Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1928 — Page 6

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Kirkland Kangaroos Win Sectional Tourney Title!

CHAMPS BEAT GENEVA TEAM IN FINAL, 30-19 Cardinals Rally In Second Half To Tie Score At 18*All But Lose MEYERS SHINES AS KIRKLAND WINS Kiikland township high "school's net aggregation walked away with the Adams county sectional honors nt the Decatur high school gymnasium, Saturday night, by trouncing Geneva high school In the final game of the "upsetty" tournament, SO-19. Geneva fought hard all the time and the Kirk land quintet showed the strain of twe hard games, but the Kangaroos rallied in the closing minutes of the game and sewed up the 192 S title. -Coach Dill Fltyan's netters fought their way to the finals by trimming Herne high school in the first game Saturday morning ami then defeating the llardfmd Gorilas in the semi finals Saturday afternoon. The Geneva Cardinals earned their way to the final bracket by disposing of Monroe high school Friday night and by defeating the Monmouth Eag les Saturday afternoon. Kirkland Starts Fast In the final game, the Bryanmen started out strong and the efficient goal shooting of Meyers, Kirkland een ter kept the Green and Gold out In front during the entile first half. Geneva made several efforts to rally dur lug the closing minutes of the first half, but the Kiikland defense head cd by Heller and F. Arnold kept the Cardinals in check. Kitkland lead 14I early in the half. In the second stanza of the fina tilt, the Kirkland team weakened considerably and, with about 8 minutes to play, Stahly and Hawbaker Geuev; center and forward threw the game into a tie at 18-18. Meyers, Kirkland center, again came to the rescue of his team-mate' and tossed the ball into the net iron' every angle of the floor and during the last 8 minutes of the struggle, the Kangatoo defense wotked so well that Geneva tailed to score from the field again. One of the features of the game was 'he accurate free-throwing of the Geneva team. Geneva hit the net for II out of 14 trials from the foul line A good-sized crowd witnessed the final game of the season at the Deca tur high school gymnasium, but with the exception of the Geneva rally in the last half the game was without thrill. Many fans who attended the games expressed the opinion that the officiating could have been better, but it was a unanimous opinion that, with different officiating the games would have been little changed. Lineup and summary of final game: Kirkland (30) Geneva (19) L. Arnold F Drown Bowman F Hawbakei Myers C Stahly F. Arnold G Fravel Heller G Striker Substitutions: (Kirkland) Baumgartner for Bowman; Bowman for F. Arnold; F. Arnold for L. Arnold. Field goals: tKirkland) L. Arnold, 2; Bowman, 2; Meyers, 9; F. Arnold 2. Gene va: Brown 1; H.iwbaker 1; Fravel 1 Foul Goals: (K il.'and none. Geneva Blown 3; Hawtiak. . 2; Stahly. 2; Fravel, 2; Striker officials: Referee, Clark; Umpire. Kieigh; Timer R. lager; scorer L. F. Center. BIG TEN SEASON ENOS THIS WEEK Two-Way And Possibly Three-Way Tie For Champions 1 - ; n In Prospect Chicago, March 6—(U.R)—The 192728 Big Ten conference basketball season entered its final week today and there seemed little possibility that the race would end in anything but a tie between two teams, if not between three. Im, an", ’.ictorious over Michigan, 9G to 31. yet lias to meet Illinois. Tues but the champion team has only an outside chance to defeat the youthful McCracken and his team of offense experts. Purdue lias two games left on its schedule with lowa at Lafayette tonight, and Minnesota at Minneapolis Saturday. Here again it is hardly to be expected the Boilermakers squad will meet defeat. The one possible upset, and one which would prevent at least a triple tie, hinges upon the Wisconsin-Michi-gan game at Ann Arbor tonight. Michigan tried hard to eliminate Indiana from the top ring but having failed may take its spite out on Wisconsin. Wfsccnsin has a game with Illinois

