Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1927 — Page 6

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COMMODORES BEAT DELPHOS Catholic High Nine Shows Marked Improvement In Winning 5-3 Victory Th* Decatur Catholic high school Commodores showed marked improvement in their baseball game with St. John’s high school, of Delphos, Ohio, on the South Ward diamond here Friday afternoon, and the locals took a 5-3 decision in a seveninning contest. The game was an interesting contest, with the pitching of Bernard “Red” Myer’s furnishing trie biggest feature. The big blonde struck out 17 opposing batters in the seven innings and allowed only four hits. For the first time this season, the Commodores played errorless I ball behind Meyer. A shift in the Commodores’ lineui»| was made for yesterday's game by Father Hession. Art Wemhoff replaced Petie Mylott behind the bat and Petie took Art's place at short. This change seemed to be a good one. Hockey Mylott was moved from third to second and Smith was placed at the hot corner. B. W’emhoff played a fine game at first and Smith pulled down some wild pegs at third. Petie Mylott looks good at short and Art W'emhoff's strong arm behind the bat is a real threat. R. Miller with two singles and Art | W’emhoff with a double furnished the hitting features of the game yesterday. Delphos took the load in the first : inning, when Gergler walked, stole : second and thid and scored on a sin-1 gle by Sherger. Meyer struck out i three men in this inning. The visitors increased their lead to 3-0 in the third inning, when they pushed two more runs over the pan. Gergler walked and stole second and third. Klansing walked and stole second. Burnett then singled, scoring Gergler and Klansing. Meyer then settled down and struck out the next three men. The Commodores won the ball game in their half of the third inning. when they scored all five of I their runs. .1. Mylott drove a grounder at Sherger. who muffed the chance. A. W’emhoff got Gergler in a hole with throe balls ami two strikes and then drove out a long double, scoring Mylott. Meyer was safe at first when Schmelzer muffed his fly in left. A W’emhoff went to third. B. Wemhoff drove out a single, scoring his brother and Meyer. Junk was I out. Sherger to Tmber, but B. Wenthoff took third on the play. Foos was safe at first and B. Wemhoff scored on Imber's error. R. Miller fanned. Foos, who had gone to second on Imber’s error, stole third and scored when Smith bounced a grounder eff the short ’stop’s glove. Smith stole second, but F. Mylott fanned, retiring the side and ending the scoring of the game. Box Score COMMODORES AB II R A TO E F. Mylott. ss .3 0 0 110 J. Mylott. 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 A. W’emhoff. c 3 11 0 17 0 Meyer, p. .3 0 1 2 0 01 B. W’emhoff, lb 4 110 3 0 Junk, cf .3 0 0 0 0 0 Foos, rs .31100 0 R. M iler, If . . 3 2 0 0 0 0 Smith, 3b .3 0 0 0 0 ti Totals 29 5 5 3 21 0 DELPHOS AB H R A PO E Gergler. p1 0 2 3 0 0 Klans’ng, c. 3 0 118 0 Burnett, cf. 4 1 0 0 2 0 Seherger. 3b. 3 2 0 11 2 Borittingham. 2h. .3 0 0 0 0 o Hauf, ss. 3 0 0 2 1 2 Imber. lb. 2 0 0 0 5 2 Schmelzer. If. 3 0 0 0 11 Noonan, rs. 3 1 0 0 0 1 Totals 25 4 3 7 18 8 Score by innings: RHE Delphos .. 1 0 2 0 0 0 o—3 4 8 Commodores 0 0 5 0 0 0 —5 5 0 Summary: Two-base hits—A. Wemhoff. Struck out—by Meyer. 17; by Gergler, 8. Base on balls—off Meyer 4: off Gergler. 2. Hit by p’tcher— A. W’emhoff. Left on bases—Commodores. 10; Delphos, 5. Hrnpire—Peterson. — Evansville, Ill—The Northwestern end University of Wisconsin track and field athletes will meet in a dual meet here this afternoon. The two teams are fairly evenly divided as to strength. There was a threat of rain this morning, Kansas City, Mo. — Errors in the field cost Kanyae City a game with St. Paul yesterday. The defense of the Blues was wobbly and errors helped the Saints win 7-6.

