Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1925 — Page 6

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FRANKFORT WINS STATE NET TITLE “Fighting Five” Defeats Kokomo In Final Game Os Classic, 31-20 Indianapolis, March 23 Frankfort won the high school Itasketbull chain pionship of Indiana Saturday night ;!4 to 20 in the finals of the fourteenth annua) state tournament. This is tin' first time Frankfort ever has won the state title. Mure than 15,D00 per ons, all that the playing section of the Exposition building at the state fair ground-, would house, saw the contest. Kokomo took tllQ lead ;.t the start Walters scoring a field goal four ,•' seconds after play opened. Walters 'tl repeated two minutes later and with the score Kokomo four. Frankfort) nothing the latter took out time. Blunkett scored Frankfort's first field goal Two fouls and two field goals by Good and Plunkett sent Frankfort into the lead. Walters scored again and Kokotno took the lead when t’rutiu ly to soil one. Cummins netted one for Frankfort. Speeding up. Frankfort scored repeatedly, pulling away from Kokomo as the half end ed. Frankfort 17. Kokomo 10. Kokomo, through the brik’iant work of Walters, center. pulled within I three points of Frankfort soon after ' the second half opened, the score 1 then being l<) to 16. Uncorking a fast and furious attack. Frankfort scored re|>eate<lly running the score to St to 16 before Walters again netted one. He was injured on the play and left the floor. The game ended soon after. Lineups and summary: , , Frankfort (34 Kokomo (20) Spaulding F t'rumely., Plunkett F Huddleston' Cummins C Walters' Good G Toler Coulter G Dereck p Field goals Frankfort —Spradling 6; tl

Good 2; Cummins 1: Plunkett 2. Kokomo—Walters 7; Crumley 2. Foul goals—Frankfort— Plunkett 5; Cummins 5; Spradling. Good. Kokomo—Toler, Crumley. Substitute for Kokomo; Treat for Huddleston. Hail for Crumley. Kleed e r for Toler, Freeman for Dereck. j Frankfort Celebrates Frankfort. Ind., March 2.1. The city of Frankfort today was still enjoying the thrill of a lifetime that goes with the winning of the state high school basketball championship. A movement was on foot for a great celebartion in honor of the Frankfort players who won the Hoosier net title in the final game of the state tourney with Kokomo at Indianapolis Saturday night. All of the teams of the county and several of the quintets which participated in the st ile tournament will be guests at the celebration. Thousands of persons were on the streets Sunday afternoon and the city was in gala attire when the champs arrived by interurban from Indianapolis. As the car bearing the victors approached the public square bedlam broke loose. Auto horns tooted, electric fire sirens screached and church bells rang. The players stepped from the car into the arms of a frunzied mob of spectators. They were escorted through a roped off passageway to the courthouse steps, where they were presented to the crowd. 0 t X Field Goals By Mark M. Upp Hail to Catholic High, semifinalists in the national Catholic interscholastic basketball tourney. Hail to Frankfort’s Fighting Five, state basketball champions of Indiana. Two big tourneys are over and now basketball can take a back seat until next fall. It was a great season. Catholic High school's scrappy eagers did a lot to help put Decatur on the map. They went to the national Catholic tourney at Chicago, met the best Catholic prep school teams in the country, won their way through three games and into the semi-finals, only to drop a heartbreaking battle to the national champions, by

a score ot 13-11. Maybe they were outplayed in that game and maybe it was tough luck, but the fact remains that "Tubby" Gass, the green and white back guard who was hailed as the greatest basket guard in the tournament, sprained his ankle early in the second half and was forced to leave the game. Decatur was leading . t that time. Art Vogle wrde, who took his place, did ncbly. but he lacked that valuable asset— experience. Decatur made a gallant tight to return the high honors to the Hoosier state, after Fort Wayne Central Catholic and Washington had dropped by the wayside in the first round. Decatur is proud of those scrapping eagers and their coach. France Confer. Congratulations, gang. Anyhow Catholic High won twentyone straight this season before they met defeat. Frankfort is a deserving state champion. Coach Case's team shewed throughout the season that it was as good as any in the state and in the tournament, when the crucial test is met and when the other so-called favorites cracked under the strain and fell by the wayside, the Fighting Five delivered the goods and ran true to form. A lot of praise is due Coach Case. Frankfort may not be much better, if any, than Vincennes, Martinsville, Washington and a few others, but they are every inch as good and their victory in the state meet is no fluke. That town has been represented in the state tourney each season for the last few years and last year lost in the final game. Hail to Frankfort. We picked Vincennes —to get knocked off. Shoot in' Etn and Onceover picked eennea to win, Washington Catholic high had a large red and while banner at the tournament in Chicago, reading "In-

