Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1927 — Page 6

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TOURNEY PROFITS SMALL THIS YEAR None Left For Division .Among; Schools After Expenses Are Paid The receipts of ‘he sectional basketball tournament held here last Friday and Saturday wore considerably Jess than the receipts of the 1926 tournament, according to the financial report made today by Walter J. Kl ick, principal of Decatur high school. Smallet>attendance at the tournament was given as the cause. The total receipts this year were *607.30, as compared to $814,60 last year. Last year, there were 330 season tickets sold, while this year, only 236 were sold. The total expens* s last year were $448.28 and this year's expenses were $421.85. After expenses were paid for, nothing remained to be divided among the participating schools. In fact. Decatur high school, which staged the tournament, lacked about SBS of getting as much as it should for putting on the tournament. The transportation, lodging; and meals for each team was paid, however. Decatur sold 178 season tickets, while the other schools sold the following numbers: Monmouth. 1; Pleasant Mills. 0; Monroe, 7; Berne. 9: Kirkland. 3; Hartford, 19; Geneva, 1: Jefferson, 0. Eighteen were sold at the door. o — DePauw To Award Nine “D’s” To Basketball Men Greencastle, Ind.. March 9—(United Press) —Nine men will receive the varsity "D" for their work on the I)»Pauw basketball team during the season just closed. Coach Hughes announced. The men receiving the award are Captain Ward, Pueket, Stewart, Byran. Messersmith, Stutiidge, Anderson, Ccstello and Raisor. For work on the yearling basketball .■•■ quad nine freshmen will receive numerals. Eight members of the swimming team are to be given the minor “D" and four will be given numerals. - - — Johnny Mostil Is Expected To Recover Shreveport, La,. March 9.—(United Press) —Johnny Mostil, Chicago White Sox outfielder, who attempted suicide by slashing himself witl a ‘■a?? r blade .vesier.l , s h ;-.»%< 4 uici bia chances for recovery aie excellent, physicians announced today. Tension in the White Sox training camp teiaxed somewhat as word went out that Mostil was in no immediate danger. While loss of blood will make it imposisble for the ball player to recover completely for several weeks, his condition is expected to improve rapidly provided there are no unforeseen complications. Worry over his physical condition was believed by his teammate? to have been responsible for the attempted suicide. Mostil, who was one of the fleetest outfielders in baseball, had been a habitual complainant about his health members of the club said. He spent several weeks during the winter in a Chicago hospital, being treated for facial neuritis. Monday Mostil went to Ray Schalk, manager of the team, and demanded medical treatment. A physician was summoned and from his diagnosis Schalk learned for the first time that Mostil really was as sick as he had insisted he was. The doctor said the player's blood piessure was abnormally A short time later other players found Mostil lying, fully clother with blood flowing from several wounds o Butler And Ahr To Give Anniversary Sale Concluding the first year of business with a total of more than $150,000 in sales, Butler & Ahr will give their anniversary stock sale next Saturday at the barns on First street. The year has been even more satisfactory than was anicipated and the sales have become community events, averaging about $7,500 each two-week sale. Live stock, farm machinery, household goods and other articles are offered by the farmers and always with ready sale. Col. Roy Johnson is auctioneer and with his assistants are making good.

Hoosiers Win Again From Washington Five | Foit Waynl, March 9 — The Fort | Wayne Hoosiers made it two tralght over the Washington Palace Club quintet in an American League basketball I game here hist night, winning by a si qje of 36 to 23. The Ho'siers won I tom Washington Monday night. als< Fort Wayne held a 20-10 lead at lite i nd of the first half last night. P>org- ( man. as usual, was high point man, •• 0.-lng 16 points. ' ■ —o EIGHTH GRADERS 1 I TO PLAY TOURNEY r ' Grade School Teams Os ; County To Stage Tournai ment Here Mar. 25-26 March 25 and 26 are the dates which , have been set for the Adams county eighth grade basketball tournament. I The tournament will be held in the •'Decatur high school gymnasium. Each . township and consolidated school, . t >wn and city school and the Decatur . Catholic school teams are eligible to enter the tournament. Entries must be filed with Clifton . E. Striker, county superintendent of schools, as soon as possible, A list o' , the players to take part in the tourna* , ment must accompany the entry. The drawing for the schedule will take place in the county superintendent's office at 2 p. m. March 19. Season tickets will no.t lie sold rcr the tournament. A charge of twentyfive cents will me made at each session. Walter J. Krick, principal of Decatur high school, has been instructed to secure a ompetent referee. The committee in charge of the tournament consists of C. V. Millikan, chairman, E. M. Webb, Olen March, V. H. Wagner and W. J. Krick. The Decatur Catholic eight gradi team won the county tournament lasi year beating the Deecaetueer Central teem in the final game. ■ o COLLEGE GLOSES I Wabash Suspends Classes To Prevent Epidemic —— Crawfordsville, Ind.. Mar. 9. —(United Press) —Wabash College students today returned to their homes following the closing of the school to prevent a possible epidemic of scarlet f.-v.-r. Classes were suspended until March 17, after a conference between officials of the college and city health au’horities. Two cases of scarlet lever were discovered on the campus and many students were exposed at the basketball tournament here Saturday. Two fraternities. Phi Sigma Alpha and A Karnak Club, are under quaran'ine but all other students were allowed and advised to return to their homes. City health officials will conduct a physicial examination of all studentt at the high school here and any pupil showing the least symptoms of illness will be sent home. Babv’s Father Can Be Identified By Analysis Os Hair, Professor Says Moscow (United Press(—Poor old “father” is catching it again. The recently-enacted marriage code put on fathers the new burden of havin'’ to suppoit their children to (he age of eighteen years, and thus put a severe damper of what is called “casual parenthood.” Now comes Professor I’aliakoff of the Leningrad Academy, with a claim that he can tell with scientific exactness whether or not an accused father is really ’he parent of the child he may be asked to support. Professor Paliakoff claims to do it by analyzing the hair. The only requirement, apparently, is t’ e baby must be old enough to have some The color of the hair, the Professor deciares signifies nothing. But its struc- , ture, studied under a microscope, tolls the full story of its paraaiage when I | compared to the structure of the hair] of its father and mother. The hair of most baby boys resembles that of their i mothers, the hair of the little girls is . that of their fathers. In the few eases ■ where the test fails, the Professor i avers, it has been found without ex- ■ ception that the hair of the baby under microscopic resembles) that of its grandparents.

