Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1934 — Page 6

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PURDUE AGAIN CHAMPIONS IN BIG TEN RACE Boilermakers Defeat Wisconsin To Clinch Big Ten Title Chicago, Feb 2* U,P Tin- BitTon baskethall title belonged to Purdue today for the third time In live years. The Boilermakers clinched the championship last night by defeating Wisconsin at Lafayette. It was the fourth time Purdue has won the conference title ouright, equaling the Big Ten record for undisputed championships pre viously shared by Chicago and W eonsin. In addition to the four tin disputed titles won by Purdue, the Boilermakers have shared five oth er championships. Since 1922 the Boilermakers have won or shared in six Big Ten titles Purdue's record entitles the Boil ermakers to ranking among the best teams of the country. They hare lost only two games, dropping a 39-2 S decision to Notre Dame early in the season and a 3S-36 game to lowa. In a later game Purdue beut lowa. 45-33. and trimmed Pittsburgh, the team that beat Notre Dame twice. hi 10 conference games Purdue has scored 431 points to the opposition's 269. averaging more than 43 points per game. The Boilermakers set the season's record by running tip 6ti points in a game against Michigan. The Purdue team is composed of three seniors and two juniors and all are from Indiana. The regular members of the team are Norman Cottom. Terre Haute, and Ray Eddy, Columbus, forwards; William Fehring. Terre Haute, center, and Emmett Lowery, Indianapolis, and Edward Shaver. Frankfort, guards. Six Big Ten conference games re-

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main to be pla.n-d, three Sulurda night and three Monday night. Th buttle from now on will In* bet we* N'orthw.- I rn, cochampioti las year; WLconsin and Indiana f. second place. Northwestern cn m rup podti-m by defeating Ch eago Saturda; night, Purdue was not as hard press,* to down Wisconsin last night as i ■ their first gutne, which the Boib . makers won by a one-point margin The Boilermakers took the lea* • arly and le<{ at lialn inu*. 17-12 . Prehoskl. Wisconsin substitute foi , ward, was the only Badger able t< i make more than one field goal. Bn . he mad'- six and with two Irethrows won high point honors. Northwestern moved into secom place with seven victories am tour defeats by downing Michigan 29 25. Indiana won over Chicago I 39-30. Illinois took a hard batth from lowa. 35 31. Th« score wm tied 15 15 at the hall and litre, times in the final half. The Big Ten standing follows: W L I’d Purdue 9 1 ,9<)i Northwestern 7 I .631 Wisconsin 6 4 ,6m Indiana 6 I 6m lowa 6 5 5 1. Illinois 6 5 54 Minnesota 5 •» . Ohio Slate I x .33.: Michigan 3 x .273 Chicago 2 9 .IX2 Butler Wins Title Indianapolis. Ind.. Feb. 27 — I Butler university clinched the Missouri vail- y conference basketball championship by defeatng 39 to 27. here last n’.gnt. It was the bulljogs*- eighth victory in nine conference games and their se'-ond consecutive title. The lowa t am flashed a rapid scoring attack late in the first period to hold Butler to a 21-20 lead at the half. The rally withered as Gene Demmary anil Roscoe Balts went on a scoring spree for Butl •• wh-ch netted 21 points. Former President Os Oberlin College Dies Oberlir. 0 . Feb 27 alJ.Rf— Dr. Henry ChurchiH Kin?. 75. president ot Oberlin college' for 25 years and on*' ol the nation’s best known educators, diva ai iris nonie He had 1 i in ill health since < d ■ ' par;.:

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DRAWING MADE I OF TOURNAMENT ■ HERE THIS WEEK Invitational Eighth Grade Tourney W ill Be Held At Commodore Gym n 1 Drawing for flit* annual (\itliolic ‘•’.♦ighlh vrade invito!h.nal tourn‘y, • wh : . h will Im' held at the Commo:1 j ,|..r. gym hole Frida.. March 2. II oid Sunday, March 4 was an- ' mium-.-d today by Robert W> tn- "' ! boll, coach of the St. Joe team. ' ami sponsor of the tourney. - • Four antes will be played Fri- ] day afternoon and two Friday; 11 1 night. Semi-final games will be 11 ' played Sunday afternoon and the '*' championship contest Sunday night The two- ini final losers *' | will play a preliminary to th*-* '• ! hampionship battle. '■ Nino For' Wayne Catholic '■l eighth grade teams and the local •' team are entered in the meet. s I Two fine trophies have been i donated for the tourney. Con J. - Sterling, manage) of th" For: Wayne auto license bureau, has I-1 donated a beautiful silver trophy. 11 1'o be presented to the winning 7 | 'earn, l.ose Brothers of this city " I will present a medal to the play ■ " : *ni iitdgi d the most sportsmanlike. ■• i The draw for the tourney folFriday Afternoon li 11 :2'l St Peter vs St. Andrew 't 2—2 ::u st. Hyacinth vs Cathedral 2. — 2:3II--St. Joe (Deeattirl vs St. I Jud* 4 t Pre. ions Blood vs St. Joe (Fort Wayne) Friday N*ght i 5—S: 15 -St. Mary vs winner gaum 1 . 6 -9 15—St. Patrick vs winner game 2 Sunday Afternoon I 7 2:45 -Witmer 3vs winner -1 s 3:45 Winner 5 vs winner ti Sunday Night - 9—-7 ;.lo—Consolation game, loser , 7 vs loser S .I 10 x.:t" Winner game 7 vs winner game S (Champion) iCLUB LEADERS HOLD MEETING I CONTTN’T'EP FROM PAGE ONE) A majority of the clubs will meet at the K. of C. hall. The club lead-

1 1 ers are: I Miss Grace Coffes. Mrs. Dick Bock, Mrs. Harold Smith. Helen ii.-Itliousi . Mrs. Mary Wertzberger. Mis. Helen Staub. Mr: . Pau! iriede. Mrs. Ralph Ro-p Miss Ag- . nee Wolpert, Miss Emelia Totmelbr Mi<s Mary Harris. Miss Cecelia \’e -wald, Mrs. Alex Tanvas. Says Brown Aided In Air Mail Legislation Washincim. Feb. 27. — tU.P> ; Charges that former Postmaster | ■l.'neral Walter F. Brown and al group of airline operators combin-1 ed to lobby the Mi Nary Waters I : iai:mail airmail act through eon-1 , gress" were made to the senate air-11 I mail committee today by Karl : flow ley. postoffice department soi i.der the questioning by Senator Warren R. Austin, Repti., Mt.. Crow t ley said the evidence on which i IPostmaster General James A. Farley based the recent order cancelling all domestic mail contracts showed that "these contractors and Mr. Brown worked together in lobI byitig the bill through congress." Brown's administration of air mail matters, ho said, was “not in the public interest."

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This composite photo shews Primo Camera, heavyweight champion of the world, and Tommy Loughran. Philadelphia hallenger. as they will shape up when they meet at Miami. Fla., on l ebruary 2S for the title.

~ ■ . * '■ byPET^^^^" 1 The Decatur Commodores have scheduled another game. The Commodores will play St. Joseph's college at Rensalaer next Sunday afternoon. March 4. at 3:30 o'clock. The trip lias been planned as an outing for the Commodores —oOo — The Jefferson Warriors finished | in first place in the county team standings, winning lx games and losing only three. All three losses, were by narrow margins. Berne . finished second with Is wins and 1 five losses, pleasant Mills is undisputed cellar champion with only , one victory in 15 starts. ■ 1.-'' Final Standing W L Pct < I Berne 1 s .» .. a Kirkland 13 6 .6XI I

NiiKiana i.> n -n't Monroe 8 7 .533 Commodores 12 11 .522 Hartford S 11 .421 Yellow Jackets 7 14 .333 Monmouth 6 12 .333 Geneva 5 11 .313 Pleasant Mills . ........ 1 14 .067 What a Drawing • If anyone had started out with the deliberate intention of messing up the Bluffton sectional they couldn't have done a better job than the I H S. A. A. board which met Friday at Indianapolis. "Lady Luck certainly perched on the shoulders of the Bears—those from Ossian and the ones from Berne. Berne drew the bye and has only to defeat the winner of he Lancaster-Liberty Center game to reach the semi-final. Ossian goes to the semi-minal by defeating the winner of the Pleasant Mills-Chest-er game and their own tilt with Monroe. “Lower bracket conditions are much different. Bluffton. Rockcreek. Jefferson and Petroleum are all poured into the same pot. Only one of these teams can go to the semi-final to meet either Union Cen-1

