Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1927 — Page 6

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YELLOW JACKETS SWAMP SYRACUSE Curtismen Hand Visitors First Defeat, Score 74-20; Hartford Beats Seconds Decatur high school’s Yellow Jackets put oti quite an interesting exhibition of basketball as it should be played last night at the high school gym for the edification of a capacity crowd of holiday celebrants, and shot the no-defeat record of the Syracuse quintet full of holes with a forty-milt-nte bombardment of field goals, the like of which has not been executed by a Yellow Jacket team in many years. The final score was 74-20. The Yellow Jacket second team fared not so well. They put up a nice scrap against the Hartford township varsity, but were unable to cope with the size of the Gorillas, and lost by a score of 43-24. The Syracuse team camo to town last night with a record of ten victories and no defeats this season. Included in the list of victims were Kendallville and Nappanee, two northern Indiana teams that are generally consideted strong. Kendallville was

beaten at Syracuse in an overtime game, 42-41, and Nappanee fell by a score of 28-26. Kendallville was able to defeat Nappanee by only a few points. The big crowd of fans w)io followed the Syracuse team to Decatur last night said their team was off last night. It probably was off somewhat, but the Yellow Jackets were on. Coa h Herb Curtis used eleven players in beating Syracuse, and each combination outplayed and outscored the visitors. Soon after the game started, there was no question as to the winner, and it was merely a question of what the score would be. At the half, Decatur was leading, 35 to 4. Syracuse had made one field goal and two three throws. Bob Hill continued his scoring spree last night and caged 13 field goals and a free throw, and he didn’t play the entire game, either. Anadell sank six baskets and Gerber, five, while they were in the game. Bell, Krick, Reynolds, Cole, J. Engle and D. Engle all scored from the field, also. In spite of their one-sided victory, the Yellow Jackets made several wild passes last night and Coach Curtis will have something to work on in the I practice sessions before the games with Auburn and Fort Wayne South Side, Jan. 6 and 7. Their teamwork showed a marked improvement how ever. Bob Hill opened She scoring last night, with a short field goal. Syra-1 < use immediately took time out to I reorganize the defense. Bachman tied the score with a field goal and then the fun started. Hill caged u free throw and three field goals and Anadell shot two baskets, giving Decatur a 13-2 lead. From then on, the ball played tag with the net on the Decatur basket. Substitutes played much of the second half, but the starting live returned to the lineup with the score standing 66 to IS and finished the game. In the first game of the evening, the ■'.eight of the J artlord players was a strong factor in t teir victory. The future Yellow Jackets wire unable to get the tip off once during the game. At the eml of tho half the Gorillas were leading, 27 tn 10. Coach Windmiller did not start N. Banter, regular forward, due to an injury he received In the game with Geneva, recently, but ho sent him Into the game twice and the veteran Got ilia caged five fl Id goals. Hoffman, with six baskets and two free throws and Scrogham, with five baskets and two free throws led in the scoring. Reynolds was high point man for the Decatur team, with four field goals and three free throws. Lineups and summary: Decatur (74) Syracuse (20) F ...Klingamon Hill ... F Ketring Gerber C Bachman Anadell G R. Godshalk Kric’ G H. Godshalk S ibsfit’ttions: (Decatur) Cole for Aimd-'l. I: 'Holds for Bell, J. Engle for ' ill. ’ i.henau for Cole, Cole for Goi .- i). Engle for Krick, Roop for J. E. '■ : (Syracuse) Miller for Bachman Field goals: Bell, 3; Hill. 13; Ge.bcr. 5; Anadell, 6; Krick, 2; Reynolds, 2; Cole, 1; J. Engle, 1; D. Engle, 1; Klingamon, 1; Ketring, 1; Rachman, 4. Foul goals: Bell, 1; Hill. 1; Anadell, 3; Krick, 1; Klingamon, 2; Ketring, 1; Bachman, 2; R. Godshalk, 1; H. Godshalk, 1; Miller, 1. Referee: Griffith, Auburn; umpire, Stahl, Fort Wayne. D. H. S. Seconds (24) Hartford (43) Debolt F . .. Reynolds Schnepp F Scrogham HebbleC..Hoffman I. Reynolds G Holloway Kocher G R. Banter Substitutions: (Decatur) Beery for