Friday night but II Is Indeed an upsol v. hen it ninth-place team bents n lender, so if Wisconsin wins fmtn M i hlg.'in it is safe to predict Wiscon--.on’s present total of two games lout will remain unchanged. Only one other game can bo considered to have any bearing on the final outcome. That Is the game at Evanston tonight between Northwest- j ■rn and Ohio State. Northwestern! has lost three games but it' Purdue, j Wisconsin and Indiana should he •••<>. unfortunate as to meet a third de-| feat, a victory for Northwestern over Ohio might leave the purple in the running. The race for the conference title was brightened considerably by the battle between Branch McCracken. Indiana. Rut Walters. Northwestern ind "Stretch" Murphy, Purdue for inlivldnnl scoring honors. McCracken scored 14 points against Michigan to run bis total to 121. a i ead of 8 points over Walter. North- ; western, and a margin of 17 points, aver Murphy. CATHOLIC MEET OPENS FRIDAY * Commodores Start Final Week Os Practice This Evening Decatur's Catholic high school Com-1 modores will begin their final week i of practice this evening in preparation for the state Catholic school basket-j ball tournament, which will be held In the Cathedral high school gymnasium. Indianapolis, next Friday and Saturday. The Commodores are scheduled to play the Reitz Memorial high school quintet of Evansville, at 7:30 o'clock Friday night. Tickets for the tournament, arc on sale at the Green Kettle confectionery. The season tickets, good for all sessions of the touiney, are selling st $1.50 each, while single session tickets, good for any session except the last session are selling at 50 cents each. Single session tickets for the final session will cost 75 cents each. Father Joseph Hession. athletic director of Decatur Catholic high scho’l, said today that all unsold season tickets must lie sent back to Indianapolis Wednesday morning. Fans who expect to buy tickets here an dhave not done i so already are urged to do so at once. | Many Decatui fans are planning to attend the tournament. Phelan To Speak Jimmy Phelan, coach of football at ■ Purdue university, will deliver an ad-1 dress opening the tournament. Play I will begin at 2 o'clocw Friday after-1 noon. Accoiding to an announcement made yesterday, a gold medal containing a i diamond will lie given to the player ; showing the best spoitsmanship dur-1 ing the touiney. This medal will lie I donated by Al Feeney and. like the Gitnbel medal of the Indiana High . School Athletic Association, will be : a yearly award. It will be known as 1 the Al G. Feeney sportsmanship medal. The committee deciding wli > shall receive the sportsmanship trophy is composed of Al G. Feeney, 'Chairman, William F. Fox. Jr. of the Indianapolis News. Eddie Ash, of the Indianapolis Tinies; Blaine Patton, of the Indianapolis Star; Thomas Hendricks, George Wellbaum, Edmund H. Bingham and Jimmy Phelan. — - 0 All-State College Teams Selected By Indianapolis Star Indianapolis, March s"—lndiana Purdue and Notre Dame universities won two positions each on the all-state college basketball team selected by W. Blaine Patton, sport editor of the Indianapolis Star. Tlie selections follow: First Team Forward —Crowe, Notte Dame. Forward—Harmeson, Purdue. Forward—R. Rea, Evansviue. Center—McCracken, Indiana. Center —Murphy, Purdue. Guard—C. Christopher, Butler. Guaid—Donovan, Notre Dame. Guard—Scheid, Indiana. Second Team Forward—Strickland, Indiana. For ward—W h aeler, Purdue. Forward —Kianing, Manchester. Center —Hamilton, Notre Dame. Center—Holtz, Butler. Guard—Fulmer, Muncie. Guard—Kemmer, Purdue. Guard —Messersmith, DePauw i o College Basketball Indiana, 36; Michigan 34 Wisconsin, 20; lowa 17. 1 Chicago 19; Illinois 18. Notre Dame, 24; Marquette, 19. 1 - O r I Preserving Newspapers The paper upon which modern news- > papers are printed becomes brittle ; when exposed to air for a long time. Some libraries have solved the problem of preserving newspaper tiles by . mounting each sheet between two ; sheets of thin Japanese tissue. This i seals the paper from the air, reducing J its legibility but slightly and strengths enlng the page. •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. MARCH 1928.

