Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 230, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1926 — Page 6

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CAROS' INFIELD HAS SLIGHT EDGE Few Veterans On Either Infield Os World’s Series Contenders By Henry L. Farrell (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York Sept. 29. —(United Press) —Considering infields, their strength and what they will do in a pinch is far beyond paper and pencil or a perusal ct the recotd . It is something that can bt decided only by the test. Last year when the Washington Senators and the Pittsburgh Pirates were preparing for the World's series, the Senators were given a huge edge on the infield because of the Pivot at second base between Roger Peckinpaugh, a star shortstop and Buck Harris. young manager of the team and one of the fastest double play men in tiie game. Yet, in the series Peckinpaugh col-' lapsed and was a clean bust. He haJ been voted the most valuable player in the American league and it imposed upon him a task under which his nerves cracked. If strain had so much affect upon th? veteran Peck, who had been through the series grind several times, what will the burden do to the young infielders in this coming series? Andi they are nearly al! youngsters. Rogers Hornsby, Jim Bottomley an.ll Joe Dugan are the only vetegans .n the two infields and only Dugan has been through a world s se-ies. Gehrig. Lazzeri and Koenig of the Yankees are In their first season an 1 Thevenow and Bell are also little more than freshmen!* There will have to be a steadying influence and in this respect the CarJinals will have the advantage on ac count of Hornsby ami Bottomley. I ugan, at third base, can't hold down the whole Yankee infield. •Considering the first basemen. St. Louis lias a slight edge because Jlnl Bottomley is more experienced and smartt than Lou Gehrig the former Columbia university star. St. has al! the advantage at second base where manager Hornsby . will hold the bag. Lazzeri i is one of the season’s finds, a hard worker, a icng and dangerous hitter but Hornsby is the greatest second baseman in baseball. At shortstop Thevenow, of the Cards and Koenig, of the Yankees, are youngsters getting their first shot. They are good fielders but Koenig is highly erratic. As the Cardinals outclass the Yankee on >* j r ..nd r. . » 1 „J.' l . I .anKees outclass tire Cai ds on third base. ...... hi < ail ano > till .* I. , get ous batsman. Bell is a good ball player but he can't be expected to rank with Dugan. Summing up. the Cardinals seem to have a slight advantage'- because of the strength around second base. HOOSIER PUNTS (By United Press) Bloomington. — Capt. Frank Sibley of the Indiana squad may be pulled in from the wing position he has held fro two years to bark signals on this season's eleven. Coach Page is expected to start Sibley St! the quarter position when the Crimson meets Deiauw here Saturday. Greencastle.— Determined to upset Indiana in the first game of the season for the western conference school, Depauw gridmen hav e failed to let rain and mud check ther practice sessions. Coach Hughes is smoothing several rough spots which were evident in the Danville game. Indianapolis. Sloppy weather sent Butler’s Bulldogs scurrying indoors for a black biard session with Coach Hinkle. Several new formations and plans are being prepared for the Hanover game Saturday. Hanover. — The weather man was successful in his at’empt to provide Hanover college pigskin pushers with a day of rest. Rain failed to check the spirit of the team and a hard day of preparation tor the Butler game Saturday was expected. Crawfordsville. — Wabash, elated over the decisive victory scored Saturday at the expense of the Evansville college eleven is hard at work preparing for Muncie Normal Saturday. Indainapolis. < — Active preparations for the Oakland City game Saturday are being made by the Indiana Central eleven. Lafayette. — With the Nftvy game looming as one of the toughest early

