Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1930 — Page 6

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G. E, CLUB NET TEAM VICTORS D'f-atur General l-jlrtctric Club basketball team puNed out a great victory last night over the Portland Bob Whl e nettnen at Decatur high school gymnasium. The final score was 32-27. Portland came to Decatur with a long string of victories and played th local team to a standstill until the closing minutes when a rallv placed the local netters in front with a comfortable lead. The local net men led at half time 16-14. The count was tied on several recasions during the second half, but Decatur usually had a point or two lead. Lineup and summary: G, E Club <321 FG FT TP Stoneburner, f. 2 0 I Engle, f. v 0 •' *1 Strickler, f. 5 2 12 Kielnknlght. f. 0 <• 0 Hill, c. 4 19] Hell. g. 113 Krick, g. 12 4 Totals 13 6 32 Portland B. W. (261 FC< FT TP W. Bergman, f. ... 1 0 2 B. Bergman, f 11 3 Baker, f. 5 0 10 Freeman, c. 10 2 Elliott, c. 1 2 4 Farris, g. 3 0 6 Stookey, g. 0 0 0 Totals ....* 12 3 27 Referee. Laurent. o SPORT TABS Evanston, 111., Feb. 5. — Tom Warne, Northwestern university pole vaulter who holds the world's indoor record off a dirt runway, has entered the New York A. C. games to be held Feb. 17. It was announced here today. Warne will compete against Sabin Carr, holder of the word’s outdoor record. South Bend, Ind. — Tom Lieb, former assistant to Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, today reportedly was en route to Los Angeles, Calif., for a conference with officials :>f Loyola university. Lieb tentatively has accepted terms as head football coach at the coast school. Louisville, Ky.—The annual four day convention of the National Association of Greenkeepers of America—an organization of men who keep golf courses bright and green—opened here today. An address by President John Morley of Youngstown, Ohio, was the feature event listed on today's program. Madison, Wis. — George Little, director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin, today denied reports that the Badger school was attempting to sign Elton (Tad) M’ieman. formerly head coach at ths University of Michigan, as line coach for next fall. IJttle indicated the job would be held again this year by Leonard Allisop. o i COLLEGE BASKETBALL 'O'— O DePauw, 41; Indiana Central, 13. Notre Dame, 20; Marquette. IS. Earlham, 29; Hanover, 21. State Normal, 78; Vincennes, 19. High School: Shelbyville, 24; Greencastle. 22. Eden. 26; St.. Marys (Anderson) 25. Frankfort, 34; Jefferson (Lafayette). 31 (double overtime). Goshen, 37; Nappanee, 30. DePauw Wins Net Game Greencastle, Ind., Feb. 5. —(U.R) — DePauw basketeers trounced Indiana Central of Indianapolis in a slow, uninteresting contest last wight, 41 to 13. Ragsdale of DePauw made the most pointsfi with 10, followed by Moffett and Crawley, his teammates, with nine each. State Teachers Victors Vincennes. Ind., Feb. 5.—(U.R)— State Teachers of Terre Haute ran up a 78 to 19 lead over Vincennes university last night on the Vincennes hardwood court, after leading at the half 45 to 14. Horton and Reynolds led the scoring with 23 and 20 points re- ■ spectively. Rodgers made 9 points for Vincennes and Everett 6. Bank May Re-open Rochester, Ind., Feb. 5. — (U.R)— Postponement in the case in which Luther Symons, state banking commissioner, is askinc appointment of receiver for the First State bank of Kewanna, indicated that the stockholders might reorganize and reopen the bank. The bank closed Jan. 25, by orders of the state banking department. The hearing was postponed in Fulton circuit court by Judge Hiram Miller yesterday until Thurs day.

