Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1926 — Page 8

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WHITES HOLD LEAGUE LEAD Whites. Greens And Blacks Win In I). H. S. Basketball League Games The Whiff'S strengthened their lead 'in the Decatur high school basketball league last night, when they defeated .the second "place Purples in an exciting game, hy a score of 22-18. The game was not decided until the closing minutes. J. Engle, with ten points, and Kocher, with 9, were the leading lights for the winners. Roop scored 13 poin/tfc for the losers. The Whites have now won five games and lost one. In another exciting game, the Greens defeated the Blues, last night, by a score Os 21-20. C. Smith and Reynolds played best for the Greens, while D. Engle and L. Smith were the stars in the Blues.’ lineup. The Blues were leading 16-7 at the start of the second half when D. Engle was put out of the game on personals. The Greens then closed up the gap and won. The Blacks won from the Reds in easy fashion lajit night, the final score being 26-14. Shoaf scored 19 points for the Blacks. Beery led the Reds’ attack with 9 points. Three games are played every Wednesday night. The standing of the teams at present it: W L Pct. Whites 5 1 .83.1 Purples 3 3 .500 Blacks 3 3 .500 Reds 2 4 .333 Blues 2 4 .333 Greens _ 2 4 .333 o— Local High School Teams In Action Here Tonight Basketball fans of Decatur and vicinity will have an opportunity to see two good basketball games in this city tonight. The Decatur high school Yellow Jackets will play the strong Angola quintet, in the D. H. S. gym, at 8 o'clock Angola has not lost a game this season and has defeated several strong teams. At 9 o'clock, the Catholic high school Commodores will play the Celina. Ohio. Catholic high school quintet, in the Catholic school gym. This is expected to be a lively scrap, also. The Monroe high school team will play the Decatur high school second team at 7 o'clock, as a preliminary to the Decatur-Angola game. — 0- — Kirkland And Monmouth To Play Friday Night The Kirklaud and Monmouth high school basketball te;yus. wfll Friday Bight, in a game id be played in the Decatur high school gymnasium on Adams street. The first and second teams from the two schools will play. Two interesting games are expected. SPORT TAbT New York —Ching Johnsm. star defense man of the hockey team of the New York Rangers broke his collarbone in a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday night. The Rangers won. New York—Martha Morelius, Ameri-

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ca's first tree stylo girl swimmer, will go to Florida next to participate in swimming contests. I Annapolis Md. —The Navy basket bull five kept Its record for the season clean when it defeated Loyola of Baltimore, 41-26. West Point, — Army defeated Dart--8 mouth in basketball, 28-16. Hamilton N. Y, — Colgate defeated Cornell in basketball. 33-13. s—— 0— —- NEW BASEBALL . V " LEAGUE LOOMS e a ! 0 Wealthy Sportsmen Back I Plan To Form New Loop For Cobb And Speaker p By Joe Williams Sporting editor of the Cleveland Press j Cleveland, 0., Dec. 23.—(United Press) — A third Major league with s Ty Cobb and Tris Spearer as the dom--9 inant figures loomed in Baseball today. , Reports that wealthy sportsmen. t aroused by the summary expulsion of • ? these two great stars from organized ] baseball, were willing to put millions j into a rival circuit furnished the lat--1 est sensation in the sport world. I Steps toward actual formation of . such a circuit are said to-bave already been taken in the form of informal . conferences by interested parties, and f an announcment may be expected shortly of an out-and-out war. against th two major bodies —The American I and the National Leagues 1 Significance is seen in the fact that I neither Cobb nor Speaker has yet reI vealed a definite attitude toward the I future, although it has been three days I since thebombshell burst linking them with a betting scandal in connection with a game between Cleveland and Detroit on Sept. 25, 1919. a game which Cleveland is alleged to have "thrown.’' Added significance is seen in Cobb’s statement that “I'm not out of baseball and you can bet on that.” Speaker has refused to comment on the possibility of his returning to the game of which he has been an illustrious performer for mere than 20 ' years. "I may have something to say . later," is his stock answer to all in- . terviewers. 0 Wisconsin Beats Marquette Milwaukee Wis. Dec. 23. —-(United Press) —With Marquette leading 26-to -23 and only eighty seconds to play . Ralph Merkle, Captain of the university of Wisconsin basketball team, unleashed an attack that scored three kets and enabled Wisconsin to win 29-26. o Indiana's Rnad Building .Methods. To. Be Studied ' Chicago, 111, Dec. 23. (United Press) I —lndiana's highway construction methods will come under observation at the National Good Roads meeting which will open here January 10, under the auspices of the American - Road Builders Association, it was an- > nounced today. Exhibits of types of highways con--1 strutted in Indiana with maps showing s the progress in this state during the past year will be placed on display at • the Palmer House, convention head-

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