Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1927 — Page 6

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SECTIONAL MEET NEXT SATURDAY Decatur And Geneva Represent Adams County In Meet At Fort Wayne Decatur aiul Geneva high schools will represent Adams county In the annual high school spctional track and field meet, to be held at Foit Wayne next Saturday. Fourteen teams, totalling US athletes, are entered in the meet. The schools entered are Andrews, Auburn. Bluffton; Central (Fort Wayne. Columbia City: Decatur: Garrett; Geneva; Huntington; Larwill; New Haven; South Side (Fort Wayne) Wateiloo and Bippus. Coach Curtis of Decatur high school has certified the following athletes for the meet: Roy Anadell; Joe I’.ebout; Carl Gerber; Robert Hill! Joe Krick; Marion Heare; Harry Hebble; Raymond McClellan, Herman Lunkenau; Chester Reynolds; Vere Welker and Harold Zwick. Only three athletes have been certified by Geneva high school. They are: John Dunwiddie, James Fravc' ..an Albert Stahly. Gar-s;. has tht iargest entry list, 23 a'hk-ies have been certified by that school. The meet will be held in the South Side stadium and will start at 1 o’clock. 0- — Lawrence Fisher To Pace 500-. Mile Race Indianapolis, May 10—Lawrence P. Fisher, youngest and most colorful of the important automobile manufacturing executives of today has accepted an invitation to pace the starting lap of the International 500-inile race to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Monday. May 30. With a LaSalle roadster, a new product of the Cadillac Motor Car Company of which he is President and General Manager. Mr. Fisher will bring the field of fast cars entered in the 1927 five century event down the straightway at a rapid clip for a flying start after a parade lap. Chosen because of his keen interest In automobile racing and his popularity in the great industry which automobile racing has assisted in its present state of perfection in transportation. Mr. Fisher will be exceedingly popular with not only the largest crowd that ever attended an automobile raee, but the largest throng of humanity tlv.-t ever has been collected together at any one time in America. The pace lap at Indianapolis is one of the most exciting moments of an entirely colorful day. The cars, which gain their position in the lineup by virtue of their speed efforts in the qualifying trials line up in rows of three and exactly at 10 o'clock -not a moment before or a moment after the pace car and field pulls away fro the line. Slowly they wend their way into the fiist turn gathering speed as they sweep through the back stretch. Coming through the turn onto the home stretch, the pace car opens up and brings the field across the tape in a flying start—at a speed that is unusual for a stock pace car but a touch slow for the boys who are piloting the special racing cars. As they cross the tape the starter’s red flag falls on the field and the race is cn. The first flight contenders ar<> off in a battle of speed, jockying for | position and driving like fury in a wild attempt to gain first position—and the additional prize of SIOO for each lap they can cross the tape in the lead. Racing Cars Begin Task Os Tuning Up Indianapolis, Ind., May 10—(UP) — Fifteen racing automobiles which yesterday arrived at th? motor speedwa l today began the task of tuning up tor the 500 mile race to be held hero Monday, May 30. Yesterday's additions bring the number of cars now in Indianapolis to twenty-six. Fifteen more are due to arrive here this week. Eddie Hearne, one of the lodest race drivers still in the game, has been selected to driev a car for Harry Hartz it was announced tday. Hartz, a termer pupil of Herne, will drive one car himself and delegate his second to Hearne. Big Square Dance Wednesday night at Sun-Set.

• Fastest s / * # % - w % -or ** * ' ' ’ jar > y.- .ww.w.v George Walberg, of the Philadelphia Athletics, is credited with being the fastest hurlcr in the big league*. WHifNEY COLT WINS PREAKNESS Bostonian Wins Big Race; Whitney Has High Hopes In Kentucky Derby Chicago. May 10 —(United Press)— Hopes of the Harry Payne Whitney stable —and the hopes of the east — flashed high today for winning th" Kentucky derby after running of the race at Pimlico yesterday. With Bostonian, a burly black colt from the Whitney stables, winner of he big race, and Whiskery, long Whitney’* outstanding derby choice running third, turfmen were unanimous in saying that the west had little chance to beat the band of strong eastern contenders Saturday in the 53rd renewal of the Kentucky classic. Buddy Bauer, Col. E. R. Bradley’s hope of the west in the race ran like a billy-goat at Pimlico and finished eighth ■ B- withus now seems to carry the chief hopes of the Bradley stable. 800, a barn-mate, has early speed but Bewithus’ stamina must be counted on if the Bradley stable is to be heard from in the big race. By winning the mile feature at Churchill Downs yesterday. Sen. J. N. Camden’s Hvdroinel established himself as another ou'tsanding western contender —but after the race the colt was reported to have developed a high fever. Rolled Stocking is another western given a show because of recent workouts. But (he probability is that the derby may be another one of those Kentucky feuds between -easterners. With the impressive showing made by Bostonian, and the highly-favored Whiskery yesterday, the odds on the Whitney entry in the derby were sliding downward. ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ ♦♦♦♦•♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« Dy United Press Yesterday's Hero — Urban “’Red” Faber, stocky veteran of the Chicago White Sox pitching staff, who pitched his team to a 2-1 victory over the New Yotk Yankees, after the Sox had played 25 scoreless innings against the New Yorkers. Tne game went 10 innings, Metglcr , doubled in the tenth and scored the winning run for the Sox. Faber held the Yankees to seven hits, gtoe one walk and -truck out-five me.). R’tli , failed to hit. The Cleveland Indians took the third straight game of their series with the , Athletics, 6-1. Five Indians got *wo , baggers during the contest; they were f Shaute, Summa, Burns, J. Sewed amt Neis. B The Detroit Tigers wound up their series with the Boston Red Sox bv winning 17-11. The tigers got 22 hits and the Redlegs 12. Five pitchers were y required by Boston to end the Tiger assault.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, MAY 10,1927.

