Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1938 — Page 8

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HAMMOND FIVE HAS TOUGH ROW IN SEMI-FINAL Team Coached By Former Monroe Player Must Beat Frankfort i Indianapolis. Mar. 17, — <U.R> — When coach Chet Kessler brings his Haminond Wildcats to the Lafayette semifinal tourney Saturday afternoon, he faces the his-tory-proved impossible task of taking a northern team through to the championship finals at Indianapolis March 26. Hammond has the full focus of northern Indiana hopes to bring it honors of a title winner. Never has it had one. Fate, in the form of Everett Case, his tourney psychology. and a fine Frankfort quintet which co-championecl the north central conference this year with Muncie might smear the strong Wildcat five and end sinh hopes again. Case has guided three teams to a state championship, the most re-! cent in 1936. Frankfort, paced by long “Splinter'’ Johnson who scored 37 points in the regional, must conquer Delphi before choosing either Hammond or Rochester In the final Saturday night. Blocking Hammond's path to the ! final is Rochester, which sent the Wildcats home, defeated. last 1 year. Coach Clyde Lyle now has another dark-horse entry and is ready to repeat. Hammond un-| doubtedly will be keyed for the Zebras, and prepared for a knockout blow. Last week against LaPorte, Hammond came through on a wide margin, and won against — TONIGHT — “MIDNIGHT INTRUDER’’ Barbara Read. Eric Linden. Louis Hayward. J. C. Nugent. ALSO — Cartoon; News & Lowell Thomas “Going Places.” 10c-25e I -0 FRI. & SAT. Your Favorite Kid Star— MICKEY ROONEY-is tops in this swell picture! \LOVE IS A HEADACHE... / when a "hard-hearted Hannah " I wants a "hard■ to - get" man I « ®(3T From the Erst kick I L to the last clinch... / this is the roman- \ tic riot you've longing for) (JcWM/l. (ffuidacNt / fc’jTED HEALY \ S,M Mickey HOMEY / FRANK JENKS / Ralph Morgan \ Virginia Weidler / % - I Jessie Ralph / ' '' ' Oirrctrd by I RICHARD THORPE \ Produced by J ? "J Frederick Stephani / mJ* —o Sun. Mon. Tues. — Thundering Story of the old West! “WELLS FARGO” Bob Burns, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, thousands more!

Emerson In the night final. 1 The Wildcats are a big, hardI driving bunch, with all-state Geo. I Solmk and several others who | made state-wide recognition among j sports writers and coaches. They I have sharpshooters and heavy re- < bound men. They’ll find five who ,’ will match them if they pair up j with Frankfort. The two northern semi-finals — • the other is Muncie — have four ‘conference champions competing. ' Besides Muncie and Frankfort of ’ the north central, there are Ham- | tnond of the western division and I South Side of Fort Wayne in the | northeastern loop. Coach Fete Jolly of Muncie will plunk down on the bench for the 320th time as he waves his Bear- I cats In against Kendallville in Q>e | Muncie tourney opener. Although : he gets up and sits down many ; times through a scrap, he’s come ) up smiling 23!l times in his 11 years : as director of Muncie’s eagers, i Muncie took the state title in 1928 and 1931 and is one of the biggest favorites this year. The Bearcats are fast, clever and j cool-headed. They have height , and all round floor leader, Jim ■ Carnes, redheaded forward who took the north central scoring scoring championship and was I named one of the five best in In- , ! diana at the conclusion of the j ! scheduled season. They defeated . Hammond. 39 to 38. in an overtime I on a foreign floor. Kendallville rushed up as one j of the regional tournament sur-| prises by upsetting Warsaw. 27 to ; 26. They have a steady team but | 1 are not in the same class with the Bearcats. Fort Wayne's Southsiders meet I i the mystery team of the year in I I the lower bracket of the Muncie I 1 roundup. They will get a chance ' iat the high-flying Sheridan quin- ■ tet which rammed through Tipton. I I Carmel, Kokomo, and Marion to I gain the semi finals. Sheridan has , a husky squad, averages six feet I in height and is coached by Fred J Shaklin, former athlete at Wabash ; I college and coach at Scircleville. I The South Side Archers, led by [ Hamilton. Glass. Bolyard and Roth, j have the power to stop Sheridan and could drift into position for a : chance to upset the Muncie Bear- | ' cats. They drive hard, working ! plays through for set ups, and are I I considered by coach Burl Friddle ' the best he's had for many years. I At the Training Camps By United P-ess ♦ . — .1, —— — — -J- — ■ “ ♦ Yankees St. Petersburg. Fla.. Mar. 17.— I 1 (U.FJ—Manager Joe McCarthy was I ; satisfied today that Lou Gehrig 1 J would be ready to start the season J despite losing the first two weeks | of spring practice because of his | holdout. Gehrig played the full ■ 1 nine Innings yesterday, contrifiut- j ■ ing two of the Yanks' six hits that I defeate the Boston Bees. 2-0. Had- I ley. Andrews and Murphy held the j Bees to two hits. Cardinals St. Petersbug. Fla. — The St. I I Louis Cardinals, losers in three of . four starts against major leaguej I opposition this spring, go again to-1 day—against the Cincinnati Reds. I The Cards were outslugged 15-13 i by the Washington Senators at Orlando yesterday. Red Manager Bill McKechnie will send Gene I Schott and Whitey Moore to the | I mound against the Redbirds. He I plans to use only two pitchers in | each subsequent exhibition. The i Reds went through only a light LOANS'] $lO to S3OO Pa. ay to Qualify NO ENDORSERS -NO CO-MAKERS Let us solve your money problems Convenient repayment terms Cd//, wtiif or pbone LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur, Indiana Phone 2-3-7 Every request receives tur prompt | CORT! - - Last Time Tonight - BIG DOUBLE PROGRAM “The Invincible ]\T featuring BORIS KARLOFF! and ‘Meet The Boy Friend’ i a clever comedy-drama. l i 10c-25c : j Sunday — “Happy Landing.”

