Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1927 — Page 3

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ALL COUNTY FIVES PLAYJHIS WEE K Decatur, Monroe And Kirkland To Meet Opponents From Outside County All Adams county school basketball teams will be seen in action either on Friday or Saturday night, this wook. Decatur Monroe and Kirkland are the only ones to meet’teams from outside the county. The Herne Fighting Five will invade Decatur for a game with the Decatur Catholic higlt school Commodores. This will be the first game for the Commodores since their contest with Shelbyville Catholic high here on November 26. However, the Commodores have been holding regular workouts and practice games and are reported to be in tip top condition for the game with Berne. The St. Joseph Eighth grade team will play the fast South Side Midgets, from Fort Wayne, in the preliminary game. The Decatur high school Yellow Jackets will go to Bluffton on Frida' night to battle their rival of rivals, the Bluffton Tigers. The Yellow Jacket second team will meet the Bluff ton Varsity Red in the preliminary. Principal Walter Krick said today h<‘ expected to receive about 150 reserved seats for the game at Bluffton some time tomorrow and he will place them on sale at the high school building Wednesday evening, between 7 and 8 o’clock. Fans who expect to accompany the Yellow Jackets to Bluffton art urged to secure a ticket here, as it probably will be impossible to get in without one. The Jefferson and Monmouth quin-

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Every Adams county high school quintet will be in action next weekend. Onlj’ three of them will meet opponents from outside the county, however. The Commodores will return to action after a lull in their schedule dating from November 26. The Berne Fighting Five will furnish the opposition for Coach .Laurent’s quintet here Friday night. Bob Voglewede, former Commodore center, accompanied the Notre Dame squad to lowa City for the game with lowa tonight. Twelve players made the trip. “Christmas” Andrews, former Yellow Jacket center, got into the Franklin lineup against Indiana University at Bloomington Saturday night, and scored one field goal. Christmas made his letter in football at the Baptist school last fall and appears to have a good chance to win another in basketball. The Yellow Jackets will have some mighty stiff workouts handed out to 1 them this week by Coach Curtis, who j will endeavor to iron out the rough ' spots that showed up in the game with Fort Wayne Central here last Friday night, in preparation for the all-important game with the Bluffton Tigers, at Bluffton, Friday night. i Coach Curtis saw the BlufftonAuburn game at Auburn, Saturday night, which was won by Auburn, 1 23-22. He says Bluffton is going to be plenty tough, Friday night. Au,J>urn played_a much better game against Bluffton than against Decatur, recently, and was able to beat the Tigers only by shooting 13 out of 17 free throws. Buck’s Forecast ‘ That Decatur Yellow Jacket-Fort Wayne Central game last night at Decatur was a sure enough battle. Central won the game 36 to 29, but it was a thriller. Looks like the Bluffton and Decatur game here next Friday night would be ’a bloodcurdler.”— Out of Bounds, Bluffton Banner. Plenty of Optimism Bob Cummins and Lawrence Templin took a trip to yon neighboring city of Decatur Friday 1 evening to view the Yellow Jack- 1 ets as stacked up against Fort I Wayne Central. Coach Curtis’ I tribesmen lost 36 to 29, after they i led at the rest period 17 to 15. Both Cummins and Templin state < officially that the Decatur five < w iH be meat when they play the Tigers here next Friday evening and may it sc be. —Rip Offs, I Bluffton News. p

C,ash Friday night. 1 umn, Friday night. Monroe pep pft() , lp by victork , g nvnr Monmcuth, Jefferson, and the Decatur Seconds will travel t„ Monroeville F . ’ y nikht to play t , lell . second game, q timet m SI,H Wi ' h the Monroeville quintet. Monroeville won the first Kame, after a hard-fought battle On Saturday night, the Kirkland Kangaroos will Ro to Rockcreek Wells county, for a return game with the , ’'’'iKcrs. The Kangaroos won the first K‘> >e between the two teams by a com- , fm table margin, but a much harder game is expected on the Rockcreek floor. Geneva and Hartford will clash on the floor at Berne. Saturday night. ' This is the second game between these two teams this season, also, the Hartford Gorillas having won tho first contest. The Geneva Cardinals have failed to win a game so far this season, but they have put up a hard fight in I each contest ami are determined to i push the Gorillas to the limit. AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING Western Division z.i k Pct. i Cleveland 8 2 800 Fort Wayne 3 ■ Chicago 9 7 990 1 Detroit ; s Eastern Division W L Pct. Rochester g 1 888 1 New York 7 3 .700 1 Philadelphia 7 5 r 18: > Washington 1 10 qm; Last Night's Results Detroit 32, Washington 23. Tonight's Schedule New York at Fort Warne Detroit at Washington

