Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1929 — Page 6

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BE CATURTEAMS IN HARD GAMES As the curtain starts to drop down ou the 1929 basketball season, the two Decatur teams have a lot of big obstacles before them this week and next. The Commodores have three games remaining on their schedule and the Yellow Jackets have a return game with the Bluffton Tigers, whom they defeated here earlier in the seasson. The week's fireworks start Thursday night, when Charmitiade high school of Dayton, Ohio, conies to Decatur for a hardwood tilt with the Commodores. That the visitors are a formidable foe, is evidenced by the season record of that schiool. The Buckeye squad is composed of four players, over six feet in height. Charmitiade has won a large ma jcrity of its games this season and has scored 340 points Io 216 for its opponents. Two players on the Charmitiade team have averaged more than 10 points to a game. The manager of the team has wired Rev. Joseph A. Hession. of this city, for a reservation of the Catholic high school floor for an hour prior to the game here Thursday night for basket practice and indications are that the Buckeye outfit has hojies of spoiling the ret ord of the local team. Both Charmlnade and Decatur hold victories over Elder high school ot Cincinnati, but Charmitiade defeated the Elder'quintet without the services of Zweisler, star Buckeye forward Local sport fans say that the Commie dore-Charminade game will be one of the most interesting of the season. On Friday night of this week, Andrews high school of Huntington county, comes to Decatur for a mix-up with the Commodores. The Andrews aggregation has lieen playing some fine basketball this season and has an impressive record so far. Both the Commodores and Andrews played Monrovia high school several weeks ago and both defeated Monrovia by the same margin, 15 points. A real game is anticipated when the two schools meet. Andrews is given a good chance of winning the Hunt ] lugton sectional tourney this year. j While the Commodores are enter- ; taining Andrews in Decatur, the De-, catur high school Yellow Jackets will j lie in Bluffton playing a return game with the Tiger crew of that city. De-1 catur bested Bluffton on the local i hardwood earlier in the season by 4 points ami the Tigers are out after re-, venge. Coach Curtis stated today that hisj squad was in good condition for the, Friday night game, whick_will mark | the close of the regular playing seas-1 on for the Yellow Jackets. Hundreds , of local fans are planning to motor to the Parlor City to see the game Friday night The game will be played in the Bluffton community auditorium o Field Goals ■ By Mark M. Upp Games for Adams County this week include. Thursday night Dayton, Ohio, Catholic at Decatur Catholic; Friday night — Andrews at Decatur Catholic, Decatur at Bluffton, Berne at Monroeville, Kirkland at Rockcreek, Monroe vs. Hoagland at Decatur, Monmouth at Woodburn: Saturday night —C. C. IL S. of Fort Wayne at Kirkland. Hartford vs. Polingtown at Pennville, Geneva vs. Jeff erson at Berne. Just as we expected,. A letter from Earl Conner, of Dayton, was awaiting us at the office this morning. Stivers of Dayton managed to beat out Washington, Ind., Hatchets, of Dayton, Sal urday afternoon, 25-18. Washington led, 18-17 with five minutes left to play. Our opinion of Stiverk was not changed much by that. game. The Dayton school has a good ball club, but we still maintain that there are six or eight teams in Indiana that are capable of beating the Buckeyes. Earl says Saturday s game was the only real game the Dayton fans have seen this year. "It was no place for a man with a weak heart,” he writes. "It took all the locals had for they played the Indiana game, 20 minute halves, and were unused to that. To date, Stiveis has played 18 won 18, lost 0 Total score 846; average per 32-miu-Ute game, 47. Opponents total. 259; average 14 1-3. No team has counted a 20 points against them, this year. On to the 9th state championship and Chicago, etc. etc.” On the face of things, the winner of the Decatur sectional got what little breaks there were in the regional tourney drawing. Os the other three teams to take part in the Fort "Wayne regional, the Warsaw winner probably is weaker than the Fort

