Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1926 — Page 6

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COMMODORES BEAT CAMPION Sensational Basket-shootinji Features Decatur’s First (Janie In Tourney Sctwatlonal basketball -limiting fron long ange featured the basketbull game between Decatur Catholic higl school's Commid ires and Cumpioi Academy, of Prairie Duf’hien, Wiscon sin. at the national Catholic inters, ho lastie tournament at Ijiyala Univer sity, Chicago, yesterday afternoon. Thr consistent scoring of Schmitz, running guard of the Campion team, give the Wiconsin quintet a substantial lead in the first quarter. The score at the end of the first quarter was 15-:: in favor of Campion. “Mongo” Meyers. Commodores' speed demon, cut loose with a little sensational basket shooting of his own in the second quarter and, with the able assistance of Art Wemhoff anil “llocky" My’.ott, closed up the gap in the score and the count at the end of the half was 15-13 in favor of Campion. Smith replaced Voglewede at floor guard for the Commodores in the second qqtirter. In the third quarter, the Commodores continued their fn-t offense and forged f ir ahead, and was leading, 31-21 at the end of the third quarter. Voglewed returned to the game in place of Smith in the fourth quarter and finished the game. Although tlie flashy Schmitz continued his sharp-shooting, the Commodores maintained their lead until the finish. Schmitz was high point man of the game, with eight field goals and two free throws to his credit. Mongo Meyers scored seven field goals and on< free throw for the Commodores. Wetnhoff and Mylott contributed four field goal* each to the score and the former counted two free throws ami tin latter, one. Gass scored three free th:, ws. Smith, although suffering from a severer old. played a great game while in the fight. He was pm to bed offer the game and his tern peiature was reported to be 103. It was douubtful if he would lie able t< pay today and perhaps not iomor row. in case the team wins its tw games today. Gas played his usual strong game at back guard and V. glewcde played good ball. Lineups and summary: Decatur (37) Campion (30) Meyers F...., Cowan Wemhoff F Galligher Mylott C Power VoglewedeG Schmitz Gass G Bott Substitutions: Smith for Voglewede. Field gx>als: Meyers, 7; Wemhoff. 4; Mylott, 4: Cowan. 2: Power. 3; Schmitz 8. Foul goals: Meyers. 1; Wemhoff. 2; Mylott, 1; Gass, 3; Cowan. 1; Schmitz, 2; Bott, 1. Referee: Griffith. Umpire-. Graef and Glick. —o Baseball Dope Book Makes Annual Appearance 'Departure of the major league players for their various training camps may be likened to the first blast of the herald's trumpet announcing the arrival of Spring. But the actual entry of this season is marked by the appearance of the first baseball schedule and record book, which this year, as in the past, is The Dope Book, published by C. C. Spink & Son. St. Louis. Mo. publishers of "The Sporting News.” The new 11)26 edition contains a veritable wealth of information, making it almost indispensable to the fan. A prominent feature is the appearance of practically all the schedules in Organized Baseball, the major league programs being given in day by day form and supplemented by chart schedules of most of the minor circuits. New records created during the 1925 season are given, including the marks hung up by outstanding performers. synopsis of records of the World's Series and important postseason series of the minor leagues.

pennant winners for the year in all loopi and other information that is eagerly read by the follower ‘of the game. Complete biographies of the prom inent major league stars and major league rosters which give the height, weight, age and further information concerning each club’s players, are also high lights of the new record book. In addition to these features, changes in the rules, how to score a game, a review of the past season, pennant winners dating back to the origin of the major leagues, and other matters pertaining to the national pastime are covered The booklet is neat and compact and may be carried in the vest pocket. where it is always handy as an umpire in arguments which arise from time to time wherever fans get together. Copies may be secured by simply sending ten cents to C . C. Spink & Son, St. Louis, Mo., who will forward one of them promptly to all readers of this paper

