Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1927 — Page 8

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G. E. TEAM BEATS FORT WAYNE FIVE Locals Rally In Second Half To Beat Fort Wayne G. E. Quintet. 34-27 After trailing four points at the end of the first half, the Decatur General Electirc basketball team came back strong in the second period and defeated the Y. M. C. A. industrial league team from the Fort Wayne (}. E. plant, in the Decatur high school gynt last night, by a score of 3l to 27. The visitors let! at the half, 16 to 12. Shortly after tjie second halt opened, Decatur tied the score at 16-all and went into the lead. From then on. the locals were out in front. Lineups and summary: De atur (341 Fort Wayne (27) C.mlor F D. Funderberg Kleinknight F Kindler Stiickler C R. Funderberg | Lindeman G PeGau Teeple G Mossberg Substitutions: (Decatur) Meyer for Omlor, Omlor for Kleinknight, Schneidfor Omlor; .(Fort Wayne) Grove for 1). Kindler, Berghorn for PeGau. Field goals: Omlor. 3; Strickler, 5; IJndeman. 1; Teeple. 2; Meyer, 3: I). Funderberg, 3; Kindler, 2; R. Funderberg, 2; PeGau, 2. Foul goals: Omlor. 1: Kleinknight. 1; Strickler. 1; Meyer. 1: D. Funderberg, 3; Kinder, 2; R. Funderberg, 2; PeGau, 1; Mossberg. 1. Referee: Beal; Umpire. Blackburn. o AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING Western Division W. L. Pct. Cleveland 8 2 .800 Fort Wayne .6 4 .600 Chicago 2 7 .222 Detroit . 1 10 .090 Eastern Division W. L. Jet. Rochester 8 1 .888 New York 8 4 .667 Philadelphia 8 5 .615 Washington 2 10 .175 Last Night’s Results New Yoi k, 33; Fort Wayne. 25 Philadelphia, 42; Detroit, 34. Tonight’s Schedule Rochester at Cleveland. Now Yo:k at Chicago. . —o ■ FIELD GOALS By MARK M. UPP The Yellow .Jackets are rarin - to go and ,1 will be a fighting bunch Cat batt] ‘s the Bluffton Tigers, Friday night. / The misplays that showed up in their game with Fort Wayne Central here last Friday night have been pointed out to the Yellow Jackets by Coach Curtis and the Bluffton Tigers are going to find the going rough. The Commodores are ready and waiting for the Berne Fighting Five to invade th ■ < ty Friday night. Ccach Laurel.' : 1 his Commodores have not been resting on their oars lining the tb.r™ weeks since their last game and they promise to show 'he fans something new this weekend Petu fans and sport writers have had to take a lot of gloating from t.oganspo.t during the basketba i prisons of tears past, but this year, the Pe.u.ians are up and among the > c.od ones ami Tutes, in his column, h.” in the Peru Tribune, gets eff the following jibe: “Let’s see now, just where the Tigs stand in basketball affairs , ■round Indianny': Peru was defeated by Franklin by 7 points; Franklin socked Vincennes and Vincennes took a wallop out of the loganberries. Fig ire out yourself the superior ty < ihe chesty Berries over the Tier.' Not nuff to rave o'er, and threw r shoe, eh?” Z li . ime, All-City Team “Or ' t Mark: “He .ein we lay before fandom our : e’ccixtis for the mythical all-time all-city high school team: Byard Smith F Vick Baltzell Bob Meyers Kenny Vans. I C R. Voglewede I Funk (Doc) Lose G E. Steele! C. Gass ‘‘Honorable mention: Linn Kern.! Lorin Yager, H Beery and B. Mey ' era, forwards; Lank Linn and Bryce | Thomas, centers; R. Peterson. E. Christen, Max Teep’e and Brick Tyniia’l, guards. “The above represent Decatur's fotemest basketeers, in our estimation. Many stars are still not acknowledged but were we to place

