Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1926 — Page 6

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so NAME TENNIS I CHAMPS OF cirri j Tournaments To Be Held, For All Ages July 26-31; Medals To Be Awarded Whn are tennis champions of Decatur? I The above question will be solved | next month through a series of r.aments announced today by H. L. Curtis, physical training instructor t.!' Decatur high school, who is con- ’ ,!acting recreational work in the city j during the summer. The tourneys will be held between July 26 and 31. j There will be tournaments for children of various ages in addition to an open tourney in which players of all ages may participate. I' Class A will be open to men and, women, boys a*d girls of any age.| There will be men's singles, men's doubles, ladies’ singles, ladies’ dou-j Lies and mixed doubles. Cold medals will be awarded to the winners of each section Class 15 will be open to boys and girls enrolled in either the public or Catholic high school. There will ha hoys’ singles, hoys' doubles, girls singles, girls' doubles and mixed dou-, foies, with silver medals to be award-, ed to the winners of each section. I Class C will be open to boys and girls enrolled in the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth grade of either the public or parochial schools. There will be boys’ singles, boys’ doubles,! girls’ singles and girls’ doubles. Bronze medals will be awarded to the winners. Class D will be open to boys and girls enrolled in the third or fourth grades of either the public or parochial schools. Ribbons will be awarded to the winners. Persons wishing to enter the tournaments must enroll with Mr. Curtis at the swimming pool in the evening sometime between July 19 and The drawings will be made on July 23 and announced in thp Daily Democrat on July 24. All matches up to the semi-finals may be played on any court in the city. Scores of the matches must lie reported to Mr. Curtis as soon ns the ( matches have been played. Referees will be furnished for the semi-final | and final matches and the courts on which they must he played will be designated. No entry fee will be charged. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Chicago. 11; St lauiis, 3. New York. 3; Boston. 2 Philadelphia. 9: Brooklyn, 4 Cincinnati, 6; Pittsburgh. 1. American League Chicago, 7; St. Bonis 0. Philadelphia. 7: New York. 1. Boston. 6; Washington. 2 Cleveland, 8; Detroit, 4. American Association Milwaukee, 7; St. Paul, 4 Louisville, 4; Columbus, 3 ' r oledo 9; Indianapolis. 5. No others scheduled. — -o Preble Breaks Into Win Column Sunday Preble, June 29—The Preble baseball team won its third game of the season, Sunday, with a 11 to 4 vutoi y over the Wabash Railway nine of l-’ort Wayne, on the local diamond. Preble started with a determination to win in the first inning, scoring four tuns on five hits, and error and a sacrifice fly. The team batted arottnd during the inning. Another run in the third, one in the fifth and three in the sixth frame gave Preble a 10-0 lead. The visitors pushed over their first run in the opening half of the seventh, and added thre more in the eighth, when they bunched three singles, with a sacrifice and hit batsman. Luutman pitched for the locals, fanning 13 and allowing only S hits. "Lefty” Haynes started on the mound for the Wabash tossers, but was replaced by Boley in the sixth. Haynes pitched ten innings in the Y. M. C. A. league at Port Wayne on Saturday. SCORE R H E Wabash 0 0 000013 o—4 8 5 Preble 4 0 1113 10 x—ll 13 2 liatteries: W. Haynes, Holey and Brown; Luttman and Kreigh. Umpire Bultemeier. We want you to come to the big 4th of July celebration, Monday, July sth, at Bellmont Park Decatur. The many amusements at*, clever, thrilling anti w tolesnme. Exclt’r.g w/ents follow each other with . ist f'i-cUng delight.

