Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1940 — Page 6

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C.C. RETAINS STATE CATHOLIC TOURNEY TITLE Ft. Wayne Defeats Rensselaer In Final ('lash Sunday Niicht PM Wayne. Ind. Feb 28 (I'Pi —Central Catholic of For! Wayne | today points it* gun at the Nation-I al Catholic basketball crown, determined to repea’. The 1*39 state ano national <-hamp« moved one step nearer their goal last night when they sueressfully defended theli state crown, defeating St. Joseph of Reanselaer by a score of 4<i to 27 Three Ed'* paced the C. C victory. Forward Ed KlotX set the pace for the team in the final game with 12 points ten of which were scored from out on the floor Scrappy Ed Dehner and Idg Ed Htanczak tallied 10 [mints apiece James Meager, who wa« awarded the Al <». Feeney gold medal for the best mental attitude and playing anility, led the St. Jim- Cuba with II points, lainkey Howard Haman *a« close Iw-hind Meagher with 10 points. The Fort Wayne team was In thel lead at the end of each period, the, score by quarters was 17-9 25-14. 30-22 and the final s-ore—4o to 27., Klotz handled the situation in the | first quarter by getting nine of his | points in that frame .Meagher scored on three foul shots at the opening of the fourth quarter. Klotz and Dehnei scored field goals In quick succession to give the Irish a nine-point lead which was never threatened. A Held goal by Cashman was the only other scorer hy St. J or- in the final frame The consolation game earlier In the evening between the semi-final--Ist losers was won hy Cathedral of Indianapolis who defeated South Bend Cat hoik- by a score of 33-23. Fort Wayne won over Indianapolis hy a slim two-poltit 29-27 victory In the semi-finals In the afternoon after trailing for three quarters The Irish garnered seven points and held Cathedral scoreless in the filial frame Hl. Joe won their semi-final game from the South Bend Catholic hy a score of 39 to 12. The champions from Fort Wayne scored 152 points to 127 hy their for tourney opp Meta. Stamzak of the Irish was individual high scorer of the tourney with 35 points All his points were gathered in three games as he saw little action in this team's second same Meagher of Ft. Joe was second in the scoring with 34 points, whilhie team mate. Henry Ewaaler war third with 33. Ewaniec’a 17 points against South Bend Catholic was the highest individual total for one game Memorial of Evansville was awarded the Dr E A. King trophy

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for the team displaying the "Highest caliber of Hportsmanahip during the tournament " Fort Wayn* Central Catholic defends its national title at Chicago. March 27. PURDUE KEEPS BIG TEN LEAD Saturday Night'a Battle With Indiana May Decide Title Indianapolis. Fob. 28 (UJD- Indiana's hardwood fans get their second dish of "meat and potatoes" this week as Indiana and Purdue, the one-two clubs of the big ten. meet for the second time this season at Imfayetle Saturday to headline thin week's Hi-game college schedule. Purdue, with a record of seven conference victories and one loss and that to Indiana, holds undisputed first place in the circuit. The Hoosiers, early favorites in the title, have Won six and dropped two The Boilermakers should be favored to take thia rubber battle despite- the- lt> tn 39 defeat which Indiana handed them on the Bloominglon flour Jan. H> In the first place. Purdue s been riding mighty high since the first melee while In diana faltered to lost- to Northwestern hy four [mints and Saturday edged out lowly Chicago hy only four points In addition Pur due has the home floor advantage Both teams play one other big ten engagement. Indiana at Ohio State and lowa at Purdue tonight, and both are expected to win to virtually put the conference c rown on the floor Saturday If Purdue wins, you can hand It the title If Indiana comes through, yon might look for them to tie for the crown. Other state colleges account for only 13 games this week as ten of the quintets have folded up their Jerseys for another year with schedules completed Four of the games affect conference standings, although Butler has cinched the crown for the second consecutive year with an undefeated record. Indiana Central, among those fives who ve quit for the seasciti. also is certain of second place Third place should Im- dec tiled tomorrow as Indiana Slate plays Ball Hlate. although a loss for the Sycamores means that Hl Joseph's will get a chance to take over the show position when it meets Valparaiso March 4 Wabash also a chgpce if Indiana State loses With the completion of this week • schedule only lour games remain on the slate for Hoosier colleges and only the St. Joseph'sValparaiso clash in the conference Three games are scheduled March 4 and one March 9 This week's schedule: Tonight Indiana at Ohio State. lowa at Purdue. Notre Dame at Butler. Central Normal at Eastern Illinois. St. Joseph * at Loras. Wedensday Ball State at Indiana State, Valparaiso at Central Normal. Wabash at Depauw. TriHlate at Bluffton Thursday: Valparaiso at Hanover Friday: Hhurlleff at Oakland City. Anderson at Griflln, Tri-State at Adrian. Saturday Indiana at Purdue. Notre Ihtme at Marquette. Griffin at Concordia. Saturday's Scores Oakland City 44. Hhurtleff 42 lovertlmel Hanover 72. Anderson 41 Indiana State 33. Chic ago Teac hent 27. Mane heater 45. Taylor 44 Kone Poly 42, Concordia 23. 'Wabash 39. Franklin 24. Indiana St. Chicago 34. Purdue 49. Wisconsin 45 lover-

