Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1939 — Page 5

Commodores Defeat Celina Catholic, 26*14

iLM FAILS |oSCORE IN final period Score 26*11 Victory . CommodoM*. holdopponents scoreless the enure fourth quartheir second victory of jaaiMtn Sunday afternoon at H Ohio, over Celina Catholic, ! came was closely contested Lout the first ">r ee quarters. Commodores holding a M lit the firstg narter, 74 at the and 17-H * l the end of th j period. . . 1 commodores played withthe services of Art Baker, vet- , forward, who was unable to e the trip because of a severe j Star’s guards. Main and Bolt were outstanding on ofe each contributing 10 points, n ger with five field goals and i with three field goals and free throws. cKirnan, Celina guard, starred the Buckeyes with half of his ,' B l4 points on two field goals three foul tosses, icatitr FG FT TP Un*n, f -1 ' * I - o 1 l m c 1 0 2 iger, g 6 0 10 [ess, f — ♦ 0 totals 10 6 26 lina FG FT TP l 2 0 4 rtins, f -1 1 3 mg. c o o o irnan. g - * 3 7 ler, g - • 0 0 r. f - o o o , f 0 0 0 da, c 000 'otals 5 4 14 Preliminary ,iua 21. Decatur 19. II - ——o 11 — I House Mice Are Spanish Berkeley, Cal.-(U,R> — House mice ; feiuated in Spain and were [ought here from that country In immerce, David Nicholas of the merican Museum of Natural Hisry told the American Society of ammalogists here.

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Pleasaut Mills vs. Yellow Jacket Reserves at Commodore gytu. Thursday Monroe at Berne. Friday Commodores vi. St. Mary's of Anderson at new gymnasium. Yellow Jackets at New Haven. Pleasant Mills at Mendon, Ohio. Kirkland at Geneva. Concordia at Monmouth. Hartford at Petroleum. Saturday Herne at Kateraon of Gary. Jefferson at Hartford. MONROE SCORES 31-24 VICTORY Bearkatz Win Over Jefferson At Geneva Gym Saturday The Monroe Bearkatz turned in a 31-24 victory at the Geneva gymnasium Saturday night, defeating Jefferson 81-14. The Monroe quintet grabbed a 16-5 lead at half-time and coasted through the aecond period for the victory. Haunt was the big gun in the Monroe scoring, getting six field goals and four charity tosses for 16-points. Augsburger led the losers with 10 markers. Monroe FG FT TP Winteregg, f 2 15 Monnier, f ... - 2 2 6 Gilbert, c — 113 Hanni. g 6 4 16 R. Moser, g 0 0 0 H. Moser, g o 0 0 Schwartz, g ..i - 0 11 Totals 11 9 31 Jefferson FG FT TP Augsburger, f 4 2 10 Baker, f 1 0 2 Teeple, f 0 0 0 Tumbleson, c 10 2 DeArmond, g 0 0 0 Bolienbacher, g 3 0 6 LuglnbiU, g 2 0 4 Totals 11 2 24 o H. S. BASKETBALL South Side (Fort Wayne) 36, Kokomo 29. Central (Fort Wayne) 35. Vincennes 28. North Side (Fort Wayne) 28, Auburn 14. Southport 36, Ben Davis 21. Richmond 24, Greenfield 18. Tipton 29, Marian 22. Shortridge (Indianapolis) 55, Lebanon 42. College Scores Ohio State 31, Minnesota 30 (overtime). Northwestern 27, lowa 25. Butler 31. Franklin 24. Wisconsin 39, Michigan State 37. Ball State 34, Western (Mich.) State 33. Central Normal 44. Earlham 31. Heidelberg 42, Otterbein 41. j o Thief Takes Only Trousers Toronto, Ont.—-(U.R) — John Easson, described by Crown Attorney F. Malone as a thief whose specialty was stealing trousers, was sentenced to two months here for , stealing a pair from a store. “Pants are this man's specialty,” Malone said. “His record goes back to 1905." o Duck Affair Costly Seattle, Wash. —(UP)-Vernon Poirier, 23-year-old cailor, found it impossible to duck a duck fine for sbootiug a duck out of season. The duck was only a two-pound affair and the fine was at the rate of SSO a pound. Worse yet, he did not even get the duck.