BASEBALL’S b BIG FOUR Fl (United Press) Babe Ruth made a single in two j I times up. He was walked twice. Hornsby poled out two doubles out of six times in an overtime contest. Cobb got a single in two attempts. Speaker was idle. AB H % F HR ’ Cobb .. 109 46 .422 1.000 1 ■ Hornsby 111 43 .374 .984 6 ■ Ruth 107 34 .318 .964 9 ■ Speaker 102 32 .314 .973 0 • o — - ■ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ W. L. Pct. , New York 19 11 .633 . Chicago 16 11 .593 Pittsburgh 15. 11 .577 Philadelphia 14 11 .560 St. Louis 15 12 .556 Boston 1" 14 .41 > , Brooklyn 13 19 • 406 Clncinatni 5 21 .276 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 21 9 .700 Chicago 18 11 .563 Philadelphia 16 U> .516 St. Ijouis 11 11 -s<H> Detroit 13 L> .464 Washington 13 15 .464 Cleveland 13 16 .448 Boston 9 19 -981 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. ' Toledo 16 io f>ls St. Paul 18 12 600 Indianapolis ._ 15 12 .556 Minneapolis 15 14 .51» j I Kansas City 16 15 .516 i Milwaukee 15 L> .500 ■ Louisville 13 18 119 I Columbus 10 20 .333 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Cincinnati. 6-2; Philadelphia. 3-15. Chicago, 7: Brooklyn. 5. Pittsburgh, 8; New York, 3. St. Louis-Boston, postponed. American League Philadlephia. 12; Chicago. 5. New York. 1; Cleveland, 2. No others scheduled. American Association I ouisville. 3: Toledo. 4. Columbus. 1; Indianapolis. 5. St. Paul. 7; Kansas City. 3. Milwaukee-.Minneapolis, rain. — ■ ■ , ___. o 4. + 4- d-d-4- 4- + + + •!• •!• + SPORT TABS + t4.4.4.4-d.4-4<d* + 4>4>4- + + + (By United Press) EVANSTON. Ill—The University of WD' nsin defeated Northwestern 1 University in their annual dual track land field meet 82-53. The Badgers won 11 of 15 events. GREENCASTLE. Ind. — The DePauw baseball team defeated Rose Poly here yesterday, 4-2. The spectacular pitching of Bob McCullough, DePauw sophomore, featured. LOGANSPORT—MeIvin Puett, senior at Butler College has been engaged as football coach of the Logansport high school. Logansport is I Puett’s home. He succeeds Cliff Nolte. MUNCIE. Ind. —Manchester College i nine defeated Muncie Normal here i yesterday, 8-5. A rally in the seventh 1 put Manchester in the lead. PRINCETON, N. J.—Yale, Cornell and Princeton crews will meet today in the eleventh Carnegie cup regatta with the Eli eight a strong favorite. Coach Ed Leader announced he would send into the. race the same crew that defeated Penn and Co-1 lurnbia at Derby last Saturday. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.—Harvard was favored today to win the triangular i varsity boat race with Pennsylvania and M. I. T. EVANSTON, Ill—Asbeck, husky pitcher for the University of Michigan. held Northwestern to one hit and the visitors w’on 5-0. Heidemann's double in the sixth inning was the only hit the Purple could get off Asbeck. KANSAS CITY. Mo.—St. Paul took the series fina( from Kansas City 7-3 here yesterday. pounding three Blue pitchers for 11 hits. Four Kansas City errors helped the Saints. TOLEDO, O. —Lebourveau contributed a home run and hit in his 26th consecutive game, in Toledo's 4-3 victory over Ixmisville yesterday. It was the Mudhen’s third straight 1 over the Colonels, Lewan also hit a homer. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Two hits in 1 the sixth, one a triple and the other ( a single, were all Leverett permitted ’ Columbus yesterday and Indianapolis ■ won 5-1. Meeker w’as touched for 13 blows.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927.

