Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1937 — Page 6

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BERNE DEFEATS ROCKCREEK FIVE Bears Rally In Third Quarter To Defeat W ells County Team Borne’* Boars, rallying from behind In the third quarter, defeated the Rockcreek Dodgers from Wells county Saturday night at the Berne auditorium, 46 to 31. Rockcreek took the offensive early, holding a lead of 7 to 0 at the quarter, and 18 to 17 at the half. Berne’s third quarter rally, however, gave the Bears a lead of 37-25 as the final period opened. Winteregg led the Bears scoring with 14 points, with Dro a close second with 13 markers. Rader and Wilke each tallied nine points for the Wells county quintet. Berne FG FT TP > Lehman, f 3 0 6 > Baumgartner, f. 2 0 4 Dro. c 6 1 13 J W. Sprunger. g. ... 0 0 0 j Neuenschwander, g. 0 0 0 Winteregg. g 6 2 14 j R. Sprunger, g. 4 1 9 Totals 21 4 46 Rockcreek FG FT TP Rader, f. 4 19 Wilke, f 4 1 9 Gurtner. c. ...3 17 Gilbert, g 0 2 2 Harnish, g. 12 4 Lesh. f 0 0 0 Totals 12 5 31 Referee, McClure (Fort Wayne). Umpire, Crowe (Markle). Preliminary Berne 33. Rockcreek 32 (overtime).

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County I Basketball Teams J Tuesday Yellow Jackets second team. I tourney with Huntington, Peru and ■ Wabash at Peru. Thursday Berne vs. Central Catholic at J Fort Wayne. County first team tourney at Geneva. Friday Commodores vs. Elmhurst at Decatur. 1 Yellow Jackets at Roanoke, j County second team tourney at . Geneva. Saturday Yellow Jackets vs. Central at Fort Wayne. First and second team tourneys at Geneva. MONROE LOSES TO PENNVILLE — Bearkatz Are Defeated Saturday Night By Jay ' County Quintet The Monroe Bearkatz. after holding an 11-10 lead at the first half, were nosed out by the Pennville Bulldogs at Pennville Saturday night. 24 to 22. The game was close all the way. E. Stuckey was Monroe's high scorer, hitting six times from the field for 12 points. Janies was best for Pennville with 10 points. Monroe FG FT TP Fricke, f 11 3 Longenberger. f. 2 0 4 Gilbert, c 11 3 Hocker, g 0 0 0 E. Stuckey, g. 6 0 12 Totals 10 2 22 Pennville RG FT TP J. Reid, f 113 Stansbury, f 10 2 A. Reid, c 4 0 8 W. Reid, g 0 11 James, g 5 0 10 Totals .11 2 24 Preliminary Pennville, 26; Monroe, 23. H. S. BASKETBALL South Side (Fort Wayne) 31. Michigan City 14. Columbia City 43. New Haven 31. Elmhurst 39, Woodburn 22. Elkhart 33, Warsaw 23. Roanoke 27, East Union 17. College Basketball Purdue 37, Michigan 26. Indiana 46. Chicago 26. lowa 33. Northwestern 26. Illinois 31, Wisconsin 28. Notre Dame 25. Butler 24. Franklin 32, DePauw 24. Ohio State 39, New York U. 32. Manchester 39. Huntington 35. Pittsburgh 30, Carnegie Tech 26. Indiana Receives Copies Os Speeches Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 11.—fdJ.R) —lndiana university library today received autographed copies of 27 of the most important messages and addresses delivered by Governor Paul V. McNutt during his four-year term. W. A. Alexander, university librarian. said the addresses were requested and Include the inaugural address, messages to the Indiana general assembly, an address at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia in 1936 seconding nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and speeches given in connection with George Rogers Clark memorial dedication ceremonies at Vincennes. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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GENEVA SCORES TWO VICTORIES Cardinals Add To Victory , String, Beating Jackson And Poling I The Geneva Cardinals increased 11'their winning streak last week end with two victories, defeating Jack son township Friday night, 31 to J 28, and Poling Saturday night. 32 to 2D. Both games werep layeil at : the new Geneva gymnasium. Geneva took the lead early in I the Poling game, holding a 17-8. margin at the half. Grile was Geneva's best scorer with five field goals for a total of 1(1 points. Henshaw and Gletzner each scored eight points for the Jay county team. Geneva FG FT TP i Beerbower, f. 1 3 5' Smith, f. 4 19 Grile, f. 5 0 10 Conner, c 0 0 •• McKissick, c. 3 0 6 Windmiller, g. 0 0 0 Muth. g. 1 0 3 Totals 14 4 32 1 Poling FG FT TP • D. Alberson, f. 0 2 2 Ninde. t ........ 1 • 1 j Henshaw, f. 4 0 8 Gletznr. c. 3 2 8 H. Alberson, g 0 0 0 1 Holsten. g. ... 0 0 0 1 ! Brubaker, g. 0 0 O' Totals 8 4 20 1 Referee, Stahley; umpire, Neal. o H si I Ject* i n<i W^ l (By Peter r Standing W L Pct. 1 Geneva .. 71 .875 ' Berne 9 4 .692 “ Kirkland . .. 9 4 .692 Yellow Jackets 7 5 .583 Hartford 5 4 .556 Monmouth 6 5 .545 j Mon?!<>e 4 5 .444 Commodores 4 8 .333 Jefferson 1 5 .167 Pleasant Mills . .. 0 9 .000 000 The Commodores will play the only game scheduled to be held in Decatur this week. The Commies will entertain the Elmhurt Trojans on the local floor Friday night. 000 Decatur's Yellow Jackets face a really tough task this week, with - t ,vo stiff games, both a,way from t home. Friday night, the Yellow 1

