Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1927 — Page 3

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OCKCREEK FIVE I I BEATSKIRKLAND .Zells County Quintet > Downs Kangaroos By J H r Count Os 36 To 16 The Kirkland Kangaroos Journeyed > Rockcreek, Wells county, last Friay night, to play a postponed game ith the Rockcreek Dodgers, and the odgers turned in a 36-16 victory over te Adams county lads. The game orinally was scheduled for October 29, "'iortt was postponed then on account f a small pox epidemic in the Rock•evk community. The Dodgers took the lead at the ~ -..Mt ot and were never heads'*. 1. The Kangaroos fought gamely all S. uring the contest, hut were unable A> penetrate the Dodger defense. \bively was the individual star of the jntest so rßockcreek. counting seven tnes from the field and once from ‘he ■ee throw line. Meyers was the onfy angaroo who was able to score constently. He sank five field goals and >ur free throws, for the total of 14 f the 16 points scored by his team, uiher Arnold was the only other .Irkland player to gcore. the little forard getting one field goal. In the preminary game, the Rockcreek secondsi efeated the Kirkland reserves, 42-?. ineups and summary: tOCKCREEK -KIRKLAND :oe,F L. Arnold riffinFMeyers hlvely C Smith drisGF. Arnold loffackerGH-ller Substitutions: Barricks for Roe; laumgardner for L. Arnold. Field oals: Roe 1; Barricks 2; Griffin 4; hlvely 7; Edris 2; Hoffacker 1; L. mold 1; Meyers 5. .Free throws: hlvely, 1; Edis 1; Meyers 4; Referee, oolman, Liberty Center. o___ 7 Adams County Big Ten Team W L Pct. liaecatur Catholic...l2 0 1.000 lecatur 9 1 * .900 fefferson 6 2 .750 ’ fertford 7 4 .636 •me n-ffy 5 4 .556 ionmouth 3 6 .333 iirkland ~..._ 3 7 .300 leasant Mills 1 6 .143 eneva 1 • 7 .125 lonroe . r . 1 9 .100 F Games This Week S FRIDAY ■ ■ Kirkland at Decatur, lartford (first) at Decatur (seconds) — Jefferson at Monroe. New Haven at Monmouth. SATURDAY Hartford at. Geneva Serne ai Lancaster. IEFFERSON WINS FOURTH STRAIGHT Ldams County Team Defeats Washington, 0., Five, Score 25-16 Jefferson high school's basketball earn wen its fourth consecutive vicory last Friday night, defeating the , I. Vashington high school quintet, of , >hio, by a score of 25-16. The score , t the half was 16-17 in favor of the , dnners. Both teams played good deensive ball. Jefferson took a lead at | he start of the game and was never x >aded. Lineups and summary: efferson (25) Washington (16) mitbley, F Moore ’arr F Schenking ■forningstar C Schroer lurk... G Jamieson Hitcher..#. G ZBeams Substitutions* (Jefferson.) Walters . or Burk. Field goals: Smithley 3; ■ 'arr 1; Morningstar 4; Butcher 2; j Valters 1; Moore 6; Schenging 1. t oul goals: Smithley 2; Burk 1; Jamie- ■ on 2. iB o I dabama And Stanford i Play 7-7 Tie Contest I Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Cal. Jan. 3 — | -b labama's Crimson Tide, the pride of ff bk outhern gridirons, battered long and s ithout effect at the Stanford dyke . ntfl within four minutes of the end | f the play here Saturday then rolled I ito brilliancy at a lucky break and 1 ed Palo Alto’s chances of victory in- | ituf| a hopeless knot with a 7 to 7 tie. The Stanford Cardinal started the f coring in the first quarter, tailed a--sin to register, but beat off every at- L I ck launched by Alabama until WiPon J uilttempted to punt in the dying mo- E ients of the game. The punt was [ locked by Winslett and rolled back £ > Stanford’s fourteen-yard line, where = . ..3nR * ■ " I ■

I Wilton recovered it himself, but It was I fourth down. Alabama took the ball | and in five bucks sent it over the goal line. Johnson scored the touchdown t and Caldwell kicked goal and the score was even. 1 The remaining two rainutes of play 1 failed to al’er the tally sheet. ; o— — field; <mi GOALS /•V J Mark M. Upp ] V| I Now that St. Nick has done his stuff, the turkeys and cranberries have been finally disposed of and we’re beginning to catch up in sleep after the watch parties, bring on your basketball games. Six games are scheduled for Adams county teams next weekend. Th® Hatrford Gorillas are the only ones to have two games. On Friday night the Gorillas play the Decatur Yellowy Jacket Reserves, and on Saturday night they play Geneva at Berne. Coach Curtis has not announced how he will divide his squad for the . games with Kirkland and Hartford Friday night. Kirkland has had the , game scheduled with the first team ■ for several months but in the two games played between Kirkland and Hartford this year, Hartford has emerged the victor in both. The fast stepping Jefferson team, which has won_four straight games, meets Monroe, in the old gym here Friday night. New Haven invades Decatur to play the Monmouth team in the old gym, the same night. The other game on Saturday night, is the Berne-Lancaster go at Lancaster. Good Stuff! IT TAKES A BIG TEAM— To stand extravagant praise. To be a modest winner, To liv e up to the fans' estimate. To praise their opponents worth. , To admit they were not the best team. To smile at an insult. To play fair and square, win or lose. . And continue to play hard in defeat. —Verne Boxell, Marion. ( < Chance To Cop. , Indiana may cop a national basket- ( ball title this year, it St. Simon’s , Catholic high school of Washington, t >lnd., gets into the national Catholic ; classic at Chicago. St. Simon’s doubled the score on St. Xavier of , Louisville this past week, and St. ] Xavier won the national title last 5 spring with almost the same lineup . as that used against the Washington , team. Decatur Ctaholic is the outstanding parochial high school in this 1 seclion and the Commodores are seeking to arrange a game with the Card- J inals, as the Washington team is 1 known. i You Tell ’Em Cash. Bro. Mark M. Upp of Decatur is 1 indeed in a rejoicing mood since i his" Yellow Jackets walloped Jhe , Bluffton Tigers by a27 to 19 ' score at Bluffton last Wednesday. | The present basketball season •