I. H. S. A. A. IE ASES NEWFIELD-HOUSE t Butler’s New Athletic Plant Leased For Future State Basketball Meets ’ Indianapolis, Ind . May 21. —Arthur I I V. Brown, chairman of the Butler J , University athletic committee, an- , nouneed Thursday that the Butler athletic plant to be built at Fairview ( Park will bo used in the future by J■ i. Indiana State High School Ath--1 letic Association A ten year lease has been signed by representatives of Butler and the board of control cf : the athletic association of which A. L. Trester is permanent, secretary. ‘ When the lease expires in 1937 it may be renewed for ten additional years. The new arrangement will cost the High School Athletic Association less in rentals than has been paid heretofore. By the terms of the contract Butler is to erect a field-house with a seating capacity of 15,000 and have it ready for the state basketball classic in March. 1928. Work on the Butler stadium is to be started shortly as the contract provides that this structure may be used by the high school association for football games when such games do not conflict 1 with the Butler at-home schedule. The contract also rovides for the | use of the stadium in May each year for the annual high schodt track and 1 feyd meet and for the state high school tennis tournament. When the I new Butler swimming pool is finish- ' ed the contract stipulates that, the , high school association may use it for stafe swimming meets and that , the field-house frack may be used for I indoor track meets at such times as Butler schedules do not conflict. * o Huntington Baseball And Track Schedules Announced Incomplete baseball and track schedules for Huntington high school next year were announced Thursday by Coach PauISHRDL SHRbETAOIN meets have been carded for the track and field team. Two other dual events .■ ill be arranged. S ven games, including five at home, have been scheduled for the baseball team. Three more tilts to be played away from home will be scheduled soon after the opening of the fall term of school. The track schedule follows: April 7, Peru, here. April 14, County meet. here. ; May 5. Wabash Valley Meet. Peru. 1 May 12, Sectional Mee:. The baseball schedule follows: April 18, Roanoke, here. April 20, Bluffton, here. April 21, Fort Wayne Central, there. April 27, North Manchester, there. , April 28. Fort Wayne Central, here. May 4. Decatur, here. May 11. North Manchester, here. o College Track Stars • In State Meet Today Bloomington. Ind., May 21—(United Press) —Athletes from all over the state came heie today for the annual intercollegiate track and field championships. Indiana. Butler, Depauw and Pttrdue have entered outstanding men in ! several events so that the prestige lof Notre Dame, who has won most ' former events, will be seriously challengefl. One hundred and ninety-seven athletes have been entered for the events. Much keen competition is expected. Interest is at fever heat here and a record crowd is gathering. | lowa City, la. —The University of lowa baseball team pounded out an 8-4 victory over Notre Dame university. The Irish scored all of their runs in the eighth inning, Evansville, Ind. — Mark Wakefield, present basketball coach at Technical . high, Indianapolis, will return to his former post as director of athletics . and basketball coach at Central high, of this city, it was announced today. Ann Arbor, Mich. — Benny Oosterbaan's single in the seventh inning | with the bases loaded scored two runs i and gave Michigan university a 5-3 • victory over Colgaie. I The Chicago Cubs won the fourth i conescutive victory of their eastern I engagement by defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-5.

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Lou Olirig is (loped ns the successor Io Babe Huth, ajid he's thready rivaling the Bambino in the matter of home runs. Much is attributed Io his powerful physique. His forearm,.detailed above, is more powerful than Huth’s, lie's fast on the lyases, 100, as the smaller action picture shows.

