Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1939 — Page 6

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SEVEN COACHES NAME LEADING SCHOOL TEAMS South Side Hated Among Best In Indiana High Schools By Robert La Blonde United Press stuff Correspondent (Copylight lHitW tiy I'nlted Press) Indianapolis. Feb. X - (U.R) — Draw up a chair and adjust your spectacles. You are about to learn which of the hundreds of high school basket ball teams in Indiana stand the best chances of a triumphant march in next month's round of tournaments In an endeavor to round up an authoritative opinion on this much-argued subject, the United Press polled seven outstanding high school basketball coaches, representing every nook and cranny in the state They were asked which teams in their opinion and from their experience and knowledge rated as standouts during the stretch

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams • —4 Thursday * ; Monroe at Berne. ) Friday Commodores vs. St. Mary's of Anderson at new gymnasium. Yellow Jackets at New Haven. Kirkland at Geneva. Concordia at Monmouth. Hartford at Petroleum. Pleasant Mills vs. Alumni at Commodore gymnasium. Saturday Berne at Emerson of Gary. Jefferson at Hartford. 11 drive toward tournament time. After the votes were compiled t remember, the judges insisted they were not Infallible) the re-1 suits looked like this: Tops The state champion South Side Archers ol Fort Wayne: Jeffersonville, a team that has, won 15 of Its 16 games; and. Frankfort, a school with a fine' record and a fox for a coach. Second choice Cnheaten Huntinghuvg. a team which lias compiled lit straight triumphs; and the Central Bears of South Bend, beaten only once and couched by i Johnny Wooden, an all-time all American in anybody's Itooks. Third choice- Emerson of Gary,} Hammond. Kokomo and Anderson. Fourth choice —Franklin, Hog-, unsport and Central of Muncie., Also run Knkhurt, Greencastle,! Crawfordsville. Mishawaka. Mich-! igan City. Jasper. Vincennes, Plainfield. Evansville Central,: Evansville Reitz, Muncie Burris,| Hagerstown, Connersville, Gary Horace Mjinn, Gary Froebel. Gary i Wallace. Indianapolis Shortridge, I Richmond, Marlon and Elwood. These selections came from the following coaches. Tom Rea. Reitz of Evansville; Johnny Wooden. Central of South Bend: Paul Caldwell. Huntinghurg: H T McCullough. Crawfordsville; Archie Chadd, Anderson; Chet Kessler, Hammond, and Burl Friddle, South Side of Fort Wayne. In some instances, these coaches are directing teams which now are riding the crest of popularity j and have whirlwind records. But for the benefit of those who feel the selections lean in their direction. no coach named his own club at or near the top of the list. The selections came from men who have seen, heard and read veterans of the game who know the history of Indiana high school basketball and are aware of the fact that the little fellow can arise to become mighty trouble some at tournament time just os well as the bigger teams can stumble away from the honors. Some of the coaches whose selections dropped into the “also ran" bracket probably had all sorts of justification in picking certain of these clubs to be "dark horses" all the way through lo the semi-finals and possibly the final tournament. But from present knowledge, records and other significant hits of information.

