Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1928 — Page 8

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LOCAL TOURNEY STARTS TONIGHT Jefferson And Monmouth Pry Off Lid; Eight Teams In Meet Eight Adams county high school basketball teams begin tnoir annual “Llendly war-fare" at the Docatiu high school gymnasium tonight, at 7:30 o’clock, for the supremacy of the county and to decide which team will repteaent the county at the regional net tourney at Fort Wayne next Saturday. Jefferson township high school and Monmouth high school kick the lid off tiie 1928 tourney in the first game of the seven game elimination series tonight. Jefferson is doped to win the game, but conservative dopesters says Monmouth lias a good chance of spilling the first dope out of the old bucket. At 8:30 o'clock, Geneva and Monroe tangle in the second and final game of the first tournament ■ session. Hot it ti ams are about evenly matched and sentiment is about evenly divided. Tomorrow morning at 9:00 o’clock Kirkland and Berne meet in the first game. Kirkland is said to have a slight edge in the fray, but Berne always has a good tournament team, and the Bryanmen may have to extend themselves. in the second game cf the morning session. Hartford and Decatur, probably the two strongest teams of lhe county, .mix. The dope favors Decatur, but Hartford has a big, long shooting team that is apt to upset the dope at any time. At 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon, the first two winners will play for a berth in the finals and. at 3 o'clock the other two winners will tangle. At 8 o'clock Saturday night, the two surviving teams will scrap in out in the last home game of the season for the right to represent the county at the regional meet at Fort Wayne. Advance sale of season tickets predict that theie will be a large crowd at the sessions. Single admission is 49 cents a session and season tickets are selling at $1.40. Single admission payers will not be admitted to the I gymnasium until the session starts ' - o HFgOALS By MARK M. UPP Dope is a scarce article as this column is written today, but by to-, morrow morning there should be plenty of it t ■ pour out over the D.D. sport page Jefferson and Monmouth are all set to pry off the lid of the tournev here at 7:30 o’clock, tonight. As soon ri they have decided which is the better, Geneva and Monroe will hold a little argument all their own. Tomorrow morning's games prom Ise to be hotly contested affairs, ■with Kirkland playing Berne and Hartford mixing it up with Decatur. Predictions on tonight’s games could easily go v ,ong. Monroe ami Geneva divided ? two-game series payed during the regular season Jefferson defeated Monmouth three times this season, but each contest was a closely contested affair. Joe Krick’s injured knee showed a turn for the better this morning The swelling and stiffness has all left and Joe thinks he will be ready to take a turn at his old job at guarding the Yellow Jacket basket tomorrow. It is doubtful, however, if Coach Curtis will start him. A rumor, without foundation, has been started jn Bluffton and Berne, it is said, that the Decatur high ehool authorities refused Hartford high permission to practice in the local gym this week. Coach Windmiller, was in town yesterday and want d the rumor spiked. He said he h ,] no* asked for permittion for his team to practice here and the loci ) iifvii liool officials said tiie s ’"' I All teams who have i'sk( f< r a practice session in the I'. 11. 8 gym have had their request gn-niid. Few of them, however, availed themselves- of the opportunity to work out on the tournament floor. The Hartford Gorillas came to town yesterday to have their pictures taken, and they held a short workout in the Catholic high school gym Decatur high school sold 101 seaton tickets for the sectional tourney here. No report lifts been received from the other schools regarding the number of season tickets sold. Oneha f of the proceeds from the tournament will be divided among the participating schools on the basis of the number of season tickets sold.