New York. (I-I Nl It must be] trugh to be the two-hundred pound home run king of the d’amond. still in your prime, and wat(h your throne being measured for the crown prince. Our sympathy goes out to Babe Ruth. But he doesn’t need it now as much as he will in a few years from now when the fans. between cheers for Lou Gehrig, will murmur, “Poor Babe! lie was a fcood fellow when he had it.” For larruping Lou seems foreordained to be the next cock o’ the base lines. Five years ago Gehrig was graduated, like Eddie Coll.ns, from Columbia University into the New York Yankee college. He was assigned to understudy Walt, r l’ip;>, regular’ SHARKEY SCORES EASY KNOCKOUT Disposes Os Jim Maloney In Five Rounds At Yankee Stadium New York, May 21 — (UPV-With a most convincing nve-rotino Knockout victory over his rival Boston heavyweight to his credit, Jack Shntkey, ' lhe orator and fist slugger from the I navy, today was in the front tanks of contenders for Gene Tunney's heavyweight title. In Tex Rickard’s elimination contest last night at Yankee stadium Sharkey ou boxed and outfought Jim Maloney with little difficulty. As far as the fight went, Maloney won only one round—the first. Even in that first round, he had his left I eye opened by a well directed right ; hand pun h. After the first, there was no. doubt about the winner. I In the fourth round Sharkey slammed Maloney to the floor for a count of three. Maloney was pulling himself up with the aid of the ropes when the gong ended the round. | Sharkey came out with his defiant sneer in the fifth round and rapped Maloney to the floor again with a right to the jaw. Maloney struggled to his feet and was sent down again with ano her haid light to the jaw. Maloney showing that his gameness cannot be questioned, rolled over and over on the floor, pulled himself up with the help of the ropes, and then collapsed on his face In the resin as the referee stepped in and stopped the fight. I Maloney did have a bad break in the first round when his eye was opened, but that was no excuse for the inferiority he demonstrated in the later rounds. There can be no question that Sharkey is the better fighter. Bluffton Golfers Win Bluffton golfers scoted a victory in the Northern Indiana golf league this . week, by defeating the Elwood team, ■ 24-13. The match was played on the : coulee of the Bluffton country club I o : Golfers—A Scotchman playing the Decatur course at presi ent time, would advise golfers i to buy a supply of repainted golf balls at 25 to 50c each from Henry Knapp & Son. It

I first baseman. He showed little! mi.re than promise for the first two years, but the promise was good. He wasn’t a flashy player, hut he was determined and hard working, and in his third year he shared the bag with Pipp. During that year he hustled Pipp out of his job. I.ast year he played regularly and kept coming on. He’s a remarkably well built man. even for a baseball payer. His mastodonic shoulders, his sturdy legs and his powerful forearm, the biggest in baseball, gives him a tiemendous advantagge as a batter. During 1926 he started to show his real stuff Home run after home run. three-bag-ger after three-bagger he slammed ’against, through and over the fence. High School Track Stars Gather For State Meet Indianapolis, May 21 — (United Press) —Nearly 400 Indiana high school athletes are gatheijng here today to compete in the annual Indi-' ana high school track meet, the win- 1 tier of which will become state chant- ( pion. The meet will be held at the Tech-! nical high school field, preliminaries taking place in the morning and fin-1 als in the afternoon. Keen competition is a silted by the fact that the thinly clads, who are entered here, have won their way to the state meet through 15 sectionals held last Saturday throughout the state. Kokomo high school, with a wellbalanced team including Tom Warne, ! holder of the world's high scliool'pole vault record, is general favorite to carry off the team championship for the fourth consecutive time, although

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And this season he’s 'darted off in even better form. thus far having the greatest slugging average of anr player in either major league. He’s elese to Ruth in the number of home runs. The breaks one way or another may decide whether he finishes ahead or behind the Bambino at the •close of the season. Every one is watching him. He's got more power- , fill arms than Ruth, and although he's not as smooth a swinger as the latter. he’s perfecting his wallop. He’s playing a clean, errorless game at first. And what's more important, lie's got about five more years of tcp-notch baseball in him than Ruth And so it comes to pass that, while the old king has not been buried -in fait, he’s not even dying—the new king has been selected. , other entries give promise cf exciting competition. Lincoln. Neb. —Scouting of opposing teams will be banned in the Missouri Valley athletic conference beginning , with the tall term, it was decided by ( the coaches and athletic directors in session here. The ruling will apply ( only to conference games and the , schools* may "scout” other contests.

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