K inkle To Succeed Pat Page At Buller I Indianapolis, Mar. 20. Paul D. Hinkle, former University of Chicago athlete, was today selected as athletic director, at Butler University. He signed u three-year contract. He sue- * ci i ds H. (). "Pat” Page who recently was made head coach at Indiana University. Hinkle will coach football, baseball n and basketball. He will begin work I on spring sports immediately, devotl! Ing special attention to baseball and ! track. M „ WICHITA MAKES STRONG SHOWING 1 I t ' Kansas Quintet Looks flood In Win Over St. Mel At Catholic Tourney 1 Chicago. Mar. 20. — (United Press.) ' —The race for the basketball champ--1 ionship of the National Catholic high i schools became bitter today with third I round games scheduled for afternoon I and evening. The last of tile second round games were carded for this morning with Central high. Fort Wayne, meeting Calvert Hall. Baltimore. and St. Viator, Cincinnati, clashing with Catholic high. Decatur, Indiana. Wichita, Kans., Cathedral high school looked one of the strongest contenders by its defeat yesterday of ] St. Mel. Chicago. Failings of the third round games: 3 p. m. —Cathedral high. Wichita. | vs. Rockhurst Academy, Kansas City. ( 4 p. m.—Spalding Institute. Peoria. , ill.. vR. Acqttinas high. Rochester. N. t V. ! 7 p. m. —St. Xavier, Louisville vs. ‘ St. Viator. Bourbonnais, ill. 8 p. in. —Winners of this morning's j tecond round games. MARTINSVILLE MEETS SURPRISE Logansport Forces Tourney Favorites To Limit To l ( Win 21-20 Victory i ■w 1 Indanapolis, Ind., Mar. 20 —(United , Press) Martinsville, the top heavy ] favorite to win the 1926 high school . basketball championship ran into tin- ] ■xpcc.ted opposition in the first ,ame of the morning when Logans- , port held the Arlesians to a 24 to 20 . count. ] Logansport started out with a rush . and at the end of the first half were j leading 12 to 11. , In the final period Martinsville got , going and with an almost impreg- , nable defens,, held the Logansport scoring aces away from the basket. 1 It was a great game and the crowd | which grew from 7.000 to more than 10,000 during the game was rooting . for Logansport almost to the man. , It offered the best chance of an • upset of any game of the meet but Martinsville proved equal to its task. , and won. | Martinsville Logansport Francesconi F Rucker Thomas F Benson Whitaker ~C McCranes Reynolds G Hupp Ennis G Evans Substitutions — Martinsville: Lockhart and Smith; Logansport: Williams. | Field Goals —Francesconi 2; Lockhart 2; Whitaker 4: Tucker 1; Benson 1; Hupp 1; Evans 3; McCarnes 1. Foul Goals —Whitaker 1; Reynolds 6: Ennis 1; Tucker 1; William 1; Hupp 1; McCarnes 1; Evans 2. Referee —Bayh; umpire. Crown.

Powell Cup To Remain Hands Os Commodores | Until Next Tournament i Charjes D. Teeple, of this city, returned from Chicago this morning with some Interesting information regarding the National Catholic basketball tourney now in progress at Chicago. | The Powell Cup. which the Decatur Commodores won for garnering the most points in any of the first round games, is a large silver cup. The team winning the cup is entitled to retain it for one year, and then, the rules say, the team holding the cup shall return it to the tourney next year. Thi smeans that Decatur automatically receives an invitation to next year’s meet. Many other trophies are given to various teams, according to a pamphlet issued by Loyola University in connection with the annual affair.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY. MARCH 20. 1926.

• FIELD GOALS * BY MARK M. UPP Good work, Commodores. Off to a good start by winning their first game, the Commodores have a fine chance of winning the national Catholic tourney. ■ Mcngi Meyers and Schmitz, of the ■ Wisconsin team, staged a merry lias- , ki (-shooting battle yesterday, the firmer getting seven field goals and the latter hooking eight. Reports from f'hieag > indicate th it the basket« were I of the sensational variety. :l — WE RE STH 1. PICKING MARTINS- ! VIIJJ-l. | At the time this column is written.

