Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1926 — Page 3

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fTICERS DEFEAT I yellow jackets ■Bluffton Tigers Win From ■ D H. S. Eleven First Time In Ten Years, 3-0 Hl Sl) on.' has any alibis — someone ■ad to win—and Bluffton did. NeverKieless. it was a football game, and ■ 1,2)0 fans that braved the cutting ■rind were well repaid, as they are K most Decatur-Bluffton athletic coniThe Bluffton aggregation won, and the Yellow Jackets lost. ,'l-0. ■ust one little break in the first half ■id the trick.

| The place was Wilson Filed, Blufflon. The time was at 2:30 o’clock fcriday afternoon. The principal charJeters were two rival football team?, ■he Bluffton Tigers and the Decatur Fellow Jackets. About 1,200 fans from Decatur and Bluffton played the ■ill-in parts and the big drama was directed by Walter (teller as referee Ind two other Fort Wayne products, lamely a Mr. Rekers, as umpire, and k Mr. Chambers as head linesman. ■ As William Fox wotild have it. it Las a heart-breaking melodrama with Considerable comedy mixed in it and Llenty of thrills, that made the big Lonibat anybody's game until the gun Lopped the contest after 50 minutes Ls almost even struggle. I Chet Reynolds, Decatur quarterback, klayed best for Decatur, while Anderfcon. Bebout, Gerber and the rest of ■ lie boys helped the local aggregation ■lireaten the Tiger goal on several Ipecasions. A little fellow weighing less than 140 pounds by the name of N. Baxter did the trick for the Tigers. Bie dropped hack from his position as tenter and drop-kicked the pigskin lover the Decatur goal posts in the L-cond quarter from the 18-yard line, after Decatur had been penalized 25 wards, for we don’t know what. First Quarter Eddie Anderson kicked off for Deratur and G.Swygart returned the ball [to the Bluffton 29 yard line. Bluffton immediately made a first down. The Decatur line strengthened and Bluffton was forced to kick. Decatur tAiled to gash consistently and retiirtfed the punt. Joe Bebout. acting Captain for the Yellow Jackets, intercepted

i pass near the close of tjie first IHarter, but Decatur again kicked nto Bluffton territory. The entire first quarter was played in Bluffton territory, and neither side managed to make any first down after Bluffon’s first attempt at carrying the ball. Second Quarter. After an exchange of punts, Bluff ■ton had the ball on the Decatur 35■yard line. The Tigers tried a pass, ■which was intercepted by a Decatur [player. During this play, the head [.linesman and umpire were doing softie ■alleged scouting and, after a short ■ parley, they decided that some De [catur player on the opposite side of ■ the field, from the ball, had clipped la Tiger and the Yellow Jackets were ■ penalized 25 yards. Anderson punted, 1 with the wind against him, and Bluffton returned the ball to the Decatur 20-yard line. The Tigers failed to gain on three attempts through the line and M. "Baxter made a drop kick from the 18-yard line, scoring three Points for Bluffton. The rest of the second quarter was played in Bluffton territory. Third Quarter. Decatur carried the ball to the shadows of the Bluffton goal line twice, only to lose the ball on downs. Eluffton rallied and with a series of Passes working fine, the Tigers cartied the ball to the Decatur 18-yard -ine, An attempted pass was intercepted by Carl Gerber, Decatur end. and he carried the ball back to the Bluffton 18-yard line for a 65-yard gain. Gerber got away to a flying start and for a few seconds it looked . • ike Decatur would score a touchdown. Gerber was downed, however, cm the 18-yard line. Reynolds gained 8 yards through the line on the next ’ Play, and on the next three plays Decatur failed to gain and Bluffton got •he ball on its own 11-yard line. After a fumble, Decatur regained the ball and again failed to make the necessary gain. Fourth Quarter.

