Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1927 — Page 6

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COMMODORES TO PLAY C, E. TEAM i Two Quintets To Meet In Benefit Game For Civic Section Wednesday Night Ah a final treat for the basketball; fans of lieatur and community. the Catholic high school Commodores and the General Electric employees' has ketball team will meet in .a game in the Decatur high school auditorium next Wednesday evening, the proceeds to go to the civic section of the Decatur Woman’s Club. This game will take the plae of the annual teacher-preach-er's game, which has been staged under the auspices of the civic section for the last several years. It was necessaty to abandon the teacher preacser game this year, since few of the present ministers in Decatur are athetically inclined, at least. In their present stage in life. The G. E. Commodore game is expected to be a fine exhibition of the favorite winter sport. The Electricians won the Adams county independent championship this year, while the Commodores set a 1 ecord of 23 victories in 24 games during the regular season and played three games in the national Catholic school tournament at Chicago. This game will be the last home appearance of "Mongo" Meyers and “Art" Wemhoff, as Commodores. The game will start at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening. Admission prices will be twenty-five cents for adults and fifteen cents for all children, including high school pupils. Miss Helen Stephenson, instrutor of gills' physical training in the Decatur school has consented to have one of her classes give a demonstration of their physical training work before the start of the game. The proceeds from the game will be used by the civic section of the Woman's Club in carrying out their program of beautification in that city. o ++♦+++++++++++++ * SPORT TABS ♦ t+< , +++ ++ + + + + + + + + (By United Press) CHICAGO — Relative positions in the six days’ bicycle race remained unchanged today with Franco Georgettl and Carl Stockholm still a lap ahead of the rest of the field. WICHITA FALLS. Tex—The Chi cago White Sox settled the question of supremacy between themselves and tdre Wichita Falls team by winn- . inf 'Lit;! and test game ot ttar 15-5 CATALINA ISLAND, Calif. —"fhe Chicago Cubs have left their training camp and tomorrow will play at Loa Angeles the first of a series of exhibition games between here and Kansas City. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla—The New York Giants accumulated considerable batting experience when they downed the St. Augustine team, 13-4 in an exhibition game. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The Boston Braves beat the New York Yan kees, 10-9, in a poor exhibition of baseball. LAKELAND, Fla.—Cleveland's Indians humbled the world's champions from St. Louis, 6-1, in an exhibition game here. SAN ANTONIO—Three 45-year-old Tarahumara Indians left the San Antonio city hall today in the 82 mile run wh'ch will terminate at Austin sometime this afternoon. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The Brooklyn Dodgers won an 8 5 exhibition game from the St. Louis Browns. TAMPA, Fla. —Four Washington Senators pitchers were ineffective aga ns' the Philadelphia Nationals who won a 12-5 exhibition game here. o Tilden Is Defeated By George Lott, Jr. Ormond Beach. Fla., March 25 — (United Press)—William T. Tilden’s campaign to regain his prestage as America's first tasking tennis player suffered another severe jolt yesterday w'hen he fell before the brilliant stroks of George Lott, Jr. of Chicago. As a consequence of bis exceptional play. Lott, 20-year-old University of Chicago star, today wears the crown as champion in the singles of the annual Halifax tournament. Tilden and “Sandy” Weiner, Philadelphia, won the doubles championship over Ix>tt and F. G. Baggs, N. Y. The scores were: 6-1 —5-7 —6-3—l-6 and 6-3. , ■

Dempsey Begins Training Wheeler Hot Springs, Calif., March I 25.- (United Press.)- Jac k Dempsey, i forme: heavyweight boxing c hampion, wa r established in training quarters I her« today. He arrived last night | from Ix>s Angeles after several weeks I <>f indecision concerning plans for a "come-back." BOWLERS END FIRST ROUND Flanges Defeat Assembly Team; Second Round Opens This Evening The Flange team qualified for tho second round in the General Electric bowling tournament by defeating tho Assembly team last night, on the Pythian Home alleys, by a score of 1.849 to 1.743. Davis, of the losing team, rolled the highest score for the three games, counting 455. but this failed to bring victory for the Assembly team. The second round of the tournament will start tonight. The Maintenance team was scheduled to meet the Automatics tonight, but the members of the maintenance team have to work at the factory tonight, moving some machinery, and their match has been postponed until Saturday afternoon. The match between the Tool Room team and the Flanges, scheduled for Saturday afteitioon, will be played tonight. The winners of the matches tonight and Saturday afternoon will meet Saturday night to decide the winner of the tournament. Floyd Enos, regular member of the Automatic team, is ill with appendicitis and will be unable to finish the tournament. Scores of last night's match: FLANGES Ccppess 82 159 139 Warren 134 104 130 Gallogly 141 119 143 Owens 118 121 116 Temple 94 Huber .... 112 137 Total . . . 1.849 ASSEMBLYS I Debolt 121 77 I I’lman 5-5 Weber 156 130 135 Davis . 148 130 135 Beery 106 77 75 Butler 107 124 Total 1,743 o A Correction Through an error appearing in Bernstein's ad in last evenings Democrat the pi ice of Boys blue and white strip e-2 bib overalls was quoted at 88c. The item .«hnp|< > 1 J -... ■"■Another’‘it<*m should huve read "five piece set ruffled curtain, valance and tie back to match, blue and rose, pair 88c. o — Elwood—Alvin Patterson is nursing a broken foot received when he accidently allowed a barrel of motor lubricant to run over his foot. Four bones were fractured.

