Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1930 — Page 6

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COMMODORES TRIM ST. fOHNS IN NET GAME Locals Pull Away Near End of Game For 31*24 Win From Delphos Decatur ('alholic hisli school Commodores cut loose in tin* c’osinp Ml minutes of a basketball tfame with SI. Johns ncllers of Delphos. Ohio, at the local Catholic high school gymnasium Tues- 1 (lav iurli! and sent the Buck- < ve agR relation home with a ;il-2l Irinitninu. St. Juhns teil tin* scoring during Hie entire (list half and it was not | until lute in the second period that \ the Commodores began hitting Hr" net for counters, which finally pu’led them out in front.

The J lelphos team started strong and took advantage of the fact that WemhofT. Commodore center was on the bench. The Buckeyes rang the hell for three field goals before the laairentinen scored. The score then went to 8-2. Decatur called time out. About the middle of the first half. WemhofT returned to the j game and played the rest of the game, adding considerable strength to the local lineup. The Commodores rallied late In the first period and were within a point of knotting the count. Then (he visitors cut loose and pushed their lead up to 17-14 when the rest period was called. In the second stanza Delphos scored a field goal early to make the count 19-14. The teams battled along and as the third quarter re t period was called the score was tied at 19-19. In thf) Closing 10 minutes the Commodores, with Mylott and Cass leading the attack, bombarded the net from all angles and during the last five minutes the locals scored almost at will. The visitors never surrendered and fought to hold the count down. In the preliminary the St. Johns k cond team trimmed the Commodore second team 19-13. St. Johns scored only two free throws in the second period. Lineup and summary: Commodores (31 1 F.O. FT. T.l\ Lose, f 2 0 4 Holtbouse, f 0 0 n Crass, f 4 3 11 WemhofT. c 2 1 6 Cage, g Oil Mylott. g .... 4 2 10 Totals 12 7 31 Delphos (24 l Kolb, f 4 0 8 Noonan, f 3 2 8 Ditto, c 3 17 Schumuker, g 0 11 Kihn, g ...... 0 0 0 Kramer., g 0 0 0 Totals 10 4 24 Referee, Deal, Franklin. PLAN TO PROBE TRACK SCANDAL

New York, Jail. 22 'U.R) -An unusual but timely Investigation into tha mishandling of amateur athletics for profit is scheduled to day. The registration committee of the Metropolitan Association of tin A: A. t'. will inquire into th mild scandal arising from the recent ‘•Brooklyn college" games, at which Jack Elder, Notre Dune's famous sprinter ami football star, was made the goat. The usual feature on the inquiry will be the defense prepared by the guilty parties, who will claim that sports writers misrepresented the program arranged for last Saturday night and so misled the 8,000 or more track fans. After announcing for days that Elder, famed for his 89-yard run against the Army football team a' Yankee, stadium last fall, would compfte against Karl Wildermuth and other crack sprinters in an "Olympic sprint series,'’ the com mittee in charge arranged to have the Notre Dame star run In ontv two relatively meaningless dashes at 80 and 75 yards. The gentleman In charge of the “Brooklyn college" meet, (and incidentally there is no Brooklyn college) now point to a piece of publicity matter in which Elders

participation In ihe 6o and 75 yarn dashes was announced. The fact previous announcements all had advertised the Notre Dame runner | us a competitor in the Olympic series Is passed over, even denied, by the promoters. The fact of the matter is that Rider, because of hm football fame, was a "gate attraction,” and was played up by the promoters for all tils worth, and a little bit more. But for an organisation, caught and questioned by the reglsteratlon committee of tbe Metropolitan Association, to claim the sports writers were the guilty parties is certainly something new. It would scent that in self defense Hie besi thing to do next year would he not j to mention the "Brooklyn college" games at all. RUTH WILL NOT : CHANGE HANDS l New York, Jan. 22.- J.R) Hals* Bath will not lie traded or sold as i

until will lIDI in- iiniicu WI long as lie is of any value to Ilf New York Yankees, Col. Jacob Rnppert, owner of the club, said today. Neither will the other American! league (lulls lie allowed to eon- | tribute $.7,000 each to Ruth's salary. Rnppert said. These two discussions are outgrowths of Ruth's demand for a three-yi ar contract ut $83,000 per season which Col. Rnppert maintains he will not meet. Ruth has been offered a oneyear contract at $75,000 a season—a salary equal to the salary recetv- , ed by the president ot the I'nited j States — but he is now down in j Florida playing golf and waiting for the Yankees to make the "next move." "There is not a chance of Ruth being traded to another club either in the role of player or manager a long ns he continues to hit home runs.” said Col. Rnppert. “No dub could make us an offer that would he interesting. Wc | feel that Ruth is more than a $.500,000 investment with ns ami we want to realise mi hint to the fullest extent. "As far as allowing other clubs to contribute to his salary, that would be construed as syndicate baseball. We have paid Riuh $530,000 in salary since he his been with Ihe Yankees and I have never asked help from any other cltt l)S. "lit regard to his 1930 contract I think that Ruth has been ill advised. He knows he can draw tin largest salary in baseball for 1930 and 1931 and if he run play as well n 1932 as when he first became a Yankee he will be duly rewarded. I I do not expect we will have any serious trouble in signing Rath for text season." (h ne ul Manager Kd Borrow, in discussing Rath's case, said that the Yankees had made their best offer and that uny further negotiations would have to be opened by Ruth himself. CALIFORNIAN

