Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1940 — Page 8

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HAMMOND TECH SURPRISE TEAM IN NORTH AREA Slow - Starting Quintet I’pset Strong Teams In Tourneys innt< Thm In the »<■< • <m<l of a aerie* of four arllt !i-» on , the finalist* in the annual stat* high school basketball tourney • By Ed Sainsbury Hammond. End.. March 2u ‘UP) — A sfntlt hearted six or «'-v*n man 1 learn which didn’t atart to roll tin til January and then rolh-'l right ■ on into ’hi- final* of th* state high •choot baski-t ball tournament that's Hammond T"h It ybn want to pick the January date when the team that had fieri--won a sectional tourney and whose football team was smartinK sudcr the sting of 27 straight de feats tiy Jan fith That night the Titter* who had wrm only three game* oyer not too lough oppon ent* and had just dropped four in a row. stopped Valparaiso by on* point. That single rii lory set off tb> dynamite Twin underpowered quintet, with scanty reserves roarmi through the next ait oppon ent* hu -1 tided among the victims

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I were Washington and Bast Chicago. rated as No. I of the < alumel district, by three points, and Frnehel of Gary, rank'd as practically an oven choice with the Senators, by five. Froebel gained icvenge three weeks later and stopped the gathering Tech boom but failed to | stop the Tigers They went on to ' defeat Washington of Sooth H-rul and Hammond and closed the season with a one-|Kiint defeat Inflict erl by Horace .Mann of Gary Came the sectional and Hammond Tech was rated a poor third Whiting was favored East Chicago Washington was doped to meet the tillers in the final* The Tigers beat Oyer in th* ’first round, tripped Washington by eight points in the second game edged Hammond Clark, always a tough ilval.sby two In the | third ha'tle. and them Tech defeat- : >-d Whiting by IS points for its first sectional crown I The regional was the same story Hammond was picked to get by Brook In the first game hut the expert* said it would lose to the Winner of the Import* Froehel game at night Tech went past Bernik safely although the team saw a 17 point margin evaporate to a three-point victory Then the Tigers downed Froebel by one (mint after a lust i minute field goal attempt by a Proebel man rimmed the bucket and fell away Th'- Calumet region developed ‘ respect for Tech's fight after that series In the sectional the hoy's were hot their shots dropped and everything was right In the regional their shots wouldn't drop, they couldn't pass, their plays didn't work nothing so right iSo th'-y went ah'-ad and won o spirit and liht alone. The semi-final was .he first tournament in which the Tigers really favored Riley of Houik i Bend went down I<> points and Logansport was edged out <>n free i throws in the last quarter by six ' points n ... No Prize Award At Theater This Week There will not be a prige award at the Adam* theater Thursday ’ night du*- to the fact that 1 hl- is 'Holy Week the proprietors anliiouttied Announcement was also carried in the theater that no prize would he posted this week o . 2<f sh, nhHe unwatermarked nnmi-opraph. Adaptable for all kind* of mimeograph work and suitable for ink signature. 75c. The Deentor llemorraf Co

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COLLEGE MEET AT FIELDHOUSE Indiana U. One Os Four Trams In Tourney Thia W eekend Indianapolis. March Ne-Hooaler-dom's greatest pastime, basketball, t will hold the spotlight at the But- - ler university fieldhouse during the * tiegt two weeks when the national 1 collegiate athletic association lias 1 ketball tournament Is held March 22 and 21 and the state high s< hoot final* are held March -TO. Drawing* for the N C A. A. ' tournament have been made by Reginald F. Hnllivan. mayor of In 1 dianapolia, assisted by Paul 11. Hinkle,, host chairman of the |>aal committee In «harge «»f the sec tional play-offs The drawing* have paired lluquesne university with Western Kentui ky T»-ai h<-r« and Indiana university with Springfield college The Duquesne-Western Kenttn ky Teachers game will atart at .1 p m Eriday evening and the second gam*- is s< heduled for 9.T0 p m The winners are to meet Sat unlay > night al h -TO p m The winner I of |he eastern sei tional. played here, will meet the winner of the ’ western sectional at Kansas City. , March So for the championship of the nation Springfield college ha* won l<> of the I* games played this season and has a game average of 49 points They hold victories over sack teams aa City College of New York, who was the only team to ,conquer N«w York university this, year. Western Kenluiky. has two college tournament titles to its i redlt alieady this season and has averaged 41 B points tier game In dlana university has broken all big ten ortng records this season ( and has an average of 43 1 point* per game The Hmisters finished the season with 17 wins and three ' defeats Huqiieime « team has received defeats at the hand* of Indiana university and Colorado Th'-y 1 have an average of 42 1 points per game for the season Hinkle has reported that mail ’order ticket sales have reached a new high for athletic contests at the fieldhouse and a se||-out is expected for both evening "f the tournament Orders tor tickets should be addressed to Paul 11 Hinkle Butler Fieldhouse and should be ai c ompani'-d by a chec k and return evenbipe. The lower , floor and first balcony tickets artselling for 41 1« per night and the second balcony tickets are fir. cents per bight —— ■ . — I Today’s Sport Parade By Money McLstnsrs • -- - • St Petersburg. Fla March 2P - 'UFA The American and National ' baseball league* are currently en- . gaged In the operation of a cheap swindle, and while my white plum ed helmet is not at hand I feel obliged to ride Into the aid of the victims The swindle is a very simple thing «nd even if not told about It th- suckers would lie bound to ' iaich on before very long But lor the benefit of those who may be swindled this very day 111 espials what *'going on Ourlng spring training and en route to its h"me* base for the opening of the regular season each major league baseball club plays some thirty or tblrty-flve ethlbi UM games The prices for these games range from tl 75 for box •eats to fifty centa for files' bei ad mission* Aa these prices are practically the same as charged during oß< tai season, a person who purchases a ticket has the right to expec t a major league game with major league players in the lineup But does the patron of an exhl ADDRESSING IMACHINtS •M THE ELLIOTT ' ’ n CARDVERTISER w That Both Addreosos and Prints Advertising Measagss en Penny Peeta) Cords W MOOKLB AM) and up. No metal emboeoinf I * machine noeoaaary hecauoo KLLIOTT Addreae Cards are typswritasbl*. Write for Free Booklet. F. H. Callahan, Agent »l 2fl» Century Building B INOfANAPOLIfI

