Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1927 — Page 6

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COMMODORES BEAT ALUMNI Old Grads Lead During Most Os Game But Are Nosed Out, 31 To 32 Superior endurance and a bis last minute punch gave the Catholic high school Commodores a well-earned victory over the alumni qnlntet at the 1). C. If. S. gym last night. The final score was 34 to 32. The ex-Commo-dores led during most of the game, but were nosed out at the finish. The alumni eagers jumped into an early lead and held it throughout the first ha’.f. At the rest period, the Commodores were trailing, 20-14. The basket sniping of “Mongo" Meyer was a big factor in giving the alumni a commanding lead in the opening period He shot five field goals. The ex-Commodores continued to load tiie successors for a greater part of the second half, but when only about six minutes were left to be played, the Commodores overtook their opponents and a pretty shot by Billy (lass put them in the lead fcr the first time. The alumni defense weakened and they slumped in scoring. As a result the Commodores pushed ahead to an eight-point lead, 34-26. The fourth personal four was cal’ed on "Tubby" Gass, who was doing considerable guarding for the alumni, but the Commodores obligingly told him to go ahead and p’ay. The alumni then braced and scored three baskets to cut tne Commodores' lead to two points, but the timer’s gun cut the rally short. Bill Gass did most of the sharp shooting for the Commodores, getting six fie’d goals and three free thtows "Mongo" Meyer scored seven field goals and one free throw. The alumni team was hand'eapped somewhat by the absence of “Bud” Voglewede from the lineup. "Bud,” who is a member of the Notre Dame varsity squad, was forced to leave yesterday morning to return to South Bend for practice. Lineups and summary: Commodores (34) Alumni (32) W. Gass F Meyer Miller ... .... .F Hclthonse B. Wemhoff.. .(' .... A. Wemhoff I’. MylottG Christen J. Mylott G C. Gass Substitutions: (Alumni) Smith for Chr’sten, App'eman for Smith. Field goals: W. Gass 6; Mil er 3; F. Mylott 2; J. Mylott 3; Meyer 7; Holthouse 1; A. Wemhoff 2; Christen 1; C. Gass 3. Foul goals: W. Gass 3; Miller 1; J. Mylott 2; Meyer 1; Holthouse 1; C. Gass 1; Smith 1. Referee: Welborn, Fort Wayne. In the preliminary game, the Commodores’ second team defeated the! St. Joe eighth grade quintet, 20 to 14 I C. E. LOSES TO BLUFFTON FIVE Junior Moose Quintet Hands Decatur Five 26-20 Defeat Last Night The Decatur Gcteral Electric basketball team dro; ned a well played game to the Hl- ton Junior Moose quintet, at Bluffton, last night, by a score of 2G to 20. The winners were ! ahead at the end of the half, 13 to 11. ; Lineups and summary: G. E. (20) Junior Moose (26) Lindeman F ... Swigart Beard F High Strickler C Zoll Teeple GKnoble Kleinknight G Earhart Substitutions: (G. E.) Garton and Schneider; (Junior Moose) Carnail Field goals: Lindeman. 1; Strickler, 4; Teep'e, 1; Kleinknight. 1; Swigart, 2; Zoll, 1; Knoble, 3; Earhart, 1; Carnail, 1. Foul goals: Strickler, 3; Teeple, 2; Schneider, 1; Swigart, 3; High, 1; Zoll, 2; Knoble, 3; Carnail, 1. Referee: Ratcliff. o Uold Back Water Trees safeguard us against drought and priHect ii« iiguli.st raging floods. «-.v» 'li.' ’ rh-nn Tree association. The* in. „ ( . the tow-water run off In sun.t i -nd decrease the high-water run-otT hi early spring — »o Came From India dungalows get 'heir name from an Ind'an word meaning “of Bengal." ( ne-storfed houses are ’he rule In that province, and when Anglo-Indians returned they copied ttie style and coined the name. —London Tit-Bits. o A'poqAjaAa isnjfsjtu o; unqj ojm auo a\i A’|[u:jo|sbooo paA)ao ap aq oj jatiaq n| jj iddttq XuaA aq i.uom noA u)|Uj pooff s.auoA'uaAa Suipadsns aj|| qffnojqj off no£ j] Xddoyufl »jy

