Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1927 — Page 8

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COMMODORES LOSE THRILLER Catholic High Quintet Suffers First Defeat On Home Floor, 37-36 The goad ship Decatur. manned bv five fighting Commodores hit a snag and for the first time, in the history of the Decatur Catholic school gymnasium, the Decatur Cathqlie high s< h ol basketball team was forced to assume the shot t end of a 36-37 scote last night, in one of the most interesting hardwood games eve: played in this city. The ccnqtterers hailed from St. Rose high school, of Lima. Ohio. The highly touted, cocky St. Rose aggregation, backed by a hundred frenzied fans, fought its way to a well earned victory in an overtime period after the score had been all knotted up at the end of the iegnl.it lit minutes of playing 35-35. Decatur was not outplayed, nor did j It lose the game because of poor offi-i <dating. Nj one hadeany alibis to of-1 fee. It was just Unia’s night and the 1-polnt victory was well-earned, after one of the greatest struggles ever put up by any Decatur team. I Hockey Mylott, scrapping Decatur guard, played the greatest game of his ( career and, time after time, he broke, j up St. Rose passes and took the ball , down the floor for two-pointers for the local team. Billie Gass, star forward | for the Commodores, was in the midst j of the battle eveiy second. He counted j six times from the field and added two points from the free throw line.

Wemhoff, Petie Mylott and Ait Miller, the other three Decatur players to to see action, were in the battle every second and fought all the time in an effoit to put Decatur a point or two ahead before the final gun ended the sc. ap, Petie Mylott played a whale of a floor game. For St. Rose, R. Schnider was the chief offensive cog in a well-oiled machine. He counted seven times from the field and his goals came at times when they were meat needed. AU in all, it was a great game neither team having any great advantage over Die other. Waltei Geller, of Fort Wayne handled the game in great fashion, holding the playing well in hand and helping make it one of the greatest battles cf skill ever played here. First Half Lima stepped out at the very beginning of the game and took the lead with a long field goal from close to center < f the floor. R. Schnider counted from the field and St. Rose .boosted its score to 5 points before the Commodores hit the hoop for a counter. The) St. Rose team held a commanding lead I for about the first 15 minutes and; then the Commodores whipped into a rally that brought the local team th within one point of tying the count as the half ended. The score at the half was 16-15 in favor of Lima. The game had been fast and furious evety second of the first half, and the latge crowd that witnessed the scrap tose to its feet time after time when Hockey Mylott and Billie Gass would push through an almost Impregnable defense to hit th“ Msket for counters. Second Half In the seco.id half, Billie Gass brought the < n.i! to its feet when, shortly after th. half started, he j counted with a beautiful field goal) t'r m the midway point. It was the] first time dining the game that the l t'omniores had ga.'.ied the lead and t te fans were wild. The score see-sawed back and foith so. the next 10 minutes, neither team managing to get far ahead cf the other. At one lime, the Commodores had a 3-point advantage, but the fighting Lima crew soon evened the count. St. R se staged a rally dining the last 6 minutes cf the game and gained a 5point lead cn the locals. Wit.i 4 minutes to play, Decatur took timeout and when play was re-1 sumed the locals took the visitors by | compete surprise and fought theii ■vay into a 35-35 tie just as the gun ended the game. Over Time Play A s a b.ief rest, the two evenly rind quintets were at it again and the c ,vd was almost beyond control '1 ’’ I arguments arose, but il' • • ,-,.|i'elch td without any fatali- !■> ‘be Lima fans refused to keep the! • scats and the Decatur fans would not be outdone by the visitors and everyone was evety place- the last five minutes of the game. Shortly after the extra period started Dintond, Lima forward, held Petie Mylott as he shot under the goal and was penalized. It was his fourth personal four an dSaunders relieved him at the forward position without materially weakening the visiting team. Petie managed to count one of the two free throws and Decatui went into a 1-point lead with 3 minutes left to Play. In the next minute, St. Rose worked the hall down to its own basket and

