Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1940 — Page 6

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LYNNVILLE AND IAPEL AFFORD NET THREATS Two Small Town Fives In “Sweet Sixteen” To Be Watched Indlmta polls. Ind , March 12* — <U.P) — For virtually the firm time m the history of Indiana'* high school banket ball tournament. the 194 u series boast not one. hut two of those- unknown*”, the representative* of the (mailer town* that frequently are the bane of th< (fate* better known prep quintet* “YWwe heard all about Fort Wayne South Kokomo. Washington and mint of the rest of the "sweet sixteen.'' ao now liaten to the pair of underdog* Lapel and Lynnville laiatyear It was Italian that roared out of the rut kuit by upsettins the favorite Fort Wayne South five and then dropped a narrow decision to Kokomo in the M-ml-flnal* Italian’* population wa* 799 l.ynavill's population Is 2*l; They’re the only members of the “*Wc-et alxteei, from town* of less than loan population, but that *|*e dnetm't make any difference on the hardwood and the player* for both of the "L'a" assert that they won t take any backtalk from their better known lompetnnri Saturday Lynvllle. who raptured the Evansville regional crown by romping through Oakland City. 4* to I*. and trapping Hale. 33 to 21. meet* Mitchell in the Vlncenne* semi-fin-al. 1-apel the Indlanapoll* regional winner hy virtue of triumph* over Greenfield and Indlanapoll* Shortridge. ha* to far ea tough Rushville aggregation Neith»; of them, though, hai to give away mm b If anything in tile. Ipeed. (hooting ability, drive or eDthuilairn The Lindies captured the firm

♦ « — L*»t Time Ton-gnt — FOUR WIVES" Lene Sister*. Jetfry Lynn. Gale Page. Claud Rams ALSO—Shrrta. 10e-25c WED.&THI RS. * “bl R BIC. PAYS! First Show Wed. st 6:30 CaMlnueM Thurt from 110 ' fiartmg With Feature! ATTEND WED. NITE & AVOID THE RS. CROWDS • r.Ti f «a At UmU axHt tbaiaeafaen- ■ BMlart* al B*U» MrpttW •• N< ■go*’*' hr x • 1 ssnaf WML SANMI! WONT) . . *’ K' H* « ffvjjD , '4 •*wW*Sr Fri. a Sat. — -RAFFLES*' David Niven. Olivia da Haviland. -0i Com mg Sunday — 'Shop Around the Comer' James Stewart, Mar gore* Sutlavan

IS game* on their regular schedule j and then closed out with five I straight k>**e*. Coing into the *»-.■• tional they heat out three victories for the crown and added another pair Saturday for regional title Naturally their opponent* were I ■ mainly from tiwir own dan* but i they c.ioori on deciaioa owt I’nn eeton, supposedly a bril er school On the playing floor Mitchell* | driving live should watch Carl Gore, a sniping guard who ha* led the Undies' (coring in nearly all their game* Crider the backboard the lad in the picture i* Oran McKinney, a gigantic youth with plan- . ty of ability to take the rc-le.iinds , | while Rol. McMurtry rate* praise > for (parking the play , i A* proof of their (hooting ability .' in recent game* each of the Jhree I I mentioned pin* Halley, Duvls Hold- ; .. | er. and Harr ley have counted . | steadily In tourney play. The team i | I* coar hed by Ralph Klfer. a form .I er Lynnville star now in hi* flrat .! year a* mentor at the old home ’ , town. I larpr-l * Bulldog* aren't quite ' j a rank unknown a* the Lynvllle - i five They gained plenty of recog .' union in the *e< tional when they I ■' managed to Ixrunee bat k to whip j ' Anderson'* favored five and Alex > I andria. each by a one point tnar- - i j gin The Bulldog* won 15 of 20 gam- , j during the regular season. run ‘ nhig up a six game streak of win* -I at the Start of the year before | II dropping a ■ onte*t with Muncie- > Rurris Three *e< tional triumph* - I were t ha Iked up and two for the ■ i I regional title. Coat h Herman Hinshaw ha* five i | lad* over the six foot mark, top . I ped by Whetsei at * feet two The - i latter I* an m e on the rebounds | ..and Is < redited gtmer*lly with s' . large share of the victory over I' Shortridge O IS Hoosiers Train For Net Tournament .1 Bloomington. Ind. March 12 Jtl'Pl Practice for Indiana'* hardIwood Hoosiers selected to repre»ent the midwest in the national collegiate athletic assoc lation's an , nual basketball tourney, was in full, > swing today in preparation for the opening of the Eastern Zone preli-: ’ tnlnarie* at Indianapolis March 22 . Fifteen player* were called track yesterday, their first time in uniform since they closed the Big Ten season here a week ago with a vic- j tory over Ohio State Ball handling, passing and deJ Tensive work were stressed by ('each Branch M« Cracken * 20. m- white unwatermarked mimeograph. ( adaptable for all kind* of mimeograph work and nuitahle for ink signature. 75c. • The Decatur Democrat Co.