KIRKLAND WINS TITLE IN WPA - TOURNEY PLAY ► Defeats Cloverleaf In Final Game; G. E. » Wins Consolation Kirkland, holding a slight lead all the way, won the championship tilt in the Adutns county WPA basketball league tournament, deleatlng Cloverleaf Creamery of Tie- , cutur, 28 26. Tuesday night at the ! Central gyninusium in this elty. ; I Kirkland led at the first quarter, I 7-6. 18-15 at the half and 32-20 at ! the end of the third quarter. Beav- | era was the leading scorer for the winners with four held goals and . two free throws for 10 The I cloverleaf scoring was well dlvid- : ed. Gay leading with seven points. General Electric nosed out u 31i ;io victory over St. Mary's in the | consolation game, played as a pre- . limlnary to the championship contest. St. Mary's led at the Half. 1.1-10, but G. E. rallied to win in j the second half. The offensive play of Murphy, St. Mary's guard, was outstanding in 1 this battle, with the ex-Commodore star bagging eight field goals and a pair of free throws for IS points. Blythe was high for G. E. with 12 i points. i Kirkland EG FT TP Henschen, f 1 ** | Hettinger, f " " 11 | Zimmerman, c 3 2 S : Adler, g 2 2 fi Beavers, g 4 2 10 j Yager, f , • 1 ** 2 Totals U 6 28 , Cloverleaf EG ET TP Hobble, f 2 1 • , Kaylor, f 1 \ j I Gay, c 2 2 ‘ | Wynn, g 11 '* 1 Rudicel. g 1 J 5 | ' Stucky, f 2 1 ® Totals ... 8 10 26 | G. E. EG FT TP jP. Strickler, f 0 o 0 Blythe, f 4 4 12 : Hurst, c .... 2 0 I Hill, g 1 0 21 G. Strickler, g 1 2 5 Moses, f . 3 0 6 Totals 12 7 31 St. Mary's EG FT TP F. Hebble. f ..... 2 0 4 Gage, f 0 0 0 : Braden, c —1 1 2 1 Hain. g 11 2 < Murphy, g 8 2 IS i Omlor, g 1 0 2 , Totals - 13 4 30 | o i Recreation Head To Attend District Meet George Laurent, local WPA rec- , reation supervisor, is to, represent ( the local department iu a meeting of the district WPA recreation ai Fort Wayne Thursday. Representatives from Fort Wayne Muncie. Marion. New Cast’.e. Kokomo. Huntington. Anderson. Elwood. Peru. Tipton. Wabash. Richmond and Bluffton will also be in attendance. — the ratings were produced. Frankfort was looked upon as 1 one of the powers by every coach in the poll. Friddle said the Hot Dogs appeared to be the smartest and one of the best coached teams in the state, playing a tough schedule and standing up under it with plenty of power on both attack and defense. Caldwell of Huntinghurg insisted that Frank ' fort has a two-year record that 1 ♦ demands consideration. Coach Wooden threw a heavy j vote to the state champion Archt ers; describing them as “a very I definite threat to repeat,” he said. | Their only two defeats were by ] slim margins In a holiday tourna- j inent. Kessler of Hammond said the Archers were the smoothest, best-showing team he had seen. LOANS sls io S3OO lilUluuii Eaulot&thS 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. Call at office. 2. Telephone ua. * 3. Cut this ad out —write name and address on it and mail it to us. 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 Incorporated Over Schafer Store MO'/a North Second Street Phone 2-3-7 Decatur, Indiana Loans made In Adams, Welts, Allen and Jay Canntlet

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The Indiana state Catholic high school champions, the Gaels from St. Mary's of Anderson, will he in Decatur Friday night to meet the Commodores in a return game. —oOo—- — Gaels, for the past three years state champs, defeated the Commies ai Anderson early in the season. 23-20, and the Commodores will seek to even the score. —oOo—- — game will he played in the new public school gymnasium, and is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock. As a preliminary contest, the St. Cathedral of Fort Wayne, winner Joe eighth grade team will play of the recent deanery tourney. The prelim is slated to start at 7 p. m. —oOo— The Commodores sustained a severe blow Tuesday evening when Sim Hain, veteran guard, suffered an injured foot in a fall as he was leaving school yesterday afternoon. Extent of the injury was undetermined as this column was written, but it is feared Hain may be j out for the season. If such is the case, the Commodores 1 chances at the state tourney j will be greatly weakened, as i Hain is one of the most effec- j tice defensive men on the , team. —oOo — The Decatur Yellow Jackets, with four consecutive victories under their belts, will seek to extend this string to five Friday night when they meet the New

Their Fists Lead Them to Top -J|Hb n *‘— -m pv Melio Bettlna and Billy Conn New faces on the fistic horizon pose for a picture In New York. They are Melio Bettina, left, of Beacon, N. Y., v/ho gained New York state athletic commission recognition as light heavyweight champion by defeating Tiger Jack Fox, and Billy Conn, promising , Pittsburgh middleweight. . ,

