Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1929 — Page 6

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YELLOW JACKETS NOSED OUT IN A THRILLING CAME Curtismen Lose To Kort Wayne Central In Great Game, 37*34 We haw met the enemy and, as I far as one game of basketball is concerned, we are their’s. Fort Wayne Central's season record stands at 17 straight victories today. but the Tigers were forced to play forty minutes of their best basketball last night to defeat the f Decatur high school Yellow Jackets, J 37-34. , It was a thrilling game and a une , exhibition of basketball that was ] staged in the North Side high school gym in Fort Wayne last night, before ‘ a crowd of nearly 4,000 fans, including petween 600 and 700 Decatur and Adams county people. Nearly half of the big crowd was rooting for the ' Yellow Jackets to pull out a win, as hundreds of fans from other towns and cities in this part of the state ' were backing them. As a result, of last night's victory, , Central won the championship of the northeastern Indiana conference, with ; ‘ ten victories and no defeats. The ‘ ; Yellow Jackets are in second place . with seven victories and two losses. Repot ts eminating from Fort Wayne during the week that Fit;', byons, the big colored center on the ’ Central team, would be unable to play on account of a leg infection.;, proved to lie bear stories of the most ' bearish type. The big boy played most of the game although he did not start, and he was in much better condition than he was in the game against South Side a week ago. Two tough breaks, one in the early part of the game, and the other in th" I last minute, lost the game for the Yellow Jackets. Early in the game, • Schnepp was injured when a Fort Wayne played fouled him on the tip I off play. He was hit in the eye ami was nearly blind for a few minute. ’ In the excitement, he failed to ask ' for time out and as a result his man. Jennings, broke loose under the basket for three easy baskets. Finally, Coach Curtis noticed there was some thing wrong with Schnepp and sent in Debolt for him. With the score standing 35-28 ; against them, the Yellow Jackets started a rally in the last five min- ; utes of play. Krick, Cole and Schnepp i all hit field goals to cut Central's lead ; ( to one point and only seconds remained to be played. Decatur got j the tup off and Gerber passed to Johnny Engle as the latter cut for i the basket. Engle missed the shot and Gerber missed, the follow-in. | Central then got the ball, passed down , the floor ami Jenkins made a basket I just as the game ended. Had either Engle or Gerber scored. Decatur, would have won the game, as there would not have been time for anoth-1 er tip-off play. Decatur took a lead of 6-0 at the start of the game when Gerber and John Engie hit field goals and Schnepp and Gerber tossed in free throws. Central then went ahead and, at the end of the half, was leading 19-13. Decatur kept within two cr three points of the Tigers until the last three minutes of the period, when Central spurted. Coach Mendenhall sent Lyons into the game for Central after about five minutes of play to replace Buggs at guard. Buggs returned to the game in the second half, when Dornte went out on personals. Jennings, a colored freshman, was the leading scorer of the game, with six field goals and two free throws to his credit. Jenkins, his running | mate, scored from the field five, times. Cole and Gerber, with three field ; goa's and two free throws each, topped the Yellow Jacket scorers. Johnny Engle and Schnepp were close behind them with seven points each. The entire team playedd great ball and nil Decatur is proud of the Yellow Jackets today. In the preliminary game, the Decatur second team easily defeated the Central rri'erves, the final score being 25-10. The young Jackets led at the end of the half, 11-7. In the second half, Central failed to score a f.eid goal. . LZneuips and summary: Decatur F.G. F.T. T.P. j Gerber, f 3 2 8 D. Engle, f ...* 0 0 0 Ode, c 3 2 8 Schnepp, g 2 3 7 Krick, g 2 0 4 Debolt, g 0 0 0 Totals 13 8 34 Central Jenkins, f 5 0 10 Jennings, f 6 2 14 Dornte, c 2 0 4 Franke, g 1 2 4 Buggs, g 0 0 0-