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OHIO STATE TO MEET INDIANA Buckeyes Take Bi« Ten Lead W T ith Win Over Minnesota Chicago. Feb. 6—(U.PJ Indiana swings back into the Big Ten basketball race tonight to challenge a brand new leader with a definite wallop—Ohio Slate. Playiug before the greatest crowd ever to witness a basketball game in the west, Ohio State i bowled over Minnesota In an overI time peroid and took over the league lead, 31 to 30. Officially, 15,700 saw it. Now comes Indiana, vastly improved and getting better, once defeated by Ohio State, bat currently a dangerous contender. The midyear lull has passed and for the first time In two weeks six teams will be in action In the other two games, lowa plays at Illinois and Wisconsin Invades Purdue. Game by game: Ohio State vs Indiana — This one is at Bloomington and the Hooslers. despite their 45 to 38 defeat at Columbus in the Big Ten opener, rate no worse than an even chance of taking; over the conference lead. Once the major problem was to stop Ohio State’s Capt. Jimmy Hull, league scoring leader with a six game total of 88 points. But long John Schick, Buckeye center, scored six field goals against Minnesota, four of them In the closing minutes to send the game into an overtime at 30 to 30. Dick Baker added the winning free throw. Indiana, which lost sophomore guard Herman Schaefer in the scholastic mill, must extend its special defense to cover them both or take its second licking. . lowa at Illinois—The Illini still have high hopes of winning or sharing the title. If they can get by lowa without the services of the ineligible Capt. Tommy Nisbet their chances are fair —providing Nisbet can regain his eligibility. lowa lost its fourth conference game at Northwestern Saturday night. 27 to 25, after leading throughout. In the closing minutes, Ben Stephens missed a pair of free throws which could have tied the score. Wisconsin at Puraue— Wisconsin 39 to 38 victor over Michigan State Saturday night, comes back to Big Ten competition also minus a guard. Johnny Rundell has been declared ineligible. Both teams are seeking an even break in the conference standings. Purdue, weakened by graduation, has won one and lost two while the Badgers still haven't hit the pace expected. They have won two of five conference games. o W - + Today’s Sport Parade | By Henry McLemore ♦ ♦ Los Angeles, Feb. 6. — (U.R) — Putting the sports shot here and there: If you are an admirer of full- ' blown, hand-turned hypocrisy you should be here next Sunday when, wlfti !he permission of the city fathers. Ellsworth Vines and Don Budge will play before 25,000 persons in the coliseum . . . The coliseum, yo"u know, has always been | shut to professional footballers on the grounds that, having been built for the Olympic games, It is too sacred for athletes who play for money . . . And as everybody knows, Elly and Don aren't playing for the fun of it, or the exercise. or just to show off ... I wonder if the coliseum’s gates have always been locked to pro football because of the quite staggering amount that, southerly California's Trojans have paid in rent? Babe Didrikaen (which I will; continue to call her desipte the fact that she really is Mrs. George Zaharias) is one of the ten long- : est hitters of a golf ball in the world today . . . During the Bing Crosby tournament at han«. ho Santa Fe she hit drives that were outdistanced only by the tremend- ; ous blasts of Jimmy Thomson During hor spare time Babe seconds husband George in his wrcstling matches. Tony Canzoneri, here for u tight, swears he is not making his comeback for money, but simply be- j cause he loves to fight ... It is just such a statement as tliis-pat eutly absurd one which strengthens one's belief that Tony would have been wise had he quit for keeps a year or so ago . . . His punch is all he has left . . . That and a heart us big as from here to yonder ... If you are interested in which a decade of fighting the top-notchers will do to a fellow, you should have seen Jackie ( KidBerg of England in a i%cent light here ... He was beaten by a kid who couldn’t have carried bis gloves that night nearly a decade ago when he made his American

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debut in Madison Square Carden. Nick Wall, one of the best jock- ! eys, says all great horses have plenty of racing seuse, and rates War Admiral as one of the smartest . . . The Admiral, Nick says, will let a rival pull up just so close to him, and then he will go away I ... "I rode Esposa in four races against him,” Nick told me, "and the Admiral just kidded with us . . . He'd let me get so close with Esposa and then—almost with a laugh—he'd run away rroin us.” Hank Leiber’s one regret at leaving the Giants for the Cubs is that he will lose the companionship of Carl Huhhell . . . "The greatest guy in baseball,’’ Hank will tell you . . . "He could lose a three-hit game on errors by his fielders, but in the clubhouse he never mentioned it, but acted as if he weqe the one at fault" . . . Hank isn't too pleased at the idea of trying i to hit against the long-legged Carl, either, being as he rates him as the finest pitcher he ever saw . . . Hanft says Dizzy is a poor second to the quiet man from Oklahoma. Note to Joe Iritis: Boy, hang on to what you're making . . . Seme 35 years ago a fellow named Jeffries dominated the heavyweight field just as thoroughly as you do today . . . and today, Jeffries is padding out his income by running amateur lights in a barn near Burbank, California. A master penman is costing Santa Anita hundreds of dollars by altering losing pari-mutuel tickets into winning ones ... He picks up discarded losing tickets, makes a few strokes w'ith his pen, and —presto!—the cashiers honor them ... It is dishonest, I know, but I do declare it is the only sure means of beating the races that 1 know . . . The professional golfers now class Bud Ward as the country’s finest amateur . . . Until ; tile San Francisco match play ; tournament, when Ward knocked half a dozen of them out of the running, the pros rated Johnny Goodman as the No. 1 sitnon pure. o 500 She«lo 16-11) White Paragon Bond typewriting paper 55c. The Decatur Democrat Co. ♦<