American League Results Foit Wayne 33; Chicago 19. J Brooklyn 35, Cleveland 32. 229 GAMES OPEN TOURNEY TODAY World’s Largest Basketball Tournament Gets Under Way In Indiana Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 2. — (INS)— The world's largest basketball tournament got under way in sixty-four t itles of Indiana today as 740 high school teams faced the first hurdle in their race to capture the seventeenth tnnual championship of the Indiana Ilgh School Athletic Association. The 64 winners of this week end's lay in the sectionaljcenters will com>ete in the regional meets in sixteen ■ities next week-end. The sixteen regional champions will meet in the Inal state tournament in the new Butler university field house here on March 16 and 17. The lone survivng, undefeated team —which may be any one of the 740 teams entered — vill be declared champion. Today's .and tomorrow's play wi’l ?liminate 676 aspiring quintets in the ■ace. The schedule today in the sixty'our sectional centers called for 22? fames to be played. At each section--1 center not less than eight nor more '•"’i sixteen teams will go into ac- . tion. e defending chamnion * n ♦ h 's years tournament is the Martinsville earn which last ye’i a coveted title by defeating Muncie, 26 ‘o 23 in the final exciting match. These two teams wore the survivors if a field of 731 teams last year. The teams regarded among the strongest this year were Martinsville. Muncie, Logansport, Washington of East Chicago, Radford, Anderson, . Frankfort, Franklin, Vincennes, Columbus, and others. The list of previous winne.s fol-j lows: 1911 —Crawfordsville. 1912 Lebanon. 1913 —Wingate. 1911—Wingate. 1915— Thorntown. 1916— Lafayette. 1917 — Lebanon. 1918— Lebanon. 1919 — Bloomington. 1920— Franklin. 1921 — Franklin. , 1922—Franklin. 1923 —Vincennes. 1924— Martinsville. 1925 — Frankfort. 1926— Marion. 1927 — Martinsville. TUESDAY NIGITt PROGRAM READY Civic Workers Sponsor Program Os Wrestling, Basketball And Tumbling A varied and entertaining program if athletic contests will be offered to the public at the Decatur high school rymnasiuin next. Tuesday z night, March 6, under the auspices of the 'ivic Department of the Woman’s Club. The program will include sight wrestling matches, a basketball game and several stunts by girls from the physical training classes of the igh school, taught by Miss Jeanette Clark. Admission charges will be fifteen cents for school children and twentyfive cents tor adults. The proceeds wi 1 be divided between the civic department and the Junior band. The program will open at 7:30 o'clock with wrestling matches. Coach Herb Curtis will referee the bouts, which will be five minutes each The following bouts have been arranged: 99 pounds, Scheiman and Butcher; 107 pounds, Koos and Strickler; 117 pounds, Myers and Clem; 125 pounds, Steel and Pelz; 130 pounds, Zimmerman and Zerk’e; 132 pounds, Carper and Bodie; 146 pounds, Carper and Smith, 165 pounds, Baker and Fugate. Following the wrestling matches, the girls will give their stunts on the mat. The stunts will •consist of , tumbling, pyramid building and ; calisthentics. The basketball game will be played by the city school teachers and the merchants. Coach Curtis is cap- . tain of the teachers and Herman Myers will load the merchants. The I captains will announce their lineups > The General Electric band has vol- . nnteered to furnish music for the s evening. f, 0 i Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pay>

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HEENEY LOOKS BAD JACK WORSE , Davis Walsh Thinks Both Fighters Should Have Been Given The Air By Davis J. Walsh, I INS Sports Editor. New York, Mar. 2.