Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1929 — Page 6

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Cathedral Eliminates Commodores From StateTournameni

DECATUR RALLIES IN SECOND HALF BUTIDSES,2S-19 Ofliciating Is Close And Entirely hitterent From Indiana Style Decatur Catholic high school Commodores were eliminated from the stale Catholic high school basketball tourney by a fast, clever team representing Cathedral high school of Indianapolis. in the second game of iho tournament played at the Cathedral gymnasium in Indianapolis last night The final score was 25-19. The game was closely officiated and every attempted rally by the Commodores was cut short by constant interference by the officials. Morley and Griffin, both of Chicago, worked the game and t hey have an idea of high school basketball that in no way coincides with the playing of the game on Hoosier courts. Officiating Too Technical The officiating was. in all probabilities, fair, but many technical points were emphasized at critical times in the game and the local netters were at a loss as to how to play the style ot game demanded by the officials. More than 2,00(1 fans witnessed the opening session of the annual tourney and when the Commodores and Cathedral came out on the floor, a huge yell arose which did not die down until after the entire game had passed into basketball history. For the first five minutes, the teams battled on even terms. The score was 3-3 and the 50 or 75 Decatur fans, who had accompanied the team, felt " sure victory was in the air. The officials began calling various technicalities and in the next few minutes three of the Commodores had two personal fouls each marked against them Madden Stars For Winners The fear of being ejected from th" game, linked with the speedy work of Madden, a newcomer to the Cathedral lineup, spelled massacre for the Decatur aggregation and the next 10 minutes was pitiful for the Commodore fans. The half ended 17-5 in favor of Cathedral. Coach Laurent evidently gave his team a good lecture during the rest period for the Commodores ,efun)ed, to the floor with a determination to win. The officials changed their tactics and let both teams play real basketball. With 3 minutes to go. Decatur had pulled up to within 3 points of the capital city boys, tin- score being 21-18. Cathedral took time out and the Decatur fans took a new lease on life. Decatur took the tip-off on the next play and for some reason or other Hi" referee awarded the ball, to Cathedral out-of-bounds. A moment later, a Decatur player was charged with a foul and the officials again ran rampant with their whistling. Decatur continued its effort to win, but Cathedral with the aid of 4 free throws, had 100 much of a lead and game ended 25-19. Lineups and sum mary: Decatur FG FT T Gass, f. . 1 3 5 Mylott, f 11 " Coffee, f. 2 0 1 Wemhoff, c. 2 0 4 Kohne, g. 0 3 3 Miller, g. 0 0 0 Totals 6 7 19 Indianapolis FG FT T Dugan, f. 3 3 9 Gallagher, f. 0 0 0 Carr. f. 12 4 Pfeiffer, c. 0 0 O Madden, g. 5 2 12 Radkovic, g. 0 0 o Rubric, g. 0 0 t> McCreary, g. 0 0 0 Totals 9 7 25 In the opening game of the tourney, St. Marys high school of Anderson wiped out. a 15-point lead held by St. Andrews of Richmond and won the game 26-34. Anderson and Richmond both made the same number of field goals, but St. Marys made 16 free throws as against 6 made by the Richmond netters. o Delphi Takes Game Os Basketball Seriously De phi, Ind.. March 8-Illustrating the importance attached to the basketball sport in Indiana, It became known heer today that this little city of 2,(100 basketball fans has given Paul Lostutter, coach of title Delphi high school basketbal team which has won twenty-three straight victories, $1,00(1 in his annual salary, to retain his services. Under a two year contract which Lostutter and his wife, who teaches English in the thigh school, signed with the Delphi school board the Lostutters together will receive annually $5,000 In salaries. ■ o — Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heller, who have been sojourning for the past few weeks in Miami, Florida, are exjrected to at rive home tomorrow.