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I'lli.m game gel that" W'-ll If yM think so just get yourself a copy of the box scores of the games now | being played The owners and the managers of the clubs give the < iiatomers anything that happen* 1 to tie around with a pair of spikes and a suit The Yankee* playi-d the Giants the other day and the only Yankee regulars in the line up were Charley K'-ller and Habe l>ahlgren. and the latter was play Ing shortstop and hot first base Thai's a fair and square deal tor you When a man pay* to see the Yankees he wants to see Joe IMMaggio. Bill l»ii key Joe Gordon. Red Rolfe, and all of tin- other members of lias<l>4ll» migh'iest crew He dMMt want to spend an afternoon trttd his rnoto-y for the pfe-ssure el watching a batch of minor |i ».ii' rookb-s The Yau her* are not thF’only oflmtdera by any mean* All th>- < luh* are In <.ii tin- swindle IJrtrolt played the Pt lami* Cardinal* here two day* ago and the caetoee-ra who paid jto see Greenberg and Martin and the- other star* were treated to »arh artic le* a* l<ake. Fpp* Hopp. Sturdy, litengo Mullin. Secury and Hartl*. If the exhibition games were advertised a* a rookie style- show there w mid be no complaint. But they aren't. The advertisements urge you come out to sre the Tiger*. the Giants, the Benalor* the Red*, and the Dodger* play Proof that the major Isagaora are writ playing fair lie* in the fa«l that the exhibition games at" played solely for the money they make There isn't a manager In the business who doesn't know that two hour* of hitting and fielding and running by the whole •quad would Im- more valuable than a scheduled game In which only some twelve or flfteen player* patform H<> If the game* are played for money why not give the fan* their modby * worth All of this is going on when Judge latndi* la only 20 mile* away At his age. I don't expect the udge t ociivrr 2't miles uile a* 1 quickly aa Hheridan did. but II seems tn me that by now he ha* had time to lake some actiim aolnsi such an unfair practice Cons* rm. judge, make the clubs announce la advance what player* they are going tn employ tn exhibition games iL

*At the Training Campa I By United Frsaa B —— — —— • Giants , Winterhaven. Fla., March 3A(U» The New Yorjt Gtent. pUy the Detroit Tl®*rs In an exhibition game at laikeland. Pls, today Cliff Melton Hy Vandenberg and Johnny WIHlg combined to limit the Cleveland Indians to aaven hits aa the Giants scored a 4-1 victory yesterday. Pitcher Paul- Deas

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I agreed to term* last night, leaving first h.iselllH.i Zeke P .lira as the only Giant holdout Reda Tampa Fla With a record of i I I only fht'-e victories In nine exhihl-l lion starts inis spring, the Cincinnati R>-d* left today to play the Philadelphia Phillies at Miami Beach A pair of homer* hy Frank • McCormick and Billy Myers. ea< h with two men on. brought Clnc-ln-Stall from behind to a 11-9 triumph . over the Detroit Tiger* yeateeday | Cardinals .' Ht Peiersliurg Fla The Hi ,lam is Cardinal* listed only one J 1 holdout play* r today, Joe Med-1 I wh k Cat'her Don Padgett signed i r • hl* contract yesterday after a sixi. minute i unfer<-n< •• with vice president Branch Rb-k-y Senators l Haines City Fla The Kansas • City Blue, of the American A»s<* i elation druble-d the Washington I Senators hare yesterday by a 22 to I 5 s< ore The winner* < oUeeted i, femr home rnn*. eight triples, four . doubles and seven sing!-* oft three! I Washington huriria Clark Griffith, osttier of the Sen-1 . atom, walked out on the procesJ- , Inga during the i*i- nth lulling in >r

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which the Blue* m-ori-d »<-v*n runs - the same total they had tailed In the pn-vlon* Inning Firataa Pasadena Calif. — A somewhat nettled Frankie Frisch, always a I hard Inaer. brought hl* Pittsburgh i Pirate* Into the shadow* of the i Rose Bowl today for a return on-1 gagemenf with the Chicago White' Sox. who *taged a ninth Inning rally yesterday to beat the Pirate* | 9-7 Pitchers Macfayd*n. Harrell J , and llelntielnian will do mound ' duty Athlotica Ixm Angele*. Calif Rested hy a ' holiday a* r<-tmlt of rain which, 'camelled yesterday'* game, the Philadelphia Athletic* sought their; •ei-ond spring victory over raajor. league "ppositioii today qffglnM | the Chicago Cabs. The A s hav ■ ■ Won 10 of 12 ftame* wiih Pacific I cimst league teams. Im, they have! triumphed only ome — over the! Pittsburgh Pirates- In four start* ! | against big league opposition *—■■■'- o Large neMclion Cog lx, Suitx and l)rew«M direct from the market.—E. F. Garni More.

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