Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1927 — Page 6

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YELLOW JACKETS TO MEET AUBURN Tickets For Last (Janie Os Season To Go On Sale Wednesday Evening Tickets for the Decatur- Auburn high school basketball game, to be played here Friday night, will go on sale Wednesday evening, Principal Walter Krick announced today. Per • ons wishing to reserve neats for the game are requested to go to the high school bolding or telephone 725, between the hours of 6 and S o’clock Wednesday evening. All seats in the gym, with the exception of the balcony, will be reserved for this contest, which will be the last game on the schedule for th** Yellow Jackets. Auburn is coming tr> Decatur Friday night, seeking revenge for the 21-19 defeat handed the upstate crew by the Yellow Jackets eariy in the season. Both teams have shown improvement since that game and a fust contest is expected Friday night. The Yd’low Jackets came out of the tri-state tournament in fine Shape and will be ready to put up a strong game against Auburn. Hugh Vandiver, of Marion, will referee the game. The Decatur high school girls will play the Auburn girls here Friday night, also. The Auburn lassies won from Coach Stephenson’s girls when the two teams met at Auburn, but the locals are planning to make every effort to get revenge Friday night. There ‘likely will be an eighth grade game, Friday night, also. o KIRKLAND BEATS JEFFERSON FIVE Kangaroos Win By Score Os 42-31; Meyers Gets Eleven Field Goals In free scoring contest, featured by the basket shooting of Meyers, Kirkland forward, the Kirkland high school Kangaroos defeated the Jefferson township high school basketball team, at Berne, Saturday night, by a score of 42-31. Meyers sank eleven field goals dining the evening. In addition to the field goals, Meyers scored four points • n free throws, giving him a total of 26 points. L. Arnold scored fire field goals anil a free throw for the winners, while Smjtley connected for four field goals and two free throws sot Jefferson before being removed from the game via the personal foul route. Knkland held a 22-15 lead at th* end ot the first half. Lineups and summary: Jefferson (31) Kirkland (42) Srnitley F Meyers Parr F L. Arnold Morningstar C Smith Butcher G Hellet Burk G F. Arnold Substitutions: Walter for Butcher; Snyder for Srnitley; Gerber for Heller Baumgartner lor I*'. Arnold. Field goals: Srnitley 4; Uarr 3; Morningstar 2; Butcher 2; Walter 1: Meyers 11: L. Arnold 5; F. Arnold 2. Free throws: Srnitley 2; Parr 3; Dutcher 1; Walter 1; Meyers 4; L. Arnold 1 F. Arnold 1. Iloferee —Windmiller, Hartford. Referee Badly Injured In Basketball Contest » New York, Feb. 22 —(United Press) Referee Don Risley, Colgate, who was handling the Dartmouth-Colum-bia basketball game was badly cut above the face when a thrown ’ Il hit him in the mouth and drove tne whistle through his flesh. He had to retire. o Kentucky Man Leads Field In Golf Tourney Clearwater, FJIa, Feb. 22—(United Press) —William Burke, of Danville, Ky., led a crack field of golfers with his first round score of 147, at thej beginning of the second round of play of Die Florida open golf championships today. Bill Mehlhorn, the frisky Chicagoan, was the only notablo who pushed Burke for honors during the first round but he wound up in third place with a score of 149, relinquishing second to James Carberry, Chicago, | 148. |

