Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1924 — Page 6

Ku BASEBALL STANDINGS National Lergue W L Pci New York 84 55 6<H Brooklyn 85 56 601 Pittsburgh 80 56 588 Cincinnati 75 64 540 Chicago 72 64 529 St. LouiH 59 81 421 Philadelphia 51 87 377 Boston 48 91 345 American League W L Pct Washington 81 57 587 New York 80 58 580 Detroit 77 63 550 St. Louis 71 67 514 Cleveland 65 76 461 Philadelphia 61 77 442 Boston 60 78 435 Chicago 59 78 431 American Association W L Pct St. Paul 82 62 569 Indianapolis 82 64 562 Louisville 81 65 555 Milwaukee 71 73 493 Toledo 72 77 483 Columbus 66 79 455 Minneapolis 66 80 452 Kansas City 61 84 421 o YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Chicago, 10; Philadelphia, 8. Pittsburgh. 5; Boston. 4. St. Iz>uis, 5; New York, 1. No others scheduled. American League Cleveland 0; St. Louis 5. Others not scheduled. American Association Indianapolis 6; Louisville 7. Kansas City 2; Milwaukee 4. Minneapolis-St. Paul, wet grounds Columbus-Toledo postponed until Sunday. o THE SCORE BOARD (United Press Service) Yesterday's Hero —Earl Smith, Pittsburgh catcher, hit a homer in the eighth inning with Grim on base and beat the Braves. 5 to 4. Jackson’s homer brought in the counter the Giants could get off Bill Shordell and the Cards won, 5 to 1. Home runs by Jacobson and Robertson, behind the good pitching of Shocker, helped the Browns beat the Indians. 5 to 0. Cy Williams hit two homers, but he let in two runs with errors and the Cubs beat the Phils, 10 to 8. > Q Giants’ Lead Reduced To One Lone Point (United Press Service) New York. Sept. 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —With a slim lead of one point, the New York Giants were back again today in a bitter fight for the National league pennant. The Giants took another tumble yesterday when their pitchers went to pieces again and they were dropped for a decisive count by the St. Louis Cards. The Brookljn Robins had an off day and enjoyed the holiday by gaining a half game on the leagueleaders without doipg any manual labor. Last Saturday the Robins were in first place for a little over an hour and today they have another opportunity of getting in the lead. If the Cards tumble the champions again and the Robins take a fall out of the Cincinnati Reds, the Robins ‘will move out in front. : o Bud White Leaves To Enter Indiana University Niles “Bud” White, well known Decatur high schol athlete. left this morning for Bloomington to enroll as a freshman in Indiana University. Bud was acrompanied to Bloomington by George Fisher, of Medora, a prominent athlete of the state university who visited Bud here yesterday. Bud has been pledged to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, of which Mr. Fisher is a member. While in high school Bud distinguished himself as an allround athlete, being fullback on the football team, back guard on the basketball and weight man on the track team. He also played baseball when the local school had a team in the field. Bud Is a husky youth and is expected to make good in athletics at the state university, as well as making a god record in his college course. —— — oU°ach Rippe Resigns Post In Bluffton H. S. B ’«ffto n , Sept 13-Russell Rippe, Bmffto" °\ Pl 7 lcial w,u <*tlon in the Bluffton schools and coae. h O s all atthletics has been granted a release from his contract by the school board, in compliance with his request after he had announced his intentions of re-entering La Crosse school of physical education at La Crosse, Wisconsin, for thhe purpose of obtaining a higher degree. Immediate steps taken to locate a