Haven Bulldogs at New Haven. —oOo— The Jackets scored a 28-23 triumph over New Haven in the first game played in the new Decatur gymnasium December 2, but the Bulldogs have shown considerable improvement, recently winning the Allen county tourney, aud will be tough for the Jackets to lake on their own floor. —oOo — After this week, Decatur fans will have only two more opportunities to see a basketball game in this city. Both of these games will be played next week. —oOo — Tuesday night. February 14. the Commodores will play a booster game with St. John's of Delphos, Ohio. This game will be played at the new public school gymnasium. Season tickets will not be honored at this game. Admission prices will he 25 cents for adults apd 10 cents for children. Tickets are now on sale. —oOo — Friday night, February 17, the Yellow Jackets will close their home schedule with a tough battle with the Comets from Kendallville. The Comets have been exceptionally tough this season and the Jackets will be hard pressed to close their home season with a ' victory. —oOo — Gerald Vizard, coach of the Pleasant Mills Spartans, announced today that the Spartans scheduled game at Meh- | don, Ohio, Friday night has been cancelled because of a scarlet fever epidemic at Mendon. To replace this game, the | Spartans will play the Pleasant Mills alumni team at the i Commodore gym in this city. —oOo—- ! The second contest of the annual city series for the grade school championship Monday night was a real thriller, with St. Joe evening the scores by copping a 12-9 overtime victory. The decid-

ing game of this series, date for which has not been set, should i- proce a real drawing card forth? t basketball lovers or Decatur. Decatur Bowling League Results r ♦ ♦ Rowling at Mies Recreation last 1 night in the Minor league, Mutsch- 1 ler won three games from Clover- j leaf Creamery, rolling 2.751 pins to 2.512. Ahr was high for Mtttschler with a total of 605, with games of 202, 202. 201. C.reen rolled a 599. with a high of 221. A. Farrar was high for Cloverleaf with 574. j Casting won two from Burkes , with 2.804 against 2,672. Ross was high for Casting with 645 with a high of 246. totaled 607, I with a high of 2!12. Stump was High for Burke with 571. Hoffbrau won two from Mies Recreatoin, rolling 2,373 to 2,211. Reynolds was high for Hoffbrau with 507. Mies, losing two games, dropped to second place. McMillen won two from Gambles. rolling 2,624 to 2,540. G. Schultz was high for McMillen with 551. Bailer was high for Gambles with 566. Merchant league schedule tonight : 7 p. m—Schafer vs. Preble; Upholster vs. Wren. 9 p. m. — Bank vs. Telephone; Smith Ins. vs. Conservation. Last night’s scores: Minor League McMillen’s E. Schultz 156 185 207 | Brewer 202 171 166 Bucher 150 170 160 Goldner 182 175 149 G. Schultz 183 198 170 Totals 873 899 852 Gambles B. Woodhall 138 | R. Woodhall 158 183 200 K. Woodhall 159 168 150 D. Bailer 199 188 179 Zelt 170 181 147 Zehr 139 211 Spot 35 35 35 I Totals 839 894 922 Mies Recreation 'Lyons 150 183 142 Gallmeyer 162 166 148 Mies 159 175 146 Totals ~..731 784 696 Hoffbrau Baker 157 125 Brunnegraff 164 153 143 Reynolds 158 169 180 Appelman 136 156 Schneider 153 168 162 DeVoss 126 170 I Sot 18 18 18 Totals 785 759 829 Casting Company Hoagland 159 187 189 Ross 196 246 203 O. Gallogly 172 152 155 Young 171 192 175 Ladd 165 210 232 Totals 863 987 954 Burke's i Hobbs 181 180 163 Keller 190 125 223 Mclntosh 175 170 169 : Bonifas 148 149 157 Stump 159 206 206 Spot 27 27 27 j Totals 870 857 945 j Cloverleaf \ Frisinger 168 218 174

