Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1925 — Page 8

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Four Left In Amateur Golf Tournament Today Lochmoor Country Club, Detroit. July 17.—(United Press.)—A bright sun with u cooling breeze today greeted the four youngsters who will tight througti the semi-final round of the western amateur golf championship. Keefe Carter, the Oklahoma champion. Clarence Hubby, Dallas, Tex., Fred Lamprecht, Cleveland, and Rus4ell Martin, Chicago, won their quarter final matches yesterday and fought today for the right to engage in Saturday’s final round. Both Carter and Hubby are "stylists," making their great show to date (brought straight driving and staying nay from danger. Lamprecht and Martin may be termed fighters, who strike fear Into the hearts of their opponents by pulling the almost impossible when cornered. - -o- ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * YESTERDAY’S RESULTS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ National League Cincinnati, 2; Brooklyn, 5. St. Louis, 5; New York. 7. Chicago. 0; Philadelphia, 3. Pittsburgh, 8: Boston. 9. American League Philadlephia. 12; Chicago. 3. Washington, 2; Detroit. 1. New York 9; Cleveland. 17. St. Louis. 11; Boston. 6. American Association Indianapolis. 11; Minneapolis, 3. Columbus, 9; Kansas City, 14. Toledo, 5; Milwaukee, 2. Louisville. 11; St. Paul. 9. o ♦+++++++ + + * + + * + ♦ HOME RUN LEADERS + Hornsby. Cardinals, 24. Williams, Browns. 22. Hartnett, Cubs. 21. Meusel, Yankees, 21. Kelly, Giants, 15. Fournier. Robins, 14. Simmons. Athletics, 14. o ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD + ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦• - Yesterday’s hero — George Kelly, I centerfielder for the Giants, hit two homers and beat the Cards. 7 to 5. sending the Giants back into first place. Hood’s single in the tenth inning drove in the run that gave the Braves a victory over the Pirates at 9 to 8 and pushed the Pirates into second place. One single, a pass and two sacrifice hits turned in the run in the tenth inning that enabled the Senators to beat the Tigers, 2 to 1. Coveleskle pitched another winner for the champions. The Athletics knocked Ted Lyons out of the box and beat the White Sox, 12 to 3. Three runs blasted off Eppa Rixey in the first inning helped the Robins beat the Reds. 5 to 2. Mitchell let the Cubs down with four hits and the Phillies won. 3 to 0. The Indians mauled four pitchers and ruined the Yanks. 17 to 9. Helped by eight errors, the Browns beat the Red Sox, 11 to 6. o Kearns Angry At Dempsey Los Angeles, Cal., July 17. — (United Press.! —Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, wrathfully denounced the heavyweight champion today for signing to box for Tex Rickard in New York and said that any matches Dempsey makes must lie with his manager’s o. k. ‘‘Just let Dempsey know that until our contract expires I am going to approve or disapprove, as the case may be, of any matches he tries to make for himself. ” Kearns said. ‘Tt’S| all right with me if the champion at ranges a bout or two for himself, but 1 ant the one man who knows Dempsey’s value and I am going to see he doesn’t fight a couple of bums for nothing.” Fort Recovery To Play Geneva Sunday Afternoor Special to Daily Democrat Geneva, July 17 —The Fort Recovery, Ohio, baseball team will play the Geneva team on the local diamond Sunday afternoon. A few new players have been added to the Geneva lineup and a strong game is expected. Virgil Ford, a popular player, widl catch for Geneva. The Fort Recovery battery will be composed of Patten, Arnold and Jellison, The Geneva battery will be chosen from MacWhinnery Snyder, Winteregg and Ford. The game will tie called at 2:30 o’clock:. o Washington.—Red Gordon of Washington has lost his championship at Webster Lake, which he held with a two-pound bass. E. A. Storms of Connersville caught a five-pounder.

