Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1925 — Page 8

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LEADERSWIN CAGING TITLE Defeat (J. E. Team In Deciding Game Os Series, Score 27-19 The Decatur lenders captured 'he Independent baskethall championship of the city last night by troancing the General Electric eagers in the third and deciding game of a three-game series, by ascore of 27-19. The winners led throughout the contest with the exception of once iu the early part of the game when the score stood 4-2 against them. A fair-sized crowd of fans witnessed the game, which was interesting throughout. "Tooth” Thornburg, of Muncie, and Hamilton, of Fort Wayne, two noted eagers, were newcomers in tli< <;. 11 lineup last night, while Jackson, local eager, played his first game with the Leaders. Bill (’list, stellar back guard for the l eaders, was unable to play last night on account of a death dn his family. Kennedy played backguard in his stead and Mendenhall held down the floor guard position. The Leaders took the lead on two free throws by Mendenhall, after both teams had missed several chances from the field and tree throw line. Hamilton tied the score with u pretty tieldgoul and a field goal by Thornbur;? put the G. E. ahead. The Leaders soon tied the score and took the lead which they never again surrendered. Four field goals and two free throws by Andrews and one field goal and three tosses from the foul line by Mendenhall, gave the Leaders a 15-10 advantage at the half. The <l. E. team had scored its ten points on two field goals each by Oliver and Hamilton and one by Thornburg. In the second half the Leaders held on to their advantage und managed to increase their lead to eleven points at one time, leading 25-14 Andrews and Mendenhall did most of the scoring for the winners, while the (1. E. scoring was well divided among Thornburg. Gale, Oliver and Hamilton. latst night's game ended the season for both quintets. The Leaders won 17 out of 21 games during the season, scoring 758 points to their opponents 758. The G. E. quintet won six out of eleven games, scoring a total of 338 points to their opponents. 285. In the three game series for the city championship, the Leaders won two games and scored 81 points, while ; the G. E. team scored 68 points. The

G. E. team won the city championship last year, winning the only game played with the Leaders. Lineups and summary.: Leaders 127) G. E. (19) Andrews F Thornburg Shirk F Gale Jackson (' Oliver Mendenhall G Hamilton Kennedy G Lindeman Substitutions: Myers for Jackson, pie for Field gn»ls: Andrews. 6. .i ■ r.• I. 2: Mj 1: Thornburg, 2; Gale, 1; Oliver. 3; Hamilton. 2. Free throws: Andrews, 4; Mendenhall. 6: Gale. 3. Referee: Ford Griffith, Auburn. o Nurmi Defeats Ritola Buffalo, N. Y. March 27 — Paave Nurmi, world’s running champion, defeated his rival. Willie Ritola by 120 yards in a 5,000 meter race here last night. Nurmi's time was 14:38. which was 14 4-5 seconds slower than Ritola's record. Ritola was almost forced to quit with a •’stitch" but he finished gamely. . o— Bout Between Tunney And Gibbons Seems Assured Chicago, Mar. 27.—A match between Tommy Gibbons, Challenger for Jack Dempsey's heavyweight crown and' Gene Tunney. American light heavyweight champion, seemed virtually assured despite the fact no articles have been signed. Jimmy Deforest, matchmaker for the Polo grounds has the inside track to promote the bout but is getting some competition from promoters of the annual New York milk fund, who believe the Gibbons-Tunney scrap would assure the success of the show. Deforest held a lengthy conference here yesterday with Eddie Kane, manager of Gibbons, but they failed to come to terms. — — NEWS FROM THE TRAINING CAMPS Clearwater, Fla. — Burleigh Grimes star pitcher, has accepted a two year contract for $14,000 a year, officials of the Brooklyn club announced today.

