Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1939 — Page 6

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LOOP TITLE AT ' STAKE FRIDAY South Bend Central To Meet Elkhart In Notre Daine Fieldhouse By Robert Laßlonde (VP. Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis. Feb. 9. — (U.R) — A few frPe throws on the Indiana high school basketball hardwood: Outside of the state tournament , games next month, the year’s big , gest crowd will see a game tomor- ’ row night . . . Central of South Bend and Elkhart will dash for the championship In the eastern division of the northern Indiana conference . . . With the game being played at the Notre Dame Held house because of the impending crowd . . . Neither club has been licked in six conference games and are tied for the top spot . . . Elkhart warmed up for the battle by losing Tuesday night to Central of Fort Wayne. 40-27. An Indianapolis sports column-

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, > 4 Week’s Schedule For Adams County I Basketball Teams Thursday Monroe at Berne. i 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. Ist. referring to the United Press poll of leading coaches carried this week listing the state's hottest dubs, said: . . . "It was awfully nice of the coaches to check with the News on Monday on South Side of Fort Wayne. Jeffersonville and Frankfort being the three leading teams of the state” . . . Now the coaches are wondering . . . Because their selections were made more than a week ago and the story was ready for delivery on Sunday. The boys have their fingers crossed at Kokomo . . . Because Chet i four-ton) Gabriel's trick knee definitely is on the mend . And he may be ready for action again against Logansport tomorrow night . . . the Wildcats see a chance to vault into the north central conference leadership this , weekend, provided Anderson, the current loop leader, is beaten by Newcastle tomorrow and the Cats take the Berries. Johnny Whitaker of the Hammond Times wonders why—players on good teams pass up short, two-handed field goals and then attempt foolish one-handers from the corners while driving away from the basket? . . . And why,afte rone player has made the mistake five or six times on the floor, his coach doesn't jerk him long enough to correct the mistake? Here's a strange situation to | which the state athletic paters might apply some thought . . . The geographical set-up in the north central conference (known as the conference of champions) makes it possible for as many as three teams from the circuit to arrive at the four-team state finals . . . Whereas, only one team can reach that goal from the northern conference . . . And the northern loop has 19 members compared to 10 in the north central. Speaking of the north central. Anderson has won the state title twice (1935 and 1937) . . . Yet Ijgs never won the conference crown . . . Jeffersonville, beaten only once, will invade Frankfort tomorrow night, continuing its round of tough games . . . This ranks among the top in the state this weekend. One of the freakiest field goals of the year was made recently in a game between Martinsville and Greencastle . . Henry Pearcy. Martinsville guard, batted down a Greencastle pass near the Greencastle goal . . . The ball struck the floor with such force it bounced up to the basket, remained on the hoop for an instant and dropped in .. . The goal put the Cubs out in front but Martinsville won

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ADAMS COUNTY TEAMS IN MEET - Creamery And Kirkland • Teams Enter Markle Amateur Tourney Two Adams county teams are enI tered in the 21st annual amatMi.independent tournament, which will open at Markle next Monday night, February 13. f The Adams county entrants are the Cloverleaf Creamery team of Decatur and the Kirkland Whippets. A total of 32 teams ure entered in the tourney. First-round games 1 wil be play Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, with ihe s«*eond round Friday and Sa'tirday, and quarter-finals Saturday i. ght. ‘ Semi-final games will be played 8 Monday. February 20. and the final I February 21. The Kirkland Whippets will meet t International Harvester of Fort . i Wayne in a first round tilt Tuesday I i at 10 p. m. ■ The Cloverleaf quintet will play ■ its first round game at 10 p. m Wednesday against South Side Fur- ( ■ t.iture of Huntington. t Officials for the tourney will be 1 Murray Mendenhall. Bob Naif. Bob Dornte of Fort Wayne. Jim Crowe I oi Huntington. Abe De Vol of Colum--1 bia City. Gurtner of Markle am! j Bateman of Garrett. MACPHAIL AND TERRY AT ODDS Feud Brewing Between Manager, Brooklyn Boss By George Kirksey I United Press Staff Correspondent New York. Feb. 9 — (U.R) • Sparks from the hot stove league: t i There's a real feud brewing be- < tween Larry MacPhail, guiding j ! light of the Brooklyn Dodgers, j I and Bill Terry, noble leader ot the I I I New York Giants . . . when Terry i cracked that he'd like to have Van i Mungo, Dodgers' temperamental pitcher who is balking at the 66 per cent cut the club gave him. | MacPhail accused Terry ot trying l to make his player tougher to sign ,i . . . then MacPhail came right . back by saying he'd take Harry Danning in a deal for Mungo and pay the Giants' receiver double what Terry paid him. The Phillies have one of the year's most colorful rookies coning up in Jinx Poindexter, a wild , and woolly Texan . . . Poindexter had a brief trial with the Red Sox but Joe Cronin sent him back to the Southern association when he chased a steward oft a dining car with a butcher knife . . . Doc , Prothro. Phils’ new boss, had Poindexter under him in the Southern association and says he knows he can pitch if he'll just , , behave . . . "he weighs only 165 pounds but he can really tire that apple in there,” says Prothro. Leo Durocher, Dodgers’ pilot, I says 90 games will win the National league flag . . . Brooklyn| officials are hailing Whit Wyatt, who won 23 and lost 1 for Mil- 1 waukee. as the greatest pitcher coming up from the minors and ' another Dazzy Vance . . . but 1 others call Wyatt just a minor. ■ league star who can't win in the majors . . . “he’ll be back in Milwaukee in July.” says Al Horwits. the Philadelphia scribe noted for I nis snappy toggery . . . the five I players on the Phillies the contenders are trying to buy are Pitchers Hugh Mulcahy, Claude: Passcau, Al Hollingsworth, and Max Butcher and Outfielder Hershe! Martin. The Cubs made two fresh offers for first baseman Johnny Mize the game, 36-34. One of the state sports writing brethren has coined a new one in describing the style of a basket- i ball team . . . Instead of reporting the club is getting worse and ! worse, he says it's getting wurst and wurst . . . Some sausage General opinion around Vincen- | ties is that the Alices and Deck-I I er will have things their own way in the sectionals next month . . . i Wonder what's appened to. such ; good teams as Wheatland. Monroe j City, Bicknell and Edwardsport. ... If they weren’t washed away I in a flood, they probably will give | both Vincennes and Decker a lot of trouble.

