Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1937 — Page 6

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Illinois Team Defeats Commodores, 29 to 4

JOLIET BEATS COMMIES FIVE HEBE SUNDAY Illinois Team Has 100 Much Height, Reserve Strength Combining superior height and reserve strength effectively, Cath- i ollc high of Joliet, 111., scored a 29 to 24 victory over the Decatur Commodores Sunday afternoon at the Commodore gymnasium. Coach Bond presented a rangy., husky team of 11 players which | he shifted with telling effect to ■ wear down the smaller Commo ! dores and pull away to victory in the closing minutes of play. Joliet took an eraly 4-0 load but two field goals by Voglewede and one by Gillig put the Commodores hi the lead. 6 to 4. Two more. Joliet fielders gave the visitors an . 8 to 6 lead at the end of the first : quarter. Neither team could score effec- ■ tively in the second period. Mc-| Laren hitting a field goal for Joliet i and a field goal and free throw by , Voglewede pulling the Commies, within one point at the half, 101 to 9. The visitors increased their lead ■ in the third quarter, holding a four- ] pofnt margin as the final period opened. 19 to 15. Two quick baskets by McLaren j increased the Joliet lead to eight' points. However, the Commodores . fought back and with field goals j by Bolinger, Voglewede and Gillig. I and a pair of free throws by Vogle-I wede, tied the score at 23-23, with I slightly more than two minutes to j play. i However, this proved to be the , tiring Commodores last 'burst, and | Joliet poured in three field goals while all the Commies could tally Tonight & Tuesday ‘MERRY-GO-ROUND of 1938’ Mischa Auer. Bert Lahr. Alice Brady, Billy House. Joy Hodges, Louise Fazenda. ALSO — Cartoon, Popular Science & Sportliqht. 10c -30 c TONIGHT ONLY—"Visit to Santa Claus at North Pole." 10c-30c —o Wed. 4 Thurs.—" Life Begins With Love" Jean Parker, Douglas Montgomery. First Show Wed. at 6:30. —o Coming Sunday — William Powell, Myrna Loy, "Double Wedding.” Tonight & Tuesday ‘‘Legion of Missing Men” Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander & “Paradise Isle” Movita, Warren Hull. Evenings 10c-20c o—o Friday 4 Sat. — ZANE GREY’S "THUNDER TRAIL" Chas. Bickford. Gilbert Roland, Marsha Hunt. 10c Matinee 2 P. M. Saturday Coming Sunday — 2 More Hits! “Sophie Lang Goes West” Gertrude Michael, Larry Crabbe, 4 “The Game That Kills." | CORT Tonight - Tomorrow “DANGER - - LOVE AT WORK” A fast moving romance with Ann Sothern. Jack Haley, Mary Boland. Edw. Everett Horton. ALSO — Good Comedy, News and Shorts. 10c -25 c Wed. - Thurs.—" They Won’t Forget" one of the 10 big pictures of the year. Sunday — "Second Honeymoon.”