LEADS GOLFERS! Agua Caliente Mex., Jan. 22. — (U.R) A group of selec t golfers was i bunched on the hack stretch of the $25,000 Agua Caliente open I tournament today as closely as any i | Held of potties that ever rounded iI a curve at the nearby running i! track. I I Olin Dutra, a young professional from Los Angeles, was in the lend | with 146 strokes. Horton Smith, Joplin, Mo., and Charlie (luest, of Los Angeles, ■ were in a tie for second place with 147 strokes. i Behind Smith and Guest were s,x others, Macdonald Smith, Greet Neck. L. 1., Gene Sarazen, New i Yotk; A1 Espinosa, Chicago; Ed Dudley Wilmington, Del.; Al Watrous, Detroit; and Mortrie Dutra, i i Tacoma, Wash., brother of the leader. They had used 148 strokes. 1 Last of those in the select “40" group were Johnny Farrell, of New York, and George Von Elm, Dsi troit amateur, with 149. Not yet out of range of lirst - money—slo,ooo--was the 150 class. This group was made of Harold | Long, Denver; Leo Diegel, local ; professional, and Joe Kirkwood, | Philadelphia.

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C. E. CLUB WINS FROM BOWSERS IN NET CONTEST Early Lead Gained On J.onjj Shdts Is Held Throughout Tilt Decatur General Electric club netters whipped a wood Fort Wayne Bowser basketball team at Decatur hitfh school gymnasium last night for the second time Ibis season. The final score was 45:17 and Ihe game was interesting all Ihe way. The Bowser m-.l men made u strong effort to whittle down a lead aceompl'slied early in the j game by th - * Decatur netters on a I series of long shots, but were never able to overcome the lead. Right in the opening minutes of j the garni" Stoneburner. Krick ami j Hill smashed Ihe net for several linld goals from center and l)eca-| tur ga ned an impressive lead j From ihe middle of the first half j on. the game was played on even I

■ terms. The half elided with the (J. i K. club leading 28-17. I In the second period Krick, H->ll land Stoiielmrner went out on per-' | somtls, hut their absence did not j weaken the local aggregation an i j the (T. K. team continued to hold Ihe lead. The final score was 45The local team will go to Albion tonight, where it meets the Albion Independents in a return game. On next Tuesday night Decatur (1. K. club will meet Berne A. (’. aggregation here. Ufnenp and summary: Decatur fl. E. (45) FCI FT Tl* Stoneburner, f. 5 (i 10 Engle. f. 11 3 1 Stickler, f. . 3 (1 t> Hill, c. 5 3 13 Bell, g l l 3 Krick, g. 4 19 Kleinknight, g. 0 11 Kohne, g. • 0 0 0 Totals 19 7 15 Bowsers (37) FO FT TP Way, f. 3 4 10 Durr, f 4 2 to McClure, c. .215 Lugeiihill, c. 0 (I 0 Wyeant, p. 3 17 Lindeman, g. 2 1 5 Totals 11 9 .171 Referee, Elliott. Fort Wayne. W ———JQA'rrvv ‘ — 1 The Commodores looked great in he last 10 minutes of the Delphos Decatur game last night. The earn swung into action and scored 23 point; while the visitors were scoring 4 points.

The St. Johns fans were disappointed. It was the third defeat of the season for the Ce phos netters, and it was entirely unexpected. The Commodores have some hard grinds on the program this ! week in preparation, for the Cen-' tral Catholic game at Fort Wayne ! Friday night. Coach Laurent is -ending his aggregation through a | series of new formations. The G. E. Club netters turned back a strong Fort Wayne Bowser aggregation at Decatur high school gymnasium—The late Gunnar Elliott officiated, and even though three Decatur players were sent to the showers on personals there was enough reserve material to hold the game on ice. The G. E. c'.ub goes to Albion tonight, and - next Tuesday night the Berne A.C. netters come to Decatur for a play-off game. Each team has won a game and * the next Tuesday game will settle the | championship of the county as far as the two teams are concerned. There seems to be a lot of argumenting, talking, crying, and even threats of never I I attending another basketball game going through the air i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 'SI. l!ut _

