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I.I.S,SECONDS BEAT MONMOUTH ' urday Night w winning their first game, of ' „ Friday night. a ‘ Hoogland, ** 88118 nth Eagles were downed by *{Jr seconds. 55-21 in a game Tsnurdav night on the Decatur I was the second time this Lin the seconds have defeated Mon"J scoring was opened "y a dribb--2 shot from Reynolds. of Decatur, i X minutes later, the score was lidat si -.11-Fro- , !’* )n ° n v th ’7 h C e ' 1 had things theit own way. At the H the half, thev had more than ;liX % lead. The last half was a repiX of the first, the final score being ; Ltttr 55. Monmouth 21. Stoneburner i „f Decatur was put out on personals I during Ulis periodThe principal scorrers for the winners were Debolt, Stoneburner. and Reynolds, who scored all but twelve ‘ O f'their 55 points. In the opening pme. the Decatur third team defeated the Central eighth graders 56-10. Lineups and summary: Decatur Seconds (55) Monmouth (21) Stoneburner F Hill Debolt F Parish Roop C Boerger Reynolds 0 Brokaw Engle G Reed I Substitutions (Decatur) Shoaf for Stoneburuc-r. Stoneburner for Shoaf, Kocher for Stoneburner. Schnepp for Roop. Hebble for Schnepp, Roop for Hebble. Lankenau for Reynolds for Kocher. (Monmouth) Rice for Parish, Field goals: Debolt 8; Shoaf 1; Stonetamer 7; Reynolds 4; Lankenau 2, I Engle. 2; Hill 1; Parish 2; Boerger 1: i Brokaw 3. Foul goals. Stoneburner 1; f Kocher 1; Debolt 3; Reynolds 1; I Engle 1; Hill 2; Parish 1; Boerger 1; | Borkaw 2. Referee: Bryan. KIRKLAND LOSES TO NEW HAVEN Kangaroos Are Nosed Out In Battle At New Haven, Score 30-29 The Kirkland high school Kanga- ; roos journeyed to New Haven Saturday night and returned home with a ■ defeat and a none too pleasant regard for a Mr. Pierce, of Fort Wayne, 1 basketball referee. The Kangaroos brought home the short end of a SO--25 score, after their battle with the New Haven tossers. The first half ended with New Haven leading, 18-13. The opening period was more or less devoid of thrills. However, the second half •hawed Improvement and the crowd hail plenty of thrills. The lead exchanged hands a few times, but the timer’s gun found New Haven holdif" a one-point lead. In the preliminary game, the Kirkland second ,( im lost to the New Haven first tat reserves. 16-11. Lineups and summary; Kirkland (29) New Haven (30) ' Arno ’’ d F La ke p , ers F Snyder Heller" I '' p ’ Tußtißan (Kirkland) Baum2 r p r . MpyPrs ’ R ’ Arnold for Vimii Z‘ d gnals - Fowman 4; L. £ d , l: T Meyers 4: F. Arnold 4; Foil ~"'1 rus, * i " on 3; Brommor 7. »*“ u?~"“ 'j Ar, “" 1: 0 SPORT TABLOIDS cm<-.,! Ry Unite(l Press) e ” dieatli?' 0 Chicago nricklayuatirlal c J ,e A ’ A ’ B a LOS cnp Banie > 4’o- - Domem' ELK T S ~ Puneral feervic es Mel La R 7 Übarba > father of “^ ,: " y « ! tS^Fr^; e heW tOday - Th ‘ s University of h ” nin ■ Wa ? kel i WII team vlrtl 'aliy ley C onf*4cel ’ U i e Missouri Valgames Z. Wiuning ten ,ies °ri its e,' Oklah °ma won from 2 ‘. Saturday rongest competitor, 40McCracke n. In‘c°rers wit , *S Ten conference throw Z flel<l a '* and 11 alteis of N n 2 tOta ‘ Os 57 P°intsr lh!6 «e dl hW ' estern is Wa, otalof 4 7 antlls ‘'fee throws •\’E\ V vnLt 7 points - J*h defeat, fIZZ™ 80 Black Z 6 to o . „ he New lork Amerf,lke T game a national league

