Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1941 — Page 6

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HUNTINGBURG IS CHIEF TOURNEY UPSET VICTIM Judson Erne’s Team h I pset By Little Win* dow Thursday Indianapolis. Feb ** Ur> LIE* 1 Old Man River. Indiana* high school basketball tournaments today roll on and over fresh forces of prep eaters hoping io emerge among th* *4 s«tion»l »mn»r« by Saturday night In Is‘i games last night a like number of Gams Were slashed Horn the Hat of 777 hardwood hop* tula after Hammond Teihs crown, and the prlmipal < usually wa* Huntingburg Throughout morning afternoon and aliening session* today, rath team will hate participated once, and MiHir iwU r Rated a 10-fatorllr with Jasper at the Jaaper sectional. Huntingburg fell before a tough little Win slow outfit that tamed the Happy Hunters by one point 27 to 24 I The Winslow Eskimos* were a | taunt boasting IS win* and only two defeata. Jaaper waa more fortunate a-1 galnat another smalMim* tough*, downing Petersburg 34 to 21 to hold aide faror aa probable section- ; al winner. Hampered by an Injury to a star player. Indianapolt* Tech"* rlty i hamplona loat to licatur Central'* Marlon county titleholder*. 1 21 to 25. In the feature attraction , at the .rate capitol Two former state champion* loat out In the flrat round, causing lit-'■ tie surprise Port Wayne South Side couldn't match a powerful Central dub and loat. H to 54 Little Thorntown took a beating irom the host la-banott 2! to 59 A'' I' ' ROYS. JOHNSON AUCTIONEER Decatur, Ind. Phone Office 104 Residence 1022 .Mar. 3 Charlie Darling. 4 miles South of Warsaw. 1(0 A farm and personal property Mar (--Frank Falla. 15* miles North and A. mile east of Ossian Mar fl—Wm. Watkins. % mile west of Pleasant Mills Mar ( J E Ihi rid son 7 miles east of Howe. Ind Mar 7- lister Brandl. 5 miles east of Willshire Mar 4 Clarence Wolffer. 1 mile west and It* south of Hoagland Mar It August Hansen * miles north, I mile west of Celina Mar 11 L Willman fl Sons. 3*» miles north of .Middlepoint, Ohio .Mar 12 Geo. Mellott. Bryan. O Reg Holsleins Mar. 13 Loren Bosell. Zanesville. Ind Mar 14 Drain Hereford cattle sale, Eminence. Ky Mar 11- Lorenso Sipe 4 miles west, 2 miles north of Berne Mar is S It Heavers. M D. dosing out sale and Reg Holstein cattle: 3 miles west ot Decatur. Mar. 24-LaCrosse Co. Guernsey sale. West Salem Wia Apr. I —Virginia Slate AberdeenAngus cattle sale. Staunton. Va.

CANDY Clewing Out Entire Stock of Candy 9 Varieties x WHILE IT LASTS 10c lb.

