Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1939 — Page 8

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COMMIES COME FROM FAR IN REAR TO WIN Trailing By 19 Points, Commodores Edge Out Victory Decatur's Commodores turned the heroes of fiction into n bunch of pikers Wednesday night, over- ‘ coming a huge deficit in points, tossing the winning basket as the final horn sounded, and edging out their arch rivals, Central Catholic of Fort Wayne. 40 to 39, in a thrill-packed battle in Decatur's new gymnasium. Trailing by 19 points shortly after the opening of the fourth and final quarter, and with less than eight minutes of playing time remaining. the Commodores looked the part of a sadly disorganized, defeated team. Suddenly the Commies came to life, raced madly up and down the floor, connected on shots which previously had been rolling off the hoop, and sent their partisans into aTrenzy as they steadily cut into that seemingly" insurmountable lead the Irish had piled up in the seco,id and third periods. Approximately 20 seconds to play, the score 38-37, C. C. leading. a foul called on Klutz. Irish substitute. Time out was called. When play resumed. Art Baker, veteran Commodore forward, stepped to the foul line with a tie score depending on his accuracy. Baker shot, the ball dropped cleanll- through the net, the house was a bedlam and the score was knottshst ffiasQmHMnEvnMHM*

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<«■> || | —III, II I I II ■■ I I' I'-——-I "—*■ I■■ Week’s Schedule For Adams County | Basketball Teams J t 4 Friday J Yellow Jackets at Aultutn. V Hartford at Kirkland. Berne at Central Catholic of Fort Wayne. Jefferson at Monmouth. Monroe at Geneva. Saturday Huntington at Berne. Pleasant Mills at Geneva 11 ed at 38-38. h Central Catholic passed the bull r- in from out of bounds and started , down the floor. Bob Bolinger, in ~ a desperate effort to regain the t ball, fouled Dehner. Bolinger left the game on four personals. DehB ner stepped to the foul line, con--14 verted his chance and C. C. was the apparent winner at 39-38. f. The Commodores fired the ball j in from out of bounds. Three [j passes and Bob Hess, elongated u Commodore center, had the ball 1 in the Commie foul circle. Bob wheeled, fired a shot one-handed, the horn sounded, the ball dropped ) through. The game was over, the Commodores had won, 40-39, in a j battld which marked the greatest , comeback ever seen on a Decatur , floor by any team. , The Commodores had started s . well, outplaying the Irish through- , out the first 11 minutes of play. Decatur led at the first quarter, , 9-6, and maintained the lead un- . til midway in the second period, i when C. C. Went ahead. The Irish kept on going and the visitors led at half-time, 19-13. With the start of the third quar- , ter, the Commodores weakened badly and Central Catholic poured in basket after basket to hold a i 36-18 margin at the end of the period. Bitler added a point on a free throw at the start of the fourth 1 quarter to make the margin 19 points. The Commodores then turned one, scoring points as rapidly as seemed humanly possible. Every basket was scored from directly under the hoop with the lone exception of Hess' winning pivot shot from the foul circle. With four minutes to play, the Commies were still trailing by 12 points at 37-25 but they kept driving. In this thrill-packed winning surge, Hess contributed five field goals and two free throws. Baker hit twice from the field and twice from the charity stripe, Hain and Bolinger each garnered .one field goat. Holt Hess, through his sensational play in those closing minutes, was easily the star, scoring six field goals and four free throws for 16 points. Baker tallied 12 points on three fielders and six foul shots for 12 points. Boedeker was high for C. C. with 10 points. Decatur FG FT TP Hackman, f .... ... Oil Baker, f 3 6 12 R. Hess, c 6 4 16. Hain, g 2 1 5 Bolinger, g 3 0 6 Roop, g .0 0 0 Totalsl4 12 40 Central Catholic FG FT TP Bitler, f - 3 3 9 Maxwell, f 3 0 6 i Stanzak. c .4 1 9 Boedeker, g 5 0 10 Dehner, g 0 2 2 Wehrle, c 0 0 0 Klutz, g 113 Totalsl6 7 39 Referee, Downey (Fort Wayne). Umpire, Dorwin (Decatur). Preliminary Central Catholic 19, Decatur 14. o ♦- ♦ ' TODAY’S COMMON ERROR | Do not say. “He got the re- | i | port second-handed;" the prop- | I | er word is “second-hand." * —.