Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1934 — Page 4

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Yellow Jackets Drop Close Game To Rocheste

JACKETS LOSE TO ROCHESTER SCORE. 20-18 Visitors Score Winning Basket In Closing Seconds Os Play Th* Decatnr Yellow Jacket*, at' ' ter leadi-g most of the hall game, lout a tough 20-18 decision to the Rochester high school team on the local floor Saturday night. With the scored tied al 18-18 and only seconds left to play, a Rochester man worked under the basket for a shot which gave the visitors 1 their two-point victory. The final gun cracked Immediately after the 1 next tip-off before the Jackets bad a chance to shoot for the tyh g points. After each team had scored two! field goals to end the first quarter I in a 1-4 tie, Decatur quickly shot into a 10-5 margin. At the end of the first half, the Yellow Jackets held a three-point margin at 11-8. Two field goals by the visitors . gave them a 12-11 lead soon after the third quarter opened, but Blythe scored on a rebound shot to put Decatur iii the lead again. (1. Strickler widened the gap with a ] free throw but Rochester tied the 1 count at 14-14. Cowan’s fielder from the side of the floor gave Decatur a 16-14 margin at the quarter. G. Strickler's foul toss increased 1 the lead to three points but two ■ field goals gave Rochester an 18-17 | lead. Rochester called its fourth i timeout and G. Strickler made the! free throw good to knot the count ■ at 18-18. Then Rochester came i through with the winning basket. ■ G. Strickler was the leading | scorer for the Jackets with a field i goal and three free throws for five , points. P. Strickler and Wynn

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each scored twice from the field. Rochester's scoring was well divided with four men each scoring four points. Seconds Win The Yellow Jacket second team acored an easy .18-12 victory over the Montnou.h varsity in a game played after the Rochester clash. In a preliminary game, the Decatur third team downed the Monmouth iseconds. 27 to If. Decatur FG FT TP | Cowan, f . I tl 2 11’. Strickler, f. 2 0 4 iEliliiger. e 'I •' 0 lii. Strickler, g. T 1 - r > I Blythe, g. 11 Wyn . f. 2 0 1 Eady. c. o « 0 Totals 7 4 18 Rochester FG FT TP i Cleland, f. .... 12 4 i Miller, f. ... 1 « 2 | Korkendorfer, c. 0 0 <• i Vernon, g. .204 I McCuen, g. 2 0 4 (Skidman, f. 0 0 0 I Magner, c. ... 2 0 4 I Taylor, g. 10 2 Totals 9 2 20 Referee. Elliott (Fort Wayne); j umpire. Craney (Fort Wayne). Men Force Motorist To Make Long Drive Indianapolis. Ja . 29. —(U.R) —Two bandits kidnaped and robbed Clar- | ence V. Vaughn. 36. Saturday night and forced him to drive them to . Muncie, he reported to police here I Sunday. . Vaughn said he was accosted by i the bandits whe’t he stopped for a i traffic light on a downtown street. They forced him to drive to the i edge of town, robbed him of a small ’ amount of money, and then forced I him to drive to Muncie, Vaughn! !said. Upon reaching Maio street in i ■ Muncie, the men disappeared into 'a pool room and Vaughn returned Ito Indianapolis immediately without reporting 4o Muncie ;o)i< ■ he told authorities here. - o Attorney General’s Son Is Near Death Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 29—<U.R>—i I Dickenson Cummings, only son of United States Attorney General Homer S. Cummings was believed near death today at Norwalk hos-' I pita!. He was critically injure 1 | in an automobile accident in which i a woman was killed Saturday | night.

