Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1927 — Page 8

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WILL HOLD PEP MEETING MONDAY Decatur Fans To Give Commodores Rousing Sendoff For National Tourney A big pep meeting at which basketball fans will have an opportunity to give vent to their enthusiasm on the eve of the depature of the Catholic high school Commodores for the na iotial Catholic tournament at Chicago. will )>e held in the Knights ol Columbus hall next Monday evening the first game at 8 o'clock The meeting will he open to the public and a program of speeches, school songs and yells will be given. The Commodores, accompanied by Coach France ('outer and Father Hesston will leave Decatur at noon, Tuesday. The tournament will open on Thursday morning. The schedule for the opening round will be drawn on Sunday. Scores of fans are planning to fol.jw the Commodores to Chicago to back them in their efforts to cop the national championship. The local quintet reached Ute semi-finals of the rational tourney last year and the previous year, before being eliminated. This year, the Commodores and 'heir followers have high hopes that •hey will be teturned the winner from the group of 32 teams entered in the i-.eet. o Pat Page Condemns Stalling Tactics Bloomington, Ind., March 10.—(United Press) —Stalling tactics, sometimes known as a “delayed offensive", which sprang into popularity throughout the middle west during the 1926-27 basketball season, were condemned by H. O. ‘‘Pat” Page, coach of the Indiana University football team, here today Page has gone on record as favoring changes in the rules to make frequent stalling impossible. Stalling as a means of drawing out opposing guards to open way for an offensive drive is generally accepted as gojd basketball but Page believes; the use of the stalling game as a • means of keeping the opposing team | from gaining possession of the ball will hurt the game, b:th from the peet t .s’ and players' standpoint. o Youthful Robbers Caught. Gary, Ind., Mar. 10. —(United Press) —-Arrangements were being iii.U.c touay to rush the trial of two Cleveland youths arrested late yesterday ten minutes after the holdup of a clothing store here. The youths, Walter Gordon, 19, and Hany Leonard, 20, held the proprietor of the store at the point of a gun while they selected suits their size. o Mrs. John Everett and Mrs. Cal Peterson spent the day in Fort Wayne ■ with friends.

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ISt. Joe Team To Play At Fort Wayne Monday ) 'rhe St. Joeseph eighth grade ,bas-' ketball team will play the South Side high school Midgets, of Fort Wayne, in the South Side gymnasium, next i . 'Monday night, as a curtain raiser to the American League game between the Fort Wayne Hoosiers and the Chicago Bruins. The Midgets have defeated the St. Joe boys twice in close games thin year, and another inter1 esting battle is expected Monday ' night. 0 — Indiana Beats Ohio And Finishes Second In Race Cclutnbus, O„ Mar. 10 —(United Press) —Indiana was assured of second place in the Big Ten basketball conference through a 36-31 victory over Ohio State last night. The Ohio team had a 15-13 lead when the half ended. In the second half, however, Indiana's team work start'-il functioning and the Hoosiers gained a lead that assured victory. Captain Hunt of Ohio State finished his basketball career with Ohio by scoring nine points. This brings his season's total to 116. Beckner of the Crimson quintet, was high point man of the game, scoring five buckets from the field an.l a punishment tally for a total of 11 points. It was Ohio's second defeat here this year, Purdue being the only other team to take the Buckeye’s measure on this floor. o U. S. Navy Movie Service Greatest Film Distributor Washington, D. C. Mar. 10 (United Press)—No longer need blue jackets, hundreds of miles from home, sigh for glimpses of Charlie Chaplin and ; Gloria Swanson in their newest films Movies have become part of the dailyroutine of life aboard ships of the United States fleet and today the Navy is the world's largest motion picture distributor. To keep these ships and naval static ns supplied with a continual change of feature pictures, the Navy Motion Picture Service, under direction of the training division of the Bureau of | Navigation, has 1,200 complete eight- | reel programs in duplicate, 150 in tripi’eate and 4.800 comedy and cartoon reels. Three year- a-e reunited for each film to travel its circuit. Simultaneous with a picture's re'ease in first-run theatres, the Navy starts two prints of he -feature., on east and west coast circuits. Thiee prints of a special tea- . ture are occasionally obtained, one to i be shipped to vessels in European and I far east waters. The reels travel from ! ship to ship until every vessel of the fleet has shown the picture. The Navy's motion picture service supplies films from the Canal Zone to Alaska and only through this service aie motion pictures shown in all parts ; of the world. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

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FIELD 1 GOALS $ xx T x By Mark M. Decatur high school officials and Coach Curtis stated today that they had decided to tak n the Yellow Jackets to Fort Wayne Saturday to play in the regional tournament, even though Sport Onceover had announced in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel that. Central high school of that city was going to the state finals, at Indianapolis. It is thought that. Rockcreek and Columbia City will carry out the original plans and play in the regional. also, since many fans had already bought tickets and asked for permission t« lay-off work, Saturday. The boy with the wonderful view into the future is sadly lacking in memory or knowledge of facts, however, as is evidenced in his statement in the NewsSentinel yesterday that Rockcreek "got hot" against Bluffton