American League Scores Washington, 28; Chicago, in. New York. 33; Cleveland. 27. Rochester. 37; Detroit. 32 (overtime). YELLOW JACKETS PLAYSYRACUSE Undefeated Quintet Invades Decatur For Game This Evening The Decatur high school Yellow Jackets wil meet a tcugh foe tonight when the undefeated Sytacuse quintet invades the city. The Yellow Jacket second team will have its hands full, also in tackling the husky Hartford township Gorillas, in the preliminary game. Probably the most outstanding accomplishment of the Syracuse team to date is the 42-41 victory over the crack Kendallville quintet on December 16 Syracuse has been turning out fast , teams each year for the last several years and a few years ago the Syr.a- . cuse five was a dark horse at the state j tournament. Encouraged by their victory over Delphi here Thursday night and their ( ’op-sided victory over Angola, at Au- , gola, on Friday night, the Curtlsmen ] wil be in the game tonight to stop the t Syracuse quintet. The Hartford Goril | als are all set to add another victory • to their list at the expense of the fu- , ture Yellow Jackets tonight but th locals are all primed for a fight to th last ditch. The first game will start at 7 o’cloc and the big game at 8 o’clock. Ford Griffith, of Auburn, will referee the big game tonight. The Junie band will furnish music for the i game tonight. All members of the band are requested to be in their scats, ready to play at 7:45 o’c’ock. They need not wear their uniforms. , O Vancouver, D. C. —H. A. Barry, English sculling champion, today held the * world’s sculling championship by vir- 8 tue of his 10-length victory over Maj- • or Goodsell, Austrialia. on the th-ee-mile Port Moody course. His time 1 was 21:04. i h o | a ; o Get the Habit —Trade at t-io\ie, it °ays r

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I The undefeated quintet from Syracuse high school, a school that has been represented in the finals of the sfate tournament at Indianapolis, will meet the Yellow Jackets here tonight A red hot game is in prospect. The Hartford Gorillas also come to 'own tonight, this time to battle the Yellow Jackets second team. The Goril’as have added strength since the close of the first semester, as some new men, including Scrogham, former Lancaster player, have become eligible. The Second team will have a tough job tonight. The Yellow Jackets’ victory over I Angola last Friday night, by a score of 45 to 27, counts as a victory for Decatur in the standing of the Northeastern Indiana conference. The Yel'ow Jackets now have two victories (Garrett and Angola) and one de.’eat (Fort Wayne Central) in tlhe conference. The victories over Bluffton and Auburn do not count In the landing as those two teams will be played again this season and only the second of the two games counts in the standing. It was good to see “Spitty", "Doc”, “Mongo", “Art”, “Tubby” and "S lent”, all members of the Commodores' squads a few short years ago, in action again last night, when they played this team's Commodores team. App'eman, who played on the first team ever turned out by D.C.H.S. also got into the game, and Johnny Boy Hain, who was mascot for the former Commodores when they were in school, dressed up in a uniform last night and shot baskets between halvse like be did in former days. The Ccmmodores showed a lot of that old last minute punch last night when they came from behind to nose out the alumni. That is the kind of punch that wins a lot of games. "Bud" Voglewede didn’t get to perform before the home fans again last night, as he nad to beat it back to South Bend to practice with the Notre Dame quintet this morning. "We have said all along that somebody was gonna suffer when those

