Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1926 — Page 8

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BERNE TOURNEY IS UNDER WAY Berne, Geneva And Fort Wayne Evangelicals Win Opening (James A" (Spi t ial to Dally Democrat) Borno, Feb. 26.—Berne, Geneva and the First Evangelical church team 1 of Fort Wayne were winners in the op- ning gamee of the Independent basketball tournament, which got under way hero last night. The attendance at the opening session i was small, duo to the inclement weather. The game between the Decatur Merchants and the Geneva All Stars' proved to he the most interesting and hardest fought of the evening. Geneva won. 33-24. In the other twoi games, the Berne A. C. live defeated, the Preble Panthers. 32-16. and the' Fort Wayne First Evangelical team, won from the Linn Grove Go Devils.: 64-15. Berne took things comparatively easy in the opening game of the evening. Preble «’'s trailing 166 at the half Hirschy was high point man with six field goals to his credit. In the second game. Geneva got away to an 8-point lead over Decatur in the first half, leading 14--S at the rest period. Decatur rallied and tied the score at 16-all two minutes after the second half opened. Thin Kennedy, center for Decatur, was forced out of the game via the personal foul route and Geneva again took the lead and held it. for the re-; mainder of the game. The Fort Wayne church team ran away with the Linn Grove eagers. The first half ended with the winners ahead. 31-4. Pence, forward for the winners, dropped in field goals from all angles, scored a total of 11 field goals and two free throws. Kreighbaum. former Purdue star, played with the Fort Wayne team. Three gmaes will be played this afternoon and two games tonight.l Tlie play will be resumed Saturday morning, with games at 9 andlll0 1 o’clock. There will be three games Saturday afternoon and the final game Saturday night. Lineups and summaries of last night's games: Bum A. C. (32j Preble Pan. (16). Clauser FEtonian Hirschy F Garton Oliver CSmith Clark G Klelnknight-j Kessler G Shady Substitutions: Huffman for Ehr-, man. North for Shady. Grandstaff; for Huffman. Field goals: Clauser. 2; Hirschy, 6: Oliver, 2; Kessler, 3; Smith, 2; Kleinkniglit, 1; Shady. 2;j Huffman. 1. Foul goals: Clauser. 2; I Oliver. 4; Garton, 2: Kleinkniglit. 1:1 Shady, 1. Referee: Collum, Geneva Geneva All Stars (33) Decatur Merchants (24)' .1. Pyle F Farr Striker F Miller, S. PyleC . Kennedyj Green e G Bowen Love G Baker Substitutions: McQuinney for Love. Yager for Kennedy. Field goals: ,1. Pyle, 4; Striker, 3; S. Pyle. 5; McQuinney, 1; Farr, 1; Miller. 7; Rowan. 1; Baker, 1; Yager. 1. Foul goals: J. Pyle, 3; Striker, 1; S. Pyle, 2; Greene, 1: Miller. 1; Kennedy, 1. Referee: Heller, Geneva. Linn Grove (15) Ft. Wayne Ev. (54) Sales ,F ... Pence Mertz F Bechtold| Studler C Pierce H. Reynolds G Kreighbaum' C. ReynoldsG Bennet! Substitutions: Miller for Pierce.' Brown for Kreighbaum. Field goals:' Sales. 2; Studler, 3; Pence, 11; i Bechtold, 2; Pierce, 4; Kreighbaum, 2; Miller. 3; Brown, 2. Foul goals: Martz, 2; Studler, 3: Pence, 2; Pierce, 1; Miller, 3. Referee: Co!-' him. Geneva. The Petroleum Wild Cats were scheduled to play Kirkland at 2 o'clock this afternoon and the Monroe Bear Cats were to meet the Bluffton Moose at 4 o’clock. The schedule for tonight and Saturday is as follows: Friday Evening 7:3b—Patterson Fletcher Co. vs. Muncie City Merchants. 8:30 —Bowser Activities vs. Winner 7:30 p. tn. Thursday. Saturday Morning 9:00 —Winner 8:30 p m. Thursday vs. Winner 9:30 p.m., Thursday 10:00 —Winner 2:00 pm.. Friday vs. winner 3:00 p.m., Friday Saturday Afternoon I:oo—Winner 4:00 p. m.. Friday vs. winner 7:30 p. m. Friday.

