Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1927 — Page 6

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TWO GAMES IN ” OLD GYM FRIDAY Jefferson Plays Monroe And ' Monmouth Plays Host To New Haven Five Two basketball games will bp played in the old high school gymnasium on First street Friday night. The fast flying Jefferson township high school quintet will meet Monroe in one of the games. Jefferson has won four straight victories and the boys from the southern part of the county will be hard to stop tomorrow night. The Monroe boys have had a long rest and will b? out to start the second half of their schedule with a win. In the other game to be played in the old gym tomorrow night, the New Haven high school team will meet the Monmouth aggregation. New Haven won from Monmouth in a game played at New Haven a few weeks ago, but the Root township boys have improved considerably since then and should give the Allen county eagers a run for their money. YELLOW JACKETS MEET TWO FOES Varsity Plays Kirkland And Reserves Meet Hartford Friday Night Coach Curtis will send the Decatur high school Yellow Jackets first and second teams through light workouts this evening in final preparation for their games with the Kirkland Kangaroos and the Hartford Gorillas, in the local gym, Friday night. The Kangaroos and Gorillas are coming to town with a determination to carry home the bacon. It has been three years since the yellow Jackets deefated the Kirkland township high school team. Last year, the Kangaroos handed the locals a 21-13 defeat and the year before they won by a score of 32-24. In the district tournament in the spring of 1924, Kirkland eliminated the YellowJackets at Portland, after the locals had beat the Kangaroos during the regular season. Decatur has never played Hartford. During the last fewyears, the Gorillas have been coming to the front in athletics and this year they have a formidable aggregation. The game between th,. Yellow j Reserves and the Hartford! tonm wili' bo’playeil first, starting at 7 o’clock. The Kirkland-Decatur game will start at 8 o’clock. Mark Bills, of Fort Wayne, will referee the Kirkland game, but the official for the Hartford game had not been hired yet. today. o AMERICAN LEAGUE BASKET STANDING W. L. Pct. Cleveland 12 2 .857 Washington 10 2 .833 Philadelphia 11 5 .688 New York 6 8 .429 Rochester 6 10 .375 Fort Wayne 5 9 .357 Chicago 5 10 .333 Baltimore 1 10 .091 Tonight’s Schedule New York at Baltimore. Cleveland at Chicago. Last Night's Results. Washington, 29; Fort Wayne, 28. New York, 41; Rochester, 30. Cleveland, 35; Chicago. 31. o Purdue Defeats Carleton QUintet, Score 42 To 32 Lafayette, Jan. 6.—Purdue’s offense worked like clockwork in the last six ' minutes of play here last night to ' down the Carleton College quintet in ' a wild and loosely played game, 42 to 32. The first halt was a hectic ' affair, neither team displaying much team work, and although it ended in a 19 to 19 tie, was rather listless. Carleton held at 29 to 26 lead in the middle of the second half, hut two field goals and a free throw by Wilson put Purdue in the lead, 31 to 29. From that, point on the game was all Purdue. Wheeler and Cummins going on a scoring spree to shoot the Boilermakers far into the lead. o —. Rockford, 111. — "Moon” Baker, Northwestern University's all-Amer-ican halfback, made his professional ! debut in a basketball game here. Moon’s team, the Burr Athletic Wear I club, feel an easy victim to the Chi- I cago Bruins, (

FIELD 8 GOALS C S By Mark M. Upp ip'Ji

Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is another basketball day. The invitation extended to South Side high school of Fort Wayne to participate in the annual Tri-state tournament at the University of Cincinnati next February, has been withdrawn by the tournament officials. The committee in charge decided that South Side's ineligibility in the Indiana High School Athletic Association automatically makes that team ineligibile to compete with eligible teams from Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The Decatur high school Yellow Jackets will represent this part of the state in the tri-state tourney, the locals having accepted the invitation extended to them several weeks ago. Since their invitation to the Tri-state tourney has been withdrawn, officials of South Side high are endeavoring to get a bid to the annual national tournament held at the University of Chicago each spring. Since Indiana teams that are eligible in the I. H. S. A. A. are barred from entering the tournament. South Side may get a chance to take part in the Chicago tourney. Wingate and Crawfordsville played in the national tourney several years ago when both were outcasts in the I. H. S. A. A. and one of them copped the title. kendallville’s fast stepping quintet may not be without honor in its own home town, but it sure is unheralded by the home town newspaper. The only "dope’’ handed out on the Kendallville team by the newspapers of that city is in the stories of the games played and a brief announcement of the next game. Speaking of being unheralded, the Wabash Thom Cats or Hill Climbers get no publicity whatever. There seems to be some friction between the j publishers of the Wabash Lab Dealer and the school ofticiais ui tiiat city ' . , ~,V J «,«•.. .».<« •• *■••••"* a:..i m .i result, the high school athletic teams get no space in the newspaper. If we are not mistaken, the Wabash team has been winning some ball games this fall and winter, too. Bricks May Fly The bricks may fly, and again they may not, after the RushvilleBloomington game is over at Bloomington Friday night. Anyhow, each team is going to take a brick with them to the game, Rushville the consolation brick, and Bloomington the victory brick. If Bloomington wins, all will be well, but should the Rushville Lions cop the game, the bricks will fly, that is the consolation brick will be tossed Bloomingtonway and the victory brick in the general direction of Rushville. We hope there will be no casualties, broken hearts or shattered hopes over the affair. Rushville, by the way, has the congelation brick for the second time this year. First, Greensburg beat the Lions and presented the unwanted hunk of clay to the Rushville boys. Rushville then passed it on to Tech, of Indianapolis, and the capital city boys got foxy and handed it to the Richmond Red Devils. The latter perked up and returned the gift to Rushville. Kangaroos, Gorillas and Yellow Jackets all in one gymnasium on the same night. What a menagerie! Add several hundred “rooters” to the collection and the show ought to be complete when the Decatur high school teams play Kirkland and Hartford in the D. H. S. gym here tomorrow night. A new face may appear in the Yellow Jackets' lineup after the start of the second semester. Hill, the big boy who played on the Monmouth high school team last year, will become eligible for competition with the