A glance at the figures indicates the giant Italian na> . everything over his opponent but boxing skill. Loughi ran. one of the greatest strategists in the ring, is . conceded a chance to win on point** failing a kavo.

ter or Kirkland. "There is no clear-cut path for dopesters to follow this time. The team standing indicates ilia: I'niott Center will meet Ossian i nthe final. In sm h event Union Center should win. having defeated Ossian twice during the season, but there are ■till a few of the old adage "You can't beat a good team three times in succession ' And every one ad mits Ossian lias a good team.'' Bluffton News-I'anner. —oOo— All games of tile Fort Wayne sectional tourney, with the exception of tlie Friday night session, will be broadcast over station WCL. Gunnar Elliot, who has been broadcasting games for several years, will be at the microphone. — -o — SIO,OOO Damage In Fire At Rochester Rochester, Ind.. Feb. 27—(U.R> — Damage estimated at >16.000 resulted from fire today which threatened destruction of the building housing the Rochester New >-S-*ntinel and the Barnhart

- - rT/ xoMr rs /jriryv /r j j J*f l ii■ IH Ikl J 4, J ’ , 41 Saturday March 3rd CLOSES ONE OF THE GREATEST SALES OF OUR 60 YEARS IN BUSINESS IN DECATUR. REMEMBER SATURDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO BEY THE SENSATIONAL BARGAINS WE ARE OFFERING IN OUR 60th ANNIVERSARY SALE. EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS BARGAINS GALORE BUT \TU p I)AY. MARCH 3rd IS POSITIVELY THE LAST DAY. WE HONESTLY BELIEVE IT WILL BE A LONG, LONG 7 IVE BF FORE YOU WILL IIWE THE OPPORTUNITY TO I’l \ HIGH GRADE MERCHANDISE AT SUCH LOW PRICES AGAIN. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF DRY GOODS, CHINA, GLASSWARE, FURNITURE, WASHING M AC II I NE S , RUGS, HARDWARE, PAINT, FENCE, HARNESS OR HOUSEHOLD NEEDS NOW IS THE LOGICAL TIME TO BUY AS VV E CANNOT REPLACE OUR MERCHANDISE AT S A M E LOW PRICES. The Schafer Store HARDWARE mn D HOME FURNISHINGS

; Van Trump Printing company, r Four apartments, located on the e second floor above the newspaper i ' plant were completely destroyed. ‘ Water ilamag d the largo stock of I reaper and th Q newspaper offices i below. The blaze, firemen said, started in the apartment of Miss Juanita Lloyd, school teacher, from an ' ‘ overheated electric stove. Arrest Os Boys Breaks Up Ring Laporte. Ini.. Feb. 27 —(UP) — The arrest of two boys, one 14 y- ars , old and the other 17. was said by police today to have broken up a | youthful crime chib. The younger boy admitted that he ! was aide! by two companions in perpetrating a score of burglaries during the last year. He said that none of the three knew each others names, that they used aliases and that they had made a pact never to he seen together on the street. Get the Habit — Trade at Home

HOAGLAND FIVE i LOSES, 49-29 Decatur G. E. Chib Defeats Visiting Team Hamlily Monday Night The Decatur G E. < hili ha I little' ditfi'Uhy defeating the Hoagland Independents Mon lay night nt the; Yellow Jiick'*l gym. 49 to 29 Deca-! tor led al the half, 17 to 11, I Th * local in lepend'-nt te am usml -i-ven m'-n during the game, all ; brcuklng lido the scoring column, i Vernon Hill was high point maul with five field goals und a free throw Jak* Hill cored tiin** points ' and Steel * eight. Gresley was outstanding for ‘Hoagland with four foul tosses fori a total of 12 points. Hohnke scored j twice from the field and four times I from the charity stripe. The G. E. club will play the Lin-1 h o Independ uts from Fort Wayne at the local gym next Monday night. The Lincos boast one of the j strongest teams in Fort Wayne. I Starred in the Linko lor.eitp is | Ward Meyers, former star with

Study in Brown and Black : -■ ft x.. Vtor. |L- * t a There it is in black and white, or words to that eff- ’ -ay. foi Postmaster General Walter F. Brown (left) to Senator Hugo Bi grand inquisitor of Senate committee probing airmail * : -. a, ■xamine a document introduced in evidence during Bn ii - m-vo on witness stand.

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