Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1926 — Page 6

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CARDINALS OUT IN FRONT AGAIN Eight Straight Victories Would Give St. Louis National League Flag New York. Sept. 18.—(United Press) —Eight straight victories in their remaining games will give the St. Louis Cardinals the Pennant - in the National League, regardless of what Cincinnati does. The Cardinals tock the lead in the epic baseball struggle by crushing the helpless Phillies yesterday, 10-1. and now are a game in front. The Cincinnati Reds, righting gamely, were beaten in 'he tenth Inning by Frank Frisch, abetted by the New York (Wnts. With the score tied and two out, Frisch hit a home run. The 6 * victory of the Giants broke the tie between the Reds and Cards for'first place’and pit the Red; in a poor tactical position. They must meet the Giants again today, while the Cardinals have two games with the helpless In rhe American League, the Vanfees are beginning to admit that the thing looks serious. The Cleveland Indians took their third streight game from the League Leaders and cut their lead to three ami one half games. The teams have two more games to play hete, and if the Indians win both, they will only be a game and a half behind, with seven more to play while the Yanks would have eight more to p ay. o ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ National League W L Pct. St. Louis 86 60 .589 Cincinnati ... 85 61 .582 P ttsburgh 80 65 .552 Chicago .'. 77 New York 68 73 .482 Brooklyn .... 67 79 459 Boston ... 58 83 .411 Philadelphia 53 85 .384 American League W L Pct. New York 87 57 .604 Cleveland 84 61 .579 Philadelphia 76 64 .543 Washington .... 76 65 .539 Chicago 74 70 .514 Detroit 74 72- .50" St. Louis <• 59 85 .410 American Association W L Pct. Louisville 100 56 .641 Milwaukee — 90 65 .581 Indianapolis 89 66 .574 Toledo .81 73 .526 Kansas City 81 74 .6-3 • St. Paul 77 77 .500 Minneapolis .. 85 90 .419 Gohtmbus • .... 36 118 .234 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League St. Louis, 10; Philadelphia. 1. New York, 5; Cincinnati, 4 Brooklyn. 3; Pittsburgh 1. Chicago-Boston, rain. - ' L- ■ Chicago. 8; Boston. 2. Washington, 5; Detroit. 4. St. Louis. 6; Ph ladelphia, 3. American Association Ixiuisville. 4-4; Milwaukee, 1-2. St. Paul, 2-6; Toledo, 1-1 Columbus. 4-6; Minneapolis. 3-5. Indianapolis. 1; Kansas City, 0. o ++++++++ + + + v* + + + + SPORT TABS ♦ •H.+++++++ + + + + + + + New York.—A world championship pocket billiard match’ will b e held in about a month or six weeks, B. E. Bensinger, president of the Brunswick-BaUe-Collender Co., announced on his return from Europe, it probably will be in Philadelphia. New York—Joe Glick, New York, will fight Tod Mogan. of Seattle, junior lightweight champion at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 30. The fight will be 15 rounds for the title. Chicago. — Five hundred boxes for the Aijny and NaYy football game to be played here Nov. 27 are to be offered for public austion soon. It is expected that each box will bring $2,000. Prices for grandstand seats will range from $5 to S2O. o — Macklin To Coach Portland ‘ Our Boys” Team Again Portland, Sept. 18>-Paul Macglin former Purdue University star half back, has been engaged to coach tht “Our Boys” football team, and practice will be held on Tuesday anti Thursday evening of each week. Man) of the players- of former years have reported for this season and several new recruits are trying out. Those interested in the team believe that prospects are bright for the best team that ever represented Portland on the gridiron. Offers have been received from cities in Indiana and Ohio and it is probable that the schedule will soon be filled.