11 The Monroe quintet lost a thriller to tiie Bluffton Reds, at Bluffton Saturday night, 31-26. It was a last ' minute rally that beat Monroe. 1 I , The officiating of Vandiver and I ■ i Davis in the Yellow Jacket-Central 1 > game here Friday night was first ■ class. Their work speeded up the 1 ; game and eliminated practically all 1 razzing. f t The exhibition of tumbling and 1 other acrobatic stunts by several of I the high school girls, between the preliminary and main game at the J D.H.S, gym Friday night was inter- J osting. The girls did some real ( stunts and we imagine they could c show’ up a lot of boys in this line of endeaver. c I The Fort Wayne Central Tig- r ers gave further proof of their t treat strength Saturday night v when they invaded Huntington and walloped the Vikings, 47 to e 29. Coach Mendenhall used 14 u players in winning the game, ale co. Much of the Tigers' strength f lies in their reserve power. h “Rut’’ Walters, who was probably the most outstanding high school star \ ir the state while playing with Ifb- j komo high school two years ago, was ( ] the big noise in Northwestern’s 40-17 f, i victory over Wabash at Evanston, r [Saturday night. ’Rut'’ made seven n field goals and four or five free n throws. u Branch McCracken, who played 0 center for Coach Herb Curtis when Herb was coaching at Monrovia two p years ago, played center lor Indiana University Saturday night, against a Franklin. He shot three field goals H and two free throws. w Coach Milt Swearingen s St. Joe eighth graders will have their hands full Friday night when they meet the South Side Midgets, from Fort Wayne in the preliminary to the Commo- p dores* game with Berne. The Midgets g have been going big this season. T g We still have several copies of A our 1927-28 schedule book. They p are your's for the asking. p f Word has been received by Father K Hession that St. Rose high of Lima, Ohio, the team that broke the Com- s ntodores'winning streak of 20 straight last winter, has won its only two games played so far this season, beatIng St. Joseph, of Fremont, Ohio, and p St. John's of Delphos, Ohio. The Commodores play St. Rose here Decomber 21. p IF YOU HAVE ANY SURPLUS [j ENERGY, SHOOT US A FIELD GOAL.

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WHIPPETS TO ~ PLAY DARKIES " heatley Center Quintet to Play Kirkland Team Wednesday Night The Wheatley Center Harries, of Fort Wayne, one of the best colored basketball teams in this part of the country, will furnish the opposition for the Kirkland Whippets; in the Kirkland gym, Wednesday night. The game is expected to attract a big crowd of Adams county fans. Much enthusiasm is being aroused already and many tickets have been sold. Tickets may be purchased from any of the Whippets. The Kirland lineup will be strengthened Wednesday by the return of two regulars who have been on the sick list. A good preliminary game between the Craigville and Kirkland eighth grade team will be played at 7:30 at 7:30 o'clock. The main game will start at 8:30 o'clock. o — —— Baseball Folk IT 10l lobbies misty blue with cigar Smoke. "Howday, Jack “Why, yon old so-and-so put her there" “Hey, Joe, you know Jack Hendricks." "Sure. How are yuh. Jack?" “Look, there's Billy Evans.” “Hi, Billy, where's your mask and indicator?” "Some soft job I'll say." "Bet Garry misses this." "Yeh. and old Ban." “How-do, Mr. Heyler." "Hello, boys. The personalities attending the major league meetings in New York this week are more interesting, to me, than the baseball business to be transacted. The business can be attended to in comparatively short order, but the personalities present are wortli considerable attention. It is dlffcult to imagine this year’s meetings without Ran Johnson. The brave old stormy petral of baseball was the most colorful of all the figures moving through the routine of these aMual sessions. 1 have a lasting picture onllan's last appearance at a baseball meeting in New Yolk. He who once had been “Czar" of the pastime sat alone in a darkened, and with all due respect to the hostelry, dingy bedroom waiting for the American League Club owners to fire him. The blinds in that depressing bedroom wherb Ban sat were drawn, but the lights were not lit. Johnson sat in semi-darkness, that the watering of his eyes might not be betrayed. His gestures were those of a broken old man. His speech was the speech of a fighter. He wouldn't resign! Not he! The Johnson of 1900 spoke. But it was the Johnsen of 1927 with whom tho American League magnates in the room clown the corridor were dealing. Garry Hermann is another staunch old-timer who will be missed by the baseball crowd from now on, for Garry resigned his position as president of the Cincinnati Reds, shortly after the world series. Garry was at the series, with all his enthusiasms and most cf his old vocabulary, reminding one somehow of a good stiff breeze from the Yellow River would blow away, but who could have you cut artistically to bits just by lifting a claw-like little finger. But there'll be lots of them there: Walter Hapgood, who far some reason prefers the minors to the majors, undoubtedly will be around with his infectious grin: Billy Evans, bluff, barrel chested newly appointed general manager of the Indians; the genial and useful Cullen Cain, with his perpetually interrogating expression; John Heydler, rather serious behind a sheaf of papers, upholding whatever dignity the occasion demands; Jack Hendricks pink and grey and just as likely to be kidding as net; Judge Landis, brown and while, with a new golf story; theywill all be there—these baseball folk who keep the game the national pastime despite all the claims of all our other sports to attention, attendance and acclamation. 0 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL fort Wayne Central, 47; Huntington 29 Shortridge (Indpls) 46; Pendleton 22. Technical (Indpls) 21; Rochester 23. Greenfield 52; Marion 35. Auburn 23; Bluffton 22. Franklin 34; Peru 26. Peru Seconds 13; Clay Township 12. Fairmount 38; Frankfort “B" 33. Knox 40; Laporte “B" 22. Goshen 27; Warsaw 12. Sharpsville 38; Noblesville 24. Gawrence 29; Acton 28. A’alnut Grove 37; Westfield 24. wrt Wayne S. S. 27; Broad Ripple 25 Fort Wayne N. S. 29; North Manchester 38. Upland 41; Montpelier. 14 31oomington 32; Vincennes, 30 Gmerscn of Gary 58; Mishawaka, 29 Port Wayne C. C. IT. S. 35 Anderson Catholic, 23.

