Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1925 — Page 4

YEowTIACKETS TO PLAY CENTRAL Fort Wayne Quintet To Invade City For Game Tomorrow Night Hie Decatur high school Yellow .ucnets will meet the strong Fort 1 Wayne Central quintet at the local ’ymnasium Friday night- Coach iennedy has been drtiling his play-J ars hard this week, in an effort to perfect a strong combination to battle the invaders. Although the locals have dropped their first four contests, they have been showing improvements and in practice last night they looked good. The coach has had the greatest difficulty in finding a first class center. Krick, a freshman, is showing tromise at the pivot position now and likely will start the game there Friday night. Strickler plays center] .part of the time, but he seems to work better at his old position of 'rward and he is needed there, .eynolds has been working as floor guard this week and is making a strong bid for the regular job. Zwick took a turn at that post last night and showed a lot of stuff. Central opened the season last week-end by defeating Warsaw and Huntington. The Tigers’ ten-point win over Huntington last Saturday night was not very impressive, since Huntington was swamped by Logansport on the preceding night and Logansport was in turn walloped by Frankfort, 41-21 a week ago. However, the Central squad is fast and witli the confidence inspired by two Fictories. will be hard to stop tomorrow night./ The Yellow Jacket Reserves will Xay the Central hopefuls in a return game, prior to the start of the big game. The Central seonds defeated the local reserves at Fort Wayne last Friday night, 24-IS, after a hard fight, and the locals are out for revenge. Coach Welborn, of South I Side high school. Fort Wayne, will referee the big game. o Preble Panthers Have Fast Teams Booked Th<> Preble Panthers, who defeated the Zion Reformed chtfrch team here Tuesday night in a curtain-raiser to the Decatur Leaders-Huntington gafne, have games booked with several fast teams in Indiana and Ohio. The team is composed of former high school players, including “Buck” Corson, a star with Kirkland township high school two years ago. Teams wishing games with the Preble quintet are asked to get in touch with the manager at Preble. Games are wanted with Berne, Linn Grove, Ossian, Monroe and Rockcreek. The lineup and summary of the game here Tuesday night was: * Decatur .. Preble Beal! F Hoffman Miller F Corson Fledderjohann . .C Ehrman Yager G Smith Foley G North Substitutions: Shady for North; North for Smith; Smith for Ehrman. Field goals: Beall, 1; Yager, 1; Hoffman, 5; Corson, 5; Ehrman, 2; Smith 2. Foul goals: Corson, 3. Referee: Wemhoff. Q Berne Athletics To Open Season Saturday Night Berne, Dec. 10 —The newly organised Berne Athletic Clt||> basket ball team will play its first game Saturday night when it meets the Rocjtford. Ohio. Reds at the community gymnasium The game wil start at 8:15 o'clock. A preliminary game will be played by the Nussbaum Nqvelty company’s team. The lineup of the Athletics will be selected from the following players; Kessler, Pyle, and Clauser, forwards; Whitehurst, Lowe and Reynolds, center; and Clark, Whiteman and Ellenberger. guards. 0 , Jack Reynolds Retains Wrestling Championship "T "■ Bloomington. Ind., Dec. 10.—(United Press)—Jack Reynolds, of Bloomington, today retained his world's welterweight wrestling title after defeating Jim Karsavas, of Boston, iq straight tails here last night. Lafayette. Ind., Dec. Press) —A football captain for the 1926 season v ill be elected at the annual gy.cliorn banquet of Fqrdtw university tonight.

Catholic High Gym To Be Dedicated Tonight ’■ - ■ ---jwiMi ji ' ; " Jink The gymnasium in lhe new Catholic school building will he officially dedicated tonight when the Catholic high school basketball team meets the Gibault Catholic high school team from Vill? c< ones. The gym has a large playing floor, mod.-rn dressing rooms and shower baths, and will seat approximately 500 fans. x

z: ' z . ~ — T7"~ ri " 7~-~ I FIELD GOALQ JL By MARK M. UPP kJ I Let's dedicate the new gym with a victory tonight, what do you say, Catholic high? Coach Welborn, football mentor of South Side high school. Fort Wayne, will make two appearances in Decatur as a besketball referee this week. Tonight, he will work the Catholic high-Gibault game and tomorrow night he will blow the whistle in the Yellow Jacket-Fort Wayne Central game. He is rated as a first class official. COURTESY. ALONE. MAY NOT WIN MANY BALI. GAMES, BUT 1T SURE WINS FRIENDS. — - z The Berne Athletics open their season Saturday night in a game at Berne with the Rockford. Ohio, Reds. In speaking of the BeYne team, the Adams County Witness says; “indications are for a rakish team.’’ Noah Webster says rakish means, “dissolute; debauched,” and dissolute means “given to vice or dissipation.” Opposing teams take notice. i The game between Pleasant Mills and Berne, which was scheduled to be played in the old gym here, has ben changed to th Berne floor, Friday The Kirkland-Monmouth game will be played on the old gym floor here, however. Somebody’s gonna nay for all this stirring around in the Yellow Jacket’s nest pretty soon. A Yeilow Jacket fights beck, you knowThe Huntington Press was silent on the game between the Huntington Athletics and the Leaders here Tuesday night, How Kum Ka s h? Today's Rule: “A player shall not charge in and make bodily contact with an opponent who is one of two opposing players having one or both hands on the ball. Penalty-—free try for goal. The offender shall be charged with a personal foul."