" 1 1 Fort Wayne Pro Basketball "Quintet In New Hands II Fart Wayne, Sept. 18. —The Fort Wayne Basketball Association has , been organised here to take over the I Knights of Columbus professional s ' basketball team. Stock is being sold |ln the organization to purchase the I team's franchise in the American 1 Basketball League and to start the | team in the league this fall. Shares ' i have a par value of $lO each. The '■] team will be known as the Fort s Wayne city team in the future instead ‘lot the Caseys. ;i | — o PREP ELEVENS 1 OPEN SEASON :| — Gridiron Interest In State Centers On Several High School Teams ■ t By William J. Dunn . United Press Staff Correspondent , Indianapolis. Sept 18.—With Indiana college eleven; facing another week o f preparatory work before swinging in l . tc the grind of the 1926 football seasor I gridiron interest in the state today > centered on the several high school teams. The majority of Indiana's prep ele- , vens will swing into action this afteri noon. Followers »f the high school sport ( will watch with especial interest in the Elwood-Morton o’ Richmond game at Elwood. The Elwocd-Morton game will mark the inauguration lof an experiment 'i which it is believed will add much to pi-p football interest within the state—The Indiana h igh school football conference.. ' The conference, consisting of ten Indiana high schools known for their : football prowess, was termed last spring. Other "big ten” drigh school teams will also swing into their season play teday. but with non-ccmference teams as their opponents. With the majority of high school i teams in the state boasting veteran ■ i aggregations it looks as though foot ' ball in Indiana were out for a record year. I Not the: n Indiana schools look es-, pecially strong of Gary, for five years un-, defeated by an Indiana Eleven, will be ( watched with special interest. George Veenker, the man who fostered the ■ Indiana high school football conference. has been called to the coaching staff of Michigan. I Elmer Lampe, so-mer conference star, has taken on the job of coaching another champion team at Gary. F. ! Van Wert ezidders Open Van Wert, Ohio, Sept. 18.—The fore- j cast on success of the Scarlc> mid Gray grid team this year, is favorable. The team will be light but the members all have the bigger they are the Harder they fall spirit. Between thirty and forty men responded to Coach ■ Moore’s call for candidates*last Mon- * day. N He has four letter men from last > year’s team, Hartman. Capt.; Jones, 1 i Edwards. Thomas. Around these four men he will have to develop a strong ■ team to meet the strong opposition i afforded by this year's schedule. r Moore is working hard to whip his team into shape for the Decatur game • which is the first on the schedule. - Decatur has the advantage of playing 1 several games this season and a couple I of more weeks’ practice. The schedule for the coming sear son will be one of the hardest for the > last several years. It will bring to ■ Van Wert some of the best teams in 8 northwestern Ohio. The schedule 4 for the coming season follows: 8 Sat. Sept. 25 —Decatur here. Sat. Oct. ” Lima South. Here. Sat. Oct. 9—Defiance there. Sat. Oct. 16—Wapakoneta there. I Sat. Oct. 23 —Greenville here. 1 , Sat. Oct. 30—St. Marys here. Thurs. Nov. 11—Alumni here. ♦ *• Sat. Nov. 13 —Lima Central there. f ‘ Sat. Nov. 20 —Ada there. e Thanksgiving Day —Defiance here, e- o—d y NOTICE e The Hoagland Switchboard associaj tlon will receive sealed bids for e Switchboard Operator to September lt 30th. For information write or ca”. n Chas E. Witte, Sec’y. Hoagland, Ind. e 215-11-14-17 d o—--11 Use ANACONDA fertilizer. 11 Best and Cheapest. Decatur Produce Co., phone 380. eod

