Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1942 — Page 6

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Commodores And Yellow Jackets Wid

Commies Whip Huntington By 31-15 Margin Show Tight Defense To Down Ramblers Here Last Niqht Decatur's Commodores. playing their beat game of the season. hand>-<l the Rambler* from Huntington Catholic a convincing SI to IS setback Friday night al the Yellow Jacket* gymnasium In thl* city. Betting up a tight defense. the Commie* limited the vl*ltor* to •tegeii field goal*, three of them In the final quarter of play. Keller drew tli*t blood for Decatur, t aahing on.- point when fouled by Edgar. Terveer hit a onehander from short range and then tallied on a similar shot from the foul line tp give the Commodore* fl'e points at the end of the first period, during which Huntington failed to score. The Decatur lad* held thia margin throughout the second quarter and at the half-time Intermission, the Commodore* were out in front by an 11 to 5 count. Decatur really put the game on Ice in the third quarter. Huntington tallied only four point* In the eight minute*, a long held goal by Rakocyz and a short shot by Thonipcoll. while the Commie* added 12 point* to hold a 23 to 9 margin a* the final period opened. The Commie* refusetl to coast In the Anal quarter, maintaining their long margin all the way to ev.-n up their wesson standing with the Rambler*. Terveer again was. the leading scorer for the Commodore* with 14 point* on six Held goal* and two free throw* Kuhule waa next In line with nine point* Hunting ton'* meager scoring wa* led by Thompson with Ave point*. Decatur FG FT TP Keller, f ... 0 3 3 Kuhule. f 4 19 Terveer, c 6 2 14 Hrlede. g . 113

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Saturday Gary Emerson at Berne. lellgerich. g I o 2 Holt house f . . 0 It U Total* 12 7 31 Huntington FG IT TP Thomp*on, f 2 I & , Rakocyz. f 10 1 S< li. > < . 2 o 4 Edgar, g .000 Dalton. K 10 2 < Karat, f . .. 10 2 ■ Horty. f .no* ■ Ellerman. g no* » s. M M Total* 71 15 Referee. Dorwin l Decatur). I'mplre. Everhart t Decatur). Preliminary > Huntington 27. Iterator IX. I, i — - -ft Berne Bears Beal Bluffton Tigers Rally In Last Minute To Defeat Bluffton Two last minute Held goal* by Emick. center, gave the Rente Rear* a 33 to 31 victory over the Rluffton Tiger* on the Bluffton floor Friday night Rluffton led at the half. 17 to 10. but Berne wa* out In front at the third quarter, 26 to 22. E Hah. gger wa* outstanding for Berne with IS (mint*. Kunkel and Dresser tallied 12 and 11 point*, respectively, for the Tiger*. Berne Ffl FT TP Lehman, f 1 o 2 E Habegg. r. f 6 3 15 j Emick. c . 4 19 I. Haltegger. g 113 Baumgartner, g o o o Nprunger. f 0 0 0 C. Habegger. g 12 1 oTtals 13 7 33 Bluffton FG IT TP Kuukc' f 5 2 12 Cline, f ... .011 Dresser. c 5 1 11 Edington, g <>2 2 Harris, g 2 0 4 Harnish, g ... .0 0 0 Shelly, g ..000 Reiff g Oil Total* 12 7 31 Referee. Mikey * Butler). Umpire. Young t Auburn I. Praliminary Bluffton 26. Rerne 16. ——o — - I . - ■ -—4 General Electric Bowling Results • • Inter-Department League Play was resumed In the reorganized .Monday night Inter department league at the fl. E. alleys. Shark ley’s Switches, nosed out two win* over Keller’s Statom. Ahr'a Flange* won two out of i three from Cramer’s Rotor*. Industrial League Eleven 200 scores were rolh-d In the fl. E. Industrial league; however. no one was able to reach the i coveted «»o goal. The 200 score* were hung up by R. Woodhall. 2*3; Appelman. 224; <) Mnkenau. 202. 225; Leonard, 2«S. Wolpert, 209; E. W. Lank enau, 201; Rurke, 203; K. Woodhall 201; Hoffman. 213, 211. The O. E Rambler* stayed In flrst place by winning two of three, from the O. E Dodger*. Rutschlera took two of three from Burke* while West End Restaurant captured two of three from

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Doc's Place. Standings W. L. Rambler* .. 9 3 .Mutschler* 7 5 Burke* A ( W»wt End Restaurant . 6 6 Itodger* . 4 9 I- • Place 4 X - 0 H. a. BABKETBALL Fort Wayne Central 42. Fort Wayne North Side 31. U-hanon 42. Fort Wayne South Side 41. Yorktown 31. Fort Wnym- Central Catholic 29. Warsaw 32. Auburn 19. Hartford City 31. Pendleton 22. Buller 42. Kendallville 25. Huntington 57. Elwood 30. Union City 45. Portland 32 Jasper 35. Bloomington 31, Madison 36. Franklin 29. latfayetle 39. Marlon 30. Washington 36. Vincennes 23. , Anderson 3X. Franklort 23. New Castle 27. largansport 25. Richmond 51. Kokomo 30. Muncie Central 35. Indianapolis Tech 30.

