Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1929 — Page 8

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IP O T art SHIRES IS badly whipped

C.E.NETTERS ' ARE READY FOR HARD SCRAMBLE I Markle Independents to Furnish Opposition Toil night at 1). 11. S. Gym The Decatur (I. E. club Betters made final preparations Monday night for their basketball game with the fast Markle Independent net team at Decatur high school gymnasium tonight. The entire , squad reported for final practice in good condition and a real game is predicted. The Markle team, composed of former high school amt college net stars defeated Decatur at Markle a few weeks iigo In a rough scramble. during which several players | on both teams were ejected from the game. Manager Carl Smith of the local . aggregation stated today that he 1 felt sure the 0. E. club team could win tonight's encounter but that ? the game would be close and hard fought. I; was indicated today that Bell and Strickler, two former Decatur I high school stars would start at j. the forward positions and that Hill, former Decatur high school forward would start at center. Three ' men are still mentioned as prob- ’> able starters at guard positions. All three have played great basketball this season. They are Mylott. Kleinknight and Krick. The Markle team will be comt posed of several former Wells and Allen county high school stars and it is understood the visitor's lineup has been bolstered by a couple of “ringers.” z A preliminary game between the . Decatur G. E.. Mo.ors team and Monroe merchants will start at 7 o'clock tonight and the big game is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock. Gunnar Elliott of Fort Wayne will officiate the main go. Montana Net Team Starts Annual Trip Bozeman, M nt.. Dec. 17 —(UP) — Montan i stite's basketball team. I champion of th? Rocky Mountain conference, wi.l leave here tomorrow on is annual Christmas Hol - dry invasion of the east. Games with s ve.ai outstanding teams h re been sch ?duled and others are under negotiatt in. The first clash will be with Butler University at Indianapolis Dec 23 Other games will be played wi'b Marquett \ I ayola, Purdue. Pittsburgh, P nn State and Nebraska, and negotiations are under way for * contests with lowa and Colorado. — o SANTA CLAUS POSTMASTER KEPT BUSY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) represented by James F. Martin, postmaster and clrjef offj' ai of the town. Most of his work at this time of the year, he said, consists of mailing out letters and packages sent to him to be mailed from here under the official postal stamp of Santa Claus. This town with the magic name, sleeps undisturbed in the southern Indiana hills, surrounded by li'lls'des covered with evergreens and spruce. No railroad trains and few automobiles disturb the tranquility of the secluded spot. It is only a few miles from the site of the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln spent his boyhood. The principal buildir/t is the postoff! e and general store. An empty blacksmith shop, a church at the edge of the settlement, and a few store buildings comprise the business section. The town was settle in 1846 and was first called Santa Fe. At a suggestion of one of the residents, the name was changed to Santa Claus when it was learned that one settlement in the state already had selected the name of Santa Fe. l(t „ . o Banker Gets Change Os Venue to Cass Co. Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 17 —(UP)— A change of venue has been granted William H. Arnold, under indictment for alleged criminal acts in the failure of the American Trust company. Instead of being tried in Howard circuit court "he will be tried in Cass circuit court at Logan sport. Attorneys for Arnold said publicity given the case h:d prejudiced the Howard County.public against their client. A plea of abatement for Arnold is on file and must be settled before he can be tried.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES Colgate, 32; Toronto, 22. Pittsburgh, 29; lowa, 21. Buffalo, 41; Ohio University, 23. Coast Guard Aacademy, 20; NotB .11. „ Wash ngton and I."e. 50; Shaw „ ■ .iet A. ('., 16. W. C. M„ 38; Delaware. 22. o fe 1 By Coach. CverettS. Dean - Mana University ■ < \ » (8 1 \\ / I w / / • / ' ©> rr' /> ! / 1 \ ' \ * ' \ ' P»SS \ /N, I \\ rabi" j I <1 ■ J > I EK. / □ \ 0 \ \ / i ©f 4 0 e/ / 1 / dfy. 0 \ / i Pass Z\'\ ( Dr, We I A 1 ? \ \) I Pieyer« | [gtr] J CIG TEN PLAYS NO. THREE Th's p’. y is an example of the blocking system which has b c en > ed extensively in the Big Ten ' "on rer.ee. When the coach • horses to use this style of game he should have the right kind of nen. I arke men. well built and -• ,-y, a e demanded because the body c ntact in this style of play I's so stamina .nd endurance. A -i ronin, Illinois and lowa Uni- -. silks have been the strongest dvociieaof this play. The above chart shows a very strong formation for the block. This ■ mm • farmaticn c n lie used with i without the block. The floor • L nard advances the ball passing to F-2) who fakes a p ss back to the loor guard but terns and nasses o (F-l) Th? forward (F-l) hinds ,he ba I back to (F-2) in a close '•!< in an effort, to block off the (F-2) g nrd. (F-2) passes to (C) •om'ng from the corn ir. The (C) . ’ay re'nrn »he pass in a block or I ntte dill fake the block and dribI bi- in o' pass to the open men eq- (he basket. The bick guard , a l the play and is in a good posif on sos back passes. . Tomortow, B g Ten Plays No. 4. o NAVAL IDEAS ARE EXCHANGED i , I CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) * -nd TjJt'ir be were 'ikely to en- • Minter American dis ent. Today's ' m ■ ting. however, was regarded as s being for the pnrpcse of exchangt ng views, and not to reach i greements so- presentation to the ? Landon conference. Ambassador Morrow, Senators Reed and Robinson, Secretary of Navy Adams of the American deleg«t'on to the London conference will be here tomorrow. At the state department the United Press was informed Reed and Robinson . nrobab'y would not be pre ent . when the Japanese arrive "at 3 a P' mt o ’ JULIUS BARNES. 1 CALLED BEFORE INVESTIGATORS * (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Resolution was held up yesterday s for rewriting is not again in form e to be tak n up sometime during the day.