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SENIORS BATTLE 1940-41 TEAM FRIDAY NIGHT Annual Game At JuniorSenior Gymnasium Friday Night The annual senior underclassmen m-t battle will bo staged at the Decatur junior-senior high school Friday night, Hugh Andrews, athletic director and basketball coach of the institution announced today. The tilt, always an interesting en< winter be, a use ii pit* team mates of the season just passed against each other, has been ed for A p m. In the senior lineup will lie the chief scorer* of the 1*39 40 edition of the Decatur Yellow Jacket*. Bob j Stapleton and Charles Andrew* Carl Hann and Ned Johnson, two other senior*, who were varsity men in their final year, hold two post* on the senior five For the fifth man and one or two sub* the ' senior* will have to go to the ranks lof underclassmen or possibly a senior who did not make the team A* for the underclassmen five, j it will he an early preview of what Jacket boosters will watch next ' year Kenny Chilcote. the midget man of thia year's regular*, and ' the two tali boy*. Hill Lynch and Ihile Fuhrman will ho aided by Don Fnichte. Harold Johnson. Whitey Andrew* and one or two more brought up from this year's shock troop*. A* a preliminary, a tilt ha* been arranged between a horde of fifth .end sixth grader*, who have been working out almost daily in the [wst two year* in a preparatory ' training for their high school competition to follow later. This gam* will start at 7 p tn Admission to the games will be 15 cent* for student* and 25 cent* for adult* All proceed* from the i erent will go toward taking the playe-r* on the annual trip to the state basketball final* at Indianapolis the last ot the month Member* of the team are now selling the tic kel*. They may also tee procured at the door rm the night of the game. 1 -■ " O' —— I Today’ll Sport Parade * By Howry McLemors Daytona Beach. Fla . March 12— UP) If the American league de. feat* the National l-eague In the all-star game for the Finnish relief fund at Tampa next Sunday. I I am going to rise from my pre** , hox seat and make a suggestion Speaking In the same voice which earned me the aobririue' "the hoy nuisance from the ChattahooI chee,” I shall propose that cm the I following Sunday the two team* meet again, this time for the rei lief of the National League. Such a proposal hin t a* bad a* !it sound* Don I let anybody tell be in need of help H, once again It you that the National l-eague won't | ha* to go behind the baseball woodshed, so to speak, and take another ticking from the AmeriI can One sore chastisement from the rival organisation and the fans are liable to r»«lite who I* pap* and who is junior in <hls ms- , Jor league baseball business And once thoroughly convinc’d of the true statu*, the customer* may decide tn spend their summer afternoon* in Ike park* where the brat and the biggest and strongest baseball I* played. The National League can't laugh off being beaten by the American forever. There* a time coming when only Spanish War pension era will remember when the older league triumphed over the upstart group in an intralengae meeting Even now only memory school graduate* can rooall the detail* of the laat National League trtumnh in the world serie* and of the allstar game* it haa won but owe .A* If he leallsed the situation the Nationala are in. Preaident Ford Frick ha* been making the round* of the duba In hl* league