[“Cannonball” Baker Held , For Speeding In Indiana , Indianapolis, July 17. — (United t Ptt-ss.) — Edwin "Cannonball” Baker, - famous cross country test driver, was t arregFfl here today for violating the e state speed laws. The charges grew out of Baker's >- drive from Indianapolis to Cincinnati , and return on the night of May 29 at i- an average speed of 54 miles an :- hour. t He has been out of the state since ■ that time and was taken into custody hy state iftotor police upon his return - to Indianapolis today. » Baker gained fame several years 5 ago with his mad dashes against time I on motorcycles on coast-to-coast trips. > Later he made new records on cross r country auto trips. o STATE FAIR VISITORS k Officials To Make Check Up On k County From Which Each k Person Comes. Indianapolis, Ind.. July 17.— (United Press.)—Officials of the State Board of Agriculture are determined to know where patrons of the 1925 Stale fair “come from.” Annually statements have been given out by fair officials regarding the total paid attendance at the great qgricultprali , exposition pnd conjectures are made as to just what county sent the greatest number of visitors. But those latter figures have been i mere guesses because there was no accurate way of making such a count. This year, according to E. J. Barker, secretary-treasurer of the State Board of Agriculture, an accurate check will be made through machines now being devised. One machine will be installed at each entrance gate to the grounds and -an attendant will inquire of each visitor the county from which he came. By punching the appropriate button each county’s total will be | recorded, Barker said. For the first time since the State fair’s inception each county will be assigned an attendance quota. Counties that apparently have been weak in previous years will be organized by persons interested in the fair and 1 every effort will be made to swvll the ' patronage from that quarter. “With accurate statistics on the 1925 fair available when arrangements are being made for the following year’s fair, it'will be a comparatively easy task to assign to each county its reasonable attendance quota,” Barker declared. -—-— o Junior College Course In High Schools Is Favored Indianapolis, July 17—Sentiment in favor of adding a special course of two years to the large high schools of the state to be known as junior colleges was expressed today at a conference of leading educators here. 0 SCOTT GETS ONE WEEK REPRIEVE Continued from Page One) gram read: “Delay the hanging of my brother, Russell Scott, 1 will be in to surrender myself. I am the man who shot Joseph Maurer.’’ Governor Len Small, located tfy Will Cal win, head of the board of pardons and paroles, extended a week’s clemency to make sure there was no miscarriage of justice. Detroit police have been asked to find i Robert, for until he is found the governor and the police cannot feel that the telegram is genuine. In some quarters it is believed that the message was sent by friends of Russell in a last despondent effort to gain another stay of execution. While Small was being sought by Colvin. Detroit police checked up on the telegraph office there. Word was ■ that a young man stopped a messen-i ger boy on the street, gave him the message and some money and. disappeared. Scott was undressing, preparing to take his last sleep before hanging, when word of the reprieve was brought to him “Tnank God!’’ burst from his lips. Stunned by the news, he then stood ! speechless for a moment. His head i tell forward. His lips quivered, i "I'd lost hope”, he sa‘d. “I was I ready to die. A had given up hopes. | t Poor Robert, trnehow I knew down ’ in my heart that he would come but whether he would arrive in time was . • the question.’’ t The reprieve arrived at the jail at » 8a m. accompanied by a note from • Small explaining his action was taken | on advice of the board of pardons and *

DO YOU BLAME THE PRESIDENT FOR SMILING? I * ' ' HjjßJt 2KL IP I 1 < Y K I. kj - / ’ f BM? | | JI ’ ■ it is* Ls pfe - A * - F, y' v v- ■ - ’ •• ■' •' J ‘ ' ~ ' A, It is rare to see President Coolidge, most serious of all Yankee Presidents, smiling. It is even more extraordinary to catch him laughing at himself. t But that cap of his was too much July 8 for even his carefully repressed sense of humor and when two reporters on the right, Charlie Michaels and Silas Kent, gave way before the rakishnesa of the outfit, the President was unable to overtake his grin before it had crept half way up his face. () yes, the occasion for the sporty head gear was the President’s reception of the Harvard. Yale, Oxford and Cambridge track stars at the summer: White House, July 8.

