Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1934 — Page 6

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PETROLLE AND ! ROSS TO BATTLE Lightweight Champ l ights Billy Petrolle Tonight At Chicago ' New York. km. 24 U.R) •' Will he five years against live, pounds tonight when Lightweight | Champion Barney Ross and An-, cient Billy Petrolle hattie for the; right to a crack at the welter-1 weight crown. They are slated for 10 rounds, and a capacity crowd of 12.000 is expected at the Coliseum. Ross Is spotting the Fargo Ex-i press five pounds. The Chicago boy will crawl through the ropes weighing almut 137. while battered Billy from Duluth with toss off his hoas blanket at about 142, his natural fighting weight. However, the betting fraternity believes that Petrolie’s weight ad I vantage will be more than offset , hv the champion's youth. Ohl Billy is spotting Barney five I years. He is 29. while Ross is 24. Accordingly. .lack Doyle's latest odds quoted Ross the 2 Io 1 favorite. Unless old Wilyttm has become secretly afflicted with the heaves, spavin and blind-staggers since his last ring appearance, these odds seem preposterous. They indicate | that the “wise money" boys he-| lieve Ross can give away five i pounds and treat the Duluth dynamiter in a walkaway. This is tin-1 sound logic. Indeed. Tonight’s match is a return ■ bout. Barney and Billy fought a blistering 10-rounder in Chicago last March 22. Ross won a migh I tv close decision. At that time Billy was forced to boil down to | 1.18 pounds. He claimed the, weight-making weakened him [ greatly. iSince Mr. Ross had plen ty of trouble in getting the nod off the 133-pound Petrolle. it is difficult to understand why the j champion’s admirers figure he

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[should linve eaay pickings against Petrolle at 142 pounds. -o St. Joe Quintet Schedules (James I Hob Wemhoff. conch of the St. ! .Joe eighth glade team, has scheduled two games this week. both nt ■ home. The local team will play St. Mary's of Fori Wayne at 6:30 I Thursday evening, ami Precious • I Hood of Fort Wayne al I o'cloc k I Friday afternoon. — —O — Central Wins i The Central eighth grade team defeated the Berne eighth grad ■ team at Berne Tuesday night. IS to I IG. COLLEGE SCORES Central Normal. 21: Terre Haute Teachers. 21. Indiana Central. 29; Ball State. 24. High School Scores Froebel (Gary). 20: Wallace . (Gary), 16. • Huntington. 25; Marion. IS. 1 Frankfort. 27: Crawfordsville. , 26. -.— o Outstanding Bonds Will Be Guaranteed Washington, Jan. 24 — (UP) — Outstanding bonds of the home owners' loan corporation will be guaranteed fully under the federal I government's new plan to extend complete pioteition to holders of . them, it was indicated today at the White House. The President said that a bill t soon would be submitted asking guarantee of the principal of these 1 bonds totalling |2.OIM).000,0OT. This would be in line with the ! policy outlined some time ago when the President requested guarantee lot principal instead of only the inI terest in the case of farm mort[gage bonds. Get the Habit — Trade at Home o— — . Dance tonight skating rink.