S hnepp, Engeler for Kocher, Drown for Engeler; (Hartford) N. Banter tor Holloway. Field goals: Debolt, 2; Schn 'pp. 1: Hebble', 2; I. Reynolds, . I. Heynolds. 1; Sctogham, f>; Hoff man, 6; Holloway, 2: N. Banter, .' Foul goals: Debolt, 1: Schnepp, 1; Hebble, 1; I. Heynolds, 3; Reynolds, 2; Scroghant. 2; ft. Banter, 1. Referee: Stahl, Fort Wayne, — — o Army-Navy Grid Breach Grows Wider And Wider West Point, Dec. 28— I INS) --The football bleach between the Navy am: A. my was widet today as the iese.lt T the hot rejoinder made here by W R. Fleming, of the Militaty Academy, tc the chatges contained in an editorial printed in the Athletic News of the Naval Academy. Major Fleming was outspoken in his condemnation of the Navy undergradtale paper, characterizing the editorial as a "considerable distortion of the facts." Replying to a statement made by Major General Edwin Winans that the main purpose c.f Athletics at West Point was to fit men for Army service, the Navy pointed out that seven stars at the Military Academy had resigned from the Army after graduation. q Whippets To Play

Decatur Independents i - The Kirkland Whippets will clash ’ with the Decatur Independents in the Kirkland community hall this eve- • ning. in the preliminary game, the Whippet Seconds will play the Fort Wayne Heralds. The main game will . start at 8:15 o’clock. The Whippets have been going at a fast clip this season, winning from several crack teams. The Decatur team which will furnish the opposition this evening is made up of former Decatur high school stars. On Friday night, the Whippets will I play the Monroe Independents in the | Kiikland gym. The Monroe team will be composed almost entirely of the players who fotmed the Monroe high school team that won the district championship several years ago. Among them will be Chet and Rex j Kessler, (’list, Myeis, Everhart. Coppess, Andrews and Hahnert. There is much rivalry between these two teams. Last year the Whippets were victorious. o —. HU LOSES IN FIRST SKIRMISH Former College Student Blocked In Move To (lain His Freedom By B?rt M. Dembv, i’P Staff Correspondent ' Ottawa. 171.. Dec. 28.—tt ri—Blocked in their first important legal move to free Harry Hill, 22-year-old former college student charged with the murder of his mother, counsel for Hill today hoped to force state's attorney to reveal the manner in which they intended to conduct their case. The defense offered a motion which demanded that State’s Attorney Russell O. Hanson specify which of five counts in indictments against Hill would be the basis of the state's at--1 tempt to convict the youth. Judge Joe Davis yesterday refused to allow Hill to withdraw his plea of not guilty so his lawyers could ask that the indictment be dismissed. Examination of prospective jurors was to commence following the judge's decision on the motion to force the state to reveal its case against Hill. o By the ’United Press Decatur, 111.—Quarantine on Loren Murchison, Olympic sprinter may be raised at the end of this week. Murchison has been suffering from spinal meningitis, and his physician despaired of his life, a fortnight ago. Prospective lifting of quarantine Indicates virtually certain recovery. Chicago. — Frank Kern, outfielder, and Lester Rouprich, pitcher, have been released by the Chicago Cubs to ■ Reading, Pa., of the International league under option. Seattle, Wash. —The University of Washington dedicated its new $600,000 field house by celebrating a 34 to 23 . basketball victory over the University of Illinois here last night. The game . was the first of a three-contest series. , Philadelphia. — Earl Baruch, star . Princeton quarterback for the past . two seasonr. has quit school and will , not return next fall, it was learned here today. He was eligible for an- ) other year. , 0 i j Misses Naomi Butler, Francis Uhl n and Blanche Buckmaster returned y yesterday to Cincinnati, having spent r Christmas with H. E. Butler and famr lly on North Fifth street.

