Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1924 — Page 8

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American Association Indianapolis-Mil waukee, rain. Toledo, 0; St. Paul 1. Louisville, ♦; Kansas City, 5. Cslumbu.i. 7; Mlniioapolis, 8. American League St. Louis, I); Philadelphia, 5. Cleveland, 9; Boston, 10. (10 inning , Detroit, 5; New York. 4. (8 Inninas, catch traini. Washington. 7; Chicago, 5. National League Brooklyn. 1; Pittsburgh, 8. No others scheduled. Hoagland To Play East Garrett Colored Team The Flat Rock baseball team of 1 Ho..gland has booked the fast colored O. K. team of Garrett for a game on , the Hoagland diamond next Sunday, • July 27. The Hoagland team has been going good this season and a i good game is expected Sunday. The i Hoagland battery has not been selected. ' ++++++++ + + + + + + + + WATCHING THE SCORE BOARD + ♦ + *♦♦ + + + ♦♦ + ♦ + + Yesterday’s hero —Al Wingo, pinch hitter of the Detroit Tigers, who.se' I < single in the eighth won the game from the New York Yankees and put I,

| The ADAMS Theatre | XX ♦* ■ XX Decatur's Newest and Largest Theater ♦♦ Perfect Ventilation Fitting Music Tt XX 100—Comfortable Seats—loo XX Change of Pictures Daily Except Friday and Saturday XX I Yr Popular Prices ** XX Two Big Days XX XX Today and Tomorrow (Sat.) XX ♦♦ . Xx I :: Quincy Adams Sawyer XX The greatest homes »Ik story ever written XX enacted by a cast that has never been XX XX equalled on the screen. X* ♦♦ Blanche Sweet—Lon Chaney *» ; ♦♦ Barbara La Marr—Elmo Lincoln ♦♦ XX Louise Fazenda—Bank Mann XX X* June Elvidge—Billy Franey ♦♦ ♦♦ (tale Henry—John Bowers XX A (treat Cast, and The Greatest X* i XX story of rural life ever written. ♦♦ f ♦♦ Don’t Miss It. ♦♦ 1 ft —Also— * ♦♦ XX “The Soilers,” a two reel comedy XX ; 2 and Pat he News—See all, Know all. XX ♦♦ Children 5c to all shows except Saturday nights and ♦♦ Benefit shows. Saturday night all seats 20c unless »v XX children are with their parents, then 10 cents. ** zz ' I t I One of the Best), Ways I ■ of saving time is by telling i the truth. I I Can you truthfully say that I you should not open a CheckS ing Account and pay your S* ’ * i bills by check? S —lncidentally, you automat* ■ ically have a receipt too! I ■ I Then why not p!ay safe ■ I and save time by opening ■ | one today? ft This bank invites you to— Di»en A Checking Account 1 < Interest Paid on Savings I Old Adams County Bank I J I V i

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I his team back into the lead of the | American M-iigue, 5 to 1. Three doubles ami a single in the I fourth which counted four runs, and | one in the sixth gave the Philadelphia I Athletics a S-to-0 win over the St. 1 Louis. Tlio peerless Walter Johnson was] I knocked from the box in the fifth In-1 j ning. but the Senators won neverthei less from the Chicago White Sox, 7 to I The Brooklyn Robins took a sound trouncing from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the last game of their western trip. The score was 8 to 1. Four runs in the fifth and two In the ninth, each time after two were down. I helped the Boston Red Sox to a 10-U-. j 9 victory over the Cleveland. o Carpentier Fails In Last Gallant Effort (I’. P. Staff Correspondent) New York July 25 —(Special to ! :i ly Democrat)--In agony of body and spirit the vortex of a maddened throng that howled ami cheered and Jeered, Georges Carpentier made one last gallent gesture but he passed, probably, forever, from the prize ring that has been his stage for more than 1G years. His claim of foul disallowed. although he was bent nearly double from a terrible left smash in the groin Georges, unable to defend him self motioned to Gene Tunney, his conqueror, to come on ami deliver the coup de grace. But amid the pandemonium and be piess confusion of that 15th round of the international light heavy-! weight contest which -went to Tunnev , on a technical knockout, this climax,.

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was denied h rn. The ring was filled i with seconds as Andy Griffin raised the American’s hand, signifying victory, and Carpentier crying out with ‘ pa n throimh lips (hat were mangled 1 and bruised, wan declared out on his i feet, lie slumped to the floor. Sobj hiug, a bcat ,j n man but beaten at the | end by a blow that landed, unlntenI tionnlly below his belt and brought !on the most thrilling scenes of recent ring history, rivalling those ,of ■(hat never to be forgo,!' n second round of the Dcmpsey-Firpo fight a ye ar ago. Po'ice had to leap into the ring and i'e. : : bl.y re strain ,'the Frenchman:’s manager, Francois Descamps, who | would have torn the trunks from hi t > fiL'hter to show that the blow that ! sent to Carpentier writhing down was a foul. Spectators, lost their heads 1 anti clambered through the ropes - and over the press tables. Everyone screamed and shouted at once but no j one heard. And two stalwart blue ! coats carried (Georges apparently still in frightful agony, from the ring to his dressing room, while Tunney. who had beaten his man. was almost forgotten. I The magnetism of Carpentier lv-d

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11 drawn 45 000 persons, including many Lwompn. stage celebrities and society] Jf .lk from the summer homos ofi t'Long Island where tho Frenchman j I i was made welcome- .1 ho l’o,o J ' ummls was bright with white shirt I i fronts and diamonds scattered among J *1 tho coatless populace in stands and. -] bleachers. t — -I Mr. and Mrs. J. C, Patterson, and | f Mr. and Mrs. James Weatveld will II leave tomorrow on a two-weok's motor' i trip to Niagara Falls and northern | .Michigan. | 1~~ - Ashbaueber’s LOIM ; -<4S ; slut Rimim; 1 FHOXE 765 Y —*

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