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DEMPSEY MAKES CHANGE IN PLANS — Ex-Champ Expects To Begin Training Monday, To Fight Rickard’s Choice Los Angeles, March 9. — (United Press.) —Jack Dempsey has changed his mind tjgain. The former champion said today he would go into training Monday and then would fight anyone Tex Rickard wants him to light j within a nftnth. Dempsey said he would prefer to ! fight Gene Tunney hut that he feels he should comply with the public demand that he meet some of the outstanding heavyweights uncovered in Rickard's new elimination tournament. He will go to San Diego today to establish truthing quarters, the manassa mauler said. "I expect to start training near there Monday,” he added, “and in the course of a month 1 am sure I will be able to regain my old time con-, dition and then I will fight anyone.” New York, Mar. 9. — (United Press.) —Assured by a telegram from California that Jack Dempsey intends to return to the ring, Tex Rickard announced his intention to match the | former champion with the winner of ' the Paulino-Heeney match, the fight to-be staged in the Yankee stadium early in June. 0 Fostoria Catholics In Ohio Regional Tournament St. Wendelln Catholic high school, of Fostoria, Ohio, one of the opponents of the Decatur Catholic high school this season, survived the play in the district high school basketball tournament last weekend and will take part in the regional tournament next Friday and Satin day. Fostoria will play Maumee high school at 7 o'clock Friday night in the regional tournament. 0 .— + + + + + + + + + * + •*•+ + + + { * SPORT TABS «• ,♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦* Washington—Willie Hoppe slipped last night in the 18.2 Balkline billeard tournament for the world’s championship. and lest a lopsided 400-90 mutch to Young Jake Schaefer, who moved into a triple tie for first place with Edouard Horemans and Welker Cochran. Avalon, Catalina Island —In the first practice game of the training s--?.-yn, the Chicago Cub Goofs defeated the’ regulars, 3-2, after Spaiky AdOrns, Di minutive second baseman, made an enor. Three of the regular pitchers. Rlpot, Bush, and Osborn, worked. Palm Beach, Fla. —Bill Tilden commanded all attention at yesterday's play in the annual tennis tournament by taking his first three matches in love sets. He defeated Francis Johnston of Richmend, Va„ Franklin Hart HI of Montclair, N. J., and Carroll Turner of Miami in doubles, paired with Junior Coen of Kansas City, the former champion brought his team to u love set victory over J. F. Kikinow and Henry Mills. 0 — Mutilated Body Os Boy Found In Public Dump Palmer, Mass., Mar. 9 —(United Press)—The mutilated body of a hot found in the public dump here late yesterday was identified today as that, of John H. Kelly, aged 3, of Palmer. The body was At first' believed to have been that of Billy Gaffney, 1-year-oid missing Brooklyn boy, and Gaffney's father had started Massachusetts to examine the body. Immediately after identification was established, Albert Doe, a farmer, was arrested on a charge of first degree murder. The dead boy's mother, Mrs. Ida Kelly, housekeeper for Doe, was also arrested as an alleged accessory before and after the act. The identification came after neighbors had informed Police Chief Crimmins that the Kelly boy was missing. Several persons who had known the boy visited Heer’s undertaking rooms and identified the body. According to the pplce, Doe was arrested about six weeks ago charged with the assaulting of one of Mrs. Kelly'a children. He was tried but was later discharged. Doe and Mrs. Kelly were to lie arraigned in Palmer district court later today.