Schnider, who had can led Ills team through the early part of the strugle with a sei les of long and shot t shots, camo through again with a field goal to put Uma n point a.lead. Two minutes remained to lie played, but the crafty St. Rose team knew better than to try to play basketball and all five visiting players rushed down to the Decatur end of the floor and manipulated a fine stall until the gun ended the game. The final score was 36-37. • The Lima fans went wild and their victory demonstration lasted far almost a half hout aftet the game. Frenzied fans carried the players eff the floor on their shoulders. The local fans I carried on in good fashion, however. | and peace was made after the heated I arguments of earlier in the game. Not; for a sec nd was the home team out-; played. Kveiy man displayed ability that is bound to take them to the Na-| tional tourney again this year. The Decatur Catholic high sihc.dj second team had little trouble in disposing of the Lima I’. K. aggregation in the cm tain raiser. The final score, of that game was 26-6. Lineup and summary: Decatur Lima (St. Rose) Gass F Townsen 1j Miller F Dimon I Wemhsff C Lyne i F. Mylott G Quiti.i J. Mylott G R. Schnider Substitutions: St. Rose. Saunders for Diamond. Field goals (Decatur. Gass. 6; Mill--er, 3; J. Mylott 5. (Lima) Diamond 2. i Saunders, 1; Lynch, 3; Quinn, 2; Schnider 7. Foul goals: Decatm Gass 2; Miller 1; Wemhoff 1: F. Mylott, 3; J. Mylott. 1. (Lima) Townsend 1; Diamond. 1: Lynch, 2: Quinn, 1; Schnider 2. Referee: Geller. Fort Wayne. *

u ! FIELD GOALS] I By MARK M. UPP ’ . I •L — ' ■ y , Basketball fans who failed to show 1 up at the Commodores' gym last night 1 sure missed a bunch of thrills that aren't handed out in most basketball games. To say that St. Rose, of i Lima, defeated the Commodores in an overtime game. 37-36. is saying a lot. but that doesn’t near tell all. There were 45 minutes of red hot basketball on tap last night and the ; several hundred fans present sure imbibed freely. ,l' Last night’s defeat was the first re- ' verse suffered by the Commodores on their home floor since the new Catholic school gym was dedicated with ! a victory in the fall of 1925. It was ia scrappy bunch of Commodores that ‘ fought to the last ditch last night to keep that record unsoiled and the!' defeat is no disgrace. The game between the Yellow Jackets and Deplhl here tonight promises to be another thriller. Delphi has not been defeated this season and the crew has run up some impressive scores. There were several reserved seats left yet this morning, but the gym likely will be filled by the time the game starts tonight. Two officials new to Decatur fans* I will handle the game tonight. Paul | Williams, athletic director of Muncie I Nosmal. will referee, and Ward GHi liert. former coach of the Fort Wayne South Side team, will umpire. They Paid For That Look, Too "Since the Tigers have had a good look at those Decatur Yellow Jackets they should realize now what they have to do if they are going anywhere this year in basketball. Our guess is that it will take a good team to win the regional this year. Right now, it looks like Central of Fort , Wayne, had the edge with Decatur I looking the best for Adams county ] and Ossian holding the edge for Wells ■ county. Wells county has several good teams in the running, however, and we don't care which coma out on top just as long as the winning team is able to make a good showing in the regional.”’—Out of Bounds, Bluffton Banner. The Commodores' next game with ( the alumni here on December 26. This game originally was scheduled for Jan. 2. Coach Laurent and his eagers will hit the road for their first games on foreign soil on December 29. when they play at Shelbyville. The Commies play at Anderson on Dec. 30. And then comes the game with Pittsburgh Tech here on Jan. 1. After the Yellow Jackets play Delphi here tonight and Angola, there. ■ tomorrow njght, they will meet Syra- ’ cuse, another undefeated quintet, in 1 this city, on Dec. 27. 1 y _ Carbondale, Ill.—The southern Ili--1 inols teachers’ college basketball team 1 defeated Illinois College, 42 to 20.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927.