them all t would be Inipraclic'i' "Forever, Black le I, Blwkie 11, Bhick'c III." Word frem I'. 'tne states that the i Fighting Five has not conceded the game here Friday night to the Commelons yet by any means and a ’ bunch of fans will accompany the team here to pull for a victory to break the Bertie losing streak. Johnson, regular guard, will I o I missing from the Monmouth lineup in I the game w.lh Jeffetso’i at Berne, Friday night liis physician has ordered him to quit the game. This will force Coach Gerke to revamp the 1 lineup. Boerger. who played regular last year, ittunied to the squad this week, and may get into the game ' Friday night. He has been practicing for a heme talent play anil was unable to practice or play with the basketball team. Coach Bryan has been working the Kirkland Kangaroos hard this week in preparation for the game at Rock creek Saturday night. The Kangaroos are expecting a stiffer game this week-end than the one with the! I Rodgeis in the Kirkland gym. recently. “The Fort Wayne H°ralds A. C. challenge any basketball team in Decatur or any surrounding city in a game of basketball at Decatur. For •‘li 1 particulars write or call Fort Wayne A. C. booking manager, Darrell S. Hanlin. Room 112. Wayne Hotel.” Buckner, in his column "Out of Rounds" in the Bluffton Banner, is whooping it up big for the BbifftonDecatur game Friday night and is viewing cockier every day. Monday he prophesied a 10-polnt victory for the Tigers. Yesterday, he raised the edge to 15 points. Here’s some more gleanings from his Tuesday column: ‘All week we expect to give and take p’enty of shots with Decatur aver the coming basketball game. N thine wrong in that for the day of ’he o d thrusts and jabs is over. Os course both Decatur and Bluffton want o win the game. Its a lot more fun ‘o win. We believe Bluffton can win and we want the boys to go into the ’lime with that very intention. The ms. who sometimes shew even more enthusiasm than the players themselves. should back their teams to the limit, but should let their enthusiasm end there. Remember Bluffton as a who'e is acting as host to Decatur, 't is Decatur's right to expect every courtesy and it is up to Bluffton fans o help the school authorities in making the evening an enjoyable one for all concerned. “Although this isn't authentic, it ! s •umoced that Mark M. t'pp of Decav . will referee; Rip Offs of Bluffton, will umpire; Out of Bounds will •cep score and Wiil Wynn of Berne, ii 1 handle the watch for Time Outs, 'rd with this rumor comes another. :om school authorities that they 'icn’t want ths officials-to start any rush so- places as they have listened ■nough to go around. In case of a ei.nti oversy Coach Curtis of Decatur, and George Mason of Bluffton, will act as official arbitrators.” Word has been received from faroff Northfield. Vermont, where Art Wemhoff. former Decatur Catholic h'gh Commodore, is finishing his high school education. that Northfield h'gh defeated the Vermont Aggies in a basketball game last week, 61 to 16. Art nlayed center for the North_'eld team and made eight or ten 'el l goals This was the first game if the season for Northfield. o COLLEGE basketball Purdue. 49; Terre Haute Normal, 21. Northwestern, 53; Marquette, 22. Northwestern Colleg?, 36; Ripon. VDr Pauw, 43; Indiana Central, 41. Carroll, 35; Milwaukee Normal, 39. Carleton, 45; River Falls, 35. o Layton Is Sensation Os Billiard League Play New York. Dec. 14.-—(lNS)—John-ny Layton, although he is still in fourth place, continues to be the sensation of the American three-cushion billiard league. He annexed his sixth consecutive victory last night in defeating Alfredo de Oro, 50 to 30, in 49 innings. o DePauw Grid Captain Named Greencastle, Ind., Dec. 14 (INS' — E nett A. Firebaugh. Danville, 111., a : junior, was elected captain of the 1928 DePauw university football ! team at an athletic stag banquet here, | attended by 500 students, faculty members and local business men. ! —a New York. — Tom Donohue, presi- ' dent of the National boxing association said that Sammy Mandell, of ; Rockford, ill., lightweight champion, must defend his title against Sid Ter- ■! rls, of New York, on or before January 15 or be barred from all states 1 affiliated with the N. B. A.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER I I, 1927.