Decatur G. E. Wins In Tournament At Markle I Markle, Feb. 16 ( Special)—The Decatur General Electric team defeaie I the Ossian Mett hunts, 26-24, thii morning in the invitational independent basketball tournament, which opened heio Thursday night. Corson, with 12 points, and Strickler, with 7 points, wete the leading scorers for the electricians. Decatur will play Lafountain at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the semi-finals — o— BRYANT LOSES TO JEFFERSON Beine, Feb. 16. —(Special)—Jefferson high school won a closely con- | tested basketball game from the Dry-! ant high school quintet, here last ■ night, by a score of 23-19. Jefferson I led at the end of the half, 13-8. Hanes | and Smitley were the leading scorers l for Jefferson, with eight and seven I points each, respectively. In the preliminary game, the Jefferson seconds won from the Bryant seconds, 20-18. Lineups and summary: Jefferson FG FT TP Butcher, f 1 1 3 ' Hanes, f 4 0 8 Walter, c 2 0 4 Smitley, g 2 3 7 St tidier, g 0 11 Wendel. g o o 0 Totals . 9 5 23 Bryant FG FT TP E. Shoemaker, f 2 2 6 Arnold, f - 0 0 0 Ford, f 1 0 2 Kessler, c 1 0 Metzner, g — 3 17 D. Shoemaker, g 1 0 2 Totals 8 3 19 Referee: Burns. o GENEVA DEFEATS WREN, OHIO, 21-7 The Geneva Cardinals easily defeat-1 ed tlie Wren. Ohio, h'gh school basket-; ball team in a game at Wien, last I night the final score being 27 to 7. Geneva was leading at the end of the ; half 9.t0 3. Hawbaker, Geneva center, was leading scoter with three field goals and; the same number of free throws. Fen-1 nig, Genova guard scored three field | goals. Lineups and summary:Geneva FG FT TP Runyon f 2 0 4 Lough f 6 1 1 1 Long f 1 0 2 I Ha wbaker c 3 ,3 91 Neal g 1 2 4 I Fennig g 3 0 6 Totals 10 7 27 j Wren FG FT TP Tumblcson f 1 3 " R. Meyers f 0 0 0 i Stewait f 0 0 0 Krelschner c 0 0 0; B. Meyers g 1 0 2 Brittson g 0 0 o Totals • • 2 3 7 Referee: Roberts. o HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Bluffton 29, Hartord City 27 Angola 46, Garrett 37 Ossian 47, Union Center 29 Muncie 41,' Newcastle 25 Delphi 41, Anderson 37 Marten 39, Martinsville 11 Vincennes 82, Princeton 10 South Side (Fort Wayne) 36. Columbia City 35 Kendallville 37, North Side (Fort Wayne) 33 Reitz (evansville) 32. Broad Ripple 31 (Overtime) Brazil 35, Manual (Indianapolis) 30 I Columbus 43, Shelbyville 33 Bedford 29, Franklin 9 j Washington 37, Seymour 18 Logansport 46, Rochester 12 Central (Evansville) 23, Bloomington 19 Greenfield 16. Rushville 14 Tipton 33, Elwood 25 >'F¥ Huntington 49, Auburn 39 Connersville 31, Morton (Richmond 30 Warren 50, Rock Creek (Wells county) 29 Winchester 29, Spartanburg 20 Roanoke 49, Huntington township, 16 Monument City 37, Blpptts 22 1 Milford 25, Syracuse 21 Frankfort 49. Kokomo 27 | Valparaiso 31, Goshen 25 Hammond 34, Mishawaka 11 Emerson (Gary) 28, South Bend 25 Whiting 40, Laporte 37 Michigan City 44, Plymouth 17 o — Found in Book of Job The phrase •'skin of my teeth” orig- : tnated In the Book of Toh» 19:20. Lyons, g. 2 15 Totals 16 5 37. Referee: Arbuckle, Kokomo. Umpire: Elliott, Fort Wayne.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY,* FEBRUARY 16. 1929.