paroibk. Scott went back to bed at 6 a.m. today and asked Warden Westbrook to be permitted to sleep undisturbed. Then Russell asked that his *wi(e and father be notified immediately. Mrs. Scott was at the home of a friend exhausted by her long fight to save Russell, and hopeless. She burst into tears and offered up a prayer of thanksgiving. The elder Scott at the same house cried and laughed and almost shouted with glee. "What did I tell you ’’ he shouted “Didn’t I say that Robert would never let his brother hang? That message is from him and right now I’m going to start my fight to save Robert.” To the old man Russell’s reprieve is only a momentary victory, if Robert apears he will have to start another fight for life all over again. But he feels that Robert will be spared the gallows. "After making the sacifice of ofsering his own life to save his brother a jury would not hang him" the aged man said. o Lebanon. — Clark Millikan, “centennarian plus" of Lebanon, felt energetic and wanted to repair the fence on his grandson’s farm. Grandson refused, but let him cut potatoes for planting. BLUFFTON—Irvin Grice of Bluffton. took in a strange bird dog as a pet for his child. The dog killed five young chickens, carried them to the house and pointed. The dog died. MUNCIE —“Haven’t we met before said Judeg Redkey at Muncie to Lawrence Daffy up in court for intoxication. “Dun’no”, said Duffy. Judge sent him to jail to see if he could remember. LEESBURG— Lon Giant, Leesburg barber and baseball pitcher, has an infected arm as result of being horned by a cat fish. Marion. — Marion police rushed tc Race and Twelfth streets on report a dog had a man treed. The woman who called The police said she had even seen his eyes. The “man" was a cat. GREENSBURG-Eugene Lanham, of Greensburg, won a battle with a blue jay which had adopted a chimney in a clothing store for its summer home Ijinham went up the chimney and captured the bird after a fight that lasted several minutes. He was badly scratched. CLINTON — Oden Baker, railroad bridge carpenter, at Clinton, will no longer hew and let chips fall where they may. He cut off his toe. SEYMOUR — Henry Breeding of Seymour reports the ’’low wheat yield record”. He thrashed 130 bushels from 25 acres. Portland —Paul Van Deusen, 16, of Portland, Is preaching over the State to obtain money to attend Bible school. TIPTON—Queen, a faithful dog who has helped guard the Nickel Platt yards at Tipton for tjie last ten years has died. Queen was befriended by railroad employes, when she rode in on a freight car. f

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Herman Myers, Van Grant, and R. J. Harting motored to Van Wert, Ohio, yesterday.

I ■MBnHMKHOHMMRW. City Water Bills are due ' ■ i and must be paid L on or before July 20 I A 10% penalty will be added if bills are not paid , by this date., * • I City I Water } Dept. ) CITY HALL. 3 f 1

| Harvest Time [ Means Sale 1 tme [ l| cont 9at fevor heat at JOHN T. MYERS CO’S. | July Special Sale !<! ’ , rmvpp pntice the crowds of men ;![ Small reductions would n it takes unusual I: who have been in constant attendance. It takes unusual jl bargains to bring the crowds we are waiting on. j, 37 More Suits at Half Price Satutday Every suit in this lot is guaranteed to give absolute sat- [;[; isfaction—there isn’t an old garment on the rack—this [;[ ; is fresh stock. Look in our windows and see them—then come in and pick one out. ; i; Every Other Suit in the House |[ Reduced Too Our entire stock of men’s Michaels-Stern and J. Samuels suits have been reduced from five to fifteen dollais per ] garment. From size 33 to size 52 you will find many ' many beautiful patterns to select from and there isn t d [ j: a suit in the store above $29.75 during this sale. Every Dress Straw Hat in the Store [j[ HALF PRICE [j[ 1 [ $5.00 Straws $2.50 $3.50 Straws $1.75 ;[; [ $4.00 Straws $2.00 $3.00 Straws $1.50 ;jl _ Special Special DRESS PANTS | DRESS SHIRTS $7.5() Saturday $6.00 $4.00 Shirts . $3.00 ;jl J; $6.00 Saturday $4.80 () f 3 ; Shirts ...$2.69 Ij; j ; $5.00 Saturday $4.00 p s2>so Shirtg .. 89 < ; ; $4.50 Saturday $3.60 $2.00 Shirts .. .$1.49 $3.50 Saturday $2.80 r $1.75 Shirts 98c I;! off l off |i A " L AII Luggage Underwear Bathingsuits | Work Shirts,.. 50c~| - ; ! T* es Children’s 20% '?! t Coveralls Off All |i [[[ TWO for 25c 69c Felt Hats $ I ,{ef<l ’ e you bu >~ bc sure its n?w, fresh, clean Zrehandise, | $ Ij; I at the rig it price. ' I i[l [ j[ FOR DAD AND LAD Tofub’T’Ayoct Go ZndmCna-” - |