GRIDCOACHES TO MEET FRIDAY Proposed Changes In Football Rules To Be Discussed At Meeting By Frank Getty UP Sports Editor i New York. Dec. 27.—The hilarious ; fight for the goal posts which tradition demands shall take place between qndegraduates of the visiting and victorious college and the local and uncomfortable constabulary will be duplicated to some extent on Friday of this week when the nation's foothall coaches meet here to discuss rules and regulations for the most popular and best-paying of intercollegiate' sports. Some coaches want the goal posts brought back to the goal line. Others like ’em where the new rules tossed ’em —ten yaids away from either end of the playing field. It will bo push and pull, for opinion among the leading coaches seems to be fairly well divided. Gil Dobie, for instance, is one coach who believes that the game has become too complicated. The Cornell mentor is recognized among his fellow coaches as a real authority on the gridiron game, and when he unburdens himself on the subject of “the complication of the new game," will have a lot of careful attention. Howard Jones, who is detained on he Pacific coast by postseason foottall, is one of the outstanding champ□ns of the present position of the toal posts. “For one thing,” it gives a kicker somewhat better angle,” T. A. D. ’ones, retiring head coach at Yale volunteered in agreeing with his brother. "Tad” is a member of the ules committee and a stout defender of recent changes. E. K. Hall, chairman of the rules '•ommittee, will be reporting to the N. C. A. A. this week and may have something to promise about further changes. The coaches who want the goal posts brought back to* the goal line have a number of arguments ready for airing when the meetings start. One of the principal complaints about the new location comes from spectators,

Petroleum Panthers hit their stride. It just happened to be Kirkland last night. The Panthers exhibited some fine passwork. Their only difficulty, =0 we are informed, was in hitting the basket. Jack Bowman, former Lancaster star, played his first game ; with Kirkland last night."—Out of Bounds, Bluffton Banner. “Bowman, former Lancaster Center player, was in the Kirkland lineup in the game last night with the Petroeutn Panthers. The smallest Scrogham, also a former Lancaster man, was to be found on Hartford township’s team. What is Wells county's loss is Adams county’s gain."—Rip Offs, Bluffton b(ews. “SARATOGA WINS WITH REFEREE AS FACTOR IN ISSUE” reads ■i head line in the Portland Republi can. "Protest will be made in regard to Clark as an official.” reads the second deck of the head. Mr. Clark has been on<r of the two offiida's in the district tourney here for the last two years. The second game of the annual series between the Central and St. Joe quintets for the city championship and the George Wemhoff trophy will be played Friday night in the D. H. S. gym. Central won the first game ands the series will end if the Blue team also wins this one. But will they? The Harford Gorillas have a game scheduled with Lancaster on the Berne I'oor next Friday night. Monmouth is scheduled to go to Woodbum for a game on Thursday night. Otherwise, Adams county teams will be idle this week, after the games tonight. The Pittsburgh Tech team will start its invasion of Indiana Thurs- ! day night at Huntington. The East- . enters will play at Bl tffton on Friday night, at Fort Wayne South Side on i Saturday night. They also have a . game scheduled in Chicago. The I game with the boys from the Smoky I City here Sunday night is expected . to be one of the stiffest ones on the . Commodores’ schedule.