uiana State Champions." That sure looked out of place after Washington lust in the opening game and Decatur went ahead, winning three games and I going to the semi-finals. Decatur undoubtedly backed up her claim to the state Catholic championship And now we have come to the end of the road and must turn, turn to some other sport. Bisketball has had its day—a big day at that —but trick and baseball are clamoring for attention. Decatur can well be proud of its basketball record during the season just closed. Catholic High won ill of its eighteen games during the regular season and went to the semitinals in the national Catholic tourney. The public high school team, starting the season with green material, won 13 out of 20 games and then won three games in the sectional tourney, losing in the final game. The Leaders have won 1G out of 23 games. The (1. E. won G out of 10. The girls' teams from the two high schools won a large per cent of their games. The various other teams in the city have given a good account of themselves. We have enjoyed the season immensely and we sincerely hope that we have contributed at least a small mite in helping the game along. We are ending our third consecutive year as conductor of this column. To our fellow columnists and to all the fans and athletes we say. an revoir. LEADERS-O.C.H.S MME POSTPONED Catholic High Team Not In Condition To Play Following Tourney The basketball game between the Catholic high school team and the ■ Decatur Leaders, scheduled for ■ Tuesday -evening, was postponed this morning after Ralph Yager, manager of the Leaders, received a telegram Horn Coach France Confer, saying 1 that the Catholic high team was not in good enough physical condition to play the game, following the gruelling contests in the national Catholic tournament at Chicago. Mr. Yager stated that the game likely Will be played next week. The Leaders will play the third and deciding game of the city championship series with the General Electric team at the high school gym Thursday night' of this week. Each team holds one victory ,-of the series to its credit.

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■■■■—- — ' 1 ' STATE ( HAMPS LAND TWO PLAYERS ON ALL-STATE BASKETBALL QUINTET Selected for lhe United Pre .t By Dick .Miller First Team Second Team Third Team Forwards Pollinittu Beadles George tFroebel Gary! tWashingtoni (Mtinciei Forwards ....Spradling Crumley Wampler (Frankfurt) (Kokomo) (Vincenih 1 Centers Waller* Allega Cummins (Kokomo) (Vincennes’, i (Frinkfort) | Guards Good Ridge Si hnulter , (Frankfurt) (Connersville) (.Martinsville) Guards Gill East wood .Morgan (Washington) (Central. < Muncie) Evansville) Honorable Mention Forwards: Plunkett. Frankfort; Ashby, Evansville; (). Reeves, W< i Point; Boykin. Marion; Reynolds, Martinsville; Wells; Laporte; Stelle, Connersville, and Shlillz. Milford. Center-: Walsh, .Muncie; F. Reeves, West Point; .Murphy, Mar ion; Smith, Ftoliel of Gary; Wade. Curmi-I; Lakin, Rushville. Guards: To.ar and Derek. Kokomo; Coulter, Frankfort; Scheid. Vincennes; Dellinger, Elkhart; Ray, West Point; McNamara. Rushville. and E. Miller, Milford.