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from California to Florida President Frick w«« In California the ' last time I heard of him. and I imagine he had a spirited meu«ag«Perhaps It went something like this: Men of the National league — to put It honestly and briefly I am getting good and tired of stepping up after the world aeries and allstar games and offering congratulations "I d like to he congratulated myself once in a while And those I statements I have to give to the I press before world series and allstar games — they’re getting a! little Itksomr too Always I say the same thing — ‘lt will be a close hat tie. hard fought all the way but I believe the National League will aaserf ltd swperierity.* I turn It. men of the National, start asserting." The men of the .National couldn’t choose a better time to start asserting than In Tampa on Runday. Victory would lift their moraland send them off in a fight for (be pennant with a feeling that If they should win it. they might go on to lick the American League -- pardon, the New York Yankees — in the series ne»t October Rut the Nationals wont win Pitching, power, poise and confidence still are the chief Ingredients of liesebell success and the American League has the edge in ’ all four Items. At least I think so. 1 and my opinion cannot be held lightly. After all. I picked the I Yankees to win the world series ' last year, and that's better than ’ Rill McKechnie or Ford Frick coui* da Rinka To Captain 1940*41 Irish Five South Bend. Ind. March IE — IMP — Kd Riaka high ecoring forward of the Notre Dame basketball team for the past two years, last night was elected captain of the Irish quintet for the 1440-41 season Silver Child Strangled By Scarf Warsaw. Ind.. March IS—(VPI —Funeral services were being arranged today for Donald Rugawe Gamoe threo-year-oH son of Mr and Mrs Imwrewce Oarnon of near Rllver Lake The child was strangled to death when a scarf his mother bad wrap ped around bla nock Io keep out the cold t aught ua a picket of a corn crib and garrotted him

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11 I I m. Decatur Bowling League Results Mann's 595 was tope in the Cen- ■ tral Soya league nt Mies Recreation last night .... His 211 was also high single game .... Bunner’s 205 was the only other double century count CENTRAL SOYA LEAGUE Office Giri* Leonard 123 14* 114 i i Woodard lit 110 IM I I Rellengei 47 134 134 , i Klepper 92 HO 124 I Kerchner ISO 133 IM i Totals 978 433 594 Maintenance Felber 99 107 RS I T Krick 137 157 133 1 II- Krick 146 146 117 Kley 147 1341 Winteregg 139 147 .. I chapman ... .. 1(1 144 | Total 4*7 747 453 Office Men Rose .. 45 147 124 i Duncan le3 IWI litCowan 154 1 Blind 100 100 ion Rllnd . ... _. 100 100 too Blind 100 100 Total .. 404 s** 59* Truckers Mrenmen 125 177 149! Roop 170 173 1441 I Little 142 140 147 j - Hsrris 147 145 144! . Blind 100 100 100 — - 754 775 724 Solvent Harrle ill Brown IM 157 159 Human lie 147 | Black . 174 152 140 ' Rauch 151 152 Tee pie 144 151 153 i Merrimaa 114 Total 744 741 474 Mlaora Sheets 171 140 144 Hawkins 144 141 Anher 104 131 Heller 150 144 125 Brunner 174 157 205 Uttle 145 123 Total 754 431 742 Laboratory Mann IM 142 213 Kruae |54 125 174 Cook 147 102 142 Maby IM IM 144 SoWuer IM IMS IM Total 444 744 447 tape tiers Von Ountra 144 144 140 Howe 131 140 141 K-lley 44 Dill.. 1U IIS 144 Baumgart uer 44 49 .. .. Beaman a—■■ 140 44

