Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1938 — Page 6

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SECOND CITY SERIES TILT HERE TUESDAY Central And St. Joe To Play Second Game Os Series February 8 Basketball fans of the city will be given an added treat next Tuesday night. February X. when the second game of the annual series for tile city grade school championship will be held at the Yellow Jacket gymnasium The Central eighth graders of the public school and the St. Joe quintet, of the local Catholic grade school, will be the contestants in the annual affair that has grown to be of outstanding interest. The St. Joe five will have a slight edge Tuesday night when they play in defense of the George Wemhoff trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the series. St. Joe. winner of last year's championship in two consecutive games, also won the first tilt of the series this year by a score of 3S 23. St. Joe, runner-up in the Fort Wayne deanery grade tourney last EM — Last Time Tonight — ‘■THE FIREFLY" Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William. ALSO — Cartoon. 10c-30c WED.&THURS. First Show Wednesday Night at 6:30. Come Early. Thursday Matinee at 1:30 Box Office Open until 2:30 ♦ ♦ — GREAT. . . BECAUSE IT'S TRUE TO LIFE! Youth...facing | love with the courage of 17! a A grand heart- Jf. story, a stirring human drama! ZoHIYj YbUNC ONCE with LEWIS STONE • CECILIA PARKER MICKEY ROONEY Screen Ple» by Kay Van Riper Directed by Ceorye B. Seitz i Fri. & Sat.—“ The Best Show of Its Kind Since ‘Trader Horn',” says Liberty Magazine! ‘‘KING SOLOMON’S MINES” Roland Young. Paul Robeson. —oi—- — Sunday—"TßUE CONFESSION" Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel. ■BMaBnanoKHnBaBHR - Last Time Tonight - “WALLABY JIM OF THE ISLANDS” George Houston, Ruth Coleman & “All American Sweetheart” Patricia Farr, Scott Colton Onlv 10c-20c o—o Friday & Sat. — Western Special! Zane Grey’s ‘‘BORN TO THE WEST" John Wayne. John Mack Brown. O—O Coming Sunday—2 Big Hits! ‘‘THE SHADOW” and ‘‘THAT'S MY STORY.”

SPORTS

; * * Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams | i» ♦ F Tuesday Yellow Jackets al Hartford City Thursday I Rome at Bluffton. Friday l Winchester at Yellow Jackets Commodores at Central Catholic I (Fort Wayne). Poling at Hartford. Geneva vs. Monroe at Berne. 1 | Kirkland at Monmouth. ' | week, are anxious to add to their i list of 12 wins against a single loss, while the Central lads are anxious to avenge the earlier deI feat and improve their standing for ■ the season. Despite the more Impressive rec ord of the St. Joe quintet, intense friendly rivalry Is expected to prodine an interesting tilt. The game is scheduled for 8 o'clock with the second teams playing the preliminary an hour earlier Admission is 10 cents. Coach Steve Everhart’s Central squad is composed of Andrews. Heare. Myers, Linn. Lynch. Roop. Kitchen. Fruchte. and Eichhorn. Coach Bud Hain's St. Joe roster: B. Holthouse. Klepper. Welker, Keller. Terveer, Hackman. J. HoltI house. Wolpert. Kuhnle, McGill and Briede. i A win for St. Joe Tuesday night would mean that the Wemhoff trophy remains in their possession for another year, while a victory for the Central eagers would mean a third and deciding tilt, before possession of the trophy could be decided. o Indiana And Butler To Battle Tonight Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. I—(UP) —The return of Big Bill Merrill I to the lineup boosted But'er's hopes | today to 'break their five-game losing streak and stop Indiana university in the Bulldog field house tonight. , With Merrill's return came announcement of the loss of Laurel Poland, regular guard, who suffer|ed a bad hip-bruise in practice yes- ■ terday. Coach Tony Hinkle indicat--led he would shift Jerome Steiner jto guard, to team with Cosgrove and Conner would get a forward ' position with Geyer. o Clinic To Study Six-Man Football Lafayette, Ind.. Feb. I—<U.R1 —<U.R) — ' Six-man football will get considerI able attention at Purdue's seventh annual football clinic for high I school and college coaches here April 8 and 9, Boh Woodworth. ' acting athletic director, announced i today. Tlie two-day program, under the I direction of acting head football | coach Mai Elward, will cover all ■ phases of the game, with both 11 I and six men. The Purdue varsity i squad, which will be in spring I practice, will give demonstrations , and stage a regular game. | CORT - Last Time TonightJoe E. Brown “FIT FOR A KING” PLUS — March of Time & News. WED. - THURS. Two Outstanding Features I. . . Chan stalks a killer | I through the White Way’s g I gayest spots! IxtARNtR i — J J AND POLLY MORAN ALLISON SKIPWORTH “TWO WISE MAIDS” COMING SUNDAY: WILL ROGERS 'JUDGE PRIEST.' COMING Feb. 13 to 15: Ben Bernie • Walter Winchell “LOVE A. HISSES.” ( | | — |

MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS SEEK PLAYER DEALS National League Teams Anxious To Trade Players New York, Feb. 1 <U.R> Th" old baseball skin-game of trying to trade ''nothing for something'' was resumed today among the National league magnates and managers here for their annual sched- 1 ule meeting. Brooklyn, Cincinnati and Pitts-( burge appeared most anxious to , make last-minute deals before the teams head south for spring training. Burleigh Grimes, Dodgers' manager, and Jimmy Wilson. Phillies' pilot, held a long conference yesterday and it was announced | that Brooklyn would issue a state ment today. This announcement however, may be merely that first baseman Buddy Hassett has signed his contract. Bill McKechnie. Reds' manager. l is trying desperately to swing a deal but hasn't yet got down to the serious talking stage. The Reds would like another outfielder and there also are indications that they are after catcher Gits Mancuso of the Giants. Bill "Terrible" Terry has indicated that he'll part with either Mancuso or Harry Banning if he can get another catcher and an additional player in return. Mancuso's position with the Giants has been made less stable because of his contract difficulties. Incidentally, the Giants have a tough holdout problem on their hands with Mancuso, Dick Bartell, and Joe Moore. They are yelling plenty and have resented some of Terry's magaine article remarks in which he said he split radio and endorsement money with them. The Reds apparently are trying to use Paul Derringer and Ernie Lombardi as trading material. Derringer is another holdout. The rumor that Derringer will go to the Chicago Cubs for shortstop Billy Jurges seems groundless since McKechnie considers shortstop Billy Myers the outstanding man in the Reds’ infield. Warren C. Giles. Reds' business manager, announced today that he had released George Watkins, former Cardinal outfielder who played last season with the Houston Texas league club, from a promise to be one of the Cincinnati coaches this season. Watkins had agreed to terms but asked to be released because of business connections. The case of Billy Jurges has taken a queer turn. Last October the . Cubs avowedly planned to get rid of their turbulent shortstop. February finds him one of the toughest of the holdouts. He conferred several hours yesterday with Clarence Rowland, scout and trout office man. “I'm a better shortstop than Bartell of the Giants and he refuses :to accept $17,500,” Jurges said. "The records prove that statement. I intend to get a good raise in my pay” Pittsburgh's slogan is. ''we'll trade any player on our ball club. Star for star, nobody barred." But ' the Pirates are having as much trouble rigging up a deal as any of the others. Woody Jensen, outfielder who tossed some unkind

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words at his bosses recently, is one of the players the Pirates have , on the block. is that pitcher Monte Pearson has I The only American league news signed his contract with the Yankees after a 3-day holdout. He ac-! cepted the original terms, to which I was added a bonus clause for a good year. It is believed Pearson took a $2,000 cut from last year's salary of $12,000. He won 9 and lost 3 in 1937. Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who received “the player of the year” award of the baseball writers Sun-' day night, plans to return to San i Francisco this week without signing his contract with the Yanks. Col. Jake Ruppert has offered him $25,000 and he had asked for $40,1)00. There have been no negotiations since the original parley broke up in a deadlock. o— — Today’s Sport Parade (By Hsnry McLemore) El Paso, Tex.. Feb. 1— (U.R) - I seldom grow indignant, and never did I think I could become indignant while eating tamales, frijoles, medudo, and enchiladas j on the banks of the Rio Grande. 1 But I did today when my secretary (a clean-cut young Syrian' named Henry McLemore) road me my morning mail. With the exception of a few bills, my mail consisted entirely of letters from readers upbraiding tne for the tw’o stories 1 wronte on Jim Braddock, before Jitn defeated Tommy Farr in a heavyweight fight in New York. When I say “upbraid" I am using a mild term which will get by in family newspapers. Because my readers heaped every accepted form of abuse on my head. A typical paragraph fromji typical letter follows: "So you say Braddock is I through. Huh? You’re not finished because you’ve never been any place. You are America's worst sports writer—and even that is paying you a compliment." I read about three dozen of these outbursts and did everything I could to keep from getting mad. I counted to ten. I doused my j head with cool tequila. Walked ' around my chair three times and

