Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1938 — Page 8

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Commodores Wallop St. Paul’s OS Marfod

COMMIES SCORE EASY VICTORY LAST EVENING Commodores Score Seventh Victory With 48-10 Triumph Th* "Decatur Commodores markid up tb'.'ir seventh victory of the •ison Thursday night on their home' Tloor. handing St. Paul's of Marion a sound 48-10 trouncing. The Commodores Jumped into the lead at the start of the game and Marion failed to threaten at ! any time. Baker scored first for the Commits. hitting from well out in front. Coughlin connected from the -Me of the floor for the visitors and the Commodores then ran tn» seven points while holding Mat ioh scoreless, with Decatur holding a 9-2 margin at the end <>f the first quarter. The visitors scored only two noil’ts ’n the second quarter, Murphy hitting from underneath shortly after the period opened, while,the Commodores ran up 11 more points to take a 20-4 lead at the Intermission. Decatur increased its margin in the third quarter, holding a lead of 32-8 as the period closed. Marion scored only two free throws in the f’nal quarter, as the Commodores piled up 16 more points. An entire reserve team played the final four minutes of the game, scoring seven points and holding Marion without a point Bolinger was Decatur's leading scorer with five field goals and a flee throw for 11 points. Hack man scored eight points and Baker and R Hess eight each. Terveer. freshman center, tallied five noints in the few minutes he played. Moore was high for Marion with three points. Decatur FG FT TP Hackman, f 4 19 Baker, f 3 2 8 R. Hess, e 2 4 8 Hain, g 1 3 5 R. Bolinger, g 5 1 11 Roop, f Odd B. Holthouse. f ..1 0 2 Terveer, c 2 15 N. Hess, g . 0 0 0 T. Bolinger, g 0 fl 0 Totals 18 12 48 Marion Muiphy. f 10 2 Moore, c 113 Becker. 1 0 0 0 Coughlin, g .. .... 10 2 Rademaker. g 1 0 2 1 Stanley, f 0 11 Bott, f 0 0 0 I Hatt, c 0 0 0 Totals -.. 4 2 10 Referee—Lehman (Berne I Umpire—Beal (Decatur) Preliminary Defiance Varsity 27, Commodore Reserves 18. Clyde Hitchcock is confined to his home with illness. He has been ordered to take an extended rest.

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'» - « Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams * « Friday Berne at Yellow Jackets. Pleasant Mills at Kirkland. Monroe vs. Monmouth at Berne. Hartford at Geneva. Saturday Jefferson at Hartford. One of the big games of the season will he played at Decatur s new gymnasium tonight, when the Decatur Yellow Jackets entertain their arch rivals, the Berne Bears. -—oOo— Decatur-Berne games have for years been outstanding on th schedules of both teams and tonight's tilt promises to be no different. From advance ticket sales, local school officials are expecting a great crowd tonight, and a battle royal is in prospect. —oOo— Berne has lost only one game this season, while the Yellow Jackets. after a splendid start, have. However, with the added incentive faded somewhat in recent games, of an opportunity to even old scores with the Bears- and a large home crowd, the Jackets should snap out of the doldrums tonight. —oOo— Decatur Commodore s continued on their winning streak Thursday night, hanging up a one-sided triumph over St. Paul's of Marion at the local gym. Both Decatur teams will be in action next Tuesday. December 20. The Yellow Jackets will appear on the home floor, entertaining Van Wert. Ohio, while the Commodores will travel to Rensselaer to battle St. Joseph. Joe Dienhart. for 12 years coach at Cathedral of Indianapolis. is now coaching at St. Joe. where he has charge of both th high school and college sports. —oOo — Tuesday's game with Van Wert will be the Yellow Jackets final appearance before New Year's. Their next appearance will be in the four-team blind tourney, to be played here Monday. January 2. —oOo — The Commodores will be in action again next Friday. December 23. traveling to Delphos to meet St. John's ofcdhat city. Another home game has been added to the Commodores schedule, and will be played here Thursday. December 29. As opposition, the Commodores wil play Catholic high of Joi-

