ! ions, hut I've made enough Io prre 1 vide for myself and family.” | 'I lie one blot on his rec-ord was the l ! fifteen roiind decision that he lost :'ev1 eral yearn ago to- Harry Greb in Mad r ison Square Garden and that was the .Ire suit of bad luck. c Two wee I s before the fight he went down w th an attack of the flu ami he was In no condition to fight when ho came to New York. •He didn't i , complain, however, and didn’t even , tell his manager that it was impossL ible for him to put up the best fight. . He might have asked for a postponement, or could have demanded that ' the light J>e calle d off, but he wont through -with it because tie had giv- ' en his word that he would. 'i That defeat by Greb cost him thouI sands of dollars because he had jits' ’’'worked up to the log money, only- to 1 have all h s opportunities lost so. I more than a year. He didn't'grnmble ’ or complaint and ho didn't alibi. "I'll ' get the breaks some time.” he told i his friends. o — — Three I. U. Teams hi Contests On Saturday Bloomington. Ind, Feb. IS.- After | five days of practice, three- Indiana ' University teams will enter contests i en foreign fields Saturday evening. I The basketball team plays at Chi- ! cage; the swimmers go to lowa City; i and the wrestlers take a mat at Pur- | due. Chicago'will have a much more formidable basketball outfit than the . team which was so easily defeated 40-11 at Bloomington last month. The addition of Alyea, star center who was ineligible in January because of scholarship, has seemed to put now life into the whole.team. If the Indiana team can surmount this obstacle and the Purdue- game at Isifiyelte, Feb. 27. at b ast a tie for the championship is probable. With Logan at the top and witli four of hi« players among the top fifteen in the individual scoring column of the Big Ten. the Hoosier mentor is well supYou F J ...jj Are i '-’fer Safe ! When you take Father John’s Medicine FOR COLDS i and to build new f'.esh and strength.' | because it is free Horn morphine ' ■chloroform, codeine, heroin, or other! dangerous drugs and alcohol. Take it Today.

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