In th.- Waha«h sectional the de- ■ feat of North Man. heater by Chester township and Ihe loss of Wabash to Imkrlon eliminated the 1 only two teams with any show of iMtwer Home underdog will get a | break here Among minor upsets. Nappanee waa sent home to brood until neat year by Concord township, 27 to i 34. ai Goshen Elsewhere along the line the I favored teams and one with obI lions superior strength came through first firing mta< t Twentysig defending sectional winner* held their titles while five were defeated. Culler < Floral, Fort Wayne Hottth Ride Huntingburg North Manchester and Nappanee Madison favored to take It* own sect lop* I. barely escaped Hcottsburg, 25 to 24 Other big no‘*e* having little difficulty included. Washington. Bluffton Greensburg. Crawfordsville. Connersville, laifay.tie, New Castle. Martinsville At Evansville. Central posted the highest score of the evening *2 to 13 over GrlMn Rut the worst licking was handed Washington township by Collage township at Vailuiraisn The grove 44 to 2 The only unbeaten team in the stale Wotf latke With a season j record of -'<• victories, went down before LaGrange 24 Io 24. In all j overtime tussle al K- ndallvllle. Outlook in the tumultous Jeffer•onvllle center appeared even more | muddled as Jeffersonville and Corydon (Misted impressive first night scores New Albany, favored by most, opens play today with I .i future anything but bright Meetmg tough Hille Charlestown 1 doesn't help any either Appearing tn today's firing first and foremast Is the defending i state champion Hammond Tech. The Tigers open against Gary HorI ace Mann, not altogether a rosy prosper t for a team hoping to re- ! peal With the chances that stars Shimala and Kramer may be Idle by injuries. T*-- h's row through j the Gary sectional appears none too easy At Anderson, the hlghly-regard--1 e<| Indians of Anderson open a-1 gainst Markleville hoping no more I for a victory than they'll hope Upe| gets socked by Alevandria. Other biggies opening up today I Include Fort Wayne North Hide, j Huntington Columbus and Greencastle n Other Sectionals At Fart Wayne Near Haven 42 LafayettoCentral 2. Fort Wayne Central 54. Mouth Hide 4« Elmhurst 34. Arcola 27 i Coarse 24, Harlan 25 At BlufHon Chaster 35. Jackson IP Bluffton 37. Rockcreek 2* At Hartford City Bryant 41. Hartford City 23 Portland 33 Ridgeville 29 At Huntington Jackson 41. Lancaster 32 Warren 33. Jefferson 14 Clear Creek 33. Huntington Twp IP At Kendallville LaGrange 24. W’olf latke 24 (overtime) ■ Hhlpshewanna 32. Wawaka 25 Kendallville 44. Lima 27 Rome City 35. Springfield Twp 22. At Garrett I Orland 34. Hamilton 23 '' Angola 71. Bcott Center 33 i Garrett 29. Fremont 24 ' I Churubuu o 4». Melg 23 At Warsaw i Syracuse 45. Beaver Dam IP Etna Green 39. Milford 2* . Atwood 34. Burket 22 At Wabash : Somerset 42. l-liro 19 ' 1 Chester 32. North Msnrhestei 29 | Laketon 37. Wabash 29 i j I Cities at 25.000 and m showed ! a total population mcreu.e of only F ■ five percent during the last decade. , considerably below the seven per- . cent increase for the country aa | a whole.