LIMA QUINTET DEFEATS G. E. G. E. Club Is Defeated By| Lima, Ohio. Independents, 21-20 Although outscoring Ihi Ir opponents from th" in Id. 10 to 8, the De-1 I cutur G. E. club was defeated by the Lima I dependents at Lima, Ohio. Tuesday night, 24 to 20. The local Independent team bad only one chance from the foul line, missini'. It. While Limn made elgh ; out of Hi chances. Vernon Hill was the leading scorer for Dei atnr with lour field goals. .1. Hill. Gerber a d Steele each con ner-ted twice from the field while (>. Bolt was held scoreless. Dennison was high for I Jma with seven points. Next Monday night. January 29. a double-header will be played at the Decatur gym. In the first game ihe Monmouth Rockets will meet the Leipsic. Ohio. independents, and as the feature game, the (1. E. club will play Hie Ossian Merchants. Decatur FG FT TP V. Hill. f. 4 0 8 J. Hill. f. 2 0 4 Gerber, c. 2 0 4 ' Deßolt. g. . « 0 0 Steele, g. 2 0 4 Totals 10 0 20 Lima. O. FG FT TP Moore, f. 1 0 2 Dennison, f. 3 17 Prendergast, c. 1 3 5 Main, g 113 Swartz, g. 0 11 | Casey, g. 2 2 6; Totals ...... . 8 8 24 | o ' KI ffigy f y , I by Coaches Curtis and Laurent are putting their boys through ktiff workouts this week in preparation I for two tough hall games for I each team. 000 The grind will start Thursday night, with the Commodores entertaining the power- ■ ful Ossian Bears from Wells county. Among its many vic- , tims, Ossian holds victories over the Bluffton Tigers and I the New Haven Bull Dogs, j The only team to defeat the Bears this season is Union Center, who twice last week upset the Bears. 000 1 Friday night the Commodores , will do battle on the home floor, with the Jefferson Warriors. The | Warriors, winners last week of t the annual county tourney, have j proved themselves one of the toughest township schools in this i part of the state. 000 The Yellow Jackets will travel to Columbia City Friday night for a Northeastern Indiana con-1 ference engagement with Abe • De Vol's Eagles. The Eagles are i in second place in the conference , race with five victories in six ■ starts, losing only to Hartford | City. Columbia City has defeated ; Bluffton, Garrett, Central. Ken- ( dallvillc and South Side, most of • them by decisive scores and will be plenty tough for the Jackets to upset. 000 Saturday night the Jackets will return home to meet Rochester high. Last year, in the first meeting in history | for the two teams. Rochester defeated the Jackets at Rochester and the locals will be out for revenge. 000 As a preliminary to the Deca-1 tur-Rochester game, the Yellow Jacket seconds will play the Mom i mouth varsity. The Jacket re-i serves defeated Monmouth at Monmouth earlier in the season and Monmouth will be out to even the score. 000 Bob Wemhoff, coach of the St. Joe eighth grade team, announces his team will play two games at ■ the Commodore gym this week. I Thursday evening at 6:30, as a first preliminary to the Commo-dore-Ossian game, the St. Joe team will play St. Mary's of Fort Wayne. Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the local eighth graders will battle Precious Blood, also of Fort Wayne. \ 000 The North Side Redskins. ' Inactive in conference com- . petition since January 6, still lead the conference race with two victories and no defeats. North Side has defeated Decatur and Garrett in its only conference games and has seven games yet to play. 000 Columbia City is in second

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place in the conference with five [, victories in six starts, closely pressed by the Hartford City Airdales with four victories and one setba: k. 000 Only three conference games are scheduled this week. Friday night's games are Decatur at Columbia City and Auburn at Garrett. Saturday night the Hartford City Airdales will battle the North Side Redskins at Fort Wayne. 000 The conference standing, with I games won. games lost, and games to play, is as follows: W L TP North Side 2 0 7 Columbia City 5 4 3 Hartford City 4 14 Central . 5 2 2 South Side . 4 2 3 Auburn 2 3 4 Bluffton 3 4 3 Decatur 13 5 Kendallville 14 4 Garrett . 0 7 2 o Vines Beats Tilden Denver. Colo., Jan. 24.— (U.R) — "Big Bill’’ Tilden. Ellosworth Vine and the other members of their i professional tennis troupe were to leave here today for the west coast, sta’ding even in their first eight matches. Vines defeated Tilden before the smallest- crowd of their tour thus fat here last night. 6-2, 1-6. 12-10. Vincent Richards defeated Bruce Barnes. 6-4. 2-6, 6-2. in a single match, and Tilden and Barnes teamed to defeat Vines and Richards in a doubles match, 7-5. o (Vc York', mtoucy An article published in me C>.r:» tian Advocate says: “At the be (inning of t| e Nineteenth crZitur* the •commercial metropolis of tt< United StatW occup’sl aillj thlower end of ilanhat tn is''.rid shat Is now Dp town’ being still «iade up of spacious forms and Aiuntry e-va’es, Inciting ths tittle village a' Harlem. actua reasttrements of the city rirapei »re given as tbrze miles in lengtk (from the Battery to Fourteenth itreetl, one anti a half miles is width eigbf miles In cireumfss •ncc." o Get the Habit — Trade at Home

