Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1926 — Page 6

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FARMERS PLAY ON WEDNESDAY Root And Kirkland Township Teams To Meet In D. C. IL S. (lym The farmers basketball t<ams of Root and Kirkland township# will be seen in action al the new Catholic school gymnasium Wednesday night. The teams are evenly match ed and good games are assured. The first game will be started at 7:30 o'clock and will be played by the second teams from tho two town- > hips. The old men's teams will playin the second game, starting at 8:15 o'clock. This promises to be an amusing contest, as all of the players will bo married men and many have reached the age of 40 to GO years. The main game, between the first teams from each township, wlil start at 9 o'clock. France Conter. coach of the Catholic high school team, will referee all three games. All thrills known to basket ball are assured. The public is invited and urged to attend. " —o Michigan Flops Wisconsin Caging Quintet, 22 To 13 Ann Arbor, Mich.. Fob. 21. —(I nit-

| FIELD GOALC | .ft. By MARK M. UPP kz ||| The Buckeyes came, they saw, and they went home again. And when they went home they had a lot of respect for the Commodores. Seldom have we seen a basketball team go to pieces quite as badly as the Fostoria team did last night. It’s true, the Commodores played much better ball after the first six minutes, but the Buckeyes showed a bigger slump during the remainder of the game than the Commodores did improvement. Anyhow, the Commodores closed their homo season with a clean state and only one defeat on foreign floors to date. Since the Berne Fighting Five has won sixteen straight games, the Bertie Witness has tacked "Invincible" onto the front of the title, and is taking it for granted that the Bine and White Quintet will win the sectional title here March F> and 6. The Berne team does hold a monopoly on the dope in the sectional tourney, hut it may be well to consider Hartford. Kirkland. Decatur, .Monmouth ami the others as in the race. The last game on this season’s schedule will be played at New Haven next Saturday night. Coach Diltz is handing out practices in regular and hard doses, and is whipping the invincible Fighting Five into extra shape for the sectional tourney March 5 and 6. The tournament will be held at Decatur, after which the winners wdl play the winner of the Fort Wayne sectional at the Fort Wayne regional tourney. Should the Fighting Five win that game they will meet the winner of the game between Bluffton and Kendall- , ville sectional winners.—Berne Witness. Enthusiasm Those Bluffton Tigers sure went big last week. Two big victories in succession is no small feat. Mark M. Upp, of Decatur, can surely see now just how luckv hU Yellow Jackets were to get away from the Tiger camp with only a "light" drubbing. Ixioks like the Tigers were getting ready to do a teal job of "entertaining’’ in the sectional —Out of Bounds, Bluffton Banner. | WERE DISAPPOINTED TODAY. RIP OFFS. OF THE BLUFFTON NEWS. FAILED TO RAZZ US ONCE IN HIS COLUMN MONDAY. YES, HE IGNORED VS ENTIRELY. More Enthusiasm After hearing about that walloping Central of Fort Wayne, received Saturday night at Warren, we are more firmly convinced than ever that the winner of the sectional here can defeat Central in the regional. Warren defeated Central, 46 to 35. Liberty defeated Warren at Warren and almost tripled the score on Warren at Liberty. Comparing other teams in the county and the showing made against Warren, the scores show that the winner of the sectional here, SHOULD GO TO THE STATE TOURNEY. Central and Kendallville, a weaker team than. Central, is all that stands in the way. Rockcreek also holds a victory over Warren.—Out of Bounds, Bluffton Banner. Static 1 Dear Mark M. Upp: Some might think this is all static, but as it has received the Sanctioning of my Ukelrle, an old dopster, it ta beyond doubt, the best yet. What has been the subject of debate in the foregoing sentence now follows to be discarded into the so-called waste basket as naught, or to be preserved as a word from the wise. (Ahem.) These are the Three Musketeers of Basketball of the city, Gass. Stricklr, and Meyers. And then eventually come the Four Horsemen of the county: Strickler, Decatur: Meyers, Decatur Catholic; Monee, Hartford township; and Bagley, Berne. My Uke says to watch B~e~&$’?-). I won’t let him isay a thing more for I think he means no good by this. So long, old J>oy, see ya later. From Monty Oh! I’. S. Our idea of something worth while —Trying to make a Field basket from the foul line while attempting a free throw. Central Catholic has avenged Its only defeat of the season. Union Center fell before thp powerful attack of Coach Roehl's quintet.—Listen To This, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. My goodness, how the boy's memory fails him. It was only last Friday night that the Commodores defeated Central Catholic here and the esteemed scribe on the Journal has forgotten, it already. Van Wert high school ended its basketball schedule last week by de-' feating St. Marys, Ohio. The Scarlet and Gray quintet of Van Wert won seven out of 13 games this season. In those 13 games. Van Wert scored 290 points to 256 by their opponents. Van Wert will play in the regional | tournament in Ohio at Wauseon, March 5 and 6. Games this week include: Thursday night—Catholic high at Anderson. Friday night—Portland at Decatur. Catholic high at Indianapolis, Berne at New Haven. Monroe vs, Kirkland here, Bluffton at Lancaster, FOrt Wayne Central 'Catholic at Ossian, Union Center at Chester Center, and Montpelier at Petroleum. Saturday—Catholic high at Shelbyville, Wabash at Bluffton, Hartford vs. Bluffton seconds at Bluffton. Todayis question and answer: Q—When “time out" ta called for both teams simultaneously, is the time out charged to both teams? A—Yes. Word from the camp of the Yellow Jackets is ijtat hope has returned and there is plenty of the old fight and pepper. That’s the stuff, gang. A YELLOW JACKET FIGHTS,