Eight Is Arranged St. Louis, Feb. 5. — (U.R) Joe I! "Tiny" Roebuck, Kansas City. I; former Haskell Indian football ’star, has been selected as the opponent to meet Printo Camera , here in the giant Italian's fourth American fight February 11. u< I cording to word received from proi nioter Mique Malloy, who is in ' Hot Springs, Ark. No midget himself, Roebuck i stands 6 feet four inches tall and I weighs 230 pounds. A murderous 1 right-hand wallop has put away such scrappers as Big Boy Peterson and Walker Rich, the latter a promising Kansas City heavyweight until "Tiny" landed one on 1 his chin. The Venetian Behemoth will find himself with a man-sized job on his hands when the wily redskin stalks ,I into the ring next Tuesday night. ROBINS'OWNERS ARE PEACEFUL New York, Feb. 5. — (U.R) — Dis-1 sension among the owners of the Brooklyn baseball club, which has played havoc with the pennant chances of the Robins for several seasons, was at an end today. An armistice was signed yesterday at the mill-winter meeting of the National league, with the following provisions: Wilbert Robinson will remain aS manager under a new two-year contract, but will relinquish the presidency and resign from the board, of directors. Frank B. York will assume the presidency under a two-year contract. Joseph A. Gilleaudeau. secretary, will appoint a director to replace Robinson. President John Heydler of the National league will appotot' a fifth director and call a directors meeting at an early date. fWder the terms of the settlement. the new board of directors will be composed of five members, instead of four. The three old members will be Judge Steve McKeever. York, and Gilleaudeau. The Brooklyn internal war was prolonged because each meeting of the board resulted in two against two. with Judge McKeever and York opposed to Robinson and Gilleaudea u. Robinson, freed of all connections with the business office, will be able to devote his entire tim • to managing the club. “The settlement is .satisfactory." said Robbie, "and now without the worries of the business office on my shoulders I expect to place a first division club on the field the coming season." The proposal of Judge Emil Fuchs, president of the Boston Braves, to allow umpires to eject players from the game ‘for two or three innings, instead of putting them out of the game althogether was referred to the rules committer The National league umpire staff will be composed of William J. Klem, Charles Rigler, Ernest C. Quigley, Charles B. Moran, Charles Pfirman, John E. Reardon, Louis Jorda, Albert Stark, George L. Magerkurth, Ted McGrew. Robsrt M. Clarke, and Mike Donohue. McGrew, Clarke and Donohue re newcomers. McGrew is from •he American Association, Clarke Tom the International league and sonohue from the Texas league. Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburgh was re-elected vice-president of ‘he National league. o Gives College SIOO,OOO Crawfordsville. Ind., Feb. 5.— (U.R) —Charles N. Williams, Indianapolis banker and Wahash college alumnus, has given SIOO,OOO to Wabash college, according to on announcement today by L. B. Hopkins. president of the school. Williams gift was the second large contribution to the Wabash college centennial fund being raised in connection with the 100th anniversary in 1932. The other gift of $50,000 was giv-1 en by Judge A. B. Anderson, Indianapolis. Both Williams and Anderson are members of the Wabash college board of trustees, and graduates of the school. FOR SALE 15 Head of Horses—Daple grey, roan and sorrel, from 3 years old and up. 1 team of young mules. Also some feeding pigs. ROBERT McBETH LEO J. WEBER. 221 No. 4th St. Decatur, Ind. —< A. .11.

BARBUTI WILL ' ENTER EVENTS New York, Feb. !> <U.i»- Rny jßarbutl, suspeded from amateur ■ athletic competition hist year for ' statements intimating that some of bin colleagues were amateurs I in mime only, and reinstated to1. cently because the A.A C. needed a "gate attraction" for indoor meets, will make his first appeari anee of (he season at the Newark Athletic Club games tonight. Bnrbutl, America's on'y individual race winner in the 1928 Olympics, will run tonight nt Newark In the 60 arid 70 yard dashes and will | make an appearance at the school-1 l.ov games conducted by Syracuse : University, hie alma mater, but that is all. Barbuti is in the insurance business and will not continue athletic competition. He feels that he has won his share of laurels -at the Olympic*, as intercollegiate 2"0 ami 440 yard champion and as a football star for Syracuse. In the races tonight. Barbuti will be opposed by Jimmie Pappas. Newark A. C. star who beat Jack j Elder in the St. Joseph games; John McDonald of Yale and Bob Weise of New York A.C. Another feature event of the Newark games will be the 1.000yard race between Ray Conger, i lowa State middle distance star; Phil Edwards, former N.Y.IL track captain; Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland and Harold Cutbill. JMSKOMWI; Coach Laurent’s Commodores at - hard at work for the Kirkland tangle at Catholic high school gym next Friday night. A full-house is expected to see the two county teams battle. —oOo— Rivalry between all county t-ams is high—and it is said Kirkland will bring several hundred fans in for the game. —oOo— No doubt many fans from Berne will be down to cheer for Kirkland, j —oOo—“Dribbling Dribs" of the Goshen I Democrat sent his Goshen high school net team's record for the! season to Basketbawls today It’s 1 a good record, with ten victories; and two defeats. Goshen lost to| South Bend and Nappanee and 1 won from Warsaw. New Paris,; Meh'gan City, twice, Elkhart. Plymouth. Mishawaka, twice, and LaPorte. —oOo— Ths G. E. Club netters defeated a great independent net club from Portland last night. The game was nip and tuck for most of the game and then came a Garrison finish which took the visitors by surprise and netted the local team another win. —oOo— Coach Curtis took the Yellow' Jackets to Fort Wayne last night, to see the Chicago Bruins and Fort Wayne Hoosiers play basketball. —oOo — Today the Curtismen will return I to practice in preparation for the' big home game of the year —| February 14. Decatur meets the j coachless wonders from the West I Suburb. —oOoWe missed our College Humor this month, but Cash Keller's column in the Herald-Press came in O. K. and we had a lot of good laughs—Here's a line or so from the Queen of Columnists: "Jeff of Lafayette, Peru and Fort Wayne South Side, and How! Those are tiie three teams which remain on the Huntington scuvuf -v New Woolens Arrived Suits Made to Order, A Wipe-out of Extra Charges, $22.50 up, fully guaranteed. Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. L. F. Mailand, Tailor. v... J “HOODOOED COON” 7:30 o’clock Monmouth High School Thursday and Friday Feb. 6 & 7 I