COMMODORES TOPLAfC.C.H.S. Decatur Catholic High Nine i To Travel To Fort Wayne Wednesday . * The Decatur Catholic high school baseball team will go to Fort Wayne Wednesday, to play a return game .vith the Central Catholic high school line, of that city. The two teams met l few weeks ago in the fiist game of he season for both teams, and the Fort Wayne nine won. - "Mongo' - Meyers will bo cn the' nound for the Commodores tomorrow. He pitched a nice game against the Irish in the opening game here but •eceived ragged suppoit most c.f the, vay. Since then, the Commodores have' unproved considerably in their field-, ng ami Meyer should have a | ■hance to turn in a vi Lory tomorrow. 1 Several r "' . will -.mpany the team „ Fort Wayne. — o B+++++++ + + + + + + + + 9 SPORT TABS + ><• + + + + + + + + + ++ + + +' Columbus, o. — Oosterbaan’s home un in the second inning contributed o the university of Michigan's 7-3 ictory over the Ohio State team here yesterday. Chicago--Decision cn the statue of Mary K. Brown, in the women's west■rn golf association will wait until Miss Browne enters a tournament, it j •ecame evident here when the assonation met and took no action on Miss Browne's ease. Mineapolis—Lebovtbeau, Toledo out iolder hit safely in his 17th consecuive game here yesterday as his club vent down to defeat before the Minn■apolis Millers 5-2. St Paul, Minn—Taking an early ead. the St. Paul American.association •lub took an 11-2 victory from the ’olumbus Senators. McMillan of the Taints got a home run. Kansas City. Mo—The Kansas City Blues hit two Louisville pitchers for ?2 safe blows yesterday and won 16- > lowa City —The University of Illitois tennis team, big 10 conference hampions in 1936 defeated lowa in a lual meet here yesterday, 5-2. o — BASEBALL’S BIG FOUR (By United Press) Babe Ruth went hitless in three times at bat against Urban Faber. | Hornsby, Speaker and Cobb were idle. I AB H PC F HR Cobb 76 31 .408 1000 0 Hornsby . .81 33 .407 .983 5 Ruth 82 26 .317 .958 6 Speaker 77 23 .299 951 0 o Preble Baseball Team Is Organized For Season The Preble baseball team has organized for the season and is booking games with fast teams in Fort Wayne and surrounding territory. Arthur Bieberich of Preble, is manager of the team this summer. Preble opened the season last Suulay in a game with the Chattanooga, Ohio Braves, the Braves copping the decision by a 14-2 score. Several new aces will be seen in the Preble lineup this season. Way, former Liberty Center high school athlete and now member of the Bowser team, of Fort' Wayne, and Jack Gerber, former Bluffton high school star athlete, are with Preble this season. Lindeman and Dm r former Lancaster high school athletes, are with Preble again this summer; The team lines up as follows: Gerber, catcher; Way, pitcher and third base; Smith, fiist base; W. Lindeman, second base; Laurent, 1 short stop; R. Lindeman, third base; Snider, left field; Durr, center field; I and Hoffman, right field. o—« I). H. S. Meets Central In Baseball Here Today ) ■ Decatur high school's Yellow JackI ets were to meet the Central high school Tigers, of Fort Wayne, in a • baseball game on the South Ward dia- ■ mond here this afteinoon, starting at 3:45 o’clock. Outside of a strong wind, • weather conditions were ideal. |. o Get the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pay*