FIELD l GOALS zR Mark M. Upp Coach Murray, of Muncie high school, was dealt a severe blow last night, on the eve of the regional tournament, when Wedmore, star floor guard of the Muncie team, Kas taken to the hospital, seriously ill. The absence of Wedtnore from the lineup will greatly impair Muncie's chance#. The Yellow Jackets worked out for more than an hour yesterday . afternoon in the South Side gym, Fort Wayne, where the regional tournament will be held next Saturday. It took the boys quite a while-to get the correct range on the baskets, due to the large size of the floor, but they finally got their sights adjusted and were £,oing good when the practice session ended. Coach Curtis will take the Yellow Jackets back to Fort Wayne for another work-out on the South Side floor, Thursday evening, from 5 to 7 o'clock. This should put the boys in condition for their first game with Central, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Buy a ticket for the Central-St. Joe game here Friday night and then be at the D. H. S. gym at 8 o’clock. You wjll get your money’s worth and help the two teams out a lot. Coaches Thomas and Laurent, of Central and St. Joe, respectively, promise to have their two teams in condition for another one of those historic battles between the two schools. And Spring Is Coming “Waldron, runner up to Logansport B in the tri-state, wins from Shelbyville after Shelbyville defeats Columbus. Columbus defeated Bedford and Bedford defeated Martinsville twice. Martinsville defeated Muncie, Muncie defeated Bedford; Coolidge is a Republican and A! Smith is a Democrat: Merry Christmas and nine raws for Ihsaa." —W. F. Fox, Jr.. Indianapolis, News. One hundred and fifty season tickets for the regional tournament, arrived In Decatur this morning. The tickets may be secured from Principal Walter J. Krick upon payment of one iron man per ducket. A section of seats will be reserved for Decatur fans, but individual seats will not be reserved. Persons planning to attend

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both sessions of the regional will savo 20 dents by buying n season ticket, besides being sure of getting a seat. These two games at Bellevue and Fremont, Ohio, this weekend, should put the Commodores in good condition for the national tourney to be held at Chicago next week. The tournament is now uppermost in the minds of Coach France Conter and the Commodores. Entertain Biuffton Athletes "AU members'of the first basketball squad of the Bluffton high school members of the high school football squad of last season, high school yell leaders, and the men of the high school faculty will be entertained at a dinner at tilie high school building at 6:15 o’clock Thursday evening. The dinner will bo prepared by the domestic science classes of the high school” —Rip Offs, Bluffton News. Some interesting figures wore shown in the results of a guessing contest conducted by W. F. Fox, Jr., in the Indianapolis News last week, regarding the 64 sectional tournaments. There were five persons tied for first place, each making 24 bad guesses. The result of the guesses on the Decatur sectional was xi fellows: Decatur, 387; Kirkland, 24; Berne, 16;' Jefferson, 11; Monroe. 5; Monmouth, 4; and Geneva, 3. At Bluffton, the Tigers wore heavy favorites and only two persons picked Rockcreek, the winner. The guesses on the Bluffton tourney were: Bluffton, 405; Liberty ('enter. 23; Ossian. 14; Union Center, 5; Rockcreek. 2; Lancaster. 1. I “As We See It,” in the Hartford City News, has gone plumb blind since the Montpelier Pacers kicked over the dope bucket and beat the Hartford City Airdales in the sectional tourney last week, and hasn’t been able to see anything since then. The great Onceover is going to tell us all tonight how the regional tourney at Fort, Wayne-Is going to come out next Saturday. He made this announcement yesterday so that the thousands of “interested" fans could order a fopy of the News-Sentinel ahead of time. Regarding Decorations Dear Mark M. Upp: Here is a little cantrib. Publish it if you see fit. Did you notice the spirit,and sportsmanship displayed by the merchants of Decatur during the sectional tour11,'V l-,»i Saturday? do>, i ii,e merchants do a little decorating during these tourneys and show the Loys you are for them? Where are all the' booster clubs they say are boosting Decatur? Why don't they come to the rescue of the merchants and help them decorate. If they don’t know the proper decorations to use, go to some other town (any of them that hold tourfteys), and see how they are decorated. Now lets get together and give the boys a good send off to Fort Wayne and, also, give the Com-

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high spirits bpforp Im-Mvlng ■, ceipt for his ticket. The priza $50,000. X — 0 ,,„„ Boy Lost In Australia Chased By Wild Camels Sidney (United Press)- Wan<leri hli away from a homestead on a latt |, station in Central Australia a ten v. ir old boy, Harold Moran, was <-ha t-,i |\ a mob of Wild camels, herds of whhh hajve bred and now roam about h these dry regions since they ,1,. . pall ed from their tiansport uses by motor trucks. Moran managed to (s . cape the camels by dicing utnl.-r ;i fence. Afjer three days he was by woried searchers. Mrs. Vx in El«ey and daughter, Wanda, spent the day in Fort Wayne i with relatives.