Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1929 — Page 6

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ALL-AMERICAN GRIDDERSTOBE NAMED TUESDAY United Press Sports Editor To Name Mythical Elevens Os Nation New York, Dec. 2. - (U.R)—The close of another football season finds the fans of the nation awaiting announcement of the accepted recognition of individual performance, the annual all-America team. With nearly 200 college, university and service elevens playing through representative an d intersectional schedules, the choice ths year has been quite as difficult us any in the past. * The United Press all-America team for 1529, which will be announced tomorrow, has been selected with the assistance of coaches, officials and football experts in every part of the country. It is truly representative of individual worth throughout the land. Football as played today has been perfected—some of our our educators say over-emphas zed — to a point where the truly outstanding stars of any given season are not to be found in the line-ups of the better known teams exclusively. The gridiron game has broadened out, and expert coaching has been made available for smaller schools so that if it were not tor exhaustive research such as the United Press undertook this year in assembling its all-America team, many a football star, like Thomas Gray's Hose, might blush unseen and waste his ability on the desert air. In orde rto be chosen for this year's all-America eleven, a player had to perform not only well but consistently. He had to stand up through a gruelling season, and he a real tower of strength to his team, great or small, not merely brilliant in a game or two. For this reason, the names of a number of players who were outstanding, incomparable in fact, in certain games; have been omitted from the United Press all-America team. Albie Booth. Yale’s extraordinary sophomore back, for instance, showad more football than any other player seen in the east, if not the enfjre country, in inspiring and leading his team to victories over Army and| Dartmouth, but Booth was hurt and, out of the Princeton game, a cripple: and hampered to the point of virtual incompetency in the Harvard game. He deserves recognition as one of the most remarkable football players of modern times, but because he did not play throughout his team's schedule, he does not come up to the requirements of the 1929 all-America eleven. Another such player was Al Marsters of Dartmouth, who was the meteoric back of eastern gridirons during the early part of the season, only to suffer an injury which ended his career before his team was finished] with a sufficient schedule. Booth and I Marsters were two of the year’s greatest, yet neither met the all-America 1 specifications. Some of the stars who have been selected for honorable mention were/ stopped by their opponents in the] final games of the year, but this seemed inevitable with football at its present pitch. No player, however great, could be expected to keep up the pace! required by the modern game if his team's schedule was hard enough to furnish the requisit test. Those who did surpassed themselves and all their rivals for individ-ii ual honors, and will be named on the! United Press all-America team to-: * morrow. o Three New Champs Crowned In 1929 New York, Dec. 2. —(U.R) —New football champions were crowned this season in three sections of the country —western conference, southern conference and southwest conference., In most of the other big conferences the champions retained their laurels of 1928. The following list compares the champions of the last two seasons: 1928 Western conference Illinois Southern conference .... Georgia Tech Southwest conference U. of Texas Big Six conference Nebraska Missouri Valley conference .... Drake Rocky Mountain cons U. of Utah Little Three Williams Far Western cons St. Mary's Pacifiic Coast cons So. California 1929 Western conference Purdue Southern conference Tulane Southwest conference . .. Texas Chris. Big Six conference Nebraska, Missouri Valley cons Drake Rocky Mountain cons U. of Utah Little Three Williams Far Western cons St. Mary's Pacific Coast conf(x) 4 teams tied (x) California, Southern California, Stanford and V. of Oregon have lost one conference game each.

