Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1925 — Page 6

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ROTARY LINEUP ANNOUNCEDTOOAY “Hold-out” Pitchers Fall In Line For Big Game On Friday Peace again reigns in the training camp of the Decatur Rotary baseball chib and the management of that organization takes great pleasure in announcing “the greatest line-up of players ever mustered together, in this city” for the big fray Friday afternoon with the Post- OfficeTeachers aggregation Two Rotary moundsmen held out on a salary argument until late last night, but with the signing of these two star twirlers the outlook for Manager Harting's "hopes for a championship” were given a boost and betting odds have swung back to even. Herman Yager and William Simpson were the two holdout pitchers. refusing to report for practice, basing their decision on the fact that their salaries did not coordinate with their ability. \ Late last night the last drop of Rotary ink was used and all the contracts were signed for the big massacre, that only “Custer’s Last Stand" could compare with, and final practices for both teams will be held in secret coves near this city tomorrow. Manager Franks of the Post Office-Teachers aggregation still expresses confidence and Manager Harting still expresses hope. The Rotary line-up as finally de-; cided upon, is as follows: “Fat" Schmitt, victor of a thousand butcher knife battles, will be on the receiving end of the battery; "Wild Bill’ Simpson. Herman Yager, France Confer and "Doc” Summers will hold down the pitching mound at intervals; Manager Harting takes great pleasure in announcing that Mr. Simpson will assume the twirling role at the opening of the game and that the other three tossers will be used later. Hugh Hite will be care taker of the primer sack and Herman Ehinger will have charge of second. Jim Cowan has been selected for the hot corner. A. Klepper has answered the call for a first class ball player and has consented to put his new glove into action at short stop. Bill O’Brien. J. H. Carmody and ankenau will attend the garden party and assume the three positions among the new inown hay and dandelions. Martin Mylott has been selected as first sub. and sitting on the bench beside him will be such great players as Oscar Lankenau. James Kim her. Lawrence Kleinhenz. W. A Lower, A. R. Holthouse. J. F. Arnold. Fred Patterson and C. C. Pumphrey. These men will be thrown into the melee at various times as the manager sees tit. Charles Niblick .will be mascott, and the bat boy is yet

I —ll —— fcj I Hl wpl * - EVERETT SCOTT New York —-Everett Scott, veteran shortstop, who left the Yankee lineup a month ago after chopping off his world’s record playing streak of 1,307 games, has been released to Washing ton at the waivevr price of $4,000. He joined the Senators at once. Scott’s passing from the Yankee fold marks another step in the club's, reorganization. His place has been taken by Paul Wanninger, a recruit. Scott may not get a regular post with Bucky Harris’ crew but he will add to the Senators’ reserve strength. The regular Washington shortstop, Roger Peckinpaugh. the man Scott replaced when he came to the Yankees has been bothered iwth a lame knee. This is Scott’s twelfthjseason in the majors.