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time). Ball Stat<> sis. Earlham 21. Butler M. DrPauw 25 o , I Kv I I 1 Team Standinge W U Pel. | Pleasant Mills 17 6 7.13 < Kirklnnd IS a 7»2 ‘ Berne IS 7 .BUS Geneva in X AM 1 Monroe S 12 .439 I Commodores X 12 ,4«o < Jefferson 5 13 .27* 1 Hartford ... 3 16 .I*7 Yelhsw Jackets 3 IX .143 Monmouth . ' 1 IX .063 —«Oo— The Pleasant Milla Rpartsn*. winners of the Adams county tournament, stand at the top of the county teams on basis of, games won and lost, with the conclusion of play last week. The Spartans finished half a game ahead ahead of the Kirkland Kangaroos. - 000— Victories and ioeoee are forgotten thia week, however, as the teams prepare for the sectional tournament. oOo — Decatur will be host to a sectional this year tor the first time since 1931. Couches, players and tans are snslotuly scanning the ached-1 ule as announced Saturday to determine the chances of their teams to cop the sectional honors. —oOo — The luck of the draw brings together the two teams picked In ad rance as favorites for the title. The Decatur Yellow Jackets and Berne- Bears will meet In the second same us the tournament Th uro day night at * o'clock The Yellow Jackets and Bears have split decisions in their two previous meetings- the Hears wm- i . ning at Berne early in the season. | 32-2*. and the Jackets winning in ' the Inal game of the season Friday night. 11-11 Bo Thursday night's sectional battle should be a thriller all the way. • Beason tickets far the sectional. priced at Bi. went en eale today at ths nine high Softools entered In the tournament. Fans would de well to purchase season tickets, ss a capacity bouse is predicted for the opening session Thursday to withes the Berne-Dectur clack. Single session tickets will not be sold until shortly hAfArA AAc In AObAA A I A la upv •ww v • tP^PbP^PS v■ sepr— v• W. wee season ticket holders given the preference- No aeats will bo reserved but sections of the gym have been designated far followers of each team. —oOo- - Cenlrai Catholic of Fort Wayne retained its state Catholic crown last eight, defeating Bt. Joe of

