Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1926 — Page 6

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BROWNS HAVE EVES ON FLAG' j ) Much Enthusiasm In Evidence Around Training Camp of St. Louis Team By Henry I* Farrell (llnlted Press Staff Correspondent) Turpon Springs. Fla., Mar. 11. —listen to the chatter around the training camp of the St. Louis Browns and you will get the idea of the only doubtful . entry in the 1926 world's series is the National League team. George Sider, the young popular manager of the dub makes no bones about his feeling. "We'll win the pennant by at least two games," he has told his friends. "We huve the team and all we need is the breaks." The Browns are the most impressive team that we have seen so far on a , tour of the camps and they look like a sure shot for the pennant, or second place at the lowtßt. , Sisler has been concentrating on developing defensive power and he has several combinations that he can use. Sisler of course, will play first base; Marty McManus is being counted on for second base; Walter Gerber at' short and Gene Robertson on third , base. Sisler thinks Iso much of Oscar Mellilo, a youngster who came from Milwaukee, that he doesn’t see how he! can keep him on the bench. Me may experiment with Mellilo on second base and McManus on third. Harry Rice, one of last year’s sensations, Kenneth Williams and Dolly Jacobson will be the regular outfield with Durst and Bennett as substitutes, j Wally Schang, the veteran who came;

|| FIELD GOALC |l JL By MARK M. UPP kJ . . ;.—r ,-,?■■■•■?? , ■ ' — u Patriot high school’s basketball team, which won the sectional tournament at Madison, Indiana, last week, has no gymnasium and no suits. The players do all of their practicing back of a barn. The town has a population of 289 persons. The suits worn by the Patriot players in the sectional tournament were loaned to them by the Vevay high school. Some high schools have plenty of material, good coaches and first class equipment and gymnasiums, but the athletes lack the “want to” spirit. Othens have the “want to" spirit in huge quantities, but lack the gym. coach, material and equipment. Happy combinations of all these necessities are rare, it seems, but when the players who have all the chance in the wolrd also have the “want to" spirit in great quantity, the world hears about them. The annual battle between the preachers and teachers will take place on the D. H. S. hardwood Friday night. These games never fail to attract a big crowd and this one is expected to be no exception. The lineups appear to be pretty evenly matched and the score should be close. Too bad they haven’t got the big cow barns, like the one at the state fair grounds, scattered all over the state. Indications are that the gymnasiums will not be near large enough to accomodate the crowds at the regionahs Saturday. Over at Marion, there were 2,500 persons jammed into Civic hall to get the 323 tickets allotted to Marion for the Kokomo regional. At Kokomo, fans stood in line for hours to get tickets and there was not near enough to go around. Portland has sold more than 175 tickets for the regional at Kokomo, also. The Portland fans are going to back the Panthers in their game with the Kokomo Kats. ON TO INDIANAPOLIS, BERNE. It took a victory for the Portland Panthers in the sectional tournament last week to stir up enough enthusiasm for someone to write a basketball column in the Portland Sun and Republican. The column appeared yesterday and is called, “Hardwood Creaks,” by Lone Wolf. Here’s the way he starta out the column: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Kokomo has a good sized bunch of net tossers who are plenty tough and are even doped to win the state honors this year at Indianapolis—but anything can happen these days. Several fast teams in the recent Portland sectional sneezed at the Panther crew—and look what happened.” Will Wynn, Berne columnist, is as enthusiastic as ever. Will will sure strut his stuff if he gets to Indianapolis. Those Berne Tossers have made a good record all season and we would like to see them defeat Central in the second game of the regional. If they win and Bluffton wins from Kendallville, Berne and Bluffton will meet Saturday night for the right to go to Indianapolis. Burn Central. Berne! We're for you until you meet Bluffton.—Out of Bounds. Bluffton Bifnner. Dispatches from Shelbyville and Chicago state that the Shelbyville Catholic high school team has been invited to the national tournament at Loyola university next week. We believe that Gibault of Vincennes and Evansville Catholic are better teams than Shelbyville. We hope, and so do the Commodores and Coach Confer, that Shelbyville has to meet the Commodores in the tournament. A trophey will be awarded to the team making the best appearance in the tourney at Loyola University. These new uniforms of the Commodores ought to bring home the bacon, or the trophey. I John Dierkes has been elected captain cf the Yellow Jackets for 1926-27. John will make a great leader. He’s a fine player and a great fighter. i Indiana and Purdue finished .the season in a tie for the Big Ten championship. That's where they belong, on top of the heap. Michigan holds a joint claim to the title, also, and lowa can make it a tour-way tie by beating Minnesota Friday night, but the Gophers have a good chance to spoil lowa's hopes. Art Beckner, Indiana ace, leads the Big Ten scorers with 110 points. George Spradling, of Pttrdue, is second, with 107 pointe. Cunningham, of Ohio State, is third, and has one more game to play, but he will have to score several points to beat out Beckner and Spradling. Indiana has scored several points more than any other team in the conference this season. We’re picking Martinsville to win the state title. If the Artesian city boys fall by the wayside, we suppose we will be flooded with contributions giving us the merry razz. But, then, you know the basketball season is about over and we can suddenly bring the old column to a close. Fight 'em, Preachers. ' |

