Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1938 — Page 6

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DECATUR HIGH OPENS SEASON TICKET SALES Yellow Jacket Ticket Sale Opens; First Home Game Friday The season ticket sale campaign for the 1935-39 home basketball card of the Decatur Yellow Jackets was opened today by W. Guy Brown. Decatur high school principal. The fact that the home games this year will be played in the newly-constructed gymnasium in the junior-senior high school is expected to be an added incentive to prospective season ticket purchasers. Adult season tickets, which will

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pWeek’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Wednesday Pleasant Mills at Hartford. Friday i New Haven at Yellow Jackets. Portland at Berne. Geneva at Kirkland. Saturday Jefferson at Geneva. Hartford at Monroe. Pleasant Mills vs. Alumni it Commodore gym. , Sunday St. Mary’s of Michigan City at Commodores, 3 p. m. | be sold at 12.25, will go on sale at the new gymnasium Wednesday evening from 7 p. m. until 8:30 p. in. The sale will also be continued ' Thursday evening at the same hour. Adults wishing to purchase i season tickets may call at the gymnasium entrance on these I nights and make their choice of ! seats. Mr. Brown called attention to the fact that the 12.25 season tic- ' ket charge this year is a reduc- ; tion of 75 cents from the cost of I a ticket last year. Holders of the season tickets ■ will be admitted to each of the 10 1 home games this year, starting I with the first game of the season • Friday night when the Yellow Jac--1 kets play ’he New Haven Bull- ' dogs. Seats in the new structure have been marked off and all season tickets holders will be reserved seats. Student Tickets $1.50 Student tickets, selling for $1.50, went on sale today. The students were called into the gymnasium and addressed by Mr. Brown. Students are now signing for the tickets. The student ticket price this year was also r educed 50 cents. The students will canvass the town in the sale of both adult and student tickets. A total of 1,219 seats will be available Friday night for the opening game with New Haven. Mr. Brown revealed today. Approximately 450 persons may be seated on each side of the gymnasium floor, while about 300 may be seated on the south end. Bleachers on the stage wiil not be constructed as yet, he stated. o CLOVERLEAF AND MONMOUTH WIN i Score Easy Victories In WPA League Games Monday Night Monmouth and Cloverleaf scored lop-sided victories in last night’s WPA recreation league tilts at the old Decatur high school gymnasium. The Monmouth five easily defeated Decatur St. Mary's, 41-23. S. Jackson was the big scoring power for Monmouth, ringing up five field goals for a total of 10 points, followed closely by Boerger with nine. Murphy with eight points led the losers, while Kuhnle and E. Hess each marked up five. The Decatur Cloverleafs experienced little difficulty in downing the Pleasant Mills entry to the tune of 49-26. Wynn had a big night for the Creamery-men. getting 18 points on eight field goals and a brace of charity tosses. Rudicel also hit consistently for the winners, marking up six field goals for a total of 12 points. Mutt led the losers with six field goals for 12 points, while Foor wa» next in line with five. Everhart and Kleinknight officiated both games. o Something for nothing! Actual give aways! Tomorrows ad tells the story. E. F. Gass Store.