Most of the final quarter was play-' f| l in mid-field. Decatur fought hard to get within kicking distance of the Roal and on several occasions it ap-' T ared as if nothing could stay off the 'ellow Jacket rally, but the final ctrri n dropped on the 1926 football season for both schools with the T'iuffton Tiger on top by a score of B 9. The entire game was close, Bluff--1 1 making 3 first downs to Decatur’s *• Both teams had poor offensives,

j but strong defenses, and the breaks [were evenly divided. Immediately ( after the game. the Bluffton high school band and the entire high school I began n victory parade, celebrating the first Bluffton football victory over j Decatur in the last 10 years. I Lineup Decatur (0) Bluffton (3) i R E. Crosbie Andersou . , «.T. Waugh Butcher It.G. Ochsenrlder Kiess C. Baxter Musser I.G. Williams Frisinger L.T* Tappy Berber I.E. Redding Reynolds Q. <; Swygart Brown r.h. K. Swfgart Anadell L.H. Ellenberger Bebout F.B N. Baxter Substitutions: Decatur, Hillyard for Musser; Roop for Brown; Smith for Frisinger. Bluffton: Crosbie for Paxson; Sparks for Wietons; Paxson for Crosbie.

o BERNE BEATEN : BY LANCASTER . w--Wells County Team Outclasses Fighting Five, Winning 29 To 17 The Berne Fighting Five met defeat fcr the second time this season last 1 night, when the Lancaster quintet ' ftotn Wells county invaded the audl--1 torlum floor at’ Berne and carried away a victory by a score of 29-17. It was a disastrous evening for the Berne ■ teams, the Berne girls losing to the ’ Lancaster girls, 20-10, and the Berne seconds dropping a 22-5 decision to 1 the Lancaster seconds. The passing and goal shooting ..of the Fighting Five was bad last night and the Lancaster team showed a superiority at all times. Berne did not make a goal until after the second half was well under way. Wasson starred for Lancaster. He scored four field goals besides leading the way in teamwork. In the girls’ game.yß-'ine led j 9t03 at the end of the half. ' Lineups and sui. niaiy: Berne (17) Lancaster (29) HaeckerF Was a o>. C'lauser F .'.dowser Smith C Scrogham Speicher G Bevington Sprunger G Carton Substitutions: Price for Clauser, E'hrsam for Price, Spehegcr for Wasson. Field goals: Haecker. 1; Smith,

3; Speicher. 2; Wasson. 4; dowser. 2; Scrogham, 3; Gallon, 2; Bevington. 1; Speheger. 2. Foul goals: Haecker. 3; Smith, 1: Speicher, 1; Schrogham. 1. Referee: Webb Oliver, Monroe. _o —— FOOTBALL RESULTS Texas Aggies, 20; Rice, 0. Ohio, 12; Marietta, 0. Mount Union. 15; Kenyon. 6. Marshall College, 55; Fairmount Normal, 13. Salem College, 9; Concordia Normal, 0. High,School Results Shortridge (Indianapolis), 18, Manual (Indianapolis). 0. Grenfleld, 6; Thorntown, 0. Brazil, 66; Wikinson, 0. o—BASKETBALL RESULTS I Newcastle, 24; Middletown, 18. Hagerstown. 42; Spiceland, 33. Ridgeville. 18; Redkey. 11. Spartanburg, 48; Green Township, 25. Cambridge City, 46; Kitchel, 18. Greens Fork, 33; Straughns, 17. Fountain City, 49; Williamsburg. 33. Losantville, 41; Modoc, 19. Howard Township, 17; Greentown. 16. I Michigantown, 46; Rossville, 14. Little Jefferson, 30; Mulberry, 22. ' Liberty, 23; Boston, 17. AndersOn, 42; Frankton, 22. Scircleville, 36; Kokomo. 28. Whitewater, 32: Economy, 26. Winchester, 32; Parked, 24. Arcadia. 36; Atlanta, 15. Clay township, 53; New London, 11, Forest. 39; Jackson Township, 21. Tipton. 33; Broad Ripple. 17. 1 Upland, 45; Swayzee, 26. Onward, 35; Deer Creek, 12. Galveston, 37; Amboy. 17. Union Township. 41; Converse, 24. Burlington, 43; Camden, 38. i Flora. 43; West Middleton. 34. Edinburg, 54; North Vernon, 11. I Greencastle, 30: Shelbyville, 28. Covington, 38; Cayuga, 18. I Pittsboro, 48; North Salem, 21. Plainfield, 31; West Newton, 17. Hartford City, 20; Sweetzer, 19. Ambia, 38; Otterbein. 15. ' Charlottesville, 20; McCordsville, 17. Beech Grove, 40; South Port, 18. Sunman, 15; Napoleon, 5. Bedford. 35; Martinsville, 34. Logansport, 53; Columbus, 34. Amo. 35; Ben Davis, 19. Newcastle, 24; Middletown, 18. Sharpsville, 20; Tipton Seconds. 9. —o