from the New York Yankees during the winter; Dixon and Hargraves will Ho the catching. I The pitching staff Is one of the most powerful in the league. There are jour southpaws, the veteran Tom Zachhry, who came from Washington; Joe »Giard, Ernie Wingard, and Stuart Bolen, a fine looking 20-year-old youngster from Tulsa. The right handers include .Milton Gaston, t’hargey Robertson. Dixie Davis, Elam Van Gilder, Claude Jonnard ami Winn Ballou. Ernie Nevers, the star Stanford football player, is ulso sure to stick with the club as he in not only u strong pitcher, but a hard hitter, and all ground player. That warning, "Look out for the Browns,” has been well sounded, i' 0 I. U. Wrestler To Try For National Title Bloomington, Ind., Mar. 11. —(United Press)—Ralph Wilson, of Evansville, heavyweight champion at Indiana, is being groomed today for a fling at the conference title and following that, at ite national wrestling championship. Te national meet will be held at Corvallis, Oregon, in April, anJ if Wilson wins in the conference meet at Isafayette, March 12 and 13, he will go to the coast to meet the national stars. Wilson has not lost a match so far this season and two years ago won [the Big Ten light heavyweight crown. —o — Ward Elected Captain Os DePauw Net Team Greencastle, Ind., Mar. IL —(United Press.) — Johnny Ward, of Connersville, today holds the captaincy jof the 1926-27 DePauw basketball team. The high point man for the Tigers during he season which just closed I Ward was elected to the captaincy at a meeting of the letter men last night.

