Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1938 — Page 8

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FOOTBALL RULE CHANCES MADE BY COMMITTEE Offense Is Aided By Changes Made By National Committee Edgewater Park, Miss.. Jan. 4 — iUP) —More forward passes in th-? end zone and more elbow room for ( quarterbacks to open up with all their scoring threats today were visioned for the 1938 football season us a result of the two rule changes announced by the national football rules commitee after their , 33rd annual meeting. The rules changes announced as- , ter a two-day session here were: 1 -(Hereafter any forward -pass (excepting those made on fourth - Last Time Tonight - First Northern Indiana Showing! • BOMBING of S. S. PANAY” Norman Alley’s Exclusive Pictures of Attack! PLUS —Musical Action Hit! “HIGH. WIDE and HANDSOME" Irene Dunne. Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour. 10c-30c —o WEI). & THURS. o- —■ ♦ i First Show Wednesday Night at 6:30. Come Early. Thursday Matinee at 1:30 Box Office Open until 2:30 Ro^ 0 „e? - wi I M uSt . jdaO los "^ o ' B .0-* w ■XKJfW / * / “ a Nr.eiu.oa....HERBERT MARSHALL MELVYN DOUGLAS EDWARD EVERETT HORTON LAURA HOPE CREWS • ERNEST COSSART • HERBERT MUNDIN Prohtid nd Deleted b ERNST • LUBITSCH ' Sei«M Flay by Samson Raphaalson • From th* Play by MMchiot I«nqv»l • tmjlnh Play | •deput. on toy Q«y Bolton and Russell Msderalt L J Fri. & Sat.—Returned by Pcnular Demand! “TRADER HORN.” —o Coming Sunday—"Eßß TIDE” in Technicolor. Frances Farmer, Ray Mllland, Oscar Homolka. - Last Time Tonight - “Bulldog Drummond Comes Back” John Howard, John Barrymore * HERE’S FLASH CASEY’ Eric Linden. Boots Mallory Only 10c -20 c o—o— Fri. A Sat. — BUCK JONES In “Hollywood Roundup.” —o Coming Sunday — 2 Big Hits! JACK HOLT “Trapped by G-Men" &. “Carnival Queen.”

Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball TmHM J Friday i * 'Auburn at Y*l’ow Jacket* J Commodore* at St. Paul's (Mari Ion) I Berne at Huntington. Kirkland at Hartford. ’ Petroleum at Geneva. Jefferson at Monmouth. Saturday I Gray at Monroe. I Monmouth at South Side Seconds down) which becomes incjmpleta behind the goal line, will be treated 'as though It struck the ground in the field of p'ay. An incomplete forward pass behind the goal line on fourth down will as now result In a touchback. I 2 —When the ball goes out of hounds between Hie goal lines or becomes dead within 15 yards of the side line, in which case it shall lie put in play at a spot 15 yards from the side line, instead of 10 yards ' as heretofore. 11 The new rule governing passes 1 means the offensive team can now I make three consecutive incomplete (lasses in the end zone, barring, of course, fourth down, without losing I the bal’. This, the rules commit- | tee felt, will enalblo the quarterback to enuploy his full repertoir i of plays at all times. In making the other change the rules committee deemed that the -development of both forward and ! lateral passes had made more leeway desirable. As it is impractiI cable to widen the field, the ball , will be brought in five yards farther This change also will aid short-side ! plays near the sidelines considerably. placing a greater burden on I the defense. The suggestion of the football ' coaches to the rules committee that -a forward pass which inadvertently •strikes an ineligible player behind the line of scrimmage be consider•ed an incomp'ete pass instead of •loss of the ball was rejected after C onsiderable debate. lEut a standing committee on • rules changes will study ths tuggesI tion. along with several others, and i make a report at the next meeting. Secretary W. S. Langford. New • York City, reported that the many :rules suggestions made were studied carefully, and sifted down to ID final possibilities, of which eight were rejected and two accepted. “The suggestion to permit a forward pass any place behind the line of scrimmage was discussed only briefly and there was no marked sentiment for it,” said Langford. I "No thought at all was given to moving the goal posts back to the goal line.” These two rules have been used | successfully by the national profesjsional football leagua. The rule pertaining to moving the ball in 15 yards, which was adopted. Is one which the professionals have popularized. o Miss Serena Schwartz of Berne has returned to her studies at Heidelberg college. Tiffin. Ohio. i ICORT - Last Time Tonight - “SUBMARINED!” Pat O'Brien • Wayne Morris George Brent. ADDED—Latest Fox News and “Open House" Comedy. 10c -25 c WED. & THURS. “QUICK, WATSON, THE NOODLE!” \ / aAI HUGH HERBERT < Allenlenkins-Marcia Ralston , > <C' ~ h DincM to William McCann qMK F_” i ScranPlaybyCw(nßricker ■ Maptarl Fnaa Sta, by UM \ S(r-Ke • Plsr ny Ralph Murphy JF' .. 4 ami Donald Galtatoc ■ * First TV - SaSeaal fktwe • prasMta* toWWStBBROS. i ADDED — “Tip for Cinderella” Comedy; Short, and Pathe News. 10c • 25c ' Sunday — Wheeler and Woolsey in “THE HIGH FLYERS.”

