Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1925 — Page 8

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Helen Wills Training For Tennis Games In East By Henry L. Farrell, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) New York, July 7. — Training for what she hopes will be the be u season ot her career, Miss Helen W ills, the youthful national tennis champ ion. will start the eastern season in Boston on Saturday. She is now living at Forest Hills and playing- aga.nst male competi tion at the West Side Tennis club. In her characteristic modest fashion she arrived last week unheralded and had been playing for several days before her presence became known generally. •'l'm in very good good Mren etao "1 am in very good condition,’’ she said today, "and 1 feel that 1 am playing better. 1 played quite a lot of tennis in California before I came east and I am going to play as much as 1 can here.” The young champion looks lighter than she was last year at Wimbledon and in Paris and she says she has dost some weight. She also seems faster on her feet and has much more pace in her game. Although she hesitates to talke about her game, it is apparent that she has no fear of losing the champ ionship crown that she has worn for two years. She also allows an intimation that she would like to meet Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, the claimant of the world's championship. —o Hoagland Wins Long Game From Monroeville The Flat Rock team, of Hoagland, won a 12-inning pitchers’ battle from Monroeville Sunady afternoon by the score of 2 to 1. The game was fast and hotly contested and was featured by the pitching of Grotrian, of Flat Rock, and Pillers, of Monroeville. Grotrian allowed but one hit until the ninth inning when Monroeville collected two. An error let in Mon roevllle’s only run. Flate Rock 100000000001—2 9 3 Monroeville 0 0 00 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0— 1 4 4 o Speed Demons Gather At New Laurel Race Track (L'nlted Press Service) Laurel, Md., July 7—The newest automobile race track, Hanked by the largest single grandstand in’ the world, will be opened here Saturday with a 250 mile dedication race part tcipated in by a score of the leading speed demons of the country. Twenty-five thousand people are expected to attend the grace on the fast high banked one and one-eighth mile wooden track just completed here. The speedway, located halfway between Washington an 3 Baitimore, represents an investment of about $500,000. it is located on an HO acre tract of land, and parking space has been provided for 10,000 automobile. Famous Drivers Winners of the races this year at Indianapolis, Culver City, Fresno and Altoona wil be seen in the race tomorrow, including Peter de Paolo. Tommy Milton. Bennie Hill. Harry Hartz, Fred Comer, Earl Cooper and others. The grandstand, built to accommodate 25.000 persons is 80 Ofeet long and rises to a height of 75 feet. It affords an unobstructed sight of al parts of the track from practically every seat. More than 4.000,000 feet of lumber were useil in building it. Pine Track The track is built of long leaf pine, two by four-inch planks laid on edge It is heavily pitched throughout, reaching an angle of 48 degrees on the banks .This extreme rise measures from 31 to 40 feet three fele higher than any board track built heretofore. | Hieing men believe the banking will penult the fastest time ever made on wheels to be attained here. The races will be under the standard American Automobile Association regulations. Boh .luday Takes Third In Contest On Coast Bob Juday. of Fort Wayne, formerly of Geneva, who Is a high jumping star and was a member of the American Olympic team, took third place in bls event in the national A. A. U.track meet at San Francisco on July 4. Juday jumped 6 ft. 4 3-4 inches. Osborne whom Juday defeated in a meet in Chicago recently, jumped 6 feet 7 in. and won first place in San Francisco. Russel was second with a b ap of 6 feet 6 inches. — o Hard Coal—Chestnut size. Off car, Wednesday and Thursday. Prices are right. Buy now and save money. Zimmerman, Carper Company. 159-2 t Q WANT ADS EARN—S $ 9