Written for the United Press By Dick Miller. Indianapolis. March 23. — No one who witnessed the final tournament here which gave Frankfort Uhe 1925 state ha-fketball championship will deny that it was the greatest in the history of the Indiana State High School Athletic association. Frankfort is hailed today as a win tier among 672 teams which entered the first rounds of the tournaments. Every minute of the play in which sixteen teams battled through th< finals here Saturday was witched and' Hom this observation the all-state selections w< re made. It is quite evident that some good players in the state were not seen. With Bedford, Shelbyville. Franklin, and sever:;! other good teams elint inated in the regional and sectional; games, it is almost a certainty that all the great players were not on exhibition. Still, fate decides that the best shall survive. We offer the elections for your approval. ' The centers in this tourney wore the greatest ever seen. Walters, of Kokomo, the Gtmbel prize winner was most valuable to his team. In fact, be was almost the 1

Nurmi Spurns Large Financial Inducements New York. March 23—Financial inducements. larger than have ever been made to a track athlete, have failed to move Paavo Nurmi and lie will return'to Finland as an amateur according to Hugo Quist, manager of the world's champion runner. With the exception of Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth. it is possible that no athlete has had the chance to make ; as much money for such little effort us Nurmi has had sincF he has been in this country. Quist estimates tiiat offers totaling $195,000 have been made to the Finnish star for the use of his name and his services. He has been offered large sums to write testimonials that certain kinds of liniments kept his running gear in shape; that certain medicines have kept him fit. that, this and that food has made him strong and that certain styles of wearing apparel have helped him become the world's greatest runner. o — DROP THRILLING ■ OVERTIME GAME TO ST. MEL, 13-11 — /Continued from page four) down the floor and dumped in a short one. A minute later he repeated. [ Kennedy, playing for Sullivan, made good on a follow-up shot and Mason added a pair of points when lie toss- i ed the leather in with one hand. Mason converted on a long attempt from the side and put the easterners In the load. O’Reilly cut under the net and increased the ndvantage to five . points.. Doyle made the hist score for Aquinas when he made good on an attempt from the free line. Holthouse, who had re-entered the game with about four minutes to go. sank a pretty shot from midfloor. The gun ended hostilities before the Hbosiers could do any more. It was u great battle, featuring speed and bulk, However, the bulk of Decatur that assisted them so much in previous games was of little use against the New York flashes. Decatur was pretty well faded out after all their hard battles, but despite this they put up a liard fight, as the 22-and-18 score indicates. I Decatur FG FT TP Meyers' 5 1 11 Holthouse 1 0 2 Voglewede 2 0 4 Christen 0 11 A. Voglewede 0 0 n Wemhoff 0 0 0 Totals , 8 2 18 ..Aquinas FG FT TP Mason .: 5 0 10 O’Reilly 3 17

entire team. Aib ga. Cummins, Walsh, and even to the last man in the honorable mention, all would rank allmute first team caliber in ordintry years. The .forwards, likewise, were in great abundance. Spradling, with tiie knaijt of always having the punch in his system at the right time to push his team from behind into the lead, is a popil hr selection. Pollizotto was the most consistent payer w saw on the floor, liis team, it is believed gave Frankfort the y.-eali-st scat-- and is the mod powt rful team in the state. The forward from Froebel. of Gary, handles the ball in a wonderful style, is a tl.ish i,n the floor and <an shoot baskets. Good was the towering light among the floor guards, which, however, were not numerous. Ridge, of Conoersvi’ie. was also a good all-around man who. probably would have mule I a better showing hail he a stronger* team back of him. Gill, of Washington, was the "class" > of the tourney at the backguard. Although the guards of the tourney as a whole were not ns brilliant as the forwards and center. Gill and Eastwood, of Evansville Central, were great players. The latter was almost' •he entire Evansville team.

