Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 308, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1930 — Page 6

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COMMODORES BEAT ELDER IN GREAT NET TILT Laurcntmcn Prove Too Fast For Cincinnati Net Aggregation Catholic high school Commodores rose to new heights last night and turned down a stubborn Elder high school basketball team of Cincinnati at Catholic high school gymnasium 24-7. Bill Gass and Entile Holthouse led the Commodore offensive attack and the two accounted for 19 of Decatur's 24 points. -4.c0 Dowling. playing at center, played a great gam" and handled the ball in fine fashion. He got every tip-off for the Commodores and this forced the Elder t‘am to play a defensive game, which worked w ■'] until th ' third period when the Commodores broke through, consistently for scores. A large crowd watched the two teams play, and there was plenty ‘ of interest for the spectators dur-; ing the first three quarters. In the; preiim'nary the Commodore sec-j onds won from Monmouth Eagles; 21-18. Tn the big game the Elder net-! men were never in the lead, but i th" scor was tied at 2 2 and the! visitors were close enough to make rhe game a real battle until late in the third period. The score at the end of the first quarter was 4-2 for D catur and at half tint® the Commodores were hading 9-5. ••Coach Laurent must have instilled a lot of the New Year spirit r.tn the Commodoies between halves for his players came back :n the second half to put th game in th cooler. The third period ended 19-4 for Decatur and the tini'. count was 24-7 tor Decatur. Dowlings ability to get the tip at center caused th? Elder team, which is known for its fast brsak-

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ing offense, to play a defensive gum l and the defensive game finally spelled their downfall. It was Elder’s third gain® of the season l and its first def*.at. Last year the ! Buckeye team won the Cincinnati , I city championship. I Lineup anil summary: Commodo.es (24) FG FT TP I Gasts f. 5 2 12 Cage. f. Oil ) Dowling, c. I 1•" Lose, g. Oil Hoithouse, g. 2 3 7 Totals .8 8 • 24 -i Elder (7) FG FT TP ; Ronsick. f. 0 2 2 t !Loey, f. 10 2 . lagaly. c. 11 3 , I Aug. g 0 " 0 1 Reinshagen, g. 0 0 0 Totals 2 3 7 ■ I Score at half: D catur, fl; Eider. 15. Refer, e, Cleary. Fort Wayne; ’ ; Umpire, Heal. Franklin. G.E. TEAM PLANS GAME FRIDAY | Decatur G. E. Club basketball iteam will meet the fast First amt jTri-State basketball team of Fort I Wayne here Friday night. The I game will be played at Decatur high school gymnasium and will start at 8:30 o'clock. ' A preliminary game is being ar-1 ranged and will start at 7:30 o'clock ; ■ Tickets are now on sale at the j West End Restaurant or may he; | obtained at the doors the night of i the game. | The Fort Wayne aggregation has j ■ played a number of fast indepen ' dent teams in the northern part of; the state this year and is said t,o oe I one of the l>est class B semi-pro l teams in Foi: Wayne. _o Sunriest Spot on Continent Scientists of the Smithsonian In stitution have selected Table inoim ' tain. l<h> miles from Los Angeles, as the location of their so'ar ob servatory because the mountain is believed to he the sunniest spot In North America, although not the hottest, says Popular .Mecl.:tni< s Maguzin®

TILDEN QUITS . AS AMATEUR k’| New York. Dec. 31.— <U.R) Folu lowing in the wake of Hobby Joni a, » William T. Tilth n, 2d, seven time:'. 1 national tennis champion and regarded l:y many aa the greatest □ player in the game has ever seen, 2 has turned ills back ,on amateur j' competition. if Tike Jones, whose retirement 1 preceded bis by several weeks, Til--7 den will journey to Hollywood io make a series of movie shorts I demonstrating and explaining the ’ shots that made him famous. His contract with Metro-G ddwyn-May-I er calls for his appearance on the ! Pacific coast within a month. II The terms of the contract nre L not known, but it is believed unliki ly that Tilden will earn the 7 s2s<i.oot) that Jones is expected to , receive for his golf serials. Jones : [ quit when be was at the peak of his skill and fame; Tilden when lie Iliad sipped from the h-ights. Tildi n announced his retirement 1 I in a letter to Holcombe Ward. |! chairman of the amateur rules 'committee of the United States ' Lawn Tennis Association. Un ike 'Jones, who in his letter to the golf J association express d doubt that ! his movie work meant automatic expulsion from amateur play. Tilden accepted his contract as meaning he was through as a “Simon ~ pure. What Tilden plans to do afttr ' the talking shorts are completed lis not known, but it .is reported i that he plans to make several exhibition tours, playing wit. and ; against other American prolessiona's. I Ward, to whom Tilden's letter ‘was address'd, told the United | Press that he had not received ’such a letter but understood that ; it was in th? mails. Tilden is now 37 years old, well beyond the age limit for great athletes. Y?t only last summer he niarch-d through a great field at , Wimbledon to take his third Britj ish singles championship. Since l!)2b. wh n he won his fi st national championship, Tilden i has more than held his own with the greatest the game could produe". In addition to winning the ‘national singles championship sev•en tin; s, Tilden a’so captured the

