Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1926 — Page 6

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LOCAL GOLF FANS LAY 00T COURSE Temporary Six-Hole Course Is Provided On Leigh Bowen Fann Golf enthusiasts of thio city have laid out a temporary golf course on the Leigh Bowen farm, south of Decatur, and announced today that anyone who wishes to practice on their brivlng is welcome to make use of the course. As outlined, the course is a six-hole affair and those who have been sponsoring the movement for the golf course in Decatur say that the fairways of the temporary course are in good condition. Elags have been erected and. although the greens are not in good condition, good practice can he secured on the fairways and approaches. Golf Club Purposed It is probable that a meeting will be called next week for all golf enthusiasts, and efforts will he started at once to secure a golf club for this city. Several other tracts of land are being considered as probable sites and those sponsoring the movement say that there is sufficient interest here to warrant a club. A preliminary membership fee will be charged, if the plan now being considered works out, and it is thought that in the next two months the course will be ready for use. Those who have had experience in organizing chibs are of the opinion that an organization can be perfected and that a course can be built for a fee of *ls or 125 per member. While plans are being formulated, golf enthusiasts are invited to bring their clubs out to the Bowen farm, south of Decatur, and make use of the fairways. — o + *++++++++++++++ + BASE BALL STANDINGS + + ++ + + + NATIONAL LEAGUE W. U Pct. Philadelphia 3 1 -J;' 0 St. Louis 3 1 -i.»2 New York ........ .2 1 ,66< Cincinnati 2 1 -667 Chicago 1 2 Brooklyn 1 - .33,> Pittsburgh 1 3 •2.'° Boston 13 .2 >o AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. P<t. Chicago 3 0 1.000 Washington 3 1 .750 New York 2 1 .66« Cleveland .11 .500 Detroit 1 1 ;'hU Boston 1 2 .333 Philadelphia 1 3 .250 St. Louis .... 0 3 .000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Minneapolis 3 " Loiio Indianapolis 3 0 1.000 Louisville 3 0 1.000 Toledo 2 1 667 St. Paul —1 2 .333 Milwaukee 0 3 .000 Kansas City 0 3 .000 Columbus 0 4 .000 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis, 3; Pittsburgh, 2. Boston, 6; Philadelphia. 5. Cincinnati, 3; Chicago. 2. New York, 3; Brooklyn, 2. American League Chicago, 5; St. Louis, 1. Detroit, 5; Cleveland, 3. Washington, 4; Philadelphia. 3. New York. 3; Boston, 2. American Association Indianapolis, 8; Kansas City, 7. Louisville, 7; Milwaukee. 4. Minneapolis. 13; Columbus. 4. Toledo, 9; St. Paul, 6. o *+++++++ + + * + +* + + * WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD + ++++++++ + + + + + + + + Yesterday's Hero —Harry Heilman, champion batter of the American Ix-ague doubled with the bases filled j and drove in three runs that gave. Detroit a 5 to 3 victory over Cleve-. land. Rally's single in the sixeh inning I scored Frisch and enabled the Giants, to flop the Robins again. 3 to 2. The Senators pounded five pitchers and beat the Athletics 4 to 3. Heiuie Mueller’s single drove in the run in the ninth inning that gave the Cardinals a 3 to 2 win over the Pirates. With two men on in the ninth inning, Clarence Mitchell popped out as a pinch hitter and the Braves grabbed one from the Phillies, 6 to 5. • Red Lucas held the Cubs to five hits, tripled and scored the run that gave the Reds a 2 to 1 victory. Gully’s triple with the bases filled helped the White Sox beat the Browns 5 to 1. Loose fielding by the Red Sox and a tight defense behind Pennock helped the Yankees to a 3 to 2 victory.

’ Pat Page Issues Football I Call To "Campus Lilies" “ | Bloomington, Ind . April 17 —(Unit- " cd Press.l -Couch Pul Page today * issued a call to all “campus lilies" to tty their luck in football togs. Page's proclamation camo after he " saw the Indiana journalistic fraternity award a lily to the most prominent sheik, who happened to be well proportioned ami weigh two hundred e pounds. it "If that’s what you call a lily, we - need a lot of them," Page said. —— o D. H. S. NINE LOSES OPENER t _ Fort Wayne Central Slugs Way To 18-1 Victory; Visiting Hurlers Strong Air-tight pitching by Baker, Scott and Billingsley, while their teammates batted the local hurlers hard, gave Central high school of Fort Wayne an 18-1 victory over the Decatur high school baseball team, in a game played on the South Ward school diamond yesterday afternoon. , It was the first game of the season , for both teams. One lone single hit ; by Strickler in the fourth inning, was ' the only hit made by Decatur, while the* visitors clouted our seventeen , hits, one a home run by Baker. Thomas started on the mound for Decatur and Central hopped on his , delivery for two runs in the opening , inning. In the second inning. Baker , lammed out a home run with Ramsey on base. One other run was made , by Central in the second inning, and , three more in the third frame. , Strickler relieved Thomas on the , mound for Decatur in the third frame | and in the fourth inning managed to , shut out the visitors. Strickler Scores In Decatur's half of the fourth, , Strickler dropped a pretty Texas Leaguer in short right field which was good for one base. He stole second on the next pitch, anil when i Baker made a bad throw to SSteigler

