Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1935 — Page 6

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ILLINOIS FIVE UPSETS PURDUE lowa And Indiana Share Lead In Big Ten Conference Race Chicago. Jan. K —(U.R)—lowa and Indiana shared the Big Ten basketball lead today, each with a 1.000 per cent. Although the season did not open until Saturday every other team in the conference has been beaten except .Minnesota which hasn't played. lowa has won two games, adding a 39 29 victory over Chicago last night to its opening triumph over Ohio State. 32-21. Indiana. which won its opening game Saturday from Illinois, 32-28, didn't play last night. Purdue, defending champion ami favorite to repeat, was unexpectedly beaten last night by Illinois in a closing rush, 37 36. Two Held goals and a free throw enabled Illinois to win. Purdue had led at ' half time, 20-17. Wisconsin, which dropped it; first game to Purdue. 19-18, defeated Northwestern, 16-9, in a brillian’ defensive game, in which only sev en field goals were made on both sides The score was tied at the half, 6-6. Ohio State turned back .Michi pan, 33-30. in an overtime game. The Wolverines led at half time,

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’ 15-10. Last night's results: Illinois. 37; Purdue, 36. „ Wisconsin, 16; Northwestern, 9. a lowa, 39; Chicago, 23 B Ohio State, 33; Michigan, 30. Saturday's gum.-:: Illinois at Ohio State. L‘, Chicago at Purdue. I Michigan at .Minnesota. lowa at Northwestern.. Wisconsin at Indiana. : CLOVERLEAFS TO PLAY TOMORROW r, Strong Fort Wayne Team J Will Play In This City Wednesday ' i The Decatur Coverleafs will pl.iy 1 the t.;rong Harrison Hill Red Store 1 quintet from Fort Wayne at Hie Yellow Jacket gymnasium Wedn day evening. The visiting team holds victories , , ov -r the North Side R.-erea ion five and the General Electric Industrial' team, both of Fort Wiiyne. and 1 ii s t have the .strongest team , in the Industrial league in that c?;y. | The Cloverleaf:; w ill present their regular Un up. with Wynn ami Farrar Jt forward, Hehble at center ami Hill 11nd S Imepp, guards. ! A doubleheader attraction will : be stag. d. with annoiwcement of I the opening game of the evening to be mad a tomorrow. This will not ' be the usual preliminary game but a strong attraction will be booked. Club official's announced t titty that there will he no advance in admission charges. Three Decatur Boxers On Card Three Decatur amateur boxers . will a.ppe r on the fight card nt the G. E. Club gymnasium in F rt Wayne tonight. A total of lb bout ■ , have he n arranged for the evening. I with the opening fight scheduled for 8:30 o'clock. Virgil Urick will battl? .Howard I Shi gger of Van Bar n. Clarence , Le:t will fight it out with Wallie t Wal’itce of South Whitley and ; Lloyd Sheets will meet Tony Stile.; i of H mmond

DASKQSAWL —I standing Berne 12 It 1.000 Kirkland 11 1 .918 [Commodores II | .733 ; Hartford 6 4 .600 , Yellow Jackets 4 ti .400 I.Jefferson 4 6 .400 I .Monroe 4 6 .4(h) ! Monmouth 5 8 .385 Geneva | 9 .100 Pleasant Mills 1 9 .100 —OOO1 Tonight, after a year's lapse, the 1 battle for the city eighth grade championship will be resumed. The . first game of the two out of three series will be played at the public high school gymnasium, starting at 8 o’clock. o< >0 — i The youngsters will he battling for possession of the George WentImff trophy, given in temporary possession each year to the team winning the serie.;. No series was played last year because of inability of the schools to agree on dates. <>< to These young boys deserve a crowd for tonight’s fame, as in future years they will be ' the ones making history as Yellow Jackets and Commodores. Central will be fighting to retain the trophy, which it won in the last series played, in 193233. According to our schedule, all games this week will be played on .Friday night. All teams in the. county, with the exception of the Monroe Bearkatz, are slated to see action. oOo—- — Commodores will play the 1 1 only game carded for this city Friday night. As opponents, the Commies will tackle the Jefferson' Warriors. The locals nosed out a one-point victory over the Warriors ten days ago and a hot, closely con-1 tested battle appears certain Friday. —oOo — The Decatur Yellow Jackets will journey to Auburn Friday night for their third conference game of the season. The two teams and coaches Curtis and Young have been great rivals for several seasons. —oOo — Games scheduled for county