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M. STRATTON i CAREER ENDED Amputation Os Leg Necessary To Save Ace Hurler’s Life Dallas. Nov. 29. —<U.R> —Monty Stratton, whose promising baseball ■ <arrer was ended by a bullet wound that necessitated amputation of his right leg. was recuperating slowly from loss of blood end the effects of the operation today. Stratton. 25-year-old right-hander of the Chicago White Sox. was injured when a pistol he carried strapped to his leg accidentally discharged while he was hunting rabbits on his mother's farm at Greenville Sunday. The bullet enI tered the thigh, ranged downward and severed the big artery behind . the knee. After several blood transfusions, ; Dr. A. R. Thomasson deemed am- ■ putation necessary to save Monty's life. The surgeon said “barring I complications he should come [ through in fine shape.” Monty, a strapping giant, apI peared last season to have reached the threshold of a brilliant career. He had blinding speed and despite wildness caused by an arm ailment, led all other White Sox hurlers. He won 15 and lost 5 ' in 1937 and won 15 and lost nine last year. o ♦ I Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore ♦ —♦ Los Angeles, Cal.. Nov. 29. —<U.R) Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone, it was no more than fifteen minutes after Duke University had been asked to play in the Rose Bowl than I was talking to Wallace Wade, coach of the Blue Devils, and asking him what he thought of his chances. The Los Angeles operator asked me who 1 wanted. I told her, she spun a few Zials. and, there, on the other end of the line 2,600 miles away, was Wallace Wade, the quiet Tennessee fellow who turns out football teams with a bang. I said congratulations, Wallace. He drawled a "thank you, Henry," and then w’anted to know why I was calling him up. From here on out I ll just quote our conversation: H. M.: Lissen, Wallace, there ire lots of folks out here who think Southern California picked you because you are a softer touch than either Tennessee or Texas Christian. What do you think about that? K. W.: Well, Henry, maybe we are, and then maybe we aren't. You been looking at football teams a long time, and did you ever see one with enough luck to play nine games without losing one or even having a point scored against it? H. M.: That’s right, Wallace, but tell me this —is this the best football team you ever coached? Is it as good as those three Alabama teams you brought out here without taking a licking? W. W.: Henry, that was a long time go, and this is this year. I Football has changed since then.

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Career Ended HL ■ HUHS 41 x o. i I The career of Monty Stratton, ace right-hander of the Chicago Whit? Sox pitching staff, was i ended Monday night when a wound s’lffered in a hunting accident near Greenville, Texas, necessitated amputation of his right leg. I can’t very well compare this team with those of the past. But Duke this year is a mighty good I team. H. M.: You think you’ll win then, huh? W. W.: I’m not saying that, but ' I'll tell you this: I’ve brought three teams out to play in the Rose Bowl. We never were licked. I'm bringing a fourth pretty soon, and I'm proud and glad to bring the boys I'm bringing. I'm not wor- ; ried. We may get our bump?., sure, ! . but we’ll make it prowerful hot ; while we're getting ’em. 11. H.: Then you think you have a pretty good ball club? W. W.: 1 don't think anything about it—l know it. H. M.: Is it true —and I’m asking i from hearsay, because I haven’t seen you this year—is it true that | ' you are strictly a defensive team i and can’t score much? . W. W.: I'll be truthful with you, , the team this year has been better , ion defense than anything else. ; i The record shows that. But we always managed to score enough ;to win. We may be a little strong- ; er on attack in the Rose Bowl, you I know, because George Macfee will | be ready to run. He’s pretty good, despite a foot Injury that has kept him crippled most of the year, j George"! be okay by New Year’s I day. He can purely scamper, Henry. H. M.: How was Pitt, Wallace? W. W.: Tough. Awful tough. I sorta feel we won’t face a team any tougher this year. Maybe i Southern California will be as i tough. But lawdy, they can’t be , any tougher. I H. M.: Lissen, 'Wallace, what i I’m trying to get at is, will you ; start west as satisfied with the I Duke team as you were with the | Alabama teams? ; W. W.: Well, I’ll tell you, I alm ( to sleep very comfortably from ' the time I leave Durham until I I get back to Durham. I won’t fret j going out and I don’t think I’ll