' Draw for 1939 Davis Cup Play I

GRADE TITLE TILT TONIGHT Junior High And St. Joe Tangle At Commodore Gymnasium The second meeting of tlie year in the annual battle between the Decatur junior high and the St. .1 >e eighth graders for the city grade title will be held tonight at th? Commodore gym. The featur/ game is to be called at 8:15 p. mi., followed by a preliminary between the two reserve teams an hour earlier. The junior high lads have an edgo over the St. Joe quint, having grabbed a leg on this year's cup several weeks ago when the edgo out of 10-8 decision.. The junior high five is fighting to regain the ctip, held by the Catholic boys for the past two years and will endeavor to turn in a victory tonight. The St. Joe lads will be just as eager to snag* a win tonight and throw the series into a three-game affair. Should Coach Steve Everhart's charges win tonight they will 1 have the Wemhoff trophy tucked : away for the season. If, however, Coach Bud Hain’s charges are victorious then a third game must lie played for the title. Admission to the game will be 10 cents per person and a large crowd is expected to be on hand to v. iiuess the contest, especially since the two aggregations furnished stu n an interesting and thrilling tilt in . licit- first meeting of the season. Birds Flutter at Bie.Sydney, New South Wa.es (UP) —Capt. John Johnson, wno had devoted much of his life to the study of birds, was cremated here. During the futieral services 10 starlings flew into the crematorium cnapel and fluttered round the cots fin. They stayed about a minute.

Standing W. L. Pet. Berne 12 5 .700 Commodores 13 6 .684 Hartford 12 8 .667 Kirkland 11 6 .647 Moumotith 10 6 .633 Yellow Jackets 11 7 .611 Geneva 12 8 .600 Pleasant Mills «... 8 9 .471 Monroe • 5 11 .312 Jefferson 1 14 .067 —oOu With a rather slim card on tap for the week, Decatur's chief basketball interest will center on the Commodores for their battle Friday night with St. Mary's of Anderson. —oOo— This game will be played in the new Yellow Jacket gymnasium. The Commodores will be seeking revenge for an early season defeat Anderson handed the Commies at Anderson. —oOo — St. Mary's will come to town Friday with the crown of state Catholic high school champions, an honor they have captured for the past three seasons. The Gaels have won eight of 15 games this season, their most noteworthy feat of recent weeks being a victory marked up over Cathedral of Indianapolis at the capital city. —oOo — While the Commodores are entertaining the state Catholic champions, the Yellow Jackets will travel to New Haven Friday night to meet Paul White's Bulldogs in a return engagement. The Jackets defeated New Haven on the local floor early in the season, 28-22, but the Bulldogs, having captured the Allen county tourney 10 days ago, are expected to give the Yellow Jackets plenty of fight on their home floor. —oOo— The week's schedule will open Tuesday night, with the Pleasant Mills varsity entertaining the Yellow Jacket reserve team at the Commodore gymnasium. The Jacket reserves defeated the Spartans a short time ago and the Pleasant Mills lads will be out for revenge. —oOo — While the high school schedule will open Tuesday night, one of the season's features will be on tonight, with the St. Joe and Decatur Junior high teams meeting in the second game of the annual series for the city grade championship at the Commodore gymnasium. The public school lads won the first game of the annual contest for possession of the Wemhoff trophy, 10-8. and the St. Joe lads must win tonight or the trophy will remain in Central s possession. —oOo— The final game of th Adams county WPA basketball league tourney will be played Tuesday at the old I). H. S. gym on Adams street, with the Cloverleaf Cream ery team of Decatur meeting Kirkland. In a preliminary at 7:30, the General Electric and St. * Mary's teams- will meet in a con- | solution tilt. Admission is only 10 cents. —oOo — The real battle of last week end was staged at the Berne auditorium, with the Berne Bears edging out a 31-30 triumph over the Bluffton Tigers in a really torrid battle. The Bears will be in action t wice this week, playing the Mon- . roe Bearkatz at Berne Thursday: night, and traveling to Gary Saturday to meet Emerson. o Double Thumbs Giveaway San Jose, Cal. —(UP) —When Police Sergeant Kenneth Jordan started to fingerprint Gabriel Santana, he ran up against a new complicaj tion. Santana had two thumbs on each hand, and the fingerprint cards only had provisions for one thumb. However, sufficient printing was done to establish that Santana was a parole violator on a vagrancy charge. »

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