Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1927 — Page 6

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N. (’. Athletic Stadium To Be Finished Nov. 1 Chapel Hill. N. ('. June 3 (INS)-The University of North Carolina's new t thletic stadium. which will have a seating capacity of 24.000 is expected to lie completed by November 1. Completion of the structure is being rushed in order that it will be available for the annual Carolina football classic —the clash between those ancient rivals, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Virginia. 0 ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ +-F++++++ + + + + + + + + Yesterday's hero — Dutch Ruether, veteran pitcher of the New Y’ork Yankees, who allowed Detroit only two bi:s enabling the Yankees to win. 2-0. In seven of the nine innings only three men faced Ruether in each of the innings. He struck out two men and gave two bases on balls. Roush, returning to Cincinnati as a member of the New York Glajits, figured prominently in New York's 5-4 viclory over the Reds. In the eleventh inning Roush made a difficult catch that prevented a Cincinnati score and then he started the rally in the twelfth that gave the Gothamites a victory. Cy Williams hit the only home run yesterday in the game in which Pittsburgh defeated Philadelphia. 7-3. The veteran Philadelphia outfielder hit for the circuit in the sixth inning scoring two men ahead of him. Ted Lyons, ace of the Chicago White Sox pitching staff, pitched his ninth victory of the season defeating * Boston, 7-2. The Sox touched Wilise and Wilson for eleven blows. Metzler, the young White Sox outfielder, got two hits increasing his present hitting streak to IS safeties out of 32 times at bat. Every member of the Washington team obtained at least one hit and one run and the Senators defeated the Browns, 11-2. Gaston and Wingard did the pitching for St. Louis and neither was effective. Thurston kept the ten St. Louis hits well scattered. Philadelphia had little difficulty in solving the offerings of Joe Shaute, Karr and Collard and hammered out and 8-4 victory over Cleveland. o ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦+++♦♦♦ ♦ SPORT TABS + ♦ + + + + + + + + + + 4 , + 4 , + <- By United Press Lafayette, Ind—Purdue University awarded an athletic letter to George Senders, former student, who last Monday won the Memorial Day sweep staae at the Indian polls Motor Sp' ?d---y.ay. Indianapolis— Three motor car race drivers, injured in the Memorial Day races here, we-e continuing to improve today. The three are Jules EllingbOf. Norman Batten and Henry Kohlert. South Bend, Ind. —George Keogan. basketball coach at Notie Dame uni veieity, has signed a contract to continue as basketball mentor of the Irish again next year Toledo, O. — Six errors pern.itted Indianapolis tc score their four run against To’edo, Mi'stead pitching <x cellent ball for the League leading M'.-dhens. Toledo won by virtue of 11 elective hits. The score was 8-4. Milwaukee. Wis. — An error by Strohm paved the way for three St Paul runs in the sixth and Milwaukee went down before an 8-6 count. I.ear hit a home run. Detroit—George Souders, winner of the 500-mile classic at Indianapolis arrived he~° today to participate Sun day in the 100-ra’le dirt track race for $12,50(1 prize money. Lockhart Woodbury, De Palma and many other noted drivers ate here also o BASEBALL’S BIG FOUR By United Press Ty Cobb got a double in three times up. Ruth’s best was a single in the same number of chances. Speaker also made a single in three times at bat. Hornsby with a triple, double and two singles in six times up was the .big four hitting star Os the day. AB H Pct. F HR Hornsby 151 58 .384 .926 8 Cobb 153 57 .373 1000 1 Ruth 162 55 .339 .97' 16 Speaker .... 143 4(6 .311 .984 6

♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ NATIONAL LEAGUE ,i nil' ,! W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 27 13 .675 i St. Lottis 22 16 .579 New York 23 17 .575 i Chicago 22 17 .56 4 . I Brooklyn 22 23 .489 Philadelphia IS 21 .162 ’ Boston 13 21 .382 Cinchmat i 12 31 .279 t AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Now York 30 14 .682 Chicago 28 17 .622 • Philadelphia 23 21 .523 k Washington 20 20 .500 J Cleveland 21 24 .467 St. Louis 19 23 .452 • Detroit 18 24 .429 Boston 12 28 .300 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Tct. Toledo 25 13 .658 Minenapolis 26 16 .619 Miwattkee 22 21 .512 Indianapolis .. 20 20 .500 St. Paul 21 22 .488 Kansas City 20 22 .476 Louisville IS 26 .409 Columbus 16 28 .364 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Philadelphia, 3: Pittsburgh, 7. Ney York. 5: Cincinnati, 4. American League St. Louis. 2: Washington, 11. Cleveland, 4: Philadelphia, 8. Chicoga, 7; Boston, 2. Detroit. 0; New York. 2. American Association Indianapolis, 4; Toledo. 6. Minneapolis-Kansas City, rain. Louisville-Columbus, rain. St. Paul. 8; Milwaukee, 6. o Berne Organizing A Baseball Team Berne, June 3.-An independent baseball team is being organized in Berne It is planned to play games on Satur days and in the evenings cf othet week days. Winteregg and Smith, for mer Herne high school pitchers, likely will do the hurling for the team, and Ralph Teeters is the probable catcher o ■ National H. S. Track And Field Meet Opens Chicago, June 3.—(VP) —School boy athletes from 182 schools today will start- competition in the annual Nat ional Interscholastic track and field meet at Stagg field. More than 1.000 youths, coming from 33 different s-.-tes. will compete I: is die largest entry list sn the history of the track meet which was first run off 23 years ago. A. A. Stagg athletic director at the University ol Chicago, originated the meet and is directing it today. , Preliniinaries will be run off today with the finals scheduled for tomorrow. Stars competing include: Willii Fowler, negro sprinter from Muncie. Ind. The crack one-mile relay teams from Newark, N. J., and Brazil, Ind., have entered. O By Rail Or Air To Any European City Soon Assured Fact Paris. June 3—HNS) —Through “rai and air" tickets to and from any point in Europe will be available in the neai future, if recommendations of a com mittee of the International Chamber of Commerce are adopted at the Steck holm Congress of the Chamber on June 26. , Such facilities are already available in Germany. Air passengers wliosr flights are interrupted by accident oi weather conditions will be able tr continue their journey on internation al expresses at the nearest station. Aii and train schedules will be so arrang ed that passengers in a hurry will lost as little time as possible in changing from one form of transportation to tin other. Russian Embassy Staff Leaves London Today London. June 3 —(UP) —The Soviet ■ embissy staff sailed from London a( 2 A. M. today aboard the steamer You • shar. There was no demonstration. The departure of the Soviet Embas--1 sy staff was caused by the breaking ■ of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia. The serverI ance of relations was voted last week by the house cf commons as a measure of the Baldwin government, which charges Soviet trade emmissaries here with espionage.