! AMERICAN BASKET LEAGUE STANDING W L Pct. Fort Wayne 8 3 .727 It ,chest<>i 5 2 .714 Brooklyn 7 3 .700 I Cleveland 4 3 .571 Ttonton 3 5 375 New York 2 4 .333 I Chicago 3 8 .272 . . Paterson 2 C .25U Last Night's Results Brooklyn, 31; Rochester 17. Tonight’s Schedule Rochester at Trenton i. .. o — Field Goals 1! By Mark M. Upp Why arc basketball iournaments, anyhow? The excellent records of both I Decatur high school teams have been ' matted by distaster in the opening t rounds of their respective tourna- ■ meats. t Only one loam in a tournament can emerge without a lump in their collee • tive throats Novel theless, every team i appears anxious to enter t ie taurna--11 meat and the fans rush to see the . games, so there must be a rightful . place for tournaments in our basketball life. , Several Decatur fans have tickets for the finals of the state tourney at Indianapolis next week. Several olh ers are endeavoring to procure the coveted ducats. There is very little likelihood of anyone getting a ticket liklihood of anyone getting a ticket ‘ day. The state tourney games will be broadcast by WFBM, of Indianapolis, again this spring. For some reason this baskletball column writing business-is getting to be more work and less play each day now. Another sure sign of spring Speaking of spring, tihe call for candidates for the track team will bo issued by Coach Curtis at Decatur high school within a few days. The school officials are undecided yet whether or not to continue baseball as an interscholastic sport at the local school. There are several boys who are interested in baseball, but the bad weather and shortness of the seastn are big drawbacks. We were unable to attend tin- state Catholic tourney at Indianapolis last night, so we'll now turn the column over to our right hand man who was fortunate enough to be there. The Contmodoies need offer no apology for their game last night. They played good basketball, and we still maintain they have the best Catlio lie team in the state. Petie Mylott placed a lot of good basketball in the second half of the Cathedral-Decafur game and had most of the 2.500 fans talking about him His team-mates also did some good w rk. We maintain that it isn't fair to any school to play all season with Indiana officials and then have to go through a state tournament with Illinois officials, who don't seem to know much about the Hoosier style of basketball. The efficiating was the most techincal ever witnessed by Decatur fans. It looked as if both Decatur and Richmond and plenty of protest coming. The Commodores made two field goals that didn't count for some reason or other, and Richmond made a total ::f 5 points that officials failed to count. The Cathedral fans are a bunch of loyal rooters, and they stayed with their team until the end of the game, always cheering and urging their team to make more points”. While we firmly believe that the state Cai olic tourney is fair and a fine thing for the state and competing schools, we can't help but wonder about some things. In the first game, Richmond was 15 points ahead of Anderson and at the opening of the second half, three Richmond players were sent to the showers on four personals each. In the Decatur-Cathedral game, rigiat at the start, Pete and Bill were tied down with two or three personals. Every time they made any effort to guard their man, a foul would be called. The b.,ys played good basketball, but the official just wound n’t let them win. More than 50 Decatur fans attended the opening games of the tourney. Os course, they felt bad when Decatur was eliminated, but we feel sure they wil Ibear us out when we say that Decatur his the best Catholic team in the state, and could easily defeat Cathi edrai on a neutral floor. i 1 Cathedral pulled a fast one A young i man by the name of “Red” Madden • played the best game for Cathedral. He did not play during the season, and we can't help but wonder where t he came from, when he arrived and why Cathedral didn't use him during - any of the season just closed. At any rate, he was the outstanding player of

DECAI UR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929.

Commodores End Successful Season ■P JL a ? "W OT ‘ I-Mfci .../'‘ll j rvt 11 | f i Kfj ■9| ■ J i’ -X II I. BmS ■l4 f wl wM 1 w r B.* I 1 ■E k ■■ I i z > ■ & Iff IA ■■ B a- £ in AP,hough defeated by Cathedral, of Indianapolis, in their first game in the state Catholic tournament at Indianaptriis las; night, the Decatur Catlioiic high school Commodores have just completed a successful season, winning I 14 out of the 19 games of the season's schedule. One of the victories scored by the Commodores during the season was a 43-12 victory over Cathedral, ,he 4 team that defeated them in the tourney last night, 25-19. Kohne, lUniiscblai-' and Miller will be lost through gradii ation this spring. Those in the picture are: front row, left to right—Coflee. Wemhoff, Captain Mylott. Kohne and Gass; back row—Rum <hlag. Vian. Gage. Harris. Miller, Metzger and Coach Laurent.