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GRADE TOURNEY HERE SATURDAY Seven Eighth Grade Teams Entered In Net Meet To Decide County Title The annual Adams County eighth grade basketball tournament will be held in the Deactur high school gym.nasium Saturday morning, afternoon and evening, the final game starting at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night. Seven teams are entered in the tournament. Advance "dope” indicates that the teams ure pretty evenly matched and some interesting games ! are expected. Three games will be played Saturday forenoon, Berne playing Kirkland at 9 o'clock. Geneva meeting Monroe township at 10 o’clock, and Decatur Central playing Monroe at 11 o'clock. The Jefferson township team drew a bye In the first rofind and the "Jeff:" boys will play their first game in the semi -finals, meeting the winner of the Berne-Kirkland game at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The winners of other two morning games will clash at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Evansville —Pies and cakes are off the menu for Richard Pride and William Heyns of Evansville until May 4. They are in training for the automobile endurance run to Jacksonville Fla., W. B. Schnurr of the Evansville Y. M. C. A. is their trainer.

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Ohio Man Leads (ioHers In Atlanta Tournament Atlanta. Ga., Mar. 25—(United Press)—Emmett French, of Youngstown, O . seemed the most at home of any of tho 150 who splashed about the course here yesterday amid rain and hail to open the southern open golf tournament. French’s 71, one over tho tournament par. was one bett’r than the 1 acconfplishment of laniy Nabholiw, “ another Ohioan who finished the ’ course with a 72. 1 Robby Jones, native son of Georgia. : ami Gene Sarazen. not so accustomed to tho deluge which made the first • day's play difficult and uninteresting, 1 nevertheless tied Nabholtz with cards ’ of 72 each. i Sixty-five others came in with scores of less than 80 while the rest of the field retired early last night I and prayed for sunnier skies today ■ when the second eighteen holes wilt be played. BOMBARDMENT OF NANKING BY U. S. POSTPONED (CONTI MED r ( . commanders of the Anglo-American ! war craft in the harbor apparently i hal calmed the ferocity of the Chinese, for Hough reported the situation i somewhat easier It was easy enough, ' in any event, to warrant postponing • the threat of bombardment which Hough and his colleagues of the Brit- ' ish Armada had sternly delivered the I , Cantonese. The Japanese were completing

I evacuation of their nationals tonight ' (Nanking time). Hough raid. Hough reported “We are postpon I Ing further consideration of action to ■'tomorrow." This meant that Nan/king would not Immediately be de- ' elated a military area—a target for ‘ the grilling shrapnel which Anglot American ships had already once | poured the re to shield harassed foreigners. I Previously Hough had plainly warn- ’ ed his superior, Williams, that the latter at. Shanghai probably could not | quite appreciate the seriousness of ’ tho situation at Nanking. Hough, t said plainly he feared for American'-, safely aud he recounted in lhe blunt ’ language of the seaman the fact that , the Cantonese within the city were ' insolent and obstinate. I Women Brutally Treated. I ' Shanghai. Mar. 25 (United Press) —Reports from Nanking received to- ( night at the U. S. consulate said American women and children at Nanking had been brutally treated by Cantonese troops. Their clothing was lorn off. the report said, and they were maltreated. * I American and British homes were plundered, the report said, by Cani tonese soldiers in uniform. It was ber lieved that all American homes had . been thoroughly looted. i Washington, Match 25. — (United ; ! Press.) — All American missions and i homes at Nanking, so far as is known. - have been looted, according to a > message Admiral H. H. Hough sent | from Nanking to the navy department ; today. Confirming earlier reports of

Nationalist uniformed soldiers brutality to Americans. Including women. Hough added that a seminary and several American residences had been desttoyed by fire and American consulates had been “looted <>r wan'.ly destroyed." o— MAKING PLANS FOR BOYS’ WEEK , CONTINUED CHtIS PA«E ON»> day. To Solicit Scout Fund Probably during the first week iu Ap.il, the campaign in this county for the S9OO, budget lequlrcd for the Boy Scout urea council plan, will be I made. In order to carry on the Boy Scout' move ment in this county with mote effective results, plans have been worked out to organize the Scout movement in Whitley, Wells, Allen and Adams counties under one head, each county with a directing body and aided by the district area Scout executives. To cooperate in this move 8 inent. the above counties will be required to raise about S9OO each and the campaign for the funds will be county wide. o TELFORD-LAUDER COMPANY FORMED (CWNTINUBD FROM PARS ly spent some two weeks in and about Winchester and in looking over the Eastern Kentucky oil fields. “Sir Harry and Mr. Telford have been close friends since boyhood days in England and Scotland, and are as-

sodated In other business America, where Mr. Te.lford has “tie bls hotne for years. u n<l I, a WHI known and successful oil man "Sir Harry quite recently return from a world Wide tour, when he vi.it ed India, China. Straits Settlement, Australia. Souih Africa, Ftdll wlw , and Honolulu. His name Is perhaps , widely known as any living lnun Ing his present American tour, be covered most of the Sta'es of the ion. and appeared ’n numerous oil p ro . duclng sections. Ha Is now approach, ing a time of life when be may retire from his choses and beloved prqf,, slop. , “If the oil wells prove satisfactory Sir Harry and Lady Uud-r and his party, who ate engaged to appear in , America again next year, fatend wlsltIng Winchester, Islington and Beatyl ville during their tour, and Mr Telford feels assured that he may be able I to induce him to give his famous eu- . tertainments at these places. Mr. C. S. Moffett, local attorney, .'has been engaged at look after th, »; business of tnis concern." ’ ' . oWedding Waits 20 Years; Girl Commits Suicide I London (United Press)—After being engaged for 20 years to a man who t could never quite make up his mind to > get married. Mary A. E. Warren, a London office cleaner committed aui- • cide. Her last words to her suitor were i “Many happy returns of the day to - you. hYirgive me for what 1 have one"