Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1927 — Page 3

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IwHIPPETS LOSE CLOSE CONTEST [irkland Semi-Pro Team Defeated By Anthony Wayne Institute, 32-27 The Kirkland Whippets lost a closev contested basketball game to the Uithon.' Wayne Institute five, at Fort Vayne, last night, by a score of 32 to [7. The game was played in St. Patil gymnasium. The Whippets get the jump on their ipponents and held a lead of lit to 13 !t the end of the first half. Ernst, forward, led in the scoring for Kirkland with five field goals and a free throw, lohnson, a forward, scored the saint Himber of points for the winners. The Whippets were handicapped by the absence of “Piny” Bryan, forward, rom the lineup He is suffering front njuries sustained in a recent game. Lineups and summary: Kirklyand (27) A. W. I. (32) t; rns t F .Johnson loffman F Jack Corson C Weiser W. Bryan G Armstrong lhady G .'E. Smith Substitutes: (Kirkland) L. Arnold and K. Arnold; (A.W.1.) Freudenstein Rauch and H. Smith. Field Goals: Ernst, 5; Corson, 3; Mryan, 5; Johnson 5; Freudenstein 1; Weiser 1; Rauch 4; Armstrong 2. Foul goals: Jackson. 1; Jack, 3, Armstrong, 2; Referee: Mosbaugh, Fort Wayne. o FIELD GOALS By MARK M. UPP jl" ■ Indications are that the D, 11. S. gym will be entirely sold out long before time for the Yellow Jacket-Cen-tral game is scheduled to start Friday night. Only the balcony and seven teen seats on the main floor remained unsaid yesterday evening. The entire seating capacity of th? Catholic high gym will be reserved for the Commodores’ game with Pittsburgh Tech on January 1. The usual price of fifty cents will prevail and it is believed the gym will be packed for the contest. Fans are advised to get their seats early. A contributor writes to inquire, “What has become of the Commodore fan with his ’three strait and still astraightin.’ ” if there are any fans who expect to see the Yellow Jackets run wild against the Central Tigers here Friday night, they are due for a big disappointment. Coach Mendenhall has three regulars left from last year's varsity and has a wealth of reserve material from which to mould his team The game here this week-end promise s to be a thriller. * - The Three Black Sheep Our dear Mark: Contributions have been coming in rather slow and in view of the fact “The Three Wise Men” of Decatur attempt one and succeed, in our opinion partly at least. Decatur surely will be widely recognized with the two crack fives that both high schools possess this year. More power, gangs. In the next week's contribution the readers will be treated to the one and only all-time city team. Fans order your papers early! Success. Blackie I Blackie II Blackie 111 Bluffton fans are as tickled over the return of Dale Ellenberger, formerly of Berne, formerly of New Haven, formerly of Bluffton, to Bluffton, Bluffton high school as a kid is with his new toys On Christmas morn. One over-enthusiastic fan, writing a lengthy contribution to Rip Offs’ column in the Bluffton News, included the following paragraph in his outburst: “I predict that Mr. Maik Em Up is already planning the shrouds which he will have to employ after a week from Friday nite when his much tooted Yellow Jackets invade the Tigers Lair. But any sane person knows that it is safer to be stung by a Yeller Jacket than to be clawed by a Tiger. I hate to predict what will hapen when Decatur meets this Pough-Crosbie, Bichey-EUenberger-Pyle combillation, hut I am sure that it will be a badly defeated bunch of Yeller Jackets that swarm hack to the northeast on the 16th. “What do you say, Mark? “Lolly Pop Off.”

AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING 1 Western Division acvelaud " s 'q jjjool Fort Wayne r> ;; Chicago .. 1 ' 6 j“, I Detro » 0 0 Eastern Division W. L. Pet. Rochester ti i 864 Philadelphia fi 4 fiOll • New York 4 3 r l7l ■ Washington ] 9 ' IOO Last Night's Results , fort Wayne, 25; Philadelphia, IS. Tonight’s Schedule Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at Detroit. fmtwwneTl TO PLAY LOCALS 'Decatur General Electric i Team To Play Fast Team Here Tuesday 1 The Decatur General Electric bas- . ketball team will play the Fort Wayne . G E. team of the Y. M. C. A. industrial league, in the Decatur high school gymnasium. Tuesday night, December 13, it was announced today. The Fort Wayne team is composed of three members of last year’s quintet, and former stars at Huntington and Warren. There will be a preliminary game, starting at 7:15 o'clock. The big game will start at 8:30 o'clock. Admission will be twenty-five cents. o— —— BIGTENCACERS AREWARMINGUP Practice Games Scheduled For This Week-end; Season Opens .lan. 7 By Gene Hoffman

