Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1938 — Page 6
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HOLIDAY MEETS J FEATURE STATE j NET SCHEDULES Leading Basketball Teams To .Meet In Tourna- ! ments Indlrnapolis. Dee. 27 — (U.RI —> Holiday tournaments, in which| the state's undefeated cage teams usually meet disaster, blanket the i hardwoods this week to reveal what coaches may expect when the pressure is on. The miniatures of the huge stat" championship tourney in- • volve leading teams from all sections. and the results of several ' will establish the winners as defi-i nite threats to the state crown A seeding of four tough North ; Central conference teams —Mun-! tie, Nev. Castle, Anderson and 1 Logansport — will be made next Monday at the Indiana encamp- I inent. First to get under way is the fiary quartet of Horace Mann. Lew Wallace. Emerson and Froe-
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* — ♦ Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Thursday Joliet (Ill.) Catholic at Commodores. Friday Four-team tourney at Geneva (Geneva, Hartford. Bryant and Petroleum). Saturday Four-team tourney at Monmouth (Monmouth. Kirkland. Jefferson and Pleasant Mills). Monday Four-team tourney at Decatur (Yellow Jackets. Berne, Bluffton and Hartford City). hel, Wednesday The first and last two are paired respectively. Emerson's Norse are the favorites. but may have their five-game winning record shattered if the quintets continue their late upset performances. The Norsemen, notoriously inconsistent by whipping the tough ones and being whipped by th.- underdogs, will have a chance to show the road they inti nd to follow. Another roundup starting Wednesday will be a south central conference quartet at Greensburg. The Columbus Bulldogs are paired with Greensburg and Washington of I'td'auapolis meets Seymour in the opening rounds. Seymour's Owls and the home five are the outstanding contenders for the trophy. The largest tournament will be at Hammond Friday and Saturday. There will be quality as well as quantity with the state champion South Side. Fort Wayne Archers and the runnerup Hammond Wildcats leading six quintets into action. The Wildcats meet Hammond Tech's Tigers, whom they barely scraepd past recently, in the first game, and Frankfort takes a shot at Clark of Hammond in the second. South Side and Vincennes drew byes, the Archers tangling with the winner of the second tilt and the Alices drawing the first game victor. The Fort Wayne five is the heavy favorite, and has the advantage in the pairings. A southern basket bombardment takes place Friday at Washington featuring the undefeated Happy Hunters of Huntingburg against Bedford. Jasper and Washington. The Hunters have edged past all three, taking Bedford 'l2 to 26. Jasper 30 to 28. and Washington 21 to 19. The closeness of the scores indicates the tourney may be an interesting knock-down dragout affair.
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Stadings K. L. Pct. Berne 7 2 .777 Commodores 7 3 .700 Kirkland 7 3 .700 Hartford 6 4 .600 Monmouth 5 4 .555 Pleasant Mills ... 5 4 .555 Yellow Jackets 5 4 .000 Geneva 4 5 .445 Monroe .2 6 .250 Jefferson 0 5 .000 —oOo — Little activity in regularly scheduled games this week, but three four-team tourneys next week end will hold the attention of Adams county sports fans. —oOo — The only regular game on the card will be played at the Commodore gymnasium in this city Thursday night, with the Commodores entertaining Catholic high of Joliet, Illinois. —oOo — Blind tourneys are scheduled in the county Friday, Saturday and Monday. Friday's tourney will be played at Geneva, Saturday’s at Monmouth and Monday's at the new Decatur Yellow Jackets’ home. —-000 — The four teams competing at the Geneva gymnasium Friday afternoon and evening will be Geneva, Hartford, Bryant and Petroleum. Drawing for the afternoon games will be made shortly before time of the first game. In each of the three tourneys, the winners of the afternoon games will meet in the championship contests in the final night game, preceded by a consolation preliminary between the losers of the afternoon battles. Contests in the Saturday tour-