CLASS TOURNEY FINAL TONIGHT Seniors And Juniors To Meet In Finals Os Catholic Meet 11 . The seniors and the juniors meet , J tonight in the finals of the Intra1 mural basketball tourney of the l J Decatur Catholic high school The seniors and juniors will meet , i In the feature game at 8 o'clock • 1 with the freshmen and sophomores, I . losers in last night's tilts, meeting |ln the consolation game at 7I ,' o’clock. Led by Voglewede, the seniors I 'downed the frosh in the first game' ; last night. 37-28. Voglewede scored 17 points on eight baskets and ai I free throw. Gillig was next in line [ ; with eight points. Miller and HeiI ntann Scored two baskets each. I ! Reed and Kuhnle garnered one; bucket apiece, making the total of I 17. Schmitt. Eiling and Wolpert ' ' were other seniors who broke Into! j the line-up. For the freshmen. Bolinger 1 snagged 12 points. Murphy 12, ITman two and Hackman two. Other players: Miller. Bierly, Holthouse, Lengerich. Weber and J. Lengerich i Baker led the juniors in a 30-12 | ' win over the sophomores, with 14 1 markers. Bob Bolinger made six. I ! Alberding and Hess got four mark-, I ers each and Teeple scored one • bucket. Schultz failed to score. The tourney is beiug staged i under the supervision of Coach ! George laiurent and Father Alvin, j j athletic director. SCOTT HIGH IN i BOWLING MEET — Everett Scott. Jr., Posts Three-Game Total Os 695 Pins Everett Scott. Jr.. Fort Wayne I kegler and son of the former “iron man" of the New York Yankees. ’ ; seems to have the singles crown ; in the interstate bowling tourney I here pretty well sewed up. Entering in the final week of: ■ tourney play, Scott's 695 for three ' games is not expected to be near- ■ ] ed. Sunday is the final day of 1 the tourney. Young Scott displayed some of i the best bowling ever exhibited at I the Mies Recreation alleys when 1 . he rolled a 241. boosted bis second , game to a 242 and then kept above ' ■ the double century mark with a • 21T in his final attempt. Wolf of 1 Winchester is next to Scott with i a 602 on games of 179. 168 and a > . big 255. Tops in the doubles are Reiner t I and Stone of Auburn Stokers with i ■ 1.215 pins for their series. | The remainder of the tourney i schedule: Saturday—7 p. m. St. Joe A. C. No. 2. Fort Wayne. Sunday—l p. m. Wolverines, Fort Wayne. Linco Oils, Fort Wayne. Berghotf, Fort Wayne. | Convoy Country, Convoy. Ohio. Sunday—3 p. m. Ritz Liquors. Richmond. Rhodes Bros.. Bluffton. St. Joe A. C. No. 1. Fort Wayne. Wolf & Dessauer. Fort Wayne, j o-~ — Attend District Meeting Os Clubs Mrs. Henry Heller, district pre- ; ■ -ident. Miss Vivian Burk, district , ' secretary, Mrs. Herbert Kern and I Mrs. W. Guy Brown attended the | Madison county federation of clubs ( convention, held Wednesday at the j Y. M. C. A. in Anderson. In the morning the colunty pre- ' sident and the departmental chair- ] ;nen reports were given. During the luncheon. Dr. Verne K. Harvey of | ndianapolis, head of the state i nealth board gave a talk on “Pre- 1 marital Legislation in Indiana and Communicable Diseases.” Mrs. Henry Heller of this city also gave an interesting talk on “Federation Objectives.” o — Berne Senior Class Plans Class Play “The Sunshine Girl," a modern comedy-drama in three acts will be presented Tuesday evening. April 12 by the senior class of the Berne high school at the Berine auditorium. In the county recorder’s office in Bloomfield, two NY A girls are recording oil leases, an added duty the regular office force has not the time to perform. workout yesterday. Browns San Antonio, Tex.—The St. Louis Browns play their first game of i the spring training season today, engaging the Texas Gulf Ollers nine. Manager Gabby Street, who refused to let Beau Bell try out for first base, announced that Bell, his slugging star, would be in right field. Linke, Walkup and Kimberlin will share the Brown pitching I burden.

