Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1927 — Page 6

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Decatur Yellow Jackets Win Sectional Tourney!

YELLOW JACKETS DEFEAT BERNE IN FINAL GAME, 42'17 Berne Shows Great Strength In First Half, Holding Winners To 11-9 Score GERBER INSTILS WINNING SPIRIT The Decatur high school Yellow Jackets won the sectional basketball championship by defeating the Berne Lighting Five in the final game, at the high school gymnasium, Saturday night, 12-17, before a capacity crowd. The local net aggregation walked through the entire tournament in firte shape, scoring 180 points in four games. The victory Saturday night marked the first sectional championship for Herb Curtis and the second time that Decatur ever won the honor. The game was much better than the score indicates. Stucky. Herne forward, drew the first applause when he tossed th® hall through the net for a two-pointer shortly after the game had started. Berne Takes Lead Two more Berne field goals ran the Fighting Five score to 6, while the Yellow Jackets failed to score. Bell and Behout finally got 'oose and in a short time the score was tied at 6-6. Berne again went into the lead at 7-9, but shortly before the gun announced

the midway period, the 'Curtismen hit the hoop for a couple of fielders and led at the half 11-9. Both teams made an effort the first five minutes of the second stanza to put the game on ice, and at one timeearly in the second half, Berne assumed the lead at 12-13. Coach Curtis sent | Carl Gerber, Decatur center, who had been unable to play in the first three games of the tournament because at an infected foot, into the battle and In three minutes Geiber had tossed the ball through the net '*• ee time ■ and the game was on Ice for the local netters. Yellow Jackets Speed Up The entire Decat,.r team felt a new' v'Ti ringing the net fur two-pointers from all over the hard wood. The Berne team.was unable to cope :th i the strength and endurance of the, local aggregation and bowed down to a 25-point defeat. The Decatur team and the 1,000 10-; cal fans who crowded the gym to see. the final game broke into a huge cheer | as the gun announced the end of the! 1927 basketball tourney, and the score; board showed a 42-17 victory for the Curtismen. Joe Krick, Decatur guard, reached the peak of his year's work in the Herne game and time and again he; stopped the Berne offense when it appeared dangerous. Roy Anadell, floor guard, played a good game throughout the tournament and captained the team through the final game in fine, style. Bob Hill, who played center throughout most of the tourney, gain-( ed the applause of the entire crowdi Saturday night when he left the floor Hill was high point man of the twoday tournament and did a lot of fine' work for the Yellow Jackets. Joe Bebout and Bill Bell, forwards went thiough the tournament scoring at will in every game. Bell and Bebout also played a good brand of passing basketball and were important cogs in the Decatur defense. Herman. “Red" Lankenau, substitute guard, and Chet Reynolds, who shares a regular forward position with Bell and Bebout, demonstrated some real reserve strength, Both men playing in every game. Reynolds, who is a junfor, has done much allthrough the season to gain the name for the local team which it enjoys through this section of the Hoosier basketball relm. For Berne. Thompson, Stucky and Bruun played best. Thompson, center, pliyed a good game throughout the tourney. Smith, Berne forward, played a good game against Hartford, but was unable to score a field goal against Decatur. Braun, floor guard. I was piobably the best Berne player,; and he continued to fight hard for his team until the final gun announced;

I —————— the score.' Lineup and Summary; ' Decatur (42) Berne (17) Behout F Smith I Bell F Stucky I Uhl c Thompson I Anadell <1 Braun Kr ick . . U Winteregg Substitutions: (Decatur) Gerber for HID, Lanki-nuu for Behout, Reynolds for Bell; (Berne) Ehrsam for Stucky I S. Stucky lor Braun, Field goals: He Bout, 5; Beil, 4; Anadell, 3; Krick, 2; Gerbet 3; Reynolds 1; Stucky 6* Biaun 2. Foul goals: Behout 1: Bel! 3; llfll 1: Anadell 1; Stucky 1; Thotnp- , son 2. Referee; Griffith; Umpire, tClurk. — o NO ALL-TOURNEY TEAM SELECTED — ! Officials Refuse To Pick AllStar Quintet; Outstanding Players Named For the first time in several years, no all-tournament team will be published 'in the Daily Democrat this year. For the last, five or six years, the tourney officials have selected a team, but this year when asked to do ' so. both Mr. Clark and Mr. Griffith; refused, saying that should they select one, all of Decatur's regulars would appear on the team, and it , wouldn’t be fair to the other teams , that worked just as hard to win. The writer of this article will make an effort to give honorable, mention to four or five players of each position, who played well during the tour- ' nament and were of the most value In fhnir lAnm.