— 4 LOANS $lO to S3OO Wiiliwt butoi&Vts QUICKLY AND PRIVATELY MADE It is easy to qualify for a loan with • us, therefore, our service is available to nearly every individual with ability to repay. You pay a reasonable interest charge on just the time you use the money. You may repay all or any part of your loan at any time. No embarrassing investigations made of employer, friends or relatives* How to Apply I. Cail at office. 2. Telephone us. 3. Cut this ad out —write name and address on it and mail it to us. I A courteous representative will call at your home and explain our service to you—without cost or obligation. Loans are usually made the same day you apply LOCAL LOAN COMPANY In cor ported . Over Schafer Store n I lo '* North Second Street Phone 2-3-7 Decatur, Indiana Loam in Adnan, Wellt, Allen and Jay Countiti I

i SORE-ARM DEAN TESTED AGAIN Dizzy Dean’s Ailing Ann Again X-Rayed By Physicians Chicago Jan. s—(UP)—The Chict.go Cubs will know today whether their most expensive investment—- ‘ Dizzy Dean —will be an asset or a question mark in the 1939 pennant I race. 1 Results of a new X-ray examine- ' tton of Diz's 1185.000 pitching arm will be announced by doctors who made the check-up yesterday, shortly after Dean arrived here from his Dallas, Tex., home with Mrs Dean. The outcome of the examination also may determine the 'rend of salary discussions Dean is expected to have with club officials before he leaves for home. Owner Phil K. Wrigley of the Cubs indicated six weeks ago that Dean probably would be given substantially the .same salary he received the past season reportedly 820,000. Dean himself was confident that the ailing arm that kept hint out of action most of last sea-on was ready for regular service during the coming year. “The old arm feels fine.' the irrepressible Diz asserted. “I've given the old wing a lot of rest since the season closed, and I thing I ll win about 20 games for the Cubs next season”' *, .... * I Today’s Sport Parade | By "Henry McLemore Hollywood, Cal., Jan. 5. —jfU.PJt— This is not a story for general publication. It is a private memorandum to all persons who have the same two weaknesses that I have; namely, preferring to hit a long tee shot above anything else on the golf course, and an inability to resist betting on any tips heard at a race track. Those of you who don't have either of these weaknesses in you makeup will please stop reading this right now. or cross your heart that you won't tell a soul about it. About long tee shots: it would seem that they mean little or nothing. I talked to Jimmy Thomson. Sammy Snead and Lawson Little today, and being three of the longest hitters in the world their words count for something. Each one of them assured me that he would gladly take 30 yards off his drive in exchange for ar. iffch or two more of accuracy on the putting green. “A long tee shot is fine for publicity purposes." Thomson said, and "earns you a lot of colorful nicknaes such as ‘bomber’ and ‘seige gun’ and ‘big bertha.' But no man has ever won a tournament by hitting them a mile down the ■ faiiway. The tap that you have to give a ball that hangs on Hit lip of the cup counts just the same as the tap you give it to send ’t 275 yards off the tee.” Thomson would gladly give Horton Smith some of his power off the tee for some of Horton’s ■ “feel" on the greens. Little and Snead agreed with Thomson, but would prefer to swap with Harry Cooper, the man they regard as the greatest of all putters. Little and Snead admit that Smith has the finest eye in the business, and can “read" strange greens more quickly than anyone else, but they do not believe that his putting stroke is equal in mechanical perfection to Cooper’s. All of this sounded very strange to me. because your average golfer would rather hit a long tee shot