was a foul to-s by Gillig. ■ Voglewede, Commodore center, j was the outstanding star of the, game. Besides leading both teams I with 11 points, the Commie veter-1 ' an played splendid defensive ball | against his larger opponents. Boli Inger played excellent ball during j the second half, hitting three times from the field after being held scoreless in the first half. Joliet FG FT TP j Whalen, f 2 1 5 White, f 2 0 4 i Mcljtren, c 4 0 8 I Smith, g 2 0 4 Phalen, g 10 2 Facaro, f 10 2 ' Murphy, f Oil ; Fahnrer, f 0 0 0 Delaney, c 113 , Brown, g 0 0 0 ‘ Kubinsky. g ......0 0 0 Totals 13 3 29 Decatur FG FT TP Bolinger, f 3 • j Kuhnle, f 0 0 0 Voglewede. c 4 3 11 ' Gillig. g 1 2 < | Baker, g -1 1 2 : Hackman. f 0 0 0 | Totals 9 6 24 | Referee, Dorwin (Decatur). Umpire, Downey (Ft. Wayne). SPARTANS SPLIT; EVEN IN GAMES Pleasant Mills Beats Alumni, Loses To Jackson — | The Pleasant Mills Spartans I split even in games played over I I the week end. winning 60-40 over I i the alumni in a game at the Com1 modore gym. and falling before.! j Jackson township. 28-22, at War-1 1 ren. Led by D. McMillen with 20' 1 points and Clark with 18 markers. | I the Spartans showed little respect for their school graduates, emerg- j I ing with a 20-point win. At Jackson, the Spartans found j the going much tougher and after | t getting behind. 6-18 at the half | were never able to close the gap. | Clark led the Adams county five with 10 points while Mclntire, with 14 points, led th" opposing quin- | tet. j Box scores: Pleasant Mills FG FT TP ■ D. McMillen, f 10 0 201 W. McMillen, f 1 0 2\ Neadsltne. c 2 1 5 . Noll, g 2 0 4 | Harman, g 2 0 4 Clark, g - 8 2 18 ' Holloway, g — 3 17 Totals 28 4 60 Alumni FG FT TP Foor, f - - 3 17 U Williamson, f 2 1 5 Edgell, f 2 0 4 Halberstadt, c 6 0 12 Teeple, g - 10 2 McMillen, g 1 0 2 j Sovine, g 1 0 2 j E. Williamson, g 10 2 I Anspaugh. g 10 2 | Riley, g 10 2 Totals 19 2 40 Referee, Prible (Lancaster Center). Preliminary Alumni 35, Pleasant Mills Seconds 21. Pleasant Mills FG FT TP McMillen, f 2 0 4 Neadstfne, f 113 Harman, c 113 Clark, g - - 4 2 10 Archer, g - 10 2 Totals 9 4 22 Jackson Twp. FG FT TP Habn, f . 2 0 4 Mclntire, f 5 4 14 Booher, c 2 0 4 Stroup, g a 2 2 6 Dawson, g 0 0 0 Totals 11 6 28 Referee, Ellis (Bluffton). Preliminary Jleasant Mills 15, Jackson 11. II Trade in a Good Town — Decatur LOCAL PLAN MERIT LOAN SYSTEM The Local Plan Merit Loan System offers available cash credit up to 1300 to husband and wife or single persons. ON JUST YOUR PLAIN NOTE TO APPLY—You may use any of the three ways. Every request receives ou; prompt attention. 1. PHONE 2-3-7. Tell us of your i money needs. 2. Cut this ad out —write your name and address on it—and mail to us. 3. Call at office—conveniently located. Private consultation rooms. Confidential dealings. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY i 0»r Schafer Store lOS/a Worth Second Street Phone 2-3-7 Decatur, Indiana