.» - • ~ At the Training Campß I By United Pre** Pasadena. Cai. Feb 3b <U.ffk ■ This Chicago White Hos ran through their first hatting practice yesbrday but not much baiting was done in an unesperied move, manager Jimmy Dyke* des ided to give his entire pitching depart ment a tew minutes on the mound As a result total "hits" for the day were four fouls Avalon. Cal Throe more Chicago Cub holdouts signed yesterday Charley Riad. Verne Olsen and U>u Kt ringer leaving UN Novikoff Hill Lee and Hank Lelber still on th* outside looking in. Hr Petersburg New York baseball writers today pondered a telegram from Yankee*' president Ed Barrow lontalning an emphatic denial that lhe < lub was negotiating for first lias* man Jimmy Foss of the Bowton Red Hos or George MeQuinn of the Ht Ixruis Brown* Barrow did not include Hal Trosky of Cleveland or Joe Kubel of the Chicago White Hos however Pitcher Ailey I kin ald troubled by and Injured back, left for Johns Hopkins hospital tn Baltimore for treatment. Ht. Petersburg. Fla — Manager Billy Houthworth today began hl* I fotir aday program of workout for the Hi lamia Cardinals, split Into two squads with rath to have morning and afternoon practice. I Pilcher Bill McGee. a late signer and over weight at 225 waa starting New arrivals Included Vetermg to cut his poundage in trainan right Welder Knot Slaughter and rookie outfielders Harry Walker and Coaker Triplett. Han Antonio Teg — Full squad wtukouis begin ttnlay for lhe Hl. lamia Browns with the remainder of the roster dur to arrive Den-1 ny Galehouse, pitching alnnnota of the Boston Red Hos who had a game leg. made his Brownnle debut yesterday * Today's Sport Parade * By Henry McLamere ♦ ♦ Arcadia. Cal . Feb 2* <U.F> To-J I day I shuck off all my other disI guises and become a weatherman Thia, of course. Is merely a sop to the other citizens of southern I California For after four conl alatent, steady and continuous weeks of rain, everybody In southern California la a weatherman They're a dime a dogen out this way. all eacept one man He Is a gentleman who is employed l>y the California Institute of Technology and hr knows what hr |r doing The only trouble la that he Isn't allowed to tell wTiat hr knowa. t'p until ihe past week, this gentleman- who shall be nameless - furnished the moat reliable reports concerning the meteorological antics In this vicinity But. alt of a sudden, he has become silent Maylie he simply grew discouraged, wlut with picking sunny weather to show and having II ran out ot the money. Anyway, he has been muffled. The federal weather bureau, the local one. of course, announced in pontifical teems that thia nameless prognosticator could no longer do business at his old stand and still retain his good standing among the ancient and honorable society of horse players out on the end of a limb without benefit of so , much as a hack-saw The reason I say this Is because only a milion or so turf fans and esperts have been on pins and carpet talks waiting for some brave soul to announce exactly what the heavens have In atore tor Hatnrday On that day. you may know, e cornoraffrrn named the Ixrs Angeles Turf Club Is running a race wlhi-h la popularly referred to as the lioo.ooo Ranta Anita handicap In this race will run a horse named Mloland Some of the ritltens bold that Mloland will win if the weather la wet. dry or indifferent; some say that It's Chslledin If It's wet. Can't Wait if It's arid and — there are a few obstinate souls, obviously a radical element ■ Hweeplda If the fooling Is neutral. or In the nature of Turkey I and Ethiopia Naturally, I can't string along I with the league of nations. PerI haps by tomorrow I shall have | studied the names of the horses I who will start in this seventh I I No Matter Whether yon own Cadillac, Lincoln. Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth we can Service, adjust and repair its carburetor To five you faat quiet mile* for fam coat. RIVERSIDE SUPER SERVICE ffsst Monros 84. Phons 741 “When you think of ®roicwSv Wiiulc 99 99?

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running of tkls richest race In the world, hut as of today all I'll ask I* what is your birthday' No mat , ter what your answer. I'll still bleoa you with a profitable present I The name Is Welc ns* Pas* Thia creature la owned by W I, j Boeing, popularly known aa a builder of airplanes If Welcome Paa* doe* a Mie dive, a vertical »|>ln or s Jack-knife one-and-a-half. 111 gladly refund your money ' But hr won’t. He'll close In the stretch like >s moppet running for home after idark. and that goes no matter what the condition or the weather or ' the track Jtarq, 111 warn you WelcMKe Pass has never won a race Hr Is' 4hat the racing regulars call al maiden He has IwM-n to the post , a half doien time* and never has, he finished In front He ha* been close, but never close enough | Which Is one reason why he la, such a goodie He la sweeter than j saccharin and wll Igo to the post | at a much better price Welcome Paas will drop far iiomli rack* and a dynamite cap off hl* effort In the BtP.RM Hants Anita derby. In that race he carried 12n pound* and finished fourth tn this golden gallop forgive ma for the cliche he will handle an even c-note and should Improve more than the eight length* he closed In that three-year-old effact In that race the jockey had tot pull hard on the reins to stop thia 212-star special from coasting right | Into the front door step of the Arcadia city hall I'm going to have to pull Just a* hard to .stop him from quitting at the mile pole tomorrow. ■ o - Birth* of Negro hable* have Increased from 240.443 in 1929 to 270040 in 1939. according to the Census. During the *am» eleven years births of white babies increased only from 1,9*2.244 to 1.9*2.471.