we have picked the winner correctly in the fin-t ten games in the Lite tournament. We can't tnl-s m ire than five now. Central of Fort Wayne unset the dope for a lot of dopesters last night by beating Franklin. 33-26, Ibut we had the Tigers down as winners on our dooe sheet. Coach Mendenhall's team has been playing bang up ball lately, and they won last night's game on their merit. A local fan pulled a wise crack ye terday. He walked into t local soft drink pa lor and said. "Sure Decatur is going to win the national Catholic tournment. The Commodores have been up to Chicago for two days now and haven't played a game. The rest of the teams are afraid to play them." Coaches Kennedy and Marshall, of D. H. S , went to the state tourney at Indianapolis today. They took three of next year's Yellow Jackets with them to see how the big boys do it in the tourney. The players who made the trip were Cole, Chet Reynolds and Krick. Lcoks like the Commodores would meet their old rival. C. C. H. S., of Foil Wayne at the tor.ney t might. Tint will be SOME BATTLE. A picture taken during the D’caturCampi.m game at the Loyola tournament yesterday afternoon appeared in the Chicago Tribune this mo ning. Schm tz. the Campion star, wa : in the act of loosing in a free throw when the cainernvin did his stuff. Four of the C mini idores could be seen in the picture With the D. D. office packed full of raving basketball fans waiting f.ar scc.es. this is no place for Mark M. Upp to do his stuff, so we're signing off. o Johnny Risko Almost Knocks Out Berlenbach New York. Mar. 20—(United Press) - Pulling one of the biggest surprises of years, Johnny Risko. young Cleveland heavyweight, gave Paul Berlenbach. world's light heavyweight, ehampion a bag beating in a ten round bout last night in Tex Rickard's garden and almost knocked him out. Risko. who had an advantage of 14 pounds floored the champion for a count of four in the first round and knocked him to his knees again for a short count in the second round. In several other rounds Berlenbach was wobbling on his feet but Risko tired badly from the exertion and weakened in the late rounds. The two judges gave the decision to Risko but the referee. Jack O'Sullivan called it a draw. Chick Suggs. New England bantamweight. won a ten round decision from Dominick Petronne. New York. Tony Vaccerelli, New York featherweight. won a ten round decision from Joey Silvers, New York. | o Anthony Wayne Quintet Defeats Berne A. C. Five Berne. March 20. — The Anthony Wayne Institute quintet presented a strong passing attack in a game here last night and forced the local team down in a 31-to-2S victory. Th P Anthony Wayne team jumped into the lead at the start and was never headed. The visitors held at 14-to-ll lea ’ at the end of the half. Lineup and summary: Mosbaugh F Kessler Norris F Hirchy . Taylor C Oliver ' Silburg G Clark Meehan G Whitehurst I Substitutions — Bruber for Mosbaugh. Miller for Meehan. Meehan 'for Taylor. Field goals—Mosbaugh. 6; Gruber Norris. 3: Taylor, 3; Miller. Kessler. Whitehurst, Hirschy, 5; Oliver. 2; Clark, 4. Foul goals—Mosbaugh, 2; Miller, Hirschy. Clark. | o Helen Wills Reaches Finals I I Cannes. France, Mar. 10. —(United I Press.) — Helen Wills today entered • the finals of the Cannes tournament . by defeating Miss Eilen Bennett, an s English player, 6-2. 6-4. t o - 1 Fort Wayne — Rather than have tw< t hupdred ,F rt Wayne business men attending an exhibition in Detroit, g< > without their evening home paper, th< ■ News-Sentinel sent copies to Detroi - News-Sentinel sent copies to Detroi by aeroplane. i

STATE TOURNEY : NEARING CLOSE Eight Teams Left In Race This Morning; Fort Wayne Beats Franklin Uy Arthur N. Suverkrup (United Press Sluff Corr.'imimdont) ' Indianapolis, Mar. 20—The uhrou l of mystery that surrounds the choice of king basketball for his 1926 high <b. ol ( humpion will be torn awuy six. I.ly before 9 o’clock tonight and the state of Indiana will recognize for the first time the new title holders. Eighty boys today were ready to resume the task which can be but one • tiding, the elimination of seventy of ihe youths for competition. Eight teams, the survivors of the ixteen In'it that started away with a rush early yesterday today were prepared to take up the battle md carry

