Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1927 — Page 8

MOST SEATS SOLD FOR FINAL GAME Capacity Crowd Expected To See Decatur-Auburn (James Friday Night Indications aro that a capacity crowd will see th ■ Decatur high echool Yellow Jackets perform against, the Auburn eagers In the last game cf the season for the locals, here Friday night. Principal Walter Krick said this morning that all seats had been reserved with thc> exception of the balcony and about 50 seats on the north side of the gym. It is expee'ed that these will be reserved before time for the game to start. Mr. Krick and his assistants were kept busy last night between 6 and 8 o’clock, making reservations for funs who called at the high school budding or telephoned their orders. Fifty seats have been reserved for the Auburn fans. Two games will be played tomorrow night. The Decatur and Auburn giifs will meet at 7:15 o’clock. Miss Evelyn Hurd, of Bluffton, will referee the game. At 8:15 o’clock, the Yellow Jackets will take the floor against the Auburn varsity. Hugh Vandiver, of Marion, will officiate in this game. Both games are expected to be closely contested and exciting contests. In the two games played at Auburn early in the season, the Decatur boys and Auburn girls were victorious. — o TOURNEY TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY Plans Being Made For Sectional Tournament Here On March 4 And 5 Season tickets for the sectional high school basketball tournament to be held here Friday and Saturday, MdVch 4 and 5, will be placed on sale next Monday morning. Walter J. Krick, principal of Decatur high school, announced today. The season t'rkets w’’l sell for $1.50 each, for eh’tdren and adults, while single ad-n’isr-’on tickets will sell for 40 cents each, both chi’dren and adul's. No seats will be reset red this season, but persons holding season tickets will be given preference and will be , these ho’ding single admission tickets. Th« schedule for the tournament will he drawn Saturday of this w'eek. There will be nine teams in the tour nsment here, consisting of the nine nubile high school teams in Adams county, and there will be four sessions to the starting Friday night. Printed schedules will be sent to each competing school by Mr. Krick to n’enty nf time to arrange for making the trip. The division of season fiofcet sales will be made on the basis of such tickets being sold and paid for on or before Thursday, March 4. All schools must observe this nrovis’on. Season tickets sold on Friday. March 4. shall not be accredited to ?rv school in the sharing. Teams entered in the regional meets are to be limited to ten men and certificates from the school whose teams w n in sectional play to go to t*’e regional must be in the hands nf Secretary Tester on Monday, March 7. If you desire to change your sectional tourney blank, send a definite telegram giving alii data on or before this date. One entry fee covers all tourneys. The sectional entry blank covers the regional tourney unless you instruct otherwise. If you desire to change your regional tourney blank send a telegram to reach Mr. Tester on or before March 14. —— ... -A AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING W. L. Pct. New York 8 0 1.000 Washington (i 1 .857 Philadelphia 5 5 .500 Cleveland 4 4 .500 Baltimore 4 4 .500 Fort Wayne 4 5 441 Rochester 3 4 .429 Chicago 0 10 .000 Tonight’s Schedule Cleveland at Chicago. Last Night’s Results Fort Wayne, 27; Cleveland 24. New York, 35; Washington 30. Philadelphia? 28; Baltimore 24.

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Newell C. Day Referees Basketball Games In East ' Newcfl C. Day, who has refereed several high school basketball games in this city, recently officiated in a game between the Army and Navy | acudamies, at Annapolis. Mr. Day, who now resides in Baltimore, Maryland. is Maryland state nfanager for the Equitable Life Insurance Company. of lowa. The Army-Navy basketball game was the most important. 1 game in the east this season. Mr. ' Day has been making an enviable ’ reputation as a basketball official in tho east. Other large college games which ho has handled this season 1 include: Navy-North Carolina; Navy Gettysburg; Navy-Virginia; and 1 games in which Georgetown, Lehigh, Loyola and 'Fordham participated. Mr. 1 Day formerly resided in Fort Wayne and in Miami county, near Peru. 0 — I ___________________ FIELD « GOALS S J X i By Mark M. Upp Just one more day. and then we will have the schedules for the sectional tournaments, rhe drawings .vill be made Saturday and will be announced in the Daily Democrat Saturday evening. It is being noised about in Berne that the Fighting Five is going to win the sectional tournament here again this year. The Berne quintet I has been showing great improve > ment recently and backers of the team point to last Saturday’s feat . in holding the strong Fairmount quintet to a 25-24 victory as groof that Coach Braun's five is started at last. Tho Borne team has two same.' ocbo-lnlcd for this week-end, nteefirg 'he Kirklard Kancarcos on the Perne floor. Frida}’ night, and going to New Haven for a contest the following night. • .»■ 1 Tho Yellow Jackets are all set to end their season with a victory over ihe Auburn eagers here tomorrow night. However. Coach Curtis and his hoys are expecting a tough engagement with the upstaters, as they hat ■ hern improving tecontly. The Decatur girls will met the Auburn girls in the nreliminary, and this is expected to be a hotly contested game. also. The Commodores need another victory over the C. C. 11. S. team, cf Fort Wayne, to make their season’s record ’■omplete, and they have served not!."' that they are going to get that little thing Friday night. The locals are expecting a battle royal, however. Contribs! Contribs! Send ’em To Mark M. Upp. The Kirkland Kangaroos have two battles carded far this week-end, also. They go to Berne Friday night to play Geneva and then return to that town Saturday night to meet the Berne eagers. The Hartford Gorillas will wind up up their pre-tourney games Friday night, in a contest with the Ossian Boars, at Ossian, The Gorillas ought to get plenty cf good practice in that game, too. I , • Since the Fort Wayne Hoosiers won from Cleveland in a league game last night. Sport Onceover, , undoutedly, will blossom forth in the News-Sentinel tonight with*' many budding thoughts. As usual 1 he is expected to throw in a few confessions that the Fort Wayne I high school teams are far superior 1 to anything else in this neck of 1 the woods. 1 Baseball and track practice has > started at Bluffton high school About 25 athletes answered the call for diamond candidates, a:td 12 turned out for track practice. Dream On, Buck “With all this tourney tallf, fans

