Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1940 — Page 6

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INOIANAPLAYS ON WEST COAST Meet* U.C.L.A. Tonight. Southern California Saturday Lm Angel**. t>*< 27 UF’ — • Barked by » record of achieve-1 nnti worthy of » Hollywood press | Indiana univ*r*fty’* tourin* band of net marauder* were In • Ixm Angelo* today for a **rle* of two game* with local squads Tonlghi th* national collegiate champion* meet I' C L A in quest of another *(alp to hana on a sagging hell Th* I’clana far* a j tram after if* 3oth conwutlve victory over non Bia T*n competitlon and Ita fifth straight win of th* season Tomorrow night th* Hoosiers tangle with Southern California, th* tram thry almoat met for the, national title laat year. Th* Tro-1 pin* boasting on* of their beat squads In years. loat out in th* semi-finals by our point to Kansas Indiana conquered troth trama, m Ita laat appearance her* two I yen: a ago Th* Hoosier atyle of I play speed and daah deluxe *xclt-| *d local fana and It wan expected they would lire Indiana a warm Wtfcome Th* high powered middle westerners hit San Francisco Ilk* an earthquake laat week, nosing Stan ford In an overtime thriller and shelling California handily laat .Monday. Tremora of th* Hoosier devaluation spreading southward failed, however to dim hope In the local camps. Both aquada were determined to end Indiana'* long reign Only air travel would he appropriate to the atiper apeeii Hoosiers, so they leave Glendale airport Sunday night for a plane trip to New Orleans and a Sugar Bowl engagement with Kentucky De> SO Reporta from the south indicate fana there are more excited alniut the famoua Indiana hardwood machine than the a< heduled foot toll game between Tennessee and Boaton college O— ——— wwf MB M I All la quiet on the Adama county baaketball front. -000— Playart. coaches, fans and Sparta writers of the county are enjoying the holiday vacation from basketball activities, with no games scheduled until neat Friday night. —oOo— The Decatur Commodores brought the old year I*4o to a pleasant dose Monday night with their victory over St Mary's of Anderson. bringing their seaaon'a record to an even split with five victories and five losses. 000— To our way of thinking, the outstanding achievement of the net season in Adams county to date.ls the splendid comeback of the Pleasant Milla Spartans winners of the sectional tournament last spring Pleasant Milla, after a poor start In which the Spartans lost five of their first sis games, have copped their last seven games In a row and at present writing appear to be the team to beat for county honors. Chief attractlou on the first night s card of the new year will be the Decatur Yellow Jacketa* Invasion of Auburn. Other games on the same night are Hartford at Kirkland, and Monro* at Geneva. Games on Saturday January 4, are Huntington at Berne. Monmouth va. Jefferson at the Berne audltorIWhen You Burn Gm you do BURN DOLLARS, but You’ll born lew gait and fewer Dollar* and get mor* quiet power After a carburetor adj um t ment her*. For we make them my* gas and money. RIVERSIDE SUPER SERVICE last Monroe fit Phone 741 “When you think Os Brakes, think of oa."

