Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1927 — Page 6

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TWO BIG GAMES HERE THIS WEEK Commodores Meet St. Rose Os Lima; Yellow Jackets Play Delphi Two high class basketball teams will invade Decatur this week, and two real treats are in store for Decatur fans. On Wednesday night. St. Rose high school of Lima. Ohio, w ill be here for a game with the Catholic high school Commodores. On Thursday night. Delphi high school will clash with the Decatur high school Yellow Jackets, in the D. If. S. gym. Followers of the Commodores well remember the defeat which St. Rose handed the locals at Lima last winter. That defeat, by the way, broke a perfectly good winning streak of some twenty games which the Commodores boasted when they invaded Lima. Lynch and Diamond, two of the stars of last .'ear s quintet who won all-state j honors, ate playing foj St. Rose again this season. Coach lament will give the Commodores a stiff workout this evening in prepatation for the game. The Commodores showed up wel in their 4931 victory over Berne’s Fighting Five, here last Friday night, but there are still several tough spots to be smoothed out by the coach. The game here Thursday night will mark Delphi’s first appearance in Decatur. The coach of the Delphi team Is none other than Paul Dcstutter, former coach of Frankfort and Franklin high schools. He has been turning out a fast team at Delphi since he began coaching there a year ago last fall. His team has been going strong this season and Coach Curtis and his Yellow Jackets are expecting a tiff battle Thursday night. The Delphi game will give local fans an opportunity to see the style of basketball played by central and southern Indiana teams. The game will also give local fans an Idea of how the Yellow Jackets will stack up with the team from farther south, even though Delphi may not be quite as strong as some of the other teams from t frat ’section cf the state. The Yellow Jackets will go to Angola on Friday night for a conference game with the Angola quintet. The Curtlsmen are expecting a stiff game there, also. o— COLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue 36; Depauw 27 Indiana 39; Wabash 26 Illinois 41; Bradley 35 Rose Poly 43; Huntington College 31 Ohio State 28; Muskingum 27 Rice Institute 31; Stedward.s U 22 Drake 37; Oklahoma A and M, 33 I Minnesota 42; North Dakota U 30 ; Oklahoma 41; Grinnell 16 Cincinnati 42; Clemson 14 Defiance 20; Battle Creek 17 Pennsylvania 30; Ursinus 20 Pittsburgh 39; Northwestern 34 Wittenberg 21; Manchester 19. Legionnaires Urged To Help Families Os Miners Indianapolis, Ind , Dec. 19. —(INS) — An appeal for every American Legionnaire in India la ’o join in playing Santa Claus to 2 '.OO needy children and more than 1 rOO families who by Christmas day will be in destitute circumstances in the coal mining town "f Bicknell. Indiana, was made today by Paul \ McNutt, of Bloomington. Indiana, state -ommander of the American Legio. Nine months of shut down for the three big coal mines at Bicknell, one of them tho largest mine in the world, has developed an emergency situation in Bicknell without parallel in the state during recent years, Commander McNutt stated. o — Bank Official Killed In Holdup At St. Louis St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 19.—A bank official was killed and a messenger was wounded today in a battle with bandits. Tb > bandits escaped with cash estima.e l at more than $6,100 being conveyed from the University City bank to : ; amont Bank, Wqllston. John Hobson, assistant cashier of the Hollainont bank, was killed. Joseph McCool, messenger, was won tided. o —— Leada in Coastal Trade Tlie great length of our sea and lake coasts, the number of good harbors and the fact that most of the coast region of the United States has been settled make the coastal trade of this country the most extensive to the world o— Sheep, the best money makers on the farm. Attend Schmitt’s sale Wednesday for some real ewes. It

AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING I Western Division W L Pct i Cleveland 10 3 .769 Fort Wayne 6 6 .501 Chicago 2 12 .141 , Detroit 2 10 .167 Eastern Division W L Pet | Rochester 10 3 .76 New York 11 4 .633 I; Philadelphia 9 5 .643 IjWashingtcn 3 10 .23. Last Night’s Results Washington. 26; Foit Wayne. 20. New York 25; Chicago 19 Tonight’s Schedule ‘ ‘ Fort Wayne at Washington. , I Chicago at New York. ROCKCREEK WINS FROM KANGAROOS Wells County Team Score* 38-28 Victory Over Kirkland Quintet The Kirkland high school Kauga roos weakened in the second half of their game with the Rockcreek Dodgers. of Wells count, on the latters’ floor Saturday night, and lost the game by a score of 38 to 28. The two game series between the two team is now tied, Kirkland having won the first contest. The lead shifted from one team V the other several times during thfirst half, but the Dodgers were leading. 22-17 at the rest period. In the ’econd half, the winners gradually pulled away from the Kangaroo o Gr’ffin starred for Rockcreek, sinking ten field goals and five free throw's. In the prelimina-y game, the Rockcreek seconds won from the Klrk'and reserves, 26 to 20. Lineups and summary: Kirklaud (28) Rockcreek (38) F. Arnold....F Griffin L. ArnoldF Smeltzer Myers ,C Greenwait G: rber G Brickly Heller G Fishbaugh Substitutions: (Kirkland) R. Arnold for F. Arnold, Baumgartner for Heller; (Rockcreek) Raber for Greenwait. Field goals: L. Arnold 1; F. Arnold 1; Myers 7; R. Arnold 1; Baumgartner 1; Smeltzer 2; Griffin 10; Greenwait 1; Fishbaugh 2. Foul goals: L. Arnold 3; F. Arnold 2; Myers 1; Smeltzer 1; Griffin 5; Brickly ■ '■* GORDON HOLMES WINS R LETTER Decatur Athlete Wins Letter In Football At Hanover College Hanover, Ind., Dec. 19—(Special)— Gordon Holmes of Decatur, who has been an outstanding member of the varsity football team at Hanover College, has earned his official letter and sweater, which is emblematic of the highest athletic award* in i.ntercolle giate athletics. In the course of a very impressive ceremony in the chapel on the hilltop campus. Dr. William A. Mills, President cf Hanover, who is new well or his way on a round the world tour distributed the various athletic awards to a group of twenty young athlete’s Each man also received the official athletic certificate, which shall live on after the athletic sweaters have passed their usefullness, o HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Central (Evansville) 42. Mooresville 31 Jasper 20, Bosse (Evansville) 16 Laporte 40, North Side (Fort Wayne) 25 Remington 59, Kentland 50 Peru 33; Elwood 12 Martinsville 40; Kokomo 25 Daleville 38, Van Buren 3". Frankton 27, Tipton 25 Jcfferscn (Lafayette) 30, Rochester 20 Beecn Grove 35; Manual (Indianapols) 28 Morton (Richmond) 28, Rushville 24 Monrovia 29. Andrews 23 Broad Ripple (Indianapolis) 53, Washington (Indianapolis) 9. Technical (Indianapolis) 31, Greenfield, 21 Greencastle 27, Vincennes 18 Edinburg 51, Wiley (Terre Haute) 28 Ixigansport B 34, Montmorence 17 Logansport C 64, Burnettsville 18 Warsaw 53, Garrett 12 Columbia City Tourney Larwcll 23, South Whitley 17 Columbia City 52, Churubusco 21 | Washington Center 38, Etna 11 i Putnam 26, Larwell 20 • I Columbia City 63, Washington Cen , t ter, 36 (final).

