Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1929 — Page 3

Berne Bears Win Sectional Basketball Championship Here

CHAMPS defeat GENEVA CARDS IN FINALGAME.44-1 6 Region Saturday n hiKb SChOOI B,>ar9 are r>< “’ s « ional champions for 1929. That ’’l nXm will represent Adams * At the regional basketball tourfoU , Hl Fort Wayne next Saturday, r B ar won the championship and Th uht to continue in the struggle |W ?«Ute net title by defeating h, “X b^LX d Xament P Saturday , k< The final score was 4416. ffrnl will meet Milford, winner of sectional, at 3 o clock ? lav afternoon. In the regional Si at the South Side high school Ci. Fort Wayne ls v,ctor : K hat game, the Bears will meet Sinner of the Bluffton-Fort Wayne South Side game, at 8 o clock Satur iay night, for the regional champion'ie fought uphill from the very tort of the tourney. The Bears sent L Yellow Jacket uniforms to the storehouse Saturday morning by defeating Decatur high school netters 2119. The game was an upset, but feerne deserved to win. Coach Johnuoos team was fighting every minute of the way. The Cardinals, coming up the easy side of the drawing, played good basketball against the Bears in the final encounter, but the entire team cracked under the strain in the second half and after trailing only three points. lUI, at the half, the Cards were left behind during the last 15 minutes. Stucky, Clause.r and Braun were the outstanding players for Berne throughout the tourney and it was chiefly the work of these three men which delivered the title to BerneBraun plays forward position and will bear the watching of any team. He is an excellent shot and falls back on defense to aid Stucky and Clauser Stucky also is a dangerbus offensive man. Hawbaker, Geneva center, was eas-' ily the outstanding center of the tournament. He, at times lonehanded, carried on the Geneva offense in great style and was a principal link in the Geneva defense. The Geneva team deserves as much if not more credit ihan the sectional champs, for the Catuinals have no gymnasium and they do most of their practicing during scheduled games. A big feature of the tournament tW year was the fact that the good net players are almost equally districted over the county. Hartford townhas a big team of first year men dttii that school will he a dangerous Mender for honors in the future. Jeffetson township had the best team li the loifrney this year that ever teptesetited that school. Jeff made Kirllatid. former sectional champions extend themselves to win in the first found. . hirslaiid had a well balanced team, "tit several df the Kangaroo players bad been sick the last week and that team was not up to form in either -of its games. Monmouth and Monroe neither Mte gymnasiums and both teams Wed good games considering that fact. x The Yellow Jackets were defeated n the first round by Berne. No one «»ble to diagnose the case. Even me fans said that the best they Doped for was to give Decatur a good Ad h UI not a man on team play a the game he is capable of playing. “ , toUgll break for the Yellow bets, but they showed they had t coached right for every memnL he i,Uad was back at the afteron games cheering for Berne. hetory lt , ail o K Waß far from Battstav’e 8 he Becond time in as ciMln/h arS . that i,nßa tisfactory offif»ns Th ’ e st a bad laste with all loss.° fklat,ng dld “ot win or of the games, but the coachof th ß ■ worried continually beofficials nconaiatent work of both an(l gummary of the final fettle iShrsam f FG FT Tp Moser f 3 ® 6 feaun f ® T 11 Myers c 7 0 14 Kattman c 2 0 4 Stauffer c 0 0 0 Btucky g 000 Mauser a 7 0 2 ..Totals 3 1 7 fehev, 21 2 44 E? targe r f Myon f 3 1 5 Ung f ■■ 0 2 2 gt’taker ® 11 N ta! s 1 2 4 Mtnig g 022 Totals 0 2 2 ••• • - 3 .10 16 !( "y To Pty Five Major Football Teams "•X. ”»■ <■ -«« - ’ 1 inc ton, Pennsylvania,