to tneir team. When looking over the field of forwards during the two-day classic, there are several that loom up as good players. Bebout, Bell and ReyI nolds, of Decatur, played good, con I sistent basketball throughout the i tourney. Smith and Stucky, of Berne ' held their team in the running v.nt! the final game. Smith played rather inconsis,ently, but was mentioned by the officials as a good player. Stucky gained mention by his game against Decatur, when he scored most of his team's points. Hawbaker, Geneva forward, was one of the most valuable men to his team, in the whole (parliament. He scored all 13 of Geneva’s points, and played a good floor gaine ;< •Audit-us. of Monro.-, pteyed a fine game for his team, while it was en tirely outclassed. Andrews scored , half of Monroe's points. Myers, of Kirk'and, also proved to be a valu--1 able man. At the pivot position, Hill, of De- ! catur, played best. He. was high point man of the turnament and playled a good floor game at all times. I Thompson, of Berne, was probably ] the second best center in the tourney i and Hoffman, of Hartford, also deserves mention. While Carl Gerber of Decatur, played only ten minutes of the entire tourney, he certainly did things during that ten minutes, and it would not be fair to leave his name ont of a story which endeavors to mention tournament “stars.” In the guarding positions, Anadell and Krick, of Decatur, were generally conceded to be the best guards of the tournament. Both referees voted that. Roy Anadell was the most valuable man to his team, in the , tourney, while they both commended the work of Joe Krick at back guard. I Braun, of Berne, held his team in the running by some good floor work , and, at one time during the first half I of the final game, he sent the Berne team into the lead with field goal and a free throw. N. Banter, of Hartford, played a consistent brand of basketball, and won the praise of many fans. Other players who played well dur ing the tourney are: Eicher, Hartford; Stahly, ■ Geneva; Morningstar, Jefferson; L. Arnold, Kirkland; F. Arnold, Kirkland; Heller, Kirkland; Meyer, Monmouth. o COLLEGE BASKETBALL Indiana, 44; Northwestern, 25. Purdue, 29; Minnesota, 28. Michigan, 34; Chicago, 15. Ohio State, 30; lowa, 28. Wisconsin, 39; Illinois, 13. o Kendallville — Farmers of Treble ■ county have combined with the farm bureau in an attempt to stamp out the wave of chicken stealing which has I swept the country. All poultry deal- | ers will be forced to have a license to j operate here. f

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY MARCH 7, 1927.

FIELD GOALS / V By /jZ * Mark M. Upp ' Hail to the Yellow Jackets! Sectional Champs! Coach Curl Is’ boys dearly showed their superiority in the sectional tourney here Friday and Saturday, winning each of their.four games by ' wide margins, but they met some good opposition, especially in the Berne quintets. The regional tourney will be harder, gang, but you’re good enough to cop the title. ON TO THE COW BARN! The Berne team deserves considerable, credit for its showing in the tourney. Starting the season with only one veteran and much green material, Coach Braun worked hard with the squad. At the beginning of he second semester, more good maerial was added to .the squad and a gradual improvement was shown in the team's play. When the tournament started, most of the fans, outside of Berne, thought that the Hartford Gorillas would eliminate the Fighting Five but the blue and white