Fascism Gains Ground in Great Britain t- iSiil »jhCawi j®* > I’JW-; HE. sci . t \ ;* - el Fascist Ftac. ' 4er ' Kx Ootw ©Duffy t S o t rrp t m g thL a h t » ny cS r^ I 7k. With ?®5‘ to Musso J in ' in 1914I 914 - Fascism has assumed the proportions of a mountain n | h . at has swept through Europe under various names and vari-colored shirts. England, the last stronghold of conservatism is seen on the bnnk of succumbing to the new gospel with such a hide-bound n«w.r; m °pi G v\-u ®’ , v ‘«ount Rothermere, Great Britain’s press emperor advocating support of Sir Shh4s d fHsh hr’.nJ aC r k p Shlt:t lea . der ' Across the channel in Ireland, General Owen O’Duffy, leader of the Blue n v!;J r h brand , of Fascism, is making rapid strides since the ban placed on the organization by President De Vaicra was declared unconstitutional by the Free State Supreme Court Observers predict that the next great poht.cal swing Great BriUnwilf be .towards Fascist Lord Rothe™^> sUtement ‘that il is tho | only way to forestall Communism being regarded as a sermon from the mount.

‘ Schmelintr Signs To Box Max Baer New York. Jan 24 U.R) — Max Schmeling. former heavyweight | champion, today was under t on- ; tract to fight Maxie Baer of CaliI fornia in a return bout at U>s Angeles in April. I Schmeling. who is training at 1 Pompton Lakes, N. J., signed yes- : terday for the 12-rounder. and today Lou Daro, Los Angeles promoter, hoped to sign Baer, who is I, doing a vaudeville turn at Baltis more, Md. The former champion 1 is training for a bout with Steve Hamas at Philadelphia on Feb. 13. — o ——• Hnmanity'g Crucible Throughout history, conrasa character. Intelligence and hard work have wrested victory from the tmst adverse '•ircumstaaces — Older's Weekly

Confer on President's Budget — 1111 < A ..wggw.-. .z iBW-- f Ib a $ Two men who will have much to do with putting through the appropriations for the huge recovery budget asked by President Roosevelt are shown going over some of the figures Congress will have to decide on. \ They are Representative James P. Buchanan (left), of Texas, chairman ■ of the House Appropriations Committee, and Lewis Douglas, Director of the Budget

CORNSTALK Mb j LIGHTS FARM ■ ■— i>i pi— The time may 'lh' united States Department j '"v,' 'exp'-rimeni'al I’la" 1 ,n,s b '“" i f, u production of ga« ...ivu us the raw maled from corn stalks us im iterlals of fermentation. \ The goal which engineers are I striving is construction <» “ 'i"" 1 !p lanl ( .., | ; , blv producing km | . U |,i ( - feet of gas suitable fol burn ing as fuel or for lighting purposes I dally. I Such a pla it wonld utilize from 40 t „ 50 pounds of shredded corn ! stalks per da' and would be instal - led ai an approximate cost of $->« ito sslhl exclusive of equipment toi Idistribution within buildings I "Such plan’s would be especially I beneficial in the west where coal iis expensive and illuminating gas j unobtainable.” commented P. Bi Jacobs, chief of the station. 1 ' Ui.ilization of certain vegetable wastes for generation of gas, either on the farm or from a central plant located in a small commu if Ity which is not served by iHuminating gas. would simplify the farm t waste- problem insofar as such dist strict* are concerned.” Babe Herman First Chicago Cub Holdout 1 Chicago. Jan. 24 —(U.R) — FW* | ' (Babe) Herman. Chicago Cubs’ out--1 fielder, doesn't mind being shoved . ► out of the spotlight in favor of s j Chuck Klein, Cubs’ latest slugging 1 I- acquisition, but he does object to , /his salary check reflecting it. ~ Herman, therefore, became the ; Cubs' first official holdout. His ul-’-signed contract came back from I Glendale. Calif., today. With it . ■ came a message indicating that [ I Herman thought he had been i treated with unfairness. "You didn’t cut my salary, you used a cleaver on it." the Babe ‘ I was reported to have said. '

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Indiana Central Wins Ten In Row Indianapolis. Jan. 24—<U.RF-Th® 1 Indiana Central college basketbull team rallied in the last four min- ' utes of play here last night to defeat Ball State. 29 to 24. and win its U»th consecutive victory. Troup, a freshman from Nappanee. went into the game and scored three baskets to keeji the undefeated Greyhoi

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I lead. It wasTi imp's B which helped • ler by one poi I season. t Dejernett, big n-ero B’ so was an <.n;>*.....inu lor Indians • J controlled the . ■ I and collected 1 . points ' both teams in s, ormg. ' ■ 3 — — — j iness in Fort Wayne today. — —•