GRID OFFICIALS ; GATHER TODAY Men Who Were Much Abused During Season Meet To Defend Themselves [•' By Frank Getty UP Sports Editor e New York, Dec. 28.—Football officii ials, who suffered so much abuse duri Ing the 1927 season, gathered today at the Hotel Astor to speak on their own behalf. r- There was a time when th<- men in e white knickers who officiated at the leading gridiron games were paid - scanty attention by the partisan I- throngs gathered on respective sides ■ Os the chalk-lined playing field. 1 This year, however, changes in the playing rules brought about an ttnpre- < cedented number of situations in e which the rulings of the officials had t a most important bearing upon the . result of the game. < There was the case of the Notre 1 Dame-Southern California intersectional game, for instance, in which [ the decision of an umpire regarding a ! fumble behind the Irish goal line decided the contest in favor of the i South Bend eleven and led to protests from the Trojans which have not yet died away. Members of the football officials’ association who opened their annual session here today blamed the complications of the new rules for their iifficulties. Football, from a game once decided obviously upon the merits of the respective contestants, has come to be a game where a delicate decision may be left up to some perplexed official. o .. FIELD GOALS By MARK M. UPP The Yellow Jackets have no respect for no-defeat records. The Delphi team came here last Thursday night with a t ecord of all victories and no defeats this season, and the Yellow Jackets turned In a 39-36 victory. Last night, the Syracuse team, with a record of ten straight victories, tumbled to the tune of 74-20. For the first time, the Yellow Jack ets failed to have enough figures provided in the running score column and ‘Buck’’ Tyndall, who was keeping score, had to write In additional figures on the margin. In spite of the fact that Syra- | cuse defeated Kendallville, 42-41 in an overtime game at Syracuse the Yellow Jackets may expect a Eti bbOrn battle when they go to Kendallville on January 20. The Kendallville-Angola and Decatur Angola scores show the two teams to be about equal. Ford Griffith, who used to be one of the best, if not the best official in this par*, of the state, has not been giving the satisfaction this year that he formerly gave, but he looked more like the Griffith of old last night. He told us between halves that he felt more like refereeing last night than he had any time this season. Stahl, of Fort Wayne, who worked with Griffith last night, did a satisfactory job. One of the most pleasing things about last night’s game was the way the Yellow Jackets were meeting their passes. The game between the Commodores and the alumni, Monday night, was pretty much of a brotherly affair. The Mylott brothers on the Commodores’ team, Petie and Hocky, were the only ones pulling together, however. Billy Gass and Bernie Wemhoff, on the high school team, were fighting teeth and toe nail against their big brothers, Tubby Gass and Art Wemhoff, on the alumni quintet. Robert Gass, another member of i the family was in an alumni uniform, but did not get into the game. i The Commodores will hit the road ! tomorrow’ for their first game on sorer ign soil this season. They will play ! the Shelbyville Catholics at Shelvy- . vilie tomorrow night, and Anderson r Friday night. Then comes the big t game with Pittsburgh Tech here on 1 January 1. "When December 30 roils ar.:und there i 3 going to be plenty df excitement up in the city of Frankfort for I that will be the day the State chainj pion Martinsville high school aggrega t tion rolls Into Frankfort for a clash t . with Everett Caaes’s Frankfort five Any gentleman or lady in the boun

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Earl Sande. now in France, is hopeful of arranging some riding engagements in that country and England after his disbarment from the American turf is lifted. "I want to ride in the Epsom Derby and the Paris Grand Prix before I’m through,” Sande said recently. If Earl is successful in obtaining European engagements, he will compete once more against Steve Donohue, most famous and successful of English jokeys of the present day, although one who now feels the call of years and has a son kicking home winners alongside of him. A duel between the fine jokeys is sometimes quite as_ thrilling as one between two tine horses. Sande, when at his best, rodo just about as well as any jock living. He might find Continental conditions not altogether to his liking, although he is fascinated by the scenery surrounding French and English tracks. “I’m afraid 1 never could win for looking at the scenery as I rode along.” said Earl. "These French courses are the finest I’ve ever seen. I didn’t imagine such beauty was built for racing." Rating Sande as about the beat rider of the decade brings in a claim from far-away Sydney, where Australians believe they have the world's most raniarkable jockey in Bobby darles cf the State who is inclined to scoff at the Frankfort chances for the I State crown this season can well afford to take a peek at Case’s five year record as basket coach. To date the Casemen in five seasons have emerg- : ed triumphant in 127 games and have i lost twenty-two. Whenever a Frankfort team will fail to show up as a contender at the State finals along in March semething will be radically wrong. Apparently teams may come and i teams may go but Case-coached teams go on forever. —’’Cuttin’ Em Short”, j Vincennes Commercial. "A team that is made up of players who merge their own individual wishes and prejudices and ability into the team “Cooperation" will be a team that wins a victory even if they take the small end cf trie score" —"Cuttin’ Em Short”, Vincennes Commercial. Thinks Eaton Strong “In classifying Hartford City’s op- | ponents during the past year we will place Eaton in first place as having i the best team to tangle with the Aiddales. The Norsemen are all big and ■ husky and have accurate eyes for the I basket and play good, heady ball. We. are expecting them to give the BearI cats the scare of their lives next j Match at. tournament time. If the truth were told, we would be highly j elated to see them twist the tail of the vaunted Bearcat. The second best ' team the Airdales have faced this year j fs the Quakers from Fairmount. The ! Grant county crew is composed of five good basketball players. Linnville J Fairmount forward is piobably the ; best forward to appear on the local ! floor. Creek, their center, is also ;i ,J good man, as is Sellers the other for J ward. Union City is the third besi i team. Winchester fourth, Blufftcn fiftl Q | Pendleton sixth. Dunkirk seventh : Montpelier eighth, and Warren a pool ninth." —As We see It,, Hartford Citj d News. r Union Center defeated Lancaster’' i- Bob Cats, in a game played In th< j. community building at Bluffton, las h night, 30 to 22. s. v i Scrogham, former I>an( aster player