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Yellow Jackets on January 14. He is I working out with the varsity now and I may get a chance to show his wares In the near future. He plays forward. Mirandy Contributes "Dear friend Mark: You ain’t got many of them lh>-t«- wotm ii < <ntiib.it . ing so I thot I would sent one in. 1 * haven’t yet been to see them there Yellow Jackets play basketball, but them there Commy Doors sure knows their oats. I did want to go to the game Friday nite, but seeing as to I how everybody has the mumps, I am f afraid our old grey mare will get them t so Jake and 1 will try and come some ] other time. Wishing you all luck, Res- r pectfully, Mirandy." s FAMOUS LAST LINES: "LS THAT SO.” c o t RISBERG STICKS ' TO HIS STORY Twenty-Six Baseball Players l ace Judge Landis And Deny Charges By Clark B. Kelsey. (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Chicago, Jan. 6.—After 26 baseball players had faced Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, and branded his charges that the Detroit Tigers baseball club had "laid down” to the Chicago White Sox in 1917 as "lies”, Charles “Swede” Risherg today stuck doggedly to his story. Risberg, cast out of baseball following the world's series scandal expose of 1919, saw 26 players, including such stars as Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk. Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Bobby Veach, and Donie Bush, stride up before Judge Landis and assert that every word that connected the White Sox and the Tigers with a "sloughed” series was false. As each one passed Risberg enroute to the witness chair, he would cast a contemptuous look at the accuser. Risberg flushed as the afternoon wore on. and he bad heard himself called a liar with all the descriptive adjectives in the dictionary thrown in His neck got redder and redder, but he refused to budge from his story. o ++++++++++++++++ + SPORT TABS ♦ F+++++4-+ + + + ++ + + + (By United Press) Minneapolis, Minn.—ln the first Big Ten conference basketball game of the season, Illinois won from MinneChicago. —Basketball aspirations of the University of Chicago received a severe setback when lowa State college easily defeated the Maroons, 2818. Chicago. — Ed "Strangler" Lewis, claimant to the heavyweight wrestling championship, defeated Wayne Munn, big Nebraskan, also a claimant, in two straight falls. The first fall was gained in 57:45 and the second in 12:33. Both were the result of headlocks. Cleveland —In a rough and tumble basketball game, Wisconsin came through with a 31-24 win from Syracuse University. o Stork Defeats Grim Reaper In Jay County Portland, Jan. 6. —The stork far outdistanced the death angel in Jay county during the past year of 1926, there being 223 births, as comparred to 140 deaths for the year, according to the annual report of County Health Commissioner C. W. Mackey. In 1925 there were 131 deaths and 212 births. In December, 1926, there were eighteen births and seven deaths. Marriages during 1926 totalled 191, as compared to 167 for 1925. During December, 1926, there were 21 marriages. o—— Makes for Disappointment If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than out pleasure in the fruition of them. o Life’s Component Parts The bread of life is love; the salt nt life Is work; the sweetness of life, poesy: the water "f life, fnirh o Makes End Seem Far Off There is no in in so decrepit, whilst He Ims Metbllseluli before him. who •oes not sitin’. lie Inis i «niv y<*ur* o' Ife hi bis body jq. ni'dciiv

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Press.)-In a fI«M over the possession us a skunk snoozing on the borders of their farms, near here Edward Grimm’s nose was smashed by Ernest Grimm, a cousin. A jury awarded the injured man $350 damages because lie might never be able again to discover a skunk from a dbtance. o —— To Remove Match Marks Marks caused by striking matches on painted walls should be rubbed with a newly cut lemon, lth * cloth dipped In whitening. The spit should then be washed with warm, i soapy water. Many Fish in Lake Erie Lake Erie yields a larger annual catch of fish than any other body of New York state water. Two years ago licensed fishermen took nearly 5,000.000 pounds of fish from ft.

Trial Still In Session The plaintiff was still submitting evidence today in the trial of the cio# of Franklin Newton Rice vs. Jess ß Al , fred Rice et al, today. The trial opened Monday. o-- — Silent English Christmas Once, when Bluff King Hal lay vm ill in December, and the English w tre anxious about hla recovery, by com. mon consent It was lecided to have a silent Christmas, without bells, carols or merry making. •— o — Round and souare dances at K. of C. hall Fri. Jan. 7.4-4 t Washington Township Notice Notice is hereby given that Tuesday will be office day for the undersigned and on that day each week I will be at my office in the Peoples Loan and Trust building. 4t6 T. R. NOLL