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j I A little bit warm, but otherwise a nice day for the opening of the foot- ‘, ball season. 1 Ccach Marshall Assistant Coach Curtis and seventeen members of the Yellow Jacket squad left this morning by auto for Auburn, to battle Zeke Young’s Auburn high gridders this afternoon The game was to be called at ILa’cloek. A change has been made In the officials far the game. Weii bourn, football coach of South Side high school Fort Wayne, will referee. ' instead of Mendenall. Centra! coach. The South Side varsity defeated the alumni yesterday afternoon at the South Sids stadium, 13-0 The Green used straight football in overcoming the old grads. The Centra! Tigers were scheduled, to meet their alumni this afternoon High school games scheduled for today inelude: Peru at Plymouth, Anderson at Marion. Huntington 4 Wabash. Carmel at Lebanon, Kokomo at Noblesville. Bluffton at Muncie, | Celina at Portland, Garrett at South Rend, Wilkinson at Newcastle, and Kendallville at Columbia City. The prol -ble lineup for the Yellow laiketa today was - Anadell and Kri.-k, ends; Geiber and Anderson, tackins; Butcher and Frifiuger or Kiess. 1 guards; Bebout. c.-nter: Covault, oua: tei back; Captain Acker and Chet Reynold . halfbacks; Brown fullback At least one member of the second team is making it plenty tough for the Yellow Jacket varsity. It is Hill, former Monmouth athlete, who is playing right tackle for the scrubs. Hill will not be eligible for athletic competition until the second semester since he changed schools this fall but he is working bard at football this fall in anticipation of holding j down a regular berth next fall, I and judging from the stuff he is putting out in practice he will not i fall short. He has the size, I strength and the old fight. Here’s one from Crowds on the Sidelines in the Huntington Press ‘‘Buck," the incorrigible punisher of i typewriters, for Bluffton Banner, is now running a footba:' column entitled "Grjdiron Dope ” Since ■’Willie Punt" (of the Decatur Democrat bounded in j ti> the limelight witL a two column I t>ei ‘ we suppose Buck just simply [cculdn't stand the pressure. Now we «al<t.«vWA' - • -C Mutfl i hand and -.jendl-i." Buck, who fills up space in tht Bluffton Banner, and "Off the Bat”, in the Goshen Democrat, were the onh roiumuist.-. in cur exchanges who did their daily dozen yesterday. Buck had a hard time filling up and had to re--1 sort to the Dempsey-Tjinney fight anti j horse racing to get by. I About eight to go. Bluffton Mentor Picks Team For Muncie Game Bluffton. Sept. 18. —The P. A. Allenhigh school football squads wei£ given their first real scrimmage of tne sea son on the Wilson Park football field Wednesday Wternoon when Coach ' Means, in charge the first squad. Principal Mitzne;. performing with the* second string men. and L. E. ’ ; Templin .acting as head linesman. In ’ structed the boys through a regular 1 pigskin game. The first squaib de- ’ seated the seconds by a large score. Coach Means has announced th*, football line-up for the Munciejfame, which will be played on the Muncie field Saturday afternoon. The line up announced l>y Coach Means is as follows: Paxso^i —left end 137 popnds. Waugh left tackle—l 63 pounds. Ochseiu'ider —left guard 126 lbs. M. Baxter —center —130 pounds. Eddington —right guard—l 67 lbs. Smith—right guard—l4s pounds. Williams —right tackle—ls 2 pounds. , Tappy —right tackle —162 pounds. r Redding—right end —130 pounds. r N. Baxter —fullback—l 79 pounefs. Khoble —-quarterback—145 pounds. I K. Swigert —halfback—l 46 pounds. Longden—halfback—140 pounds. Ellenberger —halfback —157 pounds. Schroeder, Lantis, Harris, Maddux, •. Gentis, Keller, Pyle, Maddux and r Smith will probably be taken with the d squad as utility men.