! Kid Kaplan Decisively Defeats Bobby Garcia Hartford, Conn., June 29. (United I Press) Bobby Gsrela of Baltimore was hopelessly beaten here last night J iiy Kid Kaplan In their scheduled 16 ' round fight for the featherweight title | Referee Young McAullffe stopped th*- fight.when the i.nth hound was :>4 seconds old. Garda hud been floored seven times during the fight. ATHLETICS FOR i BOYS PLANNED i — i Coach Curtis Maps Out Program of Baseball.Basketi ball And Track Events i Coach H. L. Curtis today stated that he is planning a program of I baseball, basketball and track events for the grade school boys of the city, to be carried .out during the forenoons of each week this summer. Mr. Curtis wants to meet all boys of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the public and parochial schools at the Central school building at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. At that time he will exI plain the program of activities. • Certain days will be designated for baseball, others for basketball and others for track events, with one day each week for general sports. All 1 boys who were playing baseball durI ing the afternoons while the Bible School was in session and others w-ho ! were not nut at that time are urged to attend the meeting at the Central school building Wednesday m , nine. Several boys werp out for baseball this moruing. Mr. Curtis said. *+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦ + WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ +♦+♦**++*♦++*♦♦♦ Yesterday’s Hero—’’Lefty’’ Grove of the Athletics shot his season’s strike-out record tip to 110 by fanning 10 Yankees in a game won by Philadelphia, 7-1. Cincinnati again knocked off the Pirates. 6-1, Rixey yielding only four j hits. I The Indians had one big inning — 11he fifth—an.’ mad° five runs, giving them an 8-4 victory over the Tigers. | The Phillies got an early lead, pounded four Brooklyn pitchers for 14 hits and won, 9-4. Edwards held the Browns to four hits and the White Sox gained a game on the Yankses by winning 7-0. The Cubs pounded Keen and Johnson for eight runs in the fifth andt defeated the Cardinals, 11-3. The Red Sox gathered 15 hits off Ogden and Palmers while Wittse yielded only three, Boston beating Washington 6-2. A wild pitch by relief httrler Goldsmith in the seventh aided the Giants in their 3-2 victory over the Braves. American Derby Attracts Field Os Noted Horses Chicago. June 29—(United Press) —A glittering field will face the starter when the barrier is sprung for the American derby at Washington Park on July 10. Already there are four derby winners of this season —Bubbling Over, Carlaris, Bagenbaggage and Raste — entered in the classic, not to mention a number of other speedy colts. Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage ran as teammates in the Kentucky derhy, where they finished “one-two” scoring a notable victory for Colonel E. R. Bradley. While Bubbling Over was being rested, Bagenbaggage won the T.atonia derby and again the Bradley silks were “one-two” when Loot. *n Boot ran second, making it the ond time this season the Bradley horses have run first and second in a great derhy. ■ o Pete Latzo To Meet Willie Harmon Tonight Newwark, N. J. June 29, —(United Press)—Pete Latzo of Scranton. Pawill make his first ring appearance here tonight since winnin gtli welterI weight championship from Mickey Walker. Latzo is scheduled to go 12 rounds with willie Harmon. Under new Jersey laws no decision is permitted. Harmon is one of the chief contenders for the welterweight crown. 1 «* “Disousted With Life” Indianapolis, Ind., June 29. —(United Press.) —Telling his wife he was •“disgusted with life,” Edward Hedges, 38. drank poison and died last night. ' Police were informed he had been drinking heavily. j

Washington Oarsmen Win Kowing Championship Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 29. — (U.P.) —#V»r the third time In four >pnrs the oarsmen of the University of Washington are Intercollegiate rowing champions. If ever a varsity crew through the 29 years of Poughkeepsie regatta history merked victory through grit and determination, Washington did at sundown on the Hudson river yesterday when the huskies heat out a game Navy eight by half a length. - 0 ... —■ .. New British Racer To Have Two Motors Os 12 Cylinders Each London. June 29.—t’.P.—A fantasy ticaily huge automobile with two separate engines, each capable of developing 500-horse power, Is being built here for Major 11. O D. Segrave.j prominent British racer and sportsman. With this car Segrave hopes' to attain the world's high-speed record at Southport or on the sands at Pendine, Cararthenshlre, early in 1 September. The twin Sunbeam motors will: have twelve cylinders each and to attain the maximum efficiency, one] engine will he placed in the front of the car tinder the hood, while the 1 other will be placed in the rear. back, of the driver’s seat. The power will] be transmitted from each engine by j a drive shaft to a common gear box and it will he retransmitted from there to the rear wheels. The giant engine will he equipped with twelve magnetos, forty-eight valves. The gasoline consumption will be at the rate of three gallons a minute. Tests of the engines have already begun. The last record was made by J. G. Parry Thomas on the Pendine sands. April 27. Thomas achieved a speed