COMMODORES SHOW CLASS IN SEATING ELDER Decatur Catholic High Cagers Defeat Cincinnati Team, 23 To 16 Decatur Catholic high school Comj modores, playing one of their best games of tie season, pushed their wav through a sturdy defense and deI seated Elder high school of (’lncinI uatl, last night, on the Buckeye floor. 1 23-16- The Commodores were, always lin front, but the score was always .lose and Elder made a determined esI ;'ort in the closing minutes of the i tame to close the gap between the j ' wo teams. Coach Laurent used six player.i and I it was one of those nights when all the I Commodores were doing everything right, and it would have been a diffi- ! cult job for any basketball team to stop the Gleen and Gold. Captain Petie Mylott, who has been ciipled for the last two games, came into his own and played his best game cf the season. Millet. Coffee and Gass played tht forward positions in good shape, Miller and Coffee alternating in the sec I ond period. VVemhoff played a goo.', game at center and Kohne, time and again, halted the Elder offense under the basket. Shortly after the first half started. Art Miller sank a lang field goal to . send the Commodores into the lead 20. Mylott then tossed in a 2-pointor 1 ami loi the next few minutes both 1 teams scrambled around the center ( of the floor. Sanders, Elder center , tossed in a free throw and Bertke, El- i der forward tosssd in a field goal to , make the score 6-3. Bill Gass got a pair of fielders, but * Elder kept up its threat and at half ‘ time the score was 13-10, with Decatur leading. The officiating was close ( all during the first half and Referee Dick Brady kept the game well in J hand until the closing minutes. The rest period refreshed the Elder quintet and Beckman, Buckeys for- * waid caught the Comrpodores napp- ' ling when he drove down the floor for •a field goal. The score was 13-12 and ' I while the fans were cheering the Elder ‘ ■ ni-in on for victory Petie Mylott cut j loose to send Decatur into a 5 point I lead with a couple if drives down i the left side of the hardwood. Elder made another effort during 1 | the last five minutes ot the game and 1 I the Commodores contented themI selves to play a cautious defensive ; I game The Eide: forwards kept pepj pering the basket with long shots, out ' | Kohne and Wemhoff wete under the 1 • net to pull the ball c.;t of the fire. 1 I The score was 16-19 with only a min- 1 i ute or two left. After a hard drive by Elder, Petie 1 I Mylott took the ball off the Elder ! back board and dribbled through the 1 entire defense sot a baiket and Bill 1 Gass ended the scoring with a 2-point-er Irom near the foul line. The Commodores appeared in tournament form and the small floor failed to worry them. Their passing was acerate and nly for a few minutes at the stait of the second half did the Cincinnati aggregation have the upper hand. Mylott was high point man for Decatur with 12 points and Bertke w; s chief scorer for Elder with a pair of fielders and a free throw It was easy to see that the Elder crowd wanted to win the game, but the enti.e crowd protested on one or two occasions when the referee apI peated to favor the home team. | Lineup and summary: Commodores FG FT TP Miller f 1 0 2 . Coffee f '.... 0 0 (I Gass f 3 17 II Wemhoff c 0 •• 6 Mylott g 5 2 12 Kohne g -.. 1 0 2 Totals 10 3 23 Elder . Bertke f 2 1 5 Beckman f 2 0 4 V elker f 0 0 0 I Sanders c 0 3 3 Donnelly g 1 0 2 II Mieheng 0 0 ,0 Aug, g 0 2 2 , Totals ... 5 6 16 Referee, Dick Brady, Cincinnati. ReiHoaiT By Mark M. Upp Anyway, the Yellow Jackets were beaten by a good team, in a good ball game and by only three points. Without a couiple of bad breaks, the Curtismen would have won that game and broken Central’s pretty - string of victories. Theic are probahly more colored 1- boys on the Central team than ever played on a public high school team

Youngster Routs : j ■ 1 . 111 I ’ 'f I I : ! u 1 Wk F A 1 A u ■r* hr rh MMIMO II 4r«E*'- ' . aMM buperb mastery of intricate shots from the racquet of John Van Ryn, young Davis Cup candidate, blocked “Big Bill" Tilden’s efforts to re-enter tennis competition by beating the vet in straight sets in indoor invitation tournament at Brooklyn, N. Y. (International Nawsreal) in Indiana, excepting, of course, a negro high school. Coach Mendenhall hail nine players in uniform last night and five of them were negroes. Three started in the game and four were playing when the game ended. This is an unfortunate circumstance in many ways. It is unfortunate for other teams that play Central to have to play against negroes. It is unfortunate for the negroes themselves, to be subjected to the ridicule, jibs and slurring remarks that are naturally hurled at them by the spectators. But as long as the colored children attend the same school as the whites, they are entitled to the same privileges. It will have to be admitted that Lyons, Jenkins and Jennings are nice ball players. Decatur fans should not and we believe they do not feel badly over that defeat at Fort Wayne last night. To the l>est of our knowledge and information, Decatur received about the best treatment bast night that a Decatur team i*ver received in Fort Wayne. The officiating was first class and the playing of the Central p’ayers was not of the dirty and unsportsmanlike type that has characterized some Central teams. Decatur played as good a game as did Central and but for a couple of bad breaks, Kvould have won the game. If the two teams are fortunate enough to meet again in the regional, maybe the breaks will go to Decatur. Coach Curtis and the members of the Decatur team should be proud of the support they had last night. Whenever 600 or more people from a town the size of Decatur accompany a basketball team to an out-of-town game, the team may well feel proud of it. Much praise Is due the Commodores today. They invaded the stronghold of Elder high, in Cincinnati, last night and won a well-earned 7-point victory. Coach Laurent, at last, appears to have his full strength in the lineup. The local Catholic high coach has been handicapped by injuries and sickness among his players during most of the season. Last night, however, there was strength in every position. Kirkland and Berne staged a merry battile last night. If these two quintets meet in the sectional tourney, another good time should be, had by all. Jefferson and Geneva upheld the glory of Adams county against foreign opponents last night. Marion, 39; Martinsville, 11. Oh, what a headache Glenn Curtis must have this morning. We’d sure like to see Glenn’s team stack up against the one coached by his brother Herb right now. If Decatur didn’t get 'em a neat trimming, we'd he badly fooled. ——<o Earliest Form of “Pie” The name pie probably was evolved from the French “pain,” meaning bread, and from “pled,” meaning feet, for the early method of cooking a . fowl was to cover it with a dough nnd hake, leaving the feet sticking out ; through the crust to serve ns a handle. o Got Name From Hill 1 The Vatican takes Its mime from r the Vatican hili in Rome on the west i bank of the Tiber.