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I Baseball nun are working quietly to bring about peace between the majot leagues’ and the minors before the • former’s ultimatum expires, a month hence. The general Impression is that the difference over the draft will in some way be patched up, so that the national pastime may continue as one big If not happy, family. A definite break between the majors and the minors, with each operating independently, would create a situation which, accustomed us we are to the pro-national agreement would seem strange. It might wotk cut to the advantage of some ball players; It might militate against others. Certainly it would make for confusion and law suits whereas for the past seven years the iron hand of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis has smoothed out most of baseball's dlficulties without the necessity of anyone's going to courts to get his just deserts. Nearly everyone has felt that while Judge Landis' verdicts may not always have been just, they have at least been mercifully swift. in baseball, as in boxing, the one advantage of a supreme authority is that it keeps a lot of lawyers away. The question of the draft always has been the one unfortunately complicated feature of baseball. Everything else about the national pastime is simplicity itself. The sand-lot kids do not find the need of a high commissioner, although sometimes a riot squad is required to save the umpire. The national agreement to which majors - and minors subscribed seven years ago, worked out pretty well. Difficulties over the draft and the sale and purchase of ball players did not arise from any intrinsic fault in *he ; doccument. Greed of magnates, whether big or little magnates, brought on baseball’s present sore throat. who, at a distance, cannot get the ; hrill now of knowing just when the ’aP is driven over for a touchdown. Without the goal posts to judge by, they have to await the clamor of those nearer to the play. Knute Rockne. • coach at Notre lame, is usually the most entertainng speaker at these annual gatherngs. “Rock” is listened to closely >y his fellows, for he usually discloses i wealth of football information. Rockne is in favor of fewer and timp’er rules. Another coach who will have an attentive audience when he starts on .is subject of "quarterback strategy” s Bill Roper of Princeton. o Unselfish Mothers The greatest pleasure of an unselfish mother Is waiting on her family and her greatest sorrow that they not only don’t get any kick out of waitIng on her. but kick If she asks them to do anything for her. —Cincinnati Enquirer. o Famous American Duels Among Important duels fought tn America between 1795 and 1835. are the duel between Philip Hamilton, th-= son of Alexander, and G. J Baker; Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Captains Barron and Decatur. Henry Clay and Jonn Randolph. General Jackson and M. Dickinson, and Col onel Benton and Mr Lucas o— Oil’s Flash Point The bureau of standards says that the flash point of oil Is the temper ature at which the vapor rising from the oil will flash when a flame Is brought near the surface of the oil. —• o Those Simian Thoughts A beauty specialist assures ns that beautiful thoughts make for beauty of both face and form. Whnt a horrible tlflnker a gorilla must be!—San Bernardino Sun o BLIZZARD HITS BRITISH ISLES Deaths, Accidents And Injuries Accompany One Os Country’s Worst Storms Ixindon, Dec. 27. —(UP)— Deaths, accidents and injuries accompanied one of the worst blizzards and snowstorms ever experienced in the British Isles. The bodies of three persons were reported found in snowdrifts. Telephone and telegraph service in many places was disrupted. A snowdrift caused a triple colliI sion at Saxham in Suffolk when two • passenger trains and one light engine • ran together. One person was in- ■ jured. i It was reported here that tho i engine of a passenger train was de- • railed In Surrey. The seven accotnr panying coaches were thrown off the 1 track and the 60 passengers were • I badly shaken up. 1 Railroad companies were engaged

It seemed to the leading legal minds which were called iutu conference with Judge Umdis on the occasion of the recent baseball meeting, however that national agreement was. on its face, unilateral, and therefore not legally binding. For instance, one paragraph of the agteetnent reads thut it "shall continue in effect as long as Judge Kenesaw M. LandU remains high cornmisslonet of baseball." Obviously, this gave the major leagues a tremendous advantage— so great an advantage that the majorminor agreement probably was not altogether legal. If the majors continued satisfied with the agreement, all they had to do was to continue Judge Landis In oflice. If they wished to get out Os it. they had only to fire him. The minors had nothing to say. There was considerable question, al son, as to the legality of a measure passed by the minors at Dallas forbidding non-draft leagues to tak players who were subject to the draft. « Clubs in leagues which did not accept the draft had many deals'pending and naturally wished to go through with them. Some of the master minds conferred with the high commissioner on the matter and decided that a definite date, such as the first of February 1928, should be fixed for the enforcing of such a rule. For a winter meeting from which in the way of trades had been anti cipated, the recent gathering in Nev York City proved disappointing. Billy Evans and Roger Peckfnpaug! came on from Cleveland primed t< trade half their ball club, if the op portunity presented itself. They wen away wondering what was the matter with this business of being the bos ses of a ball club. Only the St. Ix)ni‘ clubs maintained a high average so barter. in rescuing passengers imprisoned on snow bound trains. Hundreds of automobile tourists were compelled to spend the night in tlseir cars. The gale reached a velocity of 54 miles an hour. Several casualties to coasting vessels engaged in transchannel service to FTaace were reported. Airplane service was distupted. In the Thames Valley the floods were the worst In So years. Paris, Dec. 27.— (UP) —Wind, snow and rain prevailed throughout Europe today, with storms and floods reported from such widely separated nations as Serbia, Greece, Belgium, Spain and France. Even the coast of Morocco was lashed by wintry weather. Several steamers were damaged off the north coast iff France. The Senateur Raymond from Rotterdam sank in the inner harbor of Cherbourg. O Seattle, Wash. —The University of Illinois basketball team arrived here to play its fit st game of the three-con-test series against the University of Washington. The game will dedicate the new $600,000 Husky field house. o ■ Get the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pays