BERNE LOSES ! TO KIRKLAND Kangaroos Defeat Bears In Overtime Battle Saturday, 18-16 , ...— _> The Kirkland Kangaroos flefeutI ed (he Her e Bears Saturday nigh) , at Kirkland in iui overtime battle.: ■, 18 to 1(1. I Kirkland held a 16-S bad with I only four minutes of play remain- I i Ing. The Bears (ought hack to tie the score al 16-16 before the final j gun sounded. In the overtime per- > led. C. Angsburger scored tlie only I poi- ts with a field goal. Kirkland > had led 6-3 at the half. i Scoring for the winners was well I divided. ('. Augsburger leading with | ( three field goals. Stucky was high l i point man for Berne with four field ( goals. > The Kirkland seconds deflated the Berne reserves in the prellmlni ary game. 17 to 13. Kirkland FG FT TP I Zlmmerma-., f 1 0 2 C. Augsburger. f. 3 0 6 j Wulllman, c. » 1 3 !> ] Beavers, g. Oil I 11 AUgSbUI-g.-r, g 12 1 Totals 6 6 is i Berne FG FT TP . Steiner, f. 11 3 1 Stauffer, f. ..oil II Dro, c. .2 o 4 I Fhieckiger, g. 4 o 0 0| Stucky, g 4 0 8 1 Neuenschwander, f. 0 I) 01 Totals .8 2 16' Referee. Gombert (Fort Wayne); ‘umpire, Gerig (Fort Wayne). o COLLEGE SCORES Butler 35; Walgish 23. Bull State 31; Western State 30 i (overtime) Hanover 43. Eastern Illinois 38. Franklin 26. Evansville 22. Minnesota 31; Northwestern 30. ' Manchester 34; Concordia 14. Detroit U. 45; St. Johns 26. o . _. HIGH SCHOOL SCORES Hartford City. 24. North Side 18. 1 Kendallville 25; C. C. (Fort Wayne) 23. Wabash 38: Elwood 23. Technical 45; Lebanon 22. .( Cathedral 32; Greemantle 23. I Shelbyville 23. Short ridge 16. Vincennes 23. Bedford V. Allen County Tourney Monroeville 25; Arcola ’’•! (final) 1

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DfiSKgBAWL by The Decatur G. E. Club will pry off the week’s basketball schedule tonight, meeting the Ossian Merchants at the Yellow Jacket gym at S:3O. As ae added attraction, the Monmouth Rockets will meet an independent team from Leipsic, Ohio, in a preliminary game at 7:30. —oOo — Last week was a disastrous one for Decatur high school teams. The Yellow Jackets and Commodores each dropped two games. —oOo — The Jackets lost their fourth conference game Friday night, losing a 34-21 decision to the Columbia City Eagles at Columbia City. Saturday night, the Yellow Jackets were nosed out on the local floor by Rochester. 20 to 18. after leading practically the entire game. —oOo— The Commodores lost to Ossian and Jefferson last week, dropping both games on the local floor. The pommies were forced to play the Jefferson game without the services of two regulars, Braden and Murphy, co-captaitis of the Commodore squad. The Kirkland Kangaroos downed the Berne Bears in a real battle at the Kirkland gym Saturday night, 18 to 16, in an overtime session. Berne staged a great comeback to tie the score before the final gun sounded but the Bears were

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unable to score in the extra period. —oOo—j Berne will open the week’s schedule for high school teams Tuesday night, meeting St. Mary’s of Huntington. ’ The St. Marys team handed the Bears their first defeat of the season December 15. —oOo — The Decatur Yellow Jackets will entertain the Bluffton Tigers on the local floor Friday night. It will be the third ■' r meeting of the year for the ■ ‘ two teams, each having won one game. 1 —oOo— The Decatur Commodores will do 1 battle with their bitterest rivals, ■ Central Catholic of Fort Wayne at Fort Wayne Friday night. It will be the first meeting of the year for ‘the two quintets. —oOo— Games schedule for county teams Friday and Saturday are as | follows: j Friday: Ro’anbke at Berne; Monmouth at Poling; Hartford vs. : Pleasant Mills at the Commodore i gym; Monroe at Bryant. Saturday: Kirkland at Lancast-' <;er; Pleasant Mills vs. Wren, Ohio,' ■ at Commodore gym. • | —oOo— The Detroit News, in the Sunday I I issue, carried an excellent picture i i of Pete Mylott. eon of M. J. My- ; lottos this city, who is a regular ■ guard on the Detroit University -basketball team. Detroit will bat- - tie Notre Dame at Detroit next 1, Saturday night. HOUSE ACCEPTS SENATE CHANGE IN MONEY BILL (CONTINUED FROM PaGE ONE) sweepyig monetary bill as a matter of course. Members chatted as the clerk read the senate changes. One Democratic con-

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