O.C.H.S.READY FOR DEDICATION GAME. Capacity Crowd Expected To Attend Catholic HighGibault Game Tonight A capacity crowd is expected tonight when the Catholic high school ball team dedicates its new gymnasium in a game with th p fast Gibault high school team from Vincennes. The two teams are considered evenly matched and a hotly contested game is in prospect. Coach Conter appears to have moulded together a team of as strong a calibre this year as the one that created a sensation in the national Catholic tournament at Chicago last spring, in spite of the fact that three regulars off that team were graduated last spring. This year’s team has showed up strong in its first two games, aud has handed a defeat to the St. Mary's high team of Hugtiugton and the St. Rose team of Lima, both on foreign courts. The following lineup likely will start the game for Decatur tonight: Wemhot'f and Meyer, forwards; Mylott, center; Voglewede and Captain Gass, guards. Gass and Meyer are the veterans from last' year's varsity. Two preliminary games 'will be played tonight the first game starting at 6:30 o'clock. In that game, the 81. Joseph eighth graders will play the, second team from BL Marys high school, Huntington. In tije second game, starting at 7:30 o'clock, the D. C. H- B. girls will play the U. T. D. girls’ team from Fort Wa»ue. Coach Welborn, of Bouth Side high school. Fort Wayue, will referee the big game 'of the evening. T Q Connersville — A class of 164 mem bers will be initiated into the local Eagles J-odge on Armistice Day. The new will |).rtug the total member- | ship here to 1,500.

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Basketball Takes Stage On College Sport Program By Edward C. Derr (U. P. Staff Correspondent) I Chicago, Dec. 10. — (United Press) — Basketball, second of college sports, has taken its place on the sporting i program and is headed into one of its most successful seasons. The physical impossibility of handling immense crowds around an indoor arena; the lack of panoramic effects that accompany vast throngs; the absence of a chill, crisp wind that puts fire into the players and enthusiasm Into the spectators are about the only factors that keep basketball from a place of equality with football in the hearts of amateur sport fans. These factors, of course, are enough, and it is doubtful if the indoor game will ever approach fottball in its appetfl to the lovers of physical combat. But basketball is making rapid strides among the colleges, principally in the middle western institutions, and it is no longer an uncertainty that this , game comes second only to football. From the spectators’ standpoint, peri baps, there is not quite the thrill in a basketball game that there is in a I gridiron contest, but from the player’s viewpoint, the indoor game is even , more strenuous than football. , Take Jimmy Paterson, (or instance. - Paterson was captain of the Northwestern University tyotball team two - years ago and one of the best full- ; backs that the Evanston school has . had in recent years. He was also a j, guard on the basketball team for three i years and held a record qf holding his I mtfu to one basket for an entire sea- . son. "Fottball. of course, will continue as i the leai)i»6 sport,” Paterson said, “but . for sheer physical endurance there 1$ s nothing like basketball.” “Training requirements for football v ere hard enough but they were nothing like basketball. Those of us who 1 played football until Thanksgiving j Day and then went out to join the we were far behind those who had

been practicing basketball during the autumn months. We didn't have the wind. We were solid anu tough but we couldn't keei? going at top speed like the other fellows. It took nearly a mouth of practice to catch up and I, for one, was afraid I wasn't going to make the first team in my senior year because my football training hatjß't prepared me for basketball.” Paterson's experience has had many parallels. Basketball, as it is played these days, demands strength almost equal to that of the football line plunger.t he speed of a sprinter; lhe endurance of a long distance runner; the ability to twist and pivot of an open field runner on the gridiron—and the natural qualifications peculiar to basketball( dribbling, passing, and a keen eye for the basket. o — Indiana And Notre Dame To Meet On Gridiron,Nov, 6 Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 10. —Indiana and Notre Dame today signed a contract for a football game, November 6, 1926, at South Bend. Z. G. Cleven-