+ BASEBALL STANDING ♦ ! ♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦ national league W. L. Pct. r Pittsburgh 44 26 629 i New York n 3l) -595 1 I Brooklyn 38 36 514 ’•lst. Ixmls 36 37 .493 > i Philadelphia 35 39 .473 h I Cincinnati 33 37 .4(1 I Chicago 33 42 .440 j Boston 29 44 .39) I - ■—— i AMERICAN LEAGUE ' W. 'L. Pct. 1 Washington 50 24 .676 ‘ Philadelphia 46 25 .648 ■ Chicago 39 36 .520 . Detroit 38 38 .500 St. Louis 35 39 .473 New York 32 41 .438 3 Cleveland 34 35 .430 ' 80-ton 24 49 .329 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L Pct. 1 Louisville 55 25 .688 . Indianapolis 41 37 .526 • ISt. Paul 40 36 .526 Kansas city 38 38 .500 Toledo 36 4o .474 ’ Minenapolis 33 40 .452 t Columbus 31 41 .431 , Milwaukee 31 46 .403 *♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + YESTERDAY’S RESULTS + k4'4' + + + + + + + + + t* + National League Philadelphia. 0-10; New York, 68. Boston, 8; Brooklyn, 4. American League Chicago, 13; Cleveland, 3-4. American Association St. Paul. 6; Minenapolis, 5. Kansas City, 7; Milwaukee, 3. Three-Eye League Bloomington, 8; Evansville, 12. Quincy, 2; Terre Haute, 4. Springfield, 4; Danville, 5. Peoria, 8; Decatur, 10. o — ++++++♦♦ + ♦ + + ♦ + + + WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD + 4--F + + + + + + + + + + q. + + Yetserday’s hero- Bill Vargus, former Boston college pitcher, held the Brooklyn Rubins safe all the way and the Braves won, 8 to 4. Buckeye, the 250 pound t wirier, and Joe Shaute, out pitched Cvengros and Connelly ami the Indians took a double header from the White Sox, at 3 to 1 and 4 to 3. Homers by Harper and Mokan and Wrightstone’s double acounted for the runs that gave the Phillies a 10 to 6 victory in the second game after the Giants bad won the first, 6 to 0. o IN COACHING SCHOOL Victo’k Baltzell, Os Decatur, Taking Work In I. U. School For Coaches. Bloomington, Ind., July 7.—Victor L. Baltzell, of Decatur, is one of 175 members of the annual four weeks summer coaching school nowe being held at Indiana University. He is taking work in the coaching of pack and field events, given by E. C. Hayes, head track coach at I. U. The four weeks’ course started June 12 and will be concluded July 9. Taking the work at 1. U. are a number of well known high school athletic officials. The school has attracted the attention of coaches from as far away as Mississippi. W. P. Wilson, athletic director at the Toupelo Military Acudemny, Tupelo* Miss., is

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* ’here for track work under Coach E. ■)C. Hayes, for many years head track | coach at Mississippi A. and M. - BANKERS ASK > COUNTY FOR AID > IN PROTECTION F (Continued From Page One) - the council meets in the tall, in order ■' that the protection may start at once. I The thirty vigilantes will be under 3 direct charge of the sheriff of Adil ants county and will be selected on 1 his recommendation. It H estimated " that it will cost about $35 to equip each vigllanle. The equipments will arrive in Adams county soon and the appointments will be made by a committee of bankers and Sheriff John . Baker. i Practically all counties in Indiana 9 have already taken the steps of or ! ganizlng the state protective asso- ' elation and it is said that the entire I system will be working within a few weeks. Every bank in Adams county is backing the movement and considerable interest has been shown in j all parts of the county for better proJ ! t ection. ; o— — ; WORD FROM EXPLORER > ■ . I Radio Dispatch From MacMillan Arctic Expedition Stops SudI, denly And Is Not Resumed. k Aboard Explorers Ship Peary Baffin Bay, July 7—(9p.m.)—By radio via Plymouth, Mass., and Washington (United Press Service) The Peary and Bowdoin. the two ships of the MacMillan Arctic expedition, have been steaming slowly through thick ice all day, bound for Hopedale, or Windy Tickle, Labrador. There are miles of loose cakes oi ice and a great many icebergs. Peary here —(Stopped transmission and did not resume). * The breaking off of the above dis- ’ patch received by the navy depart- * merit does not indicate that the explorers have met with mishaps, navy department officials believed today. It was thought that aerial disturbance prevented the full mesage from being received by the Plymouth amateur who forwarded it to the navy department. —— —o SEEK MISSING GIRLS Young Women Disappear After Answering Newspaper Ad In Terre Haute. Terre Haute, Ind., July 7.—(United Press.) — With 14-year-old Maurinne 1 Frances Bentley missing for a week, police today started a belated attempt to locate other girls who like Maurinne had answered an ad in a local 'newspaper. The ad called for six young women to see a ’’.Mr. C. C. Wells" at a local hotel. Many girls answered the ad, Maurinne among them, and the child has not been seen by her family since. "Wells" left no forwarding address.