lowa Meets Wisconsin 1 Madison, Wls. Nov. 13.—(United Press) —lowa’s football team was to play the University of Wisconsin here today in a battle to stay out of the second division in the conference standing. lowa reported its ace—“ Cowboy" Nick Kutsch on the injured list, but Wisconsin believed he would play in the game before the final gun was fired.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1926

MONROE LOSES TO MONMOUTH Two Adams County Teams Stage Close Battle, Monmouth Winning, 20-15 Monmouth high school emerged victorious over the Monroe team in a hard-fought basketball game, played in the old gymnasium on First street here last night, by a score of 20-15. Monmouth took ttie lead in the first half and was out in front during the rest of the game. The first half ended with Monmouth leading, 8-4. Parrish had dropped in three field goals and Brokaw one, while Busche had scored all of Monroe’s four points on two field goals. The Monroe team, which is compr 1 entirely of new material this year, showed considerable improvement. The Monmouth team looked better last night than It did against Pleasant Mills, also. Parrish scored 14 of Monmouth’s 20 points. Lineups and summary: Monroe (15) Monmouth (20) A.* Andrews.F Parrish Busche * F Brokaw Elzey C Boerger Straum G Johnson ”C. Andrews .G Waggoner Substitutions: Beitler for Busche, Bohner for Elzey. Murphy for Par-

FOURTH DOWN By Willie Punt

Th score reads: Bluffton, 3; Decatur, 0. Congratulations are in line for the Tigers, so we hereby submit ours. May you have all the fun coming to you. That game yesterday at Bluffton was a great battle, the kind that only great rivals like Decatur and Bluffton can stage. We can't help but rejoice with Bluffton a little, if it is possible for a Decatur fan to do such a thing when the Tiger has conquered the Yellow Jacket, but we admire a team that keeps fighting and plugging away, after it has lost four straight games and that i| playing for a school that has not won a football victory in some four or five years, until it tastes of victory and then takes another taste and finally downs its ..greatest rival as a climax to the season. Decatur scored a long string of football victories over the Tigers during the last several years and had not been humbled by Bluffton until yesterday. We would have greatly enjoyed another victory yesterday, but Bluffton won and far be it from us to try to take any of the glory out of it for them. Next year the Tigers will invade Decatur and they will find another bunch of fighting Yellow Jackets ready to avenge yesterday's defeat. The Yellow Jackets fought, yesterday. It was probably their anxiety to score a touchdown that kept them from tying or even winning the game via the field goal route. Three or four times, the Yellow Jackets were inside the Bluffton 15-yard line and they elected to try for a touchdown each time. They probably could have done it, too, if Brown, the plunging fullback, had not had an Injured shoulder. But the game is over, and Bluffton won. and we had fully made up our mind, not to use any "its" in this column today. The Yellow Jackets won two games and lost four during the season just ended. The two victories were won at the expense of two old rivals, the Portland Panthers and the Fort Wayne Central Tigers, and they were mighty sweet. The losses were to Columbia City, 6-0; Auburn, 6-0; Garrett, 16-14, and Bluffton, 3-0. Not bad defeats. The scores of the Portland and Central games were 6-0 and 12-6. Decatur scored 32 points to their opponents 37. Coach Marshall and his Yellow should nop feel badly over this record. Tern, of the fourteen players who played against Bluffton yesterday j will be back in school next year.