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| national doubles fiv ■ times. As a member of American Davis <up teams for 10 years, Tilden defeat- ! ed moi ' than his share of oppon'ents. In the 1930 cup play ho scored Aim ilea's lone point vyitb a victory over ".I an Borotra. , )•' Bill was no whit less sensational off the courts than oti. Dur- '• ing his reign as king of American »I tennis Tilden was at odds with the .. U. S. L. T. A., no less than a dozen i;tim s. Twice within the last four i years he was suspend d from am*’latent- comp tition. His penchant r i for reporting tournaments in which I ho was a competitor kept him contistantly at war witli Hie officials. I-| With the possible exception of a’ Suzanne Lengb n of Franc , ones time queen of th* courts, Tilden i" j had no equal as a showman. Ills s presence at any tournament.meant ! packed stands. i* i o DASKEWWL p ' d h. .‘MRiStTd. Basketbawls is going to sign off the air for a little while, but in ths meantime, we're not going to stand for Buck and some of ths other soothsayers to have their own way—- . —oOo— And so PETE REYNOLDS, who until he was converted, used to be a booster for the Suburb athletic teams, will start where Basketbawls leaves off. —oOo— PETE will start writing BasketMiwls next Monday and will give the readers of The Daily Democrat all the low-down on athletics for ths next several i days. —oOo — The new Basketbawls got his • I start in the Suburb, wr'ting for the I Bluff ten Banner — but don't hold ■ i th?, against him for a fel'ow can’t help whee he is born—lt's guys like Cousin Biick, who choose the; Suburb, that we can't understand. ij —oOo— SERIOUSLY, tho', Pete knows basketball and he'll give

the public hia version of the game and the rules and has our permission to hold his own against the rapid-fire of Roger’s battle axers. 000 ■ Tho COMMODORES in winning I from Elder last night hit tho high-' i-st peak of the pros'nt s -asonJ They ull looked good, played good,' and how they tantalized the visitlots with tho hall. —oOo And that’s why the COMMODORES have a great team. They can rally to beat some of the btst. —oOo— The Commodores had eight opportunities from the free throw line and made eight free throws. Which record is a record. —oOo — Coach Laurent dedicated hia i derby with a victory — For which ws are all glad—the vicI tor *- —-000— The five Commodore players' who started the game played the , entire 32 minutes. —oOo — The Elder team from Cincinnati was a good t:am, with a lot of fast players, but it's the old old story—you can't win basketball gam:s if you can't get the ball. —oOo — Coach Curtis will return January 1 to start the Yellow Jackets train- , ing for the Deeatur-Suburb game here January 9. -oOo — But the fiist hard game will be the following week when Auburn comes to Decatur. HAPPY NEW YEAR! —— o Noted Western Character “Poker Alice" Tubbs wns h picturesque character of the old West where she wns n fixture in the m'ning camps of Hie gold rush.' She was horn in Devonshire. England and came to Hie I'nlted States with hei family She died February 27 19311 In Rapid City. S. D. “Stone of Destiny” Scone, in I’erthshlre, ScoHnnd. I was the site of no old nlibey mid ' the place of residence of the early kings nt Scotland It was also the si eiie <>t their corun,-itlon A ‘stone <>l destiny' was part of the i-orona lion eh.-iir 'Chis stone wim <-m rie«l off hs Edward I of England In 12tH5 and placed in Westmlneter abbey, u here it still remains molt'r the c- r 'l' ition eb; ir of the British It!" s

THREE BIG TEN TEAMS BEATEN (U.R> i Three P.ig Ten ronforence hasikotball teams wer<> defeated by i outside foes in pre-season games I Tuesday. Purd'.v’, one of the fnv orites for conference honors, dropped a 21 to 22 thriller to Pittsburg, while Wisconsin was the victim of a 1G to 14 upset at Marquette and Chicago lost, 38 to 35, to Brigham Young University. Notre Dame, which p'ays most of the conference t«ams during th® season although not a member of tho league, outclassed Illinois Wes I leyan to win. 24 to 17. j Puniuo played almost the entire gam? without th® services of its star. Johnny Wooden, and lost by playing defensive basketball. The i Boi’ermakers played a close de-f-nsive game and 10 successful free throws In 13 attempts gave Pitt its winning points. Purdue scored only 4 out of 7 f: ee throws. After abandoning defensive tactics when trailing, 17 to 11, late in the game the Boilermakert cam® within one basket of tieing the count. Marquette's victory over Wisconsin was the second in history for i the Milwaukee school. Marquette 's only previous victory over Wisconsin was a 9 to 8 dqpision in 1923. Whitey Budrunas led th? Marquette attack and his three field goals and four free tosses were responsible for the Badger’s first d - j feat of the season. Chicago showed unexpected class against Brigham Young and staged severs’ rallies to keep the con-; test clos c . T] ie westerners romp-' ed away to an early lead and played defensive basketball in the final five minutes and coasted to victory. o |GarHn Day Will Be Observed at Sale Next Saturday will be Gartln < day at the Community Sale barn on east Monroe street, in honor of j Cot Earl Gartln of Green boro, | famous auctioneer of the middle; woov, who will assist Cpl. Roy Johnson in conducting the sale. Gartln has condui t«l sales in every state in the Union and is recognized as one of the leaders