I Basket Ball | 1 I Tuesday, Jan. 4 f S BLUFFTON PHI DELTS | S .vs. jS I DECATUR G. E. I S D. H. S. Gym Pig Game 8:30 S Decatur G. E. Girls vs. Bluffton in preliminary |s

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will long be remembered at Decatur, since the Yellow Jackets walloped their ancient foe, Bluffton, twice. —Cash Keller, Huntington Press. New Yellow Jacket Yell. We have a new contributor who signs his name, "Hoosier Fan.” He starts off the New Year right by submitting a new yell for 'the Yellow Jacket fans. His contribution Is as follows: / "Friend Mark M. Upp: Here It is, to the Hoosier fan» — “Hello! Cowbarn Fans! "The Yellow Jackets Say-e-Hello! "They all say so- " Lets Go! 1927!" The Huntington Vikings broke even over the week-end, losing to Tipton on Friday night and beating Spiceland on Saturday night. The victory over Spiceland was the second win of the season for the Vikings. Coach Kreigbaum used eleven players in his lineup to turn the trick. There is strength in numbers. o BASEBALL TO BE PLACED ON TRIAL Players And Former Players To Be Summoned From F'ar And Wide By Clark B. Kelsey, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Chicago, Jan. 3. — Organized baseball is to be placed on trial here Wednesday before Its own highest court —Commisioner K. M. Landis. From all corners of the land players and former players today were converging on Chicago to appear before Landis and give their versions of the charges made Saturday night by Charles “Swede” Risberg and any other charges of corruption which have been or may yet be made. In telegrams which preceded their personal appearances, most of the players tri-anded Risberg’s charges as "lies.” Virtually all of them agreed to come before Landis and tell everything they know. Risberg. who was branded from organized baseball in 1920 for his participation in the 19F9 "Black Sox” scandal when the Chicago White Sox threw a world series to Cincinnati, opened the way for this thorough investigation by telling Landis in the presence of newspaper reporters that in 1917 the entire White Sox team organized a pool and paid the Detroit players for "throwing" a 4-game series to the So£. Risberg not only named those placers who were banned with him from baseball but he included Eddie Collins, recently manager of the Sox, Rty Scha'k. newly appointed pilot, aud Red Faber who for many years has been the White Sox’s pitching ace. All <k the players whom Risberg accused with the exception of Chick Gandil and Oscar Happy Felseh hotly denied his charges. Collins said they were so "silly” that he wouldn’t even come to Chicago to deny them. Schalk was just as insistent in denying them but hurried at once to Chicago to appear before Landis. Clarence Lowland, manager of the White Sox at the time mentioned by Risberg, came to Chicago from Milwaukee and proclaimed that he would tfWWVVWVMMMVMWMMMARM lAshbaucher s FURNACES LIGHTNING RODS ; SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING 1 Phone 765 or 739 ; NWMINWWWMRAMWWWWMMM

I -*— —■■ ■ make Risberg “take back those ugly lies." George Burns and "Pep” Young, who were playing with Detroit la 1917, denied the charges jointly in Philadelphia, But Gandil, in a statement at Elpaso, Tex., "confirmed Hiseberg's charges, adding that Risberg "hasn’t told halt of it." Gandil, star first baseman on the old White Sox team and now manager of a ball club at Hurley, N. M., said that it was be who collected $45 each from the White Sox players. “1 handled the money," Gandil stated. "I took it from the Sox and gave it to Bill James (a Detroit pitcher) and he paid it over to the Detroit players. 1 didn't regard it as bribe money.'—4t wag just a little present tu the Detroit players." Felseh, at his home in Milwaukee, also “confirmed" the Risberg charges, saying that be contributed to the fund. "And the Swede can tell a lot more on Wednesday if he wants to,” Felseh added. • Babe Ruth Gives Opinion. Los Angeles, Jan. 3. ■ — (United Press.) — Babe Ruth commenting un "Swede” Risberg's contribution to the

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present baseball scandal, said: "That bird ought to be hung by his toes until he 13 half conscious and then tossed into a vat of boiling oil to finish up the torture if be thinks baseball is crooked." Ruth said Risberg was never a representative of sportsmanship from the day he entered major league baseball. Philadelphia, Jan. 3. — (United Press.)—Charges of "Swede” Risberg were termed "an atrocious lie" by Eddie Collins, former member of the , Chicago White Sox who recently signed with the Philadelphia Athletics. "The series mentioned by Risberg was perfectly regular in all respects,” Collins said. He expressed uuwillngnese to go to Chicago, "because I feel certain it will all be cleared up." However, he said he would go it Judge Landis summoned him. Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics said he believed Collins and Howard Ebmke, former Detroit pitcher, nnoeent of anything "bordering on crookedness.” o Jim a Hendricks of Monroe attended to business here this morning.

See annual Central school play, H.S. auditorium. Wed. and i Thurs. nights. ?2t I— ■ •

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