Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1934 — Page 6

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Commodores Score Easy Victory Over Delpho

DELPHOS FIVE BADLY BEATEN, SCORE, 33-20 Decatur Team Piles Up Long Lead To Coast To Easy Triumph Blazing in for Hold goal after field goal in the second quarter, the Decatur t ommodorea marked up an easy and impressive victory over St. John's of Delphos, Ohio. Tuesday night at the local gym, 33 to 20. Holding only a a to 1 margin at . the end of the first quarter, the Commies opened up in the second i period to run their total to 21. i while holding Delphos to three] points, leaving Decatur with a 21 to 1 lead at the rest period. The i scoring spurt was led by Captain Murphy, who dropped in four field ’ goals during the quarter. The Commodores increased their margin to 21 points at 31 to 10 as Hie third quarter ended and then coasted through the final quarter to register their most imposing victory of the season. Decatur's excellent offensive play . was equally matched by its de-i tensive work, particularly in the first three quarters. Delphos scor-1 ed only one field in the entire first ■ half and added only two fielders in the third quarter. Scoring honors for the Commodores go to Don Hess, who hit five times from the Held and onee from the foul line. Murphy tallied nine points and four fielders and a free i throw. Wolfhurst was outstanding I for the visitors with two field goals and one point from the charity; stripe. The Decatur reserves defeated: the Delphos seconds in the prelim-'

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Inafy game, It t*> 11. Decatur FG FT TP D. Hess, f. 5 1 11 Lose, .« 1 ” 2 Braden, c. 13 5 Murphy, g. 4 I 9 Hain. g. 3 U fi |H. Baker, f. 0 0 » It. Hess. f. 0 0 0 I W. Baker, g. « » ” VVolport, g. o o •• Totals II 5 33 Delphos I'll FT I'l’ Brandehoff, f. 1 o 2 Lung. f. 1 3 5 Sehmersal. c, 10 2 Sciierger, g. 10 2 Wolfhurst, g. 2 1 5 Kill, f 1 ■ 2 ■» Stollkamp, f. " •• u (Irone, c. o 0 0 I Schnelxer, g. 0 o o Jettinghoff, g. 0 0 0 ; Totals 7 « 2" j Referee: (Taney, Fort Wayne. I Monmouth Forms Independent Team 1 The Monmouth “Sharks”, com-' ] posed of former Monmouth high : school players, have formed an independent basketball team, with Glenn Merica coach and Edwin Weidler manager. i The first game will lie played with the Monmouth varsity JanuI ary 4. Teams wishing to book the | Sharks are asked to telephone 874- () or write to Edwin Weidler. Mem ! tiers ol the team are Carl HeckI man. Teddy Hobrock and David Myers, forwards: Everett Singlei ton. center; Edwin Weidler and Glenn Merica, guards. o Conrad Defeated By King Wyatt — Lloyd Conrad. Decatur amateur! ■ boxer, lost a close decision to King ■ 'Wyatt at Fort Wayne Tuesday I night. Conrad gave Wyatt a great' battle but the Fort Wayne lad won. through superior boxing. Virgil Crick, also of Decatur. I outslngged Max Crosley of Fort ' Wayne to win easily and Fred ■ . Klink of Decatur was defeated by ] Bill Wickcliffe of Fort Wayne. o Monmouth To Play Decatur Reserves — I The Monmouth vnrsity will play j I the Yellow Jacket reserve team at i the Mon pouth gym Friday night.) I A.s a preliminary game to be play-j lei at 7:30 o'clock, the M nmouthi I girlri will play the Bern * girls. o __ - or the Habit — 4 earl. »’