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PICNICKERS DROWN t- — i Eight Members Os Sundsy School Party Lose Life When Boat Capsizes In Canadian Lake. (United Press Service) St. Thomas. Ont., July 7—A Sunday ( school picnic which was to have close® with a moonlight boat ride, ended in . tragedy here ast night when lbe boat capsized on latke Pinafore. Seven children, the oldest 12 years of age, and one adult were drowned. I The party was a joiut picnic of the I St. John’s Sunday school of St. Thom- , as and St. Luke's Sunday school of I Yarmouth Heights. There were 20 children and a few adults cn board when the boat upset The bodies recovered are those of; Mrs. Thomsa Watts. Jean Robinson, 12. Edith May Robinson, 8. Frances Vldler, 8. Murray Barnes, 6. , Bodies believed to be still in the , water are Roland Smith. 5; Jackie. Sutherland, 6; Jean Murray,7. At the time the boat overturned. . the banks of the little lake were lined with people and dozens of men piling- ( ed into the water to rescue the chil-. dren. Several hundred automobiles were ( lined on the bank of the lake with * their glaring searchlights thrown on ( the watyr to furnish light to the res-1 cue party. Mothers, sisters and fathers ran up] and down the shore wringing their ( hands and crying, searching for tidings of their little ones, not knowing whether they were ou the ill fated boat or not. o — Railway Company Says Busses Not A Necessity (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind. July 7 —The Hammond. Whiting and East Chicago Railway company today filed

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~a s„ s Os rive bus companies *hkh were granted certificates to operate i in Lake county. The railway company declares that the following bus companies opsra over territory served by them that the busses are not a public ton venlence or public necessity: The Blue Safety Coach company, operating in Hammond, Whiting am East Chicago. Twin City Bus cmopany. East < cago; John E. Malay. HammomL Whiting and East Virago; Ju lu* Woltuek, Hammond, and Whiting and Shelby Peterson, Hammond and Indiana Harbor. . o- “ Reopening OI Large Brokerage Firm Expected Chicago. July 7.—(United Press.)— Re-opening of the Dean O’N’atavis brokerage firm w'bich failed last week with liabilities of $35,000,000, was anticipated in financial circles today following a series of conferences in which the necessary capital to meet creditors’ demands is said to have been raised. Failure of the company, one of the largest brokerage houses in the country, is expected to have little effect either on the stock exchange or creditors with prospect of immediate rehabilitation. Creditors, it is reported, have pledg ed 20 per cent, of their claims and friends of ll the company have sub scribed $300,000. enough to meet outstanding obligations. Newcastle Is Enjoying Big Building Boom Now Newcastle, Ind., July 7 (United

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More than 100 new mi fl() . built at a cost of ( 500 nien i 000 to house the familt “,•" " 1 wali-Chryslar company. The plant is now operating « parity, and Increased production contemplated. Traffic On Dunes Highway Is Unraveled Gary. Ind.. PressH -Holiday traffic on the Dunes hgh’ wav. Chicago’s only connect ng link with northern Indiana and .Michigan.

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