TWO VETERANS ; TO STAY IN GAME ■i 1 Stanley Coveleskie And Joe Bush To Try Hurling Again Next Year Now York. Doc. 22.—(UP) — Two •, veteran Ameiican league pitchers , will take the mound against father i dine next season in an effort to ; beat the old boy out just one more • year. Stanley Coveleskie, who was counted as through by the Washington i Senators last spring, will go south with the Yankees this spring ami I attempt to gain a place on the pay..l) of the world’s champions. j At the same time ‘Joe Bush*whoso bn let ball has lost its zip, will hattie lor a berth on the pitching staff of . the Philadelphia Athletics. Here we find two players who broke in witli Athletics In the same year, 1912. pounding out their b'g league careers in almo t an identical sash on. % Coveleskie is convinced tnat he has i few more winning games left in his old soupbone, and he almost has 'Dll*- Huggins convinced of it. too. i The Pole is going south under an 'actlenient whereby he gets a conI tract if he makes good, otherwise he i gets the gate. The Yankees took Coveleskie on for a brief tiial last summer, but he developed his o'.d arm ailment and was released. He has had a number ot his teeth extracted and the arm I worked over since then and belives jho can still pitch major league ball.

And the Yanks are willing to tty him again. , f Connie Mack has already signed t Bush for next year. ''Bush is going to help us a lot,” , Mack said. “I am convinced he can , win some games for us.” But if Bush fails as a pitcher. Mack . will not be all loser as the veteran is something of a good hitter and outfielder and he will be available for "eserve outfield duty. Bush was shunted out of the big leagues last year as through, only to win four important games for Toledo in the American Association, and prove that Dcnle Bush of the Pirates and John McGraw of the Giants after all may have erred in releasing him. Both hurlers have ranked among 'he best in the American league on more than one occasion, and both are wor d series veterans. Rush has been in five October classics, with the Athletics in 1913 ui‘d 1914. with the Red Sox In 1918 and with the Yankees in 1922 and ’923. He lias won two world series victories and lost five. Coveleskie has participated in two world's championships. Almost slu-’le-handed he pitched the Indians to the championship in 1920 by defeating the Brooklyn Robins in three games without losing. Ho pitched two games for the Senators in 1925 against the Pirates, but lost them. - o Rogers Hornsby Wins $36,000 Damage Suit Clayton. Mo.. Dec. 22.—(UP)—A c'rcuit court jury has denied Frank L. Moore, Newport, Ky„ betting commissioner, $36,000 damages he scught to collect from Rogers Hornsby, star second Ifeseman of the New lork Giants, for an alleged race horse gambling pact. Moore originally sued Hornshy for 92.00), alleging the ball player owed him that sum through a mutual betting agicement whereby Moore ''urnished the "tips" and placed the wagers. The figure was subsequently teducad to $36,000. Hornsby maintained the debt had no legal status as the law does not recognize gambling debts. The jury deliberated an hour and a ‘ ha f before returning a 10 to 2 verdict in favor of Hornsby. Missouri law tequires a three-fourth? majority 'or a verdict in such cases. AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING Western Division W L Pct. Cleveland j;j 3 '.goo Fort Wayne 77 .500 Detroit 2 10 .142 Chicago 3 13 .188 Easterin Division W I, Pct. New York 12 4 .750 , Rochester 10 ’4 .714 ' Philadelphia 9 6 .600 Washington 4 12 .250 Last Night’s ResultsFort Wayne, 25; Rochester, 21. ' Cleveland, 35; Washington, 26. Tonight’s--Schedule Rochester at Fort Wayne. Washington at Detroit. , Chicago at Philadelphia. I O Annapolis, Md.—Using three teams, 1 the Navy defeated Washington and Lee, 39 to 26 In a basketball game.