To Fight Heeney i 7 R • • -I '- y - * » Otto von Porat, who will fight Tom Heeney, recent contender for the heavyweight crown cast aside by Gene Tuuney, Tuesday at Chicago. Von Porat is known as one of the heaviest hitters in the prize fight business. The winner will prcbably oe matched with Sharloey, conqueror of IStribliug.

the first night's session. Standing room was at a premium, I and the tourney surely will make mon- I ey. The officials in charge were far' from courteous to visitors, but we imagine we’re almost as discourteous | to visitors when we're excited. ■I Brunette Scores Easy Victory Over Blondes In A Kissing Contest —— II ■ I '■■■' • i New York, March S —(U.PJ— Elsie Lauretson, Burnette show girl, easily won a blindfold test to determine the most satisfactory response to kissing, a test which some considered “very scientific’’ and others “very enjoyable." The test was conducted primarily to show oft a new hypersensitive stethoscope. Two blondes and two burnettes from the cast of a broadway Show were affixed to the machine and after thei. heart beats were booming rythmlcally, were kissed for ■ ten seconds each in rapid succession | by five blindfolded young mon, all j volunteers. Miss I»auroison's heart jumped 12 beats as soon as a soda clerk kissed I her and by the time a salesman, a dancing instructor, a husky building tirman and a civil engineer had implanted their kisses on her lips, she had attained 66 extra beats, and a cleancut victory over the “research workers.’’ o Fort Wayne schools, visited over night at her parental home in this city.

Consideration Os Blind Pension Bill Prolonged — Indianapolis, Mar. 8. —(U.R) —Senator French Clements, of Evansville, saved the Kind pension bi3l from indefinite postponmeat on second reading n» the senate today with a stirring appeal to prolong its consideration. The bill would add from state and eounGy funds enough to make the income of blind pensioners $1 a day.

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G.E.QUINTET DEFEATED. 33-18 Playing decidedly off form, the De catur Genera] Electric basketball team lost to the G. E. Mazdas, of Fort Wayne, on the latters’ floor last night, 33-18. The game was played as rt preliminary to the contest between lhe Fort Wayne G. E. Club and the Morgantown 1. O. O. F. five, which was won by Fort Wayne, 32-23. For lhe first time this season. Buck Corson, star forward for the Decatur G. E. team and the Kirkland Whippets. failed to score a field goal. He registered only two free throws during the game. Hill, at center, led the t Decatur scorers w’ith 8 points. ’ Dizzy" Steele, former Decatur high school star, played center for the Mazdas. The G. E. quintet will close its season next Tuesday night, when the Caswell-Runyon team, of Huntington, plays a return game here. The G. E. quifitet defeated this team at Huntington a few weeks ago. Lineups and summary: 1 Decatur G. E. FG FT TP Zwick, f . ... otto Corson, f 0 2 2 White, f . 0 0 0 | Klelnknight, e 0 0 0 Hill, c 3 o 8 L. Bryan, g ~.10 2 Strickler, g . 3 0 6 Totals 7 4 18 G. E. Mazdas V’l’gil, f 3 0 G Weaver, f ... j p <> Slack, f . 4 0 8 S eele, c 11? Nobles, g 6 0 12 Crtimec. g x 0 ; Mo-sburg, g 0 0 0 Totals 16 1 83 Referee: McClure. llrs. Frank Rowley and Miss Erma flage visited in Fort \X*ayne. yesterday. — o—- ' h ' " Mother An Indiana niotlier tells this: AVe find nothing to compare with l-’olev s H'oney and tar Compound for coughs and <olds. My little |,„l had trouble with his bronchial tubes from his third year, hilt Sin.-e we sta,t.-.l giving him t-oleys Honey and 'far Compound we have been able to control it. We know i there is nothing to compare with FolI ey’s Honey and 'Par Compound.” The very name tells a story. Good also for croup (spasmodic) and troublesome I night coughs. Ask for it. Sold everywhere.

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