2:oo—Winner 8:30 p m. Friday vv winner 9:00 a m. Saturday. 3:oo—Winner 10:00 a m. Saturday i vs. winner I p.m. Saturday. Final—Saturday Evening . Preliminary Farmers vi. Farmers 8:30- Final game; Winner 2:00 pm. vs. winner 3:00 p nj. o— —— Pleasant Mills Plays Geneva Here Tonight ■ ■ The Pleasant Mills and Geneva high school basketball teams will meet in the old high school gymnasium he.-e ' this evening. The first game will start at 7:30 o'clock. The teams are pretty evenly matched ami a good game is expected. 1 — ■ -o YELLOW JACKETS TO END SCHEDULE — i I). H. S. Five To Play Portland Here Tonight; Centra! To Mpet St. .Joe As an added attraction to the hasiketball games hero tonight between the first and second teams of Decatur and Portland high sell ols, the eighth ;grade teams from the Central and St. Joseph schools, time-honored rivals, will meet in their fifth game this season. This game will be the first if the three contests tonight and will start at 6:45 o’clock. In the four games played so far this year. Central won the first, St. Joe the second. Cen- ' tral the third and St. Joe the fourth. ' Tlie fmrth game was the final game f jin the county eighth grade tournament 1 | held here, recently. Both teams are anxious to win tonight’s battle ami a contest filled with thrills is promised ' the fans. j 3he game between tlie Yellow Jack- ’ ets and the Portland Panthers prom- ■ ises to be an interesting contest, also. Poitland defeated the Yellow Jackets * it Portland two weeks ago. but the lo1 cals have shown much improvement :in practice this week and they are de- ■ I termined to defeat the visitors and 1 i end their schedule with a victory. This ' I is tlie final game of the regular season 1 for the Yellow Jackets and tomorrow i they will start practice for the sectional tourmiment to be held here I next week-end. The Decatur and PortI land second teams are about evenly i matched, the locals having defeated th.- 1 rtland second* at Portland by , a foiy-piint margin two weeks ago, j and the game here tonight promises . to be a good one. Indiana (Jagers Play At Minneapolis Tonight i Bloomington. Ind., Feb. 26. The 1 | cold north winds of Minnesota are I hosts to the Indiana University basketball team today. Coach Dean i and Ids Crimson squad will clash i with the Gophers at Minneapolis tonight, and tomorrow they entertain Carleton College at Northfield, Minn., I Dean’s camping ground as a coach ! before coming to Indiana. A victory over Minnesota will keep I the “Scrappin’ Hoosiers” in the running for conference honors should upsets continue as in the past several games. , Indiana triumphed over Minnesota' here in the opening Big Ten game but since that time tonight's opponents have been traveling upwards and have wen every home game. Coach Dean has on tlie trip: Correll, Beckner. Winston. Easton, Krueger, Jones, Derr, Sponsler and Sibley. o “Pat” Page Resigns As Coach At Butler College Indianapolis. Ind., Feb. 26. — (United I Press)—Butler University today was faced with the task of selecting a successor to .Orville “Pat” Page, head coach and athletic director, who has tendered his resignation. Page's resignation was presented at ,'a meeting of the board of directors of I the university late yesterday and will Jbe acted up;n at tlie next meeting. ,I University officials today refused to comment on the action or to indicate • ;who they would seek to take Page's place. Page came to Butler in 1920, taking full charge of ail athletics. It is un-1 derstood that he has been dissatisfied r for sometime with conditions as to the I school.. o Packing Plant Burns i.j Anderson, Ind., Feb. 26. — (United Press) —Fire of unknown origin early teday practically destroyed the Suml. mitville Packing Plant near here with a loss estimated at more than $25,000.

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ANDERSON LOSES 1 TO COMMODORES I ■—■ . ' Decatur Catholic High 1 Scores Easy Wins, 36-15; At Indianapolis Tonight (Speclnl to Dally Democrat) Anderson, Fob. 26.—The Decatur, Catholic high school Commodores bad I Bittle difficulty in pushing aside the St. Mary's Catholic high school quintet of this city, here, last night, in their drive toward the Catholic high school championship of Indiana. The. rin-.tl scor ewas 36 15. It was the second victory of the season for the Commodores over the local team. ( The visitors started strong, and using a varied attack and a stubborn defense, piled up a lead of 18 to 5 at the end of the first half. Coach Coater made several substitutions in the second half and the locals Yield the' upstate team a little closer. Meyers, speedy Commodore forward, scored six from the field. Knapke, who, 'started at forward in the place of Wemhoff, who injured a knee in the game with Fostoria, Ohio, at Decatur, last Monday night, played a nice game and scored three field goals. Mylott scored four field goals. Costello played best for the locals and he dropped the ball through the basket for three field goals. The Commodores §pent the night in Anderson and this morninujnoved on to tndainapolis, where they will play Cathedral high school of that city tonight. Although the capital city crew has been pointed for this game, the Decatur eagers are expected to win without much difficulty, as they de-' seated Cathedral. 45-28, at Decatur, earlier in the season. The Commodores will play the Shelbyville Catholic high team at Shelbyville, Saturday night. ! Lineups and summary: Decatur (36) Anderson (15) Meyers F Pelfman Kuapke F Casey Mylott CFerguson ■ Voglcwede G Costello Gass GO'Brien Substitut'.ms: Smith for Voglewede, Wemhoff for Knapke. Field goals: Meyers. 6; Knapke. 3; Mylott. 4; Voglewede. 1; Smith, 1; Ferguson. 2; Costello, J. Foul goals. Decatur. 4: Anderson, 5. O x — First Round Os State Independent Tourney Over Indianapolis, Ind . Feb. 26. —(United Press) With play in the second round of the independent basketball tournament scheduled to get under way at 2 o’clock this afternoon, interest litis morning centered on the first appearance of the Morgantown crew, defending champions. The Morgantown it ys will meet Corydon in the second game to be played. The first game cf the second round will see the Fisher quintet in action against the strong Gary five. Gary drew a bye in the first routad. Scores in yesterday’s contests were: Fishers 27; Marshall IS. Newcastle 24; Van Buren 21. West Point 29; Albany 13. Walton 32; Versailles 30. Vincenffes 41; Brook 6. Huntington 23; Akron 16. Indianapolis Delts 30; New Augusta 23 (overtime.) Indianapolis Ramblers, 21; Advance, 13. Swayzee 22; Greensburg 18.