' GRADE SCHOOLS .TO OPEN ANNUAL SERIES MONDAY k Annual City Series To Open Monday Night At New Gymnasium The first game in that annual series of basketball tilts, which has no peer on local net courts —the St. Joe-Centra) eighth grade battle will be played next Monday night. December 19, in the new Decatur junior-senior high gym, it was announced today by athletic officials of the two schools. The Central lads, however, will be playing under a new title in this series, for they are now known as the Decatur Junior high team. Names are unimportant to the public school lads. To them rhe ' most important thing on that night will be the attempt to regalfl the Wemhoff trophy, which St. Joe has snugly tucked away under its collective arm each year for the past two seasons when the smoke of the series battle has cleared away. Coach Steve Everhart’3 charged have assumed a do-or-die attitude in their task of capturing the trophy gained last year by the Catholic lads in two straight tilts, but the St. Joe boys are just as anxious to keep the granite basketball beautifying their trophy case for at least iet. 111. Joliet defeated the Commodores here last season and has a veteran team in the field again this year. —oOo — Announcement of the first game of the annual city series between the two grade schools of Decatur is of great interest to Decatur net fans. This game will be played at the new high school gymnasium Monday night. These games, starring future Yellow Jacket and Commodore players, are among the highlights of the basketball season in this city, and always draw fine, enthusiastic crowds. And the admission price, only 10 cents. —oOo — The second basketball training school, sponsored by the WPA recreation department, will be held at the old D. H. i gymnasium tomorrow. Sessions will be hefd from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 1 to 3 p. m. Boys in the sixth to eighth grades, inclusive, are eligible for the school, which is staged at no cost to the boys. Forty of the iads attended the first session of the school last Saturday. and approximately 100 are expected tomorrow. I —oOo— I The school is conducted by I George F. Laurent, recreation sup- i ervisor and Decatur Commodores coach, assisted by Hugh Andrews • and Deane Dorwin, Yellow Jackets coaches. / M j 7 V _A\ / l 29 75 ~ I I Ki ~ / L 42 50 ' 2 Diamond* \ Diamonds / ■ SUTTON JEWELRY Bulova, Elgin, Hamilton Watches. Use Our Payment Plan. Open Evenings ’till Christmas.

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another year. Ijist year. Coach Bud Hain's little warriors soundly trounced the Central boys 38-23 in the opening series contest on their own floor and then just as if to prove it was no accident, handed them a 41-23 walloping on the public gym floor. Interest in the city series has grown from year to year until today it is recognized as one of the features of each Decatur basketball season. Fans, whose interest heretofore, had been only in watching the abilities of the graders' older brothers, have been attracted to the tilts to sit alongside proud fathers and mothers and observe the future high school stars. Past records and performances mean nothing to either team when they trot onto the court that night, for the intense rivalry promises a heated, sportsmanlike contest, despite any advantage or disadvantage in either's abilities. The feature game will start at 8:15 o'clock Monday night, and will be preceded by a second team game between the two schools at 7:15 o’clock. Admission prices to the game will be 10 cents per person. o Notre Dame Loses To Michigan Five Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 16 —(UP) Notre Dame’s Irish basketball warriors lost their second straight game to a Big Ten conference foe last night, the Michigan Wolverines edging them out in the last minute. 40 to 38. The score see-saw’ed eight times but in the final seconds, with the scoreboard reading 36-all, Charles Pink and Dan Smick clicked through four points. Pink on two free throws and Smick on a fielder. Eddie Sawowski ended scoring, just before the gun. with a basket.

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JUNIORS BEAT GENEVA TEAM Decatur Junior High Scores 10-8 Victory Thursday The Decatur junior high school quintet edged out a 10-8 victory over the Geneva juniors Thursday afternoon at the Geneva gymnasium. The game was a tight defensive battle all the way. with the teams tied at 4-4 at the half. Andrews was high scorer for Decaur with three field goals for six points. Four Geneva players each scored two points. Decatur FG FT TP Spahr, f 0 0 0 Neidigh, f 10 2 Andrews, c 3 0 6 Rickord, g 0 0 0 McConnell, g 10 2 Mutschler, g 0 0 0 Totals 5 0 10 Geneva FG FT TP Stucky, f 10 2 Windmiller, f I*o 2 Miller, c 0 0 0 Agler. g 1 0 2 Hanni, g 10 2 Totals 4' 0 8 Referee, Grile; umpire, Roop. Shooting Match I Sunday, December 18 at Ed Auman’s Woods (6 mile North on 27) Watch for Sign! Also Rifle and Muzzle Loading Match ♦ *

TEAMS TRY TO BUILD UP TO YANKS POWER Boston, (’leveland And Detroit Trade Key Players New York, Dec. 16.-fU.fDI—Echoes 1 —Echoes heard loudest today, as the major league big shots scattered back to home bases after the annual winter meetings concerned the efforts of the Red Sox. Indians and Tigers to build up dubs to challenge the Yankees and the definite trend toward night baseball. Definite indications that Boston, Cleveland and Detroit all hope to end the Yanks’ three-year reign were furnished by the tenacity with which those three first division clubs hung on until they put over some deals. The delegates were packing to go home when the Red Sox and Tigers finally engineered their five? player deal, whielf had been in state of negotiation for more than a week. The swap sent third baseman Pinky Higgins and pitcher Archie McKaln. a southpaw, to the Tigers and gave the Red Sox pitchers Eldon Auker and Jake Wade and outfielder Chet Morgah This deal was essentially a "Higgins and Auker" transaction as the Tigers desperately needed Higgins to plug the third base gap and Hie Red Sox were frantic for pitching help to back up baseball’s most robust attack. The Red Sox had a club batting average of .299 last season. 25 points better than the —3 •. _ . - _ — — —

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