Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1929 — Page 6

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Commodores Play New Haven Tonight In Net Til

FULL-STRENGTH LINEUP MAY BE USED IN START Mylott and Gass Report in Fair Condition For Hard Net Scrap Decatur Catholic high school Commodores, probably with lheir full strength lineup, will tackle a tough foe on the Catholic high school hardwood at 8 o’clock tonight, when the New Haven Bull Dogs will journey to this citv for a net argument. Coach George Laurent stated today that while two of his players were not in the best of, condition it Is likely both will see action in the game tonight. Petie Mylott. who has been out of the last two games with an injured knee, probably will start at back ! guard, and play at least part of i the game. Bill Gass, high point artist for I the Commodores the last two seasons will he back in the game after a two weeks vacation with a torn > ligament in his ankle. The add:-! tiou of Mylott and Gass will give the Commodores much morel strength than exhibited against St. | Marys of Anderson last week. It is likely that the Commodore' starting lineup will be Gage and. Lose, forwards; Wemhoff at center and Gass and Mylott guards; Bob Holthouse, Kleinhenz and Vian, three husky utility men and George Harris, back guard, will in all probability see action before the game is over. The Commodores have experienced a rough sea the last week, because of injuries, but they are far from disheartened, according, to Coach Lauren, and faculty man-| ager Rev. Joseph Hession. and they intend to give the Allen | county netters a battle-royal. Reserved seat sale for tonight's 1 game has been the largest of any game this season, according to Joe Lose, who has had charge of re- 1 served seat ticket sales this week.

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Tickets may be obtained until 7:4.1 | o'clock tonight at Eats restaurant or at the door. The preliminary tilt will be belt ween the second teams of the two [schools and will start at 7 o'clock. New Haven netters need no introduction in Adams county. The I Whitemen defeated Heine at New Haven several weeks ago and then .dropped a tough game to the Yel- . low Jackets here three weeks ago i by a 1-point margin. : The two Tustison brothers, Moser and Pancake are the big threats on the visitors' lineup, and they I have caused many a coach plenty |of worry the last two seasons. New Haven's latest achievement was last Saturday night, when the Bull 1 Dogs dt seated South Side of Fort Wayne on the Fort Wayne net couit after a thrilling battle. Two of the best haskefball officials of the middlewest. Bruff Cieary and Gunnar Elliott will work tonight's game. The new seating arrangement, with b'eachers around the floor, makes It possible for 1,000 fans to be accommodated in good seats. lowa Favorable To “Big Six” Membership Lawrence, Kan, Dec. 11—(UP) — ' Dr. F. C. Allen, director of Athletics at Kansas University, said that any proposal to include lowa University ! ousted from the Big Ten. in the Big Six Conference, would be re--Ireived favorably. It had been Indicated lowa might | eek membership in some other cirI logical choice because it already 1 cuit and the Big Six would be a has two other low i elevens —Drake and Ames. It was known Big Six officials were favorable toward a seven-team membership. Rumors at a conference of the schools' officials at Kansas city last week were that it was ■uggested three Big Ten schools, Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa, join with three Big Six schools, Kansas. Missouri and Nebraska in I a new conference. In that event. Dr. Allen indicated othy, a seven-team circuit would ibe considered with Oklahoma or i Kansas Aggies favored to belong. Ha: ry Essex left this morning for Fiankfort and Crawfordsville 1 where he w 11 look after business sot Grtthuiii and Walters.