it through to a conclusion. It is a fight in which tit* commander? of the privateers of old would be gloried —a fight without quarter. Defeat or victory or nothing else are in store ' for the teams that take up the fight 1 today. I , And, as is so often the case, it is f the victor who eventually will collect I the spoils- the state title with its gold watch fobs and bronze shield. | Thirteen thousand fans witnessed .tlie contests yesterday and at least an aditional 2,000 more will he ,on hand when tlie semi-final round gets under .way this afternoon. 1 | The final games of the first round. 1 playe dl.ist night, saw one upset and ' I one team run true to form. ’ Central of Fort Wayne, proved that 1 it was a far bettor team than any of 1 lhe dopesters had believed it c.otild be. The boys from Central swept out against Franklin with a rush and when ’ the raws of the Fort Wayne cheering ! ■.ection had died. Central's Tigers were * on the long end of a 33 to 26 count. 1 In the other game, the dope ran true 1 to form and Marlon's Gians seeing in the offing, the gleam of the champion- ! hip bronze, tore into Nappanee with a rush that was not to be denied. | It was not until the final period when the entire second string had gone into the fray that Nappanee began to score with any regularity at all. | The final count was Marion. 49; Nappanee, 26. The lineup and summaries of the i Fort Wayne-Franklin game follow: | Fort Wayne Franklin . SteiglerF.... Montgomery ScottFFreeman Jasper <C Utterback . Raker G E. Green I TroyerGTownsbnd I Substitutions: Fort Wayne: Diehl. • Ram ey: Franklin —('. Lloyd, J. Green. Field goals: Jasper, 7; Diehl, 1; Baker, 5; Scott, 2; Montgomery. 3; Free- ■ man, 2; C. Lloyd, 2; Utterback. 1; E. . Green. 1. Foul gials: Scott, 1; Jasper. J ; Diehl, i 1; Freeman. (>; Loyd, 1; Utterback, 1. i ; Comeback Saves Bedford t Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 20. —(United Press) —In the secand game of the morning round. Bedford pulled a wondet ful comeback to drop North Vernon t by a scc:e of 36 to 22. North Vernon opened up fast and be- . fore the game was five minutes old. , was leading the Stone City quintet 11 t o nothing. , | Here Bedford braced and began an offensive tbit at the half gave them a lead of 19 to 12. i > I In the final period North Vernon fought taliantly to stave off defeat, but in spite of the 9Us>port of the crowd, failed u> win. Repeated substitutions by Bedford and North Vernon and a clever stalling , game by the winners made the final si:: minutes of play very slow i 1925 Champs Defeated i Indian 1 ipolis, Ind.. Mar. 20. —(United Ptess) —Indiana will have a new high r school basketball champion in 1926 — , that much is assured today, r In the third round of the quarter t final®, the powerful Central of Evanst ville. outplayed, out passed and out- ■ fought the mighty Frankfort crew, i cbimpions of 1925 and won by a score i, of 32 to 25. I 1-! The game started out with a rush ; and Evansville, headed by Grabert, i- Flack and Ashby, piled up a lead of 20 to 9 at the half I j In the second period, Frankfort S made a resperate attempt to win, but the team was bordering on hysteria as d the score continued to mount against d them. With les-s than three minutes it to play, Grabert, Evansville ace, was inti jured and then Frankfort began a new drive but it was too late. Fort Wayne Eliminated ■o Indianapolis. Ind.. Mar. 20. —(United n. Press) — Marion breezed its way :o through t>o the semi-finals with an easy ic win over Central of Fort Wayne by a 'll score of 50 to 26. 'it Fort Wayne played the Giants on almost even terms in the opening p3r-

* lad hut weakened considerably tn the 'second hulf and the Marion crew, with 'suh'titutoa playing, continued to inIt a A n»'w record f u crowd was hunr 1 when the tournament officiays began turning the crowd away fnotn the gates. The score at the half In the contest was Marlon, 19; Fort Wayne, 16, I The lineup and summary: Marion Fort Wayne Overman F Diehl E. ChipmanFScott Murphy C Jasper It. Chapman G Baker Kilgore G Ramsey Subititutions: Marlon—Davidson. Usher, Chasey, and Heck; Fort Wayne —Stigler. Troyer, linker, Harrell. Field goali: Overman. 4; E. Chapman, 6; Murphy. 3; R. Chapman, 3; Kilgcre, 2; Usher. 1; Davidson, 1; Diehl. 5; Baker, 2; S: >tt. 1: Stigler. Foul goals—Overman, 1; E. Chapman, 2; Murphy, 3; R. Chapman. 3; Kilgore, 2; Usher. 1; Davidson. 1; Diehl. 5; Baker. 2; Scott, 1: Stigler, 1. Referee —Hurley. Umpire—Bayh. PLAN STATE US. NET CONFERENCE I “Biff Ten” Football Organization Already Formed; Plan Outlined By Arthur N. Suverkrup (United Press Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, Ind., Mar 20. —With an organization to be known as the "Indiana High School Big Ten." already on its feet, steps were being taken today to complete the organization of a hasketlnl! association which may displace the present Indiana High School Athletis' Association. Plans for the basketball meeting are to be perfected at a meeting to be held in the near future which will be attended by representatives of practically all schools with an enrollment of more th'm 400. In brief, the plan now being considered by the leaders of the so-called

