Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1947 — Page 6

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Commodores And Yellow Jackets

Pleasant Mills Beats Commies Friday Night The Decatur Commodores and Pleasant Mills Sport in* staffed a nip and tuck battle at the Corn■ties' gym Friday night. with rhe Spartan* emerging on top by a 31 to 31 score. It was a close battle all the way. The Comodores ran up an early 8 to 2 lead, mainly on three field goals by Kahle, and Decatur was still on top by three points. 12 to 9, at the end of the first quarter. Kahle was taken out of the game before the first period ended when bis fourth personal was f illed on hint. The Rpartan* limited the Commies to three points in the second quarter. meanwhile scoring 7 to give Pleasant .Mills a 16 to IS margin at the half The Spartans increased this lead by only one point during a lowscoring third quarter, which ended with Pleasant Mills on top 22 to 20. The Commodores never wore able to go in the lead in the final period, although they tied the score twice, at 22 22 and again at 30-30, with two minutes to play. Johnson then hit on a rebound and Kahle and Khrsara traded free throws in the closing minute to give the Spartans their victory Strayer was the leading scorer for Pleasant Mills with 11 points, and llaker was high for the Commodores. also with 11. The Commodores will wind up their home schedule Tuesday night, entertaining Central Catholic of Fort Wayne at the Yellow Jackets gym in this city. The Commies' final game will be played against the Monroe Bearkatz at the Herne gym Thursday Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Johnson, f 4 0 8 Hay. f ... 3 17 Strayer, c 5 1 11 Ehncatn. g .... 3 17 White, g .. . 0 0b Riley, K 0 0 0 Totals 15 3 33 Decatur FG FT TP J. Giliiff. f 0 4 4 Baker, f ... 5 1 11 Wilder. < 113 Kable. ff .. .4 1 9 I), (lillix. g I* 0 0 Parent, c ... . ..... o 0 0 Humschlag. ff ........ 2 0 4 Totals 12 7 31 Referee — Tucker, umpire: — Murray. Preliminary Decatur 22. Pleasant Mills 21. Danish Actress To Be Married Sunday Hollywood. Feb. 15 —(PPI— Danish actress Osa Hasten, 30. announced today she would marry Dr Harvey Cummins. 33. tomorrow They have not decided whether they will l>e married in church or at his home here, she eaid.

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Monmouth Defeats Geneva Cardinals The Monmouth Eagles had little difficulty in chalking up another victory Friday night, defeating the Geneva Cardinals. 42 to 17. on the Geneva floor. The Eagles led at the half. 1!’ to 10. Oetting was Monmouth's leading scorer with 10 points. While L. Stanley tallied 10 for Geneva Monmouth FG FT TP Bulmahn. f .... 5 I 11 (lotting, f ... 8 0 16 Reinhart, <• ..102 Knietzman, g 3 3 3 Galimeyer. g -. 2 0 4 Schueler, c 0 0 0 Busdorf, g -. o o it Korte, g ....<< 0 0 totals ... 19 4 42 Geneva FG FT TP Mathys, f .. .. 0 11 Johnson, f ... 0 0 0 Kamman. c 0 0 0 Pyle, g ..102 J Stanley, g .. 1 0 2 Fennig, f .. « o o Hart, f o 0 0 Shepherd, f ..... 1 0 2 Netienschwander. f n o it Smith, f 0 o n Mattox, c .. 0 • o Baum urn, g .. 0 « 0 L. Stanley, g .... 4 2 lo Totals ... ..7 3 17 Referee Hensel, umpire: Greenewald. Preliminary Geneva 25. Monmouth If*. 0 Kirkland Defeats Monroe Bearkalz

The Kirkland Kangaroo* wore able to improve <>n a 19-15 lead that they held at halftime Friday night and came up with a 47-41 win over the Monroe Bearkatz on the Kirkland hardwood. The victor* Mill clung to that four-point margin. 29-25 at the end of the third Mania and then went on to win by six. Troxel with 12 and Baxter with Id point* paced the Kangaroo* Mo«er wa* best for the losers with Id, followed closely by Habegger and Zurcher Kirkland FC FT TP D. Arnold, f ..... 2 « 4 Baxter, f 3 4 Id M Landis. c .2 3 7 Longenberger. g -.3 2 * Troxel, g 4 4 12 Warden, f d 0 0 A. Arnold, c 3 o fi F. Arnold, g .... 0 0 0 Total* .... 17 13 47 Monroe FC FT TP llerachy, f —•— 11 3 I>*hmaa. f 1- 0 2 Habegger. c 2 5 9 Moser, g .4 2 10 Zurcher, g ... 2 4 8 Pierce, f -.2 0 4 Meyer*, g .............. 0 0 0 Sprunger. g — 0 o 0 Nusshaum. g 2 15 Totals — 14 13 41 Referee:—Pond, umpire: —Paker. Preliminary Kirkland 22. Monroe 33.

