Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1927 — Page 8

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NET PRACTICE STARTS AT D.H.S. Coach Curtis Divides Candidates Into Two Groups; First Game Nov. 18 Basketball practice is under way at Decatur high s.hool. Coach Curtis has cut the squad to thirty players and divided them into two groups. The first group includes twelve of the most promising athletes. They are Anadell, Bell, Reynolds, Gerber, Krick. Roop. Engle, Hill, bankenau, Stoneburner, Cole and Kocher. The varsity squad practices right after the close of school in the afternoon until 5:30 o'clock. The second squail then takes the floor and works until 7 or 7:30 o’clock. The Yellow Jackets will play their first game on Friday night, November 18, meeting the Kirkland Kangaroos on the home floor. The Kangaroos have been practicing since the first of O tolrer and should be in mid-seas-on form by the time they meet the Yellow Jackets. Cole, Anadell and Reynolds are still steering from injuries sustained in football, but are showing improvement and probably will he able to get into the practice sessions by next week. Os the varsity squad, the following players saw active service with the first teafn last year: Anadell, Reynolds, Gerber. Krick, Hill, Bell. Cole, I.ankenau and Stoneburner. The team has the stiffest schedule this year that a Decatur team has faced for many years.

23 HIGH SCHOOLS BUILD NEW GYMS Baskethall Gets More And More Attention As Major Sport In Indiana Anderson. Ind., Nov. 3 (INS) Twentythree new gymnasiums have been constructed c. are under coMtructlon in Indiana towns far high school basketball games this fall A. L. Trester, secretary of the Indiana high school athletic association has announced here. Trester said this wag proof of the growing tendency in Indiana to give basketball more and more attention as a major sport. • The cities that have acquired new gyms in 1927 according to Trester and theii seating capacities are Attica, 2.800; Bloomfield 2,206; Cannelton, 650; Centerville, Dale and Evansville • Central) 5.000; Fort Wayne. North Side, 2,800; Frankton. 1.600; Garrett. 2,150; Gary 4,000; Loogootee. 4,000; Marion, 6,200; Mitchell. 4.000; Monon 1.000; New Albany 4,500; North Judson and Paoli, 2,100; Remington. 1,500 Sullivan 2,750; Upland, Winamac, Windfall and Valparaiso, 2.600. — o Hack Wilson Claimed As Chicago Cub Star By Bert M. Demby (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Chicago, Nov. 3 (UP) While the Chicago Cubs lode the ciest of the National league during the 1927 season, baseball writers were wont to refer to them as the “club without a star." Chicago fans protest at that remark. They want to know why Hack Wilson, the stocky Cub outfielder who makes a speciality of hitting home-runs, isn't considered a star. They point out that Hack cracked out something like 30 home-runs during the past season and that he is one! of the most consistent fielding cutlielders in the game. Wilson's history is one of queer contrasts. For many years he swung a sledgehammer. Perhaps that accounts for his queer build. Few men have a larger chest. His arms are short, but in strength they have few parallels. He is stocky, a few inches over five feet in height. When with the Giants, Hack couldnot seem to get his bat going, hitting well below the .300 mark. Finally McGraw cast him adrift and Wilson went to the American Association. There he got started and when the season ended he had a hitting mark well above .350. He came to the Cubs. Then he started rapping home-runs. Immediately he endeared himself to the Chicago fans. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a hickory settee which was taken from the Dugan lawn the night before Halloween, will confer a favor by call-' ing Mrs. Dugan. 260-2 t

Standing Os Adams County H. S. Teams W. 1.. Pct. 1 0 1000 i Berne 1 0 1000 ; Hartford 11 .500 ~ Jefferson 0 1 .000 I Geneva , 0 1 000 Decatur 0 0 .000 Decatur Cath: lie 0 0 .000 Monroe 0 0 .000 Monmouth 5... 0 0 .000 Pleasant Mills 0 0 .000 D. C. H. S. FIVE TO PLAY PITTSBURGH Eastern Team To Play Commodores Here Jan. 1; Bluffton Games Cancelled Cancellation of two games on the Catholic high' school liasketba'l schedule and the addition of one that will pro.iably be the biggest drawing card of the season were -announced today by Father Joseph Hession, athlet'c manager of the schoolThe two games cancelled were those scheduled with Bluffton high school's second team. Father Hession was under the impression that •he games were to be played with Bluffton's first team when they were scheduled and he asked that he games be cancelled. The team added to the schedule is he Technical high school team, of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh team will p'ay the Commodores in this -ity on the night of January 1, and