64 TEAMS TRAIN FORJECIONALS Sectional Tourney Winners Meet In 16 Next Saturday Sixty • four Indiana basketball teams, winners of .sectional tournaI meats held last Friday and Saturday, ' today began training for the 16 regional tournaments which will be held this week-end to decide which teams will come to Indianapolis to battle Li." the state championship. The state tournament begins March | 16. Next week-end the 64 winners will I nlay in 16 regional tournaments, the winners of the regionals to enter the state tournament in Indianapolis on i the following week-end. Scores of the final games of the sectionals follow. The winner in ! each game is the tournament winner, I who goes into the regional this week. At Clinton—Clinton 34. Montezuma 28. At Connersville— Connersville 44, - Brookville 10 At Crawfordsville-- Crawfordsville I 44. New Market. 23 At Danville—Amo 27, Pittsboro 25 At Decatur—Kirkland 30, Geneva 19. At Evansville — Central (Evansville) 25, Lynnville 7 At Flora—Delphi 22. Burlington IS At Fort Wayne — Central (Fort Wayne) 28, North Side (Ft. Wayne) II At Fowler —Boswell 21, Ambia 20 At Frankfort—Frankfort 55, Jefferson 13 At FranMln—-Franklin 43, Greenwood 14 At Garrett —Auburn 27, Butler 26 At Gary—Washington (East Chicago) 20, Frocbel (Gary) 12 At Goshen—Goshen 22, Elkhart 12 At Greencastle — Greencastle 28, Russellville 19 At Greenfield — Mt. Comfort 33. 'Treenfield 22 At Greensburg—Scipio 31, West-' oort 18 At Kendallville — Kendallville 27, Albion 10 At Kokomo—Sharpsville 35, Russellville 22 At Lafayette—Jefferson (latfayette 23. Romney 16 At Lagrange—Lagrange 30. Ship- ' shewanna :• At l^aporte—Laporte 29, We.‘eri vii'e 14 At Lebanon—Tipton 23. Lebanon 18 At Logansport — Logansport 36. ■ Twelve Mile 9 At Ind anapo’i.i—Broad Ripple 21, 1 Warren 19 At Anderson —Anderson 29, Elwood 17 At Angela — Angola 35, Pleasant I Lake 21 At Aurora — Lawrenceburg 23, Aurora 13 At Bedford—Bedford 49, Heltoni ville 11 At Bloomfield—Bloomfield 31. LinI ton 28 At Bluffton—Bluffton 25. Union Center 21 At. Cannelton—Bristow 19, Derby 11 At Madison -Au.ston 24. Dupont 17 At Marion -Marion 28, Gas City 12 At Martinsville — Martinsville 55, Paragon 20 At Mishawaka—Mishawaka 34, Plymouth 20 At Monon—Monon 40, Round Grove a i At Munoie —Muncie 35, Eaton 14 At New Albany—Salem 27, Jeffersonville 19 At Newcastle—Newcastle 18, Spiceland 16 At Noblesville—Cicero 18, Nobles ville 13 At Peru—Peru 27. Jefferson twp 7 At Petersburg—Spurgeon 24. Petersburg 15 At Portland—Dunkirk 25, Madison township 21 At Princeton—Princeton 3], Mt. Olympus 29 At Remington—Goodland 28, Remington 26 (double overtime) At Richmond —• Hagerstown 30 Cambridge City 29 (overtime) At Rochester—Rochester 32 Fulton 16 At Rushville—Rushville 38, Moscow 19 At Seymour—Seymour 33, Brownstown 8 / Shelbyville—Columbus GO, Moral At Spencer-Brazil 34, Patricksburg 8 At Sullivan—Carlisle 27, Graysville 25 At Terre Haute—Garfield (Terre Haute) 23, Gcrstmeyer (Terre Haute lo At \al paraiso—Va para iso 65 Mr., bron 16 ’ At Veedersburg—Mellot 34, Kingman 28 At Versailles—Versailles 1? jr<il ton 11 At Vincennes—Vincennes 53 Decker Chapel 18 At Wabash—North Manchester 10 Lagro 9 At Warsaw— Princeton 27, Silver Lake IS At Washington — Washington 58 , Elnora 13. 1 At Warren—Huntington 24, Clear , Creek 22 At Winamac —Winamac. 22, Medaryville 20