Adams County Big Ten I Team W L Pct. I Catholic High 20 <II,OOO I Decatur .15 2 ,882 Hartford 12 5 .672 Jefferson 7 (i .515 . Kirkland . 7 10 .412 Ib-rm* < 12 .839 G »nevn . . 5 10 .333 Monmouth . 4 It .267 Pleasant Mills 2 6 .250 i Monroe 1 16 .059 > o BERNE LOSES CLOSE CONTEST Fighting Five Drops HeartBreaker To Fairmount, Saturday Night, 25-21 The Berne high school basketball team lost a closely contested game to the Fairmount high school quintet, at Fairmount. Saturday night, by a score of 25-24. A free throw, tosesd in the final minute of play by Carrol, gave victory to the Fairmount team. The Berne quintet played a fine game throughout the contest. Berne held an 11-point lead at the half, the score being 20-9. With four minutes to go in the final petiod, the score w ; tied at 24-all. Both teams fought hard to gain an advantage, but neither scored until Ehrsam fouled Carrol and the latter scored a free throw in the final minute of play. Lineups and sum-1 ntary: Berne (24) Fairmount (25) Smith F Sellers Stucky F Carroll Thompson C Creek Brann G ..Jones Winteiegg G Hayes Substitutions: Ehrsam for Stucky; Mitchell for Jones. Field goals: Smith, 2; Stucky, 3; Thompson, 3>; Braun, 1; Winteregg, 1; Sellers, 2; I Creek, 3; Jones, 1; Mitchell. 2; Hayes, 1. Free throws: Smith, 1; Sellers. 1; Creek, 2; Jones. 2! Daces 2. Referee —Van Vere. Muncie. .— o Rose Poly Beats Vincennes Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 22. -(United Press)—Producing a well timed, lightening fast offense and a defense which Vincennes university was never able to solve, Rose Poly last nfgh( brought its basketball season to a (lose with a 41-25 victory. The Alices made a good fight early in the game. 0 Commodores Go To Lima To Play This Evening More than IGil fame win accompany the Decatur Catholic high school Commodores to Lima, Ohio tonight, where the Commodores will meet the St. Rose Catholic high school basketball team, of that city. This is expected to be one of the hardest games of the season for Coach Confer’s quintet. The Commodores defeated Lima here earlier in the season, after a hard battle and another close game is expected tonight. o Ruth To Talk Over Terms On March 2 New Yprk, Feb. 22.— (United Press) —Announcement from Hollywood that Babe Ruth would be here on March 2 to talk over a 1927 contract failed to create untoward interest at the offices of the New York Yankees. “Yes!" observed Ed Barrow, business manager, when told the glad tidings. Barrow and Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, have taken the position that the next move is up to the slugger in contract activities. They offered a one-year contract at $50,000 which was vetoed by the Babe. Now it is up Jo him to estimate the value of his services. The general belief among baseball men here is that Ruth will be signed at a season fee of $75,000. ■ o Wabash Defeats DePauw As Devol Shines, 42-31 Crawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 22. — (United Pressb—Benny Devol shone again last night as Wabasn went on a stampede and trampled DePauw’s basket five 42-31, in a fast game here. i Devol broke loose for eight field | goals and two free throws on his own hook while Ms teammates afforded him excellent support. The Little Giants started with a rush and held a 10-0 lead shortly after the openin* . gun. DeFauw then started scoring but was never able to offer a serious Jthreat. The score at the half was 1 27-19, Wabash.

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Waycross (Ga.) high school team, members of which walked twen- , ty-six miles to enter the southeast Georgia tournament because the Waycross association had no funds for transportation."—W. J. Fox, Jr., Indianapolis News. Drcatur fans certainly are giving thrfn two high uchool teams fine su|fport this senson. Large delegations have followed the Yellow Jacke.s and Commodores on every trip they have taken this season. Last I Saturday afternoon, when the Yellow i Jackets were playing Waldron in the| ■ ••mi-finals of the Tri-state tottrnamen.', at Cincinnati, at least 26 D»»eaturites were grouped together on the bleachers yelling their lungs out for Coach Curtis' players. Tonight, more than 100 funs will go to Lima to back the Commodores in their battle with St- Rose high. Over at Huntington, when, the Yellow Jackets played the Vikings a few weeks ago, there were as many Decatur fans as Huntington residents at the game. A team invariably plays.better ball when there is a crowd of rooters back of it on tiie sidelines. Indications are that the Yellow Jackets will play to another full house when they meet Auburn in the last game on their ccheddle here Friday night. All seats will be reserved, except those in the balcony. Reservations may be made at the high school building between 6 and 8 o’clock Wednesday evening. The Borno Fighting Five won an-