Gary Horace Mann 34. Rast Chi cago Washington 30. | Concordia Defeats Monmouth Quintet Fort Wayne Team Is Victor Friday Night Concordia of Fort Wayne trounced the Monmonth Eagles Friday night on the Monmouth floor, 57 to 39. The visitors led at the half, 33 to 14. Koenig. Felton and Meyer each tallied 11 point* for the winners. Fuelling wa* high for Monmouth with 14 points. Concordia FG FT TP Schumacher. f 15 7 Flege. f . I fl 7 Koenig, c 5 I II Schneider, g — 0 0 0 Felton, g 5 111 Bradtmlller. f — • > 2 Gallmier. f S 0 4 Meyer, c 5 I 11 Bickmeyer. g o o 0 DaiJels, g 0 0 0 Frits, g 113 Totals 21 15 57 Monmouth FG FT TP Schnepf, f .—1 5 fl R. Mahan, f ™ • 11 Fuelling, e ..... .. fl I 14 Marhenke, g ._ 11 > I. Mahan, g ...» 0 0 0 Worst, f ... 0 0 0 Fisher, f 11 3 Bleberich, g ~..e 0 0 0 Osterman, g 0 0 0 Totals 0 11 29 Referee, Geleel; umpire. Arnold. Preliminary Concordia 34, Bon mouth 17. > * TODAYS COMMON ERROR * The egpreestoa “leave me | go" la Incorrect Say "let me j j

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Gray Quintet Beats Jefferson Warriors Joy County Team Is Winner Friday, 45-30 The Jefferson Warriors dropped a 45 to 3tt uechtion <o lhe Gray quintet from Jay i-ottnty Friday night at the Berne auditorium after leading at the half. 21 to IX. Taylor led Gray with 12 paint*. Pemborton and haine* each tallied eight point* for Jefferson. Cray FG FT TP Reynolds, f 0 2 2 Waldron, f 3 17 Hanhu. c X 2 X Harmon, g 0 0 0 Hampson, k 12 4 Steven*, f 0 3 3 Taylor, g 9 2 12 Rouch. f 3 3 9 TOTALS IS 15 45 Jefferson Butcher, f 3 17 Pemberton, f 4 0 9 Baumgartner, c .... 0 2 2 Hamrick. K T l 3 5 Halnea. g I 6 9 Meyer*, t 0 0 0 Morningstar, f 0 0 o Referee- W. Garrett. I'mplre: B Garrett. Preliminary Gray 34. Jefferson 13. - -■••O' - - National Income for the first five month* of 1940 amounted to 535.450.000,000 compared to -33.979.000.000 foe the same period in 1929.

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Jackets Defeat Pleasant Mills Friday Night Decatur Registers 49 To 35 Victory At Pleasant Mills For three quarter* of a bitterly contrated atruggle. the Pleaaunt Mills Npartane twilled the Decatur Yellow Jackets slmosi to a stand■till only lo have the siege guns of the Purple roar loose in the Anal stauta at the southern gytn Friday night to chalk up a 49 to 35 victory. The elongated, deceptive center of the Npartane. August, sneaked under the hoop time after time to keep the Hpartan* In the running throughout the early portion of the till When the Anal gun sounded he had been credited with 22 of Pleasant Mills' total pointe. The Aral quarter wa* neck and neck with the local* leading. 10-X. The second quarter wa* little more than a repetition of the Ar«t with the Andrewamen stretching their lead 24-19. Frix hte. Rlckord. R>-ed and Npahr led the locate" attack in the Ar*i half while August kept up the Spartan end with 13 of hl* team'* 19 marker*. At the start of the third quarter the local* ran the count up to tail. only io have the Npartan* come ba< k to trail at 32-27 at the end of the period. Then In the Anal quarter It started. Reed hit a rebound. McConnell hit from out. CochrM racked up a free throw and Big Rill Lynch went Into action. He hit two <>n>-hander* In a row and Fruchte followed with another. August tallied on a charity toa* a* did Sapp Then N. Williamson came through with a one-hander. The wore stood at 43-31. Lynch rebounded snd August hit again. Lynch hit from under and Fruchte racked up another, just after August tallied his last one. August, of course, wa* the lead Ing scorer with his 22 marker*. Fruchte and Lynch paced the victorious Purple with 1! and 10 irniuts each. Five other Jacket* took an active part In the scoring Yellow Jackets Ffl FT TP Spahr, f j 4 g Reed, f 2 2 6 Lynch, e 5 n lo Fruchte. g Rill Rlckord. g 2 15 Linn, g 0 0 0 McConnell, g 2 0 4 Cochran, f 3 17 Totals 20 9 49 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP D. Williamson, f 1 o j Mcßrlde. f oil August. <■ A A 22 Nmltley, g 0 11 Sapp- K 3 17 Martz, t 0 0 0 Workinger. c 000 N. Williamson, g 10 2 Taylor, g 000 Totals ——... 13 9 35 Referee. Klelnight < Decatur>. Umpire, Hoover i Muncle i. Preliminary Pleasant Mills 19. Decatur 17 (double overtime!. — ♦— - — It is the person who Is afraid of being supplanted who should be supplanted.