PITTSBURGH CAME IS DRAWING CARD Reserved Seat Tickets For Commodores’ Game Jan. 1 Are Going Rapidly Reserved seat tickets for the basketball game between Decatur Catholic high school and Technical high school 'of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be playI <•<! in this city on Sunday night, JanI nary 1, are on sale at the Green Kettle, Omlor's Confectionery, Wertiberger's Confectionery. Mott's Place and the Eats Restaurant. The seats have all been checked, so that those buying them are sure of good seats for one of the most colorful games ever scheduled for the Commodores’ gym. The tickets are going rapidly, it was reported today, and a complete sellout long before the date of the game is Indicated. Season tickets will admit the holder to the game. General admission tickets for the game with Berne here Friday night are on sale at the Germi Kettle, also. These tickets wil not entitle tho holder to seats at the Pittsburgh game, howe'er. Huntington To Play 10 Football Games Next Fall Ten games are included on the 1928 football schedule of Huntington high school, which was announced today. The Decatur high school Yellow Jackets wi) play the Vikings in Decatur on September 28. Coach Kriegbaum, of Huntington, will have about 20 players left from this year’s squad from which to mould a team. Following is the schedule: September 15 Kendallville. September 21—Logansport, there, September 28 —Decatur, there. October 6—Garrett, there. October 13 Kokomo. October 17—Peru. October 27 —Warsaw. November 3 —Bluffton home-coming November 10 —Columbia City, there. November 17 —Wabash, there. o I. U. Athlete. Harlan Logan.: Wins Rhodes Scholarship — Bloomington, Ind., Dee. 12. — (VP) Harlan Ixigan, announced in Swarth-j more, Penn., yesterday, as winner of Indiana's Rhodes scholarship, has a record in scholarship and athletics declared by directors of Indiana University to have been seldom equalled. Logan is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. N. Logan of Bloomington and graduated with highest honors from Bloomington high school and Indiana University. At the university lie won membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, and received his degree of bachelor of arts with high distinction. He now has almost completed his work at the university for his master of arts degree. In athletics Logan has also made a brilliant record. He played three

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years on the high school basketball ami track squads mid won the captaincy of lii,- freshman basketball squad at I. IT. He was n unanimous choice for all-conference basketball forward in 1924-25 and was second high-point scorer In the big ten that year and acting captain of the Indiana team. —o— —. FACULTY TEAMS PLAY HUNTINGTON Decatur Men And Women Teachers To Play Huntington Faculty Thursday The Huntington school teachers will invade Decatur Thursday night for return games witli the Decatur faculty teams. The games will lie played in the Decatur high school gymnasium and the proceeds will be donated to tho Junior band. Admission prices of fifteen cents for school children and twenty-five cents for adults will be charged. In the gapte played at Huntington recently, the Decatur women teachers defeated the women and the Huntington men were vi< t rious ever tho Decatur men. Two good games ar» anticipated when the teams clash here Thursday night. The women's game will start at 7:30 o’clock and the men's game at 8:: 15 o'clock. — — o Murray Sutton, of Fort Wayne was an over Sunday guest of his parents, l Judge and Mrs. Jesse Sutton, In this city.

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