Grimes was given a *250 bonus for signing and promised *3,00u if Chur-' les Schwartz, a rookie pitcher Grimes « dlseoVi r«>d, makes good. • Sarahe ,i. Fla.- Itent-wid efforts of! | the Cincinnati Beds to >.-<) a lir i .I ba eman from New York Giants fail ed. Offers were made for George Kelly or Hill Terry but the Giants wore not interested in any player- 1 that the Reds had to offer in exchange. > Savannah, Fla. Miller Huggins, I manager of the N«w York Yanks ‘ celebrated his 36th birthday hen to day. "Give me another pennant if you i want to remember me," Huggins told his player.--. Ruston, La.-Chicago's White Sox rm into a fast fielding, slow hitting crew in Louisiana Tech here yesterday and won 7 to 0, with little effort. The Sox collected 12 hits while the college byos got two. Los Angelos. - - Chicago’s Cubs are tireparing to move further north. Thier last game hero will be played Sunday, after which one section of the crew journeys to Sacramento anti the other group goes to Santa Maria to engage the Seattle club. Orlando. Fla.--Morris and Collins recruit pitchers, have been turned back to their original clubs ami Ileimiller, former Buffalo hurler, has been signed by the Reds. Cincinnati lost yesterday to Tri Speaker's mtn 2 to 0. Augusta. Fla. —Stoner anil i'illette held Toronto safe while the Detroit Tigers jumped upon three hur lers Thursday, winning, 7 to 3. 1 illette let the enemy down with one hit in three innings. Lakeland, Fla.— The Indians will try for their sixth straight victory against Milwaukee today. George T’hle veteran, will pitch. Joe Shaute and Sherry Smith hurled the tribe to | 2 to 0 win over the Reds yesterday. Tarpoon Springs Fla.—The Brownies were back at their training camp today for a battle with the Buffalo Internationals. Yesterday, through the work of Joe Bush on the mound and at bat. the Browns trimmed the Braves, 9 to 4. Stockton. Cal. —The final game of the Cardinal-Kangas City Blues series is to be today. Yesterday the National leaguers nosed out Kansas City. G to 5 in 11 innings.

im Q—iVlakin? Improvements At Funk’s Speedway Winchvxter, likL, March 27 —Many experiments having been made in lace track building to add comfort and speed to Amo Boeing, nothing in the last twenty years has been discovered that will be of more real benefit to race track building than the Great Find of Mr. Funk’s while down in Florida the last winter. Mr. Funk was down south in the inter est of Auto racing looking over the field in regards to winter racing at Niana, St Petersburg, New Orleans and other cities and made the discovery of a Soils Mixture that will practically do away with dust and I skidding on the curves while going | at a mile a minute speed. Mr. Funk J will have Funk's Motor Speedway re- • surfaced with this new material for ■ the first Big race meet to be held J here on May 30. Many of the Best I Drivers in the world have already I sent in their Entry Blanks tilled in I for the different events. j This year will be the most sue- I cessful ever held at his popular race I course. Mr. Funk, manager owner, will I 'have every little detail taken of I by a small army of workmen now I busy at work on the Track and Stands. I ——o j Petroleum H. S. Wrestlers || Defeat Bluffton Grapplersl Bluffton, March 27—The Petroleum high school scored a victory over the Bluffton high school in the wrestling | match between the two schools, held • at the local gymnasium Wednesday evening, scoring five victories iu wrestling bouts to four for Bluffton ■ high school. Each victory scored three points for the winner's school, I uml therefore Petroleum won by a score of 15 to 12 points. Wins Steeplechase At i Liverpool. England, Today Liverpool, England, March 27.— ■ tl’nited Press.) - Double Chance. ' owned by D. Gould, won the grand national steeplechase today from a field of 33 horses.

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—ii i i i tn » ii i Many Miners Believed Killed In France Today Forhach, Franco, March 27.- (Unit- • ed Press.)- Seventy men are believed to have InsJ their lives and 25 I others were injured today when a coal hoist cage plunged 1.1100 feet down a ' shal l at Hie M irleh.u-h mill". Fifty bodies already have been ini on from th- mine and twenty nth i-r victims are believed dead In a cavern neatly one fifth of a mile hr low the earth's surface. Twenty-five injured minors who were rescued were half crazed by their terrible experience. The district is stunned by the tragedy. The government is planning relief measures and the ministers of public works and labor are enroute hero to investigate the disaster. The accident occurred when the, men attempted to use the cage as a hoist to ride from the bottom of lite shaft to the earth's surface. The 1 cage never had been used for tills

