Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1925 — Page 6

Catholic High Plays At Delphos Tonight Coach France Confer and his Catholic high school basketbail team will go to Delphos, Ohio, this evt ning to play the St. Johns Catholic high school team of that city. The Si. Joseph eighth grade team will accompany the D. H. S. quintet and play the St. John's high school seconds. The locals are confident of bringing home two victories. Catholic high will play the alumni team at the local gym next Wednesday night. o —— Babe Ruth Plans More Hits, More Homers And Less Fat Next Season New York. Dee. 26.-- (United Press! - More hits, more homers, more happiness and less fat is' the 1926 program that Babe Ruth has set out for himself. The Rabe, tiring of putting on weight raising chickens on his New England estate, has abandoned the country and is getting himself in shape for another baseball campaign in a gymnasium here. He is doing two hours on the road in the morning and three hours in the afternoon in rowing machines, on the hand ball court and the ring. ••I weighed 226 pounds when I left the farm, and I’m down to 215 pounds now," the Babe said. “That still smtads like a lot of weight for a bhll player but Its getting solid and I'm a good sized fellow.” The Babe did not take offense when it was talked that his bosses at the New York Yankee office had decided that the aged players and the tat players on the club could not sp?ni two weeks at Hot Springs in the spring •with all checks paid. “It isn’t the dough," the Bals' said. “If I thought that it would do me any good. I’d pay my own freight and go down there for some baths anil some golf. The trouble is that the fellows who go down there try to do too much in a few days. "1 loafed around all last winter and thought I could take a few hikes ami a few baths and get myself in shape. I tried to do too much and broke down and I know the reason now. "My legs went bad on me last year and I know that I didn’t play any real baseball. The fellows told me that the only way I could keep the dogs working was to keep using them ami I’ve been using them all winter. “1 went up with Eddie Collins and the fellows Into the Canadian woods and I had to ride on a truck horse for a couple of days but after a week or so I was able to out hike any of the boys in the bunch. •But the old eye is still good and the arm is all right ami 1 think I can hit a few of them out of the park next season if the old dogs stand up me and I’m getting them in shape to stand.” The Babe looks to be in splendid condition and he is certainly trying. • The threat that the bosses were said to have made about his new contract apparently had turned the Babe from a gentleman farmer into a serious laborer. —oAccidentally Shot Milford, Ind., Dec. 26.—George Graf, • 30, was badly wounded when a bullet from a gun, being cleaned by Omar Baumgartner, struck him in the side.

5 Now That The Rush is Over The Next Important Event is u j CIPTDAY SATURN JAN. 9 I ' TW O WEEKS FROM TODAY—TELL YOUR FRIENDS | S4OO in Coupon Books Distribution 1:30 O’clock I ~ Gift Day is not to be forgotten for it means a lot to you. Keep the date in mind and join the crowd that take part I in the distribution. Nearly every store gives tickets and you are urged to ask for them with each purchase.