BAWBAII Coach CverettS Dean Indiana University I p J ' I I < St ■I; ?/ ■ - iO/t ARTICLE VI KINDS OF PASSES The illustrations demonstrate from in the start and finish of the bounce | pass. Notice in the first picture the alert, versatile position from which tn.- ] player can shoot, bounce pass, pusu pass or pivot without “telegraphing’ i to the defense what he intends to do.] The bounce pass is used mostly to] get the pass through the front line de ! sense and to a teammate behind a de ! tensive man any place on the court. I To execute this play correctly, the pas-’ ser must use a good eve-feint, in order] to prevent the guard from anticipating the play. There should be a complete : follow through of the arms and bocty as shown in the second picture. The bounce pass can be used effectively in any style of offensive play. The undet hand pass is most suitable to the short pass, cri/s-cross style of offensive which calls for a croucheo position of the body. This pass is good because it is short and accurate, sate from interception, and insures possession of the ball a longer period of I time The pass is aimed waist high and should carry on a level not more than 20 feet in length. Hook passes have a place in anv team's offense because they are most effective in the corners. This is a hard pass to master but it is worth the efi fort. The push pass is one of the most versatile because it is quick and hard to guard.. The first picture demonstrates good form for this pass as well as the bounce pass. This pass is the team pass of many teams. There are several other types of passes sed in special plays. The coach should spend much time on those passes if the plays are to work smoothly. TOMORROW—-Basket Shooting o Local Net Team To Attend Game In Body The Decatur General Electric club basketball squad will be gues < of the Fort Wayne Hoosiers at a professional basketball gone at Fort Wayne tonight when the Hoosiers play Bro< klyn. The local men who will a.lDud the game are asked to meet at tnc West End Restaurant at 7 o’clock‘tonight. ——— o Indianapolis. — Gasoline tax money collected by counties can be spent only by specific appropraition and budgeting of the county, Attorney General Jams M. Ogden ruled late Saturday in answer to a query by Philip Zoercher, member of the state board of tax commissioners. It was understood that several counties have been spending the tax funds in road construction and improvement without following the prescribed regulations.

Meet Grid’s Trade and Mark ' I -tr. '4KUWIIt ?* Hl Lit r 11Q J . { jlwbw n BUM ® • st IBM —* •Sb 9k * ~MB • if:- W' *jEn*" • mom— <r Footballs, not cough drops, are the stock in trade of this husky pair of Smith Brothers. Austin (left! and Vernon Smith are first string tackles on the North Dakota football team which plays Coach Dan Lamont’s strong Loyola eleven today at Loyola Stadium, Chicago. This is the boys' third year of varsity competition and last August they decided to grow beards so as to Ihe'p finance their way through school. They have.done so by posing for testimonials for drug stores and other dispensers of hair tonics. They live on | a ranch at Hebron. North Dakota. __________

EAGLES DEFEAT ' I PLEASANT MILLS Coach Harve Haggard's Monmouth Eagles ran wild Saturday night and turned back the Pleasant Mills high school basketball team 49-9 in Deca-; tur high school gymnasium. The St. Marys township team lacked experience and the Haggardmen excelled in even- department of the game. At half time the Eagles led 24-0 and never were in danger. Steve Everhart, assistant Yellow Jacket coach officiated. H. Lytle, Monmouth center was high point man with a' total of 14. Lineup and summary: Monmouth (49) F.G. F.T. T.P. Panish. f 5 2 12 ! Brokaw, f 5 0 10 H. Lytle, c 7 0 14 Fleming, g 2 0 4 I Bittner, g 4 1 9 I Totals 23 3 49 ; Pleasant Mills (9) i Smith, f 11 3 | Merryman, f 113 Noach, c 0 0 0 jEhrsam, g 0 11 Ray, g 0 0 0 (Patterson, g .... 10 2 Totals .... 3 3 9 Referee, Everhart. Q nk-SWtn With cold weather, snow, December and everything, the basketball season is really on us. Adams county team* have a busy week ahead of them —and fans are piom'sed a lot of thrills. —oOo— To start off the week Central Eighth grade plays St. Joseph Eighth grade in the first of a series of games for the George Wemhoff trophy. The game will be played Wednesday after school at Decatur Catholic high school gymnasium. —oOo — In independent circles the big game of the week is Tuesday night when Decatur General Electric club netters meet Berne A. C.'s. e The game promises to be one of interest. Decatur has not lost a game on the home floor this season —Berne has bolstered its lineup and will make an effort to avenge a defeat of a few weeks ago at the hands of the G. E. Club. —oOo — Friday night Berne Bears entertain Union City at Berne. Union City has a veteran team and a great battle s expected. —oOo — Coach George Laurent's Commodores without Petie Mylott and in all probability without Bill Gass will tackle the crack St. Mary’s netters of Anderson at the Decatur Catholic high school gymnasium Wednesday night.