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Hi aiubi idge (17; Manual (IndiatiapoIls. 26. Muncie 52; Marlon Hi. Auburn 25; Cential (Fort Wayne) 34 Nnpalieo 34: LaPorte 26. Warsaw 35; I’iereetOll 33. Shelbyville 60; Greensburg 33. Hartford City 39; Union City 35. Amo 23; Monrovia 18. Reitz (Evansville) 11; Winslow 19. ■Memorial (Evansville) 65; Mt. Vernon 20. Logansport 42; Vincennes 31. Union (Wells County) 33 Ossian 29 South Bend 41; Mishawaka 29. Anderson 44; Pelphi 27. Frankton 43; Noblesville 29. Bluffton 37; Angola 30. Seymour 38; Edinburg 21. Wabash 61; Lagro 37. Crawfordsville 53; South Side (Fort Wayne) 39 o_ GENEVA LOSES OVERTIME GAME Cardinals Drop Close Game To Celina, Friday Night, 42-36 A sleepy time-keeper cost the Genova high school Cardinals a victory in their game with the Celina, Ohio, Bull Dogs, at Celina, Friday night, Celina winning in an overtime contest. 42-36 The timekeeper apparently was taking a peaceful nap when the last ten-min-ute quarter was up, with Geneva leading 36-30, and he permitted the time to run over six minutes.-When the gun finally did halt the play, the score was tied at 36-all. The Cardinals put up a fine brand of play. Celina ran up a 14-4 lead in the first quarter, but the Cardinals came back strong in the second half and at the end of the half were trailing only three points, 17-14 The Cardinals forged ahead in the third quarter and when the final period opened they were leading 26-23. Iji the over time perio, the Bull Dogs sank one field goal and four free throws. Stahly, Brown and Fravel, of Geneva, were forced out of the game on personal fouls. Twenty-two personal fouls were called on Geneva and 11 on Celina. Lineups and summary: Celina (42) Geneva (36) Brandts F PanFast F Hawbaker Moorman C ’ Stahly Neff G Fravij Landfair G Striker Substitutions: (Celina) Roettger for Brandts, Einfalt for Fast, Kendall for Neff, Orr for Landfair, Brandts for Roettger, Fast for Einfalt. Miller for Fast, Einfalt for Miller. Neff or Kenliayy, Landair so O;r; (Celina) Brown for Parr, Neal for Blown. Parr for Neal, Dunwiddie for Fravel. Field goals. Mocrman. 4; Brandts, 3; Fast 3; Neff 2; Landfair 1; Einfalt 1; Ha baker 4; Neal 2; Sthaly 2; Fravel 3; Brown 1; Parr 1; Striker, 1. Foul goals: Moorman, 3; Fast 2; Brandts 2; Einfalt, 1; Neff, 1; Hawbaker 3 Fravel, 2; Stahly 2: Referee: White, Sidney, Ohio. — o Tris Sneaker To Play With Athletics This Year New York, Feb. 6.— (VP) —Tris Speaker today looked forward to his twentieth season in the American League as center fielder of the Philadelphia Athletics. The veteran outfielder came to terms with Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics, over the telephone last night, and will report to the A’s training camp at Fort Myers, Fla., on March 1. "I arrived here from the south yesterday and talked to Connie over the long distance telephone at Mount Pleasant. Fla., and decided to accept his offer,” Speaker said. “Wo are both satisfied with the terms." Speaker probably took a cut off the salary he received at Washington last year in order to continue in major league baseball. He was said to have received $30,000 at Washington. And an additional $30,000 for signing a contract. Clark Griffith, president of the Senators .released Speaker because he did not care to assume the heavy salary another year. o COLLEGE SCORES Indiana 48; Kentucky 29. Michigan 28; Chicago 19. Loyola 23; St. Louis 22. Butler 23; Marquette 20. Manchester 51; Indiana Central 23. Ohio State 42; Minnesota 40 Oklahoma 40; Missouri 24 Evansville 31; Franklin 20. 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE RESULTS Brooklyn. 32, Cleveland 21. Saturday Night’s Results Brooklyn 49, Cleveland 33.

DECATIIH DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1928.