Kirkland Kangaroos Defeat Roll Quintet Blackford County Team Loses, 29 21 The Kirkland Kangaroo* hopp«l over the Hull Red Rollers Friday night on th.- Kirkland Boor, registering a 29 to 21 victory over the Blackford county quintet. Kirkland led at the hair. IS to 7. Troxel and Beer led the Kangaroo* with n|ne and right points, respectively. Robb was high for Roll With eight points. Kirkland FG FT TP Cable, t ... . 12 1 Arnold, t ... ... I 1 3 Beer. < | • I Trozel. g . 4 19 Moser, g .10 2 Ilitw hy. f 1 » 2 Klpfrr f • t I c n 0 0 Totals 12 5 29 Roll FG FT TP Hahn, f . 112 Veneer, f 10 1 Robb c A2A Vincent, g 2 0 4 Ml< haels. f 12 4 Cline, g 000 Totals X & 21 Referee. McKlnxle. Empire. Frybar-k. Preliminary Roll 23. Kirkland 14. —— —o - - ■ —- Hartford Gorillas Defeat Lancaster Register 35 To 28 Win Friday Night The Hartford Gorillas, leading all the way. tripped the Lancaater Rohcate on the Hartford floor Friday night. 35 to 2X, The Gorillas led at the half. 20 to 10. Du bath wa* the leading acorer for Hartford with 15 pointa Green and Kipfer tallied nine and eight point* respectively, for the Wells county team. Hanford FG FT TP W. Dubai h. f 7 I 19 Klatler. f 113 Meyer. 0 .... 0 0 u Riggin, g 12 4 Amstutz g ... .4 * |o Bertsch, e . 1 o 2 Vannette, c .. o 1 i Totals (4 7 35 Lancaater FG FT TP Gerber, f | | j Green, f ... 3 3* Kipfer. e 2 4 | WatelL g log Hamilton, g 0 j ] Mo*er, e 000 ByrHy. g 000 BUY DEFENSE BONDS and STAMPS with the difference you nave at SPRAGUE’S Furniture Store Phone 1»9.

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M*pr«. g oil (sll.c - • • J Total* •• * *** Refer**. Nlnk*. umpire, Garrett. Prvlimtnary Mncastei 21, Hartford 19- —■ ,a 1Conservation League Meets Monday Night The Adams county flah -ind gumie conservation Iwutue will bold the monthly meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the city hall. All members are urged to be present. . . 0 - —•«— Football Awards To High School Athletes Football awards were made to Decatur high school athlete* In a ceremony at the school this week with Hugh Andrew*, athletic director and head footlmU coach making the award* Nenktr* BUI Lynch. Don Fruchte nnd Jim Strickler rereived honor wweatera. Other *cnlort. who won major aiwards but who had «et ured aweatvr* In their junior year are: Kenny Freidt. Gene Melchl and Spencer Andrew*. Junior* who received «weater* were: Charlie Arnold. Paul Rickord. M Fea*el. Merval Andrww*. Bin* Johnson. Sophomore winner* were Breiner and l<eitz. lt.iakrtl«U sweater winner <wa* Dick Linn

Report of the condition of The Provident Building & Ixian Asuoditii of Decatur. Adam* County. Indiana, at the etc** O s b on December 31. I*4l. RKSOURCES First mortgage loan* Heal estale Mild on contract Real estate owned legcluolve of office bldg i b. I' S (hivernmt-nt obligation tinthiding HOC LInsurance and taxes advanced TOTAL , -Z LIABILITIES Repurchasable or free share*: a Installment share* juj Contingent fund Undivided profit* TOTAI State of Indiana. County of Adam*, a*: We. the undersigned officers and director* of the Prov4titU Ing snd Ixmii Association, of Decatur. Indiana, do solemnly i*w| the above statement I* true. John W Tyndall, P*»*g Henry B Heller, 9.,-egy Dun M. Nlhlh k Jr. Mtg j John H. H--II- I Itirww j J. L. Kocht i Director. Rnh*critw-d to and sworn before me this 30th day of Jzssm J •My commission expire* March A. 1944. Neverin H Nchurge: Stop Being Extravagant: For a surprisingly small amount you can own a lovely LIVING ROOM DINING ROOM or BEDRfMJM SUITE. The Spraßue line ineludes many nalion:ill« xilite*. Ix>w overhead and no partner- make ■’ extremely low price* powtihle. ! Liberal trade-in allowance for I your uxed furniture. Sprague Furniture Co. Phone 199

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