SPARTANS BEAT I DECATUR 2NDS Pleasant Mills Scores 3929 Win Over Jacket Reserves The Pleasant Mill* varsity even-, ed (he season's ncorc with the > Decatur Yellow Jacket rettery** Tuesday night at the Jackets gymnasium, the Spartans registering a 32-29 triumph. The Decatur reserve* won the first game | between these teams, 28-18. I Pleasant Mills led at the end of j the first half. 18 8 and maintained I this margin throughout the second hulf. Holloway wus leudlng scor- | i„ r for the Spartans with four field goals and three free throws foi l ill points. Andrews was high j point man for the Jacket reserves : with six field goal* and a foul toss ! for 13 points. Pleasant Mills EG ET TP Holloway, f 4 3 11 ('lark, f - - | 2 4 8 D. McMlUen, e .... 3 0 6 Harman, g 4 0 8 Longed be rger, g 3 0 Cl TOTALS 16 7 39 Decatur Shamerloh. f 1 0 2 j Chilcote. f 2 0 4 I Andrews, c ...—... 6 1 13 R. Stapleton, g 3 0 6 j Johnson, g 113 Walters, f 0 11 TOTALS 13 3 29 Referee —Beal (Decatur) Umpire—Bryan (Fort Wayne) Preliminary Pleasant Mills 23, Decatur 21 (overtime.) o Wabash Coach Has Second Operation — ; Evansville. Ind., Feb. B—(UP8 —(UP) — ! Robert "Pete" Vaughan, athletic (director of Wabash college and famed Hoosier football and basketball coach, was reported recove! ing to- | day from an operation for perforated ulcers of the stomach, i Vaughan, who recently had a kidney removed, was on his way south 1 for a vacation apd recuperating trip 1 when he was stricken here yesterday. He was accompanied by Chet Grant, an old friend who is a Notre Dame university backfield coach. Rules “Bank Night” Is Not Violation Madison, Wis„ Feb. 8. — Attorney General John E. Martin ruled I today that “bank night" as conducted by various Wisconsin theaters, whereby persons who have not purchased admission tickets the night the prize is given away are permitted to join in the plan, is not in violation of the statutes pertaining to lotteries. In an opinion to William H. Rogers, district attorney of Jefferson county, Martin held that a lottery prosecution could not be successfully maintained against theaters which announce the name of the Thoms 161 151 210 C. Farrar 133 124 199 Hooton 138 135 127 A. Farrar 225 159 190 Totals'. 825 787 900 Mutschler’s Briede 160 135 168 Green 221 192 186 Mutschler 197 165 159 Ahr 202 202 201 Lankenau 178 179 188 Spot .6 6 6 Totals 964 879 908

Public Sale I will sell at Public Auction, at my residence, 3 miles north aw l mile west of Berne, or 2 miles west and 3 miles south of Momo., south of the Beer school in Monroe township, on FRIDAY, February 10,1939 Commencing at 10:30 o'clock A. M. 5 HORSES— I bay mare, 6 years old, in foal; 1 sorrel mare,, 4 yea old; 1 bay mare, 3 years old; 1 sorrel mare, 8 years old, in to , mare, 2 years old. 10 CATTLE— I Holstein cow, 10 years old, due in July ; 1 ' cow, 8 years old. due In Sept.; 1 Holstein cow, 7 years old. due ■ 1 red cow, 7 years old, calf by side; 1 Holstein cow, 6 J - vr Mar. 20; 1 Jersey cow. due Mar, 14, 6 years old; 1 Holstein c . • ( old, due March 10; 1 Guernsey cow, 4 years old, fresh, heifer, due March 18; 1 Holstein bull, 18 months old. 10 HOGS—2 brood sows; 8 shoals, POULTRY— IOO head of White Leghorn hens. GRAIN AND HAY —3SO bu. of good yellow corn; 150 bu. of oats; 5 tons of soy bean hay; 5 tons clover hay; 8 tons of tnn 30 shocks of corn fodder. IMPLEMENTS— I tractor disc in good condition; 1 cultlpacker, B°° as new; 1 Deerlng mower; 1 Hoosier grain drill; 1 Dain hay i John Deere corn planter; 1 hay tedder; 1 hay rake; 1 riding cu 1 walking cultivator; 1 McCormick Deerlng manure spreader, ; tooth harrow; 1 Birdsell wagon; 1 hay rig and grain bed com 1 wagon box; 1 bobsled; 1 walking breaking plow; 1 shovel 2-shovel plows; 1 7-shovel cultivator. , „ n iiars. HARNESS —I set harness In good condition; 2 20-in. horse an BROODER HOUSES— I 12x14 brooder house with double wan new roof; 1 12x12 brooder house in good condition. U9 J MISCELLANEOUS— I Jamesway oil burning brooder stove one season; 1 500-chlck size hard coal brooder stove in good j 1 DeLaval cream separator; 1 iron kettle; 2 log chains; 1 po 9l lard press; hay slings and books; early seed potatoes. >,odstea< HOUSEHOLD GOODS —1 baby carriage; 1 sink; 1 ta-bl 0 : with springs; 1 bed davenport and many articles not mentio TERMS—CASH. HOMER INNIGER cllH Ellenberger Bro®., Aucts. E. W. Baumgartner, o Lunch trill be served.

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