. kirn. —oOo- | Thr Decatur Commodores and i Pl.-asant Mills Hpartana were I m hrdulrd to meet January 4. but | th* game was (banged to Monday. I | January 4. and will he played In j the Yellow Ja< beta gymnasium - otto Illinois university nettera set a tough example for basket ball players Thursday night when they stepped up to the free throw hne 1> times and converted 14 chances for a per feet record. Incidentally- thn llllni defeated Manhattan college by so doing. 54 to 40. 000 I Bin k. condm tor of Out of Bounds In the Bluffton News Banner, picks I what appear to him to lie th* lead- ' ling teams in nearby counties Here 1 are his choices I Wells Ossian. Adams Kirkland or Deiatur. Huntington Huntington. Allen Fort Wayne North fflde DeKalb Garrett. Kleuben -Angola f Noble K-ndallville. Whitley Columbia City. Jay Portland Bla< Word Hartford City. MACH SOUGHT BY OHIO STATE Two More Prospects Are Interviewed For Grid Position Columbus. O. Dec. 27 il'Pi The names of Don Faurot nnlver-1 slty of Missouri, and Alan Holman. I Franklin and Marshall, were added today to that of Paul Brown Massillon O. high school on the list of foottoll coaches officially interview- j ed for the Ohio State Job vacated I recently by Francis A. Schmidt. Holman wa« called yesterday as- 1 ternoon by L W St. John Ohio I State athletic direc tor, and Faurot I met with university athletic offlc-1 lais last night Brown had been Inervlewed last week When asked by photographers to I pose with St John after their meeting In a downtown hotel. Faurot smilingly asked the Ohio State athletic boss’ "Do you think they’re going to need these picture* of me*" St. John replied It's pretty hard to tell right now ” Reporters had been forwarned by St. John that no statements would I* made after any conferences with proapei’ive coaches After his conversation with St John. Holman said: 'This la the first 'big time" foot Imsll Job I have ever sought I have I never tried for another football I job since I started at Franklin and Marshall ten years dgo.” The Ohio State athletic heads will leave tonight for New York to attend the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic association and perhaps pursue further their quest for a new coach. Decatur Bowling League The major league resumed activities at Mies Recreation laat night after a two-night layoff occasioned by the Christmas holiday . Stump. Spangler. Pillers and R Woodhall were the only ones In the loop who proved they could go through thr heavy Christmas menu mlthout having their kegllng eye affected. Stump and Spangler were mainly responsible for the Mutachler five banging up three nice scores In winning two games from Wiley Ford . . . The florist rolled a 451 to top all efforts, while Tony tagged . a 425 . . . The Mutschler total for the trio of games was 2 923 . . . Wiley with a 4*9 led a pack of four hundred scores for bls own club. Piller's bagged hie 412 rolling with the Monroeville five, which copped two games from Burke's |. . . Tut weller started foor a 400 with 201. 202 but fell to 171 in bio laat game for the losers. Farrar's 5*9 was beat for the Cloverleaf as they won three straight from McMillen’s. BchMckman'a even 500 was the beet attempt of the losing five. Stols Diner won two games from Bruce's Grill In the battle of the sandwich makers . . . R Woodhall's 405 for the Grill was by far EGG-NOX MX STALEY'S i Confectionery