S Chicago, Dec. 17. (U.R) Ar.hnr Shires g-t up lute today, fixed the plaster on his fare, and forlornly rlpned from his bath robe a sign which read' ‘Arthur, the Great Shires." It was one oi those depressing mornings uft -r tlie night before for the White Sox fliat baseman vljo demonstrated conclusively . lie e last nigh, that what he doesn't know about boxing would (111 a good sized library. George Trafton, chubby professional football ; layer who was bls opponent, , hadn't learned any more about the I gentle ait of trad'ng punches than ; Shires, but for all that, when their five-round bout was over, the referee li'ted Truf.on's hand high in the air. In justice to Arthur, however, it must have put down here that had not the referee raised Trafton'a hail'd, Trafton would not have been able to lift it himself. The five rounds of battling wi.h Arthur, the gnat, left him as winded as would ’>e a portly, elderly woman after being ch ,se<i a mile and a half by in angry bull. Promoter Jim Mullen billed the i iffray as "the fight of the ages." Maybe it was. at that. Certa nly, no such ludicrous exhibition evet has been seen. And there isn't much liklihood tlia; the fight fans of any future age will witness a ■Jmilar tilt. Some 5,003 cash customers pack'd the White City stadium, however. to watch the inelegant Trafton trounce the grandiloquent Shi; s and they all went home sa ivfied w th the result. Most of them paid their good m ney to see the fight, only in the hop that Shires, who succeeded in making himself thorougly unpopu'ar last summer by fighting assort.l basebal iplayeis and hotel bell ovs. would he licked. Its a good thing that Trafton wasn't allowed to wear a corset during the bout, or the blond Arthur would have been mauled ■v-n worse than he was. Trafton. such a stont young man that he has a bay window as round nd soft as that of an alderman, ‘hreatened lo put on a corset be- - ore he entered the ring. Shiies protested that he wasn't going to braise his knuckles on a whalebone sheath If he could help it, and as a consequence Trafton fought cotsetless. Hs bread-baa ket bulged out to an alarming ex tent over his pretty purple pints Sh r s aimed all his blows at that tr Png, bulge. E ery time he sacked Trafton here, the mighty football player leaved a mighty sigh. And it •i sn't long before Trafton was so (ho. onghly winded that he no longer could mar the Great Shires' p aches and cream complexion vitli his elephantine blows. In the first few minutes of th light Arthur went after his gigantic opponent with all he had, appar ■ntly in the belie" that he coni’ neck Trafton out in much the same manner that he ended Aie : s ic career of mysterious Dan Daly last week. Trafton didn’t flinch. He stood ight there in the center of the •Ing and popped the none too agile , Arthur on the nose so vigorously ‘hat Shires fell twice to the (loot i befqre the first round ended. Shiies go. his nose smashed in ■ he second round until it spurted ■ deod like a soft orange spurts juice. And Trafton continued to eceive a barrage of blows upon ■ s vneorseted middle. The third, fourth and fifth rounds 1 found the jousters too tired to hurl 1 each other. Shires spent most o his time spitting out teeth. Traf‘on. his stomach undacating likf he waves on lake Michigan, stood 'ike a dy ng whale, gasping foi breath. The only «man in the ring whe got any exercise during the thre< ronclud'ng lounds was the re'eree who worked himself into a frenzy at empting to get the combatants to combat. Shires untimely end as a padded glove gladiator just about ruined Mullen's hope of staging a bout . between the great Arthur and Hack Wilson, Chicago Cub outfielder i who has earned something of a ’ reputation as an amateur fighter, himself. Mullin admitted today • that even if he could persuade ■ Hack to meet Art, he didn’t bei licve enough fans would appear to make It profitable. o FLIERS CRASH IN FOREST OF BRAZIL COAST (CONTINUEdI’ROM PAGE ONE) ' az*. 1 Larre-Borges and Challe went to Santo Antonio early today and sent telegrams to Uruguayan governr ment offic als. The Uruguayan i flier returned almost immediately > to the scene of the accident while Challe was treated for his injuries.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1929.