| Wayne and Blnfftou winners If successful In beating the Warsaw winner in the first round, the Decatur winner will meet the winner of the game be tween the Fort Wayne and Bluffton sectional winners. The winner of the Warsaw sectional won’t be any set-up. however. Saturday night, Central of Fort Wayne, had plenty of trouble beating Warsaw, nt Warsaw, 35-30. Warsaw held the lead at one time in the second half. Pierceton, winner of the Warsaw sectional last year, defeated North Manchester, far from lieing a weak team, in an overtime game nt Pierceton. 40-34. Mentone, another Warsaw sectional contestant, has bleu turning in some highly creditable victories this season, also. This week marks the end of the schedule for all Adams county teams except Decatur Catholic high. The Commodores have* one more game scheduled, the return game with St. Rose, of Lima, there. Berne’s Bears played another one of their good games, Saturday night, and Rockcreek was the victim of a 45-26 defeat. The Bears are plenty tough when they are going. The Decatur G. E. quintet macle an excellent showing in tne sectional independent tournament at Markle, last week. The Electricians eliminated the tourney favorite, but lost in the final game. o— G. E. UINTET IS BEATEN IN FINAL After defeating the tourney favorite, the Lafountaine Hawks of Warren, in the semi-finals, the Decatur General Electric basketball team was defeated by the Markle Roosters in the final games of the distric t independent tournament. at Matkle, Saturday night, by a score of 35-27. Markle will represent this district in the state independent tourney at Indianapolis this week. The G. E. five won a sensational game- tiom the Lafountaine Hawk: In the semi finals, by a score of 21-20 The losers hold the lead up until the closing minutes of the game, when the i electricians rallied to win. The Mar I kle Boosters defeated the Markle Reds I 19 17. in the other semi-final game. The ball used in the final game was | awarded to the G E. team. Rooort Zwick, of the electricians, was award'ed a medal for showing the* best I 1 sport manship in the tftumey, and i I “Buck' Corson, also of tie Decatnr ‘ •team, received the prize offered for | the player making the highest score | in any single- game. Corson scored 18 i points in one game. An unusual seaI tine to this was that Corson went I scoreless for the entire first half and ■ nine minutes in the second half, but j scored nine field goals in the last eleven minutes. Schilling, of Bippus, received the prize for being the most valuable man to his team, and J. Fosselntan of Markle Boosters, wen the I prize for high score of the tourney Lineups of thef inal game; Markle Boosters 35 Decatur G. E.'s 27 FunderburgF Zwick FosselmanFKlelnknight E- YoosC ... . ’Hill Cr.zaid G Strickler Luther G Bebout Substitutions: Markle Boosters — Crow and Funderburg. BERNE SCORES EASY VICTORY Berne, Feb. 18 (SpecialJ Berne high school’s Beats returned to top form, Saturday night, and trounced the Rockcreek Dodgers, of Wells county, in a game played here, 45-26. Berne led from the start and at the end of the first half the score stood 25-14. Coach Johnson, of Berne, used eight players in the game. Braun, with seven field goals to his credit, was the nigh scoter if the game. Lineups and summary 1 . Berne FG FT TP Ehrsam f 3 17 Braun f -7 O' 14 Moser f . 4 0 8 Myers c 4 3 11 Stauffer c 0 0 0 Stucky g 1 2 4 Clauser g 0 11 Kattman g 0 0 0 Totals 19 7 45 Rockcreek FG FT TP Illghlan f I 1 3 Miller f 1 4 6 G. Harnish, f 0 11 Fishbaugh c .. 2 2 6 McAtee g 3 0 6 L. Harnish g .1 2 4 Totals 8 10 26 , Referee: Curtis, Decatur. o Lafayette —(U.R)— The annual bee ' keepers short course of Purdue university will begin Monday to continue ■ three days. An interesting feature of the course will be a demonstration of 1 a new honey grader.

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BIG TEN RACE FULL OF UPSETS Chicago, Feb. 18 — iU.PJ—Already replete with upsets which have scramlr led the standings in such away that four teams still have championship hopes, the Big Ten basketball schedule brings all teams into action again tonight with the possibility that further surprises may create an undisputed leader. Michigan and Wisconsin are tied lor the lead. Each lias won six games and lost one. Close on the heels of the leaders are Purdue and lowa, both of whom have won five games aud lost two. Wisconsin, without a doubt, has the hade gfltsrh ILETAOINN SHRDLVe hardest fight tonight. The Badgers meet Northwestern, enigma of the present race. Stalling out with three consecutive losses, which on early season form should have been victories. Northwestern suddenly reversed itself and has won its five games. Right now the Evanston team appears to be playing the best basketball in the conference. Wisconsin lias the power to win but will be in a hole where the slightest slackening may mean a loss. Michigan meets Illinois and form should win but the lllini have a complex which usually finds them playing their hardest against the Wolverines. it would seem from the schedule that Michigan is running on the inside rail. Tlte Wolverines have played most of their hardest games and it they keep up their present pace should win from all remaining opponents except possibly Wisconsin. Besides Wisconsin, Michigan has yet to meet Illinois, lowa, Minnesota and Ohio. They have defeated all these and there seems not to have been enough improvement in any of the latter four to warrant hope that they can match the kind of basketball Michigan has been playing. Wisconsin is different. The Badgers are playing real basketball and it would not be surprising if they took the measure of the Wolverines, to avenge the early defeat they received from Michigan However, in this season of upsets nothing is startling and some other team may win from the Ann Arbor team. lowa, before reaching the championship stage must defeat Northwestern, Michigan aud Indiana as well as Minnesota and Ohio, a Herculean task. Wisconsin must meet Nori it western twice and Purdue once and those four games are real stumbling blocks to championship hopes. Purdue, the remaining contender, has Indiana, its time honoied rival, Wisconsin, Ohio twice and Illinois. Figuring an Indiana-Purdue game is much like the question “how long is a string?" but on past form Purdue should defeat the Bloomington team tonight. Cince Chicago has not won a conference game in eight starts it is reasonable to assume that Ohio will win tonight, and the strong lowa team should turn in another victory o?er Minnesota, which has lost all of its seven games. [*ast Saturday’s games were featured by North western’s 35-30 upset of Purdue, a defeat which cost the Boilermakers their share in t three way tie for the leadership. Northwestern won by concentrating its defense on Murphy, rangy Purdue center. The other games Saturday resulted as follows: Ohio, 35; Illinois, 30. Wisconsin, 27; Indiana, 25. Michigan, 23; Minnesota, 18. lowa, 31; Chicago* 20. — o — COLLEGE BASKETBALL Wisconsin 27; Indiana 25. Ohio State 35; Illinois 30. Northwestern 35; Purdue 30. lowa State 44; Kansas Aggie a 35Oklahoma 40; Kansas 25 Michigan 23; Minnesota 18. lowa 31; Chicago 20 Manchester 56; Muncie Normal 33 Penn State 42; Carnegie Tech., 25. Pennsylvania 27; Army 17. University of Dayton 26; Earlham 24. Cornell 36; Dartmouth 29. Louisville 31; Rose Poly 23.