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and then played one of its kind in the finals against Lancaster. Had Mr. Onceover known the facts or had his memory not failed him, he would not have said that, since Rockcreek did not play Bluffton in the tournament. He rates Rockcreek as a poor third or fourth in Wells county, all of which surely won’t hurt Rockcreek’s playing in the regional. "Coach Murray Mendenhall is working the Tigers hard this wook in pteparation for the two games Saturday," says the Journal-Gaiette this morning. Coach Herb Curtis is working the Yellow Jackets hard this I week for THE TWO GAMES Saturr day. too. I "Central of Fort Wayne will he dei seated by Decatur is our guess, and . then Decatur will defeat the winner [of the Rockcreek-Columbia City ■ game."—Casual Comment, Bloomington World. While the regional tournament is the next thing on the program, the national Catholic tourney at Chicago is just around the corner, and the Commodores are putting in some diligent labor just now to prepare themselves for that hard grind. The Commodores will be given a rousing send-off Monday night, when the local fandom gathers in the Knights of Columbus hall to wish' . Coach Center and his men success. The Centermen will leave Decatur at

noon, next Tuesday. The St. Joe and Central eighth graders are all set for their title game in the D. H. S. gym tomorrow night. The winner of this game will be the first to gain possession of the George Wemhoff trophy. Lets pack the gym for this game and show the graders that we are back of them. The Daily Democrat is going to cover the regional tournament for Adams county fans. Remember our phone number Is One Thousand. The home floor may he worth a lot to some teams, but Indiana University would have been better off, | probably. had the Crimson played all 1 their games on the road this season. Os the three defeats suffered by Coach Dean's men in Big Ten circles,- two wore on the homo court and the other to the inferior Chicago team. Ohio State and Michigan beat the Hoosiers at Bloomington, but the cables wore turned at Columbus and Ann Arbor. The Crimson closed their season last night by licking Ohio State. 36-31. Indiana and Purdue were the* only teams to hand the champion Michigan team defeats in Big Ten circles this year. Indiana finished second in the standing and Purdue, by beating Chicago Saturday n’ght, can tie the Crimson. FAMOUS LAST LINES: "HE PICKED A LOSER." o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

SPEED PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED 4 Whippet Races Feature On First Day Os Race Meet Here Next August The speed program for the Decatur r race meet and night show, to be held J ■ in Balmont Park, August 23 to 26, iu-i elusive, was announced today by 11. L. Kelley, secretary. The program i on the opening day will be made up . entirely of whippet races. A large number of speedy dogs will be 1 brought here for the races. There will bo two whippet races on the j • second day of the meet, also. Loving cups, donated by various i business firms in Decatur, will be , awarded to the winner in the horse t races this year, and each race is > named for the donor of the cup for I 'hat particular race. The purses •'.re ■ 3300 for each race. Following is the , program for the four-day meet: Tuesdxy. August 23 , The Monarch %-mile whippet derby. The Decatur mi'e whippet derby. 1 The Crescent %-mile whippet derby. 1 The D. F. Cook Vs-mile whippet derby I The Belmont %-mile whippet derby. . The Wayne ’s-mile wh'ppet derby. Wednesday. August 24 2:20 Trot. Indiana Electric Co., (Cup) Puise $300.00 • 2:18 Trot. Decatur Daily Democrat, (Cup) .............. Purse $300.00 The Cornett %-mi’e whippet derby 20 h Century H-miie whippet derby. i' Thursday, August 25 '2:12 Trot, Murray Hotel. J W,

Rice, Prop. (Cup) Purse $300.01) 2:14 Pace, Lose Bros. Willard , Purse, $3oo.o« -:D> Trot, Eats Restaurant, I, P) Purse s3oooo Gentlemen's Road Race, (F or Untraine.l Horses).... Purse s2.’ih Friday, August 20 2:22 Pace, John T. Meyers & Son - «'»>P) Purse S3OOOO 2:24 Trot, Imperial Chevrolet (c " ph , , *IOOOO 2:10 Pace, Con ter Ice Cream M ( .°"J Cup) , , p,,rs,> *IOO.OO Mae Race, p ur ., e The following conditions and tubs will apply to the race meet hereEntrance fee. 3 p.-r cent, no definetions. Entries close Saturday. Augiu 20. Harness Horse Rules to govern except as stated. Harness racing will be under the three-heat plan, each heat a race- H) per cent to winner of race. The Association reserves the right to reject any entry, declare off. ’' nr I change the order of racing for ar v good cause. Money divided 50, 25. 15 and 10 ppr cent of purse. Horses must be eligib'e at date of closing. Two horses from the same stable or same ownership may be named H any one race on entry fee. but full navinent is required on each bore shout’d both horses s'art. In order to expediate the races, horses must be declared in at the Secretary's office, in a box for thit . mirecse, on a blank provided bv the =oc ety, not later than 8:00 p. m . on the day preceding the rare. o St Petersburg, Fla..—The Washington senators had little difficulty in winning a Spring training game from the Boston Braves 8-4. Lakeland, Fla., —Although players batted four chances in the field, the . Indians won their pre-season contest with the Cincinnati Reds. 6-5.