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must bo fellin' about like we do — Just iichin’ to get in that ol’ cow barn and watch those Wells county s tim.nl winners romp or er Vincennes.’’ —Buckner In the Bluffton Buvi<”-. DON’T FORGET. BUCK. THAT YOU ARE TO SEND US A POST CARD WHILE YOU ARE IN INDIANAPOLIS WITH YOUR “WELLS COUNTY SECTIONAL WINNER." Buckner. of the Bluffton Banner. 1; strong for the propped Northeastern Indiana League, which would take in the three Fort Wayne schools, Bluffton Decatur and six other schools near hen. We would cast our volt in favor of tho piop.tsal, also, but we’re villin-’ to abide bv the decision readied by the various coaches and pt inc! pal 4. Here’s what Buck has to say about the proposed league and the objections raised by Sport Onceo.er ,of the For. W - yne Ne vs-Sentlnel - “After dishing out Sport Onceover’s dope fio.n Fort Wayne vesterjlay, we fee 1 a little better out selves, but every time wo start to make some comment words fail us For instance, he assorted Bluffton. Decatur, Huntington and all of the other teams mentioned is wanting to form a Northeastern Indiana league had everything to gain and in so many words advised them to go out and get a reputation and consider themselves lucky that they had a chance to play his Fort Wayne teams during Hie season The reputation of Fort Wayne teams was certainly not made on the number of games won

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. 1 Onceover adi.ilt-i that by sajtiu: its bi Iter to lose 75 percent of the games to the best teams tilt'll to ” ■ win 75 per cent against tho others .! meuning'Bluffton. Decatur, Huntington. Kendallville, Angola. Ans burn. Columbia City etc. Taking f this year’s rest Id of Fort W; tie • Central as an example. Central 3 would do well In win that 25 per cent of games against stroncer tiaiiis, especially when they couldn't do mui h better than that i against teams in this district t, which have no reputation! Tit 1 ’ fact of the matter is. when North t Side opens up at Fort Wayne, the r three Pott Wayne school 4 are tro- • Ing to 'elevate'! to the same class us tho three at Indianapolis. Thev ,| will be furnishing pract- ’e grim s 1 f r all the big school “B" team 4. | If the Northeastern Indiana teams . | want to form their league, we beI lieve it will be a good thing, even without Feit Wayne schools. The t'oi t Wavne schools will all be wanting in or will be wanting g..t tes with the league members, I that’s certain,” Have you reserved your seat far the Auburn-Dscatur game tomorrow night? It may not be too late to do so yet this evening but hurry. A rival of the Catholic high school Commodores is getting fearful tha’ the said Commodores can not be stopped in the national Catholic tourney, so a protest has been forwarded to the tourney officials, charging that three members of the Commodores

loam, namely Meyers, A. Wemhoffl and J Mylott are past 21 years of are.i Father He-sieti mit* received a letter. ' firm the tourney officials hi regard | to tho protpst, and he has replied with birth certificates of every member ot the Jenin, showing than no one on I the squad has reached his 21st birthday, and will not during the present , s.-lmol ye.r. The charges are amusing ' Mylott. for instance, is still well withi ill Ills teens. FAMOUS LAST LINES: “I KNEW WE D WIN ’’ QPurdue Ties For Lead. I Beating Northwestern, 22-19 1 Lafayette. Ind., Feb. 24.—(United i I Press)- Purdue University today was , perched on the top rung of the West ] 'em Conference basketball ladder with j Michigan and Wisconsin, following a narrow 22-19 victory over Northwest J fern here last night. | The Lambert men were clearly off form early in the game and a somewhat similar ailment was all that kept the Purple from piling up a large and. >’ advantage in the first half. As it v was Northwestern held a one point o advantage at the intermission, 9-8. In tlie second half the Boilermakers came to life and erased the Pur4 ; pie lead, holding a small advantage 'I until the final gun. ;■ I Cummins was the shining light for' .i'he victors, scoring once from the, t: field and five times from the charity t str'pe. Johnson led the Wildcats in | s scoring with three fielders.

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Notre Dame Defeats Michigan State, 34-22 Easl Lansing. Mich., Feb. 24. (United Press)- Notre Dante found Michigan state tougher than expected but the Irish had little difficulty in winning a 11-22 decision over the local quintet in a fas' name here last night. The Irish were hard preset! to assume a 17-15 lead at tho half hut in the second half their defense tightened ami the staters we(e able to score hut 7 points. Ctowe was high p unter far the win-

j BASKETBALL :; LAST HOME GAME OF SEASON !! DECATUR H. S. vs. AUBURN H. S. i !; D. H. S. Gym 8:15 o’clock Few good seats left. :; D. 11. S. Girls vs. Auburn Girls—7:ls o'clock. ; I 25c 50c I; Come Out and Root for the Locals.

ners with four fielders. Captain \' v , kos rang the hell three times f‘,l the Held and once from the foul . while Conroy, Noire Datne's Heori “ back guard connected with two f „ lIR ‘ both the field and penalty ntn.k Dickeson, state forward, w-ili>,| riff with high point honors for the , scoring four fielders and n v , ’’ throws. i Notre Dame Starts Baseball, I South Bend, Ind.. Feb. 24,- s jxlv I nine baseball men reported so the first practice of the Notre Dame base. ■ hali team.