today—Something Happened at Decatur high school —and all the tickets for the DecaturCentral game here Friday night were disposed of before the advertised time of sale. It probably wasn't right- to mlI vertise a ticket snlo and have no ii|ck,-is lo sell hut last fall, j Basket bawls was hammering away | for all fans to hay season tickets and If tho.e who' attend the games regularly had purchased season cardboards — then that "being left out feeling" wouldn't have occurred. Mere's a letter from four disap pointed sane: Dear Bn.skotbawls: 1 note In your honored columns that tickets for the Yellow JacketCentral game were to go on sale Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Now what we would like lo know is. what the business czar of the Yellow Jackets is going to use for tickets. This morning at 10 o'clock (Tuesday morning) tickets were all sold out. evidently to the] czar’s personal friends etc. We a' - e boosters of Isiskethall In Decatur and attend all the Yellow lacket-Oommodore games. Yet we ure out of luck for the season'sl In-st game. Our money was good j enough for tickets for games such J

'! as the calibre of Berne etc. but for a high-class game, they throw ihe 'tickets on sa'e hours before they l , are advertised to he on sale. Why? So the one game a year, friends lof the business wonder can he assured the cream.. And the old regu ars can lake what is left up in t lie Turkish Bath (balcony). Your column is our liest medium of speech. So Help us out. Mr. Basketbawls. Let’s get someone with at least a little bittiness judgment to control ticket sale for the balance of this season. We are through with Yellow Jacket games played in Decatur unless a change in ticket sales is made. Sincere’y, 4 Red Hot Fans. And we bet you they won’t even come to the Decatur sectional tourney this year. There was a slip-up some place in the ticket sale — Basketbawls asked several school officials and R seems as if the b'ame was being placed on the wrong person. From th# evidence we have managed to gather, there were too many fingers in the pie—too many people up at high school thought they had authority to re'erve tickets for the game — and as a result the tickets w( re all sold before 7 o’clock last night. Us nothing, however, to commit suicide over —Ami the school offl?ia s will do everything in their mwer to get every fan possible into the game nest Friday night. Word came to us today that about SCO Fort Wayne Central fans were planning on coming to Decatur without tickets for the game — Looks like the National Guard may have a job Friday night. AT this sentiment surely points! out the one common appeal and' 'lr>t is that Decatur high school is in need of a gymnasium —a place Idg enough to accomodate at least 1,500 fans — As "A! Capone" Keller over at Huntington says, the time o, antiquated gymnasiums is past —Decatur is one of the few cities with a championrhip basketball team, and no fit place in which to play. YELLOW JACKETS, BEAT FORT WAYNE CENTRAL. COMMODORES. BEAT FORT WAYNE CENTRAL (Cathode.) Butler Wins Game — flreencastl?, Bid., Jan. 22. —(U.R) Butler un varsity basket tossers won their firs: game of the season away from U one when they nosed ont DePauw university last night, 39 to 29. During the early part of the game the race was on even terms, but Butler took a good lead to close the half wi'.h a 22 to 14 lead, in their favor and increased their percentage by two points in the second half. Hildebrand of Butler led the scoring with 17 tallies, followed in older by Ragsdale of DePauw with 13, and Christopher o? Butler witn 10. o A. C. Butcher attended to insurance business in Fort Wayne this morning.

DEMPSEYPIANS BOXING SHOWS Chicago. Jan. 22 -till') •' I"'" 1 ', In all his Chicago promotional veil-, turo , p, ini Ipally because most i a :lc attractions were "sewed up' by oth r promotional interests. Jm . Dempsey finally has maneuvered himself into a position where hi stands to make some money. .lac k's li> H of (day has come in the form of two light hmvy weights j Leo Loinskl and Jimmy Uraddork Those two fellows fought a givui draw h - i'i! ihe other night, putting up what perhaps was the greatest light-heavyweight battle Chicago i ovei saw. Dumps y losi some $11.(Mil) on the show hut he develop'd two grcai (hawing cards. Either Isimski o’ Braddoek will draw now and Jack probably will stage a coup by pan Big both of them on against diffei ont opponents in one show. The opinion prevail that Dempsey can put the two on amt then in ■vein both win. match them against each other, making money on both ■ i ows. Resales these attractions Jack has other hills lined up which | ippear certain .« get him out m I the "Red" on his Chicago pumiuiotial ventures. First there is iVmps y’s plan to stage a series of heavyweight bouts. Heavyweights always have drawn ;ood money in Chicago and with the ight kind of matchmaking Jack appears certain to make money on these lights. Tlv-ii up his sleeve Dempsey tui - an idea that ho can sen l Earl Masro into Hie . ins guiust Kid Cho o-

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