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Jackets will play the Roanoke Stonewalls at Roanoke. Saturday | night the Jackets journey to Fort ' Wayne to hnttle the CentraJ TlgI ere. <>()o Roanoke apparently 4s again the I lelase of Huntington county teams,, having lost only one game so far, j this season. La,wt Saturday, the, i Stonewalls chalked up two victories, winning a tour team tourney , !i“l<l at Union Center. Roanoke 1 deieilted Imfayette Central In the first round. 29 to 19, and Union Center of Wells .county in the final game, 27 to 17. 000 Little need be said about the strength of the Central Tigers, Runners-up to Frankfort. state champions, in the finals of the state tourney last March, Central again is plenty tough, showing their strength Friday night in trouncing the Hartford City Airdales at Hartford City. 000 For county teams, thq annual Adams county tourney will hold the spotlight. Both the first and second team tourneys will be he'd thin week end. starting Thursdaynight with the first round of the varsity meet. Both tourneys will be played at the new Geneva gymnasium. 000 Opening games of the varsitytourney Thursday will pit Kirkland agajnst Hartford. Jefferson vn Pleasant .Mills and Monmouth vs Geneva. Monroe won the first round bye. The second team tourney. opening Friday night, will be Monroe vs Pleasant Mills, Hartford vs Jefferson and Geneva vs Kirkland. Monmouth was awarded the first .round bye. 000 Semi-final games in both tourneys will be played Saturday- afternoon. with the final games: Saturday night. 000 Berne, not entered in the county tourney, will plav only one game this week, on Thursday night. The Bears will play Central Catholic at Fort Wayne Thursday, 000 The Yeliow Jacket second team will take part in a four-team tourney Tuesday night at Wabash. I Other teams are Huntington and Peru. The second round of this i tourney will be played Tuesday, January 19. at Huntington. iI 000 One year ago this week: Central 34, Yellow Jackets 25 Commodores 36, Mannion 9 Catholic Central of Hammond 25, Commodores 17 Commodores 37, Elmhurst 26 Berne 36. Alexandria 26 Berne 36, Central Catholic 8 Kirkland 19. Jefferson IS. Monmouth 24. Pleasant Mills 21 Geneva 25. Monroe 24 Hartford 43, Monroe 20. I 1 c 1 HOOVER BACKS i - P - A -9P- one) went should be passed now. It ■ has ajready been ratified by states I

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covering a majority of the country’s population. “While some of us have advocated this amendment from the beginning. I can say this to those who believe it should be done by the states rather than the federaj i covernmenL You nave through the years brought a fine accomplishment. for states comprising over 80 per cent of the population now have some scut of regulatory ■ I laws, and thereby child labor outside of agriculture has diminished by 70 per cent in the 20 years between the census of 1910 and 1930. “But surely the 30 years in which such state laws have been strongly urged should be enough < pportunity for recalcitrant areas to have risen to their responsibilities. Some of the states which have not ratified the amendment have set examples by the most progressive of laws. But their industries suffer from competition of those states which refuse to give up this hideous advantage. "The major reason for its ratification is the rights of children to health and a fair chance. But it is also important that we have orderly constitutional change instead of pressures on the independence of the supreme court. "• STRIKE LEADERS CtONTINUKD FUOk -AGE ONE) of work because of strikes and shutdowns, activity was intensified at General Motors’ offices today., There was no immediate indication, however, that negotiations with the union were to be resumed. Earlier, Martin said the next move was up to General Motors, and added: "There is no need tor further conference unless General Motors is willing to conced a reasonable I basis for discussion.’’ General Motors stood on Its weekend statement that no negotiations could be conducted until "sit-down” strikers were removed from plants in Detroit. Flint, Mich., | Anderson. Ind., and Toledo, O. Paralysis of General Motors’ assembly lines continued in many parts of the country. At Lansing, Mich., oCTials of the Olds Motor works. General Motors subsidiary, said they had materials for only

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LEADING FIVES MAV BE UPSET ! Purdue And Indiana Fa** Conference Dark Horses Tonight Chicago, Jan. 11 (U.R>- The invincible Hoosier twins — Indiana and Purdue were slim favorites today to win their battles for the Big Ten basketball lead tonight 'against the two toughest dark horses in the western conference Purdue will attack lowa, which upset Northwestern and came within four points of defeating Indiana. The Hoosiers travel to Champaign to meet the strongest I team Illinois has put on the floor all season. For the first time this winter, every conference team swings into action. Minnesota will open its campaign against Chicago at Minneapolis, Ohio State meets Wisconsin at Columbus in its opener, and Northwestern will play at Michigan. Both Indiana and Purdue are on the spot, since neither co<hampfon can afford defeat this early in the year. Both have booked every

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