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‘ I FIELD GOALS 1 8 ' By MARK M. UPP ; ; ■■==’.. - - Wednesday night — St. Rose of ■Jma vs. Commodores, here. Thurs- ‘ day night—Delphi vs. Decatur, here 3 Friday night—Jefferson vs. Geneva, 3 t Berne; Kirkland vs. Petroleum, at Citkland; Hartford vs. Monroe, at tecatur; Decatur at Angola; Monnouth vs. Bluffton Reds, at Bluffton. St. Rose, of Lima, the Commodores’ opponent for Wednesday night, is one f the strongest outfits on the locals’ chedule ti.is year, it was St. Rose hat broke the Commodores winning treak of 20 straight last year. Bob Voglewede, former Commodore | tar, who is on the Notre Dame quad this year, may get into the • ame with Northwestern at South ’.end Tuesday night. , Gordon Holmes, former Decatur I ootball and track athlete, won his ootball letter at Hanover this year. Decatur has had more athletes in oLege sports this year than for sevf ral years. Charlie Breiner and Christmas Andrews won their lette’s , 1 football at Franklin; Joe Bobout , on his numerals in football at Butjr; Gordon Holmes won his letter in ootball at Hanover; Andrews is on ’te varsity basketbail squad at Tank'.in; Bebout is oh the freshman quad at Butler; and Bob Voglewede s on the varsity net squad at Notre Ume. Do you know of any other Decatur athlete making good in coljge this year? If so, tell us about it. We are in receipt of a neat schedle book ftom Charles Egenroad, uorts editor of the Goshen Daily democrat, containing the basketball chedules of Elkhart county teams, hanks. i The Ye’low Jackets have a manzed'job ahead of them in tackling he Delphi crew here Thursday night nd the Angola quintet at Angola on ’ridgy night. Both teams nre of igh calibre and it will take some ist playing to add two more victor:s to the list. Paul Lostutter, coach of the Delphi aam, tormerly coached at Frankfort nd Franklin high schools. He coachd at Frankfort just before Everett .'ase, the present coach, went there. B uffton sport writers offered very ew alibis for the Tigers defeat at he hands of 'he Yellow Jackets Frilay night. We know everybody is mote interested in what they had i ’o say than anything we might say, I so we now turn the column over to them "Decatur Yellow Jackets came, hey saw and they conquered. Tho •.core was 34 to 26 in favor of Decatur. At the half it was 18 to 8 with Decatur leading. Alibis are out of rder and therefore Bluffton fans generally, gracefully admit that in this particular battle Decatur won be■ause they outplayed the Tigers in he major portion of the game, both ! n offense and defense.”—Bluffton News. A Tender Spot "Our feelings were hurt terribly when those Decatur Yellow Jackets •ante over and "done” to our boys w'aat they did. We had predicted sweet victory and had all ’ kinds of nice phrases stored up to console the ever-friendly Mark M. 1 Upp, who came hither to see the 1 "battle of the year” last night. Our • only hope now is for the Tigers to take a crack at the Yel'ow Jackets on their own floor later in the season, but judging from the appear- ' tnce the Curtiamen made on our floor, the w. k. cracking may not be so good. The Tigers need to learn t he art of accurate basket-shooting and to really fight. True enough, two or three men on the Tiger squad, "ought hard, but it takes five fightin’ men to get those Yellow Jackets scattered. We are still mighty proud of that Tiger crew and know' that they r are going to lie an entirely different team as the season progresses. The i- stuff and the ability is there and we know that Coach Means is going to 4 develop in the next few weeks an aggregation that can take care of ail I, comers. But, to say that the Yellow Jackets did net completely outclass i- tliem in every department, would be ridiculous. No alibis. Mark M. We hand it to your Yellow Jackets.” — ) Rip Offs, Bluffton News. "The visitors excelled in passing and general floor play. During tho first period, they garnered about two shots to Bluffton’s one; but they took more of their tries from difficult angles and failed to connect. The rally staged by the Tigers in the last period shows they have the stuff in >- them and that Coach Means has a bunch of players who can be expected