- SLEIGHT WILL : PLAY IN WEST ’’ Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 11 —(UP)— ' Elmer "Red" Sleight, the only (J member of the Purdue Rig Ten champion team to make Grandland ' Rice's Al) American football squad has definitely accepted Coach II in1 ley's invitation to play left guard ’ on (he team which will represent ’’ the east in the annual east-west 1 game on New Year’s Day. ' Sleight will leave Saturday for ' Chicago, where he will join the re-1 1 mainder of the squad and Its coach. t Coach Phelan, mentor of the championship Boilermakers, will (Iso leave soon for the south, tak- ’ Ing with him Ralph "Pest" Welch i and Fthert Ciraway, for the game* against a team composed of southern stars. Phelan will coach the northern aggregation, which is to , consist of seniors from the various Big Ten teams. The game will take] place at Dallas, Tex., on New Year's Day. It is not thought that Caraway will play against the southerners. Phelan also invited Woerner, end to paiticipate in the Dallas contest I but the diminutive player is in al hospital as a result of a boiler ex-1 plosion and is not expected to be able to take advantage of the invitation. ■ D/WKBSWI Tonight is Commodore n'ght in Decatur and the New Haven Bull Dogs are coming to show Decatur fans what they've got. 000 Petie Mylott and Bill Gass will be back in the local lineup. at least part of the time—and a great battle is expected. —oOo— The Commodoies will have

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plenty of reserve strength tonight and it looks as if the reserve strength will be a big fact<TF—New I Haven has six good players—but ! when that's said, it’s all said, and If anything happens that substitutes are tiecessary on el.her team Decatur will have the edge. —oOo — Tonight’s one of the high spots in Decatur basketball this season, and there shouldn't be an empty seat at Decatur Catholic gymnasium. —oOo — The preliminary between Decatur and New Haven second [.earns should be a dandy—it starts at 7 o’clock, arid indications are a big crowd will be on hand to see the opener. - oOo — Basketbawls believes the Commodores can win by eight or ten points, if Mylott and Gass are in the lineup. - oOo — The Commodore fans have been wild the last two days since the announcement was made that Mylott and Gass would be in the lineup tonight——oOo — COMMODORES, BEAT NEW HAVEN. That's some job boys, but the fans are expecting Wemhoff, Gage and Lose to fit into the Gass-Mylott combine and present the fans with a merry pre-Christ-mas. —oOo— Decatur General Electric club netters chalked up another victory last night before a large crowd—the final count was 43-33 and several new members of the squad got a try-out. —oOo - Manager Carl Smith used 10 players in the combat, and all 10 men worked well into the G. E. machine. —oOo — Herb Curtis is working his Yellow Jackets a li tie overtime this week in preparation for two tough games this weekend. On Friday the 13th, the Curtismen will tangle with the Adams county champs—Berne (dor’t pronounce the "E”) and on Saturday night the Jacke s journey to Fort Wayne for a clash with South Side. —oOo Uerne net tans are all worked p over the approaching tilt. They eem to think that because an acci lent happened last spring at the sectional tourney that the Bears an repeat next Friday n ght Pe: ; nally, Basketbawls believes th< 'ame will end in a land-slide for he Curtismen —We’d suggest that Coach Johnson play teams like Bluffton, if he wants to win, consistently. —oOo— However the Berne Station team has a fairly good homegame record for the season. Berne lost two games, one to New Haven and one to Montpelier—but the Bears haven’t lost a game at home yet. Decatur has defeated Monroeville New Haven. Auburn and the Wes! Suburb netteis and the Curtismen have los. one game, with Winamac. - oOo — The records are not comparable because the Jackets have played a meh harder sthedule —If you ask s, we'd say Decatur will win by bout 14 points. —oOo— S mon and Ed, sport column artists on the Berne Siation newspap'rs seem to think the Yedow Jackets won't do much against the Bears, and as they put t "Berne Bears Watching." —oOo — And don’t forget to BE A GOOD ELLOW THURSDAY NIGHT—--I'he G. E. club will play a benefit basketball game with the Winter Street team of Fort Wayne for the Good Fellow club. —oOo— Tickets for the GOOD FELLOW GAME are selling for 25 cents. It s the best investment you can make for you get to see a real basketball game and at the same time every cent goes to a worthy cause—your ticket may make some little fellow lots happier DDec. 25. —oOo— BE A GOOD FELLOW. —oOo— COMMODORES, BEAT NEW HAVEN. o Vincennes College Beats Oakland City Oakland City, Ind , Dec. 11—(U.P.) —Vincennes university rung up a 23-14 victory over Oakland City college in an unimpressive demonstration of basketball here last night. Vincennes pulled away from a 5-5 tie at the half, shortly after the second period started, and kept a safe margin thereafter.