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Bruce Caldwell, the most unfortunate youngster of the 1927 fontball sea-> son. has a big opportunity next Monday to justify the fairly unanimous verdict that ho was the greatest halfback of the year. When the clashing Id w which exposed him as Ineligible Rir the eve of ' Princeton game put an end. to Caldwell's football carpet as far as his represonytig Yale was conceited, Bruce I left the gridiron with the great question of his ability unanswered. Now he is back In uniform, working out with the All-eastern collegians at! San Francisco in prepat ation for next j Monday's game against an All Western team. By rights, Bruce should bo the star of that contest. Bjit football is an uncertain sort of game, and when a player is over-anxious to give his beat he occasionally does not. Caldwell miv not stand out brilliantly among the powerful All-American stars who will be rn the field that aftetneon, but I expect him to do so. The Yale youngster will have his own erstwhile ends, Dwight Fishwick and Stew Scottt to pass to. which will be an advantage. A powerful All-eas-tern line should give him every opportunity to get started, while if ho can get off some of those amazing j punts of his from cl. so formation, the] All-Western team is in for a troublesome afternoon. • The All Eastern team is comprised of many All-American stars and is one: of the strongest aggregations that ever! went into a huddle. Scott and Fi.h • ’ \ are as fine a I pair of as could be found in the East. Walsh of Notre Dame and Atkinson of Lafayette can relieve the Yale bo.vs on. the wings at any time without any appreciable loss of power! or speed.

Evansville College Wins Fourth Straight \ ———— , Evansville. Ind., De'. 22.— (INS) — Chalking up its fourth successive victory of the season, Evansville col'egn basketball team scored an easy , 36-16 victory over the Hoopsters of lames Milliken college, Decatur, 111. The entire second team went in during the second half for the purple aces and held the visitors smoothly. o Colleges Danville Normal 35; Wabash 28 Evans vile 36; James MYllinkin 16 High Schools Silent Hoosiers Seconds 32;- CatheSilent Hoosier Seconds 32; Cathe!ra'. Freshmen 12 Fishers 28: Fortville 27. Connersvi ie 32: Greenfield ?? Jonsboro 39; Upland 29. Gas City 54; Convetse 31. — o By United Press Chicago. — Major John L. Griffith, big ten athletic commissioner, announced that less than 10 western conference athletes were disqualified for infractions of the big ten code during the last year. New York—Sid Teiris, of New York and Phil McGraw, of Detroit, were to meet in a boxing ring for the third ‘ime Friday night when they clash at Madison Squaie Garden in ten rounds. New York—Phil Leun, Astoria 138 defeated Joey Steinfe’dt, New York,! in ten rounds. Walker Ullrich, 175.! Yonkers won a technical knockout over Emila Rosa in the first round. I Los Angeles, Cal. —ls his business ! affairs permit, Chick Evans, former amateur < hampion, will participate in ! the SIO,OOO Los Angeles open golf, championship, it was announced here. |

BASKETBALL TONIGHT D. H. S. Yellow Jackets vs. DELPHI, undefeated At D. H. S. Gymnasium, 8:15 o’clock Hoagland vs D. 11. S. Second Team in preliminary game at 7 o’clock. Admission Plenty of 25 and 50 cents Reserved Seats

The first stiing tackles, Douds of ! Washington and Jefferson and Randels of Nebraska, belong on any man’s All-American squad Weinstock of Western Maryland is a great tackle whose work in 1927 scarcely received proper recognition. As for the guards, one need look no farther than Hansen of Minnesota and Baer of Michigan, witli Pauly of W and J., one of Coach Andy Kerr’s favorite linesmen, in testrve. Grigsby of Georgetown. next to ‘ Charlesworlh of Yale, was the best i center in the East last fall, in addi- ! tion to which the All Eeasterners have I Reitsoh of Illinois as a substitute pivot i man. > Hawiov of the Haskell Indian', is ' a powerful linesman who can fill in at any position where lie may be needed. "Shorty" Ainiqttist of Minnesota's unbeaten eleven, and Jack Connor . f N. Y. I’., tile best field general in the East, are the quartet backs. At half, there will be Bruce (’aidwell, ball carrier, kicker and passer extraordianry witli Ptesael of Nebraska as his running mate. And when any more ground than this pair gains is needed, pass the ball to anyone of the three fullbacks: Joesting. Michigan: Amos. Washington and Jefferson; Elmer Wynne, Notie Dame. Those of us who only witnessed eastern and middle western fa tball. with an occasional southern oi Pacific Coast team ia action, ate not qualified to discuss the stiengih of the All-Wes-tern team as compared with this powerful squad which Atfdy Kerr is putti ing through its final. paces at San Francisco. But from what happened during the gridiron season of 1927, Il would seam quite safe to install the All-Eastern- . ers decided favorites of Monday’s ' game.

