Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1926 — Page 8

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ZION REFORMED DROP FAST CAME Salem Reformed Team Os Fort Wayne Forced To Limit To Win. Score 34*30 Tho Zion Reformed church basket ball team of this city put Up a great fight against the fast Salem Reformed church team of Port Wayne, winners of the Sunday Schoo! League and Y. M. (’, A. city championship titles of that city, in « game played in the Decatur high school gymnasium last night but an eleven-point lead piled up by the visitors in the first five minutes of p’.ay proved to be too great a handicap and the locals were defeated, 34 to 30. The Salem team scored four field goals and two free throws before Farr scored Decatur's ficjt point on a toss front the foul line. The visitors increased their lead to 12-1. after only about five minutes bad been played. Decatur toak time out and then came back with a vengeance. At the half, the Fort Wayne lead had been cut to three points, the score being 22-19, In the second half, the Zion team, lead by the fast-stepping Miller, kept pace with their opponents, but could reduce the lead no further. Miller scored twenty of the thirty points garnered by the local team, dropping in nine field goals and two free throws. Each team scored thirteen field but the visitors sank eight free throws out of fifteen chances, while the locals made good on only four out of thirteen chances With only two minutes left to play. Fort Wayne was leading. 32-30. Gappinger sank a field goal for the winners near the close of the •game. Decatur trailed by only one 11 int, 26-25, shortly after the second half started. The game last night marked the end of the season for both teams. The Zion Reformed team, playing its first season, won six and lost three games. The church is planning to have a team in the field again next, year and to play a more complete schedule. Lineups and summary: Decatur 30) Fort Wayne (34) Andrews FJohn ; n MillerFßex Heal C C. Miller Farr G H. Miller Yager G Kibiger Substitutions: G. Andrews for Farr, Gappinger for Miller. Field goals: Andrews, 1; W. Miller, 9; Bea!, 2; Farr, 1; Johnson. 4; Rex. 3; C. Miller, 1; H. Miller. 3: Kibiger. 1; Gappinger, I. Foul goals: W Miller. 2; Farr, 2; Johnson. 1; Rex, 3; H. Miller, 3; Gappinger, 1. ’ Referee: Null. Umpire: Byerly. 25 To 1 Shot Wins English Steeplechase Liverpool, Eng., Mar. 26. —(United Press) —Jack Horner, owned by W. McKay, today won the classic grand natpnal steeplechase over fcuf and one-half miles, hurdling course at Aiutree. Old Tarridge, a favorite, owned by Mrs. W. H. Dixon, was ceond, and Brights Boy, owned by S. Sanford, was third The course is the most difficult in the world, containing 19 jumps, 18 of which must be taken twice. Jack Horner paid his backers 25 to 1: Old Tabridge, 8 to 1 and Brights Boy. 25 to 1. Old Tabridge had been quoted at 9 to 1 against, before the race, / o 1 | Don't fail to attend the big furniture sale now going on at Yager Bros. It o Daily Democrat Want Ads Get Results

Dick Miller Picks All-State High School Basketball Team s Following State Tournev By Dick Miller (Written for the United Press) Position Ist Team 2nd Team 3rd Team ForwardKoetter Spradling Allen t Bedford Frankfort Newcastle Forward Ashby Cooper Overman Evansville North Vernon Marion Central Ccnter Murphy Murray Whitaker Marion Bedford Martinsville i Guard R. Chapman Reynolds J. Baker Marion Martinsville Fort Wayne Guard... Eastwood Kilgore Evans ’ Evansville Marion Logansport Honorable Mention: Forwards * Benson (Logansport); Francesconi (Martinsville); Coyle (Bedford; Auer (Svracuse); Flack (Evansville); Montgomery JFranklin); E. Chapman, (Marion.) Centers—Hubner (Laporte); Schultz, (Srankfort); Jasper. (Fort Wayne); Henderson (Hillsboro); Grabert (Evansville.) Guards—Ennis (Martinsville); Hupp (Logansport); Jennings (Newcastle); C. Doyle, (North Vernon); Kowalozyk, (Laporte.)