DPSKmSWL‘I MgfLflK °h. Don't forget the Decatur G. E. Club • Mark'- basketball game at Decatur high school gymnasium at 8 o’clock tonight. It’s a return game and Markle is one of the two teams which have defeated the local Indts. this season. The Main Auto Supply bat-boy. 'liimuir I.Tiott will officate tonights game. If Gunnar is as ucky getting into heaven as he is etting Decatur net games, he ■isn't much worry but of course v ’ yone hrs his own opinion on h.it question. Ccach Laurent is drilling his Commodores this week on defen e, ’’n preparation for a st ff brttle next Friday night when the St. Rose quintet of Lima comes over here for an evening's entertainment. Over at Decatur high school ’ardwood Coach Curtis is sending •is Yellow Jackets through a lot ' new maneuvers for the North side game at Fort Wayne next Friday night—

Herb's not going to take any chances on any of the three Fort Wayne teams springing a surprise on Decatur thi? year and beating them—He’s preparing separate'y for each of the three schools. For "The Good of the Game” is he title of the following contribofon which Basketbawls got Mon’tty afternoon: “The writers are going to try nd say something to raise the tandard of the teams representng the Fort Wayne Regions’. The tame we witnes ed Saturday evening was one of the best examples e have seen this year. There vere many Decatur net fans there ind many will most wonder th s: hy the Yellow Jackets romped wry with the first half and rolled • i a wide ma r ein. then not to -'•’P up that stride in the second. ‘Some wi’l think they did not v -• ”<>od b-V and others that ■Sorth Side rallied. No, we think s the a aver: The official rV'er we should s n v official, ■ i>r« one was just a bn 1-tosser, * down. t 7 yh school basketball is a m <> r epee ’. skill, cleverness •d 1 ’’ s not of beef and brawn, ■ n ’ tn.qt exact’y what hap- ’ ened in the sessond half. ‘Reef and brawn were allowed o p-evall. We think Elliott is a rst-clas:- official and like his vork We don't blame him any, ■s he didn’t get a very good deal, Mt evening, sent out there to ■>feree the second team game by and we expect pretty ’-e’. ( <n]y to find his partner in he ma n go, who was sunposed o b° a referee, just a ball-tosser. “We think they mu-t have hoivrht the official was the Terre Harte ’Russell'. Had the last half 'een officiated the way the first a’f was. there wou’d have been ' far dHTor'‘nt score, not a five mint win but 20. "And fens, there is one of the isen-. terms representing the ■’n-t V'-y-e regional have never ■one verv far at the state meet, nit th Q y don’t see to realize or ’or't Rno"’ one of the real facts. “A good basketball player ’or n’t foul very much under dr» n trigger’ officiating. ■ Vter it’s all sa d. South Side ’i’n’t ra Iv. the officials allowed Ivm to use their beef, brawn and 'en’v of dirt, against a much mailer and lighter team, and this as not permitted in the first ha'f. "The Yellow Jackets are coach'd to play the game correctly, hanks to their fine leader.” Signed: Coliseum, Cow Barn and Field House. Thanks boys for writing our column today. How did you knov vt were going to be out late Monday night? i The Berne columnists and sport writers were, real nice about the Friday night game — nicer than Basketbawls ever could be under he circumstances. — ( Ed says he hopes we get a new gymnasium with higher ceilings—and we add Ed that we sincerely hone so too—We have to admit that our ceiling is far too low for the type of basketball being played now days—and its a handicap for any viriting team. — Buck in the News-Banner got the o'.lowing in the mail: "Dear Buckshot: Please tell Dick of Decatur that no matter how badly we went off the floor in the Decatur-Bluffton game,