1. By MARK M. UPP

Congiatuhithms. Kangaroos. On to the regional. And here's a warm handshake for the Geneva Cardinals, runnel s up. Once mote, the proverbial dope bucket has been kicked skyward. Three short days ago. the Decatur Yellow Jackets were overwhelming favorites to win the sectional title here, and there were many fans, even outside Decatur, who believed the Yellow Jackets would win the Fort Wayne regional. Judging from their performance during the season, those deductions were well founded. A team that can go through the seasoft and win 15 out of 20 games against the best teams in this terltory and aver age more than a point a minute for the season, is usually rated pretty highly, especially in its own territory. But tournaments ate not won on season's records. The records aren't even considered by the official score-keepers at the tournament. It is the team that goes in there and fights every minute and puts the ball through the hoop more often than its opponent that wins games. There are .fans who will say that the Decatur sectional will not be represented at the regional meet by the strongest team and there are others who will contradict them There's no way of knowing who is correct for sure, but one thing we dr know is that the Kirkland Kangarooswill give their best and that their best is a lot better than scores yes hundreds of other teams in Indiana. So we again say, congratulations, Kirkland, and luck to you. Kirkland will meet Pierceton winner of the Warsaw sectional, in the first game of the regional at For'. Wayne, at 2 o'clock next Saturday as« ternoon. If successful in -beating Pierceton, Kirkland will play the winner of the Bluffton-Fort Wayne Central game, at 8 o'clock Saturday night and the winner of that game will go to Indianapolis fcr the state finals a week from Friday and Saturday. Bluffton's Tigers had a hard fight but came through their own sectional with colors flying. Nice going Tigers. Other old rivals of the Yellow JackI ets who won their sectional tourneys are Huntington, Angola, Auburn Ken-

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dallville and Peru. A dark horse won at Portland, when Dunkirk carried off the honots. . This Kirkland-Pierceton game will be a real horse tace, since both were datk horses In their tespectlve sectionals. Next Friday, the Commodores begin their battle for state Catholic school championship. They will meet Memorial high schcol of Evansville nt 7:30 o'clock Friday night. The Commies will meet a real test in their first game, but they will be equal to the occasion if they play the ball they are capable of playing. There will be a big delegation ol fans accompany the Commodores to the capital city for the tourney. It looked for a short time in the second half of the final game here Saturday night as though there might be another upset. The Geneva Cardinals staged a spirited rally to tie the score at 18-all. Kirkland had not scored since the count read 19-9 at the half. Then Walt Meyers got busy again and shot his team into the championship. Meyers, by the way, was high point man in the tourney. Norval Banter the Hartford flash, went big in the two games in which he played, despite the fact that he was lust recovering from an attack of the mumps. His playing was an important factor in the Gorillas' victory over Decatur. Scrogham, of Hartford, was probably the most outstanding guard in the .oumament play. o ' r BIG TEN STANDING W I, Pct Indiana 9 2 .818 Puidue <... 8 2 .800 Wisconsin 8 2 .800 Northwestern 8 3 .727 Michigan 6 5 .545 Chicago 5 7 .416 lowa 3 8 .272 Ohio State «3 8 .272 Illinois 2 8 .200 Minnesota 2 9 .181 0 _— American League Results New Yoik 34; Fort Wayne 31. Brooklyn 45; Philadephia 27.

