Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1937 — Page 8

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ROCHESTER IS SMALLEST TEAM IN TOURNAMENT Only One Six-Footer On Team: Has Lost Only Three Games (Editor’s note: This is the third article dealing with finalists in the state high school basketball tournament). By Gene Dailey, VP Staff Correspondent Indianapolis. Mar. 25. t(U.R) Rochester, back in the finals field after nine years absence, looks as the dark horse entry of the four teams which will compete at Butler University fieldhouse next Saturday for the 19.3" state high school basketball title. The Zebras have not been an outstanding or headline type of ball club. But in a quiet businesslike manner they have beaten 26 opponents this season and dropped, only three contests, one to la>gat.-| sport. one to Goshen and another to Wabash, an arch rival. Coach Clyde Lyle, who guides the destinies of Rochester, reveals a very logical ajid workman-like philosophy about winning basket ball games. Perhaps it explains Rochester’s success. "We just get in there and try to do our best to keep the other tel-1 low from scoring and at the same time try to make enough points to ' win the hall game.” explains the former pupil of Purdue’s famed Piggy larmbert. He also offers a very logical ex-' planation of the team's offense and i defense. "Sometimes we use the fast — ■ ' Farr-Way CLEANERS | CORT J' Sun. Mon. jT Tues. y / GALA \ f EASTER i , PROGRAM THE SM ARTEsYm USICAL SHOW EVER FILMED! THE GRANDEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN! ft; LA** W DtCK MAOLIfINt 'T POWELL* CARROLL> 1 fWteMVE ALICE FAYE dIiTZ Brothers utd GEORGE BARBIER MOWBRAY • CORA WITHERSPOON I. ] STEPIN FETCHIT • SIG RUMANN ♦ ♦ — Last Time Tonight — Ruby Keeler Lee Dixon “READY, WILLING AND ABLE” PLUS—Comedy and Musical Novelty. 10c-25c Friday, “Taka Chance Nite” 10c

breu kand other times we take it slower. It’s all according to what ■ the other fellow is doing." Coach Lyle issued orders that the Zebras were to take it fairly easy this week, with just enougn practice to keep them in shape for ’ their opening engagement ugalnsf Anderson next Saturday afternoon. The Rochester players realise . full well they probably will be anI able to do much in competition at the center circle against Anderson's lanky Jim Hughes, 6 foot 3 inches pivot man. Chat les Copelen, trie only 6 foot regular, is the Zebra I center. This doesn't worry the team • greatly, however. Rochester has a reputation for speed ami deception and Jim Smith aml Cecil Polk. !guards; Tom Baldwin and Fred Gordon, forwards, are counted upon to offset the center post ilis.nl vu ntage. At the Logansport semi-final tourney, the Zebras showed plenty ol speed, accurate shooting ability, an da fast-break that eent Lafayette trained amidst Piggy laim belt's "tire department” basketball environment -down in defeat. Rochester liu-.t appeared in the : finals in 1928 and lost by one point to Martinsville which subsequently was defeated by Muncie. The Zebras formerly were a ■ member of the powerful north 'central conference which has contributed seven out of the last nine state champions. After Rochester joined the central Indiana league and this year won the title. The team's loss being to Wabash in an 1 overtime game. Coach Lyle came to Rochester in ; 19.32 from Rossville, the surprising quintet which eliminated the ■ migti'ty~iiefending state champions, Frankfort, in the sectional cornpe1 tition of the 2(it-h annual INSAA I net classis. His teams have shown marked i improvement each season and this ' year tans describe the current edition of the Zebras as the "best i team” Rochester ever had. The Zebras probably will stack up as the smallest outfit on the , hardwood at Butler fieldhouse. The first string will average little more than five feet nine or five feet ten incues in heighth and approximate I ly 148 pounds in weight. Backers of the aggregation claim i the team spirit will make up for these handicaps. They say: | "There have been greater Indi- : vidual players on Rochester teams j but never has Rochester had a bet- ; ter five-man team, or a group of ■ players with finer spirit." o Trade in a Good Town—Decatur ♦ 4 — Last Time Tonight — EDWARD ARNOLD FRANCINE LARRIMORE “JOHN MEADE’S WOMAN" Geo. Bancroft, Gail Patrick. ALSO—Comedy i Traveltalk. 10c-25c FRI. & SAT. Hot Action—Roaring Laughs! SPSS Anidnerd Se.fi Production Directed by Ben Staled.. —o Sun. Mon. Tues.—Two Hours of Hilarious Fun! “THAT GIRL FROM PARIS" Jack Oakie, Gene Raymond, Lily Pons, Herman Bing.