! FIELD GO ALG I 1 By MARK M. UPP kJ I Was your stocking well illb d? We trust that everybody had n merry Christmas and will bi In a good 1 humor for the remainder of the basketball season. We want to acknowledge the receipt of a beautiful greeting card from 1 Bobby Starr, conductor of the column, "What the Sara Say" In the Frank ■ tuit Morning Times. Right back at you old man in heaping quantities. The Decatur Yellow Jackets finally won a flame last night, having defeated Angola at Angola by a score of 26 to 23, and at the present writing we have nothing to throw at Mark M. Upp In fact, we're expecting to be the recipient of some choice holidays remarks—Rip Offs in the Bluffton News. The Ossian eagers must have been greatly imbued with the Christmas spit it Wednesday evening. They presented a neat gift to the Liberty Center team in the form of a 41-8 victory. Washington Catholic high looks to bo the best rival of the Decatur Catholic high five for the state parochial school honors again this year. The Washington outfit walloped Cathedra) high of Indianapolis Wednesday night. 30-12 after Cathedral had licked Gibault at Vincennes, 27-23 on the previous night. But then. St. Marys Catholic high of Huntington licked Cathedral at Indianapolis recently and Coach Center's quintet had little difficulty in down'ng St. Marys at Huntington in the first game of the season. 28-13, Washington and Decatur Catholics do not meet tin’s season. Will Wynn liked our write-up and comments on the Berne-South Side game. We aim to please. Will. The Bluffton Tigers, after pepping, up and trouncing the Warren Light ning Five. Saturday night, fell before the Lancaster Bob Cats Wednesday, at Bluffton. 22-20. The Tigers have been defeated by no less than three Wells county teams this season, namley, Lancaster, Rockcreek and Liberty Centei. But the Tigers aren’t as bad as their record might indicate, so you may expect a battle royal when they play the Yellow Jackets here next Tuesday night. Out of Bounds remarks: "After all of these wallopings received this year,crowds of Huntington. places the Vikings in the honorable mention list in the state big ten. If that’s the way the thing is figured, we submit eight Wells county teams for honorable mention this week and nominate the Decatur Yellow Jackets to head the top of the column. Their record is almost as good as that presented thus far by the Vikings. The Vikings have teen lost so long on the stormy sea of opposition, it looks like they are ready to grab at anything that looks like land. The Vikings should have made a discovery before this, however. The discovery that they can’t beat title ten timber." Don’t be too hard on 'em Outta. The Vikiugs may surprise you ere long. They hardly deserve the high rating, yet, though. Today’s question and answer: "Q— How many substitutes n\ay bo usqd in a game? A—No limit." “Peculiar thing about these Huntington and Logansport teams. Take a hunch of kids out of the local grade schools and they could wallop any Logansport high school football team. Take any bunch of grade school kids from Ijogansport and they would probably drop a Huntington h'gh school basketball team with ease.’’—Crowds in the Huntington Press. Crowds must be sorta down in the mouth. Wonder it' he will put the Vikings in the honorable mention list next week. Coach Contbr will take his Catholic high team to Delphos, Ohio, tonight ,o play the St. John's Catholic high school team of that city. The Decatur boys should win, unless Delphos has a trick gym. The Yellow Jackets have a tough time ahead of them next week. Kennedy's men must olay three games next week, two of them with their most bitter rivals, the Bluffton Tigers. The Tigers come to this city for a game on Tuesday evening. On Friday evening. New Year's night, the Yellow Jackets go to Columbia City for a contest and on Saturday night, they invade Bluffton for another battle with the Tigers at the Cheery street inclosure. If the loca's emerge from those three conflicts with three victories to their credit they will have accomplished a man's size task. Two wins out of the three starts could not be sneered at. but make it unanimous, gang. The Yellow Jacket Reserves go to Liberty Center on Thursday night, to play the Liberty Center Seconds. Three regulars and two substitutes from last year’s Cnthollc high team which played in the National Catholic tourney, in addition to other former I D. C. H. S. stars will be on hands to show this year’s Catholic high team how the game is played at the Catholic high gym next Wednesday night. It ought to be a hot battle. The Muncie Bear Cats aren’t going so good lately- After being swamped by Kokomo, the Bear Cats took a 46-32 drubbing al Martinsville Wednesday night. Watch ’em about tournament time, uiough. “Fupny tiling about these basketball families. In Huntington, we have

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th* I’relgbaums, Petries and Bather > at Lafayette live the Crowe*i. and so on Decatur goeg tl«, list vhe better in a recent game between the Decatur Catholic high school girls and the St. Mary’s H S. girls team, the Decatur lineup revealed the names of several prominent basketball families. Included in the list were a Miss Christen arid o Miss Holthouse. The big brothers and little brothers of these girls will be found on the Decatur Catholic high ■■quad and also on the Junior high team of the Adam - county capitol."—Crowds in Huntington Press.