WILDCATS BEAT WISCONSININ OPENING CAME Northwestern Wins Opener; Indiana To Battle ► Illinois Chicago, Jan. 4. •U.Pii Illinois ‘ will parade its new, faster razzledazzle against Indiana tonight in the first defense of its share of the big ten basketball championship. The racing Illlni, who shattered Notre Dame's 19 game winning streak their last time out. will start four juniors and one sopho ' more and must be regarded at i least as strong as the polished team that tied Minnesota for the title last winter. Minnesota battles Notre Dame nt Minneapolis in Its final game before opening its conference seas on Saturday night. Northwestern, victor In the big ten's first conference game last night, meets California's touring squad. Northwestern swung back into winning stride with apparent ease, defeating Wisconsin's hopeful I Badgers, 47 to 38. in the opener at. Evanston. It was their first high-, j calibre performance in six games. The answer was Jean Smith, rangy forward from Logansport.! Ind., who had been alternating at ' center with Jake Nagode since he first broke into the Wildcat lineup as a sophomore two years ago. Smith hit seven times from the field, scoring 10 of his 16 points in the first half while Wisconsin still was hanging on grimly. The Badgers managed to pull up within two points early lit the second period on quick field goals by Hod Powell and Manney Frey but Northwestern clamped down its defense and, gradually pulled away as the two guards, Ad Vance and Bob Voights, poured in long shots. Performance of Smith against Wisconsin may lie the tonic the Wildcats needed They have speed and experience at every position. With Smith. Trenkle, and Nagode all in the game, hitting consistently. Northwestern may become a distinct threat when high-scoring Mike McMichael returns to the lineup. Butler ended Michigan's non-con-ference season with a 38 to 35 vic-tory-first defeat of the year for the Wolves. George Washington set down Ohio State, 46 to 35. at Washington. D. C. It was the Buckeyes' second loss Illinois expected a victory over Indiana in its conference opener. The mini, led by Capt. Isvuie Boudreau who has been acclaimed the outstanding floor player in the big ten. defeated Indiana both times they met last season and the Hoosier's haven't yet become as strong as they were rated at the start of last season. Games tonight: Illinois at Indiana. Notre Dame at Minnesota. California at Northwestern. Results Last Night Northwestern 47. Wisconsin 38. Butler 38, Michigan 35. George Washington 46, Ohio | State 35. o Hudson Company To Boost Production Detroit, Jan. 4—(UP)—Hudson motor car company announced today it will redouble its present working force and spelid 911.000,000 I in the next few weeks in produc- | tion of a new, low priced automa-. bile. The announcement was made by A. E. Barlt, President of the company. at a special meeting of dealers and publishers here. The ipresent working force is 6,000, Barit said. This will be doubled and stepped up to full time production, he said, as part of a plan to “'put men and money back to work.” o Railroad Silences Whistles Pierce City, Mo.—.(U.R> — Train whistles, silenced for several nights so as not to disturb an injured Frisco railways freight conductor, are blowing again. Fred D. Turner, the grateful conductor, is better. He asked the railroad to resume its whistle-blowing. Morphine Cache Exposed Seattle —(UP) —A suspicious U. S. customs officer persisted in prodding among 150 five-gallor tubs of soy-bean sauce, and found that j five of the containers had fake bottoms, each holding five pounds of Japanese morphine. Estimates on I the retail peddler's martket price on 25 pounds of narcotics ran as high I as $150,0001. NOTICE Meeting of Decatur Cemetery Lot Owners will be held , at the office of Dr. J. M. Miller, January 6, 1938, for purpose of electing Trustees for ensuing year. Earl B. Adams, Sec’y;