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: CITY ELECTION HELD INVALID . - * City Officers Os Aurora Turn Their Offices Back To Predecessors i Aurora. Ind., June 3.— (United Press) —E. W. Cadwell, Republican, . mayor of Aurora, and members of - the city council today prepared to ; turn over their offices to Dr. E. J. ’ Libbert, Democrat, and r.n entirely ■ different set of councilmen. 1 Their action followed a decision of | 1 the Indiana supreme court yes’er1 day. affirming the decision of a lower court that the 1925 municipal election was invalid. By reason of the decision Dr. Lib-, bert. who was elected mayor in 1921 and was succeeded by Cadwe'l. and members of his council, will return to office as holdovers. In the 1925 election Cadwell and Libbert were opposing candidates. A hotly contested campaign ensued. Dr. Libbert and members of his coun-| qil delivered tip the city offices to the new administration in January,' 1926, but filed a written protest to the election returns. Litigation that ensued after the election was tried before Judge Burton Berry of Fowler as special judge. He held that the election was invalid because the name of a third or •Citium's” ti<s<et had been erased from the ballots by the election commission. Yesterday's supreme court decision upholds Judge Berry’s ruling in full. Pola Negri To Give Up Her Career For Family Chicago. June 3 —(United Press)— Pola Negri, now the Princess Mdivani believes old fashioned mother is really the only kind and she expects to leave her career within 24 months to raise a family. The Polish film actress said this while here on her honeymoon with Prince Serge Mdivani whom she mar-i ried recently in France. ‘‘No woman can do two things well.” she said. “When one of those things is raising a family. I want children and I want to be a real mother to them. So I shall certainly give np my career.” —————io Postal Employe Arrested Indianapolis, June 3. — (United Press) —George L. Carpenter. Newcastle. Ind., a former postal employe, indicted on a charge of stealing from the mails, was arrested here today by U. S. Deputy Marshal Charles E. Laselle and hi-fd in Marion county jail in default of $2,00<l bond. o Grencastle. —Harry Neier nearly believed for three hours that one o’ his -ows had evaporated. He searched l his farm and finally found her in' a sink hole, alive but provoked. I

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DRY GOODS MEN TO HOLD MEETING Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association To Meet At Lake Wawasee The coming convention of the diana Retail Dry Goods Association, aFthe South Shore Inn. Lake WawaI'see, Wednesday and Thursday, June ’ 8 and 9, promises to be the most interesting convention this body of merchants has ever held. While the I I convention will be primarily that of merchants by merchants and for merchants, four speakers of national reputation will have an important 1 part on the program. ' J Lew Hahn, managing director of f the National Retail Dry Goode Asso- > elation of New York City and probJably cne of the best known men in , the retail dry goods line in the enjtirc country, W. L. Ware of the Hart f Co., of Chicago, which firm is an Jin portant factor in group buying. Hany L. LaTowsky, a business e>- ( . pert representing the National Cash Register Co., and J. 11. Hudson, sec . n.-tary .Retail Interest committee. Illinois Chamber of Commerce, of Chicago, are the speakers. i Their talks will be pertinent to the retail dry goods and ready to wear dealers of the country and to present conditions of merchandising generally. | Tiie balance of the two days progrant will be given over to r< ttnd liable discussion of business problems pertaining to the ret?.'l dry ■ goods and ready to wear tra t -, the subjects chosen being alt-ige*?. ’r es direct interest to merchants in 1 these lines. i I The mornings of the two days will bo devoted to pleasure, golf, boating and enjoying the beauties of Lake * Wawasee. | With the event of the chain store bringing about a decided change in retail methods within the last few I years, the convention of the Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association on Wednesday and Thursday offers a splendid opportunity to retailers in' | these lines throughout Indiana to be- j come thoroughly posted as to the very latest in present day methods of merchandising. The speakers secured for this convention are men of 1 national reputation, all of whom are j | thoroughly posted on their subjects 1 and whose talks therefore will be of extreme interest to all re’ailers. I J The Indiana Retail Dry Goods 1 .Association numbers in its membership the very best, in the retail dry goods and ready to wear line in Indiana. This association stands at the head of all state associations. In ■ the fourteen years-it has been established it has brought about many ’ things of value to its members and to the public generally us it advo- 1 cates clean methods in retailing merchandise, the elimination of false and fraudulent advertising and better 1 conditions generally in the trade from 1 which the public benefits. All retail • dry goods and ready to wear merchants in Indiana, whether they are members of the Ind.ana Retail Dry, Goods Association or not are invited t to attend. W. H. Deitemeyer of Ko- 1 j korno is president of this association. | J Dan M. Niblick, of the Niblick & i Company store, in Decatur, is a mem-

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