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In an effort to catch him stealing third, he came In home with the only | tally scored by the locals. Strickler ' got on base In the second Inning on tin error and again in the seventh on u walk. Central scored one run In the fifth ’ Inning and in the sixth frame batted Strickler's offerings hard for six runs. Thomas hurled the seventh inning and was nicked for three runs. ' Scott pitched the sixth inning for Central and struck out three batters. Billingsley hurled the seventh inning and managed to get by without being scored on. although he walked 1 Strickler and a pretty cutch by Slpels, in deep center, robbed Joe Bebout of a bit. Central has one of the best high, school teams seen here for several years Only two players were lost from last year’s nine. Lineups and summary: CENTRAL (181 R H Billingsley, ss.p .2 <> I Troyer, If 2 3 Brockul), rs 11 ■ Steigler. 3b . ... 3 4 Scott. 2b-p 2 1 Jasper, lb 3 2 Ramsey, cf . 11 Bayer, < .22 Baker, p 2 :: Ridley, 2b-ss .... 0 U Slpels, cf 0 0 Hou. k. 2b 0 'I DECATUR (1) R H Bebout. c 11 11 B-11. ::h • " Strickler, ss-p 11 Blakev, 2b-ss 0 0 Di-rkes. if 0 0 Reynolds, lb • • Thomas, p-rs •’ 0 Somers, rs ■ 0 •• Brown, cf 0 0 Moser. 2b 0 0 Score bv innings: - 1234567 R H Central 2 3 3 0 1 6 3—lß 17 I Decatur 0001000—1 1 0 ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ + + + ♦♦♦♦♦♦ + SPORT TABS ♦ ♦+++++++ + + ♦♦ + ♦ + Peoria „ 111. — The Peoria Special Spring Golf tournament will be held hete June 9-10 according to an an- 1 nonneemont by Robert T. Hunter, chairman of the tournament commit- I tee of the Illinois Senior Golf asso- t ciation. East Chicago. Ind. —Merle Alte defeated Californai Joe Lynch in ten rounds. They are bantams. Cedar Rapids, lowa.—Clyde Drury, Marshalltown scored a decisive victory over Buzz Griffith. Sioux City, in 10 rounds. Sailor Larson, Moline. 111., won from Benny Ray. St. Paul,

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► In lo round*. Toffy Griffith. Rioux City, won in six rounds from Billy ;• ?,oon. 7 i Philadelphia. — I awnon Robertson, i head roach of the 1924 American I Olympic team, signed a new five-year i contract as track ami Held couch and I football trainer at the University of , Pennsylvania. ! New York Ruby Goldstein. New York lightweight, kayo.d Pep O'Brien, . Scranton, in the third round. Wilkvsbarre, Pa. Tiger Flowers, middleweight champion, won a ten- j . round decision from Joe Gans, Allentown, the left la-ting lie- ... .id ( big vote when the judges disagreed. BALL GAMES TODAY — : National League Boston at Now York, cloudy, 3 p.ni. ’ I Brooklyn at Philadelphia, clear. ' I Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, cloudy. Chicago at St. Louis, clear. American League New York at Washington, clear. Philadelphia nt Boston, clear. Cleveland at Chicago, clear. St. Louis at Detoit, partly cloudy. o MAJOR LEAGUE SIDELIGHTS « i Taking the from the ‘ champion Pittsburgh Pirates, the St. Louis Cardinals moved into a tie with Philadelphia for first place in the National league. With three games won and none lost, the White I Sox hold the lead in the American 1 League. ! I Bucky Harris, young Washington pilot, was the first manager of the \ J season to get the gate. He didn’t like a decision of Umpire Nallin and was J given a ticket to the club house. Babe Ruth was held hitless again but Rogers Hornsby and Zach Wheat,' leading National League batters, de-' livered a single each. Charley Robertson, pitching his, first game for the Browns against the White Sox. his former teammates! grooved one for Tom Gulley, a rookie]

NOTICE To Light and Power Consumers MMMMWWMMMAMMMMAMMMMWVWW Due to installation of a new Switchboard at the city light and power plant, Light and Power Service will be discontinued from 9 a. m. until 12 I o’clock noon Sunday, April 18. City Light and Power Dept.

Tom tripled with «.he bases filled. Robertson exited. Paul Zahlb'ser. fhyt Sox pitcher was floored by u drive against hls nnklo from Cobs' bat and hud to be carried off the field. Two hits In the ninth inning by the Downs kept the veteran Red Faber from scoring a shut out in bls first start for the White Sox. Jack. Fournier, veteran Brooklyn first baseman and Leach, rookie Phillle outfielder, supplied the only homers of the day. o— Closed Season On Black Bass Starts On May 1 Jndainapolis. April 17. - (United Press. I Georg,- Mannfeld, chief of the fish and game division of the state conservation commission, today called attention of Indiana fishermen to the closed season for small mouth and large mouth black bass and blue gills. From May 1 to June 16 it will be utilafu) to catch these species, which are protected by law during the spawning season. The minim, m fine for taking the three protected game fishes in closed season is 110 and the maximum fine is 850. WANTED Rough Sluff Rubbers Putty Glaziers Lacquer Polishers Auto Frame Riveters Auto Body Trimmers Auto Body Hardware Assemblers Write or Applv WILLYS-OVERLAND Employment Office West Central Avenue, Toledo, Ohio.

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