GARMS LEADING LEAGUE HITTER Debs Ganns Os I*itt»»* burgh lA*ads National League Batter* New York Dec 27 <UF> Debs Ganna, one of those lot »o/ Io I I shots, pulled one of the big sur ' prises of the 1940 baseball season by winning the National league batting < hamplonshlp. the «fll< ial I averages revealed today. Garms. third baseman for the 1 Pittsburgh Pirates, batted .355 to top his nearest rival. Ernie Lorn- ’ Ha nil. Cincinnati catcher, by 34 (mints Germs' irlumph was a sur1 prise to everyone Including him •• If Not until the last few weeks I of the season did Garms learn that . he had a chanc* to cop the offii lal I laurel Like everyoe else Germa ■ labored under the Impression that a player had to go Io bat 4'*' offl« lal times to be recognised as hatting ihamplon. Investigation I however, proved that the National I league had no such rule. Germs played In 1«3 games and went to bat 35* Hine*. If the Nat- | , lonal league had had a 4<m times at bat rule. Htanley Ha< k. Cubs' ■' third baseman, would have been the batting < hampion Among th* I player* who went to list too or more times Ha<k was the leader I with a 31* average Although long considered a dang- ’ i-rmis hitter In a pirn h Gama' record offered no hint that he was <lest|n>-d to Join such stalwarts s Rogers Horn*by. Paul Waner. Bill i i Terry. Chick Hafey. I,efty O'Doul . i and others ss a batting champion. In seven years In the majors (four i with the Browns and three with I the Bees i Garms had batted over I 3W only twice and his lifetime i major league average wan a mere I 293 Johnny Mne Cardinals' first baaeman. led the league for th* third straight year In total I>a»<-s I <344) and for the second anccesslive y. ar I nhome runs (43). Illa ' homer total set a new record for a I Cardinal player, topping Rogers Hornsby’s previous mark of 42 Frank McCormick. Reds’ first . baseman tied Stanley Hack Cuba, for the moat bane hits <l9ll. making the third straight year In | which Cincinnati's big Infielder has showed the way In hits. He also led In doubles < 44» and moat times at bat I4i*i. McCormick and Arky Vaughn. Pirates, were the only players who took part in all their c tubs’ games. * e Today’s Sport Parade | By Henry McLemore • • i Pasadena. Calif . Dec 27 <U.R> Why la Stanford in the Rose Bowl? This pointed question was pul to Clark Shaughnessy during a lull in I the Indiana first workout tor NeI braska here yesterday, and the head man from Palo Alto had an answer equally direct and concise. "Becaus- 8 tan ford la the moat alert and the quickest team I ever coached or ever saw " These two virtues- quickness of mind and quickness of foot- he credits with Stanford's rise from ; the cellar of football to the roof ! tirps Shaughnessy plac ed them i ahead of the famed T formation in Important e. bee ause. as be esplaln- | ed. the T formation would have been a flop without the proper boys ! to operate it "The T formation Is nothing mysterious." he said. "It Is as old I aa the hills 1 have used variations of it ever slncd I started coaching and that wasn't yesterday. But only the right kind of players can operate it. For esample, someone was talking with me the other day and said bow I must yearn for a player like Jay Berwanger to use in the Rose Bowl. You remember Jay. of course. One of the greatest football players Chicago or any oSher school ever bad. But I wouldn't want blm against Nebraska. His style Isn't the style that fits the T formation. As great as he was. be would be a liability Insteady of an asset." In describing big teams altertness. Hh.ughnessy spoke of his players' curiosity, their ability to learn, and tbeir faculty for not making the same mistake twice. "They don't know everything, and they know IL” be said. They learn something from every play, and they have the alternes* to use this knowledge to a advantage." Shaughnessy didn't say sa being just about as modest a coach as ever gave an order, but he gets an A grade for alterness. too. He hadn't been working with his new players last spring for more than a week or two when he know—and named—his starting team for the season that was months away. He was dead right, too. because the eleven men be named when they Mill were practically strangers to blm. will bo the eleven men who'll take the field for the kickoff a* gainst Nebraska. The quickness Shaughnessy spoke of doesn't necessarily mean the best three games . . . Stoll, himself, posted the best score of bls team—a 557.

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blinding speed of food. As Bob Zuppke once pointed out. there la a lot of difference between a player who Is qul< k and a player who is speedy The latter may be able 'to do a hundred yards tn much toUter time, but not be able to do a hundred yard* In much better time, but not Im- able to handle himself with the quickness that is so necessary for sharp-breaking play* Stanford has players with •pe.-rl lilt! they .ire also qil' k •> > I ableto esploit the split second openings that the T formation provide* To this observer Stanford appears to In- outweighed quite a bit by Nebraska despite the official weight charts Isaeed by the two schools which show only a imund or two difference In the starting lineups. The Indians, as they worked at Brookside Park just a punt and a |>«»s from the Hose Bowl, didn't »e<m to Ire as heavy as the ( hart listed them The line is down for an average of 199 (aiunds and the backfield for 147. Nebraska la down for about the same average, but the Nebraska team I saw against Kansas Htate was either bigger than that or the *( ales In the Lincoln field house need repairing Blanford Is now a 5 to 11 favorite and probably will continue to be until Nebraska's hurltea arrive on Sunday and the pi-pulace gets a look at their manpower. Two Eastern Teams Beaten Thursday New York. Dec, 27 —<U.F> New York city's basketbail prestige suffered a setback when tbe I'nlverslty of Illinois and Santa Clara conquered two local te»ma before it.327 fana In Madison Square garden last nlgbt. Illinois defeated Manhattan 54-40