ive downed Hartford decisively. Then in the final game. Berne forced he fight against the Yellow lacket for one half, only to be caught beneath an avalanche of Decatur ield goals in the second half. The tournament was interesting. vell-handlesJ and a great success in >very way. It is reported that the underakers did a rushing business at Bluffton, Saturday afternoon, following the Bluffton-Lancaster game in the semi-finals of the sectional tournament. Maybe, it wasn’t that bad, but there was Si’Wtn ' and .. Bikappoint ment, and well there should be. For Bluffton had a nice bail‘club this year and the defeat of the Tigers in the sectional tourney comes as a distinct surprise and disappointment. Maybe Lancaster and Rockcreek have better teams than Bluffton. We hope so, because it is certainly tough luck for as good a team as Bluffton to be eliminated by an inferior outfit. Now that Bluffton is out of the ace, we suppose Sport Onceover in he Fort Wayne News-Sentinel thinks "entral has easy sailing in the re'ional next Saturday. Let him think so. Wo hate to razz Onceover so much, but we can’t help recalling a tatement he made about the tristate tournament, at Cincinnati, reently. He said the tri-state tourney was a joke, so far as- strong teams were concerned. Waldron, the team that, eliminated Decatur in he semi-finals of the tri-state meet, von the s/ectional tournament at Shelbyville last Saturday. Slielbyille and Columbus, two teams rank'd among the first ten in Indiana, were in that sectional, too. We have hunch that Franklin wouldn’t have won her sectional if Center Grove, mother tri-state tourney team, had ro'ton its entry in soon enough to >lay in the sectional. It is said that Huntington is going to protest the victory of Clear Creek over the Huntington Vikings in the sectional at Warren, Saturday night, on account of the work of the officials. Anybody surprised? The Yellow Jackets averaged 45 points per game and held their opponents to an 11-point average during the sectignal tournament. Not a bad performance for four games. The Hartford City Airdajk>s took an unexpected flop at the Montpelier

SCORES OF FINAL GAMES q SCHOOL SECTIONAL TOURNAMEN IS

At Anderson i i Apderson, 17; I<apel, 12. ■1 At Angola Auburn, 35; Garrett, 18. At Bedford Bedford. 51; Hiltonville, 19. At Bloomington Maitii.nville, 25; Bloomington, 21. At Bluffton Rockcreek. 33; Lancaster. 29 D O T. At Clinton Montezuma 21; Clinton ,18. At Columbia City Columbia City, 40; South Whitley 3ft At Connersville Connersville, 29; Brookville, 15. . I At Covington , Attica, 29; Hillsboro, 15. At Crawfordsville Bowers, 2ft; Wingate, Ift. At Danville Brownsburg, 24; Amo, 19. At Decatur Decatur. 42: Berne, 17. At East Chicago Emison (Gary), 32; Hobart, 20. At Elkhart New 1 aris, 23; Napanee, 21. At Evansville Central of Evansville 30; Synthiana,.! 26. At Flora Burlington. 20; Flora 15. At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne Central 44; New Haven 10. At Fountain City White Water, 29; Morton (Richmond) 18, At Fowler Boswell, 29; Freeland Park, 25. At Frankfort Frankfort, 60; Jefferson, 10. At Franklin Franklin. 28; Union Township, 27. At Goodland Kentland, 25; Goodland, 23. At Greencastle Greencastle, 32; Cloverdale, 12. At Greenfield Greenfield, 28; Fortville, 21. At Greensburg Greensburg, 32; Scipio, 13. At Huntingburg