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aps Standings W L Pct. ( ' Hartford 7 2 .777 I Kirklands 2 .714 Commodores 7 3 .700 Geneva 6 3 .667 Monmouth 5 3 .625 Herne 4 3 .571 Pleasant Mills 4 7 .364 Yellow Jackets 2 6 .250 Jefferson 0 6 .000 I ; Monroe 0 6 .000 —oOo — In keeping with the holiday 1 spirit, some choice morsels of basI ketball are offered the fans of the county this week. —oOo— The Decatur Yellow Jackets will launch activities for the week -Tuesday night, when they journey to Ossian to battle one of Wells county's leading quintets. —oOo — If memory serves us correctly, the Ossian Bears have lost only J one game this season, that one to | Central Catholic of Fort Wayne. After being clawed rather severely by the Berne Bears last week, one mighl say the Jackets are jumping from Bear to Bear. Judson Erne, coach of the Berne Bears, seemingly doesn't care if It is Christmas week, as he has two games scheduled for the Bears. Tuesday night Berne will play at Dunkirk and Thursday night at Geneva. Two other games are carded Thursday night. Hartford at Monmouth and Lancaster at Kirkland. So far as we know, no games are scheduled for Christmas Eve. The Decatur Commodores w'ound up their 1937 portion of the schedule Sunday afternoon, losing to Catholic high of Joliet. Illinois on the local court, 29 to 24. The Commies put up a great battle, but Joliet's superior height and employment of 11 different players finally wore down the local lads, who were defeated in the final two minutes of play after pulling to within a tie. Although forced to witness the Yellow Jackets take a 3118 lacing at the hands of the Berne Bears Friday night, Basketbawl and his right-hand man. Bob, have one enjoyable memory of the night. As guests of Berne's sports commentators, Simon Schwartz and Ed Liechty, yours truly were treated to a delicious venison dinner before the game. Great stuff, and many thanks, boys. And thanks to Dr. Ermin Bixler, who shot the deer. While on the subject of Berne. I will pass on another tribute to Jerome Steiner, former Berne star, now sophomore at Butler. Steiner, playing a forward posi- | tion, contributed 10 points to his I team's great losing battle to lowa i Saturday night. 36 to 31. One year ago this week: Hartford 44, Monmouth 14. Geneva 26, Hartford 23 (double overtime).

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1937.

* ' Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) ♦ .. < J Los Angeles. Dec. 20. —(U.R>—For at least thirty minutes in the Rose ' Bowl on New Year’s Day Alabam-' a's crimson tide football team will i be pitted against the strongest elev-. en in the country, and one of the strongest ever produced on the ; i Pacific coast. During that first 30 minutes of ; the Pasadena extravaganza the i California Beard are almost acer-, tainty to riddle the Alabama line! with a series of savage thrusts and twice inarch across the payoff strips for touchdowns. To win, the southerners must come prepared to score at least three touchdowns. One will cost them defeat.' and two won't get any better than I ! a tie. That's not my opinion. It is the opinion of two men who know as much football as anyone you care to name—Howard Jones, head coach at Southern California, and Aubrey Devine, onetime all Amer-' ' ican from lowa and now a scout for Jones. Between them the Messrs. Jones and Devine have seen the Bears in action five times this season. And therefore speak knowtngiy of the outfit that Alabama must thwart to keep intact the brightest of all Rose Bowl records. “I don’t know if I have ever seen a better starting lineup that California has this year,” Jones told me as we walked along a fairway of the Lakeside golf club a fewdays ago. "The eleven men who get the first call comprise a team that has no superior in this country. and I don t except Pittsburgh. I It has no real weakness, and much • greatness- The backfield has speed, power, fine kicking, sure 1 passing, and all t*ie boys block. Up front it is much the same thing. Schwartz is an especially fine of-1 fensive end and his partner on the , other wing. Dolman, is a tremend ously effective defensive player. The tackles, while not spectacular are adequate. The guards are standouts. Both Evans and Stockton have all the requirements of great guards, and of course Herwig is a notable center.” > i This eleven, Jones said, was a first-half killer. In only one game i! this year did the Bears fail to ; pound out two touchdowns before i half-time. He believes it is capi able» of going through the tide in . | the same manner. "The California weakness,” the ;! U. S. C. coach explained, “is a lack iof reserves. Any replacement weakens the squad considerably, i That’s why the Bears operate on ' the ‘to-to-town-in-the-first-half’ thei ory. They know that the first: , team must do the scoring, and that |it must do this scoring before fatigue sets in.” Alabama’s chances of victory hinge on the tide's summoning enough strength to check the Californians’ first-half scoring burst, I and then slowly wearing them I down reserve strength late in the j game. Albama must come prepared to score at least three time. No ! one believes the tide, or any other I eleven in the country for that mat- ,! ter, can hope to check the ruth- ■> | less drive of the Bears when they s 1 are fresh and ready. . Against Oregon it crashed through I saw California in two games, s' for two touchdowns in eight mini utes in the second period. Against Stanford it felt out the opposition for a few minutes and then, with a tremendous show of power, march,ed down the field to clinch the e ■ game. (Copyright 1937 by UP.)