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Young Jake Schaefer, above, last of the champion Schaefers, defeated Welker Cochrnne 400 to 328 in the deciding game of world's championship tournament at 18.2 billiards at New York. His expert shooting brought the title hack to the United States, the defending champion, Horemans, of Belgium finishing third. .

MONROE DEFEATS GENEVA. 35 TO 34 Monroe high school netters nosed cut the Geneva Cardinals in a basketball game played Saturday night, on the Berne auditorium floor. 35 31. The game was close ail the way through and both teams showed great improvement over past p‘rformances. Monroe led at the half 18-8, but the Cardinals came back strong at the opening of the second iieriod and for a time it appeared as if tin* Geneva team would score a win. Hoffman, Monroe forward, was high point man for the winners with a total of 9 points, while Hawbaker, Cardinal center, was high scorer for Geneva with a total of 15 points. Hawbaker has been playing from other teamsES has been playing a Ipt of good basketball and lias received a lot of favorable comment from other teams and coaches. Lineup and summary: Monroe FG FT T Busche, f 4 1 9 Hoffman, f. 3 17 Johnson, f 0 tt 0 V. Andrews, c. 3 17 A. Andrews, g. . . . 3 2 S Meyers, g 2 0 4

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Balmer, g. o 0 0 Totals 15 5 35 Geneva Runyon, f. 0 11 Lybarger, f 1 0 - ‘ | Lough, f 0 o 0 Hawbaker, c 5 5 15 Fennig, g. 2 0 Neal, g. . .2 2 6 . Long, g J 0 ® Totalsl3 8 34 RefWindmiller. Indiana. — o HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Columbus, 49: Shortridge 30. Cathedral 25; Central Catholic ! (Fort Wayne) 18. South Side (Fort Wayne) 25; North , Side (Fort Wayne) 15. Central < Fort Wayne) 35; Warsaw, , 30. I Alexandria 57; Wabash 31 Logansport 32; Peru 29. t Devoss (Evansville) 41; Memorial ’. (Evansville) 30. , Technical Indianapolis 27; Vincenrial (Evansville) 30. Technimal Indianapolis 27; Vincennes 26. Auburn 62; Olbion 5. Stivers (Dayton, Ohl') 25: Washing ton 18. Pierceton 40; North Maschester, 34 I 0 Columbus —(U.R) Two devices for 1 spreading tear gas have been installed in the vault of the post office here. ' The gas is a powder, a form Said to be > superior to the liquid formerly used.

MONMOUTH IS DEFEATED. 29-13 1 lack of the Lame with Hoagland high schemt. a Adams county crew met with a 29 »’ defeat Coach Haggards F.agl s started out strong and took a lead of 4 0 in the first ten minutes of pl-o. j ( l( WF re unable to hold up under Hie Lt pme. The first half ended with Hoagland leading. l- r »*. g!^ n was rough all the way. This was Hoagland’s twelfth victory in sixteen "“f “’ * season in the prelimin-

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ary game Saturday night , |i(< land eighth grade te» to 4(l[ Monmouth eighth grade. 41 , ” Lineups and summary: I Monmouth I Parrish, f v , 1 FT » Brokaw, f 1 ll H. Lytle, c ' 11 <1 Bittner, g "fl Lewton, g 0 » ’I n. Lytle, g 0 a ’.I Totals f. 0 HI Hoagland 1 U| Marquardt, f 7-1 , McLellan, f 2 ’ l»| • Reynti’ds, t* ] 1 11 i Roberts, c (| I ■ Bray, g j ’I i Jameson, g i Totals 12 * 1 • Referee: Kinney, Harlan. 3 1