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t'olegevllle In th' titular dash. 40 to 27 The Iris 1 had two nanow squeaks, having been forced to come from behind in the final quarter to defeat both Memorial of Etanovllle and Cathedral of Indianapolis. —o<>o - Decatur's Commodores proved a disappointment to their fans Friday night, when they bowed out of the tourney to Central Catholic of Routh Bend The Commodores failed to show their best brand of ball mid were rather soundly trounced by the Routh Bend quintet, which later fell before Fort Wayne. ' Today’s Sport Paraded | By Henry McLemore law Angeles, Fen 2S - (UP) — l-arry MacPhaii. general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and base-1 hall's outstanding pioneer, plana to I abandon travel by train this sea*- ’ on and fly his team to all of Its out of town engagements The red headed Irishman who; brought night baseball to the big ' I leagues already has opened negotl-1 allocs with TWA rmtceming the I rental of a ship or ships for the I exclusive use of the Dodgers Ac-1 lording to TWA officials an entire baseball team could be flown in | one of the 33-peaaenger four-motor-ed Boeing Rtratollners which the company will use in Inaugurating high altitude flying early in June. I’ntll this ship 1s put into operation the Dodgers could be accomodated in two Itouglas sleeper I planes The use of planes by athleticl units is not an entirely new thing. : TWA b-aaed three planes to Honja Henle for the transcontinental tour > of her ice fellies two years ago. , flew the Detroit Red Wings hoi key team to New York the same year, and last year flew the Pittsburgh Panthers football team to Heattie tor Its opening game of the season. MacPhaii. while not one to overlook the publicity that would go with a flying baseball team, la not primarily interested In plane travel for that reason His view la that If all major league clubs started dying the playing schedules could he < oiisiderably tightened with a re- ™ 111,11

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stiltanf Increase in Income He 1 also believes that it would be cheaper, what with a decrease in hotel hills Too. he thli.as a great deal of player fatigue would he avoided. Tightening the major league schedule has long been a matter of Interest to MacPhaii. He realj lies that the long season la necessary nnder the present conditions In order that the owners may get In enough games to show a profit. But now he sees air travel as the means of getting in just as many games without having the season open in the cold and wet of early April and not close nntll the cold and unsettled weather of late Reptember and early October The general manager of the Dodgers has gone tar enough in the negotiations with the airline to consider the matter of Insurance; and has found that players can buy trip insurance as cheaply aa when traveling by rail. The rate is twenty-five rente for HAM He . can also take out air Insurance on ; each player at the rate of *lO for I JIO.OUO Even the dafflest of the Dodgers ean be shown the time saved hy a flying team The approximate |lme required for traveling 700 miles by rail Is 13 hours against little more than three hours by plane. Just what manager Izo Durceher. the stockholders of the club, and the worshiping fans think of transporting the precious Brookiyn ivory through the air is not known I It the Dodgers lake to the air, and the experiment Is a success, It Ila certain to re-open an Issue whh h Is of keenest Interest In this section of the country I mean a major league team here In boa Angeles or Han Francisco Traveling through the sky. a major league team can crane from the east to the west more quickly than It can travel from New York to Chicago or New York to Bt. Louis. Plana are bow underway tor an exhibiting game here on July 9 or 10 with the Dodgers flying out 'they have open dates on those days) to play an all-star team from the Holly wood and l-oe Angeles clubs The junior Chamber of Commerce of Loa Angeles la interested and la