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The- "Wildcat” is loose again and welterweight boxers with weak chins ate sctiriylng for cover. • Reinstated recently by the Kansas Athletic Commission "Ace” Budkins of Nebraska is prowling once more along the trail to the title. Although prevented at present from engaging Joe Dundee, the welterweight champion, in a scrap for tho crown, Hudklns Is not letting the dust gather too thickly upon the canvas in his f, path. I ”4ce” will take on Jatk Zivle of Pittsburgh at Detroit next month, after which wo will know more about . his chances against Dundee. The thampion cannot oblige Iltnikins at present because of an unfortuj nate occurence out in Los Angeles. It seems that a California prom ter had promised Dundee $60,000 for his end of a ttitle fight with the Nebraska Wildcat, but had expected Joe to take part of the purse in climate, sunshine, free air. etc. Joe and his manager. Maxy Waxman, weto familiar with the air anti all that sort of thing, so they sat in their hotel room behind a strong-arma body, guard and declined to proceed. The fans tore up the chafrs and tore down the ting and the boxing authorities suspended everyone connected with! the affair. Dundee will lie meeting* Hudkins one of these days, however, and if Joe has kept the form he displayed in winning the championship in stopping Walker and Freeman and in whiping the stuffing out of all the other welterto play some real ball later on. All of the Tigers were not in the best of diape last night, but that is not said o detract in any way whatever from Decatur’s victory. The Decatur boys ’ad the edge last night and are to be complimented on th?ir playing.”— Bluffton Banner. • It's All Over “Decatur took Bluffton by 8 points and catried the edge all the way. Our inly consolation in the game was the playing of the Tigers during the second half when they held a two point edge for the period. Decatur lias a ine team which played the better brand of ball. Players fans and cf'cials all are deserving of credit for the fine way in which the gams was conducted.’’—Out of Bounds Bluffton Banner. "While the refereeing at the Bluff-ton-Decatur game was par, we’ve een Kline do wonderfully better by h'mself. Last night he seemed to get ■nixed up on several occasions—beuddled. —so to speak—due, we opine, j o the interference or, as it might be -ailed. earne°tness. of the umpire. Toward the end of the game when the T 'lgers were going large and time was precious a perfectly good half minute vas wasted when Kline stood out ".ear the center of the floor and could lot make out just what the Klaxon had sounded for. We don’t think Kl’ne was at fault one whit and we hink that the umpire did and meant •veil but the combination wasn’t there. Maybe we’re way wrong on all this and probably we are, but it’s soniehing to think about and we’d like to have a little comment from fans. Dend in a letter. Throw your con-fetti."—Rip-Offs. — i-O Copner Coin In Girl’s Digestive System 7 Days Madison. Ind., Dec. 19—(INS)—Despite the fact that a copper coin travelled through her digestive system for seven days, Ruth Conaway, 2, is none the worse for her experience. Nature solved the difficulty that puzzled medicine to remedy. The child swallowed the c|in but did not fee! any pain until days later, when she was taken tOjthe offices of Dr. A. G. W. Childs. Aj X-ray picture Vas taken and revealed the coin lodged in the tising special instruments, the sutgeon pushed the coin so that it went into the stomach. Later X-tays followed the progress of the copper through the little girl's intestines. , o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pay;

I—■■■■■■(■■■MHnMßHHHaMnnßKaMM Basketball Tickets Tickets for the Yellow Jackets vs Delphi . game will be placed on sale Tuesday evening at high school ’ from 6:30 to 8 p. m. I ‘ THE GAME IS THURSDAY. ! Price 50c. 1 M 1

weights at inul the place, ho should have little trouble In putting an end to the Nebraskan's dreams of a title. it probably will not be long now befote the authorities who have banned Dundee because of the California affair I elent and permit the welter weight champion to do his stuff. The Kansas authorities had enough on tho "Wildcat" ta bar him for Ute. They exposed him in the act cf arranging a match with Sid Socklyn, on of I his sparring partners, who was somewhat thinly disguised as "Young Battling Levinsky of Australia.” Boxing bodies, quick to inflict penalties and hand out suspensions, ar > equally quick to forget and forgive Phil Kaplan, New Ycik middleweight, was ruled off for life for deliberately ottling George Couituey, only to be reinstated some few weeks latet by the Ngw York State Athletic Commission. Other incidents of this soit have been frequent. One recalls the famous fracas in the cffice of the New Yotk commission when Johnny Reisler son of the famous “John the Barber,” assaulted Patsy ' Haley, the white halted but still pugnacious referee. The young Reisler.' coached by his father in tho affair, ; came of second best as it was. but was promptly suspended for life. His reinstatement was merely a matter of course. Things of this sort do not tend to increae the already abbreviated respect which the boxing racket generally has for its various governing bodies. Says Motor Cars Will Get Their Fuel From Coal Indianapolis, Dee. 10 —(UP)—Fuel for motor cars will come from coal and shale deposits and possibly from vegetation after the world's supply of gasoline is exhausted, said T. Bcld, di-

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