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STATE STREAMS SLOWLY RISING No Great Damage Expected As Indiana Rivers Near Flood Stage By United Press Indiana streams and rivers continued to rise slowiy today, many ! of them going above flood stage I and spilling muddy waters across , lowland farms but no great darn- ‘ age was expected. The Ohio river was nearing 35 I feet at bivansville. a rise of almost , one foot since yesterday. Several thousand acres of lowlands in ■ southwestern Indiana were inundated. Some crop damage was i feared. • Skies were overcast in southern ' sections and observers fear that ■ additional heavy rains would make the situation more acute. The Ohio 'is expected to ascend four feet I above flood stage at Evansville. Swollen streams in the WabashWhite river bashi eased past the I flood stage and spread over lowI fafius. The east fork of the White I river was above flood stage and i still rising. At Lafayette, the Wabash was about four feet over flood stage %nd weather observers predicted it would mount above flood level at all points down to Mt. Vernon and the confluence of the Ohio riv-

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■ er. I High water still covered roads in the Seymour and Vincennes . vicinity although traffic was mov [ ing slowly over most of them, it I was reported. Traffic was halted on only two roads, one of them unimportant, ■ the state highway commission reported. I U .S. highway 41 south of Oaktown was closed because of a | washed out bridge. The conimission said that repairs probably I probably would be completed by ( ' tomorrow. Meanwhile, traffic be- ‘ tween Oaktown and Emison, a disI tance’ of about five miles, was re- ' routed over a county road. | Indiana 235 east of Medora re- ' malned closed and traffic was rerouted over hiaiana 50 and 135. I I Water covered these roads, but 1 not sufficiently to stop their use: Indiana 157 north of Worthing1 ton; Indiana 57 north of Buckskin; U. S. 31 north of Seymour, where . 1 eight inches of water was report ! ed; Indiana 25s west of Seymour I ' and Indiana 135 northwest of i ' Brownstown. t o PAUL V. McNUTT ' T’-Y'- . *'_'*!* M .?■* F- I ‘ be delayed indefinitely to coincide , 1 with economic independence. | He urged that the United States ' s should never withdraw completely I ! from the Islands, however, and that I I li should maintain a naval base I there and give the best trade agreei ments possible without injuring do- - mestlc producers.

MACK SEES HIS A’S IMPROVEO Connie Mack Starts 37th Consecutive Year As Manager Lake Charles, La.. Mur. It.— (U.P.; When most men either uro through or in their graves. ( onnie Muck is beginning till over uguilL At 75, and with a record of 37 continuous years of managing the Philadelphia Athletics, the sparse ly-biiilt. kindly-<'yed old gentleman Is bubbling over with enthusiasm. There are two reasons for his zestful outlook. He's Just licked a serious Illness which lasted five months. He became very ill in August and in late January was down to 119 pounds. Now he's eating three big meals a day and has his weight up to 139. The other reason is that he is looking ahead to building another great ball club. In his time he's won nine pennants, and torn several great teams apart and started all over again. Peering out from under his bushy eyebrows and pointing his finger for emphasis as he talks. Mack confided that he believed he had the makings of another championship club. "We’re not quite ready yet.” he said. "They’ve got us outefassed now. but we re coming. The real strength is in the pitching staff Right now I wouldn't trade my staff for any other in the league except Cleveland's. But my pitchers still are in the process of developing. They too. need more ex perience.” Mack admitted that he had quite i a few problems to solve before the ' Athletics can challenge the Yan kees and become a serious pennant threat. “But that's what I get a kick out of," he said, "training and schooling players and watching them develop along the lines I want them to do. I have just as much interest and enthusiasm now as I had 38 years ago when I beW 0 0 Fever . I (quia. Tablet*, Salve first day Xoae llrop. Headache. 30 Jlluutea Try -*Rwh-My-Tlani" World'A Heat l.lniMient

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