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75-Y ear-OldiMan Challenges Lads To Foul-Shooting Match

By Bernard Crandall. (Copyright 1938 by UP-) Tipton. Ind.. Jan. 4. — <U.R> —Out of the quiet Indiana countryside today came a challenge by a 75-year-old grandfather for a match against the nation's best basketball free-throw artists. Jewell Young. Hank Luisetti, Nat Holman—any of the youngsters, he said would be welcome-j---to try to whip him in a free throw contest. James A. Shuck, rural route three, whose grandchildren have filled Prairie township basketball score books for the past 20 years, issued the challenge. “I pitched 215 without a miss back in ’25,” Shuck said, “and the next year I pitched 592 out of 6001 tries in one day.” “I'll take a match with anybody." • he added, "but 1 prefer an Indiana j product because that's where the! best come from.” Residents of the rural neighbor ! hood and the coach of the town- 1 ship high school affirmed Shuck's, claims. "The other day 1 put in 24 out j of 25.” he said, "and that is more! that some of these cage wizards | I read about can do.” Shuck first felt a basketball in his hands when he was 62. He had wandered over to the township gymnasium and had seen the coach and a friend shooting some free, throws. On their invitation, he joined them in a contest, and when it came his turn he calmly tossed •in ten straight. After that, every time he could leave his “ditching'—Shuck puts in tile on farm lands —he went to the gym for some free-tossing. The players liked him and the coach has taken him along on road trips ever since. “I played in a game just once,” Shuck said. "Kempton couldn't get through the snow to the gym one night, so we had a 'choose-up' | game. It lasted about twenty minutes and I made 20 field goals and two free throws.” The man who is challenging the best collegiate stars in the nation to a match of skill at the free throw line also has been promin-

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ent in other sports. At 12, after, he had moved to Indiana front Kentucky. he was a champion marble player. "Shooting from the taw line, I used to go through 7-up games without giving the other fellow a shot.' he said. In Florida, where he recovered , from rheumatism, he won prizes in (several horseshoe tournaments and beat an expert, in all the nine the first time he played quoits, he beat an expert in all the nine games they played. Shuck explained his stance and the position he held the ball at the t'oul line. "Feet well apart but on the same line to keep front weaving, hands nearly under the ball with the fingers and thumb together— I and be sure to shoot a ‘dead ball’.’’ “I don’t think there's much to it," he said- “Bring around the best ’ there are and I’ll have them a j game. My grandson. Ned. is coach at Mulberry now. and he'll tell you what I'll do against them." o Thursday Night Game Postponed The basketball game, scheduled to be played Thursday night between the Pleasant Mills varsity and Commodore seconds, has been 1 postponed indefinitely. Several members of the Pleasant Mills team are confined to their homes with the mumps. o Dog Checkers Weil Uniformed Bellaire. O. —(UP)—The appearance of three men carrying guns and b'ackjacks and wearing Cam Browne belts and wide brimmed hats was something of a mystery here until it was explained that they were only assisting the dog warden in checking licenses. I o Soviet Has 15 Sports Papers i Moscow.— itU.R/— At the present time 15 sports newspapers and magazines are published in the Soviet Union. — —o Trad, In A Good Town — Decatur

BUTLER STOPS ■ MICHIGAN FIVE • '( Steiner Stars As Butler Ends Michigan Minning Streak Indanapoll*. Ind., Jan. I ( * 11 - Butler university stopped the Michigan Wolverines last night, 3S io 35, to cut the Big Ten team's record of five straight wins and esI tablish themselves tm one of the „est university quintet* In the mid-idle-west. . t .. ‘ Fawcett and Steiner, with then consistent long shots, took tho spotlight from big John Townsend former Indianapolis prep star end allAmerican at Michigan iMt season. I The Bul'dogs defense halted Townsend's offensive work at eight points. I The wolverines jumped out at the , start for an early lead. Butler evidently was nervous facing the ibig team, although they previously bad .conquered the Pitt Panthers, Northwestern. Boston and Cincinnati uniiversities. With three minutes remaining in the first half. Fawcett. Steiner and Cosgrove hit long shots which gave them a 16-15 lead at the rest period. Fisherman, stocky Michigan guard led a rally in the first few’ minutes of the second half that gave them a five point margin over the Bulldogs. At this time, Fawcett, reserve guard, started dumping his ■ long ones which had 7.000 frenzied spectators on edge. Steiner and Cosgrove also hit on long attempt to give the Bulldogs a lead they never

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