BASKETBALL IS BOON TO HEALTH State Medical Association Isucs Statement Regarding 11. S. Athletics Athletics are of undoubted value in building up the health of high .school students according to a bulletin < n "High School Basketball and Health." issued today by the Publicity Bureau of the Indiana State Median! Association “Athletics, of conrro like all other things, can be overdone and hence should be subject to strict regulation," says the Bulletin. “In order that no mistpiderstanding may exist as to the attitude of the medical profession <.l'i Indiana in its stand on high school' athletics as conducted in the state, the | Publicity Bureau Til’ the Indiana Slate Medical Association issues the following statement on the view of the profession In regard to high school athletics in general and high school basketball as played in this state in particular.” “At the convention last September of the Indiana State Medical Association, an organization composed of 2.000 of the leading physicians and surgeons of the stale, a resolution was adopted urging that county medical societies mak&an active study of high school athletics in their territories with a view of collecting data accurate enough to warrant a fair deduction as to the effect of competitive athletic contests upon the health of boys of high school age. “Some fifteen years ago, following, the abolition of football by the Indianapolis high schools, competitive sports I were dropped by almost every high school of the state, but it was like capping Mt. Vesuvius or stopping the' flow of Olu Faithful, the famous gey-' ser in Yellowstone Park. When the; flow of athletic energy was stifled in ’ football, it cropped out in a thousand other places, more energetic, more expressive, more active than ever before in the form of basketball. Thus the high schools of Indiana took up basketball and have developed this game nto such a high standard of competitive sport that the annual high schodi basketball tournament in Indiana now ranks among the great events of the state. “Basketball supplies the need of a winter and early spring sport. It can be played the whole year round. It can be played indoors and out. It is an inexpensive game. The only equipment needed is two hoops, places to hang them, a basketball and a bnnch of Horsier youngsters. This has made it posible for the cross-roads school to have a basketball team along with the biggest, most heavily endowed school in the country. High school'basketball has developed a community pride, and one of the greatest benefits of the game is the creation of a demand for high school buildings and school gymnasiums. Before the days of basketball, taxpayers were loath to see money spent tor new school equipment but nowadays when John Smith., rich, conservative, an opponent of civic improvements, sees his home team captained by Johnnie, Jr., get defeated by a rival that is better because it has a modern gymnasium in which to prac tice and play, John Smith, Sr. becomes instantly transformed into a rabid ad-

vocate tor the bed school facilities | obtainable and better school equipment means better health I "Too high compliment cannot be paid to A. L. Trester, permanent secretary, and the other officials of the Indiana High School Athletic. A.-sncia-I "Hon for the determined manner with which they have upheld the best American athletic traditions in enforcing the strictest rules of eligibility and sportsmanship in all high school basketball games played in Indiana. Although the enthusiasm runs to a fever pitch and Indiana is suffering from a ' chronic attack of basketballltis, if the , health of the players is properly looked after there is nothing serious to fear from the game. Athletics are only . harmful where they are overdone or whore persons in unfit con 'ition take part to excess. "Athletic exercise tends to stimulate a sluggish heart, improve an inactive digestion ami n move some functional disorders which can be improved jby iio other method. Nutrition is better Blood is drawn from tired brain and congested conditions of the abdominal organs are relieved. The pernicious influence of a sedentary indoor life is largely due to lack of exercise. Hence, high school children should have the proper amount by means of games under the proper supervision, which usually is the case where competitive athletics are enjoyed in Indiana. The damage to health by indoor life with the attending sluggishness of the body and its organs can be overcome by proper exercise. No better preventative of disease than exercise exists for high school pupils, and there is no more important department in the schools than the gymnasium. Muscular exercise is a valuable preservative of health and has a remarkable ! effect upon the principal functions ot the body. | "No boy or girl should be allowed to take i>art in competitive sports unless 'he or she has had a thorough cxainin'at on by a physician which in many •cases is required. High school athlieties, as anything else, can be over!done. bujt if the high school authorities take the proper precautions in not allowing boys to overdo and if they insist upon a thorough physical examination for every boy who takes part in competitive sports, no reason seems to exist for the abolition of basketball as played in Indiana." ———r‘) Yellow Jackets To Play Three Games Next Week The Decatur liigh ■school basketball team has a hard schedule for next week. On Tuesday night, Bluffton comes here for a game. On Friday night, the Yellow Jackets go to Colum. ' hiu City for a contest and on Saturday night they play a return game at Bluff- ’ ton. Tiie Yellow Jacket Seconds have ‘ three games next week, also. They play two games with Bluffton, on. the 1 same evenings that the first teams ' meet, and on Thursday evening they ' go to Liberty Center to play the Liberty Center Reserves. The biggest crowd of the season is expected to ’ till the D. H. S. gym Tuesday night, nhen the Bluffton Tiges invade the Yellow Jackets' nest. Decatur and ' Bluffton teams have been rivals for many years and the rivalry is as great as ever this year. The teams appear to be about evenly matched this sea- ' son and a great battle is expected. Lewis Meyer, of Indianapolis, is 3 spending a few days with his mother, - Mrs. Clara Meyer.