21 Decatur Students At Indiana U. Center Twenty-one Decatur student* were enrolled for the first semester in the Indiana University center In Port Wayne The first semester ha* Just ended and this week the second semester is getting started. 1 During the first semester 13<4 stuomt* from Fort Wayne and «6 surrounding cities and towns were enrolled. Os this number W 3 were veteran* The enrollment for the second semester Is expected to he approximately the same. Decatur enrollees In the 1. U. Fort Wayne extension center during the first nan ester were: Imogene Beihold. n. Roy Bleeke. Uo Borne. Rugenr Cable. Alice J. Cowan. Rather Eichenberger. Mrs. Goh.ie Fisher. Georgia Foughty. Mrs. Elsie Fuelling. Grace Uch tensteiger. Arthur Heimann. Flor enco Heuer, Richard Mahan. Thomae Lute*. Charles M. McGill. Ruby W Miller. Mrs Vera Owen*. Willard Redmond. William Bautblne. Philip Thojnaa and Leo Vtanan- — -o — FRO BASKETBALL

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Decatur Junior High > Defeats Van Wert Decatur Junior high defeated the Van Wert. 0.. Junior*. 44 to 22. on the Van Wert floor Friday. afternoon. Decatur led at the haif. 30 to 10. Decatur's scoring was well divided. Bohtike leading with 13. For Van Wert. Barley and Decker each tallied eight point*. Decatur FG FT TP Petrie, f - 4 1 9 Sunt bine, f 4 19 Bohnke. c .....— G 1 13 Bair, g ... .... 5 1 11 Fruchte. g 1 0 2 Pollock, f 0 0 0 Muses, f 0 0 0 Koltcr. g .. .. 0 0 0 Totals 20 4 44 Van Wert FG FT TP Bagley, f 3 2 8 Scarpella. f .. 10 2 Decker, c . ...... 4 0 S Pritchard, g .... .... 0 0 0 Ralston, g 2 0 4 Black, g 0 0 0 Bagley, g 0 0 0 Totals 10 2 22 -a 0 Women’s League Schafer won two from Dauler; Central Soya won two from McMillen; Smith Bros won two from Daisy Mae; Webber won three from Beam Super Service; Blackstone won two from Vivtory Bar; Mies

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w m three front Hill-Snilth. Standing W L Mies - 13 5 Central Soya 13 5; M Millen 12 6 1 Daisy Mae 12 6 i Dauler 10 8 | Victory . 9 9 | i Blackstone 9 9 Wehlier 8, 10 | Smith Bros 8 10 i Hill Smith 7 11| S< has.-r 6 12 i'-.-.m . . 1 171 High seriert: Halberstadt 538. | I High games: Hallterstadt 173-1 173 192. V Smith 188. Emenhher 170-180. Steele 180. D. Myers 179,' .Marbach 178, Dauler 170. CENTRAL SOYA LEAGUE Dub* won three from Traffic: Erasers won three from Analita; Better Halves won three from Blue Prints; Protein won two from Master .Mixers; Pencilpuahers won two from M. Hr IL; Expeller won ’ two from Truckers. Standing W L Erasers 13 5 Protein .... It 7 Better Halves 11 7 Traffic ... 10 8 Trucker* 10 8 1 Master Mixers 9 9 M 4 R ..9 9 Analits 9 9 Dubs .. 8 10 Pencilpushers ... 7 11

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Expeller .. . 711 Blue Prints .. 6 12 High series: Men—Alton 546. Fennig 544. Eley 532, Axbell 526. Women— Macla-an 470. High games: Karjala 224. Vizard ’ 204. Fennig 202. Stucky 200. Wo- , men Maclean 202. Schafer 184, Smith 181. Way 181. 0 Receive Proposals For Fund Deposits The Adams county commission- ! era will meet in special session ' Monday lo receive proposals for | depositories of public funds. The , proposals y ill be taken up to 2 p.m. that day. Three banks arc eligible to serve as depositories - the First Slate Bank of Decatur, the Flint Bank of Berne and the i Bank of Geneva The commissioners recently or--1 ganized a Itoaid of finance, natn--1 lug Dale D. Moses as chairman in charge of selecting the depositories. This Is expected to lie tho , only biisiiicns conducted during the > Monday meeting, since the regular * meeting of the Imard falls on the I first Monday of every month. I — 0 * It never pays to leave important * tasks to indifferent workers.

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Jackets Lose To Berne By 49-33 Score « After playing the Beam on even terms throughout the first half, the Decatur Yellow Jackets wilted badly In the third and final stanza» to fall an easy 19-33 victim, at Berm- Friday night. The Purple trailed 3-12 at the end of the first stanza and still held on at 21-23 at the midway markbut then the Bears stepped out lo set up a 20-33 margin going into the final stanza and w n going flway in the last frame. Berne's forwards, Schwartz and Lieehty along with the center. Stucky net the pace for the victors. getting 15,11 ;:nd 10 points respectively. Meanwhile, the Bears kept the Jackets sharpshooting forward. S< hnepf. bottled up throughout the entire first half and he left the game on five personal fouls after only three minute*’ of the second half were gone. From that point on there was little doubt as to the ultimate winner. Lehman and Ballard kept pecking away at the basket for the local* but their oest efforts were no match for those hustling Bears. They each scored 12 pointe on four field goals and a like num-la-r of scores from the charity stripe. The Decatur quintet was never ahead, although with a minute lo go hi the se.ond quarter they knotted the count at 21-all- The Bears quickly scored a bucket to make the 23-21 half count and then stayed out In front th)* remainder of Ihe way

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