Huntingburg. 31; Winslow, 29. At Hymera Carlisle, 20; Dugger, 15. At Indianapolis Technical (Indpl’s), 30; Warren! Central, 14. At Jeffersonville Jeffersonville, 17; Salem, 10. t Kendallville Kendallville, 39; Albion, 7. At Kokcmo J Kokomo. 49; Jacksen township. 20. lurnameni, too. With a record of wo easy victories overudfie Mont,peer Pacers to their credit, the Airlales took toe short end of a 23-22 tcore in a game with the Pacers Saturday. Fmineipal Walter Krick, ot the Deatm high school, handled the seconal tournament in fine style. Not single complaint was registered by 1 player or fan, and Mr. Krick had tls force of ushers and assistants irganized in such a.manner that the ■rowd was taken care of in good shape. J. R. Clark, of Winchester, and , Ford Griffith, of Auburn, were the officials at the sectional tourney held in this city Friday and Saturday. The two men handlad the games in fine style, and not one team registered a protest in regards to the officiating. Both men have enviable reputations as officials, and Decatur fans , hope that their visits to Decatur will be often during the 1927 28 net season. Decatur fans and all other fans who witnessed the tourney and all nine teams register a vote of confidence in Clark and Griffith. Each team can use ten players in ’he regional tournament. In addition o the eight used by Coach Curtis in •he sectional tournament, Cole, sub -titute center, and Somers, substitute 'orward, will be taken to Fort Wayne, Dearest Friend Mark: I tell you, it’s the people, Mark, the neoiple that cause these jams at final ■.ectional games. Anyway (yes, if wt this way. another), you helped and me, too. And did our Yellow Jackets avenge that defeat at the hands of Berne ast year. We’ll say they did. and how! Although the first period ap'eared quite close, the Yellow Jackets’ affluence at the conclusion of the tame shows the comparative strength of the fives. There is no question, whatsoever, that Decatur did not have ’he best team entered in the tourney. Hill, indeed, proved a most importint cog in the Jacket machine. Berne's Fighting Five has been lastly named, a survev of the summaries, games and opponents would note. Overcoming Geneva, at a time

, At Lafayette Montmorenci, 12; Jefferson (l.Hay- ! cite). 10. At Lagrange Lagrange, 26; South Milford, -1. At La Porte La Porte, 29; Michigan ( Uy, 24. At Lawrenceburg Iwrenceburg,lwrenceburg, 35; Rising Sun, -1. At Linton Linton. 28; Midland. 11. At Logansport Logansport, 50; Young America, 11. At Marion Marion, 23; Fairmount. 22. At Milford Saracuse. 26; Warsaw, 22 At Mishawaka Mishawaka, 39; South Bend, 11. At Monticello Monticello. 35; Brookston, 33. At Montpelier Montpelier. 33; Jackson township 14 At Muncie Muncie, 52; Center, 6. At Newcastle Newcastle, 17; Kennard, 10. At Noblesville Noblesville, 34; Arcadia, 22. At North Manchester North Manchester. 4G; Laketon, 19. At Oakland City Owensville, 24; Oakland City, 22. At Peru Peru, 31; DeedSville, 19. At Plymouth Plymouth. 27; San Pierre. 3. | At Rochester Kewanna, 17; Rochester, 16. At Rockport Tell City, 31; Rockport, 13. At Rushville Rushville. 22; Webb, 17. At Scottsburg Vevay, 20; North Madison, 19. At Seymour Cortland, 32; Seymour. 31 At Shelbyville Waldron. 19; Shelbyville. 17. At Spencer Spencer, 29; Patrickburg, 23. At Terre Haute Wiley (T. H.) 13; Gerstmeyer (T. H.) 12. At Tipton Sharpsville, 31; Tipton, 2ft. AAV4_I _ —1 — -