1 to be selected. Colonel Fred Reppert will assist B. i Kalver and H. Fritzinger calling the close plays and also will act as general utility man for "Fat" Schmitt in case the balls are tossed over the plate in such a manner as to injure Mr. Schmitt. The big game is cull • d for four P. M. Friday afternoon. Admission of 10 cents will be charged for the b of the Boy Scouts of Decatur, who are planning on a summer outing at Hamilton Luke. Q Flat Rock Team To Play Two Gaines Next Sunday The Flat Ro«k baseball team of Hoagland will play a double-header next Sunday on the Hoagland diamond, meeting the Preble and Uniondale teams in succession. Th? I Fiat Rock team has defeated Preble once this season. laist Sunday the Flat Rock nine defeated the fust Emmaus 'Walther I League team of Fort Wayne, on the Hoagland diamond, by a score of C to 3. Luttman. who started on the mound for the winners, yielded onlylune bit in five innings, but a pass land an error enabled the Leaguers to score three runs in the third inning Grotrian relieved Luttman in ! the sixth inning and allowed only I two hits. He was strong in the | pinches, also. Kolp, hurling for the I visitors, pitched a good game, but | his support was ragged. Score by I innings: I Walther L. 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 o—3 3 1 i Flat Rock 1000401 ox-6 7 6 Batteries: Kolp and Boehnke; Luttman, Grotrian and Berning. o — 'Americans Are Favorites In British Golf Tourney Troon. Scotland. June 24. — (United Press.) — MacDonald Smith. Jim Barnes and Joe Kirkwood, American professionals, were among the favorites in the field of SI players who qualified for the British open golf championship which starts here tomorrow. The cards turned in by the Amer- . iean entiies in the qualifiying rounds were not overly impressive but it was know nthat they were not forcing themselves and they wanted merely to qualify. The long driving contest was the only event scheduled for today and the Americans were not entered. 0 Notre Dame Star To Coach At Indiana Bloomington, Ind., June 24 —Edgar E. iiip” .Miller, tackle for the last three years on the Championship Notre Dame football eleven, is the new line coach and first assistant to "Navy Bill" Ingram at Indiana university. This announcement was confirmed by Athletic Director Zora G. Clevenger, after he and Ingram hail conferred with Miller regarding iiis new work. He succeed) "Sunny” Sundstrom. Miller got his first football experience on the Canton (O.) high school eleven. Later he played on a Cleveland preparatory school team and entered Notre Dame in 1921. He played tackle regularly during 1922. 1923 ami 1924. At. Notre Dame last year he won the Byron Kanalgy prize of S2OO. awarded to the senior athlete of the university regarded the most exemplary student and leader of men. Since-graduation last year with the bachelor of sciertte degree in foreign commerce. Miller has been connected with the foreign sales department of the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend. -4 o— Mlle. Lenglen Appears In Tennis Tournament Today (United Press Service) Wimbledon. England, June 24 — Braving the cold brefze and the threatening clouds, more than 10 000 spectators were on hand today to see tlie initial appearance this year of Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, the former queen of the courts. The French star will make her stait today in the-doubles with her friend and running mate. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, the former California girl. They .were drawn against Miss Coyler and Mrs. Mlycett, the former Miss Joan Austen, who played through to the finals against the Lenglen-Ryan team in 1923. John Hennessey and Ray Csey, the Americans, form one of the four teams expected to reach the semifinals of the men’s doubles which start today. The other strong teams are Borotre and Lacokte, France; Lycett and Anderson, the AustraliaEnglish tea mand Gilbert and Turnbull, the English team,.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24, 1925.

MAKING RECORD-BREAKING SHOT PI T ■ fl ‘ p • jteA \ * Is ■' -' w ? ' 11 -A. gSsjjF* * !' J ...» ,‘I -V : * . ... --w ‘ . COLUMBUS, O. —Herbert Schwarze of Wisconsin broke a record that nas stood for twentyzone years. At the Big Ten Conference meet at Columbus. ()., he hurled the shot 48 feet I*4 inches, bettering the mark made in 1904 by Ralph Rose of Michigan, who put it at 47 feet *,4 inch. Photo shows Herbert Schwarze it. his record breaking throw. He made the put after the regular competition, but ft will be allowed.