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DECATUR AND BERNE CONTINVBD FROM PAPE OHB A. Rondebush. g Trump, f 1 • 2 Beef. 1 on t> 1 la-hman. c o o 0 Wagner, g 0 0 0 Rich, g .000 Total* 12 • 32 | Hartford FG FT TP Amstutv. f .204 G DutMc h. f 2 0 4 Myer*, c 0 0 0 Zeigler g ..... 000 1 Augsburger. g 113 I Kistler, t 3 0 4 3'annette. f 0 0 01 11.1 bi bach c 0 I 1 | Hlggln g -4 0 0 W Dubai h. g ... 2 1 5 Total* — 1® * 23 Referee Hughes. I'mpire. McHwane. ■ —ll l l>ll.l—» QUESTION LIST cCONTINriCD PHOM PAGB OHB> *27 Kermit Yoder *2* MRoy Erwin Rich *29 Ell Andrews UO Uoyd Elroy Deßolt *3l William Abraham Morgan *32 James Martin VonGunten *33 Wayne Edward Peterson *34 Robert Gale Btrickler *35 Robert Joseph Rumachlag 434 William Jeiom* Coffee 437 Carl Daniel lllrachy *34 Oswald Jason Wsidler *39 Vincent Woodrow Bproager *4O Troy Wesley Lindsey 141 Gorman Julius Erhsrt 443 Robert Broughton Haecker *44 Norvln Ixmil* Scheumann 445 Palmer Maswell Augsburger 444 Ray Albert fk-bott *47 Lowell Bernard Noll 44* Donald Wayne Adams *49 William John Henry Ixmgh *SO Noah D Wlckey

■ 1 One of the feature til’s of the I nsestur sectional Will open to-1 night's schedule at 7 o'clock, with | the Decatur Yellow Jacket* | Herne B< al* tangling The** team* . met twice during the regular sea j son. each quintet winning on It*, own floor oOii In other games tonlgh' the I'.eaaanl Mill* Mpartans will play the Geneva Cardinals, and the Kirkland Kangaroos will make their secor.4 tourney appearance, meeting the Monmou'h Eagle* who drew the first round bye 000 No upsets were rvcordod in Thursday n.pht s opening ongagementt with the Kirkland Kangaroos down.ng ths Joffscson Wsmors. and ths Monros Bssrkstz eliminating the Hart ford Gorillas. Ths scores, howtvsr. were closer than anticipated. with both the underdogs staging rallies In the fourth quarter which worried the leaders fee a few minutes 000 Hemi final* will lie p! iyrd Saturday aftrtnoon In the flt*l tilt, at l:3<t o'cloa-k. Monroe will meet the winner of the Ibn-atur-Herne clash In the necond game, 'he winners of lhe other two games tonight, will meet The champion ship tilt Will Im- played at k o'clock Ha'itrday night —oOo Thursday night's crowd was larger than had been espe< led. considering the fact that neither Decatur nor Berne was playing In the first session A capacity crowd Is eflpecled tonight 000— Home tourney firsts: First field goal Castongia, Jefferson. First free throw Baker. Jefferson. First free throw missed Raker. Jefferson First personal foul Moser. Kirk land No player was removed last night on personal fouls, rather unusual for tournament play. -000 - Judson (Pop) Erne, former Berne coach, was the victim of the first night's most startling upaet. Erne's Happy Hunters of Huntingburg were knocked out of the running by a little Winslow team. 27 to 24 000 Tile Hou th Side Archers, defend Ing champions of the Fort Wayne

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aartlonal for the past four years, were eliminated by Bmi Wayne I Central In a high mmrlng duel 54 I-H 44 In other tamea at Fort j ‘ Wayne. New Haven defeated laiI tayrite Central, 42 to 37, and I,lm hur*i dropped Annla. 34 to ??. The Hartford City Airedales were knocked out of tbeh home secilrmal. with the Bryant owls cracking I lhe host team try a 4* to 23 se -ire. The I'ortland Panthers survived. I defeating Ridgeville. 33 to 29 At Bluffton. Chester defeated Jarbsm, 1 35 m|9 and Hlufftiru eliminated' Rockcreek. 37 to 2’ |f~ Decatur Bowling II Uaiuc Hob Eysttson and Fred Hoffman I paved the way f<»r three vl< ttmks over Bruce's Grill by the Centllvre Heei flve In the major league al Mies lecreatlon last night , . 1 Eysnaon po«t,d a huge (54. while . Fred was cloae behind with a 443 > . . Herb Rehletlbar h's 22* In his last game furthered their cause | also. The 4<m aeries last night Eyan-

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