| Doyle o 11 '■ Sullivan o 11 | O'Neil 0 1 11 Kennedy 1 o 2 I Total <» 4 22 , Decatur. 18; St. Viator's, 12 Chicago, March 2:l— Decatur ad- ■ vaneed to x the semi-finals in tin- i,e- --| lienal Catholic tournament by virtue I of their decisive win over St. Viator's Academy of Bourbonnais. 111., 18 to 12 ■ at the Ixiyola gym Saturday night be- ' fore a crowd of 4.000 people. The | big fellows from Indiana had tilings ! their own way for most of the route, , although at times the Illinois lads -looked pretty dangerous. J Both teams played a stubborn de- , tensive game in the first quarter, J neither team getting under the baskJet for short shots. Holthouse led off J with a long toss and a short while ,! later Ross duplicated for St. Viators. I The count remained knotted until a few seconds before the end of the first quarter, when Decatur assumed the lead on a free throw by Meyers. Paldw’n gave Bourbojtnias the lead win n he dumped in a short one. The ; advantage swung back to the Boos- ' ier team %-hen Christen connected front midfloor Holthouse registered for Decatur and Meyers added a point from the free lane. Meyers broke ; loose and sent the leather through , the hoop from close range, The Illinois team worked the ball down the floor and Rosh dropped it In. The rest period found Decatur leading 10 ' to <l. ; Il was evident when the team came out on the floor 10. renew the battle' i that the academy boys were going to] fry to turn the tide. They started out with a desperate rush but they found Decatur’s defense impregnable and were forced to try from near midfloor on most of their shots. Holthouse rang the bell from the free lane and Kellar retaliated, converting on a long toss from the side floor. Hothouse hit the net twice via the, free route and the scoring was ended i for that quarter the Hoosier quintet leading 15 to 8. Meyers made good on a short one. A few minutes later the play was repeated with Holthouse doing the] scoring, she teams battled on with' neither being able to score until there' was less than a minute of play. The Bourbonnais team showed their grit by trying to stage a comeback that for a moment threw a scare into Decaurt. They flashed down the floor and handed the leather to Kellar who 1 caged it from the side. Again the Del catur defense settled down and they ■ were cut short. Meyers made d final I score when he caged a free throw ' | just bfore the final gun. i Decatur (18) FG FT TP ' Meyers rs 2 3 7

Wothmine, If •■ • s Voylewede. C " " Christen re 1 " «‘aas. Iff .no " Totals B « 18 St. Viators (12) FG FT TP Rom. rs 3 " Baldwin, If I " 2 Keller nr .... ■'! " 4 llellM-rt, Ig 0 •' " Campbell, C •’ ** 11 Totals C <• 1-’ Marquette, 19 Aquinas, 15 Chicago, March, 2:’.— Th« snappy little eastern quintet from Aquinas 111 .tilute,. Rochester N. V. fell before the long distance attack of Marquette University high in the first game i.f the semi finals in tho national Catholic tournament fiete Sunday afternoon, by a score of 19 15. The easterners were disheartened by the uncanny ability of tho Badger team to cage the ball from midfloor. The big Milwaukee fellows put up a stubborn defense that held llodr opponents to a single field goal in the Hirst half. A field goal by O'Sullivan were all the scores Rochester was good for in the initial period. Meanwhile Marquette sank the b ather for a total of I'l points. Aquinas came back with a desperate attack in the second period but they couldn't solve the defense of the Wisconsin men consistently enoulAr Io overtake them. The la-1 few minutes they started ; wild drive and drew within live points of a lie. But the gun cut them short with the Milwaukee team on top of a 19 an<| 15 score. FLOOD WATERS REACH CREST Hijfh Waters Still Menace Towns Devasted By Tornado Last Week (United Press Service) Griffen. Ind., Mar. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Flood waters which cut off desolate Griffin from the rest of lhe world except by railroad today and which threatened to creep in jover the ruined town itself if further rises occur were believed to have I reached their crest at noon. Mt. jt'atim l. 111., reported a stage of 20.' I this morning, 4.5 above flood stage This wmi believed to bo the erest there as Terr Dant continud to report a steady fall there since Saturday. St. Iritis, Mo., Mar. 23- (Special to Daily .Democrat) —Reconstruction mn.hiiiery swung into action over the fix states swept by Wednesday's •storm today and the smash of the hammer could be heard coming from the debris smeared towns. lhe death list for the entire territory acton,mg to today’s figures is ■‘■■'jl while more than 3,000 are in hospitals. Many thousands are homeless. n _ < . A. Dugan made a business trip I" Korl Wayne this afternoon.

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