bmTBAII Cbacb Dean Indiana University ra ♦„I fl 0 a 1 1 ° ( xtl i V y ■ X 0 xza DfiM ( \ { O'* I ■ I . ARTICLE XIV PERCENTAGE BASKETBALL Percentage basketball gets its ame because this style of play is lesigned for short shots and snort he is result in a high percentage of | aaske’s. This style of play was origin ted by H. R. Hager of Oregon I nd his teams have been very sucessful using it. The purpose of this offense is to pread the defense and open wide he vital offensive section, h iving he guards and one forward con'ro he ball near mid-floor with the ther two men s.Jtioned in the copiers. Notice in the char*, how the iei'eri e is spread out. The two men stationed in the copiers should be the big follow-up nen and their job is to stay in the o. tiers as long as their guards are vith them; but when the guards shift they break for the basket The back guard controls the ball nost and betauso of this he should >e a cool he.dy general. The mar nested along sides of the floor it position of (F) and (C) should b< the grea est and cleverest men -or he team. Their duty is to get loost nto the open section around the oul ring. If they are successful the iffense -will have three men on twe lefen ive men clever pass ng will get a short shot. Study the charts and notice the ttack. This is one form of delayed iffense and when ahead works wel (gainst mass defenses in that they ire forced to go to a man to mar defense to try to stop It. TOMORROW— THE LONG SHOT FOLLOW-UP GAME ~ o DePauw Leads Hiffh School Net Squads DePauw took the lead in the D. H. S. basketball league by virtue of a win over Wabash. DePauw won 14-9. In the second game Franklin won over Earlham 15-5. In the final game a rejuvenated Butler team won over Hanover 2012. Four teams are tied for second place and Earlham has the celler berth unchallenged. The next games will be played Monday, Dec. 16. League standings: Team GP W L Pct DePauw 2 2 0 1.000 Wabash 2 11 .500 Franklin 2 11 .500 Butler 2 11 .500 Hanover 2 11 .504 Earlham 2 0 2 .000 — o Rose Poly Loses Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 11. —((J.R) —lndiana Central college maintained a comfortable margin of points lead over Rose Poly to win their basketball game last night, 44-30. The Central boys were never seriously threatened, although the game was played at a fast pace throughout, and both teams showed good early season form.

G. E. CLUB WINS FROM OSSIAN Decatijr G. E. club basketball team smashed another strong opponent when the local netters won a 43-33 victory from the Ossian Merchants at Decatur high school gymnasium last night before a large crowd. The local aggrega-! tlon was never in danger of defeat ; and during the second half, Man-1 ager Carl Smith substituted freely. Two utility men on the squad showed a lot of ability. Stoneburner and Dlnninger went into the scrap the second half and played their opponents completely off

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• lheir feet. Hill and Mylott were chief Hcoruh for the winnerti each marking lip a total of 11 polntH. The score it half time wai 22-17 in favor of h* Electricians. Gunnar E Hott officiated In an efficient manner. Lineup and summary: Decatur G.E (43) F.G. FT. TP. Hi’l, f 5 1 H Stonebnrner, f . 3 17 Bel.’, f 2 0 4 | Dlnniger, c 0 0 0 I Strickler, c 2 2 6 I Mylott. g .... 2 7 11 ! Kleinknight, g 0 11 M Iler, g ft ft ft Krick, g .... 0 11 Kohne, g ft 0 ft Trial 14 13 43 Ossian (33)

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