Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1926 — Page 6

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FLAG IN REACH OF CARDINALS St. Loui < Has Bijj Edge Over Cincinnati In National League Race — New York. Sept. 21. — (United Prersi 1 — St. Louis was within reach of the "National league pennant today, two i.i.mvs ahead of the Cincinnati Reds nud only five games each to go. The Cards cjn lose out only by dropping . thiee of their remaining games- while the 4teds make a clean sweep. Cincinnati went to pieces yesterday and dropped a double-header to the ; Boston Braves. 4 to 3 and 3 to 0. while I the Cards were idle. The Reds will play, one more game I with the firaves today, then three with 1 the Phillies, then the final game of i the season with the Cards Sunday. The Cards play two with Brooklyn, two with the Giants and the final with Cincinnati. If the Reds can win the next four games while the Cards do no better I than tireak even, they will enter the final game tied and the pennant will be decided Sunday. In the Atnerit an League the Yankees' hold on first place was loosened a little when the Chicago White Sox took a double header from the New Yorkers, 7 3 and 4-3. but Cleveland lost to Boston. 3-2. so the danger to the Yankees was not as great as it might have been. —o - \ ( hampion Pronounced As Fit As A Fiddle Atlantic City. N. J.. Sept. 21ztl'nited Press.) —Jack Dempsey was to confine his workout today to a short road jaunt and a session w'.th the punching bag.' Tomorrow he will follow the same routine. All forth ■ purpc, <• of k ep ing his muscles flexible for Ms bout with Tunney. He* has reached his training peak

2Y . ".""L > yi ® ' ; / / WOr / ■xjawi WTf?? r ~» i j|w -I*; 7", • . No Freaks! A freak in mens attire is something that 999 j out of 1,000 good dressers won’t wear and while this Fall’s mens apparel is the brightest and lightest hued in years—there are no bearded ladies. Loud colors? You bet! Extremes for young men—but no erratic or. hysterical departure from good grooming. Our customers like io be laughed WITH not AT. x *■ I , Michaels-Stern Fall Suits ...... $20.00 to $12.50 Manly Top Coats $15.00 to $30.00 Keith & Stetson Fall Hats $2.00 to $3.00 Chalmers and Vassar Underwear. .SI.OO to $5.00 J. P. Smith and Portage Dress Shoes. ,$t to $9.00 1 I WwT-Myeo <3c J BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS- *• DECATUR • INDIANA *

'and now only seeks to keep himself in tritn for hu title match. His weight today was 193 and he will enter the ring in all probability within a pound of that. I His trainers and boxing experts alike agree he is as fit as a fiddle. FANS GATHER 1 I FOR RID FIGHT All Efforts To Stop Dempsey -Tun he y Heavy- 4 weight Bout Cease I ' By Henry L. Farrell I • (United Press Staff Cot respondent) ; Philadelphia. Sept. 21 —This is the I 'first of those hectic days which »eem I the inevitable prelude to eve y world'- ' In .ivyw,..?ht ch.impi -e-hip fight, . ' -_-n | the bays " ho had ambition to cut in I upon the luscious melon which only .Tex Rickard the Master Gardener. - knew how to raise, try their best to c ret their share. J Before this exf-ited city was fairly t •awake, there could u- seen marching t ion city hail, topped by its effigy of the t , benevolent William Penn', a little army t Icf legal lights. foE wing in the ea er footstep-, of that fis'ic genius, Jack , Kearns. t They were bent upon attaching the profits of the forthcoming battle of the ~ • qui-Centenial. in the nam f tin who were disappointed that Ju.k Dempsey besides being world's chant1 i ii, h id proved himself a good bu in- ~ e s man. S' , While fight fans, gathering f.-> ;u near and far were just beginning ’ o - .vat nt the side walks and hotel lobbies i ith their talk of who would win the fight, John R. K. Scott and Arthur: N Saeger Attorneys, were busy with l~ ffidavi pleas and other legal para- : 'lernalia. bent upon seeing that the , champion'- former manager won at : I f 33 out of the affair. \\ . v> r the merltkof the re p tic. candidates in :lA heavyweight <l. imp: tuhip fight which now looms I. th..,n 72 hours :r<#iy. the fact ex- •