GERMANY WAR LEADER DEAD Gen. Erich Ludendorff Dies After An Extended Illness Munich, Dec. 20— <U.R) — Gen Erich Ludendorff. 72. one of Germany's most brilliant soldiers In the World War and an anti-Chris-tian, anti-Jewish leader after it, died today. Regarded by many as Germany’s master mind in the war, credited with successes that made the late Marshall Paul Von Hindenburg and others world figures, he became after the war an embittered man. Ludendorff's post-war activities hielttded campaigns in favor of his neo-pagan sect and against Christianity and Jews, and participation in the kapp ptsch of Adolf Hitler’s beer cellar putsch. He died in a Catholic hospital attended hy Catholic nuns. Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was expected to offer a state funeral. Friends, however, predicted that his body would be removed to his home at Tutzing, outside Munich, and buried privately. They recalled that he had announced on October 20: “I have stated in my last will and testament that no official or military observances of any sort should be held at my funeral. Ludendorff had been ill for several weeks. Saturday night he took a turn for the better, and for the first time spent a night without the constant watch of attendants. Early today his heart weak-

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ened and hope was abandoned. He , He was conscious until the moment of death At his bedside I were his two physicians and his I wife, the former Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz, whom he marled in 1926 ; after being divorced by his first' wife, who named her co-respon , dent. Ludendorff joined the army as a cadet in 1877 and served In it j until the end of the World War.' He was a member of the general staff nearly all the time from 1894 ( until 1913. At the outbreak of the war he was on the Belgian front. His , commanding officer in a brigade attacking Liege fell dead at his side. Ludendorff took command, , led a brilliant attack—that was his idea of the way to fight, always to attack and was promoted from colonel to general. Within three weeks of the out- , break of the war Ludendorff was . sent to the eastern front as chief jof staff to Von Hindenburg. The . i victory of Tennenberg, in East ■ Prussia, one of Germany’s great-, est. followed and Ludendorff’s friends saw him as the master mind. Some military experts held that j . had Ludendorff's subsequent plans for eastern front operations been i heeded. Russia could have been . j crushed in 1915 instead of in 1917. On August 29. 1916. Ludendorff. i was made general chief of staff of 1 all forces in the field and the title , I of quartermaster general was ere-1 ■ ated for him. II It was Ludendorff who played the great part in organizing thej -'German offensive of 1918, which 5 smashed through the allied lines •j on the western front hut failed in • ■ the end, for lack of reserves, after I -1 the terrific losses suffered in front-! - 1 al attacks.

U eek’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Yellow Jackets at Ossian. I Befne ul Dunkirk. Thursday Berne at Geneva. Hartford at Monmouth. Lancaster at Kirkland. o Lady Commodores And St. Joe Play Tonight The St, Joe eighth graders play tonight In the Commodore gynt, meeting St. Patrick of Fort Wayne. The Lady Commodores play St. Patrick's CYO gifls In the preliminary at 7 o'clock with the feature tilt scheduled for 8 p. m. Admission Is five cents for students and 1G cents for adults. . o H. 8. BASKETBALL Kokomo 30. Central (Ft Wayne) 28. North Side (Fort Wayne) 42, ! Garrett 21. St. Mary's (Anderson) 47. Joliet, 111.. Catholic 23. Warsaw 30, Wabash 22. Huntington 34, Sullivan 25. Memorial (Evansvillel 30, Bosse i (Evansville) 24. College Basketball Notre Dame 30, Northwestern 27. Purdue 60. DePaul 50. lowa 36, Butler 31. 1 Toledo 60. Franklin 40. Man Charged With Issuing Bad Checks Mitchell. Ind., Dec. 20—(VP)—

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