* * st ♦ ♦ baseball standings National League W L Pct. • St. Louis LI " .<>(»<• I New York 14 8 .(l.'ltl i Philadelphia !l 7 .563 i Pittsburgh . 10 '■* - l, ”0 ' Chicago 10 0 .529 Boston OH <6O Brooklyn ■ S L 5 ,34S Cincinnati 7 14 .333 American League W L Pct. New York 14 8 .63(1 j Detroit H 9 .550 Chicago . . 13 11 .542 I Philadelphia 11 10 .524 Washington 11 I’l -521 ‘ St Louin . 9 9 .500 Cleveland 11 12 .478 Boston 5 16 .238 American Association I W L Pct. , St. Paul 12 8 .600 Indianapolis .10 8 .556 Milwaukee 11 9 .550 Toledo 10 9 .526 Minneapolis .11 io .524 Kansas City 10 10 .500 Louisville . 8 13 .381 Columbus .. 7 16 .304 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League | All games postponed. —•— | American League , Philadelphia 1, ilevoV,.-.,, (i. New York t - Chicago 2. I De<- . Bos'on 11. ! Washington-St. Louis, rain. American Association Toledo 2; Minneapolis 5. Louisville 2; Kansas City 16. Columbus 2; St. Paul 11. Indianapolis-Milwaukee, rain. — o t PICTURESQUE HIGHWAY OPENED New State Road. No. 62, Across Southern Part Os Indiana Opens Up New Beauty Spots With the recent completion of stateI way No. 62, which crosses the southern part of the state, opening up some of the most picturesque and historic territory in the central west to tourist traffic an auspicious impetus has been given the long cherished plan to establish a national shrine at the grave of the mother of Abraham Lincoln in I Spencer county. • This scenic route, with both terminals on the Ohio River, connecting such I cities as Mount Vet non. Evansville, I Booneville, Gentryville, Lincoln City. St. Meinrad. Leavenworth. Corydon and New Albany, passes through the proposed memorial grounds at Lincoln City, affording the motorist an opportunity to visit the historic cabin site where Lincoln lived for fourteen years and the grave where his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, lies buried. The new road is the east and west axis in the state system for the southern part of Indiana. Eight main north and south highways cross this through artery at regular intervals, making the I road not cnlq important for its scenic I and historic qualities but also because ' of its utility. It is expected that by mid-summer many motorists from tire ' north, east, south and the west will . have taken advantage of the new highI way to make their first pilgrimage to , Lincoln City to pay homage to Lincoln and his gentle, pioneer mother. According to wold from the headquarters of the Indiana Lincoln Union which has taken charge of the Lincoln memorial project, it is expected that the architect's plans for the park will be prepared before fall. o •_ He Was Lucky During seven years of the late Otto Borchert's ownership of the Milwaukee club, it did not miss one Sunday I I eit her at home or abroad because of bad weather. It missed only one Saturday. Borchert a SSO a week salesman, became a millionaire in twelve years after he invested SSOOO in the Milwaukee club. o Oldest Native Game The oldest known game played in North America is lacrosse. When the first colonists arrived in this country they found t.he Indians play- ! ing it. o i Is This Gratitude? Walter Oberc, playing with Springfield in a recent Eastern League game with Bridgeport, got a home ' run with the bases full, a double and ! a single. The next day he was traded to Providence. o Unique Record Three spitball hurlers —Ed Walsh, r Mel Wolfgang and George McConnell, I all of whom performed in the Amer- - lean League, hold the game record i for assists by a pitcher. The number i is 11. 0 t A Loosing Sport , University of Wisconsin’s crew costs the atliletic association about SIO,OOO a year. This loss is made up t with profits from football.

: G. E. ORGANIZES BASEBALL TEAM I ——— First Game Scheduled For Next Saturday Afternoon With Ossian Nine > The General Electric athletic assoic’ation of Decatur has organized u I baseball team for the current season | and is now booking games with 1 strong teams in this section of the state. Carl Smith, president of the athletic association, is in charge of the bookings. The G. E. tossers will open their season Saturday afternoon, meeting .die Ossian team on the Ossian dialmond. This will be the first game for Ossian, also. The electricians will play Saturday afternoon ball and most of their games will be out of town. They have been practicing on the South Ward diamond, but it is planrted to put the diamond at Bellmont Park into condition soon. o Movies Capture PaddorU Charlie Paddock _.,upion .niter, doesn't uu to r .. again this year, lie's ;.ie movies now. and doesn't nelieve he can give proper attention to track training until he completes his film contract. o ■——■ Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

REAL BARGAINS IN USED CARS 1924 Ford Tudor 1925 Chevrolet Coupe 1921 Ford Coupe 1924 Ford Sedan 1924 Buick Touring Werling and Jaberg A ,n Kleen-Rite Auto Laundry 3rd Street ■ f Assessments Due on City Improvements, Streets Sewers Sidewalks and Curb I were due May 1 and will become delinquent after May 28 ' unless they are paid. Penalty if not paid. Call at I , City Treasurer’s Office. r City Hall t

I Remy Ends Hearings In Political Quiz Indianapolis, May 10. — (United Press) —Examination of witnesses in like polith al qu!z directed by Prose-! •tutor Willi.un H. Remy of Marlon' county has been completed, he indicated today. Five witnesses, ‘all of lildltmapolis. were heard by Remy and his two special assistant prosecutors yesterday, and today evidence was being reviewed and summarized. | Before the end of the week Remy expec'a, to report to Judge Collins in criminal court, either submitting ’ affidavits charging violation of state | laws on the strength of evidence in

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