■ „ Ists that the worry about this preliminary injunction bufinc’s is ccnfln e l tzThe champion's vamp Jack Dempsey having renounced active training sot the affair, profeses not to be worried, but he is too much cf a business man no*, to have an ear attuned to these legal proceedings winch will occupy moat of th* day in Philadelphia. On the other hand. Gene Tunney ppeer like an amateur contestant, the- challeng’t.r bar nothing to worry him. Al! efforts to stop the fight heyre 'reused. Tunney and Hilly Gibson, his r.ttut- •M.- , tlrv-»r. ate assm.-d of their hare of the proceeds, wpi If h ive been fixed at $200,000 Ter Rickard. as’dk from sundry ct'jer difficulties width always con j front the promoter of a $.’,000,000 afair. !-> doing n little worying of hi ' own about these threatened suit*!. Rtekard has poster! a sl9" 990 bond! whereby Dempsey w.l! be permitted' to leave the state cf New Jersey and jtuin y h-cre for u -xt Thursday's) fight. ,, L q. ■ rs. . ■ i Tunney Cocksure Os Victory Over Dempsey Stroudsburg. Pa., Sept. 21. —(United Pre■ \c. i Cocksure of victory over Jack Dempsey in the arena at the Sesqui-centennial stadium Thursday night. Gene Tunney lias hung up his boxing gloves and is devoting today to light road work and bag punching His training has been completed and he is ready at this minute to enter the ring. The halleuger is in the be possible ■ or..’i Non. His brui ed Up has . ,r a ili.. healed, and the stiff punches! .van by Jimmy Delaney in the workit ; during the last three of four . have- failed to draw blood from t. * 11,. w.ll enter the ring weighing be-

... - .| nllW | — You can teach an °“* 'Ko A X dog new . ■ . m tricks ’ ~ fir' X x aA — 7 'A s A w\. k WeaHIlM I WAS already a veteran pipe-smoker The mildness of Prince Albert when I ran across Prince Albert. It hap- pealed to me too. Yet there was plenty , pened one day in the smoking-car. I of body to It. I knew I was smoking. reached for my tobacco and found I was And I knew I was enjoying it more than p ' Aif taU ntTyuhm reJ "out.” A good Samaritan’sitting across any other tobacco I had ever tried. That the aisle held out a friendly looking settled me. I bought some P. A. when 4r"* « • it 1 • rtmovej by iht Prince Albert pr<K9M» red tin. the tram pujfca ixb • I accepted the offer. That was a That was several years ago. I’ve been great moment in my life, as it turned out. aP. A. regular ever since. Maybe y*ni Why, that very first taste won me. It was need a similar experience to put you next co«l, like a breeze through an open win- to the grandest tobacco that ever lined f dow. It was sweet as a ripe peach. It was a pipe-boivl. My suggestion is: don't wait! 1 fragrant, even in that smoke-filled car. Get yourself a tidy' red tin of Prince * I I was having the time of my life. Albert today! - * Sij / \ 1 Fringe albert W I —no other tobacco is like it! 5 \ ■ I ! 1926, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco s Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. ’

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 19M-

• tween 196 and 188 pounds 1 Gene is holding up well, in morale Instead of wavering as the night of , the fight draws near, he seems to i grow more confident. ' ~ 11 The Fourth Down By Willie Punt There are so many major sporting | events In the limelight at present i that they are becoming more or less i confusing to Lhe less expert fan It i wouldn't be surprising to hear someI thlnij like this: 'Jack Dempsey ' knocked a home run in the thhd quarter." \ We have two or three clippings out cf Buck's column. "Gridiion Dope." in the Bluffton Hanner, so we guess we might as well spread them out right here: -Willie Punt of Decatur, had a game won and tnen he didn’t. His Yellow Jackets allowed those Auburnites to slip a touchdown over and take the game 6 to 0. Better luck next time. Willie.” "Resolved—That (rmnowon Bluffton. Decatur and Huntington will exert their right as free born citizens to eat what they please and refrair ctor at leasi the rest of the season) from bripeing anv more goose egghome towsupper. Sign here, gang." If Bluffton had saved up all