INS Staff Correspondent Chicago, Pee. 7. —Although the big j ten conference basketball season does not open until January 7 —one month fiom today practically every team on the loop is already hard at training with the idea of hitting the starting tape at midseason stride. During the intervening month before conference competition begins, the various quintets will play a series of “warming up" games with smallei colleges. These are important only in affording a slant on championship possibilities. Saturday night, for instance, the following practice games tire on the docket: Wabash at Northwestern. Monmouth at Chicago, Knox at Illinois. Coe at Wisconsin and Franklin at Indiana. Michigan won last season's basketball championship, copping all but two of the twelve scheduled games. Indiana and Purdue finished in a tie for second honors. On paper, Michigan bids fair to repeat again this season, with Purdue and Indiana rated as strong contenders. Basketball is a Hoosier state institution. It is taken much more seriously than football or any other sport That is one reason why Purdue and Indiana, usually weak or mediocre on the gridiron, must always be reckoned with during the < age season. o Kid Griffo, Once Leading Boxer, Dies In Poverty New York, Dec. 7. — <1 P) —Kid Griffo, once one of the leading bantamweight and lightweight boxers and one of the real spenders in the days when fighters spent their all on enbargains in Used Instruments Gretch C Melodv Saxophone, silver plated, Wurlitzer C Melodv Saxophone, silver plated. Conn Bb Cornet, silver plated. Thsee instruments have all been thoroughly sterilized, repaired and put in a first class playing condition. Try Holton's Electric Valve and Slide Trombone Oil. To make that horn shine use “Shino" Polishing Cloth. Also dea'er for Buescher instruments. Cornelius Durkin

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teitaJnlng, died today in virtual poverty. He was found dead in a rooming house in the ‘ Hell's Kitchen” neighborhood where he hurt been taken in | several years ago, after he had been found wandering, broke and disconsolate, off the Broadway that once had known him so well. Indigestion and a general run-down condition were given as the causes of his death. Although be had fought at the bantamweight limit in the early nineties, he weighed more than 200 pounds when he died. Harvard To Play At Ann Arbor Next Fall Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 7. —(UP) — Football relations between Harvard and Miehig.’ui occasional rivals since 1881 will be resumed on a home-and-home basis in 1928 and 1929, director of athletics fielding H. Yost announced. / The Wolverines will entertain the Crimson at Ann Arbor next year and tiavel to Cambridge in 1929. The Cilms. n’s tiip here will be the second in history that a Harvard football eleven has made west of the Allegheny mountains. o Linton Man Enters Gubernatorial Race i l Indianapolis, Dec. 7. — (UP) —The first announced candidate for the Republican nomination for governor en- ’ tered the lists today with a plan for I rushing the state's concrete highway • program to completion. He is Arthur Symms of Linton, an efficiency en- . gim er, receiver for the Linton Gas . and Coke company, part owner of the ! Jacksonville Water company and a Linton resident for 23 years. Too plan for completing the state's system of hard road gets around the constitutional prohibition agenst the state assuming any bonded indebtedness. | Symms would have the legislature ’ pass an enabling act to permit formation of a private company which would issue bonds to finance construction of roads. These the state would lease 1 by paying seven per cent a yeai which would retire the cost and make the highways state-owned in 26U years. ' —- L-

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INEW FORD ON I DISPLAY HERE The first of the Model A. Ford out >• mobiles in rived in Decatur at the F- rd garage on Madison street. The car being shown In this city Is u twodoor sedan, in grey colors. Floyd Manley, Henry Graber and Dick Heller motored to Bluffton last night where they received the new car. It had been shown to more than 3,')"0 people at Bluffton, yesterday. L. Jennings, of the Indianapolis ■ branch of the Ford motor company, ae companled the car to this city and explained the new points of the ear to i local people today. The car will be ' taken to Portland for a demonstration tomorrow. It measures up to every ’ advertisement which has described the • car, —— —o Card of Thanks The Salem Ladles Aid thank every | one, who contributed in any way to the success of cur Bazaar Social. A neat, substantial sum was netted, . thank you and a merry Christmas to ( all. Nettie Mercer

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' Hoosiers Win From Philadelphia, 25-18 i Fort Wayno, Ind, Dec. 7 (INS) — Fort Wayne <unio back In lit 1 end game with Philadelphia, In th-• American Basketball Longue race, to win 25-18, last night | ; Wright Players In “To The Ladies”— A Jovial Comedy i Once again the Fort Wayne Papms have been unanimous In their pratsof The Wright Players In their weekly productions opening on Sunday nig!'.’ at the Majestic Theatre. I These performances are of especial Interest to theatre-goers of the city, because of the fait that the Traction Cars are held until after the perfotmance for the convenience of t heat re patrons who notify the box office. | Robert Baral, writing for the Jour-nal-Gazette, said: “One scene in 'T > The Ladies', tile current Wright Pla - e’rs production, is Just about the cloverest bit of satire which has been seen , and heard in Fort Wayne far a long, long time. It is the banquet scene, biinging out the usual Babbitry pre'dominant at such affairs, with the '’many boresome after-dinner speeche: land limp jokes given out.” “The sets tire very colorful and in

'good taste. The banquet scene Is stag- ' ed effectively with the long dinner tables facing the audience, the players seated on one side, and the patrons being used ns the guests on the ipposide side. You'll enjoy this show. H. L. Cedi wrote us follows in the Evening News: 'A tribute is paid to I woman's sagacity and her Influence In business In "To The Liulies,’ comedy drama offering of the Wright Playert nt the Majestic Theatre this Week' -Thi' second scene of the second r.ct

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in the piece de reelstance of the entire piny. It trades upon the old story of the banquet speaker who flnda hit I guns sulked with a previous speaker takes his speech verbatim, but gets a lot of comedy out of Ute situation." " 'To The I,iidies' carries u lesson as well ns its laughs. It Is official recogulxntion of the value of a woman's aid. Not so uproariously funny, it nevertheless Is a good evening's entertainment, wdl played and staged wi'h care." It Advu