KIRKLAND BEATS BERNE, 32 TO 28 Kitkland defeated Bertm in a rough and hardly fought game on the Kirkland flotr last night by a score ol - to 29. The two teams are now even sot the season, Berne taving captured the first contest between th etwo linin’ lets, 21-19. The lead switched several times las> night. Bertie was holding a Ihree-poiut lead, 18-15, at the end of the HrH half- Kirkland rallied at the start of | the second period to take the lead but the Bears came back and were out in front again at Uie middle of the hall. The Kankaroos then staged a rally In the last part of theg nine to pull the contest out of the fire. A total of 39 personal fouls were called during the game, 21 on Kirkland and 18 on Berne. Dettlnger and Me Kean, of Kitkland, committed four each. ’ In the preliminary game, the Kirk land seeon dteam defeated the Beine reserves, 18-17. A larke crowd saw the , games. Lineups and summary: Kitkland FG FT TP Schlickman f 11 11 ; Schladenhauffen f 3 2 8 Dettlnget f 1 0 2 Beety f ” 0 0 Meyers c 3 4 Arnold g 3 p ® McWean g 1 3 ,r ’ Helmrick g • ® p 0 Totals .. 11 1® 3 " Berne FG FT TP Ehrsam f ... 1 2 “• Braun f it 1 I Moser f 2 1 5 Myers c 2 4 8 Stucky g 1 ® 2 Clauser g 4 1 9 Kattman g .. 0 <• 0 Totals 10 9 29 Referee: Michaels. Umpire Coppess. j COLLEGE BASKETBALL Notre Dame 24, Butler 21 Yale 37. Columbia 23 State Normal 39, Carbondale 22 Michigan State 40. University of Detroit 15 Pittsburgh 49. Penn State 38 Hanover 56; Rose Poly 17 Muncie Normal 42, Huntington 21. Sore Throat? Don’t Gargle Quicker and Better Relief With Famous Prescription Don’t suffer from the pain and sore-1 nesa of sore threat—gargles and ‘ salves are too slow they relieve only temporari’y. But Thoxine, a famous physician's prescription, is guaranteed to give relief almost instantly. Thoxine has a double action —re--I'evQs the soreness and goes direct to the internal cause. No chloroform, iren or other harmful drugs — safe and pleasant for the whole family. Also wonderfully effective for relieving coughs. Quick relief guaranteed or your money back. 35c, 60c anil SI.OO. So’.d by Holthouse and all other good drug stores.

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February 16, | DEAR FRIENDS: 1 Here's what a Decatur doctor's wife told me, | “Ever since I was a girl,” tbs said, “I had the idea ’ that it just timply ruined clothes to send them to the laundry. I "Somebody told me that they put something into the watv to whiten the clothes—and it made them rot. “So I had never sent anything to the laundry. “Finally, though, one bad spring I just decided to nive up trying to wash the doctor's shirts. I sent them to the laundry. I “That's when I first found out that it isn't hard on elothet to send them to the laundry. I’ve been doing it ever since and now I knew it doesn't hurt them a bit. BEN ZEEN. p t s, We don't know whether your top coat needs cleaning and repairing or not. A lot of Decatur men are sending theirs in. j DECATUR LAUNDRY “The Farr Way” DEMOCHAT WANT ADS GET RESDLI Il ' I ■ T 11 THE EASIEST | DEBT to overtook is the one you owe your future, but it is easy to i pay, by installments, in our Savings Department — and we |’ help you to pay it. I'l G Capital and Surplus ;