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I Beckner, I. U. Ace, leads Conference In Scoring Bloomington, Ind., Mar. 11.— (Unit- . ed Press.) — Art Beckner, former Muncie high school star and now star forward on the Indiana University basketball team is the leading scorer, in the western conference figures made public here today show. The Hoosier forward finished the season with a total of 43 field goals and 24 free throws to his credit for a total of 110 points. Spradling of Purdue Is second With 43 Held goals ami 21 free throws for 107 points. Coach Dean of the Indiana team which finished in a triple tie for first place said his squad led the conference in scoring totalling 397 points in 12 games. o Big Ten Swimmers To Hold Meet Tomorrow Ann Arbor. Mich., Mar. 11 —(United Press)—Swimmers from nine colleges in the western conference will gather here tomorrow morning for competition in the annual Big Ten conference meet. Every conference school except Ohio State is repre- . sented by several swimmers, with Illinois and Minnesota leading the entry with 17 each. Eight events are scheduled for | . the meet. They are the 200 yard . relay, 200 yard breast stroke, 50 yard , sprint. 440 yard swim, 150 yard back stroke, 100 yard free style, fancy ■ diving and 300 yard medley relay , and water polo. The shorter sprints should develop some keen competitions. Sam Hill of Minnesota, Dicthmer of Purdue, and Darmell of Michigan are the out--1 standing sprinters who cover the distances in just about equal time. Minnesota and Michigan are the outstanding sprinters who cover the distances in just about equal time. Minnesota and Michigan will probably fight it out between themselves for the relays. The Wolverines have swept everything in the relays so far this year and Minnesota has won ' fame in meets outside of the conference. The ineligibility of Dick Howell, star Northwestern swimmer, probably will have more to do with the outcome of this year's meet than any other single factor. With Dick in there. Northwestern was almost sure of the meet, but with him out, they are almost equally sure of not winning. The Northwestern team • has won the Big Ten title meet three ' straight years. o D. H. S. Freshmen Girls Defeat St. Joe Lassies The Decatur high school freshmen ’ girls defeated the eighth grade girls from the St. Joseph Catholic school in a basketball game played yesterday evening, 29-12. Harriet Wallace and Isabelle Cloud, forwards on the winning team, each made seven field goals. Lineups and summaries: ! D. H. S. (29) St. Joe Girls (12) Wallace F Shoemaker 1 Cloud F Schnitz Gerber -C- Colchin Peterson SC Keller Macklin ......G Voglewede Kern G Hains Field goals: Wallace, 7; Cloud, 7; Shoemaker. 3; Schnitz, 1; Hains, 1. Foul goals: Wallace. 1; Shoemaker, 1; Schnitz, 1. o Shelbyville Catholic Is Invited To Tournament Shelbyville, Ind., March 11 —An invitation to take part in the third ■ annual Catholic interscholastic basket ball tournament to be staged this month at Loyola university in Chicago was accepted Monday by the St. Joseph high school team. St. Joseph’s defeat of the Decatur Catholic high school five here two ' weeks ago was a deciding factor in the invitation that was extended for the locals to participate in the tournament at Chicago. The defeat of Decatur came at the close of a very successful season in which the St. Joseph quintet overcame several of the strongest Catholic high school teams in the state.

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Caseys Are Defeated By Cleveland Rosenblums The Fort Wayne Knights of Columbus were defeated by the Cleveland Rosenblums in an American League basketball game played in the South Side high school gymnasium, Fort Wayne, last night, by a score of 19-13. Cleveland held a 14 4 lead at the end of the first half. "Slum" Gullion. coach of the Hartford City high school team and a former Purdue star, played forward for the: Caseys last night In the absence of "Biz" Miller, who is suffering from an injury. Chadwick starred for the Caseys. r>— — i Helen Wills Adds Two More Victories To List Nice, France, Mar. 11 —(United Press) —Helen Wills added two more victories today, one in the singles of the Nice tournament and the other, in mixed doubles The American champion defeated Joan Ridley, English girl. 6-0, 62, and then partnered with Charles S. Kingsley won two love games from Misses Stanley and Deen, an English pair.

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Five Men In Running j For 1. U. Coaching Job Bloomington, Ind.. Mm. 11 From J n field of more than forty candidates 1 1 five men are still in the running for the head football coach Job at Indiana II University, according to announce- I ment here. Put Page who recently resigned from Butler, and Coach Robinson of Mercer are said to be favored. - | Honor Students At Purdue Number 119 Lafayette. Ind., Mar. 11 (United Press) Preaident Elliott of Purdue has annmtneed a list of 119 Purdue students who completed their work for tile first semester with high j distinction. The honor roll includes only those who made "A" in three-fourths of their subjects and failed in none. o K. OF C. NOTICE j Special meeting Friday after I church service. Special Agent , Huffier will pay the council a visit. . All Brothers are urge<| to attend us i Brother Buttler has a message of i importance for all members. ; ’ G,. K.I

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