the goose egg* they have collected In football during the l«»‘ four year*, they would have a life site poultry farm over there by this time. The columnlats in several of our 'exchanges mutt have been busy'"}"?'terday digging out big type in tnccellar for the front page streamers on the Florida drastej;. since their columns failed.to appear. The Yellow Jackets started wort . yeste-diijT evening in pri parr.tton frn | iheir journey across the border into Ohio for a game with the Van Wert 11 eleven next Saturday. This will be the first game between th> OecatuK xnd Van Wert football tearA since The fall of 1923, when the two teams battled to a scoreless tie, on the Van Wert gridiron. The Yellow Jackets put uo one of the greatest fights that day in the history of Decatur football. The Buckeye* hid gone through the season without a defeat and had trampled under all other teams by a big score. It's about time for some co’nmnist to pull that old on e about the lino! typo operators matching colt’s to -■ - which one gets to set this column A YELLOW JACKET FIGHTS’ "We aren't offering any alibis W«went to Wabash wi'h a green team to meet a trained eleven rs husky veterms. We expected defeat. We met it. But from now on We’re picking he Vil-n- gCrowd <n til lines. Huntington Press, i Atta Boy Crowds. Th, world loves i good loser. What's the score?

MIKE PUNS FOB ATHLETICBOOV Organization Ol Catholic Athletic Association Discussed Last Night pg’sons a iended the meet- : Ing at the K. of C. nail last evening fcr'tlw purpose of discussing p ans tor irmnlglng a Catholi. athletic assoclat'on H. H Schmitt, a member of the ■ iool -ithletic beard, presided as ' ehahman. and talks were made by the Rev- J- A Seimeta. pastotj and ttev. Joseph He-sion. assistant B-stor lot St. Mary’s Catholic church. Others I present voiced expressions on the ori ganiratlon of an athletic association j and a rnitdtlve list of members was i cmpiim At a future meeting, the .■rgahUaGon will be computed. France Confer, cotch of the D. C. i H. 8. teams, was present at the meeting -nd ’read the list of basketball i games scheduled for the season so j fa . The first game w 11 be played here cn Noveomher 19. the CommodoreI in etmg the t'atholic high school team fr m Celina, Ohio. Carnes have also b en scheduled with Vincennes. Fort ; Wayne. Lima. Indianapolis and other ii Wes ar.d an eff rt is being made to book a game with the Louisville CathoI i<- high school team which won the I< h .m’iionsihp at the National Ca»hon tournament in Chicago last spring. C ach Confer hak IS games scheduled n iw and hopes to book a few more for the seasop. ■' Baseball Practice Under , Waj At Indiana University I Bloomington. Ind., Sept. 21. —Coach Eve ,-tt Dean started fall baseball 1 t Indiana University yesterday with

a large squad out tosst nR t) 2"? around the diamond. Most of t* season's team will again be I next year. ** * * * ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦•* BASEBALL STANDING ! • National League ’ | St. LOUIS .. jj; y P .' s ' Ip'uabXh ' s® fs 1 Six,. »•• ! 5 Brooklyn 6S ' '• r ( Boston 6 i 84 “ . | Philadelphia 54 87 ‘ American League ' New York s 8 60 r Cleveland 85 S 3 I Philadelphia ... 73 66 512 . Wa-hington 78 67 , Chicago 78 70 517 5 Detroit 77 73 j,. • St. Ix»uis 60 8 8 405 1 Boston > 46 83 .357 American Association , I T L p ct Louisville 103 57 644 | Milwaukee <,2 67 ,s?s I Indianapolis . 90 69 'sjs Toledo. 83 74 523 i Kansas City 83 76 5’2 1 St- Paul 7 9 78 .503 > Minneapolis \... 68 92 .425 . Columbus .. 37 12 2 283 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League 1 Boston. 4-3; Clnonnati, 3-0. > Chicago, f 2; New York. 21. t Pittsburgh, 4; Philadelphia, 0. American League Boston. 3; Cleveland. 2. ’ Washington. 7-8; .3t Louis. 42. Chicago, 7-4; New York. 33. > Philadelphia. 8-2; Detroit. 0-5. Americara Asaooation Milwaukee, 8; Columbus, 2. Toledo. 2: Kansas City, 1 I St. Paul. >8; Indianapolis. 0. LoulsvHle, 2; Minneapol.s. 0. ■ ■ ■ o Some of the mountains and canyons hidden under the sea have been given ' names. O Two truck loads of Teaches, 1 at 3p. m. Wednesday. Miller 1 & Deitsch. It 1 ■■ ' -