would have made a fourth trip had not the maneger of the establish- ' ment which I was in. warned me that carrier pigeons were not allowed to eat there. In an effort to keep control of myself. I reasoned something like this: Now listen. McLemore, readers : are very scarce. They are to be treasured and protected You have so few that you should send them warm things in winter to wear. ■ Rub their chests when croup attacks them, warn them against crossing streets against the lights, and see that they see their dentist . i twice a year. Readers, McLemore. ! are your bread and butter. Do them you owe everything, including that shock of gray hair you wear on your head. So don’t get mad, even if they write letters that drip with venom. I had just about convinced myI self that the readers were right when my secretary (a soft-spoken ' Maine cod fisherman named Henry McLemore) laid the morning pai pers in front of me. In them I j read that James Jay Braddock had (retired: that he had retired because he believed he was finished as a fighter, and that another bout would jeopardize his health. In announcing his retirement. 1 1 Braddock used almost the same i words I had used a week earlier in ! suggesting that he was foolish to fight Farr, as lousy a fighter as j | the Welshman was. All of a sudden I saw red. Not ‘ Red" Grange, because he is miles away, but just plain red. It made me sore to think that I had been second-guessed when I was right all along. I told my readers Brad dock should quit. They poured I acid on my head and said 1 was a dope and a zanie. He quits for just the reason that 1 advanced. Donald Duck never was madder , | than I was right then. There on the banks of the Rio Grande. My hat flew off. My ears flapped. I jumped up and down. Then I called for a typewriter. The maitre d'hotel said they were just out of typewriters. I said get me one, anyhow. He did. I wrote. Here it is. (Copyright 1938 by United Press)

DECATUR CIO BEATS KOKOMO Scores 33 To 31 Victory | On Local Floor Monday Night - — I The Decatur CYO team, playing at the Commodore gymnasium Monday night, scored a 33 to 31 ! (Victory over the St. Pat's CYO team from Kokomo in a hard fought battle. Decatur held a lead of 4 to 2 at the first quarter and 13 to 10 at , the half. The two teams were tied jat 20-20 at the end of the third quarter. H. Baker and Murphy led th" Decatur scoring with 12 points each. Reinhard was Kokomo s . point man with 10 points. Decatur CYO P<> •"’ r I"P Hebble, f 1 0 2 H. Baker, f 6 0 12 Kohne. c 0 0 0 Murphy, g 4 4 12 J Omlor. g - • * j Hess, f P. Baker, f 0 0 0 Totals 14 '• 33 Kokomo CYO FG FT TP Tevenduski. f Reinhart, f 5 0 10 Von Verake, c 4 1!' Hilton, g 0 0 " Quinn, g 4 0 8' Dwyer, t 0 0 0 I Rodefela. f 0 0 01 Maker, c 0 0 0 Wilson, g 0 0 0, Totals 15 1 311 Referee. Baker; umpire. manQ. General Electric Bowling Results G. E. INTER-DEPT. B Punch Press iH. Keller 112 119 Hiltou 108 157 147 . J. Beery 165 113 171 ' Brokaw 124 200 162 Lord 143 196 157 j ! 130, Totals 652 784 767 , Office Buckley .... 154 156 169 iC. Smith 126 123 Buffenbarger 125 142 147 , . Langston 104 175 162 Haubold 144 141 W. Heim .146 ; 130 Totals 639 740 765 I Assembly ’ Acheson 160 144 127 Mylott 118 132 127 iC. Fisher 118 143 130 ' Huber 138 156 174 , Brown 167 139 145 Totals7ol 714 703 Flanges Lichtenstiger 143 126 156 ,G. Smith 96 110 116 O. Fisher 127 142 121 H. Stauffer 160 118 169 F. Gillig 143 141 115 Totals 669 637 677 Night Men R. Heller 157 174 166 C. August 106 144 121 Kreisher 132 119 119 J. Omlor 162 135 146 H. Heller 129 154 95 Totals 682 746 647 Stators Engler 126 112 120 Bohnke . 190 168 142 GcGIU 104 148 111 , Fruchte 120 125 145 J 130 130 130 Totals 660 688 648 Rotors M. Hoffman ... 158 113 130 P. Reynolds 178 151 147 T. Glanp 146 187 176 T. McClure 155 112 .... I. Teeple 110 162 Ed Steel 142 111 Totals 747 705 728 Tool Room H. Lankenau 159 G. Gage 137 168 181 B. Beery 173 150 ~ C. Baker 138 . 168 L. Bogner 120 . 139 R. Bogner 167 IG4 173 T. Gehrig 171 170 Totals72s 872 771 o Get the Habit — Trade at Home ['LOANS'! $lO to S3OO O’urn NO ENDORSERS -NO CO-MAKERS L y ? ur mon «r problems Convenient repayment terms Call, writa or pbooo LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED ' 2 Srl'rt" Building Decatur, Indiana Phene 2-3.7 El-try rtqutit rtctivti our prompt courttoui utttutiou.

