Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1938 — Page 6

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SCHEDULES FOR ANNUAL COUNTY TOURNEYS MADE Annual Tourneys To Be Held At Monmouth .Jan. 19, 20, 21 Pairings for the annual Adams county first and second team tourneys to be held Thursday.'Friday and Saturday, January 19, 20 and 21 were announced today by C. E. Striker, county superintendent of Schools. Tht* newly constructed Monmouth high school gymnasium in Root township will be the scene of the annual conflict this season, with Coach Ernest Curtis and his Eagle squad as hosts. The tourneys will start Thursday night with first round play in the first team event. Second team first round encounters will follow Friday night. The semi-finals and finals will be played Saturday afternoon and evening with the secmid team playing preliminaries to the varsities. Admission to the affair will be 25 cents per session. Geneva is the defending first team champions, having won the 1938 meet on their own floor. Jefferson won the bye in the first team tourney while the Monmouth reserves drew the bye in the second team draw. The pairings were made Saturday in the county superintendent's office. The complete drawings for tho first team tourney: Thursday Night 7 p. in. Game I—Pleasant Mills vs. Monroe. 8 p. m. Game 2 —Kirkland vs. Hartford. 9 p. m. Game 3 — Geneva vs. Monmouth. Saturday 3 p. m. Game 4 —Jefferson vs. Winner Game 1. 4 p. tn. Game s—Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3. 8:30 p. m. Game 6 — Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5. The drawing for the second team tourney: Friday Nigh t 7 p. m. Game I—Pleasant Mills vs. Monroe. 8 p. m. Game 2—Kirkland vs. Hartford. 9 p. m. Game 3—Jefferson vs. Geneva. Saturday 1 p. m. Game 4- Monmouth vs.

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f * Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Van Wert, Ohio ut Yellow .facets. Commodores at St. Joseph, Rensselaer. Dunkirk at Berne. Thursday Montpelier at Hartford. Friday Commodores at St. John's of Delphos. Ohio. Pleasant Mills at Monmouth. Kirkland at Lancaster. Bryant at Geneva. Winner game 1. 2 p. m. Game s—Winner game 2 vs. winner game 3. 7:30 p. m. Game 6 — Winner game 4 vs. winner game 5. Officials: Lundy Welborn. South Side. Fort Wayne: Clive Markley, Bluffton and Robert S. Brubaker, Portland.

Mgmwt Standings W. L. Pct. Commodores 71 .875 Kirkland 7 2 .777 Berne 6 2 .750 Hartford 6 3 .667 Monmouth 5 3 .625 Yellow Jackets 5 4 .555 Geneva 4 4 .500 Pleasant Mills 4 4 .500 Monroe 2 6 .250 Jefferson 0 8 .000 It may be the week before Christmas, but basketball players of Adams county are taking no vacation this week, with eight | games on the schedule. Three; games Tuesday night, one Thurs- ! day and four Friday. —oOo — The Yelow Jackets will afford Decatur fans their only chance of the week to see a game on the homes loo**. The Jackets will be in action at home Tuesday night, entertaining the Van Wert, Ohio, Cougars. Van Wert handed Greenville. Ohio, a 28-12 trouncing last Friday night, with Jerone, a guard, leading the scoring with six field goals. The Jackets, displaying more fight and spirit than they had shown since early in the season, came out of their slump last Friday night to hand the Berne Bears a neat trimming on the Decatur i floor. It was sweet revenge for the Yellow Jackets, who have had considerable difficulty with the Bears in recent seasons. The Decatur Commodores will be in action twice this week, with both games on foreign floors. The Commies will travel to Rensselaer Tuesday night to meet Joe Dienhart’s St Joseph team, and Friday night the Commies will play St. John's at Delphos, Ohio. Delphos has won eight games this season without a defeat. Adams county teams will take part in five games during the week. Dunkirk will play the Berne Bears at Berne Tusday night. Montpelier will be at Hartford Thursday, and three games scheduled for Friday are Pleasant Mills at Monmouth, Kirklt. at Lancaster and Bryant at Geneva. Tuesday night's game will be the final tilt for the Yellow Jackets until after the New Year. The Jackets will be hosts to' Berne, Bluffton and Hartford City at the annual tour team blind tourney, to be held in the new gymnasium in this city Monday afternoon and evening, January 2. The Commodores will make one home appearance next* week, entertaining Catholic high of Joliet, 111., in a game recently added to the Commies schedule. This game will be played Thursday night, December 29. —oOo — In another column of today’s sports page will be found the complete schedule for the annual Adams county high school tournament. —oOo—” Monmouth’s new gymnasium will be the scene for the tournament, which will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 19, 20 and 21. First round