Fort Wayne Caseys To Play Bluffton Phi Belts Bluffton, Dec. 26—Announcement was made last evening that the manager of the Bluffton ?M D»dt basketball team had signed the Fort Wayne Knights of Columbus to play a game in this city on Monday evening. January 4. The Phi Belts will play their first game of the season nt Wapakoneta. I)., on December 29. The locals will; have a good lineup to meet the Caseys in this city and a large crowd is expected to turn out to see this game. WELLS COUNTY STANDING W L. Pct. RoHtcrerk- Dodgers 10 O 1000 Lancaster Bob Cats 71 .876 Union Center 4 2 .666 Liberty Center 6 4 .600 Ossian 6 5 .646 Bluffton Tigers 6 8 .429 Petroleum Zippers 3 6 .333 Chester Cented 2 8 .200 o Red (Jrange Is Thrown For A Financial Loss Miami. Fla.. Dec 26 —Red Grange was “thrown, for a financial loss." by his failure to fill more than half of the Coral Gables Stadium here yesterday. A crowded stadium had been the financial goal of the game

I THE ADAMS ? B SUNDAY-MON DAY—TUESDAY g S Matinee Sunday 2 o’clock 15 HU * Rudolph Valentino *Jj Si 7 and a wonder cast ic w Ki ‘i\ gg su P er feature $ S ’IT Oi “ THE EAGLE ’’ « H e spurned an Empress < and her love turned to ffP ijWibXX : I th ard w **h a price 31 R-gM jp n his head he be<anie jfi UR wM'■ U Ea^e - a bandit feared F.or his darinu and ciinnitiL! S VAI JtfTINoLJ ir lP 35c gy z, THE EAGLE' TONIGHT—“THE WYOMING WILDCAT” tfi featuring Toni Tyler. fIP i o c 20c 25c fL COMING—"THE KEEPER OF THE BEES" | THE CORT | is s SUNDAY ONLY. !fi ® Matinee at 2 o’clock ue “THE FIGHTING HEART” A Wm, Fox Attraction featuring S ® George O’Brien i* Jfj A heart-warming romance of Main St. and Broadwaj _ [Be: and of a fighter who tried to train on champagne. Fr “CHEAP SKATES” a good comedy. 15c 35c TONIGHT—“THE DESERT DEMON” A thunderbo’t thriller featuring Buffalo Bill, Jr. tn ioc , 20c 25c

Rad's Chicago Bears the Coral Gables Colleglaiis Less than 8,000 fans saw th*» footImll financier lead his team to a 7 to 0 victory over the Coral Gabi, men. Red displayed flashes of his old time form. During the second period he dashe<l ahead with the ball for 18 yards. In the same quarter Grange plunged one yard oft tackle for the only touchdown scored during the game. In the final period Red electrified the fans when bn broke loose and ran 45 yards before he was downed. 0- ■— Former Goshen Telegraph Operator Dies In Ohio Goshen. Ind. Dec. 26.--Word was received here today of the death in Cleveland of Allen Paine, for 25 years manager of the Western Union Telegraph office here. Paine was deaf to al isonnd» icept the cl einifko.-? J RTAOIN DW.t cept the clicking of telegraph i.'isirumenls. He went to the Cleveland o. fice from Gosb.cn ten years ago.

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