JIMMY FOXX IS LEAGUE LEADER Red Sox First Baseman Makes Comeback To League Lead New York. Dec. 27 — <U.R> - Jimmy Foxx, who appeared to be entering the twilight of his basebull carter this spring, came surging back to lead the American league in batting with an average of .349. Offit ia! figures, released today, showed that the big first baseman of the Boston Bed Sox had one of the greatest seasons of his sparkling career. Suffering from sinus in 1937. it appeared that Foxx had lost his batting eye and was going the way all go eventually. He not only won the individual batting championship of the league but he helped club the Red Sox into the team title with an average of .299 Jimmy equaled another record when he hit a home run and a triple in the sixth inning of the second game of a double header at St. Louis on Sept. 20. That tied the American league record for extra base hits in a s'ngle inning. Taft Wright of Washington finished with an average of .350, one point better than Foxx, but failed tc qualify for the batting championship because he played In only 100 games Hank Greenberg. Detroit first baseman. led the league in home runs with 58 and tied Foxx' 58 of 1932 tor the most homers ever made by a right-handed hitter. Following were among the batt>ng achievements of the year: Detroi’ players set a major league r?cord with 10 home runs with the bases filled. Lou Gehrig of the Yankees made 115 runs, the 13th straight season in which he has scored more than 100 times. The Yankees made three home runs (by Gehrig. Gordon and Chandler against Tietje) in the sixth ’nt-ing of a game at St. Louis on June 20. Frank Higgins, playing third base for Boston broke Tris Speaker's record of 11 consecutive hits by getting 12. On June 19 he singled off Whitehead of the White Sox on his last time at bat in the first game of a double header. In the second game he got two singles and a double in three times at bat off Dietrich. I Then the Red Sox moved to Detroit for aiiothei double header' and in each game Higgins got i four hits in four times at bat. The next day Vernon Kennedy broke his streak on his first time at bat In a game against Philadelphia on Sept. 17, Mervyn Connors. | rookie first baseman of the Chi-1 cage White Sox. hit home runs in! three consecutive times at bat. Q | Today’s Sport Parade |1 3y Henry McLemore ♦- ♦ Pasadena. Cal., Dec. 27. —(U.R) — Duke's mixture ends today. Come sundown, and the Blue Devils of Durham will have made their final appearance before the public until they run out on the Rose Bowl turf on January 2. Because tomorrow the Dukes begin the secret practices that Coach Wallace Wade has ordered, and they will be as private as the thoughts of a clam, or a hermit's sunbath. No pictures. No poses. No reporters. No notebooks. Burly nament at Monmouth will be Monmouth. Pleasant Mills, Kirkland and Jefferson. This drawing will be held at 1:30 p. m.. with the first game at 2. The night’s consolation game will be at 7:30, with the championship encounter at 8:30. Officials will be Lloyd Bryan of Fort Wayne and Judson Erne of Berne. Admission prices will be 25 cents per session, with no season tickets on sale. For Decatur fans, the annual fo*ir-team tourney Monday, the legal holiday for New Year’s, will hold the center of interest. The Yellow Jackets will be hosts to the Berne Bears, Bluffton Tigers and Hartford City Airdales. The draw will be made at 1 p. m., with thefirst game one hour later. The afternoon losers will meet in the preliminary at 7 p. m., followed by the championship game at 8. —oOo— Season tickets, good for both sessions, are now on sale at the high school office for 50 cents. Single session admission will be 30 cents. —oOo — George Laurent, coach of the Decatur Commodores, has received additional information concerning Catholic high of Joliet, 111., the Commodores’ opponents here Thursday night. Joliet has won four games in a row after dropping its first encounter of the season. Joliet’s most sensational victory Was a 55-54 overtime triumph over Roosevelt of Chicago.