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and outfielder Joe Medwick bun had both of them rejected by Sam Breadon. who says none of the Cardinals stars is for sale . . . the other pilots are laughing at the Cubs’ outfield ot Augie Galan, Hank Lieber and Jimmy Gleeson . . a big comeback is predicted for Billy Herman, who has written the Cubs he is 27 pounds under his weight of a year ago at this time and five pounds less than hie world series weight • • • i which is a great moral victory for. Ed Burns. Chicago Tribune's ex-1 pert and authority on avoirdupois.; who claimed all last season that Herman was hog-fat. » ♦ Decatur Bowling League Results | Rolling against Preble in last ' night's Merchant League at Mies Recreation. Schafers posted a 2,407 to 2.253, winning three games but not until they were forced into a roll-off after the first tilt ended in a tie. McClure led Schafers with a 528. followed by Hoile and his 501. Sautters with a 491 led the losers. The Decatur Upholsters won two from Wren, rolling 2.442 against 2,317. Murphy led the winners with 564. getting a 236 his last attempt. Krick followed with a 547, marking a 211 his last game. Davis led Wren, although T. Dull and S. Dull both posted 200 or better in one of their games. First State Bank took all three from Telephone, with 2,413 against 2,140. Hummer led the bank with 525. marking a 210 his first time up. Hobrock followed with a 516. Tutweiler led Telephone with 487. Smith Insurance won all three from Conservation. 2.253 to 2.095. H. Gallmeier led Smiths with 496 and Myers led the losers with 498. Last night's scores: Merchant League Conservation 11. Scheuman 112 N. Scheuman 167 159 146 M. Scheuman — 105 119 Bultemeier .... 123 167 — W. Schroder 146 220 164 Meyers 119 190 189 ’ F. Schroder 69 Totals67o 805 710 Smith Insurance jH. Blomberg 125 146 135 ■E. Gallmeyer .... 155 134 152 ■ G. Bultemeier 121 W. Gallmeyer 127 167 172 H. Gallmeyer 164 173 169 L. Smith 192 131 Totals6B2 812 759 Bank Blakey 177 119 156 Loose 120 189 177

i Hummer 210 153 162 Hobrock 169 191 156 Schultz 115 181 14S Totals 791 833 799 Telephone Co. C. Heare 112 I. Heare 97 141 M. Heare 151 154 131 iC. Ehinger 157 158 149 J. Hunter 114 ... 176 jB. Tutweiler 147 183 157 , ; J. Ehinger 113 | j Spot ... 38 38 38 Totals7o4 787 763 I * — Decatur Upholstery Stauffer 166 170 145 i Brewer 160 185 154 Bleeke 147 131 173 i Krick 176 160 211 Murphy 145 183 236 Totals... 794 829 919 Wren Snider 153 181 161 Tumbleson 101 160 140 T. Dull 125 142 208 S. Dull 108 201 141 Davis 175 145 176 Spot 17 17 17 , Totals 679 846 843 Preble Rossman 119 134 Reinking 149 172 165 Houck 167 137 175 Sautters 142 163 187 Hoffman 181 115 Bittner 123 124 Spot 24 24 24 Totals 782 734 799 Schafers Walters 145 140 179 Tope 174 172 145 Reinking 136 145 141 McClure 182 171 175 Hoile ■ 145 174 182 Totals7B3 802 822 o H S. BASKETBALL Martinsville 41. Washington 25. Huntington Catholic 40, Lagro 25. Union 48. Markle 20. Ossian 49. Roanoke 25. Logansport 27, Monticello 26. Muncie 48. Michigan City 40. Jasper 26, Southport 24. I —' — Woman Killer To Seek New Trial J ■ Indianapolis, Feb. 9. — (U.R> — Motion for a new trial for Helen - Wilkerson, 40, who was found i guilty late yesterday of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing of I Fred Smith, 41, on Aug. 6, was 5 planned' today by her attorney, I ‘ Ira M. Holmes.

