Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1928 — Page 6
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G. E. QUINTET TO PLAY BLUFFTON The General Electric baaketknll team of this city will got into action again Saturday night, after a vacation .ver Christinas, when It clashes with the Moyers Brothers quintet, of Bluffton. in the Decatur high school gymnasium. The Bluffton team is composed of firmer Bluffton and Lancaster high school stars and practically all of the players have pert.irmed in this city In the preliminary game, the G. E. second team will meet the Kirkland Whippets’ second team. The first game will start at 7:15 o’clock and the feature cantest at 8:30 o'clock. o Cubs Couture Fielding Honors In National Loop New York, Dec, 27.—<U.R>— National League fielding honors for 1928 were won by the Chicago Cubs, the official fielding records released here show. The Cubs finished the playing season with a fielding average of .975 to win first place from the pennant win-, ners, the St. Louis Cardinals whose average was .974. Cincinnati was' third with .973.
Individual honors in the fielding department of the game were confined almost exclusively to the veterans. A number of the younger stars made creditable marks during the year but at every position a veteran led the list. o Freshmen Gridders At I. U. Elect Two Captains Bloomington. Ind., Dec. 27—Walter Koenig, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and Clarence Kirchner, cf Terre Haute, Indiana were elected captains of the freshman football squad of the 1928 season at a recent banquet of the fjrst year men. Both men were stars of the Ho;sier rhinies during the past season. The work of Koenig in the backfield caused Indiana varsity linemen and backs considerable trouble in scrimmage sessions last fall. Kirschner, a star at either tackle or guard, was <ne of the outstanding linemen on the frost squad. Thirty-six members of the rhinie squad were presented, numeral sweaters at the banquet. I Many of the men have already report-i ed for,freshman basketball and other; expect to do so soon. o Two Members Os Georgia Tech Grid Team Are Hl Pasadena, Calif., Dec. 27—'U.R> Influenza will keep Ralph Diennon, right guatd and Jim Brooke, substitute guard, in bed today when Georgia Tech ■ works out in the Rose Bowl for its j New Year's day football game with ' California. Both probably will be able to work-1 out again Satin day, Tech officials said. ( Should Diennon be kept from the I game the Yellow Jacket line would be ! hit hard as he was one of the out ! standing stars in Southern Football! this year. Coach Price, of California, said that he would shift his backfield in practice today, using Berkentidge at Quarterback instead of Eisan and Schlichting at one halfback instead of Clymer. Low will be at the ether half and Schmidt at Fullback. 0 Stagg Resigns As Coach Os Chicago U. Track Team Chicago, Dec. 27—(U.R)—A new trick coach will officiate at the University of Chicago this spring, it was announced hete. Al nzo A. Stagg has resigned and will devote 'his time entirely to duties of athletic director and football coach. Ned Merriam, former Chicago track star ami assistant track coach, has been named head coach. Stagg served as track coach from 1896 until 1913 and from 1914 to the present.
H. S. BASKETBALL Muncie 29; Martinsville 21. Shelbyville 44; Greensburg 32. Kokomo 37; Tipton 28. Delphi 62; Sugar Creek 25. St. Andrews, Richmond 29; C. C. H. S., Fort Wayne, 25 AMERICAN LEAGUE SCORES New York 34; Fort Wayne 31. Trenton 30; Cleveland 28. 0 GARY —Convicted on two of three liquor charges. Orin Brown, was given f nes totaling $260 and a thirty-clay suspended sentence when he appeared in city court here He was found not guilty of maintaining a nuisance, the only one of three charges that he escaped. oi Old English Possession Nassau, New province, Bahama Islands, was founded by the English tn the Seventeenth century. It was destroyed by the French and Spanish In 1703 and rebuilt In 1718. It is still an English possession.
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■’Al” Pratt recently celebrated his eightieth birthday in Pittsburgh. He was the pitcher who lost the first recorded shutout in professional baseball. May 4. 1871, Cleveland vs. Cort Wayne. Ind.
State Checker Tourney To Be Held At Portland Portland, Dec. 27.—(Special)—The 1929 Indiana state checker tournament will be held in Portland, February 18 and 19. There will be an Elimination Tourney (Round Robin plan, restricted style of play) and the players will be divided into groups. The four high in each group will qualify for the Major Tourney and play for the State Title and the following prizes: 1st — $30.00; 2nd—s2o.oo; 3rd—sl2.oo and 4th —$6.00. The others will enter a Minor Tourney and play for prizes to be provided later on. The Major Tourney will be on the Double Knockout plan, restricted style of play and four games to a heat. The Minor Tourney will be on the Round Robin plan, unrestricted style of play and four games around. The same rules as adopted last year will be used in this tourney. The tourney will be held in the Eagles club room on North Meridian street and the Portland players are making preparations to give a royal welcome. o Jefferson To Play Jay County Team Friday The Jefferson high school basketball team will play the Gray high school quintet, of Jay county, at Berne. Friday night, Dee. 28. The Jay county team comes from Ridgeville and little dope regarding its strength is available. The Jefferson eagers are preparing for a hard battle. In the preliminary game, the Jefferson high schoo: second team will play the Jefferson alumni.
o OLD AND NEW Short talks by Dr. Burt Mangold, retiring president, and Roy Mununa, pre-sident-elect, featured the meeting of the Liens Club Wednesday evening. Dr. Mangold, who lias been president of the club since it was first organized here neatly two years ago, thanked the membets of the club for their fine cooperation and predicted a bright future for the organization. Mr MumBia suggested several projects which he said the Lions would do well to sporson during the coming year and he asked for the cooperation of each Lion. The new officeis of the club will assume their duties at the next meeting. Harry Staley was in charge of the program list night. Dick Butdg, of the Dick Burdg-Larson Corporation, was welcomed into the club as a new member last night. The next meeting of the club will be held on Wednesday night of next weeksince New Years falls cn Tuesday night, the regular meeting night of the club.