In the Hereford stock line, lie Is a listing in th® Reppert Auction school and will help his friends lout at the Community sale. The big event opens nt 10 o'clock in the morning and the list now I assures u big sale, with a car ol horses, plenty of cattle, hogsslump and ntlmerouss item of peronal property, farm machinery and household goods. The members of the Reppert Auction school will attend the Ahr horse sale on the Bellmont farm, a mile and a half east of Decatur, next Monday, this giving them nn opportunity to really work out in their profession. NOTED JURIST RETIRES TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 141 to the refoimatory, 2.728 to the state farm. 391 t> the Indiana Womans’ prison. 1.897 to jail, G 8 to the workhouse and nine to the hospital for criminal insane. Sent nc s of life imprisonment have been passed upon 49 defendants. Just before stepping down from Hie bench to turn the reins over to the new judge, Collins made a brief statement in which he urged the enactment of drastic legislation to curl> the circulation of firearms, recommended continued use of the probation system as a cure for the criminally minded, and advocated a greater regard for the defense of poor prisoners. Short Teitament The will of f’ldef Justice White 1 contained Hui SI words It rends: “This is mv Inst will I give, bequeath and devise to my wife Lelta M. White, In complete and perfecl ownership all my rightstind property of every kind snd nafiire, whether teal, personal or mixed, wherever situated, appointing her executrix of my estate without bond ami giving tier seisin thereof " Mule Her Long Life Tlie average age <>? a Imrse Is six teen years. Mules and Jackasses live to be ti great age. till hough the average length of life is approxl I mutely sixteen years. There h ive . Iteen records of niulbs having lived ' 35 to 4<> v<‘-'-s O7 __ • Measure of Progress That we ntn do anything for our selves hr ourselves, is one of run illusions Achievement of anv kind is rood onlv when others si>rp It with von Xm . | P

' “BILLIE” SCHAM. I ERLOH TO End services Toda (CONTINUED FROM PAGE o „ tied and when Judge . elected for a tall term, n H r „ * ■ irintefl Mr. Si-hamerloli Besides tarrying cm ;lIP . of bailiff, ' Billie" kept n le mom, jury room and judge', of, • dean ami tidy and did many wh , ,money-saving jobs forth,. cu , not prescribed in his dutie M i He tells many Interesting i iemes during his eleven ye u| . bailiff and he has come in' ( . On ’. with ail types of jurors and am neys. “Itillie’' was known throu, out the northern pan or th,. among the legal profession a ,‘,i most courteous bailiff of any V(ll and he prided himself with th e q that the court room and other ■ ices always were in g l>(M | (1 J when visitors came to Adams , I cuit court. , T’ve been here so long," j Schamerloh said today, "T| lat |. : so t of got the opinion the wht business belongs to me, and r .t ied to care for everything up he ! just as I would had it been mine The truth of this statement i s ■>, l deni ed by the fact that the chai I are not scratched the books are n torn and the court room looks ■lew at it did when it was renaxti , ed some months ago. ' Mr. Schamerloh stated today th he would take a rest be'.oie thin ! ing of any other work Prior to n bailiff appointment he was enipk ed at the Zwick Furniture Co. th ( Gay, Zwick and MyCVs. Hundreds of people of Adan county who have come in conta with the bailiff in the last 11 yea; are wishing "Billie" success | whatever he decides to uo in tt future. 0 — Th« Pantor Sayt: More Hum 2.1N1U years ngo th fool already had snld in his heart "There is no God.’’ but some of tig IntelligentKla have only recentlj found him missing. Cliildrei used to be quick assets, bin not they hnve be<ome long-term Jiabll Ities.—John Andrew Holmes o Detecting Motor Vibrations As n vibration detector, nn nnfl nary lien's egg is- qtfite eonmmi.l used to test nn airplane ttmtorI’opniut V’->'i,ni>i«-«i ■ ... 0 — - Many Game Losers The crpwd is always with tli ' winner, •niess here Is s gum loser. — Riillano llerttld