than sink a 20-foot putt. With us, the brave band that plays two-bit gojf for two-bit Nassau, the tee shot is the bread and meat of our existence. When we thunder one 200 yards down the fairway it is because our swing is perfect. ; When we sink a long putt it is: because our luck is holding. Next to hitting long drives, most of us like to get a hot tip i on a race. In the interest of science I recently decided to trace down the source of one hot tip that spread around Santa Anita and had me, for one, doing a Jesse Owens toward the mutuel window. In looking over my program I saw a horse named Joe Sam, and I mentioned to Spencer Tracy, who dies at the race track as often as he does on the screen, that I had once known a boy named Joe Sam. | I then wandered away and ten minutes I got an extra hot tip on Joe Sam and rushed to get all the change I had left in my pocket | on the his horse. When I traced my “hot” tip back, here is what had happened: When I left Tracy. Oliver Hardy came up and asked Tracy who he liked in the next race. Tracy said, "the only thing I have heard mentioned is Joe Sam.” Hardy went to Joe E. Brown and

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OUR FELLOW DRIVERS B y M«n«r I r —: ’ZT —1 wWww. Traveler* Safety Service "I’ll be finished in • jiffy—or know the reason why." said that he had just had a tip A AII A AI IIP I Rrt oil Joe Sam. Brown hurried over XI.HI 1111 Hr QII X to share the “good thing" with WHWw IlinwV Florence Rice. Florence gave it rtP IPAT HABIT to Tier mother, who gave it to ULILI I | A RJJ L Grantland Rice, who gave it to IILaJLU I U nil* L, Bing Crosby, who gave it to Frank Lloyd, who gave it to Frank Con- „ m tt don. who rushed over to me and I CIinCSSCC, T. ( . I . I UHI said: Down Offer For Post“Pal, we'll get all even this race. Season Tilt There's a thing named Joe Sam who can't miss.” | Knoxville. Tenn.. Jan. 5— (UP) — Joe Sam didn't miss. Didn't Officials of both schools today remiss being fourth, that is. Now I jected proposals to match the uniknow where one hot tip was born, versity of Tennessee and Texas In Georgia, and his name was Joe Christian in a football game for Sam. and I’m sorry I ever knew the “National Championship.' him. , j a New York promoter and offi(Copyright 1939 by UP.) c j a i s o f two southern cities had — ~~° | proposed such a game to be playPeterson, Worthman i ed this month - A,I*C Awarded Letters ' There has to be an end to all good things,” said Williston M. Muncie. Ind.. January s—Ralpns—Ralpn f° x - member of the Tennessee AthPeterson, 521 Penn Street, and Ipllp council. Another [h>st season Robert Worthman. 227 Not th Sixth same would interfere with the I niStreet. both of Decatur, have re- versity s scholastic program amt ceived varsity awards for partici- with the boys classes. pation in football at Ball State “Tennessee and T. C. U. should Teachers College during the past have met in one of the bowl games, season. That way the championship would Peterson, a junior, is a member have been deceided. of Industrial Arts Club and "B” In Fort Worth. Howard Grubbs, Club, an organization for outstand- T. C. U- Athletic director, said: ing athletes on the campus I “The T. C. U. football season is A sophomore. Worthman is a definilely over.” member of Navajo fraternity. I 0 ~ FOUR PERSONS Donald Budge Takes (continued fkom page one> Second Net Match thp Bcreatns ot fleeting tenants „ , „„ „ , wrapped her three months old Boston, Jan. 5 - (UP) - Donald daughter in a blanket and rushed Budge, forme, world's amateur ten- from thp building . she and tbp nis champion, was heading for Phil- chi)d were laken t 0 a nearby hotel adelphia today with two match vic- cljff Blauvelt 50 who i 9 para i yz . toies over Ellsworth Vines, prot'es- ed p rom j be b jp ß down, crawled sional titlist. from his fourth-floor room down a The amateur king appeared invin- [j re escape to the second floor, but cible in his second pofessicnal en- was unable to descend the single gagement last night as he smashed fi re ladder to the ground. Fireout a 6-3. 