Would Change Language Danish was the official and literary language of Norway from the time <1 the union with Denmark until the be ginning of the Nineteenth century. Al though the classics of Norway are written In Dano-Norwegian, there Is a linguistic national movement called the l.andsmaal, which aims to root out the Dano-Norweglan and make Landsmaal the national language ol the whole of Norway. 0 Trees Increase Values The owners of nonagricultural land only too frequently permit the land to remain Idle and unproductive, says the American Tree association of Washington. They overlook the fact that such land planted nt small Initial cost, with forest trees, will increase in value every year Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays
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Field Goals By Mark M. Upp The Commodores’ game with Monrovia here-tonight is attracting jnuch interest, locally, and a large crowd isexpected to see the game. M nrovia has lost three games this reason, bitt in each instance, the team was crippled with injuries or sickness. The southerners are expected to have their full strength in the game here tonight. “Bruff” Cleary, of Fort Wayne, who blows a Whistle in many f the Big Ten conferTttoe games, is scheduled to officiate in the game here tonight. Herb Curtis. D.. 11. S. mentor, arrived back in the city last night, after spending a few days at Monrovia, Martinsville and other places in that c ininunity, and called a practice of the Yellow Jackets for this afternoon. The Jackets have a idg task ahead of I them in preparing to stop the powerful Columbia City quintet here next Tuesday night. Columbia City ran up a score of 53 points in beating Auburn last week, which means that the Whitley county boys have a lot of scoring power and it takes scoring to win ball games. However, Auburn scored 45 points in that game, which shows that Columbia City’s defense is not as strong as it might lie. Anyway, the game here next Tuesday night promises to lie an ex-1 citing battle.
Bob Cole, Johnny Engle, Carl Gerber and George Roop, cf the Yellow Jacket squad, witnessed the Muncie Martinsville game at Muncie last night and returned to Decatur with Coach Curtis. The basketball talk got so hot coming home that the coach’s ear caught fire, or we supposed that is wiat caused the fire. Anyway, the boys got in some go d conditioning exercise procuring dirt and water with which tn extinguish the blaze. The D. 11. S. alumni will play the Yellow Jacket second team as a preliminary to the Decatur-Columbia City game, Tuesday night, it was ann unced today. Once more, a coach has become chesty and strutted his second team against a supposedly weak sister ard learned a costly lesson. This time, i f was Coach M ore of Peru. Tie Circus Citv mentor th: light poor old Morton high of Richmond, didn't have a ghost of a show against his mighty Tigers the othei night at Richmond, so he started the game with his substitutes in the lineup. Monton players grasped at the opportunity and proceeded to a nice lead ver the Tiger cubs. Th<?n the big Tigers were sent into the fray, but they couldn't get going and M rton fired with a confidence gained in the eally part of the game, kept going. Result: Richmond 28; Peru, 22. And Old Morton finally won a game, thanks to Coach Moore of 'Peru.
These Boys Like Ralph “We see by the Fort Wayne papers that Ralph Miller alias Tarzan of th° Hoosiers, the Bull of the Woods, Roughouse Rosie, et al., has been secured to teach the younger generation in Fort Wayne how to play basketball. You may not be much concerned about that now but wait a few years until s:ine of it takes effect. If his system is adopted, good by Basketball is our guess. —Bluffton Banner “But eaching basketball will not be all of genteel Ralph's duties. He will give "special attention to the element of sportsmanship,” according to the esteemed News-Sentinel.” —Fan Whiffs,, Huntington Herald The Bluffton Tigers take on an Ohio opponent this week, playing Waite high, of Toledo, at Bluffton, Friday night. The Berne Bears will not play Montpelier at Berne, Friday night, as announced yesterday, we were informed today. The Bears are idle until Januqiy 4, when they play Monroeville at Berne.
Woodburn today cancelled the game scheduled with Manmouth, to be played at Woodburn, Friday flight, due to the flu epidemic at Woodburn. o WABASH —G. M. Naber has received a check for a piece of furniture purchased from him thirty-four years ago. Naber said that while he was super'ntendent of schools in Whitley county a woman bought the piece of fui niture and promised to pay him later —she made good her word just thirty-four years afterwards, Naber said. INDIANAPOLIS—CharIes T. Hillman, city policeman, recently voted the city’s most courteous traffic officer will retire from the force New Years day, after spending thirty year on the local department. He is also the oldest member of the Indianapolis police force.
MONROE NEWS Mr. mid Mrs. Harry Kessler mid. son Darwin of Fori Wayne were visit , oi’H in town over Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. O. I). Kess.er mid daughters, of Edgerton. Ohio, are, visiting with the former’s parents,. Mr. and Mrs. James Kessler, this ’ week. Mr. mid Mrs. Parkerson and family, i
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