other haif game Saturday night, but fell short In the total for both halves, Fairmount winning. 25-24. Borno led nt the '-nd of the half. 20 9. Moyers, Kirkland forward, seems to have developed a keen basket eye. He has dropped in 30 field goals in the last four games, getting 11 J against Geneva, four against the alttmnl. four against Lancaster and ( 11 against Jefferson. Undoubtedly, he will b" a marked man in the . tourney. J FAMOUS LAST LINES: "I TOLD YOU SO’’ 7 " r Dempsey-Maloney Fight ' In May Is A Possibility J / Los Angeles. Feb. 22. — (United J Press.) A fight between Jack Dempsey and Jimmy Maloney in May is a . possibility, Gene Normile, Dempsey’s personal advisor, said today. After a two hour conference with the former heavyweight king. Normile announced that Dempsey intended to fight again. If no lai ger offers are received, Normile added, the former champion probably will accept the $300,01)0 guarantee of Promoter Hubart Fugazy to meet the Boston fighti> er - * A Normile denied rumors that Dempsey was “through," and declared that the champion’s recent attack of blood poisoning had had no serious effect on him. Fugazy’s offer was received by tele-; graph several days ago, Normile said.

LU. Wrestlers Are Alter Big Ten Title Bloomington, Ind, Feb. 22.- Indiana University's undefeated wrestling team being groomed for a chance at the Western Conference chanyiion- ' ship. Michigan University is the only Big 'Ten sehocl remaining on the ; schedule A victory over the Wolverines Feb. 26 at Ann Arbor will give 1 Coach Jack Reynolds’ Hoosiers the right to coinpete for the titular laurels March 5. Big Ten schools have been easy for Indiana this season. Northwestern ' went down, 24 to 3, Purdue fell, 16 to 11 and Ohio State lost, 19 to 9. In nonconference* meets Cornoil was defeated, 14 to 9 and Cincinnati was dropp- 1 . cd 23 to 3. Ralph Wilson. Evansville, light heavyweight, has not iost a single deli ision. Wilson was runnet-up in the I national meet last year and appears to . be well on the way to some more chami pionship honors before the present ses- [ ; sion is finished. I Walter Fish, heavyweight, has iost ' out one match, that to Johnson, of Pur- . due, 1926 Conference champion. Fish- . ■ er'may get another chance at the Boil- . et maker March 11-12 in the individual . Conference championships. . I Coach Jack Reynolds started the session with only two veterans Fisher ■and Wilson, Aiken. 115 pounds; Schoolfield, 125 pounds; Stohr, 135 | pounds; Wampler 145 pounds and Weai ver 155 pounds; are practically all new I I men. Aiken, Stohr and Weaver coin-1 I peded in their first Big Ten meets i this season.

Purdue Net Star Out Os Game With Infection T*afayette, Ind, Feb. 22 ,r p ( Purduo basketball hopes were g| vf . n a severe setback here with the an nouncement that Chester Wi| (lix star athlete, who was taken to hospital with an infected Lg y W( , r day, will bo unable to play f or a( ' least a week. Possum Trot—This village Halite largest "per capita" number of do M of any Indiana town. According t, an unofficial census, the population hern is 18 While there are 22 dti.s, I ERU—Forty Hr st class gray ho, f . s will inaugurate careers nmb r the • hi,, 'top" this season according to G y Ijtnhatn Who is trying to round tip that number of the 1927 circiu SP j. son. Lanham. represented the American Circus curporation here. Bluffton—Perry Pile, of this city called the police force out to help his hunt bis car which he said was ’’stulen”. He brough the scan h to an ah:apt end when he found the •ar |,arae ( | where he left it a short time bei'orr Delphi—Members of the Knights ot Pythias lodge here staged a great homecoming celebration as a part of the services commemorating the sixty third birthday of the local order c* the lodge. Huntington — A calf belonging to Lewis H. Thomas, farmer missing for a month and believed stolen, was discovered in a straw stack by Mrs. Thomas. The calf had lived the entire i month on straw and melting snow Round and square dancing at iK. of C. hall. Thursday night. I 4511