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1 - ) “ I satisfactory successor to Mr. Rippe I resulted In securing his brother. ; Oscar Rippe. who is director of athI letics in a Y. M. C. A. at Brooklyn New York. A telegram to that effect 1 was received here this morning, and i , Mr. Rippe. of Brooklyn will arrived , in Biuffton next Sunday. I * ; 'Studebaker Company Announces New Models Announcement of the new 1925 model Studabaker automobiles is contained in a page ad in today's Daily Democrat, the line including fifteen new models. Chief among these is the type of body of pressed steel which is both an open and closed car. The body is shaped in steel and covered with a water-proof mole-skin fabric. The device for pulling down the curtian. making it a closed car. works, almost instantaneously, it is said. Prices of the new cars are also contained in the page ad and the local dealers, Libby and Yost, have gone to South Bend to return with the new models. Sept. 15 Last Day To Pay Income Tax Indianapolis. Sept. 13. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Sept. 15 will be the last day to pay individual income taxes for the current installments according to M. Burt Thurman collector of internal revenue for Indiana. Thurman announced that all taxpayers holding bonds in corporations which have paid income tax are enentitled to a 25 per cent, reduction on the amount paid the government by the corporations. Claims for abatement or credit of the 25 per cent, will be accepted by the collector. o Americans Retain Davis Cup In Tennis Classic Philadelphia, Sept. 13.—(United Press’).—America retains the classic Davis cup. symbolic of the world’s tenni s championship. For the fifth year in succession, a record, the American won the chalf lenge round for the cup yesterday when William T. Tilden and William M. Johnston defeated Gerald PatterI son and Pat O’Hani Wood, the Australian challengers, in the doubles match at the Germantown Cricket club. r The Australians cannot win if they take the two remaining singles matches today. s t Mr. and Mrs. Frank Troutner, ol s Willshire, Ohio, were shoppers here today.

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h Court House 1 " , i mnrmmvmiiwmtmfftmmfrmmafnm/mi, Receiver Appointed In the suit of Eli W. Steele against i S Charles N.- Martin for an accounting Judge Sutton today found for the ’ plaintiff and appointed W. A. Lower - receiver for the defendant's property.’ ■ Mr. Lower's bond was fixed at $5,000. i Mr. Martin is a tenant on the farm i owned by Mr. Steele. 1 Appears For Defendant Attorney John T. Kelly, of this city. I has entered his appearance for Wili liam Dickerson, of Geneva in the two ! cases of the state of Indiana against Mr. Dickerson for violation of the

A STRONG, FRIENDLY BANK UNDER STATE SUPERVISION k Founded Built on by Security Service t “Pocket Money” Is Quickly Spent It is also easily lost. That is why you should I —as far as possible—avoid carrying cash I with you. The safe way—the sane way—the modern 1 i? way—is to open a Checking Account and—s Pay Your Bills by Check •' I Old Adams County Bank y s Established Fifty Years Ago f II e i——

prohibition law. Case Continued The two cases of the state*vs. Fred Kohler, for violation of the prohibl- ! tion law. have been continued by | agreement of the parties. . o -- SEEK TO SAVE A POOR YOUTH - FROM GALLOWS (Continued from Page One) “We will now see whether there is such a thing as justice. I “We will now see whether money is the thing.” I Grant’s shock of hair has turned from dark brown to almost pure white. “I don’t want to die,” Grant said. “I didn't have a hand in this. I'm innocent.”

Homing Pigeons To Be Released Here Sunday Ben Elzey. local agent of the American Railway Express company, will j turn loose five coops of homing plKeons Sunday morning at 6:30 o'clock The pigeons were sent here by the I. ' Toledo Homing club and they are turn il led loose with the Idea of seeing how I fast they can fly back to their home .I | About 350 pigeons were sent here. 'Several coops of pigeons were sent here ibout a month ago and turned' loose by Mr. Elzey. | * PREBLE NEWS Mrs. H. C. North spent Thursday Fort Wayne looking after business || matters. I Miss Marie Smith, of the Home | Telephone Company, of Fort Wayne, i Is visiting with Mrs. Nelson Miller, of | Peoria. 111., Mr. and Mrs. August Werling and daughter. Amanda and Mildred, j motored to Rome City, where they I will remain several days. | Mrs. Otto Conrad, who under went i a major operation at the Adams H County Memorial Hospital, is said to j

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and now the property ot | worth, of Decatur. H enters ltl I Auto Races „t Fort Wayß , ■lay. Several people from * I planning to attend the ev> nt