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WESTERN STARS IBEAT EASTERNERS Western All-Star Football [ Team Scores 16-6 Victory ! In California i San Francisco. Dec. 27.-(UP)—Joel Hunt, Texas Aggies halfback, emerged as the Individual star in the Christmas game here tn which tho western ill stars defeated a picked eastern eleven, 16 to 6. Hunt's brilliant runs, long punts and command of every football trick ' accounted greatly for tho west victory. Hunt's first chance came when Glenn Presnell. Nebraska's star quart- ' erback fumbled, and Mathews of Texts Christian recovered for the Westerners, racing to the east's 22 yard 'lne. Hunt smashed through the Hue m the first play for a touchdown. Wilson of Washington kicked the goal. Throughout tho eseond period there "ollowed a punting duel, with Hunt having an edge over the Yale star, Jruce Caldwell. With the ball on his , >wn 12 yard line, Amos of Washing □n and Jefferson fumbled, and was 'hrown for a safety. The westerners started a drive own the field. Meeker, quarterback, an the kickoff back 28 yards; Manr nado 15 yards in two attempts and nared a pass scoring the second ’estern touchdown, Wilson kicked toal. In the second half, the eastern •leven scored, Caldwell and Herb 'oesting rambling their way down the ’eld. A ten-yard Caldwell run gave 'he east its touchdown. The Yale 'tar failed to kick goal. Throughou he remainder of the game there was tile excitement. Dixie Flyers Win Los Angeles, Dec. 27.—(UP)—Thr Dixie Flyers — all-star southern foot all team—today dangled from theb elts the scalps of an all-western elev an. whom they defeated here jester day, 8 to 0. Taking advantage of every break the southern eleven maintained an adge from the second play of the gammtll the final gun was fired. On the ■econd play. Cook of the coast team umbled. Creson recovered, and ir ’our drives, the southerners pounded ’hrough two yards to a touchdown Middlekauf scoring. Bill Spears, Van lerbilt’s star quarterback failed to rick goal. Late in the final period, Creson, a Vanderbilt star with Pickard of Ala bama blocked Meritt’s punt on his own one yard line, and formerly of Southern California fell on the ball for a safety. The garni- was played on a watersoaked field before 10,000 persons Ashbaucher’s FURNACES : i IJGHTNING RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING Phone 765 or 739

who paid $20,000 l 0 see th „ barely enough to^p ny ' SI JOE MEETS CENTRAL FRIDAY Teams The second game O s the a „ three-game series between thtral and St. Joe eighth grade for the city championship und N '' s aion of the George W-mhoff tr "T will be played in the Dee.tur h£ school gymnasium Friday night n « arnounced today. The game at . :30 o'clock and an admlmi? charge of 25 cents will be made T proceeds from the game win be div i ed equally between the two teJ/ Central won the first game nf th „ series, played in th- Catholic school gym. recently. In case Central X Se “ me ’. the <•>'> tampion, ship and possession of the (!«„-,' Wemhoff maible trophy for one --ar will go to Coach Thomas' blue ’,i a warriors. Should St. Joe win th.. J, □nd game, a third and deciding g,,,,,' will be played at a later date, the 1,,,.. ion to be decided by a flip O s a ( . O h. St. Joe now lias possession ot the Wemhoff trephy. as a result of win. ng the annual series last winter — — What Borrowers Borrow If It were only os easy to borrow money as It is to borrow trouble | nt of us would borrow a great deal more trouble. — -o — — _. Cultivating Laziness “De more a man takes -.ff time to go hshln'.’’ said Uncle Eben. "de mo' he hates office hours an' complain, bout overwork "—Washington Star 666 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue. Bilious Fever and Malaria. It kills the germs. Z \ 1 / OH -Gee / K’S A whole \ YEAR \ XMAS / \ again/ I *'l 2.1 Kt |ON SHOES rt)R MEN TeitfuT-Myeta & Scu / C.orxiMJ Ae>D S*OCS / *O*. ANU MO-X-3ECATUKZ INDIANA'