6 GAMES IN BIG TEN THIS WEEK Material Changes In Conference Standings Are In Prospect Chicago, Feb. 6.— (UP) —Material changes in big ten basketball standings were in prospect this wook. Six games will be played before the week ends. Tonight Minnesota plays at lowa and Ohio comes to Chicago. Wednesday, Nothwestern meets Illinois. The headliners come Saturday night wh< n the leading Purdue team (days Michigan; Minnesota ’meets Wisconsin; and lowa goes to Indiana. Purdue, now leading the conference, faces tough opposition in the Wolverines who hope to mar the Boilermaker perfect record. Northwestern, with four games won and one lost, expects to find little trouble with Illinois. Results of two conference games last Saturday night: Michigan, 28; Chicago, 19. Ohio Stmte, 42; Minnesota, 40. Indiana defeated Kentucky in a nonconference game, 48 to 29. The standings: Team W. L. Purdue 3 0 Northwestern 4 1 Wisconsin 3 1 Indiana 3 2 Michigan 3 2 Ohio State ..... . 2 3 Chicago 2 4 Illinois 1 3 lowa I 3 Minnesota 1 4 o FIELD GOALS! By MARK M. UPP . '■ this week: Friday night—Ossian nt Berne. Decatur trt Elwood, Fort Wayne C. C. H. S. at Decatur Catholic ■Jefferson vs. Decatur seconds at Decatur Hartford vs. Monroe at Kirkland Monmouth vs. Geneva at Decaur; Saturday night—Decatur at Crawfordsville, Decatur Catholic at Kirkland, Monroe at Hoagland. Berne's Fighting Five snapped otft of it Saturday night to swamp Garrett 54-28. Its beginning to look more and more like the sectional tourney here next Month would be hotly contested. Someone in Bluffton was so anxious for the whole state to know Bluffton defeated Decatur here Friday nigh that he took the liberty to send in the score to Indianapolis, when it was outside his territory. He even sent it hr before the game was over, and naturally had it wrong. As a result the score came out over the state, 28-23. Later, the eoirect score from the person delegated to send it in, came out 29-24. Some people sure do lose their heads over basketball games. Tlie sport pages of the two Bluffton papers were cramed full of gleeful paragraphs Saturday. Oh, well, there may ]>e another laugh yet this season, who knows. Plenty Os Sting Left, Eck “Decatur’s Yellow Jackets have been going along at a dizzy clip and were fast being recognized as one of the strongest teams in the northern section of the state but Bluffton went over to Decatur last night and took all the sting out of the Jackets by an application number 28-23.” —Sportfolio, Goshen Daily Democrat “Decatur plays at Columbia City on February 17 and talce it from us that should be one real basketball game,” says Cash Keller in. the Huntington HeHrald. “Both teams, composed of tall players with plenty of drive, and both use nearly the same style of play". Well, well. This is indeed an unusual paragraph for Cash in view of the fact that Columbia City swamped the Huntington Vikings, Friday night. The biggest upset of the week-end occured Saturday night when the lowly and apparently toothly Airdales of Hartford City, came to life and drubbed the speedy Union City quintet, 39-35, “As We See It,” in the Hartford City News, had almost gone blind, judging from the infrequent appearance of his column, but that game Saturday night ought to give him his second eyesight. The Irish of C. C. H. S. Fort Wayne invade Decatur next Friday night for their annual battle with the Commodores. And what a battle that should be. The Catholic school gym ought to be packed to the ceiling long before

tlie game siatts. Tin l usual lilg follow ing of rnotera Is expected to accompany I lie Irlsii. Tli<> Yellow Jackets have two mighty stiff battles ahead of them for next week-end. They go to Elwood Friday night and to Crawl'ordsvllle on Saturday night. Elwood lias been going great gunu lately, piling up top-heavy scores. Crawfordsville’s 14-polnt victory over South Side, of Fort Wayne, al Crawfordsville last Saturday night showed that the Athenians are plenty tough. The Yellow Jackets have a chance next Week-end Io either make or break their reputation among the good teams of tlie stale. Deserving of Support Dear Mark: After attending the De-catur-Bluffton game Friday night and seeing the large crowd there to see old rivals play, we wonder if the same large crowd will be there to see old rivals next Friday night, namely, Commodores vs. Central Catholic. Fans of Decatur, don’t forget if yon don’t intend to go to the game, that the Commodores put Decatur on tlie map by defeating this old rival at the Chicago tournament. Buy your tickets ftotn the students of D. C. H. S. —Lindy Lou and Sally Too Those Ferocious Tigers Bluffton’s Tigers deserve a world of credit! “Without their big towering center ‘Neeman’ Crosbie, they waded into the Decatur Yellow Jackets on their own basketball pavillion and gave them a lesson in the art of fast floor play and basket connections. “It gave the Yellow Jackets, including their main loud speaker (we're reverently speaking of Mark M. Upp) the surprise of their life. The Tigers actually went and did it —beat Decatur right on their own floor —right in front of their own spectators. “It was a real game—a great game —one that sent the over-confident Decatur fans scurrying to dark grusome recesses, where profound meanings are to be heard. “Surely, the Yellow Jackets should be praised, for they, led by the dashing Anadell, staged a hard game. But the pail of unadulterated glory should be literally poured on each Tiger player and lathered on thick —as thick as Gertrude Ederle’s coat of grease as she took to the water. “Poor Decatur Yellow Jackets —how they must feel to have let those horrid Bluffton boys outplay them on their own maple—and so near tourney time. Pappas and mammas of the Decatur thinly clads report that they tossed and rolled in their lied all night Anything but to let Bluffton show them up—and a crippled team at that! ' “This wil be a happy Saturday night Tiger players will take their usual baths —weekly, we trust— and step out against the Angola eagers. Bluffton fans will cheer them as they take the floor—prehaps a few flowers will be cast. They who utterly dampened the odor of our neighboring county’s darlings, the Yellow Jackets, are the heroes of the hour,” —Rip Offs, Bluffton News The Silver Lining “Quoting from Mark M. Upp of Decatur, following the Bluffton-Decatur football game last fall: “They may have us beat in football, but just wait until the Yellow Jackets meet them in basketball!' All of which we'd say, reminds us that he laffs best who l ifts last! That’s one time the Tigers turned away the tide of despair and broke through the clouds to find the silver lining. Congrats, Tigers! —Out of Bounds, Bluffton Banner o— G. E. TO PLAT MAZDA OUINTET Fort Wayne Team To Meet Locals In Deciding Game Os Series The General Electric basketball team of this city will meet the Mazdas team from the Fort Wayne G. E. plant in the third and deciding game of a series, in this city, Tuesday night. Each team now holds one victory over the other. In the curtain-raiser, the G. E. second team will play the Hoagland independents. The first game wil Istart at 7:15 o’clock. Earl. Blackburn will referee the prelimina.y contest, and Lawrence Beal will officiate in the main go. _Q Gasoline Sales In December Show Increase Indianapolis, Feb. 6 — (UP) —Gasoline sales in Indiana during December, 1927; exceeded those during December 1926, by 4,600,000 gallons, A. N. Bobbitt, state gas tax collector, reports. In December 1927, 27,224,751 gallons wer sold and in December, 1926, 22, 575,557 gallons. 0 RICHMOND— Emory Bowman escaped with minor injuries after facing death by mangling and fire. While working in a greenhouse, an automatic stoker seized his clothing and dragged him toward a furnace beneath a boiler. Fellow workmen rescued him after he suffered bruises and burns,