ENGLISH POET IS FOUND DEAD j John Drinkwater Dies In Sleep At Home In t London r 1J London. Mar. 25— (U.R) John r Driukwiiter. poet, dramatist, and t : essayist, died In his sleep today at his home in Maida Vale In North ■ London. Heart disease was be- - Ileved to be the cause of death. i Duly yesterday. Drinkwater , watched the Oxford - Cambridge ( boat race and the excitement may have affected a heart never strong. t But Mrs. Drinkwater Daisy Kennedy. violinist said today: i "He was very happy all day. The , last words he wrote in an article . he was preparing on the coronation were: 'Happy and glorious'." I She said that a physician believed Drinkwater died at about 3 . a. in. today. The one time insurance man. I whom the theater fascinated and lured to riches and fame from his prosaic, if successful business life. ■ suffered a severe shock only two! weeks ago. March 10. Miss Kennedy had given a recital. She and Drinkwater were driving heme when their motor collid 'd with an omnibus. Miss Kennedy's face was cut by I glass. Drink water was uninjured. She was operated on March 12 andsoon was able to go home. "He went to the boat race yesterday." Mrs. Drinkwater said today. "and followed the race in a launch with his brother. When he came home he sat down and wrote his coronation article.” Only recently Drinkwater wrote an (MieTo the king for the official coronation program, to be published in May. Tuesday his coronation motion picture was shown privately. O At the Training Camps By United P-ess Giants Gulfport, Miss., Mar. 25.--*U.R>— Manager Will Terry namru catcher Gus Mancuso as field captain of the-New York Giants today. Mau cuso is the first receiver to captain a Giant club since Roger Bresnahan. and he will receive SSOO extra for the task. Tigers Lakeland. Fla (U.R; — The Detroit. Tigers com? back to their home base today to play the Brooklyn Dodgers. Both teams won yesterday. Brooklyn upsetting the Yankees. 9 to 6. while the Tigers stopped the Philadelphia Phillies, 5 to 3. Yankees St. Petersburg, Fla.— The NewYork Yankees were out to make it five straight over the Boston Bees ' as they clashed in an exhibition game. The Bees yesterday defeat- i ed Cincinnati as Babich. Lanning and Harris held the hard-hitting'

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| Reds to alx scattered safeties. Cardinals Deland, Fla.—The St. Louis CardI Inals who have won only two exi Dibit lons against major league op j position this year, came here today to meet their Columbus Amer lean Association cousins today. I The Curds, heavy favorites to win , the National league pennant, | dropped a 5-3 decision to the . Washington Senators yesterday. ! Feature of the game was Joe MedI wick's home run with two men on i : base in the ninth that sent all of I | the Cards runs across. Cascarella , blanked the Curds for the first five if innings. ' Cubs I Avalon, Santa Catalina Island. ■ Cal. The Chicago Cubs. pre|iuring jto sail for the mainland to open their exhibition season against the White Sox in Los Angeles Friday, faced long working schedules. Belt ause bad weather the past two weeks has retarded training, manager Charley Grmm ordered all bunds except the day s pitchers to I be ready to practice each morning at 10:30 a. m. French and Parmelee were slated for pitching Friday. Shoun and Bryant against the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday, and Lee and Carleton against the Sox Sunday. White Sox lais Angeles. Cal. The Chicago White Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates. with a weather eye to Toe sgies. prepared to try again today to get off an exhibition game at Wrigley field. The scheduled exhibition series opener was rained out yesterday. The same pitchers •were up again: Ed Bryant, big southpaw, and the veteran Red Lucas for the Pirates; Thornton Lee, J. Duncan Rigney and Halo Chelini for the Sox. 0 SIT-DOWN STRIKERS <>•■■■lXl fc*i. rcoM e,,>, .»vw ed “early this afternoon.” “We expect to get going about 2:30 p. nt ." James F. Dewey, federal labor conciliator who assisted Murphy in settlement of the recent General Motors strike, reported. "That’s tentative. We haven't had final word yet." o Liquor Hearing Is Set For May 6 Th? applicaion for the renewal of the beer, liquor and wine retailer's license for the American Legion home on Madison street, will Ire heard by the Adams county alcoholic beveragee board in the county auditor's office in the court house, Thursday May 6 at 9 a. m Betty Compson Is Granted Divorce Los Angeles, March 25 —(UP) — Betty Compson, long star of silent films, today obtained an uncontented divorce an<] SSO weekly alimony from Irving Weinberg, theatrical agent. Trarf. t« a Gond Town - Decatm