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Lewis. Remarkable certainly is the word, for Bobby is 49 years old, and recently kicked home Trivalve, a notoriously lazy colt, to win the Sydney and Victorian derbies and the Melbourne Cup. all within a month. Victoiy in these three races netted Trivalve’s owner SIIO,OOO but the I thrill was nothing new to Bobby Lewis. He has been riding constantly on Australian tracks for 38 years. Lewis, in that time, has made plenty of money out of racing and is rated as a millionaire. The lure of the track is too strong for him to retire and enjoy a rest. No Australian rider puts up a more Stirling finish than Lewis, for all his years. His recent performances in getting the shirking Trivalve home in the big handicaps were masterpieces of stretch riding. “1 know this horse,” said Bobby. "I rode his father, Cykon, his mother, Trey, and his giandmother, Teppo.” Cyklon was a son of Spearmint, and a grandson of Carbine, the greatest horse ever raced in Australia. Carbine won the Melbourne Cup In 1890, a year after I.ewia started riding. Bobby has ridden the winners of four Melbourne Cups, eight Victorian Derbies and seven Sydney Derbies. How many races has he won? He ! quit counting after the first 1,000 — ■ 27 years ago! > has added considerable strength to the ■ Ha: tford ttwnship quintet,, since he ’ became eligible last week-end. The Got Illas looked good in their victory over ‘ the Decatur seconds last night. The ■ Gorillas play Lancaster at Berne, Frl- ‘ day night, and we’re predicting anotht er victory for Adams county. -1' - r o i Penn Team Undergoes 1 Hard Workout In West i Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 28. — (INS) — Coach Young’s Pennsylvania grid warriors were resting here today, following a strenuous workout in preparation for their forthcoming intersectional game with the California Bears, scheduled to be played in the Memorial stadium here Saturday. Onlookers expressed themselves as huge'y impressed with the appearance of the Quaker team, after witnessing the first hard practice session, the Pennsylvanians have undergone since their arrival here. r o * Sharkey Pronounced t In Good Condition e , New York, Dec. 28.—(UP) —Fears expressed among boxers that Jack t Shat key would not go through with g bis scheduled match with Hom Hee" v ey of New Zealand January 13 were t in a measure laid at rest today when t Tex Rickard, the promoter, and the New York state athletic commission »• both expressed assurance that the ' Boston heavyweight was in good ft 1 1 I shape. | s ’| Johnny Bucklye, manager of Share key, sent the United Press the fol--11; lowing message: ;l i "Jack knocked out Rocky Stone r ' twice during a three round workout Tuesday. He stopped Stone in the h first round and again in the third.” 3- 1 Buckley announced that the Lith,r uanian, who has not appeared in a y major engagement since his dramatic I knockout at the hands of Jack DempI sey last summer, was down to 198 's pounds and in perfect condition. io 1 “We'll lick Heeney and then we st want Tunney," he said. j-Xj American League Scores r, Philadelphia, 34; Cleveland, 28.

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