BERNE SWAMPS GARRETT TEAM Fighting Five Scores 54-28 Victory On Home Floor Saturday Night Berne, Feb. 6. (Spiii.il) — The Berne Fighting Five played one of itbest games of tlie season Saturday night, in defeating tli<> Garrett lii h sclMiol quintet, in a game played hero 54-28. The Johnsonmon led throughout the game and increased the lead as the game progressed. At the end of Hie first half. Berne held a 27-14 lend. The game was tough, most of the time, and Truster, of Garrett, was put off the floor for unnecess try roughness. Stucky, who has Iwen playing forward for Berne nil season, was shifted to floor guard by Coach Johnson, Saturday night, and ho played his best game of the I season. In addition to playing a nice guarding game, Stucky wont down tlie floor to score ton field goals and three tree throws for high point honors. In titc preliminary game between country and town boys of the high s< hoo!, tlio country boys won, 22-13. Lineups and summary: Berne (51) Garrett (28) Ehrsam ,F Gordon Price F Eeagler Meyers C Einhoff Speicher G Traster Stucky G Nicholson Substitutions: (Herne) Biery for Meyers; (Garrett) Smith for Gordon, Merger for Feaglcr, Byanski for Traster. Field goals: Ehrsam 4; Puce 3; Speicher 3: Stucky 10; Biery 1; Fuagler 2; Einhoff 5, Herger 3. Fi.ui goals: Ehrsam 4; Price 2; Speicher 2; Stucky 3; Biery 1; Einhoff 3; Traster 2; Nicholson 2; Smith 1. Referee: Litherland, Fort Wayne. Z \AUGH \ ' AH’WORLD \ ® IAU Q 45 WtfH NOU -IF NOO I j have Pieman r casn-y -. ftw I i BOSTON!AX SHOES FOB MEN TofuL-T-My&u & Son, CIOTMING And J fOA, DAD AND LAD - INDIANA'

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Youth Confesses To An Extortion Plot Chicago. Feb. 6 (INS) - Michie! Cohen, 20, confessed today that he had attempted In exfnrt $5,000 from his wealthy uncle, ignatz Victor, no that he could marry pretty Gale Kozak, 18, of Michigan City, Ind. Cohen's mysterious letters and phone mils have had the Victor lionseliold and police Investigators on "phis and net dies" fgr several weeks. ’l’he first demand was for SIO,OOO. Mr. Victor was tn )»«• “blown up" if lie didn't leave tlie money ala ctutain spot on such ami such it dale. I’olioe seta trai>, but tlie terrorist did not tall for the money. Next tiny Victor was told nv< r the telephone: “Bo on the square this time. We know when you’re lining business with lite coppers. Forget about them or you will be sorry." Another "date" wan arranged, Tills time Victor was to lie let off by leaving $5,000, but it was positively bis "last chance.’’ Last night three threatening telephone calls to tlie Victor home were tract d by police to three different drug stores. The officers overtook the terrorist in the third drug store as lie walked out of a booth. Anderson—Mrs. Lila Gaw. 27, carrying her child, 3, in her arms, covered only two miles of a walking trip from

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