DUKE IS NAMED TO ROSE BOWL Duke Blue Devils To Meet Southern California January 2 Los Angeles. Nov. 29. —<U.R) —Be--1 cause they twisted the tail of that old cracker-barrel favorite about a good offense being the best defense. the Duke University Blue Devils of Durham, N. C.. will meet University of Southern California's Trojans in the 22nd renewal of Rose Bowl football on January 2. For it was defense, and a powerful lot of it, that won the boys from the tobacco country the most coveted invitation of the football year. The Blue Devils are the first major team to complete a season undefeated, untied and unscored on since the Colgate eleven 'of 1932. The neat feat brought them the bid to the east-west extravaganza. and $90,000 in gate receipts. in the shortest space of time in the New Year game's history. There were those today who thought that Texas Christian, Teni nessee, Oklahoma or some other eligible may have had a stronger team. But when all arguments ended in discord the facts remained that the Southern California , players didn't think so, and Trojan athletic director Willis O. Hunter didn’t think so, and they were the parties who mattered. The players voted two-to-one preference for Duke. Hunter said simply: “The Duke football record of being undefeated, untied and unscored on in nine games is uni equaled by that of any other team ; in the nation.” . The choice of Duke, first mem--1 ber of the present southern con- , ference to be so honored, was anI nounced six hours after the 10 Pacific coast conference institutions I voted unanimously that Southern j California should represent the i west. o Texas Christian To Sugar Bowl Contest Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 29—(UtP) I —Howard Grubbs, Texas Christian ; University Athletic director, an- ' nounced today that the undefeated untied TCU football team had accepted an invitation to play in the New Orleans Sugar Bowl game Jan. 2. i Carnegie Tech, defeated only by Notre Dame and victor over Pitt, has been invited to be TCU’s op- ‘ ponent. 1 fret coming back. We’ll be there on New Year’s day wi<h a pretty fair country football team. Win or lose, we ll show you folks out there a right smart team. H. M.: Okay, coach, see you at the station. W. W.: Okay. Henry, and don’t sell us short. We might up and fool you. I We hung (or is it hanged?) up; worth of night person-to-person with me getting, I hope, $13.84 j rate information. 1 Only time will tell. (Copyright 1338 by UP.)

CORN EVOLUTION IS ON DISPLAY Exhibits At International Show Display Great Improvement Chicago. Nov. 29.-(U.R>—Two i glass-enclosed exhibits on the top floor of Chicago's International i amphitheater pictured for visitors to 39th international livestock , exposition today one of scientific ' agriculture s greatest triumphs — i the evolution of corn. One case presented by Norman P Neal of the University of Wisconsin agriculture department I showed specimens of the earliest known corn—runty, mottled ears as cultivated by Indians when Europeans first came to America. The other contained the 10 full bodied yellow ears which yesterday won for William H Curry of Tipton. Ind, the title of "corp king of the world.” Four centuries of scientific cultivation. cross-pollination, inbreedI mg, and study of the native North American product which is the backbone of virtually every farm in the fertile corn belt of the midwest bridged the gap. Keller E. Beeson of Purdue university's agriculture department described the evolution. “The earliest settlers of the con- ; tinent found Indians cultivating a strange grain which they ground into meal for human food," he explained. "The newcomers cleared tracts and raised somg. of this new crop themselves. The Spanish brought i horses and the corn proved to be an excellent feed for their animals. But the earliest corn was small kerneled. uneven and hardly dependable. Experimentation began ! first with the raiser saving his most likely looking specimen for seed planting. “Gradually the ears increased in size. Careful pollination produced uniform colors, an increased number of rows per ear to give a ! greater shelling percentage, the depth of the kernel increased and the rows were straightened. “In the last century the art of inbreeding, improving the strain by using only the superior ears for parents, has produced corn’s latest success—the hybrid variety. “Today there are more than 100 varieties of corn, all with the common ancestry. Livestock feeding takes all but about 15 per cent of the nation's annual output. That 15 per cent goes into industrial uses which include manufacture oT alcoholics and corn meal for human consumption. "The corn is the financial ibackbone of virtually every farm in the corn belt reaching from Ohio to Nebraska and from the Ohio river north to Wisconsin and Minnesota." Curry had his own share in improvement of the crop. He won his third successive “corn king" title with a specimen known as Reid’s Yellow Dent —introduced to the middlewest' by James Reid, an : Illinois pioneer who died mote than 40 years ago. The new corn king called his specimen, however, “Curry's Improved Yellow Dent.” Chicago Cardinals Seeking New Coach Chicago Nov. 29 —(UP) — The Chicago Cardinals of the National professional footiball league went shopping for a new football coach today to replace Milan Creighton,

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