the Navy's major football opponent Georgetown, and Dartmouth will be In 1929. according to the delayed schedule released by Commander Jonas H. Inghram, director of athletics at the naval academy, Ten games will be pluyed, with four of the five big games away from home. Dartmouth occupies the date formerly tilled by the Army. The Notre Dame game will be at Baltimore, Oct. 12. -' - o BIG TEN TITLE IS AT STAKE TONIGHT By Bert Demby, UP Staff Correspondent Chicago, Mar. 4. —(U.R) —Climaxed by as dramatic a finish as the conference ever has witnessed, the Big Ten basketball season entered its final week today, with the championship hinging on the result of the Michigan-Wiscon-sin game at Ann Arbor tonight. By winning, Michigan can hope for little more than a tie for the title, but a Wisconsin victory will give the Badgers undisputed possession of the 1929 championship. The Ann Arbor team has won nine and lost two as compared with nine won and one lost by Wisconsin. Since. Wisconsin meets the weak Chicago team in its final game of the season it is almost certain that the Badgers will finish with a ten won and two lost standing, even if Michigan is victorious tonight, and ten won and two lost is the best Michigan can do. The game tonight finds the two best teams in the conference opposing each other. Each has great team work and the necessary individual stars to create spectacular play. On the offense, Michigan has Chapman as a leader; Wisconsin has Foster, and the two rate with the best scorers in the country. There are few better defense players than Camielewskl of Wisconsin and McCoy of Michigan. Wisconsin probably has a shade the tetter teamwork but Danny Rose, dimunitive Michigan guard and one of the best dribblers in Big Ten, has been adept at breaking up opposition team plays. Each team is faced with the task of closely guarding an individual star for if either Foster or Chapman gets loose consistently the opposition will suffer. The Wolverines have the home floor advantage and watever physlchological assistance which may go with the knowledge that they defeated Wisconsin earlier in the year. The only Wisconsin defeat this season was received from Michigan and if the Wolverines became obsessed with the idea that they were good enough to beat the Badger’s on the latter's home floor and decide the task should be easier at Ann Arbor they probably will cause plenty of trouble. Wisconsin has had a week of rest but Michigan played one of its hardest games against Ohio Saturday and escaped defeat by the small margin of 27-26. All Big Ten teams except Wisconsin and Chicago end their season tonight. In the other games, lowa plays at Indiana; Minnesota meets Illinois at Champaign; and Ohio plays Purdue at Lafayette. Purdue has cinched third place but Murphy, the great Boilermaker center, still has a chance to better the Big Ten individual scoring mark. “Stretch” according to unofficial figures has scored 121 points and holds the conference lead but still needs thirteen points to better the record held by Johnny Miner of Ohio State. Ohio may tie Northwestern for fourth place by winning tonight. Northwestern, the enigma of this year’s race, finished its season with seven won and five lost Saturday night by defeating lowa. 38-33. The Wildcats, before the season started, were looked upon as championship contenders but lost their first three games and then came back to win from both Purdue and Michigan and wreck the title hopes of the latter two. In the other two games Saturday, Purdue won from Illinois, 37-23; and Chicago defeated Minnesota, 27-23. The loss virtually relegated Minnesota to last place in this year’s race. Big Ten standings: W. L Pct. Wisconsin 1— 0 1 -90 0 Michigan 9 2 .818 Purdue 8 3 .727 Northwestern 7 5 .56, Ohio State 6 5 .565 lowa 5 6 .454 Illinois 5 6 .454 Indiana 3 8 .272 Chicago 2 9 .182 Minnesota 1 1® o—————G. E. Quintet To Play Ossian Here Tuesday The Decatur General Electric basketball team will meet the fast Ossian Mercants in the Decatur high school gym, Tuesday evening. The two teams are evenly matched and an interesting game is expected. A preliminary game will be played, starting at 7:30 o’clock The big game will get under way at 8:30 o’clock.

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Gone are the days when a woman golfer could turn in a card of 100, or even 90, and receive a glance of approval from the gallery. Today, thanks to the pace set by the youngsters, she probablj- won't even quality for a tournament. For club-wielders like Miss Helen Hicks, center, Miss Glenna Collett, left, and Miss Van Wie, right, are satisfied with nothing outside the 70’s. Miss Collett

SECTIONAL TOURNEY WINNERS

AT ANDERSON Andorson. 51. Alexandria 26 (final) AT ANGOLA Angola. 44; Hamilton, 21 (final) AT ATTICA Attica, 31; Kingman. 25 (final) AT BLUFFTON Bluffton, 25: Petroleum, 13 (final) AT CLINTON Cayuga, 32; Montezuma, 10 (final) AT CONNERSVILLE Connersville, 33; Brownsville, 18, (final) AT? CRAWFORDSVILLE Crawfordsville, 30; Waynetown, 15. (final) AT DANVILLE Danville, 22; Amo, 18 (final) AT DECATUR Berne, 44; Geneva, 16, (final) AT DELPHI Delphi, 21; Carrollton, 12 (final) AT ELKHART Goshen, 32; Elkhart, 23 (final) AT/£o r T WAYNE South Sifle, 54; Central) Lafayette), 26 (final). AT FOWLER Freeland Park, 16; Boswell, 15 (final) AT FRANKFORT Frankfort, 54; Michigantown, 6 (final) AT FRANKLIN Franklin, 32; Clark, 10 (final) AT GARRETT Columbia City, 32; (double overtime); Garrett, 28 (final) AT GARY Horace Mann. 20; Froebel, IS, (final). AT GREENFIELD Mt. Comfort, 22; New Palestine, 18. (final). AT GREENCASTLE Roachdale, 18; Bainbridge, 14. (final). AT GREENSBURG Greensburg, 32; Butlerville, 29, (final). AT HUNTINGTON Huntington, 42; Union Center, 13, (final). AT HYMERA Graysville, 46; Hymera, 39 (final. AT INDIANAPOLIS Technical, 23; Broad Ripple, 11. (final). AT JASPER Spurgeon, 20; Holland, 13 (final) AT KENDALLVILLE Wawaka, 25; Albion, 20; (final)

