Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1939 — Page 6

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FRANKFORTIS STILL FAVORED TO TAKE TITLE Opposing Coaches Study Defense For Frankfort Five • Ry I'd Sainsbury, Indianapolis, March 22 <U.R> — Harty King. aatute mentor of the Evansville Bosse high school busketbull team, today faced a hat was probably hi* biggest problem of the year -concoction of a defense for the blazing hot Frank-. tort offense. Hi* Bulldog* will take the floor Saturday against Frankfort in the cartain raiser of the final tourney that will decide the 1939 llooaler high school hardwood title hold-. er. So today defense against the fiery Hot Dog acoring power wa* the first object of King’s workout as he printed his squad to upset the dope bucket and trounce the highly favored Hot Dog*. In other Hoosier gymnasiums. Scott Fisher coach of the Harris Owls of Muncie, and Fuzzy VandiMaestro of the Franklin

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■ firmly <’ub< faced the same possible problem but once removed Franklin and Burris will meet in the second game of Hatuiday’s tourney for the right to play Frank- ■ fort or House In the ■ hampiouship 1 1 melee, and the odds today were ! I all Frankfort. So the three canny tactical di- ; rectory Studied all possible dei fences for this rash of shooting ’ fever that struck the Hot (togs | early last fall and carried tfiem ■ through to a fine season record and ‘ roaring victories in tourney play The team of Kingly Frankfurter* . average over 4«» points per game tor the season. They they whooped through the sectional With a 55-pcdnt per game average. And In all their tourney games to date-» sectional, regional and semi-final — they have had atcorIng average of 4* ?> |H>mts The major difficulty that Fisher, I King and Vandlvirr find in per--1 fecting a defense ■ gainst thia ! bunch of scoring wizards is that | the Hot lings sharpshooting Is balanced Every man on the team •an hit the net consistently, and • hen one of the five is a trifle off. the other four are a bit more on Before the semifinal tourney the experts beat the drums for Splinter Johnson high scoring Hot • Dog -enter, and letughner. lanky former Michigantown boy who has been going like a house afire for . Frankfort this year. So Lal’urte and Elkhart worked 011 a defense for this pair in ordmight turn into a complete route. ’ er to stop what the dopeaters said ! The Slicers and Blue Blasers plana turned out fairly aatiafactorily—except that Lewis Cook, a third lanky lad who wasn't rated so highly in the pre-tourney east!mates, got hot and netted 29 points against the two teams to lead the Hot l>ogs to the tourney triumph Frankfort had rough going for a time in both the La Porte and Elkhart scrambles. LaPorte held the Hot Dogs to a 3-point lead at the half and the three-quarter marks, and then a fourth quarter barrage pulled the Frankfort club home In front by seven points Again at night the Blasers held a lead at the end of the first quarter. were only two pointa behind at the half, tied It up at the end of the third quarter, and ended i up 11 points hi the hole as Cook went out and had a field day uuI der the basket That any one of the possible Frankfort opponents might perfect a defense that will hold the boiling Hot Dogs in check was acknowledged by the state’s experts. King and Vandivier both played for Grtz Wagner when he tutored the Frankltn "Wonder Five" to I d Scott Fisher has built a

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O’BRIEN SIGNS FOG PRO TEAM Dake) D'Brien Signs To Flat With Philadelphia Eagles Dallas. Texas. March 2! (U.R>— On an eastern gridiron one day ' nett fall, a tall rawboned Texan and one who can run under hla outstretched arm will fill the air with long, spiraling passes, and when the show Is over modern football's most hallowed snperla-. tire will have found a permanent' home Behind the Washington Redskin line will be sllhgln' Hammy Baugh and hunched low behind the Phil-’ adelphia Eagles’ forward wall will be sharp-shooting DuVey O'Btlen Both will have gone into the game! described as "the gieateat puss- i of all time '* At the final whistl*-, only one will deserve the label. Thia game, and with It the settlement of one of the hottest foot . hall arguments of the past decade, was made possible In a fhtllas I hotel room late yesterday when I Davey, already acknowledged the . beat college passer of 193*. an nounced through his business advisor and uncle. Boyd Keith, that he had accepted terms offered liy ' the Eagl-e of the National Pro feaslonal le-ague Davey was not present He was preparing a speech for delivery before the Corsicana. Tex., high school dad's club When contact-i rd today by the I'nit-d Press hr f said ”1 don't feel tha’ I should say , anything about this until after I have talked with my uncle in Dallas later today." Keith made the announcement , jointly with Bert Bell, president iof the Philadelphia club Neither wottld reveal terms of the contract accepted by O'Brien, it.it It understood to be for one-year at |g salary of mote than llbcsst - —- - » 11 At the Training lam pa * By United P-ese • Giants Baton Rouge. Mar 22. — <U-*D — Carl Hubbell and Hal Schumacher. star New York Giant pitchers who underwent operations on their hurling arms last season, will get their first opportunity to test their repaired flippers today when each works three innings against the Philadelphia Athletics in an exhibition game Dodgers Clearwater. Fla Van Mungo, whose pitching arm I* reported on strong title contender out of the SR-boy field that Burris ha* enrolled Any one of the three team field can come through with a defense, then, and if either of the Hot Dngs get hot from the floor, the cheers of the Frankfort supporter* might be frowned a* the bucket of dope spills all over the Butler fieldhouse to close another hectic Hoosier hardwood season.