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teams Friday night are: Berne at Portland; Hartford at Kirkland, Monmouth at Bryant; , Pleasant Mills and Geneva at Hartford. -000Tho Commodores did pretty well by themselves over the weekend, winning two of three games. The , Commies defeated Avilla and Mar- | mion academy and lost to the Kirkland Kangaroos, after holding a slight lead with only a short time , to play. , -000And the Yellow Jackets lost to! Bluffton. This column rarely prints a word one way or another about I officiating but the work of the men 1 ! handling the Decatur-Bluffton game l Friday needs comment. While Impartial. the officials spoiled what (promised to be one of the best’ games of the season. The game was over-officiated in the first five 1

minutes, with both men blowing their whistles for little or no reas- 1 ion. The officiate did NOT decide 'the game in either team's favor but the boys on the floor were sadly handicapped in their efforts to give the fans an exhibition of good has- ( ketball. —oOo — Father Hennes, athletic director ( of the Catholic high school, has ' —.

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.announced changes in the date of the two games scheduled with St. Mary's of Anderson. The game at Anderson, scheduled for Jan 21. I has been changed to Jan. 16. The | home date, originally carded for Jan. 1. has been transferred to Thursday, Feb. 6. o ASSERT BRUNO CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE his life and laid a gnarled finger I on the defendant's left knee. “That is the man.'' he said in a cracked voice. His attitude carried all the conviction that he could muster. “I saw his face like a man who had seen a ghost. He was in a dirty green car. I saw a part cf a ladder." But the words of Hochmuth.

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I who contended his eyes w;i good, failed to shake the prisoner | I His stone like face remained unI changed Slowly, he moved his I head from side to -ide iu denja if the charge. Olhi-iwi < •“* not move a muscle. The undent Hochmuth'; twn-, mimv dropped two bumbslx I ■' liir i the prosecution: 1. It was designed to pm« I Hauptmann at the scene of He ( I crime on the day of 111' 1 ' rime I whereas he hM tcadfastly denied ; 1,,, was in N’ew J-rs.-v at any time, approximate to March 1. W - 2. It wa; designed to link him with the kidnap ladder. County Aeent Notes ♦ Chinch liii---; comprctely <b-s|e,>v. I ml or reduced the yield on tho'i<ands of acres of corn, oats, wheat | and other small grains in Indiana 1 during the past war, due to a I Wure t > control the ravages c,f I th'e destructive insect pest. In | cider Io help farmers to plan i-e’liods of control through var ions nrewnlivc measure; ini Ind-. | Ing the use of resistant crops a i special program has been arrar?-, ' ed for Jan. 15. in connecti -n with I the agricultural conference held ! at Purdue. I Professor J J. Davis, head of the Entomology department cf Purdue who sunorvi-’ed the chinch bug control campaign the past season, including the distribution, of crevsc e wall talk on methods of control for 1935, discussing steps tha* may l-e taken this winter as t well as next - or'nz and summer., Hs experience with chinch bugs in Indiana last year as well as his knowledge cf th;> problem of control in other states should prove of value to every farmer in this ( state since the bugs promise to be I a cron menace In Indiana in 1935.; Fighting a combination cf ■ chinch burs and drouth has been the chief acrivity of most Benton ■ county farmers this year. Lend'e | Lowmon, of near Earl Park, will give his experiences on a [are-'! general farm in the control of I this Insect. The problems of or- ; ganizing communities to fight this ' insect and wl.at c-n he accom-

i unshod by 9iich cooperation will . be dneuecd by F. M. CbrUtOM. ' Henton comity agent. . n„. t , of Soj Beans and oiher chinch bug leslstant crops t. , 19.'-,' will be discussed by M. O P.me Os P'l'Ube This is an ,mp, ,-tant ph .se of chinch bus ~mrol since ’here are sillMrtitUle . to ti'l almost every need m iln farm, ’hat are not subject io attack by chinch —— Unmarried Couple Found Dead I otlay Ini; na .IM. Jan 8-U’Pl- Thnuie Ollie; Ilsa young unmnrried Indian:' dm couple were found today in a tourist cabin near Mct’ordsvlU*. Death apparently was t aused by asphyxiation fr m a g » stove, .nn'y

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