■here will Is' a different story Feb- | ruary 14. Signed the BAT. We wonder if the BAT is the red-headed one we know who w>rks for Couzen Brick. Then Buck takes a mean crack I t our Couch and we can't crack |bt<k because the Tigers haven't a coach this year. That Is no particular coach- just another school teacher with an added duty. -I We notice every once In a while FEBRUARY 14 looms up in the News Banner anj we’ve finally figured out why that date is so often mentioned —It’e the Decatur-Buffton game here. The General Electric band will present another of its winter programs at the basketball game tonight. Come early and hear the best band Decatur has ever had. 0 HOOVER SIGNS TAX CUT BILL _• (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) gif." to stimulate business ccnsid >rahly. The $16().00(),000 tax reduction differs from all previous revenue eductions in the nation's history, n that it shaves taxes only on in•omes of 1929. Unit is congress lets again next year the rate now ' tn effect will automatically be restored. Individuals with net incomes of $4,000 or less a year, after deducf'on of exemption, now pay l’£ perl cent. Under the resolution, they will pay only of one per cent ■text March on 1929 incomes. Similarly, th,-? $4,000 to SB,OOO class will pay only two per cent instead of three. The next bracket will >ay four per cent instead of five. All up the line to the million dol’r income-tax payer, progressively imaller reductions are granted, alhough the surtax applied to larger incomes is not reduced. The nili'ona re's reduction comes on i ‘he normal tax payments on the . first few thousand dollars. Corporation incomes uniformly l will be reduced from the present la; rate of per cent to 11%' >er cent. ■ " |, Both, President Hoover and Me! ■ 'on held out hope in their annual •epoits for further tax reducUons '■ontinuing in effect, or even re-1 li’c’ng, the rates established by he present bill. Treasury revenues did not justify nermanent tax reduction now, owing to uncertainty of what the n k iraiket crisn may cost the government, and other factors, Mellon explained. For this teasan, the treasury has proposed a fl< xible tax system by which the income tax rates would be established by congress at close of each year. o Net Race Close New York, Dec.. 17 — (UP) — Strengthening of American Basket'all league team? by the addition of .layers from th recently disen-

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Explosion Is Fatal To Illinois Driller Vincennes, Ind., Dec. it —(Up) A. R Wilson, 50, Robinson, 111., ( || e( > In ti Vincennes hm Iptul to luy O s ;. b.nken neck luffor d Sunday nlghi In a boiler explosion at an oil w, n tie i Union, Indiana. Harold Millsap, Hazleton, Ind who wus il o injured in the explo sion, was recovering. Man Is Drowned Petersburg, Ind., Dec 17.—(U.R) Ell's Cunn >n, 22, employed on th Lincoln Memorial bridge across White liver, was drowned when he f«ll from (Im stiucture while ai work. O' — Miners Resume Work Taylorville. 111., Dec. 17—(UP) Ou y u.ie mine in this vicinity, the hotbed of the Nitlcnalist coal strike remained hila today.

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