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JCOLOREOTEAM HERE TONIGHT 11 Toledo Ciralskys Will Play Decatur Cloverleaf s Tonight - 1 The Decatur Cloverleafs have 'booked an excellent attraction for I their game at the Yellow Jacket igymnasium tonight. An all-color-•*il quintet from Toledo, the CiralI sky Meats, will furnish the opposition. The Ciralsky are the Ohio state colored champs, gold medal central state champs and Toledo city champions. All members of the team are former Toledo high school .stars and some have had college experience. The Cloverleafs will present their regular lineup of Farrar and Wynn, forwards; Schnepp. center; ,S/bnepp and Hill, guards. The feature game is scheduled to start at 8:30 o'clock, with a preliminary carded at 7:3'1. Usual admission prices of 1(1 an.! 15 cents will prevail. — DfISKSWL The Decatur Yellow Jackets and Berne Dears will be greeted by a capacity crowd Thursday night I when they apttear on the local) floor in one of the season's feature I i battles. Very few tickets were ■ available for local fans Tuesday | evening and Berne followers are ■ still clamoring for admission to! ' the game. 000 Berne has one of the state's few | ' undefeated ouimets, having won j i 10 games without, a blot on the] i record. Numbered among the I i Bears’ victims are Monroe. G< nevi. Markle. Jefferson. Monro--, ville, twice; New Haven. St. Mary's of Huntington, Woodburn ] and Montpelier. 000 The Yellow Jackets have copped the honors in four of five contests to date. The only defeat was suffered at

LaPorte. when the Slicers nosed out a 22-21 victory in a tough battle. Decatur's victims are Geneva. New Haven. Winamac and North Side of Fort Wayne. 000 The Bears will bring practically i the same team to Decatur Thnrs- ' dav as defeated the Yellow JackI ets last season after a bitter conI test. 21 to 19. The only regular missing from last season is Stauffer. center, Jost by graduation. In his r.lcae Pro is jumping center I and Felber is at Dro’s forward ■ post. 000 Cf th* Yellow Jackets, Blythe is I I the only regular on this year's : team. D'yth* has been shifted ' this season from the floor guard ! position to a forward snot, where! he has been coming through in i fine style. obo The Commodores will play their second game of the week Friday night. traveling to I Monroeville to battle the Cuba. This game is incorrectly marked a home game in the

Democrat’s schedule booklets. 000 The Pleasant MUM Spartans will be after their second victory i of the season Friday night when I they meet the Willshire. Ohio, miintet at the Commodore gym. The Spartans' only victory of the season was obtained at the pense of Willshire early in the season. Geneva wi’l plav at Hartford township Friday night. 000 Onlv one game is scheduled Saturday night. The Kirkland Kangaroos will plav the ttnlon i Center Badger* of Wells county on the Union Center floor. 000 The Decatur Commodores really [turned on the heat last night to , trounce St. John’s of Delphos on the local floor. The offensive . -spurt staged by the boys in the second quarter was a joy to be- | ho’d. It was easily the most ImI pressive showing made by the team this season. 000 The Wells county standing follows: W L Pct. Bluffton Tigers <5 1 .850 Petroleum Panthers. 0 2 .750 ■ Rockcreek Dodger .... 5 3 .625 k •» r. - tuUCWTI iUUMiI O « *' Liberty Lion, .43 .572 Ossian Bears 5 5 .500

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Union Badgers Lancaster Bobcats 2 7 .222 000 With, the northeastern Indiana conference race bare’y ttndet way. only three teams. Central and South Side of Fort Wayne, and Decatur remain undefeated. The present standing follows: W L Pet. Central 3 0 1.000 South Side 1 0 1.00-1 Decatur 1 0 1.000 ] Bluffton .. 2 1 .607 Cartvtt ... i i .'.is) 1 Kendallville ... 11 .500 ! North Side 0 1 ,000 | Kuburn 0 1 .000 Hartford City 0 1 .000 I Columbia City 0 3 .000 Notre Dame Team Defeated Tuesday S uth Fend. Ind.. Dec. 19 —(UP) ■ —North west era’s strong basketball te«m won its fourth straight game ) last nigit by defeating Notre Dame UR-25, before a crowd of fi.ooo. Leo Grossburg. Northi/astarn reserve 'center, sank the winning free throw ' in the final minutes of play. Llye Fisher, Northwestern Forward, was high scorer with 10 points o —_ Star Athlete Gives Demonstration Here Bob Lynn, a mombe. of the 1928 : Olympics team, gave a demonstration of 'hitch kicking' at the Dc<uI tur .high school this ufternoon. Mr. Lynn graduated from the University of Southern California in 1927 and was a star high jumper and pole vaulter, later turning to hitch kicking. He holds the world record at nine feet, seven and three-fourth inches, .trade in the 1928 Olympics. Mr. Lynn has been visiting in Ind-