ed Press.) - Wisconsin fell before the unslaitglit of the Wolverine basket ball team. 22 to 1-1. The score doe* not indicate the bully contested came that the affray proved to he. Michigan took the lead early and held a 9-6 advantage at the end of the half. During the second half ih«- 1 basket . came f< w and far apart but the seemed able to hold I the Badgers while they rang in one I occasionally. — • ■ - ■ -o Illinois Tightens Grip On Big Ten Lead Champaign, ill., Feb. 23. — (United Press.)- Coach Ruby's Illinois basketeers won handily from the University of Chicago team. 24 to 16. Chicago was held to. four baskets, three of these being garnered in the first half. The tlrst half ended with Illinois in the lead. 15-10, and at the beginning of the second half It was apparent that the lllini would bo the winner. Th,, victory gives Illinois a firm grip on first place in the Big Ten race. o Helen Wills Wins Again Monte Carlo, Feb. 22. —(United Press) —Helen Wills defeated Miss Mearriot of England today in the first round of the Monte Carlo tournament play. The score was 6-0, 6-0. The American champion played very badly but offered no alibis.

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COMMODORES ' BEAT FOSTORIA Local Catholic High Quintet Sends Buckeyes Horne With 39-12 Defeat I After getting away to a slow start in the first ten minutes of play, dur ing which time the visitors took a seven-point lead, the Catholic high school Commodores' hit their stride and completely routed the highly touted St. Wendelin high school team of Fostoria. Ohio, at the local Catholic school gym last night, winning by a score of 39 12 and closing their home season with a victory. The Buckeyes scored only two points in the second half, and those two on free throws. During those first six or eight minutes of the game last night, it looked like a dark and stormy night for the Commodores. The Buckeyes rang up three field goals and one free throw- for seven points and a big zero still hung opposite the Commodores’ name on the scoreboard. Then Wemhoff broke the ice for Coach Confer's men by tossing in a field goal on a follow-in shot. Omlar regained the seven-point lead for the visitors by sinking a pretty shot from the side of the court. On an out-of-bounds play, Meyers scored a field goal and then scored two points on ia-e’s foul, bringing the score up to 9-6. Degens scored a free throw on Mylott’s personal, giving the Buckeyes a total of 10 points, and their total was destined to stay at 10 for severl minutes, since it was late in the second half that the next point was scored by the visitors. The Commodores threw tho old ship into high and the fireworks started during the last six or eight minutes of the first half. Wemhoff scored from the field and Meyers dribbled under the net for a twopointer to tie the score. Wemhoff put the Commodores ahead for the first time with a short field goal. Fostoria took time out. Meyers scored another point on Vance's personal. Meyers dropped in another field goal, and Fostoria substituted Art Altweis for Omlar. Tubby Gass took a long shot at the basket which missed the opening, but Tubby followed in and tipped the sphere into the goal for two points. This ended the scoring in the first half, the period ending with Decatur leading. 17-16. In the second half, the Commodores continued to shower in. field goals. ( [while the visitors fought gamely to increase their own score. The Buck eyes had tough luck on several shots at the close of the first half and the start of the second period and this seemed to dishearten them. The second half was played in quarters since the Ohio teams are accustomed to dividing the game into foulquarters. Fostoria failed to score in the third quarter while the Commodores increased their total to 28. The Decatur score mounted to 36 points in the fourth quarter before | Al Altweis broke tho ice and scored one point for Fostoria on Meyers’ personal, making the score stand 36-11. After Meyers sank another long field goal. Coach Conter sent in Kuapke, Voglewede, Cage and Sorg for Wemhoff. Smith. Meyers and Gass and this combination held the visitors to one point during the remainder of the game while Voglewede kept the margin in the score the same by sinking a free throw for Decatur. The Fostoria eagers played a great game during the first six minutes last night, but they blew up when the Commodores started their rally and during the remainder of the game they made a poor showing. The team executed several pretty j plays and showed the effects of good | coaching, but it lacked the punch to hold up under fire. The Commodores played one ‘of. their best games of the season after | once getting under way. Wemhoff | and Meyers were hitting the basket 1 with regularity and Mylott, Gass and Smith played a strong guarding