< > ; — -—• Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) 1 I •- New York. March 25 —(UP)—, ' One word description of the Tilden ] Perry tennis mutch in Madison' • Square Garden: Slaughter! Two worfi description of same ’ match: more slaughter! Summary of same match; Perry beat hell out of Bill' t ' t Question: How did Bill manage j to win that third set, 6-4? ( Answer: McLemore, OP Pal, you got me there. 1 don’t believe I'll ever know the answer to that one,, even if I live to be 500. and have) > more rings than a redwood, tree I i And I wasn't the only one bewilder- ■ ed y the sudden switch in fortunes , in the middle of the third set. Even • lltt'e children, with eyes far less > discerning than mine, questioned ■ their parents an to what happened. I Sitting near me was a brown-eyed ' youngster no higher than a half-, : volley, and when Tilden made it ■ 6-4 b« turned to his right and Parana <side and said "(kiddy, isn't ' that funny?" “Yea. Luther,'' the father replied, "it certainly is." Luther, I don't know you from Adam'a housecat. but 1 want to tell i you that you have a truthful father. That third set certainly was funny. And it was made funnier by the fact that Perry, paying brilliantly, had ewept the first two seta with i the loss of but four games. Ti'den, with only his mannerisms to remind the big crowd that he was the oame Tilden who once ruled all the courts of the earth, was helpless in the face of Terry's relent

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lesa attack. I The Briton started the third set I with just as ruthless tennis, and 1 before you could wash your ears, 1 Luther, hud a lead of 4-2. People 'were pouring through (he exits, be- ] Having It was a matter of minutes 'until Perry would finish It They not only wanted to beat the rest of 'the fo'k to the taxis. Luther; they wanted to miss the unhappy finish | of a once mighty petformer. It wasnot much fun to look at, wae it ■ Luthei ? I mean big Bill, the one and only Big Bill, being made ridicu-' lous by a boy he once could have ' spotted a set. Then, in the twinkling of an eye. I the swish of a f'Wehand. Perry seemed to forget all the tennis he ever knew. He played like a novice, played so much like a novice, in fact, that Tilden, without hitting the ba'l one bit better than he had ! earlier in the match, ran off four; 1 games for the set. I wonder what ailed Perry. Luther? must have been something very 1 serious, because it paralysed him all over, and no very quickly. Yet, |it couldn't have been too serious, because he recovered completely I during the ten minute rest period- ■ and came dashing out for the fourth net to win it 6-0. I've seen many athletic events. Luther, but never before have I seen an athlete go from the supers to the ridiculous and back to the superb in such short notice. That coach of ilia must have given him a stirring talk in the dressing room or a shot of something more powerful than anything I have ever consumed. Luther, and that takes in a lot of powerful things.

Maybe their match in Chicago' won't be so lopsided, Luther. Perry won't be ns good as he was last night, because he was perfect then, and perfection doesn't come every day in the week. And Tilden cer- 1 tainly won't be any worse. His backhand was so bud he would have done better to leave It at home and bring u waste paper basket At least he could have sat down on the basket between games. Don't you think so. Luther? . Luther! Luther! why. you're gone, you little scamp, you! * (Copyright 1937 by United Preen) | __ o Slight Earth Tremor Felt In California lais Angeles. Mar. 25. (U.R) A slight earthquake shook Los An geles at 8:50 a. m PST. today. The

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