DECATUR GIRLS WIN Lina Guth And Arvilla Hendricks Win Ten Dollar Prizes In G. E. Home Lighting Contest. The Misses Line Guth and Arvilla Hendricks, employes in the Decatur General Electric plant, were winners of ten dollar prizes in the G-E Employes Home Lighting Contest, according to announcement made today. This home lighting contest was similar to the national home lighting contest conducted last fall by the National Electric The same "Home Lighting Primers", were used, the ■contestants to indicate the proper lighting of rooms illustrated in the book., after studying the principles of good home lighting as given in the bock Contestants also were to investigate and report on the lighting of their own homes and those ol two neighobrs and report the changes they would make in lighting own home to bring the lighting up-to-date. Ten prizes totaling $160.00 were offered in the G-E Employ* s Home Lighting Contest, the contest being open to both the Fort Wayne and Decatur plants’ employes. Miss Guth is an employe in the winding depart ment of the local plant, while Miss Hendricks is an employe in the local plant’s office force. o Only Five Teams In Big Ten Golf Tournament Sunset Ridge Country Club,. Chicago, June 24.- —Only five teams teed off when the Big Ten conference golf matches got under way here -today. The schools contesting are Illinois. Michigan, Not th western, Wisconsin and Chicago. Today’s round will be at 36 holes, while tomorrow the singles play for individual honors will start. Finals are to be held Saturday. —o !>♦♦♦*«♦**♦«♦♦*« k YESTERDAY’S RESULTS ■» t + + ++ + + + 44-4 + 4’44 National League Brooklyn. ,8-5; New York, 5-3. I hiladelphia. 7-9; Boston. 3-7. Cincinnati, 5; Chicago. 6. Pittsburgh-St. Louis, rain. American League Washington, 8; New York, 1. Boston, 2; Philadelphia. 3. American Association St. Paul. 2; Toledo, 4. Indianapolis, 10; Milwaukee, 0. Minneapolis, 5; Columbus, 11. Louisville-Kansas City, rain. — o Decatur Man To Fly A Commercial Airplane Mr. and Mrs. Verne W. Bohnke, of this city, will motor to Lansing. Mich igan, Thursday where JVIr. Bohnke will fly for the American Commercial Air Ways, Inc., of Lansing, for two.weeks during the absence of E. L. Preston, who is President and General Manager of the Company. Mr. Preston and Mr. Bohnke are both ex-army aviators and have spent many days flying together during their army career. o Elwood. — While fishing In White river Ralph Jackson of Elwood found .a pearl worth SSOO,

**+*++*+ + * + + + + + 4» WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD + +*♦+♦*+++ + + + + + + Yesterday's hero — Bill Bagwell, batting in a pinch in the ninth inning, doubled and drove in two of the runs that gave the Athletics a 5 to 2 victory over the Red Sox. Quinn shut out the Athletics for eight innings. Fred Marberry, Washington’s star relief pitcher, fanned Babe' Ruth in the eighth inning with the bases filled and the Yankees lost, 8 to 1. John McGraw took active charge of the Giants for the first time since May 1 and the champions divided a double header with the Robins. Both scores were 8 to 5. Carl Mays made bis first appearance of the season and was batted out of the box. the Cubs beating the Reds again 6 to 5. The Phils took both ends of a double bill with the Braves. 7 to 3 ■and 9 to 7. o ■ — — 9 HOME RUN LEADERS + Hornsby, Cards. IS. * Hartnett, Cubs, 16. Muse], Yankees, 16. Williams. Browns, 15. Simmons, Athletics. 11. Cobb, Tigers, 10, Robertson, Browns, 10.

American Polo Team Defeats British Players (t’nlted Press Service). Burlingham England, June 24—The American army polo team today won the ‘‘rubber” matqji in its polo series with a British army fonr. The score of the final game was 6 to 4. The Americans took the lead in the first chukker, scoring twice while the Britishers failed to record a point. The Britishers tied the match in the third frame, however, when after scoring once in the second chukker. they scored twice in the third. The Aniscored one each in the third, fourth fifth and seventh, while the Britishers, after the third were able -to score but once again a point in the sixth chukker. o BANK LOOT IS $50,000 Check Up Shows Bandits Obtained Large Sum In Hold-Up Os Bank In Wisconsin Tuesday. Shullsburg. Wis., June 24—Latest check up today following the robberp of the First National bank yesterday placed the loss at $50,000 in cash, in addition to negotiable securities of undetermined value. Earlier estimates ranged from $5,000 to $15,000. The thoroughness and dispatch with which the band of five desparadoes worked in the pitch black night —there was no moon —today amazed local authoritie|i. The fire bell rope was cut, three local telephone lines and two long distance circuits severed, and a telegraph line connection torn up. The bank 100 l included several mine payrolls.