| rish. R. Reed for Brokaw, O. Reed for Boerger. Meyers for Waggoner. 1 Field goals: A. Andrews, 2; Busche. I 3; Straum. 1; Parrish, 8; Brokaw, 1; Meyers, 2. Foul goals: A. Andrews, 2: Elzey, 1; Parrish, 2. Referee; Coppess, Monroe. . ■. ——o- ' “ , Harvard Meets Brown Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13-(Unif-ied Press)- “Big Three" troubles were I put aside here today US" Harvard got set for its annual /lash with Brown, 1 a team that comes to the stadium 1 this afternoon, unbeaten and cocky 1 from 1 its triumphs over Yale and • Dartmouth. t Partly cloudy and warmer weather • today greeted some 54,000 football i fans gathered here for the battle. Having conquired both the Bulldog I and the Big Green on successive Sat- • urday's without using a single sub--1 stitute, Brown’s "iron men," though I outweighed, were favored to win. ’ o ■" 1 . Princeton And Yale 1 Clash At Princeton i i Princeton, N. J., Nov. 13—(United Press) —Reaching the fifteenth milestone in their football relations, Yale i and Princeton clash in their golden i gridiron game here this afternoon. ’ The contest may be the last ‘‘Big • Three 1 ’ due to the severance i of athletic relations between Harvard • and Princeton. , The Yale Bulldog was the under- • dog. Princeton was favored by bet-

So prospects for next year are not dim. Van Wert suffered an overwhelming defeat Thursday, at Lima, when th& Central team defeated the Van Wert eleven, 44-0. Central is coached this year by Tubby Moffett, former DePauw star and coach of the Brazil, Indiana, high school team last year. x L Will Wynn started his column, "Time Outs” in the Berne Witness, yesterday. Will’s pets, the Fighting Five, met another defeat last night, the Lancaster Bob Cats winning, 2917. Glad to see you back. Will. Monmouth and Monroe played in the old gym last night, and it was too much Parrish for Monroe 1 . The Monmoujh sornelJSop scored six field goals and two free throws, while the rest of the Monmouth team scored six points to beat Monroe, 20-15. Jefferson plays Pleasant Mills and Geneva meets Polingtown in the Berne gymnasium this evening. Kirkland plays Monroeville in the old gym here tonight. » The Kokomo Wild Cats, long a big gun in Indiana high school basketball, met defeat last night in their first game of the season, when the team from the little town of Scircleville invaded the Kokomo gym and took home the long end of a 36-28 score. Scircleville beat Forest, another small town, on the Scircleville floor last week, 2422. “Rut” Walter ought to return to high school again.

Martinsville went down to defeat last night, too, but to a worthier foe than Kokomo. Bedford beat Coach Glenn Curtis’ crew last night, 35-34. The basketball schedule of the Hartford high school team was delivered to the Daily Democrat, today. Thanks. Now we will be able to tell you something about the Gorillas. Their next game is with the Catholic high Commodores here next Wednesday night. Hartford City’s Airdales opened their basketball season last night by defeating Sweetzer, 20-19. Not very impressive, but it was a victory and that was more than the Airdale football team won all season. Old King Basketball has driven us back into the shadow of our goal line and our best line-plunger, Bluffton Game, is out of the contest now, so its time for us to Punt and try to Score a touchdown next season. —— ( CURTAIN.

tors to win by odds of 10 to 7. Yale was crippled hut ready. Princeton was fit and hopeful. Yale has suffered defeat three times this season; Princeton only once. A victory for the Tigers meant the "Big Three” title and Princeton rooters wanted to see their eleven end the triangular competition as champions. ■' —— l —o--—- . ■ .r Purdue Expects Easy Game With Franklin Ijifayette, Ind., Nov. 13.—(United Press) —Although planning tj> start most of the Purdue regulars, Coach Jim Phelan expected to swing reserves into action early in the game ■with Franklin today. ' z Looking ahead to the annual battle with Indiana next week and wanting to guard against possible injury to his regulars today. o — Northwestern Is Favorite Evanston, 111., Nov. 13.—Northwestern University's football team today went into a football game with its, traditional opponents — Chicago — an overwhelming favorite, for the first time in a decade. The game was to dedicate Dyche stadium, a football plant that will seat 65,000 persons when completed. Chicago, which has beaten every northwestern team since the 1916 eleven captained by Paddy Driscoll, has not scored on a big ten team this season. Northwestern, led by Capt. Ralph "Moon” Baker, the greatest Wildcat player since Driscoll has not been scored upon by a conference team. o NO HUNTING Notice is hereby given that hunting and trespassing is forbidden on our farms. 266t6 ISCH BROS.

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