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the mend since being treated by Detroit's Denny Carroll, will hurl IS minutes of batting practice before today's Dodg*r-8t Ixtuis Cardinal exhibition game at St. Petersburg. but manager Durot her is not ready for him to resume regular competition. Reds Tampa. Fla. — The Cincinnati lU-ds meet the Boston Red Sox today. seeking revenge for a 5-< defeat suffered in an earlier encounter. They beat the Boston Bees 4-3 yesterday while the Red Box were starring 4-1 over the Kansas City Blues Yankees Haines City, Fla — The New York Yankees come here today for their first exhibition game against their Kansas City farm club, the Blues The Yanks administered a 4 3 defeat to their class AA farm hands, the Newark Rears, yesterday. Cards S' Petersburg. Fls — Joe MedWiek and Cardinal officials refused to divulge terms of the contract that brought Joe's holdout siege to an end today Medwick had demanded SJb.otto his salary last year, but president Sam Breadon offered 117.500 Cubs Ontario. Calif. — The extra-base hitting on which the Chicago Cubs will base their 193 S pennant campaign failed yesterday long enough for them to drop their spring training exhibition with the Pittsburgh Prates. 9to 4 Augie Galan's homer in the fourth inning was the Cubs' only extra-base tally off three Pirate pitchers. The Cuba came to Ontario today to meet the Los Angeles Angela. White Box U>s Angeles. — Manager Jimmy Dykes picked Vic Frasier, Jack Knott and Clint Brown to pitch tor his Chicago White Sox today In their second spring training meeting with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Sox dropped a 7 to 4 decision to Wade Killifer's Hollywood stars of the Pacific coast league yesterday Red Son Sarasota. Fla.—A comeback for Lefty Boh Grove loomed today as the Boston Red Sox left for Tampa for a game with the Cincinnati Reds The 39-year-old southpaw pitched IB minutes in batting practice yesterday before his mates defeated Kansas City. 4-1, He said last night that he felt no Indication of the arm allyment that sidelined him the latter part of last season Catholic Tourney To Open Tonight Chicago 111. Marcn 22—IUP1—Defending Champion* St. Xavier of Louisville. Ky.. meet Mt. t'mniel of Chicago tonight in the open'ng session of the l«th annual national t'atholjc high school barektbuli tournament. The Araphoe Indians of St Steph

■ I ■ Public Sale f SATURDAY. APRIL Ist, 1939 at 2:00 P. M. The R B. Johnson Farm. 77 Arre*. Good house and barn and • utbuildings, *. mile South of Decatur on U. S. Road No. 27. • Sold by order of Adam* Circuit Court to settle estate. 1 Will be sold on the premises. EUGENE RUNYON, Administrator Roy 8. Johnson—Auctioneer. Nathan C. Neleon—Attorney.

«-3 • academy, from AVyomlng. meet* St, Joseph's of Collegeville, Ind. i-nd St George of Evanston. HL. opposes Corpus Christi of Galesburg, ill., in two other games tonight v hlch open* f!r»t round competition rmong 32 team* from IS state*. First round playing will be tompleted Friday morning. Quartertmals and »<enf finals will be completed Saturday and the championship decided Sunday. a Decatur Bowling League Results | Casting* won three game* from Mutachlers last night in the M>nor league at Mie* Retreat km. and wrested the league lead from the meat-men. who have held the top pmit the setond half. Castings rolled 2.747 and Muts<bler* 2.&05. Cloverleaf won two from Burke's 2.C9C to 2.515. while McMillen* won two from Mies Recreation, t--5»" to 2.511 and Gambles grabbed three straight from Hoff Brail. 2,49S against 2.339. Two hundred scores Stump.! 212; Frialuger. 211; Thoma. 201; I C Farrar. 223; A Farrar. 217; R. Woodhall. 223; P Reynolds. 214: Young. 240; Rosa. 20S; Briede. 203; Ahr. 2o0; Brewer. 210 and 202: Soldner. 225. K. Schults. 222; Lyons. 210; H. Gallemeier. 203; I Mies. 202 Last night’s scores: Minor ueagu* Gamble* R. Woodhall 170 170 223 B lame IKS 175 jg) B Woodhall ISS Baller 1«9 171 172 Zelt iso igj 199 Tutewiler 144 ISO, Total* 779 «22 995' Hoff Brau Baker 143 lag >54 Bones 14* 144 144 DeVoaa I*< 177 IS2 Klelnhens 140 135 154 Reynold* 214 155 1«J Spot • • •! • I Total* . 777 *OS 757 t Casting* Hoagland 154 180 184 Young 240 194 IM Ballogly las Kg 1( g R u »s 175 200 179 l-idd 172 193 lit Totals 924 951 870 Mutachler Briede ... 2<»3 140 125 ;Gro»n 158 ICO 140 i Mutschler 159 157 179 Ahr 179 159 200 Lankenah 172 14* I<l r Spot 15 15 ft Total* — 887 780 829 Mi** Recrotation I Lyon* 210 1«9 120 Reinklng 153 133 154 149 154 170