FIELD GOALS I *• BY MARK M. UPP *** ■' ■■■-- '" > Everybody out for the season Windup tonight. Help the Yellow Jackets beat Portland. The Commodores, as expected, turned in a one-sided victory over the Anderson Catholic eagers at Anderson last night. Here's hoping they do the same thing at Indianapolis tonight and at Shelbyville tomorrow night. “Pat" Page has resigned as coach at Butler. He has, without question, put Butler on the map in athletics and the school will miss him. Indiana University is passing up a wonderful chance to win respect in Big Ten football circles if the athletic officials of the school don’t sign up Page, to coach the footbail team. Central and St. Joe meet again tonight, in a prelim to the Yellow Jackets’ game with Portland. This game, alone, should bring out a big crowd, since there is always plenty of thrills these two teams get together. The game is scheduled to start at 6:45 p. m., so be on hands. Watch tomorrow's Daily Democrat for t);e sectional tourney schedule. LICK THOSE PANTHERS, YELLOW JACKETS. »

Renewed Drive Swells Memorial Fund Os I. U. i Bloomington, Ind., Feb 86—(United i Press)-The Indiana University memorial fund ita b n swelled by $3,000 !".lnec lira drive wa re newed 1", than a week aim, H was announced today. I Ye terd'ty tlie directors of the drive received a cheek for $250 from Robert Ellison, of Casper. Wyo , who previously had given |l,ooo to the million dollar fund. | x 0 CHURCH GAGERS : BEATFACULTY I 1 Zion Reformed Team (’omes From Behind In Second Half And Wins, 45-34 i 1 In un interesting and hard-fought game played at tie Decatur high school gymnasium last night, the Zion I , Reformed church team won from the city teachers, 45-34. it was not until, late in the second half that the win-' tiers pulled away to a comfortable | lead. Each team was handicapped through (lie absence of one player. Miller, of the church team, ami Ken-’ nedy. of the faculty quintet, being ini Berne to play in the tournament there 1 witli the Decatur Merchants. The church team was out in front 23-20 at the end of tlie first half, after a hard fight all the way. The faculty eagers rallied at the start of the second half and took tlie lead at 26-25, but the church quintet spurted and took a commanding lead. In the preliminary game, the junior team from tlie Zion Reformed church defeated the Methodist juniors in a double overtime period, 26-24. This was an exciting contest for hoys. I Lineups and summary: Reformed (45) Faculty (34) Andrews FKrick Fledderjohann ....Ft Gibson Beal (' Thomas Foley G Marshall Yager G Tyndall. Field goals: Beal, 7; Foley. 7; Yager, 1; Andrews. 3: Fledderjohann. 3; Gibson, 7; Thomas, 6; Krick, 2. Foul goals: Beal, 2: Fledilerpohann. 1;'

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Krick, 1; Marshall. 1; Tyndall, : | MF, Juniors (34) Reformed Jun (36) Passwater F Baumgartner n P ('able Beery ■' DeVor •' Graber C R *y noU ' Maloney G Substitutions: F;ntl>> for Graber. Graber for deVor oSt. .100 sixth Grade Claims .lunim’ Title The sixth grade basketball in:itn ol the St. J "epb Catholic school i- claim Ing the title of junior ehampioes (he city slice its victory over the I Methodist church junior* last night. 20-7. B was tile I'il'lli and lin'd I' of a series and though the catne w.c won by a comfortable margin, > was ; hard fought ail the way. St Joseph led at the half. 10.4. Line-up and summary: St. Joseph (20) Methodists (7) Ixjse .F Schafer Metzger F Schraluka I Arnold C Fisher Orator O C° ok | MurphyG Ii Iler | Field goals: toise. 2; Metzger,3; Ar nold. 1; Schafer. 1: Schraluka, 1: Fisher. 1. 'Foul goals: Lose, 5; Met ger, 3; Schafer, 1. | | " Bus Company l ights Ordinance Os Town I Indianapolis, Ind.. Fell. 26. —(United I Press) —A petition for a temporary restraining icrder to prohibit tlie town board of Beedi Grove from enforcing an ordinance regualting busies was filed in circuit court today by attorneys for tlie South Side Motor Coach Company. Ope Craig, town marshal, began arresting officers, drivers and passengers of the Inis company in an attempt to enforce the ordinance. Eleven were arrested last night and three this morning. o Fire Breaks Out In Wing Os Capitol Building Washington, hk'li. 26. — (United Press) —A fire broke out today in the kitchen of the House Restaurant in file south wing of tlie capitol building. Fire engines were summoned but (lie blaze was extinguished five minutes after it broke out.

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