Is Allen Starting Sitdown? ~~~ [Johnny Alien J fIBL « JI i | Refusing the first 1938 contract offered by the Cleveland hJ Pitcher Johnny Allen may lie starting a one-man sitdown osJ his Imme in St. Petersburg Here Johnny is perched in aqj -judge's chair, sitting down for the moment, anyway. I

Local Man Injured In Fall From Ladder • Frank Straub, local laborer, is suffering from a leg injury sustained in a fall from a 12-foot ladder. while working on Adams I street. When the ladder started sliding, his foot caught between the rungs of the ladder, which carried him to the floor. He is able to be up and around. o Kindler Puppy Wins First Prize In Show iA female Scottie puppy, owned by Morris Kindler of Decatur, won first prize in her class in the an-

- A FEATURE THAT WILL MAKE TRACTOR HISTORY! Twin Power AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPH. Two tractors in one: cuts the cost of operation, hence allowing the owner more profit for his work, A trip through the factor) via sound pictures Thurs. Evening - Feb. 3 Myer’s Service U. S. Road 27 —7 Miles North of Decatur -uL “ Outta My " a) ’ Fellow!” fvf m a-£°’ n t° the K crude " ith my u«r e<l <"‘r • • ‘ hose WA have got the * 4 j — mcnt t 0 rea ■' ll ‘— Ji u pV\ heel Alignment! Scores of car owners wonder why tires become '*° rn quickly, why they wear unevenly. The Rivers.de has si modern machine that straightens them out . • ■ true Frame Straightening! One of the hazards to safe driving. After th* r , eP Th e °R»< wrecked car are you sure the frame is straight- sa i e || side has equipment that can do it. economics 1 y Axle Straightening! One of the most common causes for a wrecked-car drive away unsatisfied—but not at the Riverside. „ insured against that. Among the various costly at our garage, is that designed to take care o tedious job. Drive in—or Phone 741 for an estimate- | Riverside Super Service WHEN YOU THINK OF BRAKES—THINK 0 F

nual show of th" northeast J iana kennel club, held atl Wayne Sunday. ■ Th" puppy was :idimlgeil female puppy and .i.suthejJ py in the show. Mr. Kin J planning to etitar th» dor ■ state show at I:id:au.i|»'is;aJ , month. I - -1) — Prominent Angola j Republican fl Angola. Ind.. Feb I—iTPkfl iel J. Shank, ss. prominent ■ lican party lead"" and retire® ber dealer, died here vr-B Funeral services will ;be '.(■ morrow. g I’rmle l«i A <u4hml Towb —