PRO FOOTBALL LEADERS MEET Briskest Trading Session In Years May Feature Meeting Chicago Feb. 9 (UP)—Football’s Ivory mart opens today as officials | of National professional football league clubs begin four days ot tVlet discussions which may wind up in the briskest trading session in years. All the rule changes scheduled to come up could 'be settled in a ha!, hour, leaving nearly tour full days to bicker over prices anil trading material. Every club In the league reportedly has a player doel in mind. The two new Collegiate rules involving ineligible pas 4 receivers i’.Kely wil) be adopted, but ’he pros have an even more important problem of their own to iron out. Stalling hit a new high last year and became so bad in one gamo tbe man who first tried it became disgusted. George Hulas, ownercoach of the Chicago Bears, admitted he first had his players claim fake injuries in final minutes of a game two years ago so the officials would grant him extra time out periods after his own allotted number I had expired. “We tried it in a few games last j year and once we almost beat Cle--1 •■•eland in those extra seconds. Bitt ! that sort of football should be legislated against. Either we can in- ! crease the number of legal time out i periods or put teeth in the present I rule which allows the referee to determine whether a player is aide ,o continue." Halas is chairman of the rules committee. One other proposal was advanced ■by Earl (Dutch) Clark, new coac.t if the Cleveland Rams, who suggested the team scored upon De the third option of changing goals. ♦ I Today’s Sport Parade | By Henry McLemore ( Los Angeles. Feb. 9. —(U.R) —Cecil Byron Hammond, a middle-aged gent who works at the boxing trade in these parts under the name of Jack Roper, will be tne next innocent to bite the canvas under the sledge-naminer blows of heavyw, fght champion Joe Louis. The bout between Hammond (or Roper) and Louis (or Barrow- has been arranged for this city on April 24. and will be held either in Wrigley Field or the coliseum, depending on which has the quickest seating arrangement. No customer can afford to be late for this one unless he be an ambulance i chaser and all he wants to do is follow Roper to the hospital. Negotiations for the fight (hear! hear!) were handled by Tom Gallery. a local Tex Rickard, and Mike Jacobs of New York, the bwana of bop who holds the leash on Louis. Roper was notified that he had been tapped for tapping by | the champion while at the Universal movie studio, where he is an electrician and extra player. He recently completed a part in a picture starring Irene Dunne, and it is said that it was his familiarity with stars that prompted Gallery and Jacobs to assign him a spporting role with Louis. Roper, a brother of that fine fighter of another day, Capt. Bob Roper, has been fighting, off and on. since 1928. He has retired more often than John McCormack. Whenever the fistic pickings got lean he would resume his career as electrician and actor. Since 1936. however, when he flattened Art Laskey in a round, he has been ■ going to the wars fairly steadily and has beaten such fellows as Patsy Perroni, Jorge Bresica. Eddie Simms, and Bob Nes- , tell. His next appearance will be against the Oklahoma Indian. Junior Munsell, at the Hollywood Legion tomorrow night. After hearing the news that he was to fight Louis. Roper said he would knock out Munsell in three rounds, which isn't exactly a mad promise, being as three rounds is only 1 about one under pas for the Muu--1 I sell course. Given his share of the breaks. Roper should last well into the second minute of the first round 1 j with Louis. He might even last I until the third minute if Louis hap- ' pens to be brushed with sympathy f at the sight of the game, battle--1 scarred old warhorse coming out , in the face of insurmountable odds. Like Tony Galento, all Rop-

,-i lias Is n terrific left hand punch. Jack really cun belt with his left fist H»‘ hit Nphlhll with it ih thv first round a few weeks ago and Bob loppled for keeps Roper Is a fairly cagey boxer but when u man reaches the age where, when lie blows out the candles on his birthday cake they throw off enough smoke to smudge un or | ange grove during 11 cold spell, lie doesn't, figure to have sufficient speed or strength to elude th«. swift, sure Louis. The tight will make money. | 1 hough. The rejuvenuted Roper is the most popular boxer In south-

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