Fans Stage Riot At Chicago Wrestling Bout " Chicago, Mur. 26 (United Press)— Wrestling was dealt another hard b >w here la t night when a bout, suir to have been advertised ns a finish £ wrestling match, turned out to be u one-fall uffalr und 3,000 fam nearly wrecked the place. ej Wladek Zybszko gained the first fall over Renalto Gatdini In 18 minutes t- and the fan* settled back for u whort it Intermission. Instead, in a few min, d tes, came th<* announcement that the slsh.’tw was over. The there thousand fans jumped to f their feet, started hurling chairs to- ,. ward the ringside and shouting impre--11 eiations. j I Reporters meanswhile were hunting s the promoters. Na one could be found :. who would identify himself as an actI ive promoter, they said. ST. JOE DEFEATS CENTRAL, 21 TO 20 Two Eighth Grade Teams Stage Another Thrilling Basketball Battle The eighth grade ba-ketba’J teams ■ from the Central and St. Joseph ■ a; bools staged another one of their fairons hair-raising battles in the Catholic school gymnasium yesterday afternoon. and this time the St. Joe boys were on the big end of a 21-20 score when the game ended. The game was typical of practically every gamy played between the two teams, the -score tied many times and the lead switching often. Os the six game; played between the two teams this season, Central has wpn two and St. Joe four. ! Central opened the scoring in yesterday’s game, but the count was soon knotted at 3-all. It was tied again at 5 - all and the half found the teams tied at 7-all. Each team held the leid at different times in the second half and the score was tied at 13-all once. As the end of the game neared, Central took a lead of 20-18. St. Joe s I red a free throw, cutting down the margin to one point. With twenty -seconds remaining to Im l played, Wemhcff, St. Joe center, grabbed the' ball and sank a field goa 1 , winning the game for his team by a one-point margin. During the first semester. Central won two out of three games played by the tw,o teams. Two of Central’s regulars were graduated at the end of the first semester and entered high school. The two teams met again in the final game of the county grade school tournament and St. Joe won in a thrilling game. Two games, played since the.a, have resulted in victories for St Joe. jo Speaker Selected For Purdue Commencement Lafeyette, Ind., Mar. 26 —(United Tress) —Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the Bell Telephone laboratories and vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, has been selected as speaker at the Purdue ’ commencement exercises on June 15, it was announced. Jewett is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of numerous engineering societies. Influenza Is Increasing Rapidly Over This State Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 26 —(United Press) —Influenza is rapidly increasing paver the state, the weekly morbidity report of the state board of health. I made public today, shows. , During the last two weeks, the report shows, 891 cases were discovered in the -state.

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■ STRIBUNCS WIN IS UNIMPRESSIVE I Young Fighter Wins Decision Over Slattery But II Loses Chance At Dempsey d h By Henry L. Farrell, a <U. P. Staff Correepon.lent) y New York. .Mur. 26. \\ illiam L. Stribling and his pa bemoaned their I, bad hick tecently when G me Tunney refused to fight for the glory of Florida t and no cash. ! It seems however, that Tttntley did William a favor and that circumstances helped them out of a very bad spot. ) Stribling won a ten-round decision against the frail Jimmy Slattery and walked out with a big chunk of the $86,000 that trickled into Tex RlrkJ ard’s garden but he lost any tight he ever had to be considered a* ah: ivyweight championship prospect. | There may be some man lurking 'around the corner with the punch ' that is going to ruin Jack Dempsey,, ■ bat it isn’t William L. Stribling and certainly it isn’t James J. Slattery. Making his first appeatance over a distance in New York. Stribling barely managed to squeeze through on a 1 close decision but he perpetrated fouls that such a finish master as Harry Greb in the art of rough work never thought of. When Jess Baugh, the Miami promoter, had to give up the Tunnsyi Stribling fight for the lack of $85,000 or better Tex Rickard said tie would give the young men an engagement in New York but he put it up to Stribling that be would have io show himself in the previously signed bout against Slattery. Stribling had all the viciousness of a champion in his corner before the fight and between rounds, but he didn't have enough punch to carry out the looks and the conversation that he directed at Slattery. I In only one round—the seventh—wa sSlattery in any danger and then he was dazed by four punches that were landed after he had been wrestled between the ropes by the huskier and stronger Stribling. Practically in every round. S.ribling heeled Slattery with his open hand, and he elbowed and thumbed the Buffalo youngster every time the referee seemed to be looking elsewhere. The crowd was against Stribling from the start and-it may have been that he was goaded Into his unfair fighting tactics but the support of the crowd could not have put the resistance in Slattery to stand up under real punching. Stribling, of coarse, is a mere ( youngster, just past the voting age. . but he is a veteran of more than 200 , fights and fully developed. It was apparent to all who had seen him before that he hasn't improved, and ( that he is just as good a fighter now as he will ever be. I He is a great little businessman, i however, and it may be that he cares * nothing about titles as long as he can get cuts of $86,000 gates. i o ; High School Wrestlers Gather At Bloomington i Bloomington. Ind., Mar. 26—(Unit- ' ed Press) —High school wrestlers I were gathering here today for the i fifth annual interscholastic wrest- i ling tournament under supervision of the athletic department of Indiana University. j The preliminary bouts are scheduled for tonight and Saturday mern- | ing with semi-finals Saturday afternoon and finals Saturday night. I One hundred and ten high school athletes are expected to participate : in the contest. O ; 'ACCUSERS OF ! TEACHER ASK POSTPONEMENT I (CnXTIXt’En FROM PAGE ONE) — whether he will be read out of the church. He does intend, if permitted, to force his opponents to bear their stand on religious questions to the world. Among the things he will ask is just how far the’church intends to .go in atempting to regulate the life ' of its members when they are not in ' attendance at sendees. | The charges against Martin grew out of his efforts to provide recrea- - tion for the boys and girls of this little town, situated far up in tho hills above the Ohio river. Martin operates a community hall where basketball games are played, , community plays are given and wrestling bouts staged.. , It is this Lail that is the principal bone of contention. Martin calls it a “Temple of clean , sport” while his opponents declare it IS a “temple of the devil.’’ «