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ger, athletic director gt Indian# Vuiveriaty, made the announcement after u conversation over |ong-di»tance telephone with Knute Rockne, director of athletics *t Nojre Dame. Netre Dame *IU pU>’ • return game H» 1927 at Bloomingtow The 1926 football #cl>«di>le for Indiana now is complete. It calls for two games with Northwestern. The schedule follows: October 2. Indiana vs. DePau*, at Bloomington; October 9, Indiana vs. Kentucky, at Bloomington; October 15, Indiana vs. Northwestern at Northwestern; October 23, Indiana vs. Wisconsin at Wisconsin; October 30, Indiana vs. Northwestern at Blooming ton; Nov. 6, Indiana vs Notre Dame at South Bend; Nov. 13, Indiana vs. Mississippi Agricultural College at Bloomington; November 20, Indiana vs. Purdue at Itefayette. Indiana and Notre Dame have not met on the football field since I*2o, when the Crimson gave Rockne's mightly eleven u great scare. It was only through the stellar playing of the late George Gipp that the Rockmen finished in front. Gipp died shortly after the game, of pneumonia. In the ten games between the two schools Indiana has won four, Notre Dame five and one ended in a tie. Berne and Pleasant Mills To Play At Berne Friday A change has been made in Hie location fur the basketball game between the Berne and Pleasant Mills high school teams Friday night. The game will be played at Berne, instead of in the old gym In this 'city, as was originally scheduled. , , Q— , Champion Vaulter Coming New York, Dee. 10.—(United Press) —Charley Hoff, world's champion pole valuter and Norway's greatest athlete, will sail for the United States on Dec. 30 to compete in the big indoor track meets, according to information received by the A. A. U. Penn Star Js Ineligible • Philadelphia, Dec. 10. — (United Press) —Al Kreuz, star Pennsylvania fullback and leading candidate for the 1936 captaincy, has beep declared ineligible for further competition in foot ball. The athletic committee ruled that one year he played w‘th Kalamazoo college was in collegiate competition and not prep school service.

GRANGE ABOUT READYTO QUIT Star Is Bending Under Burden Os Trying To Live Up To Reputation Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. JQ.-HUnlted Press)—Bonding under the burden of trying to live up to a reputation and disillusioned by the life of a great public hero, a worn and haunted Red Grange was here today trying to keep going on bis dash for a fortune. As Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth had laarped before him. Grange is beginning to know that (he penalty of tame is "thumbs down" when a star doesn't deliver and that the public expects much of a hero when he is being paid for it. Veteran football trainers, watching Grange try to play eight games in 17 days and attempt a schedule of 31 games in little mure than two months, predicted that it not be dune and it begins to appear that It connot be done. The strain of travel, the annoyance from a pestering public and the burden at his fame has worn Grange down so much that he was unable to do a thing |n Boston yesterday and he was forced tq listen to the first chorus of razzberries from disappointed customers. Not only Grange but the entire Chicago team has been worn down and some of the players are grumbling that the management is forcing them beyond the limit. Grhpge said in New York earlier in the week that he had to make the money while the making was good and tie apparently allowed his managers to go the limit in accepting offers without realising that there was a limit. Reports were here today that the former Illinois star was so fed up with lhe dash for the dollar that he was about to be satisfied with what he had. quit the game aud return to his studies. —c New York, Dec. 10—(United Press) —Bqcky Harris, manager of the Washington Senators, announced he has signed a contract to manage the Coral Gable club in the Florida winter league and that he would eget *7,000 for three months work.

Chicago Takes Steps To Hold World’s F a j r Phieage, Deo. 10.-w(Un;t e d Pr« Chicago has taken it & p rst Z* 1 ' ward the possible cm Uumm * world's fair to be held here ~h ‘ 1*34, the centsnnial of the corporation us a village Qr !n the hundredth anniversary (ls , ’I corporation as a city. ” ln ' ! Mayor Dsvjer took the , hl| . yestmday when he recommend? the city council that the fair i„. ‘J* W' 0 -— V i | ACKER IS ELECTE! FOOTBALLCAPTH Star Halfback Selected T. Lead D. U.S. Grid War. riors Next Fall Robert "Red" Acker, star halfl M . i was elected captain of the De wtw high school football team for a, v year, at a meeting of the letter men held yesterday evening. Acker l t a junior this year. He was one of the nmhislays of this year's eleven. j( e Succeeds Joe Bebout as captain. Coach Marshall has certified tin;, teen players for major football lett is and eight for minor letters. The letters have been ordered and will be given out as soon as they arrive Those who will receive major letter, are: Captain Bebout: Captain-elect Acker, Strickler, Leßruu. Myers, bierkeg, Robert Zwick, Bogner, Baumgartner, Covault, Brown and Anderson. Minor letters will be awarded to the following players in recognition of their services ae-eubstitutes and m practice: Macklin. Bell, Frisinger. Lankenau, Kiess, Harold Zwick Wl j DeVor. Os the thirteen players receiving niajor letters, only four will be graduated next spring. They are Strickler, end; Leßruu, cepter; h|yers, tackle; and Bogner, fullback and tackle. Robert Zwick, end. may be graduated r, xt spring also, it being possible for him to finish his course in three and onehalf years. Macklin is the only one of the eight players receiving mnior letters who will be graduated. With this many players left next fall, ('oat h Marshall will have a strong nucleus for a team. o —Subscribe For The Daily Democrat—