LOCAL TOURNEY FULL OF UPSETS Season Ends Eor Seven Teams; Kirkland Prepares For Regional The o’il asbestos cut tain same down with* a bang Saturday night and ns far as seven Adams countyhigh school basketball teams are oncern-d. tlie 1927-28 basketball r-cn son is a thing of the past. For the Kirkland township netters. tlie big *est is yet to conus The tournament "eld in this city Friday and Saturday had more upsets and surprises In store fqr Adams county's fans tnan ny previous tournament. Decatur fans awakened this mornng to tihe full realization that the I Yellow Jackets were absolutely and completely out of the tunning One thing is an assured fact, Decatur can play better basketball than was demonstrated in the Hartford game Saturday morning. But then, so can 500 other teams, probably. Oire Decatur basketball player showed a fine spirit. One that should be a lesson to every person in the county in every field of desire. Ha attended every session of tlie tournament following the elimination of the Yel’ow Jackets and, of course, he felt ->s bad as anyone elese did over Debtor's miserable showing, but nevertheless he demonstrated a real spirit by smiling and being a good loser. Credit Due Kirkland All the credit in the world goes to I Ccach Bill Bryan and his fighting I team iroin Kirkland township. The I five regu’ar Kangaroos would never [ have been able to stand the pace if it had not been for two of their utilty men, Dettinger and Baumgartner. Baumgartner was in every game and ''e gave a good account of himself. Geneva deserves lots of credit. Til • Cardinal-clad, quintet had the easy ide of the bracket, but that team i went through and almost upset some more dope in the final game. A hearty app'auke is deserved by | ‘he Monmouth high school Eagles •nd Coach Winifred Gerke The Monmouth team met Jefferson in the c irst game of the tournament. Jefferson had defeated Monmonth three ‘ ines this season, but not Friday ight, and Monmouth went inta the ; -.rini-llnals for the first time in the i history nt sectional net tournaments. Many Seniors In Tourney One big feature of the tournament vas the number of seniors playing m each team. Pr.acticallj’ every earn Ic-ses at least half of its regtll i" players by graduation this coming

, spring. '*** In summing np n,. rLlving . ■ of meh team. M nuhfv.ng .... HI •han Hie star play,-, ; w ,. r( , |! M divided. Keith Pan: 4, alll( , Hill, tile two ilimiiiu. f„ rw . (4 ’ ■■ the Monmi.Util t.-um, ‘ Ml praise. Both p!a\. i ;ill . “ “'M stature, but they ~„|v M for that, deficiency in ■ to play. Among the leadin - , wai - lls ■ ♦oumament w,r.’ Hm, i. W Banter. Hartford an.l 1. AnU) ,.' , ■ Kirkland These tm-.- r i av ,. t ; ' ■ -lilet factors on tli-u M Meyers. Kirkland oent,. r Wail fl •ewer of strength i.u- the’ settio ’ fl hampious. In the ( 1...;,,, n ; H "'red 18 ot his teams' 30 noinu I Tahly, of Geneva, v.n another fl enter in the toumamm.i He Wd , ‘fl ood offensive player ;.nd a f h| p( , ’fl •t the Cardinal d"‘tei,«. H As has been the . (fr , ■ •ears, the local touinannnt ,|i,) ■ have an abundance ~f -„ : „i , llard ■ Anadell, of Decatur. I'r.n..], va. Heller, of Kirkian-l. anil s (10 - ■ ham. of Hartford. pi-nbai,',-■ 'UUtandlne players the g„ at(! ■ ositlon Joe Krick. D-tatur m ■ uard, was in tlie n,- : tur-Hartford ■ -ame only a few niintii>-s and wa - ■ "ready handicapped 1.-.-aiisc <,( aa ■ hijured knee. ■ Every player on ev. ly team, doubt, coittriDated hi-. i„. s( (|lll . iß| , ■ the tournament ami v. i v player de. ■ erves pt also. After di. basketbaH is a great game and . thout its ( | w . gusting upsets, it woui tbe so go-,,] Kirkland represents Adams county at the regional meet at Fort Wayne next Saturday, meeting Pierceton 10 the first game. Every loyal Adams county fan owes it to the Kangaroo, ♦o boost their stock and urge them on to victory Saturday While the going will be tough, it s not at all an impossibility for Kirkland to get a free ticket to the state tournament at Indianapolis and everyone can rest assured that i'<, a> |i Bryan and his team will do all i n ♦heir power to gejTthere. — -o the Trade at it p n .,

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