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s g-wnMwmrgt SEED CORN 6.000 Bu. Boone County White Dent s 1,000 ID’. Funk’s Yellow Dent j Medium sized ears, *5.00 per bushel. Large size selected uni | form ears. *7.00 per bushel, either variety. ; All hand picked ami thoroughly dried. 90 per cent germination j guaranteed. This corn has been testing 94 to DS per cent. Purdue I University test 94.5 per cent. This corn wil be sold on the ear. Yon I , can see exact quality. 7 ! This is an early maturing corn and is a heavy yielder. Samp'es » | on display at County Agent's office, Decatur. This corn was grown ■ on McLe’.and Farms in Clinton count;.. Ind., in 1924. This corn will ■ be sold in room at Auditorium building, north side of square, Port- j land. Ind. Come and see it, and you will buy. Phone or write. 0. 0. McLeland, Art. Member Farm Bureau 9 I J Scircleville, Clinton County, Indiana. F- I 14 miles west of Tipton, Indiana. Ki —”1 "■ imMIMIIIIMWRUHIfWITIMIHIIHIIHII ■HMnMMMMMMM I Hie ADAMS Theatre I Tonight—Tomorrow Matinee Saturday and Sunday A Twelve Cylinder com- uj edy-romance of a girl / who exposed a crooked / through with her fight 9 in the face of a scorch- 9 ing backfire. I 5 —Added Attraction— J Quramoimt tyclurt . , . Good Clever Comedy. g >* J4J Y ”"'" "' iß sho "' h Y (' * NOAH BEERY 10c—25t gs $8 U RAYMOND HATTON S RAYMOND McKEE

I purpose before. Ninety live mon were /crowded in the cage when the sup j port snapped and plunged them to the base of the abaft. ——-o ■ — . Lillian Gish Appears As Witness In Court J I , New York, Mur. 27- ( Special i<> 'Dully Demociati Lillian Gish, the, I motion picture actress, will appear ( in the role of a wim-ss in court t,.j ' day. Sit.- will be called to testify ns to Iter own business ability—the ten ( tru point in the suit brought against lor by <’buries If. Duell, former president of the Inspiration Pictures.[ who seeks to make her act for that; company alone. I In,the hearing in federal court he lot,- Judge Julian W. Mack. B. E. ; Smith. Lillian's counsel, has sought I to show the actress is totally lacking in any business knowledge an<> should not be held to the contract she sign 'ed with Duell. I Duell, by summoning Lillian to the ——— .. ———■ ■" - ■ - — SIGNS YOU CAN DEIAEVE IN If your breath is bad and you have spoilt of swimming in the head, poor appetite, constipation and a general t,oaceouiit feeling, it is a sign your hver is torpid. The one r ally dependable remedy for all disorders in the liver, stomach and trowels is Jlcrbine. Itnets powerfully on the liver, strengthens digestion, purifies the bowels and restores a line feeling of energy, vim and cheerfulness. Price 60c. Fold by Holtbouse Drug Co.

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Where our Michaels-Stern I Clothing customers | come from— I They are Monroe men—Berne men—Pleas. HI ant Mills men and men from the rich farms all ■( A over Adama county. S wßftyg 7/ | M n — | They live in ivy covered cottages, stfam H heated houses and brown stone fronts H £ ** They are 16—some of them—6o— lots of . them—but not over 10 in spirit—none of them! ■* v ’•' These men have tried on and tried out other clothing—they have sown their wild oats, so to N < ' speak, and have decided to get married to abso- / lute .satisfaction and settle down. V f / ■ I SPRING SUITS FROM MK'HAELS-STERN t." f $20.00542.50 I I ;! New Top Coats—Beauties J $20.00 to $27.50 H j Jefub'T'AysxbGe I J BJTrSfi CLOTHES LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS-J ’ • DECATUR • INDIANA • j You Are Going To Buy A Car This | Spring And Good Judgement Says A \\ hy wait until the fine Spring days which are “just right’' lor driving are gone before you order that car? And why buy a high priced luxury when a FORD, the car used by everyone will serve the purpose of transporting you here or there? We have a number of orders for Ford cars for early Spring I delivery and we want yours. Good judgement tells you it is the car | you want and we are ready at all times to explain its good quali- 3 ■ ties or demonstrate to you. Low in actual cost; low in the cost of operation; closed car comforts of any of the more expensive cars; these, together with many other important features make it the ideal car for yourself 3 or family. I Don’t put it off any longer—come in now’, today and place your order for immediate delivery. You can arrange easy payments if you so desire and enjoy motoring the same as y<>u •' neighbor. I I Adams County Auto Company FRED E. KOLTER. Mgr. Exclusive Ford Dealers Insist on Genuine Ford Parts Madison Street Decatur, Indiana — —~ Phone 80 i "?•.* cou p I (■ W . *520 T.aru.«c«r - 2to W MR* AS ■ MAKE SAFETY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY | - ~~ - -J- II-

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