Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1933 — Page 6

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New Haven Bull Dogs Defeat Commodores, 29 - 21

COMMIES LOSE TOUGH BATTLE i AT NEW HAVEN Defeat Wednesday Night Is fourth In A Row For Local Five The New Haven Bull Dogs proved to be juat n little too tough for j. the Decatur Commodores on the New Haven floor Wednesday night. | the locals suffering their fourth consecutive defeat. 2ft to 25. The Commies started fast, lead | ing 7-S at one stage of the first j quarter. However. New Haven ’ cante hack and tied the score at I 7-7 at the end of the period. Hold- | ing Decatur to two points, the Bull j Dogs piled up eight points of their i own to lead 15-9 at the half. The third quarter was mostly a . defensive battle, each team scor I ing five points. New Haven main- I taining a six-point margin. 20-14 at : the third quarter. With the opening of the final I period, the Commodores came back ' with a vengeance, tieing the score ' at 20-20 in little over a minute. 1 The Bulldogs then staged a count , er rally to pull safely ahead, main- j taining their margin until the end of the contest. |1 Decatur's scoring was well divided. Murphy leading the way i with seven points. Braden tallied I six points and Hain and Baker four ' j each. I Butler and Armstrong led New | Haven, each man scoring three i ( times from the field and three j points from the foul line. Johnson. I, one of New Haven's scoring aces ; this season, failed to register from I the field. In the first preliminary, the St. , ]

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I Joe eighth grade team defeated the ' New Ha/en eighth grade team, lit | to 4. In the geeond preliminary I game, the Commodore seconds 1 were defeated. 22 to 15. ! New Haven FG FT TP I Butler, f. 3 3 II I Kerr, f. 3 2 X I Johnson, c. o 2 2 ! Armstrong, g. 3 3 It | i Burgett, g. oil Totals ft 11 2ft Commodores FG FT TP 11. Baker, f. 2 0 4 D. Hess. f. li (I II j Braden, c. 2 2 6 Hain. g. 2 o 4 I Murphy, g. 3 17: J. Lotte, g. Oil, W. Lose. g. 11 3 I Totals io 5 25 j Referee, W alike, Woodburn; Umpire. Aller. Fort Wayne. o HIGH SCHOOL SCORES Brazil, 22: Greencastle. 14. Salem. 22: St. Marys t Huntington. 3ft; l*n- i ion Center. 25. Logansport. 2S; Delphi. Hl. Connersville. 17: Richmond, 16. ! Lebanon. 2ft; Flora, 21. College Scores Indiana Slate. 2ft: Wittenberg.' l 22. Valparaiso, 41; St. Joseph. 2ft. Michigan, 32; Rutgers. 22. Marquette, 25; Nebraska. 22. ■ Wisconsin. 35; Stevens Point. 10. [ — .... Kirkland-l'nion Lame Canceled , Due to a conflict in schedule, the , Kirkland Kangaroos will be without a game this week. Kirkland was scheduled to play at the Union Center, Welle county. Friday night, but Union has another game scheduled. The game was retarded for next ? season. BO ARD TO STI 10 PENSIONS SOON (CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE) sinners and the determining of the policy and selection of those entitled to payments will be don? I by the commissioners. If the maximum amount of sls a month or SISO a year was paid , to all of the 203 applicants it ■would require $36,540 a year to j, meet the pension bill. At the| most the county will not have, more than $14,000 a year, provid ing the state appropriation equalsthat made by the county.

LEFTY GROVE ~ BEST HURLER Great Lefthander Best Pitcher In American League Last Year New York. Dec. 21. (U.RI When j the Boston Red Sox shelled out approximately $125.0ut) for the scr . vices of Robert Moses "l>»fty” i Grove they purchased the best pitcher in the American league. Although his tire ball lost some of its zip. Grove-lurned lit the best pitching J«»l» in the circuit last | season. He luirled in 45 games’— eight I within eleven days “lefty" won 124 contests while dropping only 8. His percentage was .750 and | placed him in a tie for fourth place ■ with Russell Van Atta of tlie Yau- j kees. But Van Atta, like the three , , pitchers who ranked above him, I didn't even conn- close in the number of games played. General Alvin Crowder of Wash ington worked more games than j any other hurler, 52, but his in-: nings pitched. 29ft. was exceeded by Irving Hadley who threw 317 | flumes for St Louis. Crowder won ' as many games as Grove, but lost 15. While there were no hitless [ games. Tommy Bridges of Detroit, turned in a pair of one-hit performances.. "Lefty" Gomez of • the ! Yankees led in strike-outs with 163 while Hadley awarded the most ‘ walks. 141.