—lt seems there vas a couple of fellows named Pat nd Mike and one of them said to h Pullman walte: : “George," said he. "bring me an order of ham and ■ggs and eliminate the eggs.” i And George said, said he: "Boss, we done mislaid our elim'nator." Well ,a couple of eggs, or maybe hey were hams or both, were well : eliminated from Tex Rickard’s heavy- ' weight tournament last night at Madison Square Garden as Tom Heeney, the poor but honest prize fighter, outlasted Jack Delaney to win the de- , 1 cision at the end of fifteen rounds. , By that time, it really didn't matter who they said was the best man ,for the best couldn't lie any better than Kipling's worst. Still, a lot of the muggs were roused from their intense lethargy by the decision. They thought Delaney had won land for some reason, deemed it worth their while to say as much in loud, firm tones. Personally, I disagree violently with that Pullman waiter. The “eliminator" was not mislaid. It was in there working so perfectly that it was obvious to the 18,000 odd . and assorted muggs just why Mr. Rickard, as seldom at a loss for a word as for a dollar, called this an elimination tournament. He, Mr. Rickard, and it, the tournament, eliminated not one man but both last night. Meanwhile, Brother Tunney is sunning himself in Miami waiting for an opponent for his June fight. Brother Tunney is a patient man and all that but it is hardly credible that today he setionsly considers either Heeney or Delaney as other than a bright, young man with perfect table manners and a nice, kind face. / Heeney tried all the way, a fact hat probably earned him the “duke." He bad nearly twenty pounds in weight on h'.s man and wanted to see just what he could do with it. But Delaney would have no part of this, holding so desperately in close that Heeney pu'led him all over the ring i his race to break loose. Delaney's holding, however, simply served to make a bad fight look worse Lny good heavyweight could make •he fragile Delaney fold up before the end of fifteen rounds. The same good man could pop Heeney silly with a fast left. Unfortunately, the last good man seen around these parts happens to be the best there is, i. e.. Brother i Tunney. We might consider, for lack of some- i I thing better to do, Delaney's left hook that staggered Heeney in the first round and another that stung Thomas at the start of the .third. Also Heeney’s surging attack that nailed Delaney at the outset of each if the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth end ninth rounds. This was all that eally happened in these rounds, so leeney must be credited with having taken the play away from Delany ifter the latter had piled up an early lead. Among the incidental details also was Heeney's right cross to the eard in the twelfth, which went to e poor but houest prize-fighter. But, 1 that Delaney, who looked like a bad bet in mid-fight and pantomimed ■ foul in the tenth when Heeney hit lim low, came on later to outscore .he man who was supposed to wear him down at the end. Delaney leftlanded his way through the eleventh 'nd seemed to have well the better ( if the thirteenth and fourteenth but T ieney came along to take the final round and I suppose that gave him he fight. Personally, I think they should have given both of them the air. There I vas plenty of it right outside the main entrance. Davey Banks Captures Lead In Scoring In American Net League New Yoik, Mar. 2. —(INS)— Amassing a total of 54 points in the last five •rames, Davey Banks, of the New i York Celtics, took the lead in the Individual scoring race of the Amer- : ( lean basketball league, for the second time this season, when he passed ( Harry (Lefty) Topel, of Rochester. Banks has 374 points, thirty more than Topel. Mat Hickey, of Cleve- , land is third, a point behind Topel, while Barlow, of Philadelphia, and Borgeman, of Fott Wayne, continued to share fourth and fifth place.

WHIPPETS BEAT LIBERTY CENTER ' The Kiikland Whippets won a hard fought basketball game from Liberty Center Boosters, on the Kirkland floor Wednesday night, by a score of 39-34. Both teams played ragged ball In the fli.it half, the Boosters managing to hold a 17-16 lead at the rest period. Liberty tan the sente up to 32-21 in theii favor in the .second half and then started to stall. The Whippets shifted their lineup, and Ernst, L. Bryan and Cot son bombarded the basket to puli the game from the fire. This wis the tenth straight victory for the Whippets and the second of the season over the Liberty Center five. Next week the Whippets will play in the Independent tourney ut Monroeville. Lineups and summary: Kirkland (39) Liberty Center (34) Hoffman F Way Ernst F Piiffle Cm son C P. France L. Bryan G C. France Heller G Kasler Substitutes: (Kirkland) L. Arnold; (Liberty Center) Moore. Field goals: Hoffman. 