At Valparaiso Valparaiso, 43; Crisman, 9; At Versailles Batesville, 25; Holton. 13. At Vincennes Vincennes, 38; Bruceville, 12. ! At Warren Clear Creek,z2B; Huntington. 25. At VVashington, i Washington, 49: Odon. 13. i At Winchester Union City, 30; Stoney Creek. 17. when they be just so, and Hartford, rated as second-best in the county, and giving Decatur a heated battle for one half is noteworthy. On the Berne quintet, however, one player,, |in particular, stands out as one > llYe sweetest piayers one Would uJfP’ the opportunity to see perform in many a day. Although partially lacking “a great fire" to score points, Braun, the Fighting Five floor guard, is beyond doubt one of the scrappiest, headiest and sweetest little players in this section of the state, considering also that this is his first year on | the squadt Petrie of Huntington 1 greatly resembles him, eh Mark? ! I also might, add that I trust this or 1 any praise of this like shall not "fall to head” for eventually (or rather, I very shortly) it quells a player. Our tourney team: Smith, Berne, (forward; Felber, Hartford, forward; L. Arnold, Kirkland, forward; Hill, Decatur, center; Anadell, Decatjur, ’ttard; Braun, Berne, guard; Krick, , Decatur, guard. Take Central and the winner of Columbia City-Rockcreek, Saturday, gang, and down to the cow barn. Yours, Monty Oh! FAMOUS LAST LINES: “WE WOULDN’T GET GOING.” —-o Van Wert Defeated In Second Round Os Tourney The Van Wert, Ohio, high school basketball team was defeated by Kenton, Ohio, 22-20, Saturday afternoon, in the second round of the Class . A district tournament, at Kenton. The game was close all the way. Van Wert leading at the half, 9-8. Van Wert! defeated Central high school of Lima, in the first round. St. Rose Catholic high school, of Lima, the only team to defeat the Decatur Catholic high school Comino- . does this season, defeated Ada high . school, 20-10, in the first round of the Kenton tournament. o John Giove, of south of the city, was .' a business visitor here this morning.

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MUCH CREDIT IS DUE COACH CURTIS Yellow ,1a c k e t Mentor Teaches Athletes To Play Game Clean And Hard Back of the Decatur Yellow Jackets fighting spirit and clean sportsmanship is one paramount reason. That tea-on is 215 pounds of real man and the man is .Coach Herb Curtis. Coach Curtis came to Decatur last summer from Monrovia, where he had been in charge of athletics for several years, and had built an enviable reputation. Herb began at once looking over his field, and when school started, basketball practice started. The avail- 1 able material was as good as any school in this vicinity and the first speck of optimism was injected into the Decatur fans when the season opened and the Yellow Jackets won a lop-sided victory from Fandom took real notice of Decatur’s new net meneteor when he took the still “green" team to Auburn and defeated that veteran aggregation. Then the ancient rival. Bluffton was] turned back in fine shape. Central of' Fort Wayne, was the first team to defeat the local aggregation, in a contest at Fort Wayne, which became tough and got entirely away from a certain Mr. Ogel, of Muncie, who had been secured to officiate. All through the season the Decatur aggregation improved steadily, and eVery afternoon from 4 to 6 o’clock. ■ Coach Curtis had charge of the net: candidates and. as the season neaied a close, he produced what is generally

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conceded to ),„ , i( H in northern Indiana. M The entire scl.n , atlll ■ has grown to like and r.-sp<.< t( . ’ ■ | Curtis and hi< ideals iu athletic, p ■ has sent his i:;u, ),. t( , ~v „ r y y ■ warning them to play j, ard |)IH ■ I fair, and Dec atur ha ,| M ed lls w son with the best re, ord ever made t' H any Dec atm high ilOul ba * ■ team. ■ Hundreds of fans will tollow t ■ and his team to Fort Wayne nex . ■ urday afternoon t> the regional tow ■ ney, knowing that, wm or 1 OS( ,, ■ tur will make a good showing ancTwq I play hard to win. hut will play c*. 4( * I all the way through. Coac h Curtis I in ail probability, be at the head ’ Decatur high school athletics again next yeas. All Tourney Teams ' Selected At Bluflton Bluffton, March 7—All-star section, al teams were selected at the clow of the tournament here Saturday night with Rockcreek. 14tn caster andOssian players on the first squad The seleetions follow; First team-Shively. Rockcreek. Wilson. Lancaster. and Johnson . Ossian, forwards; Scroghan ! Lancaster and Edris, Rockcreek. Centers; Herbst, Ossian, Gardner. Lamas- ■ ter, and Barrycreek. guards. Second team —Ellenberger, Bluffton. Patterson. flnion'Center, and Gtiffin. R.xltcreek, forwards; Crosbie. Bluffton.and Smith. Chester Center, centers: Fislner. Petroleum, Poitin. Liberty Center, I and Baxter, Bluffton, guards. o — Eucharistic Congress Film is a Great Drama of Realty. Tues. & Wed.. Cort Theatre. 7-8 ■ 0 * Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Payi