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| ule.' The Vikings at present have [ j won (en and lohl, seven; thercfoie they need only to win (he last 1 three to finish on the heavy Hide <,f H the ledger. And If the Norse win I all three, the record will be n verygood one Indeed. 000 '! "From now on all Vikings tire -put on their honor to be In bed at ' | in o'clock every night, ns well ,>s ; ‘ observe the other training rules I which have been In effect all s as I 'on (editors note). Sounds like I ; rules of a reform school. "Coach Kre gbaitm talked to the' i team yesterday after he had fin-1 | (shed giving a lecture on funda-1 | mentals (another editor's note) It's | a little ia(<> In. the season for fundi-1 'mentals, isn't it? — 000 "And so on far in the night goes' I the well-known referee-author—We! would like to hear Coach Krieghanm give his men a lecture— an 1 we wonder if he shows them howto push nnd shove and trip or if, he Just takes it for granted that they know that part of the game.. - 000— Earl Conner, former Decathr 1 Democrat employe, wlrti wandered away from D-catnr some several! years ago and since has strayed down the declining path until he has become a wild-eyed fan of Stivers high school of Dayton. sends us a clipp'ng telling of Stivers 26 wins in a row and 44 win<! <fut of 45 starts. Then he sends us the announcement of the Stivers Shelbyville (Ind.) net gam? scheduled for next Saturday night. In the letter accompanying • th- - Earl says: "Dear Basket bawls: i "Just thought I would take in , 'my crop of hay while the sun is ! still shining. Personally 1 look for , ' showers Saturday night. "The enclosed clipping will give , von an idea of the class of team I ( have been supporting for the past i two years—that is—of course com- i | paring it with teams in its sphere. I Only one opponent was met from < 'the Hoosier state. Washington, ' Ind., who last year was beaten by I Stivers. The team of Inst year was I far superior to the one of this, but thi- year’s team bids fair to give, 1 ord nary teams a goisl game. Already they are counting on their, eighth state championship and their third or fourth —I forget which— ; in a row. But I hardly believe they | have the stuff this year. | "Nevertheless it takes good ba i kelball. a lot of luck, a remarkable i

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|coach mid u 10l of other thugs t i hang up a record like I lint. “This years team would of course lake it on the chin a plenty ; playing with the selec t of Indiana teams, and no doubt will get it (Saturday night. However, the r-c-I ord Is worth a little cons bicrtil ion. "Sincerely, "The Ohl Make-up Foreman." - bOo - "P. B.—And don't forget this school has in the last ejght years played 80 football games, have v>nn 72, tied four and lost four, playing every first class team they could Schedule from < as far as Atlanta, Georgia to Pine Bluff. Ark." NEW COMMITTEE HOLDS MEETING Wheat Advisory Committee Meets to Discuss Problems Chicago, Feh. 5-r-(U.R)—Prepara- , to> y to probable organization of a tab'lization corporation for extensive buying and merehanilising of wheat, newly appointed members of the grain cooperatives' wheat advisory committee met here today for the first time. The seven members of the committee started their initial session with preliminary plans of organization and a discussion of future po'icie-A in regard to stabilization of the domestic wheat market and raising the general price levs’. Members of the advisory committee are \\ . G. Kellogg. Farmers National Grain corporation, Chicago; Bert lamg, St. Louis; F. J. Wilmer. Rosalia, Wash., president of the North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc.; John Manly. Enid, Okla., president of the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association; William Settle, Indianapolis, Ind., president of the Central States Soft Wheat Growers Association; J. A. Schnitzler, Fj'.iid. Mont., and E. H. Hudson, Lttle River. Kas. ■„ n — — Hoosier Heads Brick Manufacturer’s Group Memphis, Fean., Feb. S—(UP5 —(UP) —; Henry C. Kleymeyer. Evansville.; Indian.', yest relay was elected president of the National Brick! mannfacturers' association in an-; nual convent on here.

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the start of the bout. Camera hlm<elf. und his manag-. er, i-eon Gel, testified by nffldovit t|l ' al thev hadn't even had the ' meeting Kkmx before so how cou.d they have '•■The commission i« satisfied

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