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iof 160 miles an hour, which Is now accepted as 'the world’s kllometrlc record. — ■ — ■— - O " “4* Suzanne Out Os Tourney > Wimbledon. F.ng., June 29.—(Unit ed Press) Suanne ls>nglen today announced her complete withdrawal from the all-Egland tournament here, 1 thereby giving Howard Kinsey and Mary K. Browne, the American players, a walk over Into the last 18 in ■ mixed doubles competition. Mile Lenglen and Jean Borotra were scheduled to meet Kinsey and Miss Browne next. * PRESSURE FROM WHITE HOUSE IS FELT IN SENATE t - (fONTINTFO WHOM PAH» OYgl , to naught. In this event, the issue will I be transferred to the poles In NovemI her. o —— I SAYS HUGE SUM IS RAISED FOR DAKOTA PRIMARY j (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) ] I prices for his products would come , cerning visioned irregularities in i thpse districts have been received ! by members of the investigating corn 1 j mlttee. i 0 State Os Emergency In England Still Exists London. June 29—(United Press)— ! King George today declared the state i of emergency arising from the gen: j eral strike and now due to the coal - .stoppage still exists. Lord Salisbury read the King's nies- j sage in the house of Lords. Its effect will be permit extension of the Em- ; ergeney powers act for another month, i

■To Test Power Os Cities To Regulate Bus Traffic Indianapolis. Ind, June 29 - (Unit ed Press)—An appeal to the State sit preme court was planned here toda> to test the power of towns and municipalities to regulate bus traffic. The appeal will he taken by attorneys for the South Side Motor coach company, of Indianapolis, from the ruling of the Shelby circuit court in dissolving a restraining order In effect in the Bea>h Grove bus controversy, The restraining order prevented the town board of Beech Grove from enforcing i its ordinance regulating busses. —o Auto Stalls On Track Frankfort, Ind., June 29. (United Press.)-A widow and five children today survived Merle Smith, 45. killed when his auto stalled in front I of a Monon train. He was employed in the Nickle Plate shops. Drunken Driver Sentenced Columbus, Ind., June 29,— (United I’ress) —As the aftermath of the collision of two automobiles. Harry Boegaho'.z, wealthy Bartholomew county farmer, today was under sentence of sixty days on the State Penal farm. Boeguholz was accused of driving while Intoxicated. — o : ' Ponzi Caught Aboard ' Steamer; Held In Texas — Houston. Tex., June 29. —(United ! Press) —Arrested on a steamer as he was about to flee to Europe. Charles ; Ponzi. Boston's "■Financial Wizard" { j was being brought hack here today j ! to he held for New England author!-, ties. I He faces a jail term of seven to

nine years as * a common and notorious thief". Ponzi’s head had been shaved and jhe wore a newly-sprouted mustache 1 when he was arrested as he stepped 1 riotn an Italian steamed to a New {Oceans Dock yesterday. i National Education . | Association Electa: Philadelphia, June 29 — (United j p r ,, S g)_The mlddlewest won out in; nominating candidates for the presi- ] deucy of the National Edaeatlon I Association in convention here today.| Francis G. Blair, Illinois superin , tendeut of schools and M. W. Lamkin, president of the Northwest | Teachers' College, Missouri, were tho two candidates selected. Miss Mary McSkimmon, principal of the Pierce School, Brookline,

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