1; Ernst 4; Corson 4; L. Bryan 7; Way 3; P. France 5; C. Fiance 2; Kasler 3; Moore 3; Foul goals: Corson, 2; L. Bryan. 4; Arnold 1; Way, 2. o J NEWS FROM THE I TRAINING CAMPS | Fort Myers, Fla., Mar. 2. —Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, two of baseball's greatest stars, will finish their baseball careers side by side in the Philadelphia Athletics outfield. Cobb wired Manager Connie Mack last night that lie had decided to play one more year with the A's. ‘I really considered this move as coming out of retirement,” Cobb said. i “I had planned to quit but your of fer and the old lure of the game b.ought me back for another season. Speaker i eported yesterday ami Cobb will arrive next Thursday. Tiie Athletics' outfield this season will have three of the hardest hitters in the American league. Simmons in left. Speaker in Center and Cobb at right. Tampa, Fla., Mar. 2. — Manager Stanley Harris was to direct the first woskout of the full squad of Washington Senators here today. Harris arrived last night, bringing witii him I Goose Goslin, Joe Judge, and the baseball clowns, Al Schacht am! Nick Aiiroik. \ Avon. Park, Fla., Mar. 2. — Fears that aim Bottomley's injured knee might keep him out of tiie St. Louis Cardinal/' line-up this season have been dispelled by the manner in which the big first baseman is getting around. He cut himself on the left knee with an axe when lie was chopping trees. Two stitches had to lie taken in the wound. In his first workout, Bottomley shewed no ill effects of the injury. West Palm Beach, Fla., Mar. 2. — Only Heinie Manush and Frank O'Rourke are absent from the St. Lonis , Browns' camp here. Manush has not been heard from and is regarded as a holdout. O'Rourke has been granted permission to report next week. Lou Blue reported yesterday. The Browns play an exhibition game with a local team today for charity. Sr. Petersburg, Fla., Mar. 2. — The flashing fielding of Gene Robertson iil practice has impressed Manager Miller Huggins and the former St. Paul infielder may start the season at third base for the Yankees. Winter Havent Fla., Mar. 2. —Bill Hl h Fl'™ Be ’l”* Where Service Is Paramount | ?Afive hundred room > hotel located tn the down-town section—only three blocks from the "circle" Excellent -parking and garage facilities SPINK ARMS HOTEL INDIANAPOLIS B Win. A. Holt, Proprietor

1 Dietrick, the Phillies’ rookie short-1 | biop fruui the Portsmouth dub of t> Virginia League, has established almself as n prominent candidate for Hdiiie Sand's job by his stellar work In the field and al bat. Bradcntown, Fla.. Mar. 2.—With the entire squad in camp, the Boston Red Sox today began preparations tor opening their exhibition sdn dulc with the National league teams next week. O-- — — Northwestern Defeats Illinois Five, 39 To 31 Evanston. 111., Mur. 2.- (INS)— Northwestern's Wildcats today wore in the thick of the fight for a share of Big Ten basketball honors by virtue of their victory here last night over Illinois. Tiie score was 39 to 31. The accurate basket shooting of Russel! Walter was again the big sacCREAM FOR CATARRH OPENS UP NOSTRILS — Tells How To Get Quick Relief from Head-Colds. It’s Splendid! 1. n . - u . ■ ...in. * Tells How io Get Quick Relief from Head-Colds. It’s Splendid! In one minuto your clogged nostrils wil open, the air passages of your I head will clear and you can breathe; freely. No more hawking. Snuffling I ■lowing, headache, dryness. No strug I -ling for breath at night, your cold or catarrh will be gone. Get a small bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply l i little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It penertates through every air passage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and relief; comes instantly. It’s just fine. Don't stay stuffed up with a cold or nasty catarrh —Relief comes so quickly. MAJESTIC -FOR WAYNEBeginning- Sunday, March 1 (Matinee Wedn. & Sat.) WRIGHT PLAYERS —in—“WHY MEN LEAVE HOME” with Frank Harrington, new Leading Man (formerly with “Rose Marie”) A C.otnedy of (lad-About Wives and Stay-at Home Husbands. Evenings 25c. 50c. 75c Matinees 25c, 50c

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