Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1924 — Page 6

SPORTS YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League Chicago, 2; Washington, 7. St. Ixuiia, I; I‘hilude4|>bia. 2. Detroit, 2; New York, 8. Cleveland, 9; Boston, 10. National League Cincinnati, 3; St. laiitis, 4. Cincinnati-St. Louis, second game culled, ruin. No others scheduled. American Association Kansas City, 2; St. Paul. 1. Toledo. 0; Indianapolis. 9. Milwaukee, 12; Minneapolis, 8. e ; Yesterday's Home Run Hitters Ruth. Yankees, I—ll. Johnson. Yanks. 2 2. Miller. Athletics, I—2.1 —2. Myatt, Indians, I—l.1 —1.

WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD Yesterday’s Hero Ernie Johnson. Yankee utility inflelder, li t two homers. a double and a single and helped beat Detroit. X to 2. The babe hit his eleventh. The Cincinnati Reds fell into another piece of bad hick when Fonseca broke his arm sliding and went out I of the game for the season. The Cards also heat them, 4 to 3. Cleveland scored five runs in the fourth, but the Red Sox scored seven in the.'r half and won. 10 to 9 In a game that went only one hour and 12 minutes, the Athletics beat the Browns. 2 to 1. Helped by the hitting of Joe Judge, who got four hits in four trips up for the second successive game, the Senators beat the White Sox, 8 to 2. 1 0 - All Starters In Big Race To Get An Award Indianapolis, May 27.—An add-' ed purse of SIO,OOO for competitors in

the International 500-mile race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, next Friday has just been announced by the speedway management. It will be a consolation prize to be' awarded drivers who do not partid- ■ pate in the $50,000 pruse distributed each year among the first ten drivers to complete the 500 miles. The SIO,OOO purse will be distributed among less fortunate drivers in proportion to the number of laps they drive in the race. It is the first time in the history of automobile racing that drivers have been awarded cush prizes for losing. The purpose of the award, it was announced from the speedway office, is to show the speedway’s gratitude for the drivers who spend months preparing their cars for the greatest of international racing classics, and then because of some mechanical imperfection see their hopes for victory go glimmering in the fraction of a second. Naturally the drivers who remain In the running the longest will take the lion's share of the added purse, a tribute to their preparation for u con test that 14 more destructive to cars and productive to the future of the automobile industry than 50.000 miles of road testing or laboratory experiments. The racing cur builders, engineers and drivers who participate In the 500

mile race ere at a far greater expense than the public generally realises. A racing car alone costa between *lO.000 and f 25.000 to say nothng of the extra equipment necessary and the expense of the car befbre the big race. Two I. U. Men Compete For Olympic Honors Bloomington, Ind., May 27. Proof that the Hoosier state can produce national < hampionsblp wrestlers, as well as Western Conference victors, rests with Omar Held and Ralph Wil •on. sturdiest of the Indiana I‘niversily grapplers. who are in New York (’tty. ready to pit their strength against wrestlers nf the nation Tues day and Wednesday In an attempt to capture places on the American Olympic team. The two men on whom Indiana University (shaking its chances of being represented on the Olympic team, have conquered the wrestlers of the Western Conference In the 175 pound class. Held won his Big Ten title twn years ago and Wilson captured his •h-mpumshlp thia year. For four week. the Indiana mat kings have gone through a dally strenuous program of running two miles, performng on gymnastic apparatus. taking rope oxerHaes and wrestling other members of the Big Ten championship L U. team to put themselves in trim for final Olympic tryouts. Ten-minute matches In New York will determine whether they will capture national honors. WI lent Is an Evansville student and Heir

| halls from Lamar. Indiana. _o Red Sox Are Sensation < United Press Service) New York, May 27.—With 15 victories in their last 19 games, the eighth place Boston Red Sox of 1923 are now tied with the Yanks for first place in the American league pennant race. The Red Sox not only are carrying till the fight to the world's champions, but they are furnishing the main excitement in the major leagues. Barney Oldfield To Be Durant’s Relief Driver Indianapolis, May 27.—Burney Oldfield. master driver of other years anil the automobile racing driver "who never looked hack" will be Cliff Durant's relief driver in the Twelfth International 600-mile race a,t the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Friday, May 30. it was announced today. Oldfield is touring from the Pacific Coast and is expected to arrive here today. I

Oldfield and Durant were competitors in many events before the fainou? ; driver, #ho drove racing automobiles . when 40 miles an hour was considered hurricane speed, retired several years ! ago. He is returning to the track in an attempt to assist Durant win the 1 International classic in his $25,000 i Durant Special, said to be the most expensive racing automobile ever ' built. I Carp And Gibbons To Use Similiar Tactics i' (United Press Service) • Michigan City, Ind., May 27—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Tommy Gib lions an<l Georges Carpentier, who I meet here in a 10 round bout. May 31. may use similar tactics in the ring, but their training programs are Widely different. I Carpentier, always fearful lest he overtrain and go stale before a fight | takes things easy and mixes his heavy) work with the lightest forms of I recreation. Gibbons, on the other hand, is a glutton for work and relishes noth-

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, MAY 1924.

ing mon* than an afternoon of slugging with his partners. Geoip’es yesterday went fishing. Tom battered three sparring mates through nine rounds of boxing and , then lopped off the day with bag , punching and log exercise. Gibbons cut loogf in his sparring match with Bill Henry of Toledo and Henery had to, he helped from the ring The difference In their training programs is interesting in view of the , fact both boxers are working for the same end. Both are exponents and masters of the art of shifty boxing as 1 against the open slogging style. —- ' o Fifteen Retreats To Be Held In Middle West The Missionary Association of 'Catholic Women has arranged to hold 15 Retreats for Indies in various •Academies throughout the middle West during the summer. These |retteats are open not on|v to ihe members of the M. A. C. W. but also tr any ladies who wish to attend |them. The fact that over 2,200 ladies

attended the Association's Retreats during the past few years indica'es i»hat their retreats are very popular. I 'st year the Association held a Retreat at the Sacred Heart Academy Fe.t Wayne. Ind. This Retreat was 'so successful that Mrs. Frank Koltz. [Ft. Wayne, President of the Ft. j Wayne Diocesan Branch of the M. A. C. W. has made arrangements tn repeat this retreat this year. The Retreat this year will be from Juno 25 —29. The Diocesan Convention of the Association will be held ion Juno 25th at the Sacred Heart Academy. Ft Wayne. STORMS SWEEP f (Continued from Page One) Four injured. II Johnston Station. Miss., one dead I W. H. Dickerson, five injured. i Carmichel. Miss., seven dead. Mr. I anil Mrs. John Broadway and their I son and daughter-in law. Mr. and Mrs. I Buck Broadway and their daughter; il Mary Davis Nellie Anderson. j Bay Springs, Miss., one dead. Vic- jl

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