I GERMANY TAKES it'.WTINt’FD FRuM PA<l« OHK> Hitler triumph. Hitler to vI«H Meme) !• lie acclaimed Another Grab lb Jue tie* Morri* t'nlted Press Foreign N»w* Editor Nail Uermanv grabbed another thousand square mll»« «d Fur«n--tnd ay and left every power from the Atlantic to the Black Heil guessing where Adolf Hitler will strike next The little* state of Memd an other product of the treaty of Versailles was handed over to the expanding Reich by Lithuania aaj the Nalls struck up the Haltli court with the same tactics — | massed troop* and an ultimatum • that they used to destroy Ctechoslovakl* Nari storm troopers occupied' public buildings as Memel's 152. ahhi inhabitants "came home to the Rekh" and Lithuania was forced so closely into the Germvn orbit that, even If she does not hecom>a protectorate, henchforth she Is almost wholly dependent nn Berlin But Memel was little more than a crumb in the bites that the Nails have been taking out of the map of Europe and Its se'xure by the Reich was a foregone conclu slon merely because of the mo mentum of the "march to the east" after annexation of Do ■ hemla and Moravia The real Issue which has driven Great Britain to forget a quaiiel of two decades with Soviet Russia. that ha* forced Poland to talk of abandoning her hard-won neutrality and has put almost ' every nation in Europe on a seml-war footing is whether the momentum Is *0 great that Hitler will strike again at once. And on the other aide of that hazardous problem of diplomatic guessing I* whether the "«top Hitler" drive led by the British can capitalise on the fears of en-, dangrred European nation* sufficiently to cause them to join together either in a revised system , of defensive alliance or in *ome I modified league for collectivei security such a* was alMiidoned I by the big power* with collapse of the league of nation* Two or perhaps three obvious pointa of danger stand out if It la assumed that the momentum of the Nazi revolution will carry ou immediately. One is in Polish territory, especially the "Polish Corridor" which the Versailles treaty-mak-ers carved out of German soil when they divided East Pruaaia H Gallmeyer 203 171 139 Mie* IGI 173 M Spot 9 • • Total* 904 813 794 McMillen* Miller 140 1841 144 Brewer 210 202 150 Bucher 159 Soldner IM 2M 178 Schuitl 193 158 222 | ISO 130 Total*lS* 8M 855 •urit*'* Burge 151 167 114 Keller 173 153 179 BortifSa 144 172 175 Mclntosh 150 145 143 Stump 189 175 Sit Spot 10 10 10 Total* 847 812 8M Cloverleaf Friamger ... 185 211 174 Thom* 142 171 Mt C. Farrar 154 189 223 H Farrar 149 149 157 A. Farrar— 182 150 217 Total* 844 877 973

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I from the Reich The Warsaw 1 vovernm-'tii fearing the steady emirclement id It* territory by Natl troops *• a result of the dr | veluptnent* of the last lu dav* I* | seeking to bind Itritalu Frstiae and Russia to a deflni'e piedr* of military aid a* the price fur Pol |*h participation lb th" "slap lilt 1 let" fruc* Whether Britain and h«h. would pledge lliemaelve* lu such lan alliance 1 although France already la a military ally of Poland 1 remain* to lie seen, although the Soviet* have urged such a military pact by all of the powers involved. A second danger spot for Eur ope I* in the Mediterranean, where Premier Benito Musaullnl of Italy la preparing formally to initiate hi* demand* for ixmceaalona from France. FURTHER PLANS iCCNTINVKD FROM PAOIB ONK> and younger Decatur Boy Scouts. In uniform, will assist member* of the Elk* lodge In conducting the annual' -fair, with the Scout* aiding in I pat ruling the grounds. JUNIOR CLASS iCONTINVKD FROM PACK ONKt I -tenental director—John Gerber, LeoUe Saber, the star — Peggy 1 Gaunt. Nat Gill. Lake Arbor'* first cltl-1 r*n- Robert Gentle. William Archbold and Edward' Beaver* are the stage manager* ' Ned Johnson 1* the business man-

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