FIRST TILT IN GRADE SERIES HERE TONIGHT Annual Grade Championship Series Opens Here Tonight Tonight is the night. To i-ns and plavers close one and twopoint decisions is widely heralded Berne-Yellow Jacket, Commodore Central Catholic and other tradition'll battles are overshadowed In the spotlight that centers upon the first tilt of the annual grade tourney. At about 8:15 o'clock tonight. Decatur junior high graders will trot ontc the new hardwood of the junior-senior high school gymnasium to do battle with the St. loe eighth graders. / Intensbe practice sessions have been concluded Miniature Na' Holmans have been diligently instituted in the art of the leather sphere, and rivalry is expected to be at its height us the St. Joe lads open the series in defense of the cl’.v crown won last year. Coaches Steve* Everhart of the junior high and Bud Hain of the St Joe five report that till theit boys are in top condition. To the Junior high boys there is a little matter of losing the Wmehoff trophy tor the past two seasons to be evened up with the Catholic lads To the St. Joe five, there is the just as important task of successfully defending the trophy. To add as much color as is customary in the'tilts of their "big brothers" from the high schools, the bands will be on hand and the respective yell leaders will direct the cheering of the young fans. The reserve teams of the two schools will open the festivities of the evening with a preliminary encounter at 7:15 o'clock. Admission to the game is 10 cents for everyone. The probable starting lineups: Junior high St. Joe Spanr._ F Welker Neidigh F McClenehan Andrews C Klepper Rickord G Hackman McConnell. G Briede Officials: Vizard and Beal (Decatur). MATCH GAMES IN KLEG SPOT Local Pinsters Have BusyWeekend In Match Encounters —— Match games featured Sunday activities of Decatur bowlers as local Rlegles defended their honors both on the road and at the local Mies Recreation alleys. The Castings bowlers rolled up a 2.577 at the local alleys to beat the i.ig the 204) mark in his last two games in the first team tourney will be played Thursday night, and the first round of the second team meet Friday night, with semi-finals in both tourneys Saturday afternoon and finals Saturday night.

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Union City quintet's 2,384. Break games Dyke Frisinger led the winners with a 602. His last attempt of 209 was also high single game. Schafer's also cerried away an inter-city engagement, posting up a 2.515 against 2.468 for the Rockford. Ohio pinsters. McClure for Schafer’s was high with a 536. Two hundred scores went unharmed. Lindeman led the General Electric five in an intra-city win over t’ae Decatur Upholsters with a 554 for his three games. After a poor 138 on his first attempt, t’ae G. E. leader found the range, marking up 214 and 202 in his last two lines. His middiem ark was also single high. The G. E. posted a 2,438 to thje Upholster's 2,234. in the other match at the Recreation alleys. The Hartford City five bowled out a 2.578 to 2,441 win over the Mies Five. Porter was high for the winners with 590. whi’e Lankenauw Mh a 524 and Bonitas with 501 led the losers. Local klegmen bot an even break on the road. The Rice Hotel five with 2.747 eked out a 12-pin win over the Ritz Liquers at the southern city, while The Hicksv’lle Midgets scored a 2-458 to 2.200 win over a band of Decautr pinsters. Elliott of the Midgets posted a high single game of 206. Andy Appelman rolling for Paul Briede in the Rice Hotel lineup posted a 482 to lead his team. His 231 was also single game high. o Vrnae In A «;<><»«> l..wn — nncntm