Perfect 18! I W ’ 9 1 ■ ■ I s ■ W '•A.* * * i U i The first in measurements, the second in age is Sadie Johnson, chosen winner of the west Florida beauty contest at Pensacola. Three Women Spiritualists Arrested At Terre Haute Evansvi’le, Ind., Mar. 26 — (United Press) —A fight “for reCigiou-s freedom as provided by the Constitution," will be waged here by three women spiriti.olists, two cf them pastors of spiritualist churches, they declared following their arrest along with seven other women yesterday in a city-wide drive against alleged fjrtvfie-tellers. Emma V. Skats, minister cf a I church, was highly indignant at her j arrest, as weie Mrs. Janette Hoeppel, j pastor of an ther spiritualist church, I anti Mis. L. M Meyers, member of ■ Mrs. Sloats’ congregation. Mrs. Hoeppel declared she is an or- | dained minister of the National Spiri- I tual sti;- Association. This association. I she said, was granted a special charter j by congress. City license officer Bartlett was the I “prime mover” in the round-up. The ten wotqen were to be arraigned today in city court on charges of fortune teling, which is forbidden by ordinance. o Political Courses In High Schools Urged IlbinoD, Ind., Mar. 26. — (United Pre s) —James M Ogden, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, in an address here, made a plea for political courses in the high schools of the state. He declared that increasing emphasis on all pbases’ot citizenship should be given by the schools. o I Scottish Rite Masons End Convocation Today Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 26. —(United Press)—The annual convocation of Scottish Rite Masons of the Valley of Indianapolis, drew to a close today, with conferring of the final degrees on a large class of candidates. A banquet will be held tonight with the initiates as honor guests. trvvUVvWvWvWVWWVVWVWvW lAshbaucber’s : FURNACES ! | LIGHTNING RODS j! SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING Phone 765 or 739 ;!

Heavy Trusks And Busses I Heavy Trucks And Busses liidlunupoll-i, Ind., Mar. 26 —(Special) J —Heavy truck and bits traffic lx barred on i number of gravel ami stone r< .ttl.s until such time as settled weather pernibs turface tn dry out, stat-’ Highway < ftlclals said today in the commi-slon’s weekly truffle bul'etin. j Warm weather of the lust few day* f bowed by heavy tains in many sectl ms, especially the north, took the f.ost from the grot|nd anti luavy traffic badly cut many non-rigid types bef<ye it could be stopped. Settled weather with continuous dragging and sj leading of metal must prevail for an few days before soft surfaces can be worked hit > proper condition. Rep >rts to the general office from | fii id operators shew detours occasion- | ed by con tructlon. in bad shape. Some i are Impassable, und where possible, j new om s marked. Maintenance officials are confronted ! with the most serious problem in years | by reason the froset left wtih a heavy I rain, all occuring within virtually ten [ or twelve hours, | | John D. Williams, highway director, j ■appealed to the public to cooperate ■ wit hthe road agency by refraining ■ from heavy hauling when roads are ■ s It. pointing out that cooperation now I means saving thousands of dollars in 1 repairs and manifestly better roads | this spring. Traffic has reached such j density cn some of the main traffic j lanes that nothing but pavement will i hold it in all kinds of weather, so gen- c eral cooperation is absolutely neces- “ isary in the interestes of all road users ■ in this trying period. i I 0 £ Burglars Loot Pawn Shop 1 Indianapolis, Ind.. Mar. 26.—(United | Press) —Burglars early today smashed J a window in the Sacks pawn shop f here and took diamond rings and jewel- ■ ry valued at SBOO. o I FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR Daily Democrat:— S | Please announce that lam a candi- £ I date for the Democratic nomination I I for County Surveyor, subject to de- | e’sfon of the voters at the primary, :« Tuesday, May 4th. 73t6x Abraham Bagley J ———-—o MILWAUKEE — Motion pictures J showing teachers as “mean and ty- t ranical” cause much of the disrespect j among children for their instructors. ■ the Rev. Joseph Barban said.

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