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game Gass scored three field goals ( during the melee, also. | The Commodores are the only ( team to defeat Fostoria this season, | and the locals have turned the tricky I twice thin year, having handed tbo ( | Buckeyes a 11-10 defeat on tbelr. home floor In December Between, 76 and 100 Fostoria fans accotnpan-| led the team to this city yesterday | and it was a disappointed bunch of ' rooters that made their way back into the neighboring state last night. The Commodores will sttft on a road trip Thursday which will Include the last throe games on their schedule On Thursday night, they will play tho St Mary's Catholic high school team at Anderson. The fol lowing night, they will play a return game with Cathedral high of Indianapolis in the capital city. They will move over to Shelbyville on Saturday to meet the fast Shelbyville Catholic high eagers on Saturday night. The Shelbyville game prom ises to be the hardest one of the group. The Qomodores have defeated the Anderson and Cathedral teams by large scores his season in games played here. In the preliminary game, the Catholic high school girls defeated the girls' team from the Wayne Knitting Mills, of Fort Wayne, 47-10. The first half ended with the winners ahead. 23-4. Lineups and summary: Commodores (39) Fostoria (12) Meyers ...F Vance Wemhoff F Omlar Mylott -C Degens Voglewede GAI Altweis Gass G. Lee Substitutions: Smith for Voglewede, Gage for Meyers. Knapke for Wemhoff. Sorg for Gass. Art Altweis for Omlar, Kuhn for Lee. Field goals: Meyers, 7; Wemhoff, 6; Mlott 2; Gass, 3; Omlar. 2; Drgens. 1; Al Altweis, 1. Foul goals: Meyers. 3; <

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Mylott. 1, Voglewede. 1, Vance 1. j Gmlar, 1; Degens 1; Al Altwel’ 1 Referee Geller Giris' Game DC. H S (4J> Wayne Knit (10) ' Smith F • Packer ‘ Clark .. F McNutt ' Baker <’ I Murtaugh SC •'ipf I Holthonse fl Britl um Christen G • • Swain Substitutions: Fritz, for Brlttson Field goals: Smith. 12, Clark, 9; Packer, 2. McNutt, 3. Foul goals: Smith, 1; Clark. 4 Referee: Mrs Bittner. Fort Wayne Carelessness Blamed For Poor Showing Os IJ. S. Tennis Players By Henry L. Farrell. (U. P Stafr Correspondent» New Yoik, Feb. 23. — t'arelessnese more than inferior tennis caused the poor showing of the American play ers in the indoor tennis champiom-hi) which closed with an Al! French tina round, according to a prominent American authority. “Through the tournament,” lie said, “the lower ranking players acted lik< they didn't have a chance and th< American stars seemed to be con vinced that tho French team didn t have a chance. “Tho French players realized tin conditions and that is what caused Jean Borotra to ‘say, after he had beaten Tilden ‘that was not the real Tilden. Ho will give me a beating tht next time’." Tile French team was invited to ; party that was given Saturday night and that was attended by some of tin American players. Reno Lacoste, wh< won the championship yesterday, de elined the invitation and went to bed early. I , “He takes his tennis too seriously.” j one of the American players said.

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