PREP TERMS OF I STATE PREPARE FOR TOIIRNETS Play Will Open In 61 Sectional Centers Thursday Nifht Indianapolis, Feb 28 <U.R) With secllomil tourney battles only three* days away that old axiom about nothing being so old as an old newspaper wan pretty untrue In Indiana's high achool hardwood circles today More interesting than the’ Finn Ish situation or the war at sea was the pending basketball war that startn Thursday In 64 sectional centers, and the faun and coaches found more Interesting dope in Saturday's and Sunday's news con cerning sectional pairings and the results of the final games on the regular playing schedule Only a few so-called upsets showed Friday night, but Saturday probably the biggest bombshell of the season arrived when Jeffersonville. with a season record of 13 victories and nine defeats, handed Fort Wayne South Side, picked by many as the best in the slate, a 16 to 13 defeat In the toughest defensive struggle of th» year As astounding ns the final score was the sac t that Jeff alloWcai the Archers.only 32 shots at the net during the 32 minutes and of that n inn leer only three connected South Side trailed, v to A. at the half, managed to knot the c-otinl at 13 to 13 in the final quaiter and then dropped le-hlnd again. So It's now an even liet that before the stale tcnimey ends South Side will see a lot more of thia defensive type nt game that Jeffersonville started. In another Saturday dash East Chicago Washington showed signs of reviving that midseason form that enabled them to heat the heat for several weeks on end hy c-dglng out Gary Froehel, one of the Meed city's top fives. 40 to 39. at Froel>e| The victory tied the Senators with Gary l«ew Wallace for the western division. N.I H SC. title* and Indicated that some sort of revamping may lie neceaaary In selecting the winner of the Gary regional. Prolmhly Friday's biggest stirprise was Whitings victory over Gaiy Emerson, aald to lie the menu Improved ball dub In the region. The Oilers triumphed. 48 to 33, leaving no queatlon of rttelr superiority. .North Vernon's lanky five trlpp-' ed before Shelbyville. 32 to 24. in another surprise decision that might affect that regional North Vernon was at least glancing :owatd the semi-final when tl went into the daah while Shelbyville apparently bad little hopes, so now they're revamping th-- figuring down there. If the Gotd-n Beira can overcome a tough Cohiml-us duh In the aectlonal Hardly an upset, but still Intereating from the standpoint of Intersections! strife was Huntingburg! defeat o( Muncie Burris, 32 to 39. on the Monde floor. Both teams have been considered as possible state title threats although neither has been picked aa a winner, and .he Hunters' victory means plenty of trouble for the Petersburg sectiemai and posalldy the Jasper regional Salem's Lions met an unegpvc-t---ed defeat at the hands of Mitchell as the Blue Jackets took an oneseager to get an American league club to fly out with the Dodgers and give the City of the Angela a taste of major league competition Kight now It appears as If the prie Ject arlll go through MacPhail and bls air-minded Dodgers are all set to make the trip

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pectrd 29 to 22 declalon rind adding lo an already fairly well < onflrmod opinion lhat they could capture their own sectional d.-splie Bedford's opposition. Rushville found a longh Greensburg duh that must lw> reckoned with a dangerous oppcuient, but won our. 29 to 28. to Join « bunch of other favorites that managed to aqueeae through Friday Th- Anderson Indians, who never win by huge scores, look care of Indianapolis Hhortrldge. 25 to 21. Washington downed Bloomington. 38 to 29. South Bend Central hardy downed Elwood. 45 to 43. Marlon thumped Fort Wayne Central. 38 to 23. Fort Wayne North trounced Humington. 44 to 30. Martinsville overpowered Franklin. 37 to 25. Gary Lew Wallace swamped lire hart. Cl to 19. and Kokomo drowned WalMtsh. 57 tn 27. — ........ » .... I’leasant Mills Girls Beat Freshman Boys The Athenians. Pleasant Mills 'girls tram last week defeated the high school freshman team. 17 to d. thereby wjnning for themselves a party from the Pleasant Mills • varsity Members of the girls team were Maxine Noll. Mary Tope. Mel- ’ Im Hill. Wanda Bailey. Lucritha. Gilpin. IxH-ralne Johnson. Mildred Hhlfferly. Betty Noll. Boarta Miller and Geraldine Haggard > 18 Youths On NYA Projects In County National youth admlnlatratlon activities In Adams county have employed 18 young men and women during the past month. Robert S Richey, state NYA admlnlatra-. tor announced today The NYA construction project, employing 14 young men. has been handicapped < by had weather hq' will proreed soon with the construction of a! stone community building in the Hsnus-Nuttman Park An NYA clerical and ateno- 1 project employing three | young women baa been operating | in rtte offices of the city engineer street commissioner, public wel i fare department, superintendent of | city plant and superintendent of

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