IWSKgEAWL — by The Decatur Yellow Jackets will play before the home fans tonight. ■ meeting another swarm of Yellow ■ Jackets, namely, the boys from I Winchester. < —oOo — Haven't heard much about the Winchester team, but in previous years the Randolph county team has given Decatur plenty of opposition. —-000 — The Commodores played improved ball last night to give the New > Haven Bull Dogs a real battle on j the New Haven floor before going : down to defeat. It marked the , closest the Commies have come to defeating New Haven on the foreign floor in several seasons. New Haven has yet to lose to the Commodores at New Haven. ■—oOo — After winning their first four games of the season, the Commodores have lost their last four bat-

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ties, all by dose scores. —oOo— The Monroeville Cubs will . play a return game on the I Commodore floor Friday night. | Decatur defeated the Cubs at | Monroeville in a hard fought game earlier in the season and [ the Monroeville five will be seeking revenge. ■oOo— Bob Wemlioffs St. Joe eighth guide team will play the Bluffton i junior high team ut Bluffton Friday alternoon al 4 o'clock. The SI. 'Joe team trounced the New Haven quintet ut New Haven Wednesday i j evening. o< >o — An additional name has been scheduled for the Decatur Yellow Jackets during the Christmas vacation. The Jackets will entertain the Elliot Preparatory school team from New Jersey at the local gym,Thursday night, December 28. oOo—- | Last winter a team from New- ’ I ark. New Jersey, made a holiday I i tour of Indiana schools, inc luding Decatur. The Jackets scored a . victory over tlie eastern team, winning after a bitterly fought battle. INJURED MAN AVERTS WRECK OF FAST TRAIN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a hospital at Rockwood, where Kelly was found suffering from a 1 ainful scalp wound and wrenched back. Both men are married, and live at Ixnciug. Tenn. — o SHOUSE TAKEN BACK TO SERVE OUT SENTENCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ■ Paris hospital. Butler insisted that he killed : Teague hut a coroner's jury held I i that Teague met his death acci- j I dentally at the hands of a person ! [or persons unknown. Shouse was brought to Indianap-' | olis, questioned and then trans- • : ferret! to the state prison where he : w ill be compelled to complete a . 120-year term imposed in lft3o on ; charges of auto banditry. “It was unfortunate that Teague ■ : was killed.” Captain Leach said to- : i day. "But he died in the line of j ' duty while carrying out orders, i i He was one of the most popular ■ men on the force and was destined i Ito become an excellent officer. : I Lieutenant Butler can not be Itiatn- 1 ed in any’ way.” The two women were placed in ' the Indianapolis city jail and held | for questioning. Miss Spencer said , she met Shouse in California three ■ i weeks ago and went to Chicago: ' with him. .Mrs. Colin said she met : the convict in Chicago two weeks : ago. Both denied knowing any of ' I the other convicts. Other members of the gang still | I at large are Joe Burns, Kosciusko : | county: Harry Pierpont. Howard!

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county; Joseph Fox, Franklin conn- . ly; Waller Delirhh, Vermillion i county: Russell Clark, Alien county, and Charles Makley. Adams i county. STOR EROBBER PLEADS GUILTY IN LOCAL COURT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) by Night Policeman Rd Miller. He first denied being a party to robItery. although the lock from the ' clothing store door was found ill his pocket. 11 Part of the clothing taken from : 1 the store. Inclmling 40 men’s suits i and several dozen scarfs, was found hi a ditch near Paulding. 1 Ohio, about a week later. l| o — 1 Debt-Ridden Rancher I Praises Roosevelt 1 Santa Rosa. Calif., Dec. 21 —(UP) ’ I President Roosevelt was praised as , American's "greatest patriot" to- | day in a note written by a debt-har- < assed ranter before he killed the J man who held a mortgage on his I farm and committed suicide. ‘ Michael Osetinsky, 55. evidently 1 a well-educated Russian, describ- ( ed in three not he- the slaying of i

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John Ugolblkoff, 45. San Francisco [ money-lender, when the latter soug.it to foreclose the mortgage I on Osetliwky's chicken ranch In ! Todd community near her®. The money-lender had remanded payment of the entire $2,760 due on j the mortgage and hud rejected the ■ rancher's proposal to pa ylnlerest , in January, one note revealed. "I could not stand the whose." | another note read. "He kept right

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