BASEBALL STARS , CHANGEWORMS Blue And Manush, Os Detroit, Go To St. Louis Browns; Sisler To Go By Davis J. Walsh, INS Sports Editor New York. Dec. 14.—Having put oter what, in our elegant circles, was gen’rally characterized as a fast one in "foxing" outfielder Heine Manush mid first baseman Inu Blue away frem Detroit. Dan Howley was about the premises at the annual American league today endeavoring to hawk the last of baseball’s great trinity to the highest bidder. Cobb and Speaker, it would seem, are to he no more. Now George Sisbr is about to go on a long journey. Three clubs, the Washington Senators, the Cleveland Indians and the Chi ago While Sox. • were understood I to be exchanging very dirty grimages over the man who stepped off a camp • us at Michigan University some ten yeais ago to become, pronto and without preamble, one of the thre<. great names of modern times. Five yc ars ago, you couldnt' have bought him for the entire ball club, with Uncle Robbie thrown in or th: own out, according to the way you might feel about that worthy. Today, much of the old Sisler had departed because eye trouble cut him d.iwn in the full flush of his career Yet he still had enough left to cause three ball clubs to go into a huddle for pad, pencil and pay roll. As a result, it was rumored that Washington was willing to give up Joe Judge, first baseman, and Sam Rice, outfielder, for the privilege of George’s daily society next season. . The law only requires that you listen to this one. You don't have to believe it. However, it was pretty well admitted today that the Senators want Sisler and that Judge was on the market. Perhaps Howley and Stanley Harris will rea.h a basis of understanding with his fact for a back ground: perhaps not. If they don't, the player is certain to go to one of the other two clubs. The transaction, wheh closed, probably will furnish the big dt al of the meeting, if not of relent years. They say there may be 's many as seven players involved before the boys decide to close the book and cal! it a plot. I*.; haps a dozen other deals were tn the fire today over a slow tlame but whether they will come to a boil before Thursday night was an open question. However, it was no man's secret that Cleveland. Washington, St. Louis, Detroit and Chicago, of the American league, and Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Boston, of the National league, were here with the lefinit purpose of doing business in those poor hired men of the pastime. As to that, it was taken as fact, lather than fancy, that that deal of Manush and Blue versus Flam Van Gilder, pitcher; Harry Rice, outfielder. and the masked marvel, whose identity was yet to be divulged, might start all the boys ip, there swinging, like a chance remark at a corner bar. It didn’t take the Cardinals long, in any case, to follow with a trade of Jimmy Ring, pitcher , and John Schulte, catcher, for Jimmy Cooney, infielders Johnny Mokan. outfielder, and Clarence Jonnard, catcher, hitherto the property of the Phillies. It was the sense of the meeting that both St. Louis clubs had done themselves some good by these transactions. Certainly, the Browns will be a better club for having Manush, leading hitter cf 1926. in. the outfield and when Sisler goes. Blue will be his successor. On the Detroit end, the best that could be shown was a fair pitcher in Van Gilder and an outfield er who may or may riot be better than the one who was sent away. The other transfer of players really didn't amount to anything in the first plate but, as long as you take the ’rouble, you might as we'l be right. It would seem that Bill McKechnie was. He got Cooney, who can play fair ball in the infield over short periods; Mokan, an average outfielder, and Jonnard, an active young catcher. The latter alone would seem to be as good as Schulte. Therefore, it was to be assumed that the Phillies gave Mokan and Cooney for Jimmy Ring. The Phillies could have done worse but not much. o Berne Dunbar Team Beats G. E. Seconds The basketball team from ths Dunbar furniture factory at Berne defeated the Decatur General Electric second team last night in a game in the Decatur high sch ol gymnasium as a preliminary to, the contest between the Decatur and Fort Wayne G. E. quintets, by a score of 29 to 7. The winners were ahead at the end of the . half 16 to 5. i o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays I ■