‘he game is expected to be one of 'he feature attractions of the Holiday®. The Easterners will play the Bluffton high school Tigers in BluffI ton on December 30. and the south ! Side high school quintet in Fort Wayne, on December 31. The local | chool was forced to put up a big -rrarantee to get the Pittsburgh team j hdre for a game, and it will he neces ■v for the fans to turn out en masse o make expenses. However, the game is expected to fill the new gym without any difficulty. The Commodores wiil play their first game on Friday night, November 11. meeting the Geneva team in his city. Purdue Works On Defense For Northwestern Game Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 3.— (INS) — Working out a defense aimed at stopping Northwestern's heavy artillery in the persons of Lewis. Gustafson and Holmer. occupied the attention of Coach Phelan today his squad, liav ing suffered two conference defeats, is determined to “take” Dick Han ley's purple machine when it rolls in here Saturday. TV Boilermakei ? are tfaTnihg more enthusiastically than ever before.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1927.

KIRKLAND MEETS HARTFORD TEAM ' Two Strong Rivals Clash In First Game On Kirkland Floor Friday Night i) i 9 Basketball will c me Into its own 9 again Friday night, when the Hartford 9 township high school Gorillas and the 9 Kirkland high school Kangaroos, two 9 of the strongest Quintets in Adams' ) county, clash on the Kirkland floor. ) This will lie the first game in the new, ’ Kirkland gym and a full house is ex"pected. | Both schools have strong teams this year and rivalry between the two quintets is running high. The Kangaroos I had much difficulty in getting started I in their game wtih Chester Center last Firdav night, but Anally got to going in the second halt and edged out a , two- point victory. Coach Bryan has been working them hard this week in hopes of dedicating the Kirkland floor with a victory, but the Kangaroos will have to go at top speed throughout the battle if they expect to turn in a victory in their first contest on the new floor. . I Coachltill Bryan, of Kirkland, said today that the same lineup that he listed against Chester Center probably wquld start the game tomorrow night,, but a shift is possible. Coach Windmil. 1 ler, of Hartford, likely will start Hel-1 !er and Holloway at forward; Hoffman at center; and the Banter brothers at 1 guard. Coppess, of Monnoe, will referee the game. The preliminary game will start at 7:30 o'clock and the big game, at 8:30 o’clock. Mr. and Mts. France Center were Thursday visitois in Fort Wayne. i

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Ferry Boat Sinks After Being Rammed By Steamer I Sydney, Australia. Nw. 3,—(INS)— | Many persons weie and I the lives of a large number of school |chlldien Imperiled when a feirybout I at Greycliff, carrying 150 passengers, was' rammed and sunk oy the steam--1 rbip Tahiti today. Within several ( hours of the disaster H bodies had Is en recovered and 37 Injured per- ] sons taken to the hospital Many of the passengers were children on their way to school. i „ () Ty Cobh To Leave Philadelphia Club I Philadelphia. Pa. Nov. 3.— (TP)Ty Cobb, veteran out fielder, will become a free agent ready to bargain with any club in the country because the Philadelphia Americans are unable to pay the salary Cobb asks. This was made known after a conference between Cobb and Connie Mack, president of the Athletics, yesterday. "If we hail Sunday baseball we might be able to pay Cobb the salary he has a right tt> demand.” Mack said following the conference. Although ( the salary under which Cobb played last year—a one year contract —was not made known it was understood to be $40,000. Notre Dame-Minnesota Game Is A Sell-Out South Bend. Ind.. Nov. 3—(UP) — j A complete sell out for the Minnesota game Saturday has been announced by Notre Dame officials. Coach Knute Rockne, while believing his team an I ultimate winner in the game, is wary of Herb Joesting the Minnesota fullback and has drilled the team in a [defense to stop the Gopher plunger.

VALUABLE STILL TAKEN IN RAID I Federal Agents Get $50,000 Still And Arrest Five Men Near South Bend .1 South Bend, Ind., Nov. 3.—(IN'S) — A sweeping raid by Deputy Federal Prohibition Administrator George b | .Winkler and a squad of prohibition I enforcement agents, on a farm eight 'miles west of this city toihiy resultled in seizure of a. distilling plant valued at $50,000, and arrest of five nu nTh" plant was the second largest / Grapefruit \ / \ is a Uewon ] Mo Took A * I I CHANCE AN* / k Made Good / 1 I • I • BOSTONIAN SHOES FOR MEN fohtuT-Myeu & Sort y CIOTM/MO A«O VOf S / fOA OAO ANO lAO - ' OtCATUIC - INDIANA'

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