shot a 73, two strokes over men's par, at the Pine Needles course, while Miss Hicks turned in a 75 at Ormond Beach. The effect of these records is to raise the standard for veterans as well, and Mrs. Dorothy Hurd, “dowager of the links,’’ is battling gamely to hold her laurels. (International Newsreel Photo)

AT KOKOMO Kokomo. 34; Jackson, 27 (final) AT LAFAYETTE Jefferson, 23; West Point, 29 (final) AT LAGRANGE Lagrange, 32; Howe, 11 (final) AT LAWRENCEBURG Aurora 21; Rising Sun, 18 (final) AT LEBANON Lebanon, 18; Advance, 14 (final) AT LOGANSPORT Logansport, 22; Galveston. 9 (final) AT LYONS Linton, 37; Switz (ity, 32 (final) AT MARION Fairmount, 17; Marion 15 (final) AT MARTINSVILLE Martinsville, 48; Smithville, 4 (final) AT MICHIGAN CITY I,a Porte, 33; Michigan City 9 (final) AT MISHAWAKA South Bend, 30; Bremen, 15 (final) AT MITCHELL Bedford, 46; French Lick, 8 (final) AT MONTICELLO Monticello, 52; Reynolds, 22. (final) AT MUNCIE Muncie 66; DeSotal 18, (final) AT NEW ALBANY Naw Albany, 21; Pekin, 20 (final) AT NEWCASTLE Middletown, 19; Newcastle, 18(final) AT NORTH JUDSON Winamac, 25; North Judson, 16. (final) AT OAKLAND CITY Central (Evansville) 15; Reitz (Evansville) 8. (final). AT OWENSVILLE Mt. Olympus, 19; Owensville, 12, (final) AT PERU Peru, 56; Clay Township, 23 (final) AT PORTLAND Portland, 23; Montpelier, 19 (final) AT RENSSALAER Brook, 24; Goodland, 12 (final) AT RICHMOND Hagerstown, 28; Cambridge City 24, (overtime) (final) AT ROCHESTER Akron, 25; Rochester, 19, (final) AT RUSHVILLE Rush vile, 28; Milory, 20. (final) AT SCOTTSBURG Salem, 13; Scottsburg, 12 (final)

AT SEYMOUR Seymour. 55; Vallonia. 20 (final). AT SHELBYVILLE Columbus, 44; Flat Rock 17 (final) AT SPENCER Clay City, 24; Spencer, 23. (final) AT TELL CITY Tell City, 34; Bristow, 13. (final) AT TERRE HAUTE Wiley, 26; Garfield. 24 (final) AT TIPTON Noblesville, 25; Cicero, 10, (final) AT VALPARAISO Valparaiso, 76; Washington Township. 15 (final) AT VERSAILLES Holton, 26; Milan, 16 (final) AT VINCENNES Vincennes, 25; Bruceville, 11, (final) AT WABASH Wabash, 17; North Manchester 9 (final) AT WARSAW Milford 25; Lesburg, 20. (final) AT WASHINGTON Washington, 38; Elnora, 10. <final) AT WINCHESTER Winchester. 30; Stoney Creek, 26, (final) Shortage Os Beds Acute In Veterans’ Hospitals Washington, D- C. March 4 — An acute shortage of beds in government hospitals continues to exist, according to Waston B. Miller, chairman of the National Rehabilitation Committee of the American Legion. In the District of Columbia there is a waiting list for the diagnostic center at Mt. Alto, the Naval Hospital, and Walter Reed General Hospital. This condition obtains throughout the country, particularly in the large centers of population, according to Miller. — o- - 1 — ■ Couple To Be Married On Stage At Richmond Richmond, Ind, March 4 —(UP) — Miss Marguerrite Linderman und Lawrence Thompson will be married on the stage of a theatre here in an elaborate ceremony. The date as yet has not been set. Merchants will present numerous gifts to the couple, including a for the groom, and a complete bride tVesseau. “Marriage Bells” will be the theatre offering on the wedding date. “Invaluable” Say Society Women MELLO-GLO Face Powaer is preferred by beautiful women because it leaves no trace of flakiness, pastiness or irritation. Stays on longer—no shiny noses! Made by a new French process — prevents large pores. Spreads more smoothly — gives a youthful bloom. Very pure. Use MELLO-GLO Face Powder. It’s wonderful. The Holthouse Drug Co.