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"big schools" of the state, who are opposing the control of the aisociation by the smaller schools means the organization of fmt separate conferences. The plan ns outlined is ihnt a northern .southern, east central and west central conference each with approximately 16 members, will be formed. Those teams will play a regular •((■hrdulo and a champion will be decided on a percentage basis. At the end of the season the four winners are to meet in Indianapolis to decide a state (hampion. It was said at the meeting ■yeß.-rday that the football men hesitated I » take an iictual stop toward forming .i basketball loop until representatives of all ihe schools Involved were in attendance. Several of the larger schools of the state revealed that these men, they strongly favored the formation of the new basketball loop. One < oach told the United Pre:s that “this thing bis been in the air for some years and it would not be surprising to me to see the larger schools of the Rate start next season as an independent organization." Just what the organization of the latger schools will mean to the smalleir schools of the state is not known but it is believed thru these .schools will continue under the present plan and at the end of the season, challenge the winner of the conference title to a contest. The "Big Ten" football organization will be composed of Technical, of In dianapoliE. South Bend, Emerson, of Gary. Muncie, Elwood. Mishawaka. Maricn. South Side of Fort Wayne, and Gertsmeyer of Terre Haute. — —o ———— DePauw Beats Franklin And Wabash In Debate Greencastle. Ind.. Mar. 20.—(United Press.)—DePauw today held victories over Wabash and Franklin following a triangular debate held here and at Franklin. This victory was the second double win of the DePauw arguers within the last two weeks. —o —s—s —s—Want Ads Earn—$—$ —$ —

e M. T. C. I» ~ J By Ajhl'tic Cort,, I Th "*‘" I » obah 'y in the country who are „ , understand the benaflt, which . rived from organized sprrUi . |recreailm. dHelpline, anil . than the athletic eoache, ul ol!r ' . unlversuie,. They are ln * . to appreciate the ‘ " , men on a fo otha i, „, im M , team, baseball team, track te am I who are accustomed to. or , to discipline, aelf-eoiit! .) Ul|(| , tlon. all of which are a part J . courses taught at the ('ithww Mitr tary Training ('amp. The fact lha , . the more prominent of these m »n e n dorse this training is a fine , ment for the , | roach Knuts Rockne, of \' otrp , is among sixty college coaches of n ’ tional prominence who have warm t endorsed the Government’s p| an . give summer training to thirty-fiv, . thou nnd volunteer students a t , different encampments f the < zens' Military Training ('amps d willf July and Augisst , In a letter to the War Departrnjßt he wrote: , "There is a |remendmn> value to th, t average citizen in the opportunities „( ( sered for physical and mental den; >p. . ment in the Citizens' Military Tnin- , ing Camps. 1 heartily approve of th. movement." , Other coaches sponsoring the (' y T. C. idea Include: T. A. D J.ones, of Yale; Dob Zuppk-. of Illinois; Fielding H. Yost, of Ml«hi- , gan; W. W. Roper, of Jrinceton; A. A. Stagg of Chicago; Z. Q. Clevenger, <,( Indiana; James Philan, of Purdue, and George Little of Wisconsin. Their unanimous verdict, letters show, is that undergraduates between seventeen and twenty-four who can pass the physical tests "have aspendid opportunity for health and citizenship betterment. The coaches point out that the Government offers thin, days’ outdoor life at no pers nal expense, wholesome food, uniforms, athletic equipment, medical attention, and railroad fare to camp and return • being provided by the Government.