I “Dope” Hit in U. S. Crime Drive J ' I i i * ' Y* ■ A jk n ‘ M > 7- s • A 7 ' y . ?*frdiWkGß •'. » WspjK ;* - ■ - - ■ —-—— 4 ? •! ’ pipe* seized by police. ’ t ygjf H. J. Analinger jaJjLjg’jXlK’t ■ i&y- * #-*- d : • MwiL eM - J .... ■-■■ • ■■,■■■■:■-■ . Contraband in SIOO,OOO New York City "dope" haul. Successful in his drives against gangdom, Uncle Sam is dusting off his eraser to wipe the nation’s crime slate clean of illegal drug ) trafficking. As a result of the recent series of “dope” raids, con--1 ducted simultaneously in every major city of the country, H. J. 5 Anslinger, chief of the U. S. narcotics bureau in Washington, exS pressed the need for more effective laws to control the traffic, and •ought the aid of states to adopt uniform drug laws. )

; iana with Churles Hornbostel and ! . Ivan Fuqu.i. Indiana University athi letes. with wham he made a tour of European countries the past , summer. He isas given this demonstration in several high sch .ols in the suite. o Lady Commodores To Play Tonight 1 ! 11 The I .adv Commodores will play the Kirkland girls toim at Ute local i gym tonight at 7 o'clock. Following this game, the St. Joe eighth grade will play the high school midget five. _o NAVAL TREATY : eosi injiei- --fciM paar ONE) 1 tion treaty. In a session that lae-ted only 40 minutes the privy council, highest advisory body in the Nippon etnI pire. sealed the. doom of the five- , power pact by approving the cab , inet recommendation that Japan , withdraw. There remained now only formal notification of abrogation to . end the treaty which for 12 years has restricted fortification of the Pacific and imposed the 5-5-3 tonnage ratio on the navies of 'he United States, Great Britain and Japan. ‘ The action made necessary a new naval treaty, in which Japan I will seek to achieve equality, and • put an end to the exploratory ■ conversations being held in Lon- . don looking toward the revision of • the Washington pact in a 1935 ’ conference. | o i FOR SALE —Spotted sow and pigs, I spotted male hog; 12 head of ewes i or 12 head of ewe lambs. Phil L. . Sehieferstein, r. ute 7, Decatur. 300-a3tx

DAMAGE SUIT VENUED HERE Alienation Os Affections Suit Vcnued From Allen County Charging that the defendant has destroyed his family life and ■brought him into great shame and dishonor." Edwin L SI igie is suing Edward J. Hall for IIO.d'M damages in an alienation of affei- [ tion suit vcnued here from the ! Allen county superior court today. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff and his wife were married on January 20. 1913 and have three children, the oldeet of whom is 17 years of age. The comnlaint continues, stating that until 1928 the plaintiff and h’s wife lived together happily and that Mrs. S'agle was devoted to the th’ee children. In 1928. the comnlaint states “the defendant without the knowledge of this p'aintiff begin to visit plaintiff's wife at her home, and met her at o iter places, going ( with her in ratomoblles to different places and remaining away several hours together. "That hv E'lwi-d J. Hull -showing this n’-inl’ff's wi'o numerous marks of kindness and affection th P defe 'dsnt w--n the affection of Mrs. Slagle: that she informed him that her love and affection for plaintiff as his wife, had ceased.” In September. 1933. Mrs. Slagle began action for a divorce. Previous to th’s Mrs Slacle is alleged to have told her busband that -she would not give Hall up and that he had “nromlsed to stand by h n r and she stated that she would not live with this plaintiff." Slag'e al’eged in the complaint that his wife and Hall had clandestine meetings and that it was ’mblicly known and all these facts have become known in the neighborhood in which the plaintiff lived.” He then alleged that ho has 1 een deprived of the "association, companionship and conjugal affection and -services of his wife and her a'd in his domestic affairs; that Hall lias destroyed the family life of the plaintiff and because ofc

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