season assignments over tackled by a Boilermaker eleven, Coach Jitnmy Phelan feels he cannot work his Pur- ' due varsity too hard. 1 1 South Bend.—The Norte Dame var * sity is having considerable difficulty i In solving Minnesota plays, the fresh- | men going through the varsity line ' i for steady gains. Rockne’s changes meet Beloit this week-end but he is 1 already planning his defense for Minnesota. • + SPORT TAbs + + + ++++++ +++ + + (By United Press) 11 NEW YORK—Harry Wills, bent on winning the right to contest the I world's heavyweight championship with Gene Tunney, has been signed for a fifteen round bout w’.th Jack Sharkey’ on October 12 at Ebhetts Field, Brooklyn. The negro fighter has indicated the bout Is but one of several he plans to have this winter. I NEW YORK- The Big Three of the Eastern football world open their | 1926 seasons next Saturday. Harvard I plays Geneva; Princeton plays AmI hrest while Yale meets Boston Unii versify. I CHICAGO —Chicago's city baseball h.eries opens this afternoon at Cub Park with Ted Lyons expected to pitch for the White Sox and Charley, Root to do monnd duty for the Cubs. The series will be won by the team winning four games. DALLAS, Tex—With Dallas leading, three games to two, the next j game in the Dixie series will be .played at New Orleans tomorrow. I Dallas took the lead in the series by I defeating New Orleans yesterday. COLUMBUS. O.—Evidence of football enthusiasm al- Ohio State came in the fact 275 freshmen reported for | practice yesterday. Only 100 were] provided with suits. The varsity,meanwhile, is centering its preparation for Wittenberg Saturday on an aeral attack. CHAMPAIGN. Ill.—Ted Marriner, a regular tackle on last year's varsity, has appeared for practice and greatly bplstered Blini strength in the line. CHICAGO —Minor injuries to’some of his regulars have forced Coach Stagg to slow up his practice ses- l sions of the University of Chicago' squad. The Maroons meet the University of Florida Saturday. ' ANN ARBOR, Mich—The Michigan squad is rounding into satisfactory shape for the first game of the season Saturday when Oklahoma Aggies will be Ann Arbor visitors. The kicking of Gilbert is especially encouraging. o Portland “Our Boys” To Play Bluffton Sunday ***« ■ • ***** * when they meet the fast Bluffton Triangles eleven. Coach Paul Macklin is getting the team in first class condition and a strong lineup will be presented against the Pallor City pigskin chasers. Phelan-Ingram “Feud” To Be Revived Saturday Press) —An old coaching "feud” will be brought to life Saturday when Jim-, my Phelan's Purdue university grid team goes to Annapolis, Md., for a battle with "Navy Bill" Ingram’s midshipmen. The “feud” started ba-"k in 1923 when Ingram took over the reins at Indiana University. Phelan took his lurdue gridders to I Bloomington and Ingram's men eked out a ’-O decision The following year Indiana invaded Purdue and Phelan watched his men triumph by a 26-7 count while last year the two teams fought to a scoreles tie. Ingiam is said to have a strong team; this year, his first and is anxious to, take the "rubber game" from Phelan.! Jimmy is just as eager to do the same and a great game is promised. — o Suzanne Lenglen Arrives. New York, Sept. 29—(United Press) i —Announcing shu, had discovered a ■ curt for seasickness in Champagne. > and proclaiming that professional tent nis soon will be as common as pro- ’’ fessional golf, Suzanne Lenglen arrivs ed today on the French liner Paris. The French star, wh6 will meet 1' Miss Mary K. Browne, Qgt. 9 in the first match of her”professional tour in - this country was met by C. C. Pyle, c her business manager, and Red '- Grange, collegiate football sensation, who also turned ptofessional under s Pyle’s direction. r o— Pocahontas, real furnace coal clean and smokeless. Phone ’ 770, Carroll Coal and Coke Co, * 230t3

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‘ Weather report—too wet. . I ___ Elderberry Hits Back 1 “The Logansport Press in a story of the game here last Saturday says, I ' I 'The Peru team easily defeated the weak Hartford City team.' And pray what did the weak Huntington' team do to the weaker Logansport eleven.” —Elderberry in Peru Chronicle. This is terrible! Kenny Pass in the Portland Sun and Republican says: "Decatur was again defeated Saturday by Goshen, 25I 6. Decatur (s hopeful because they made a touchdown anyway. That’s the spirit, Yellow Jackets. We’re for you." Kenny 1 I gets mixed up worse than pea- ' nuts in a roaster. Bluffton is not a nick name for Decatur, Kenny, but is the name of another town, yea a city, and it was Bluffton that took that trouncing and it is Bluffton that is hopeful because of that one touchdown. Decatur I has lost only one game, so far, and has not scored a touchdown, yet. For your information, Kenny , and for the enlightenment of your p Idear readers, Bluffton played at | ■ Goshen last Saturday and Deca* I tur's scheduled game at Van Wert, Ohio, was called off because old man Jupiter Pluvius h poured Adams Ale all over the gridiron at Van Wert in all too I I copious, quantities. 1t And no back talk goes. Mr. Pass. ' • Mr. Cash, esteemed author of

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Crowds on the Sidelines in the Hunti ington Press, also has a crow to pick with someone, but he doesn’t know who. Cash wants to know how com** the press reports sent out from Log- | ansport last Saturday carried the I score of the Logansport-Huntington i game as 19-0. when the Vikings scored four touchdowns and kicked one 1 goal. Adolph, please change the I minutes to read, 25-0. — The Yellow Jackets are pretty sure to be the underdog when ' they take the field against Columbia City Friday, since the C. C. eleven licked Auburn, a team that beat Decatur, 6-0, but a Yellow Jacket fights hardest after someone has poked around in his nest. — At least two old masters in the , basketball columnists’ "profession" . w.'U be missing when the season opI ens up this fall. George Purcell, who gained statewide fame through his column. "Casual Comment” in the Vincennes Sun, sold" his paper in Vicennes this summer and, so far. has not made connections with aay other Indiana paper. Bobby Starr, who wrote “What the Stars Say" for the Frankfort Morning T mes, and who exchanged many hot ones with Mr. Purcell, has resigned his position at Frankfort and entered the University of 111 nois. We suppose Bobby thought there wouldn’t be any fun to this column business this winter Since Mr. Purcell wouldn't be present to fuss with. Both will he missed. as both men did much to popular:Ze the game in Indiana and keep the nKMuMMMMWMMMM■

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. I right, while others expressed ikp | selves as being willing ani j re .. | make an attempt for the record nr ° next spring • Miss Hull Fails To Qualify In Golf Me et Kendallville, Sent, 29— M, < v u n i > 35 -'notni Hull, local woman golf star, tailed I qualify by one stroke in the natkni, I women’s golf championship match j which opened at Philadelphia. Momi j She shot a 94. in a telegram to her i parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Hull i Monday evening. Miss Hull annoum j | that the Merion Cricket course, where I match Is being staged is the most die I t‘-u t one she ever played on. o—— Attend the Masquerade dance tonight at Sunset Dance Pavik lion.