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The Anderson team always plays its 1 best against Decatur and fans are |' ,promised a rare basketball treat. —oOo — Coach Herb Curtis will take the Yellow Jackets on a two-day trip this week-end. Friday night the Curtismen will play at Winamac and on Saturday night they will return to the West suburb where the annual Decatur-Bluffton net classic will be staged. —oOo — If you don't arrange to go to Bluffton Saturday night, you're going to miss one of the greatest basketball ; thrills of the season. The Tigers and! Yellow Jackets always have severe net arguments—and Decatur with a string of all-victories will make a real' effort to continue its winning streak,| w hile the Parlor City aggregation will | be trying hard to boost its percentage from 500 to 750. —oOo— The Monroe Bearkatz, one of three Adams county teams yet to taste defeat meet Monroeville at Kirkland next Friday night. Monroe should win from Monroeville if the Bryanmen play the sort of ball they have been playing. —oOo — Geneva Cardinals and Monmouth Eagles meet at Decatur high school gymnasium Friday night. Both teams have played some good and some bad basketball and from all indications I the game should be a peach. —oOo — Coach Olen Marsh's Jeffersonians meet Bryant at Berne next Saturday night. The Adams county quintet should mark up a win. —oOo — Kirkland township's netters meet. the Alumni of that school next Sat-1 | nrday night. Bill Bryan's team has I been having its ups and downs but | the Kangaroos are one of the best | quintets in the county when in their, best form. The 1929-30 edition should j beat the Alumni. Send in your contributions folks——oOo — ' And now that two Indiana football teams have become nationally famous —the football season is over —and basketball will rule unmolested until track and baseball sneak in next spring. —oOo— And Basketbawls believes Adsms county teams are best in this part of the state. o — Seven Dead In Mine , Disaster In Illinois B West Frankfort. 111., Dec. 2. —<U.R) — Black crepe hung from the doors, of s seven miners' homes today as state mine inspectors plodded in ‘the deep snow about the tipple of mine No. 8 I of the Old Ben Coal Company in J whose deipths a gas explosion yesterday claimed the lives of the seven and trapped 15 others. II A blizzard raged above ground 8 when the explosion occurred on the e 300 foot level beneath, a mile and a quarter from the shaft. A screen of shale dust was automatically dropped by a safety device, shutting off the poisonous fumes from other sections of the mine. In those protected areas rescue workers found the 16 survivors and brought them to the surface. — Get the Habit—l rade at Home, It Pays

THREE TEAMS ARE HONORED New York. Dec. 2. (U.R) -The nation's three outstanding football teams] for 1929 are Notre Dame. Pittsburgh and Purdue. Notre Dame has slightly the bettc” claim to the mythical national champ ionship by winning nine consecutive j games against major opponents, all of them away from home. There were several soft spots in the schedules of Pittsburgh and Purdue. especially the latter whose ached-< tile was perhaps one of the easiest In the Big Ten. The United Press ranks the loading elevens of the country as follows: 1. Notre Dame. Pittsburgh, Purdue.. 2. Tulane, St. Mary's (California). Tennessee. Fordham. Texas Christian. Western Maryland. 3. Southern California, Southern Methodist. Stanford, Colgate, California. Illnois. Davis & Elkins, Nebraska. Kentucky. U. of Utah. 4. Minnesota. lowa. Northwestern. Army. Yale, North Carolina, Dartmouth, Navy, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Michigan. In the south Tulane is unbeaten and untied but the Green wave hasn’t a single outstanding victory to its credit. Tulane’s major victories were] over Texas Aggies, Georgie, and | Georgia Tech, each beaten several I times. Although tied by Kentucky, Ten-' nessee’s record is virtually on a par with Tulane’s record. Tennessee has I beaten Alabama and Vanderbilt, two: strong southern teams. On the far coast Mt. Sary’s is the ] outstanding eleven with only a scoreless tie against California early in I i HOW’S Y OUR RADIO? Expert Service on any radio or equipment. Ail work guaranteed. Bring in your tubes. We test them free. Phone 244 Decatur Electric Shop

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