Field Goals By Mark M. Upp — " Here’s wishing the Berne Bears and Berne fans all the fun It Is Possible to tb-rive from a sectional championship. Berne is capable of playing some real good basketball. The Bears have a good chance to come through the Fort Wayne regional a winner and we re pulling for them to do it. Basketball tournaments are funny affairs. In the 64 sectional tourneys played last week-end, in only about 40 of them did the favorite win. In other words, the teams in some two dozen sectionals that had the best season's record were upset in the tournament by teams with inferior records or teams that they had defeated during the season. There are many possible reasons for this, such as luck, over-confident■>», sickness, under«-rat-ing of opposing teams, poor officiating, etc. The most outstanding favorite to meet with defeat in the sectional tuorneys probably was Newcastle. The Trojans had defeated Frankfort, Logansport, Columbus and several other strong teams in the state during the season. Along comes Middletown, a team that had /list played a schedule and that's all. and beats Newcastle in the Newcastle sectional, 19-1)1. Explain that one. Among the other favorites to fall by the wayside were North Manchester, beaten 17-9 by Wabash, a team that North Manchester had defeated easily twice during the season; Clinton, Greencastle, Greenfield, Kendallville, Jefferson of Lafayette, Marion. Richmond, and Warsaw. Central of Fort Wayne lost to South Side, 42-23, after having defeated South Side twice during the season. The Decatur Yellow Jackets were defeated by the Berne Bears, Saturday, but the Yellow Jackets weren’t defeated nearly as badly as the Decautr high school rooting section was defeated by the Berne rooters. After Berne took the lead, the Decatur high school pupils quit renting and their faces stretched out until they looked like they were made of elastic. Once In the second half, when Decatur started a rally and Berne called time out, not a sound came from the Decatur high school pupils. Decatur fans along the side of the floor began yelling at the high school pupils to root, but still no response. Finally a small boy was sent to tell them to root Just before play was resumed, a half-heart-ed yejl was attempted. In the meantime. the Berne rooting section kept up a mighty cheer throughout the two minutes of time out. if the five Yellow Jackets cn the floor looked into the faces of those Decatur high school pupils during that time out, it certainly is no wonder they failed to win that I game. Instead of encouragement and 1 enthusiasm which should have been passed on to the players, those pupils registered defeat. If Decatur high school pupils want a winning basketball team they had better start cultivating a winning spirit and learn that yelling does more go, d when the team is behind than when it is ahead. All of this criticism is meant for the good of Decatur high school. The sectional tournament held here last week-end was the largest attend-

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led of any held here Tor several years. I The gymnasium was filled at all of the Saturday sessions and was about four-fifths full at the opening session, Friday night. There were some good ball games and plenty of Interest. One of the regrettable parts about the tournament was the poor officiating In all of the games. To the credit of the two officials, It must be said they were honest, but their Judgment of plays was deplorable. If it is Impossible to obtalne enough good officials for the 64 sectional tournaments, it would be far better to have fewer tournaments and have them handled prperly. Once more, a pupil has been victorious over his teacher. H S. Johnson coach of the Berne team, played center on the Monrovia high school team a few years ago when Herb Curtis, Decatur coach, was coaching at Monrovia. Wliile Berne's record for the season was not impressive, and it must be admitted, was inferior to that of Decatur, we believe the strength of the Jlears was underestimated. The team Is made up of big rangy boys who are good shots. Their biggest weakness all season was their inconsistency. The Decatur players. Coach Curtis and all of the Decatur fans are keenly disappointed over the defeat of the Yellow Jackets in the tournament. Our advice to all of them is—give Berne a good hand start plans for next year right now and remember, basketbal is highly uncertatin and no game is ever won until after it has been played Coach George Laurent will take his Catholic high school Commodores to Indianapolis Thursday to compete in the state Catholic tourney. The Commodores have a tough schedule ahead of them. They realize that, and will enter the tournament with a determination to fight it out. Their chances of winning are as good as those of any of the teams entered. Tere's wishing them Godspeed. Several times in the past. Berne fans have been accused of being poor sports. To the best of our judgment, they disported themselves in a creditable manner at the tournament here Saturday. Os course, there are exceptions to the rule In all cases, but as a ' whole, Berne fans are good winners. Much credit for this sportsmanlike ■ display is due Coach Johnson, we are told. The coach has attempted during i the year to teach the players and fans good sportsmanship. Fact of the mat- . ter Is, we thought all the players und fans from each of the schools represented in the tournament behaved in a sportsmanlike manner.

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