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guards have been assigned to all gates and given orders to bounce anyone with even an ounce of peeping Tom or eaves-dropper blood in his veins. Before the workouts begin Wade personally will beat the bushes and trees that shut Brookside park from the outside world, i.nd 'bis assistants will strafe any airplanes, balloons, or gliders that swoop too low. Wade wants peace for his team, and is going to get it at any cost. "I have been to the Rose Bowl four times." he told me. “and I know that only a "no'' man can hope to put a winning team on the field. By a "no" man I mean one with enough will power to refuse the thousand and one invitations that a visiting team receives in California. The only way to protect yourself is to quit mixing, quit seeing people, and get off secret work.” Wade made it clear to me that he didn’t expect to teach his team any new and startling plays while they worked In their secluded rendezvous. There will be no magical formations perfected, no new systems of attack or defense devised. “We’ll play the same game in the Rose Bowl that we have played all year," he said. "I have been coaching long enough to know that you can't take a team and make it over in two or three weeks. Our secret workouts will be along the same lines of the practices we had in Durham. But we like peace and quiet. You wouldn't like someone looking over your shoulder while you wrote a story, would you? No. and an automobile salesman wouldn't care about having fifty or sixty persons gathered around him while he tried to sell a car to a customer. I wouldn’t mind a small and orderly group watching our practice. I wouldn't even mind Howard Jones watching it, because he wrnuld stand on the sidelines, out of our way. As for him learning about our plays —well. I guess he already knows pretty much what to expect." Wade wasn’t happy about his team's condition when 1 talked with him last night. The practice of yesterday found them slow and
Fans Aren’t Cutting Your Throat Yet, Mr. Haney
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While Managers Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White Sox, left, and Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, center, look on, Manager Fred Haney of the St, Louis Browns shows how the St. Ixiuia fana
uneven, he said, and the score from Berkeley, where California ! licked Georgia Tech by a pair of touchdowns, had showed them exactly what they were up against in the Trojans of Southern Cal. “We were lucky to beat Tech 6 i to 0." Wade said, "and here a team j that Southern California beat handily licks Tech much more soundly I than we did. It all looks very , bad." I interrupted to say that Coach | Bill Alexander of tech had told me that Duke could have beaten his engineers more thoroughly had . the Blue Devils had to. "Bosh. King Bosh on Alex's part." Wade answered. "We had an awful time beating Tech. Didn't score until the second half, and might not have scored at all if Alex's boy hadn’t fumbled." When I started to leave Wade told him that I planned to buy a black beard and a pair of gumsoled shoes, and sneak in and see his team practice. "Y’ou won't get in that way,” he said. "If you really want to get in. come disguised as a 190pound. hard-running halfback w r ho can Lit the line and pass. Then you'll be welcome.” (Copyright 1938 by UP.o Conservation League Will Meet Monday The regular meeting of the Adams county fish and game conservation league has been postponed until the second Monday in January the president Roy Johnson has announced. The change was made because of the holidays. The meeting is to be held January 9. at 7:30 p. m. in the Moose home here. o— —— Kautsky Quintet Swamp Celtics Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 27 —(UP) —Jewell Young, former Purdue basketball star, paced Kautsky’e quintet to smother the New York Ctflts. claimants to the world’s basketball championship, 68 to 48. in a game here last night. Kautsky’s trailed only once — at thebeginning of the game. Then
will be cutting his throat If he doesn’t pilot the Brownies to a good season in the American league this year. Haney is new manager of the Browns. The trio was snapped in New York.
' they took command and by the end |of the fourth quarter they left a tired and trailing quintet far behind. Young marked up nine field goals and two free throws. His running mate. Johnny Sines, sank seven i baskets and two from the foul line. o — WPA Basketball League Schedule — I Four games are scheduled tonight I in the Adams county WPA basketoall league. Pleasant Mills-t St. i Mary's and G. E.-Cloverttaf are I scheduled to meet in this city, City News is to play at Kirkland and Hartford at Geneva. The Jeffeson at Monmouth con- , tost, scheduled for tonrght. will be ; played at the Monmouth gym Wed- : nesday night at 8:30 o’clock. o Vagrant ears Six Shirt* Los Angeles J —(UP) —John Rick, i 70-year-old vagrant, has solved the i art of traveling without baggage. When arrested he was wearing his entire stock of four pairs of overalls and six shirts. Whenever his shoes wear out. he replaces them on the spot by cutting new ones out of the first cast away auto casing he finds. o Bible of 1600 Stolen Covington, Ky.—(U.R)—Mrs. Geo. Kiryland, returning from a fourmonth vacation, reported to police that SI,OOO worth of valuable had been stolen, including a 300-year-old German hymnal and Bible. HANGE iOF ADDRESS Subscribers are reques' ed to give old and new ad/iress when ordering paper changed from address to another. For example: If you change your address from Decatur R. R. 1 to Decatur R. R. 2. instruct us to’change the paper from route one to roill* two
SAYS INDIANA RAILROAD STATE Railroads Have Important Part In State’s Revenue Indlanaolis, Dec. 27.—Indiana has a stuke 67 many millions of dollars annually in anticiatM action by congress to assist the nation's roads, it is shown in a booklet issued today by the Associated Railways of Indiana, which represents class I railroads operating in the state. Asserting that Indiana is a "railroad state,” the association pointed out that purcUases made by roailroads in the Hoosier state in 1937 amounted to $78,070,846, wages totalling $65,582,908 were paid to an average of 40,082 railroad employees, and property taxes totalling nearly $7,000,00 were paid to Indiana governmental units. The following accounting was made of railroad payrolls, employment and taxes in Adams county: Railroad payrolls in 1937. $l4O,-
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