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Vanguard Os Fight Fans ‘ Arriving In Philadelphia ' Philadelphia, Sept. 18 — 'United ' Press) -The advance guard of the 1 140,000 expected to attend the Demp- ( sey-Tunney fight here next 'Thursday t were arriving in steadily increasing , numbers today. ; ] All hotels are booked to capacity | and it is expected nearly 100,000 visitors will be here when the special trains begin arriving next week from ] Chicago. New York and other cities. I The prospect of the fight being stopped by the legal attacks being made on it were discounted by officials of the Sesqui-Centennial exposition. I B. C. Clements of the Chicago Coliseum Club, is here with an Indiana injunction and a copy of an alleged contract for Dempsey to fight Harry Wills. I Attorney General Woodruff has given the oninion that the Indiana injunction will have no weight in Pennsylvania courts. 0 » WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ ! »*** + + **** + ** + *+ Yesterday’s hero: Bill Sherdel, left handed pitcher of the St. Louis Card nals, who pitched his team back to the top of the National league stand'ng, when the Cardinals beat the Phillies, 10-1. Sherdel's team mates got 15 hits. While the Cardinals uete busy winning, the Cincinnati Reds were busy losing to the Giants. 5-4. After aking an early lead the Reds lost in he tenth inning on Frisch's home run. Joe Shaute pitched the Cleveland Indians to a 5-1 victory over the i Yankees, and the tribe was just three and a half games behind the league I leaders. The Indians have nine more , games to play, the Yanks ten. The Brooklyn Dodgers took another j game from the Pirates, 3-1, Dazzy Vance pitching a clean cut victory. Ted I >yons. White Sox pitcher won r his 18th victory of the season from . the Boston Red Sox, 32. The St. Louis Browns beat the t Athletics, 63. Washington took its fourth straight . win from Detroit, 5-4. in ten Innings. o— —* i Civil War Veterans Hold Reunion Today Five of the six surviving members of the • Eleventh Indiana battery, which was recruited In Allen county in 1861 and afterwards served three and one-half years in the Civil war* • were expected to meet today for an annual reunion at the Fort Wayne court house. Surviving members of the battery are: John C. Shuler, president; William Edmunds, Jacob H. Felger, all of Fort Wayne; Peter Gressley, of Hoagland, Lewis Hoopengardner, of Ossian, and Jacob Goode, of Portland, 1 Ore. Mr. Goode is not expected to e be present. Relatives of deceased members were •*

to attend as were veterans of other I regiments. Registration took place I fiom 10 to 10:30 a. tn. and a program! was held from 10:30 a. tn to 12 noon. . In the afternoon, a meeting was to j be held at which Mr. Shule. presided and talks will be given by the Rev. A. J. Folsom, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational rtiurch. and Creighton H. Williams, son of an officer of the battery. Road to Sun Set now open— Drive out. It

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Two Men Fighting Over Which Should Pay Taxi Fare Killed By An Auto Forest Hills, N. Y.. Sept 18. — (Unit | ed Press)—Two men fighting in the street over which should pay a taxicab were killed oy an autc today. The men, Bernard O'Neal and Edward McCabe relied in the road punching each other and an auto, coming at high . ! speed, w - as on top of them before the ; driver could stop.

Desecration Os Graves American Soldiers By Frenchmen Charged Paris. Sept. 18-(United Pr „,. (’cloncl F. W. Van Duyn, thi f ' the American Grave. Reg la , rat "' service, has ordered « vonipl 1 “ s vestigatmn of all graves, f oho *' charges by United State. Sena: ' Caraway .he: America 0 graves in France have been deuF ed by Frenchmen. "Senator Caraway’s report i ntWeW( us, Colonel Van Duyu® eg j d tol . Ing publication of Senator Ca rawgv -, claim in the French, press “This lervico wishes to state un qualltiedly, however, that no wt of desecration at any grave in the *| X American military cemeteries W h hh we care for has yet come to our tj tice." he continued. "These cemeteries are permanent, ly under guard of tried and provon ex service men from the American army. All of them fought In France during the war and if any of desecration had occurred we believe ,t would have been reported immediately." Colonel Van Duyne drew attention to the fact that a complete inspection of all six cemeteries is made monthly by a commissioned officer. o Rehearsals Started Bv Indiana University Band Bloomington. Ind, Sept. 18—(United Press) —With the distribution of new uniforms and instruments, rehearhals have been started for the Indinana University band. The band will be drilled by <?apt. G. C. Cleaver of the R. O. T. C. who has had charge of drilling the band for the past two years. The fit’s! public appearance of the band will be at the Indiana Depauw football game here, Oct. 2. o _ Fort Wayne Night Owls tonight at Sun Set. Sunday evening Ray Finkhouse and his Ohioans. It — — o MATINEE — Sunday at the ADAMS Theatre at 2 P. M. “MANTRAP.” It ■ ■ O" ■ Eczema Can Be Cured So can the various skin and scalp diseases. Try a box of B. B. Ointment It eurses most skin and scalp disease, when used according to Instructions. At s|l druegists— Get a box today.