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In the opener and Santa Clara whipiH-d City College of New York 49-41 In the second game After a dull first half Gestured mostly by defensive play she llllni attack began clicking In the second half and the mldwesterners nfiled up 35 points. Center Art Mathlsen paced the offense with 20 points. Illinois set a new garden record of (aging 1« free throws In as many tries - -—o — —— Chanrr German With Illegal Acts Here Milwaukee. Wi* . Dec 27 <U R> - Federal agents charged today that Eugene J Bueik. 4«. Milwaukee diafliman, had acted Illegally for the German government In Ibe l ulled States the last two years H«- was setwd late yeaierday by FBI officers on a warrant issued by I’ S commissioner Floyd E Jenkins. Lee V Boardman, chief of FBI agrnls here, said Buerk a German citlsen. had failed to register with the department as representative of Germany but as early as June 1939. had acted for Berlin In thia country. —-a — Four Killed W hen Train Strikes Auto Michigan City Ind . Dec 27 — <11.19 — Four people were kffi<-d early today when a Michigan Central passenger train struck their automobile at tbe Ninth street crossing. The dead: Steve Ix-venduaki. 25; Ales Putt. 24; Irene Butler. 24; Mary Jane Renkawltg. 22. all of Michigan City. Authorities said all four were killed Instantly. The car was dragged six blocks by the train.

SOME CONGRESS j CONTINVRD FltoM PAGW ONff_ I atid i<|>atliy" toward the world situ- | alien scmudecl at the- White Hou** I ye*;*rd*y whe-n Mr RaaeeVelt made public a telegram from 2chi distinguished men and women | urging him to clarify for the people the nature of the preseiil •emergency and the Importance of BH’ish success to American safety Hut few organisations or Individuals publicly propose British aid to tile estent endorsed by the signers of that telegram In this sentence "We ask you to make It the- settled policy of this country to do everything that may lie necessary to Insure defeat of the alls power*. and thus to encourage here and everywhere resistance to the plausible but favorable arguments of appe-asemetil " Doing "everything that may I* necessary" doe* not esdud* actual ; Iw-lligerency In contrast, "keep I nut of war" Is the slogan of most ' groups and individual* psrllclpati Ing now In the* nallon's debate regardless of the client to which I th>-y favor aid to Great Britain | The national discussion Is healed by the fact that what some regard as policies designed to keep u« ant I of war are regarded by others as I policies which Inevitably would get us In. Hen Hush D Holt D. W Va . a lame duck memlnw. addressed to President Roosevi-lt In a radio speech last night thia statement: "You can do mm h to help this country and help the world If you will direct your foreign policy toward peace rather than war Sooner or later phen this war ends. 1 there will have to he a conference lon a peace- treaty Why can't you ' use your powerful office to try to ' get that accomplished now." Vandenberg spoke similarly to newspaper reporters, asserting: "There ultimately will lie a I negotiated peace and I hope It I comes liefore mutual destruction 0 . . -I.- rtya*t there la little left, no matter who wins, escept | fodder tor Stalin. It la not appeaae- | tnetit. It la simply enlightened selfi Interest, to inquire at any lime whether a rational bawls may not Im- found upon which to terminate I thia destruction An American In- • qwiry. addressed to all concerned. | would lie particularly effective In ' thia dlrei-tion If II were generally nnd*rato«>d that the price of refusal to accept a just and realistic ; formula might be our own powerfully enlarged activity. In any i event. I favor total American pre- - ;>aredneaa and full information to i the American people aliout It In- ’ stead of vague and illusory eipec i tatlons I favor aid to England 1 ■J" JJ?? 1 !!?-!!!?* 11 ” 1111 _L

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To Head “Y" .* e Eugene E. Barnett I' Veteran of 26 years service with I the Young Men's Christian Assot elation In China. Eugene E Bar- , j nett of White Plains. N. Y , becomes national leader of ths YMCA. Jan 1. succeeding John E Manley The "Y" claims a membership of 2.U00 000 youths * la 1,200 branches throughout the Vnitcl State* J within the present limits: ill that i we do not become a ro-helllgerent I I unless we are directly challenged I . and; )2) that we do not dissipate | the essential nucleus of our own . . ■ defense ” II Wheeler said Mr Roosevelt , should "insist'* on a Just peace . The senator divided the American , I people between two groups, those I who would he willing to go to | war to obtain eitesmluatlon of the* I Nall German governmetit and those who merely want Great Brit \ all) to win. He opposed .Mr. RooseI ' Veit's lease-plan to provide Great . Britain with ships and munitions [\tfNZo kntiwp’K | ■ ts*»'sq 4,4 **7l. I v.m ,co /ewl k'-49t/&F B. J. Smith Drug Co. J

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