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Another Country Heard From Fascismo, it seems, h is dosigm upon athletic glory. Italy is tn be represented at Am de“dam by “the full alhli’lle strength ol the land." Such is the di’ctee of Mm sMlni, and if you kn >w your garlh' in Italy you dens the Duce decrees. At a recent imetlng nt Bologna, the Fascist Olympic Training Conimit'vo outlined a program for countrywill’ meets whereby Italy’s athletic strength might lie recruited. Over Heels, as the Fascist government calls them, were appointed to see that no athlete of promise escapes. One (.tn well imagine the set >' r with which Italian athletes will be inspired to prepare for participation in the Olympic Games. As far as their performances in ’he Hack and field events are concerned, Italians never have figured prominently as a team. Theie was Ugo Frigorio, of course and at a somewhat earlier period. Do--amlo Pietri. They were outstand . 3 athletes and won world fame at thoi. respective Olympiads. Os the 14 records broken at’ Antw. n in 1920, Frigeria contributed a neV mark so; the 2.01'0 metres walk, whih Dcrando's great tun against Hayes !r ithe marathon at Ixmdon in 1908 i. famed in song and fable. Incidental|y, it is interesting to nob that DorandO's name —his last name that is -was not Dorando at all, bn Pietri. | It is the Italian custome to furnish enquire’. 3 with the last name first. When the marathon race of 1908 came to its dramatic conclusion with the disqualification oi the winner, the name cf Dorando. instead of Pietri. was caught up on the cables an I f'asheir around the world, and its owner never was able to correct the mistake. Italian runners did not fare very' well at the 1921 Olympaid, but Frigero won the 10,000 metres walk. In the field events, a similar lack of success

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was apparent. Lenzi mid Tuglioll. the Italian shot-putters, could do around 40 feet, but It took a heave of 48 feet 1 7 1-8 inches by Pcihola, the giant Finn to win lhe event. — The primers, d'Agostino and Patteiitto, can do no bettei than 11.4 and 226 for the 100 mid 200 metres respectively. The hurlers, ('ontolll and Facelli are slow when compared with Ac.ericati. Get man or Scandinavian pert rmers. Othei good Italian ittnnms. but not good enough, mo Uominotto, the halfmiler. mid Davoli. the distance st ir. Maccario, who finished f ourth In the 10,000 meties tan at Antwerp, is past his prime. Still and all. the Fascist government has shown cxtraordinaiy ability at nuking the Italians do things, and It may be that the next Olympiad will witness a retnatkable inipiovement in the nati 11's performance as an athletic team. But aside from Ugo Frigerio. I do not find the name of a single Italian ihampion in the list of Olympic winners from ISS6 right down to the present day. 0 — Celts Even Series With Fort Wayne Hoosiers Fort Wayne. Ind., Dec. 14 —(INS) — New York Celts and z the Fort Wayne locsiers were all even today in their .irofessional basketball war. After losI Ing the series opener, lhe Celts hit their real stride last night and won. 3.3 to 25. o DePauw Edges Out Win Over Indiana Central Greencastle, Ind., Dee. 14 —(INS) — DePauw edged out Indiana Central 4341 in a thitiling battle on the local 1 floor. Both teams maintained a hot pace, displaying flashy basketball. A Greyhound rally was stifled by the gun in the last half.

DECATUR TEAM BEATSHOAGLAND Newly Formed Indpendent Quintet Wins First Game By Score Os 46-16 j A newly formed independent basket I ; bull team from thia city won Its first game last night, when it defeated the Hongland quintet, at Hoagland, 46 to 16. Tne Decatur quintet, composed of former Degatur high school and Catholic high school stars, played under the name of Lose's Y. M. Club Deane Dorwin, former Yellow Jacket, was the scoring ace of the game, getting nine field goals. The first half < u 19 to 3. Lineups and summary: De atur (16) Hoagland (16) Miller F N. Koeneman Swearingen F E. Koeneman Dot win Brower Gass G Youse Farr G Melcher Substitutions: (Decatur) Laurent for Farr, Farr for Swearingen. Swearingen for Miller, Miller for Dorwin;

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