Koreelocher 93 Total 434 IM Repsi-Cola O Nell 144 144 153 I I Mills 220 201 144 Stigall 149 147 IM Denton 154 154 144 Holland 137 153 134 Total 431 447 *lO Gambles. JrsR Woodball 153 212 170 Reldenbach 145 144 147 I B Hoagland 144 192 190 ’ Hoffman 179 ITS DM ' Marbach I*l 142 2<>3 Total 424 90S 414 Seek Cash Allegedly Lost On Horse Races - ■ New Albany Ind Man h 12 — iiVPt The state will attempt to recover flOO.oao from the estate of ’ Harry Briggs, alhded bookmaker, jin Floyd circuit court March 24 Prosecutor Frank K. Ixtrch. Jr.. filed a complaint in whk b he bolds that former deputy treasurer of Floyd county. Robert W who suicide, lost more than 4124.417- The amount of a deficit in the county treasury In horse race bets In Brigg s Inoks Witnesses who carried bets liej tween Leist and Briggs will testify. Ixrrch said. Purdue Coed Is First To Prm Flight Test Ufayette. Ind March 12—(VP) —The weaker set trespassed on another of man’s heretofore etr-lu-slve activities today as Mias Joann Geer, attractive Purdae I'uiverslty Junior. b«sme the nations first coed to pass the private pilot training course of the civil aeronautics authority Mias Geer won her wings yesterday when she sari essfaily completed aerial etamlaations conducted by CAA Inspectors. Hhe was oae of the two girls who first enrolled io the course The other la M Isa Janette Morris, aim* of Pa rd we who is egpected to taka her lest flight soon - *- Ceal Town Cetebrates Minch Chunk. Pa. —<uJO -Thia little anthracite town celebrated the I Nth anniversary of the birth of the 4rst while child in the Mamoney Valley. The child accord lag to records, was c-hriauned Joelah White Erskine Hauard George Augusts Frederick Haato Brink Josiah W E. H. G A. F. H. Brink became a miner and died In 1474 at the age of 54 !L.!

Ml DUO IN TOURNEY LEID: it Events Top Score Is 557 Detroit. March 12 <U.R> -A dou ( I Idea team from idnclnnati and . Anthony lludc ki of Chicago In the , i all-events were new leader* today i In the American bowling ccuign-ss In their second appearance al | the huge state fairground* coliseum. Harold Burkhardt and Eddce I Littleman of Cincinnati rolled , their team total to 123 C P.udc kl's serie* of ’.57 gave him top standing i In the all-event* 1 Standing* loam Silver Seal Soda St I-on I*. 21142: Parkway Recreation Milwaukee. 2MI; Roney f'ramor. Detroit. 2727: Evergreen Playground. Vancouver B f’.. 2745. Bonn-rilaner. I Milwaukee! 2715. Two man event Harold Hnrkhaidt Ed l.ltllenian. i Cincinnati. 123«. Cyril Wlllle-Ttjov ’ Rosc-whr South Bend. Ind.. I2«O; l John Merten-Cy Berg. Milwaukee. I (St;. August Mur|lerJac-ol> Jaeg r. ,St l-cml*. 1194; Earle WrighiI Harold Rlndge, Cortland. N Y 1179. Singles event Henry Halfman. Milwaukee. <92. George Kloha. Akron. *59 John Snelly. Cleveland. *4* Herbert Niemann. South Rend, I Ind.. *39 Chris Sotirel St l.oui* *3* ' All event*: Anthony Rudrki. Chicago. M - **4-557—151S Chris Soitrel. St Ixmla. 599 579*2* 1904 John Snelly. Cleveland. 553-*O4-I .4*—1903 Frank Gripp. Ellxalwth. N J. 554-4IMH-1799 Herbert Niemann, South Bond. 53<MH3«4<> 179.3 ’ o .... . .. Kokomo Ex-Mayor To Still Fijfht Sentence Kokomo. Ind. March 12 tl'Pi — Former Mayor Oltu R Holt, whose ' conviction of defrauding the government the V. S supreme court yesterday refused to review, said today he may ask the tribunal for a re- ■ hearing on ht* petition for a writ ’ of certiorari I’nder court rale*. Holt ha* 25' day* In whh h to file a petition for > I rehearing If he fail* to file, or the ■g 1 =■

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