Penn Football Teams Arrives In California Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 22 —(INS) — I.Ccking fit after their long ride, the Pennsylvania football squad, which meets the University of California Gridders he;a on December 31, snapped into intensive practice today. o If You Must Brink Here Are Ten Rules Given By Physician New York, Dec. 22— (UP) —Dr. Charles Nori is, chief medical examines cf New Yo:k City has given ten rules which b ■ warns those who will drink dining the Christnns merry making to.abide by. They are:: Don't drink p.omiscucitsly. Don't drink too much. Don't drink fast.' Don't mix drinks. Don't trust your bootlegger. Don't drink much water between drinks cf liquor. If sick, eat some mustard. If worse, call a doctor. Don't drive after drinking. Do your drinking at home. Don't Drink. ; o Ve!uet’» Origin Unknown I Velvet originated either In Chinn ot I India, but more likely the former which was the great cradle of silks Its native city Is unknown, due no doubt to the petulant hahlt of emperors In certain, fiir back dynasties, of destroying records of the past. o Good People Outnumbered In the con.mon run of mankind for I one who Is wise and good you tin<l ten I of a conrrrry cliimicter -Addison

MONROE TO PLAY HARTFORD HERE Two Adorns County Quintets To Clash In I). 11. S. Gym Friday Nijcht Di'catut basketball fans who want to spend a pleasant evening will do well to wend way to the Decatur high sc.icol gymnasium Friday evening, to see the Hartford township high school Gorillas and the Monroe quintet clash. This promises to be a hotly contested game. The second teams from the two schools will meet in the preliminary contest, starting at 7:15 o'clock .'.U..roe has been improving steadily since the start of the season and Coach Evei hart's quintet is expected to give t le Gorillas a battle. N. Banter, Hartford stat, probably will be uhable to plat on account of an Injury to his back, which he received in the game with Geneva last Friday night. However. Coach Wind miller will have hiee new men. including Schrogham, farmer Ijincaster regular, eligible for this week-end.

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I Central Normal Wins 1 I ron. Wabash. K T „ ; . I CrawfordHvllh., i h ,|, I)( , ( , I -luther ragged work on bmi/? 1 featured u bimketbali I which the in | team outpointed the u.„ k . h,,r "'nl | men of Couch -i miv ~a s 11 c, Mte- I lug Kimctacular wa I learn. . ‘ either I o —a Lincoln, Nehr Dan MeM.m Kuard of tha University T','’ ’" ar football eleven ,h„s b.en ' * hr “"' la from the university, Dean t? t?" 1 "' 1 son announced. n„ r( . asiOn ’ J W suspension was given. r Chicago.—Acting on behalf nf n Rimer Williams, attorney, v , asked the United Slatea cireujt dR/ for a ruling which would prov,. diers’ Field from being by staging brutal ’ prize fights,” in it. BUth as New York.-The contract or t , ' Dplai ' e >‘- former light-he arj • champion of the world was sold to • Jacobs, ring promoter. for > The contract was purchased from it ’ Reilly, the former champion m u „ • ager. . an ' Mt N M W » York ,- Thp Vnh-ersity 0( . Michigan swimming team defiat,. ’ New York university in a dnal ' 42 to 15.