Many Children Admitted To Riley Memorial Hospital Indianapolis Ind., June 24. A total of 299 children have been discharged from the Riley Hospital for < hildren since it opened last November and the 600th child to enter the institution since its opening isjfoon to be admitted. This announcement was made today by Hugh McK. Landon, president of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association which is engaged in the financing and the construction of the hopistal. The average daily patient occupancy in the institution at this time exceeds 165 patients, according to Mr. Landon’s statement. The number of patients in the hospital has been constantly growing as the hospital staff was developed. Mr. said, although there was little prospect of the number of patients being increased substantially within the next year or so, because of the lack of newbuildingfi. The hospital at this time has a waiting list of ninety-five patients, Mr. Landon said, and this waiting list is very likely to grow as Indiana parents become more and more fami.iar with the service which is being rendered

by the hospital. Practically all of the 299 patients discharged from the institution were ; substantially benefited by their treatment or were cured. A number of them will be kept under observation by the hospital staff. In addition to the pa tients actually in the hospital nearly one hundred others are being treated in the dispensary. A wide range of disleases are receiving treatment in the 1 various departments of the hospital. l Of the patients already treated 250 were receivd from counties outside of Mai ion. 79 counties in all have had patients in the institution. 59 counties are now represented in the hospital. Approximately forty counties are rei presented on the waiting list. Mr. Landon pointed out in this connection the 1 state wide character of the hospital’s ’ service. Among the counties which are ’ being served are Morgan county 13. Rush with 13. Tippacanoe with ten. Vigo with 16. Wayne with 12, Wells with 8. Knox with 16. Hancock with eight. Madison with 19. i Adams county has had five children admitted to the hospital. Millionaire’s Son Is Implicated In Robberies (t’nited Press Service) Chicago. June 24 Jack Durand, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Durand. millionaire family of fashionable Lake Forest, was implicated today in {a series of robberies along the north | shore district. Young Durand is believed to be acting for’the movies in ‘Jjos Angeles and California authorii ties have been asked to hunt for him. Three youths, members of well known families, implicated Durand. The three were arested following an attempt to hold up a taxicab driver. The prisoners are Franklin Patterson. 19 George Burchard, 20 and James Gordon" Miller, 24. They confessed to a number of robberies during the past three years, including the hold up in the home of F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co., when jewels valued at many thousands of dollars were taken from Miss Hester White. The trio also confessed to robbing

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the home of Mark Morton, head of the, Murton Salt Works of SIO,OOO worth of clothing and rugs. In those and other robberies, Jack Durand played | a leading part, the prisoners charged o — AMUNDSEN TO WRITE Arctic Air Explorer Plans To Publish Book Telling Os His Flight Almost To Pole, Oslo. June 24— Captain Roald Amundsen, Arctic air explorer, plansi to arrive at Horton. Norway, on a coal steamer on July 4. He intends to write a book cover-; Ing his flight almost to the pole.; This will appear in the autumn and ■ ... ■

THE CORT LAST TIME TONIGHT Norman Kerry, Virginia Valli and others in a hig First National “THE PRICE OF PLEASURE’’ You'll enjoy this show to the utmost. A glimpse at the social set of the larger city and its outcome. “HALF A HERO,” Ham Hamilton Comedy. 10c 25c Thursday and Friday—“FEAß BOUND,” Also—A good comedy. Sundav and Monday—The big attraction “CHICKIE.”

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i thereafter be plans to I( . ctWe .. | home and abroad. Beds Too Weak To Hold Up 490-Pound Witness ft’niteil I'reßH Service) | Cape May. J<. j„ Jun „ Edmonds, who weighs 490 | WUll(1)1 amr claims to be the fattest taxicab driver in the east, furnished quite a problem to the Cape May jail offi. clals when bedtime arrived after ho | was held as a witness in a murder <ase - No cots being strong enough' to support Edmonds, one of th-m was ; reinforced with bricks piled under it and the prisoner slept on It.