8-6, 6-4 victoy over Vines. , nen raised a 20-foot ladder and The night before he handed Vines a carried him to the street. defeat in his professional debut at The fire was believed to have New York. started in the “Jaae Buddha,'' a o Chinese-American restaurant on Vice Racketeer Is ,he s iound floor Given Penal Term Okri 14 ° Feet Tal| LaPorte Ind., Jan. 5L — (U.R) — Royd fa ,. mpr okra that r] . Elmer Kissinger, reputed South va)g tb(? taU con) Q{ Kangas Bend, Ind., vice racketeer, yester- hejgbt exhibjted a g day was sentenced to six months okra H feet , ong He gajd he had on the penal farm and fined SIOO f 0 ])Uy a g g )adder 1( . on each of three counts of oper- fpp , h)gh t 0 gH thp gta]k of Rg ating a house of ill fame. The podg sentences will run concurrently. Kissinger pleaded guilty after ... , Ft. Joseph county authorities re- . U are for a duced the charges from pandering. J °me or a good inxestment, Judge Wirt Worden sentenced him . s ' ,r e to attend public aucin circuit court here. tlon “ a,e of 7 room house, o 1 504 Patterson St., Friday, Trade In A Good Town — Decatur 1 130 P. M. START YOUR NEW YEAR RIGHT Many a husband and wife vow they will get up a family budget, Plan their expenditure to fit the income and save systematically. But they too often put it off to “next year,” when things “straighten out a bit. The value of a budget plan sci 'family Income and expenses is greatest just when things are not “straightened out” And budgeting, contrary to popular belief, doesn’t involve a lot of bookkeeping It can be made rimple and a lot of fun, besides its great does tTe XV^ 0 " 86 " 111 * fUndß PU ' llne the money where U Our Service Bureau at Washington has a carefully compiled booklet on FAMILY BUDGETING, that tells exactly how to go about tn kpln C t! ng r ,he n bU < dßet alld the sim P le recording that is necessary 1 th fam y in '°™ e working for you ,o Its maximum benefit Y bend the coupon below for your copy and start 1939 right: CLIP COUPON HERE F. M. Kerby, Director, Dept. B-172, Daily Democrat’s Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. C. ntha? flnd t d .- me ,carefull y wrapped) for return postage and other handling costs for my copy of BUDGETING, which send to: NAME STREET and No. CITY — STATE i 1 am a reader of the Deeatur Daily Democrat, Decatur, Ind.

Bowling League Results * ■■■ l —•" Continuing their winning stieak Schafer's rolling a 2.614 took two games from First State B“ nk *'* opening second half play *’ Merchant league. Scoring -21 his second game. McClure was high for the winners with a '6‘ series. Binkey led the bunk with 552. . Wren, who finished in 1«” P lau the first half, suddenly took new life last night and captured three straight from Conservation, roiling 2127 to 2.066. Davis ot Wren was high with 500. Scheumann led Conservation with 471- Smith In-1 surance took two from Preble 2.- ( 254 to 2 187. Gallmeier was high for Smith s with 518. Rossman led . Preble with 536. The Telephone company,"new team in the leagut. I lost three straight to the I phol- j sters. 2.089 to 2.270. Tutweiler was high for Telephone with 491. and R. Woodhall posted a 500 for the winners. Tonight's Major League 7 p. m — Doc's Pluce vs. Hon-E---i Krust. 7 p.m — Frickle's vs. Rice Hotel. Uist night scores: Merchant League Telephone Ehinger 153 153 154 M. Heare 165 elso 158 C. Heare 113 96 lott Hunter IM 1®» lli; ' Tutweiler ... 136 165 190 Totals 706 673 711 Decatur Upholstery Krick 151 162 170 Reinking — 150 166 I'B Bleeke 160 144 116 Brewer 137 114 153 I R. Woodhall 161 183 156 Totals 759 769 742 Smith Insurance H. Blomberg 146 133 137 W. Galltneyer 136 131 190 G. Bultemier 123 167 144 L. Smith 148 138 143 H. Gallmeyer 189 161 168 Totals £42 730 782 Preble Bittner 179 134 112 Rossman 206 181 149 Houck 152 123 164 Hoffman 157 149 181 I* 100 100 100 ' Totals 794 657 706 Wren B. Dull 144 183 123 Turableson 135 144 130 S. Dull 163 152 109 Wendell 121 120 183 i Davis 175 153 172 Totals73B 752 717 Conservation W. Schroeder 177 112 136 E. Zwick 135 130 139 M. Scheumau 144 117 144

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