HARTFORD WINS EASY VICTORY Gorillas Score 30-10 Triumph Over Jefferson Five Holding the Warriors to a single field goal, the Hartford Gorillas won an easy victory at their own gym Saturday night, trampling Jefferson. 30-10. The Jefferson basket came in the first half when Baker hit from afield. The Gorillas led 14-3 at half-time. The scoring of the winners was fairly well divided, with Schlagenhauf getting seven points to lead. Fartford FG FT TP Reynolds, f .0 0 0 Schlagenhauf, f 3 17 Augsburger. f 1 2 4 Striker, c . 1 3 5 H Eicher, g 10 2 Dubach, g 3 0 6 D* Amstutz, f 1 0 2 C. Reynolds, f 0 0 0 C. Eicher, g 2 0 4 Lybarger, t .... .... 0 0 0 Chrisman, c ,v. 0 0 0 Bentz, f 0 0 0 Bixler, f 0 0 0 Totals 12 6 30 Jefferson FG FT TP Baker, f 14 6 Kenney, f 0 0 0

cans, Davey O’Brien and Ki Aldrich. Carnegie Tech’s hopes are based on the play of Merle Condit, back, and John Schmidt, center. Bill Kern is the Carnegie coach. The game is scheduled for Jan. 2..

BLUE DEVILS WIN SUNDAY 1 • Defeat Flying Dutchmen In CYO League Game Sunday Th Blue Devils scored a 40-37 victory over the Flying Dutchmen Sunday afternoon in the second i week's play in the Decatur CYO ; league, played ut the Commodore j gymnasium. The Blue Devils were trailing j at the half. 18-16, but rallied in I the second half to win. Bill ' Kuhnle starred for the winners ! with nine field goals for 18 points. ' F. Straub was high for the losers I with six field goals. Blue Devils FG FT TP !R. Ulman, f 2 0 4 'B. Kuhnle, f 9 0 18 . L. Alberdtng. c 4 0 8 JL. Heimann, g 5 0 10 1 B Miller, g 0 0 0 ' C. Braun, f ,000 R. latFontuine, c 0 0 0 i G. Lengerich, g .000 1 Totals 20 0 40 ; Flying Dutchmen FG FT TP i E. Lengerich, f 4 1 0 ' B. Schultz, f 3 17 I J. Schultz, c 10 2 ' H. Rutnschlag. g 10 2 :F. Straub, g 6 0 12 Faurote. c 2 1 5 Totals 17 3 37 H. S. BASKETBALL South Side (Fort Wayne) 43, ! Vincennes 22. Kokomo 31. Central (Ft. Wayne) 22. North Shle (Fort Wayne) 39, i Garrett 28. Wabash 28, Warsaw 26. Elkhart 27, Goshen 22. Winamac 41. Peru 23. Shortridge (Indianapolis) 32. i Southport 31. Cathedral (Indianapolis) 33. Brazil 21. Greencastle 34, Anderson 30. I Muncie 28. Mishawaka 24. College Scores Indiana 71. Connecticut State 38. Purdue 43. DePaul 36. Butler 31. lowa 29. Tries New Ice Skates, Suffers Fractured Leg Ten Schindler, forward on th** Berne basketball team and his brother. Hallman wanted to pleas' l their mother with an early Christi mas gift—so they gave her a pair of ice skates Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon. however, Mrs. Schindler, 39. suffered disastrous results in trying out her | new present. While skating on I the Limberlost pond, she fell and i sustained a compound fracture of I the right leg. Luginbill, c Oil Augsburger, g 0 0 0 Tumbleson, g 0 0 (I Bollenbacher, f 0 3 3 Teeple. f 0 0 0 Totals 1 8 10 Referee, Smith (Hoagland). Umpire, Hank (Hoagland). Preliminary Hartford 18, Jefferson 7.

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