Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1924 — Page 9

fcketb.ll In PuHfc ! “ ror Throughout Nation By Henry U Farrell .r n it.'d‘Press Sports Editor) 1 Vork —with football to bo 2 noon for the 1924 season, the a r winter sport season win swing “t’ r th.' public entertainment until [X’eball clubs drift southward In ja spring. I boxing and hockey are h ranking winter sports now in * order named. Several years ago would have held the. major in the national interest but, Xtball has bad such an amazing, rowth in the past two years that it tlk en first platfe. . onP can explain the stupendous ip’relopment of basketball in the W |c fancy unless it is the result of uch perfect organization. I ThP re must be at least five hundred taferences and leagues operating ’ regular schedules in professional, imateur. intercollegiate, interscholtifr sectional and state circles. There are ten major intercollegiate cnierences and perhaps one hundpd state and sectional conferences Bd leagues. There are hundreds of tbletic club and amateur teams ensiled in the National Amateur Ath-] |t i c Union, and there are thousands ( semi-pro teams and professional jams that are not in organized | Ossifications. When it is related that the Buffalo, eruians, one of the greatest teams I tat ever shot at a basket had to be isbanded three years ago because [ a lack of interest, the growth of iterest as is indicated above is ininceivable. Damon Runyon, one of the most iperienced and most brilliant sports riters in the profession, claims that isketball is the most popular sport i the United States and that basketill fans are the most violent bugs lat follow any sports. ■ Last winter, Runyon referred in his Idely read column to the Passic igh School team as being a wonder am that hadn't lost a game in imethiiig like five or six years. Such storm was aroused all over the tuntry that Passaic received almost re hundred challenges and Runyon iceived a bag of letters in each mail Hing him he was all wrong and at there were a thousand teams at could beat Passaic. It is hardly possible that such a mment upon a baseball team, a otball or hockey team, or upon a ixer would arouse such a deluge of chests. It must be, in view of these tts, that basketball is the ranking ort. at least of the indoor sports. Hockey, of course, is a great sport, ith polo it is perhaps the fastest d most thrilling of all the sports watch. But hockey is confined to ose sections where ice is easy of cess and polo is only a rich man's me and a society sport. —— o ant Uniform Auto License Law Passed (United Press Service) fcicago, 111., —Adoption of a uniin licensing law for automobile rers in the near future by airstates he union was predicted here today Robins 11. Stoeckel, motor vechile imissioner of Connecticut in a ement issued through the NationSafety Council. she time is not far distant, when the protection of careful motorists pedestrians,” Stoeckel said, "all ®s will license the drivers of or vehicles upon examination as

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|*o their fitness and will revoke licenses upon Violation of any of the rules hy which It | K held." The National Safety Council is cooperating with various conferences of state and motor vehicle .ommlssion. ers In » .national movement for tho adoption of such laws In an effort to minimize automobile accidents. . 'The greatest factor in the problem |of safe operation of motor vehicles it the ergo, personality, individualism of tho operator,' 'Stoeclcel said. “A standard to measure this cannot be set. ( But, at least, tests of menfaliay and of proper driving experience can and should bo efficiently applied before an operator is licensed and th. so test : kept applicate through his or ho* whole driving period. ‘The license system provides for examination of all operators and for the (discipline and education of all operators while licensed. | ‘Tho examination into fitness is a groat safeguard for guard for lieta great safeguard for life and property Its proper administration makes it possible for a competent examiner to ! immediately discover any obvious de- , feet which the applicant may have, to inquire into his mental processes, his intelligence, his ability to ' I read and write and his actual ability ' to run a motor vehicle with safety to 1 himself and others. 'I —7® , Road Building Program I Nearly Finished This Year I ’ , ■ Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 25.—(Spe- , cial to Daily Democrat) —Never be- . fore in the history of the state highway department has that body so ■ nearly completed its construction pro-

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gram as this season. Tills statement was made today by John 1). Williams, director, following a survey of tho system, :iml who took occasion to point out that sections of I Indiana will be open to al) winter] • raffle this year tor the first time In I the history of the state. All maintenance contracts are completed and road opened, in the constnudlon division all paving contracts ur<> finished with the exception of about fifteen miles, due to Inability to proettre right-of-way. These contracts will bo completed next spring. A number of bridges, however, go into the winter incomplete, dim to the fact they wore not contracted until late in tho summer. The commission expec ts to build run-arounds every place possible and thus, winter traffic will meet with but few detour Mr. William says. Completion of this great volume of work means, highway officials point out. that traffic can now go from Louisville, Ky., to Paoli and French Lick, thence to Evansville all winter on excellent road surfaces without detours. The last detour on this route, located at Pigeon Creek between Dale and Booneville, was lifted a few days

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Wil.b|n n few wokn nil detourx on No. 1 excepting one whidh will be in force nil winter, will bo lifted hi t ween Seymour and izmlxv Itle. This ilngln detour juxt xoiith of Seymour Ih about ii mileo long mid over an excellent county road. The mulntonance dlvlsion will keep In xlmpe several unpaved gups where the route follows the old road, mid a satisfactory route will be maintained al) the way between Indianapolis und Louisville. North of Indianapolis this route is now paved and opmF to a point 1 l-mlles north of Kakamu, and in a few days will bo opened to Peru. White Snakeroot Causes Death Os Young Boy (United I'Tesse Service) Orleans, Ind. Nov. 22—The mystery of the recent death of a 12-yeur old boy and the serious illness of three other members of an Orange county family has been solved today by County Agent Earl Stinson. Stinson discovered that the deaths were due to milk sickness, a disease caused by drinking large quantities of

milk polsoneil by white snakeroot, Tho trouble occurred on u farm in Hontlienstein part of Orange conmy. The boy first complained of pains in the stomach und died a wh, k Inter. In a short lime the father, mother.; and brother became ill, tin d< gree of Illness seeming to cm re pond with the quantity of milk they hud been drinking. The doctor diagonsed the di ,ea e ns milk sickness and tho woodland pasture on which the cows bad been grazing was inspected by Stinson, lie discovered* white snakeroot in such large qmintities that there was little else for a cow to eat. — • o -*— • | Bootleggers Get OneTenth Os Alcohol In U. S. Washington, Nov. 22.—Tim start! ing charge that six million gallon . e of government-controlled alcohol, onetenth of all used in this country, hktve reached the hands of bootleggers so far this year was made by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon league hero today. Wheeler estimated that this alcohol reached the market in the shape of 45.000.00 U quarts of gin and

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baorlpggers/* < Seymour.—Bird dogs, Instead of pointing out ganm are turning up stills, authorities here report. Several white mules caches have been turned over to the sheriff by hunters. ■ ■