Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1927 — Page 6

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CITY BASEBALL LEAGUE PLANNED Coach Curtis Endeavoring To Form Factory And Business Men's League Efforts are being made by Herb Curtis. physical director of the local public schools, to organize a summer baseball league among the various factories ami business men cf Decatur. Coach Curtis has called a meeting of several mon for Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The meeting will be held at the Daily Democrat office and will be to formulate plans for a series of baseball games this summer. The following men, representing their organization, are asked to meet at the Daily Democrat office at 8 o'clock Thursday night. Robert Friebe. Schafer Hardware company; Carl Smith, General Electric company: Herman Myers. Lions club; Carl Pumphrey, Rotary club; Norbert Holthouse, Clover Leaf Creameries: James Cowan, Decatur Castings Company; Leland Franks, Postoffice. The present plan is to have a league, with each of the above mentioned organization having a team. Three high school pupils will be allotted to each team, so that these players may also have summer practice. The series of games will start as soon as the schedule can be aranged. and in all probabilitie a cup will be awarded at the close cf the season. All othei inteiested persons also are asked to attend the meeting Thursday night. —— o —— ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD 4 4>4- + + + + + + * + + + + + + + (By United Press) Yesterday's hero—Riggs Stephenson whose line single in the eleventh gave the Chicago Cubs a 4-3 victory over Boston. Boston had an advantage until the eighth inning when Hack Wilson drove a triple to eenterfield to score Earl Webb. From then on,the game was tight until the eleventh. Two men were on and Hack Wilson was at bat. Mogridge gave Wilson an intentional pass to get to Stephenson and the latter singled the first pitched ball. Carmen Hill won his sixth consecutive victory as Pittsburgh defeated Philadelphia, 7-5. While Hill was hit freely he managed to tighten whenever the Phillies threatened. Joe Harris again had a perfect day at bat with two hits out of two times up. Ted Lyons advanced his pitching record alongside that of Tommy Thomas as the White Sox defeated Boston 10-2 thereby giving Lyons his tenth victory of the season. Lyons and Thomas now are credited with 20 of the Sox victories. He kept the nine Boston hits well scattered. Bud Clancy, young first baseman, hit safely in five times at bat. Howard Ehmke offered bewildering assortment of curves and the Cleveland Indians were unable to solve him, Philadelphia winning, 4-1. Ehmke permitted six hits but kept them scattered. The game lasted only one hour and 27 minutes. Bob McGraw, castoff of the Brooklyn Dodgers, played the hero role as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated Brooklyn, 6-2. McGraw permitted his fonmer team mates only eight hits. In addition 116 hit twice, once for a triple. o BASEBALL’S BIG FOUR (By United Press) Ty Cobb, tire only member of the quartet to be seen in action, came through with a double in three times at bat. Gaps in the schedule kept Hornsby, Ruth and Speaker idle’. AT H % F HR Hornsby 158 61 .386 ~956 8 Cobb 159 60 .377 1.000 1 Ruth ~ 159 58 .343 .973 17 Speaker 159 61 .321 .990 0 o HARD COAL Excellent quality, very low summer prices. Leave us your order now before advance in price. CARROLL COAL & COKE CO. —o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ National League !W L Pet. Pittsburgh ■ 29 13 .690 St. Louis 25 17 .5f1.» New York 24 19 .558 Chicago 24 19 .558 r Bmoklyn 23 26 .469 ' Philadelphia • I s 23 .439 Boston t 5 26 ,39.> C ncinnati ■ 14 32 .304 American League W L Pct. - New York3l 15 .674 ' Chicago ... 31 17 .646 . Philadelphia .. . 24 22 .522 St. Louis . 22 23 .489 ; Cleveland /.—• 22 25 .468 Washington 20 23 .465. i Detroit . . 19 25 .432 Boston 12 31 .279 American Association 1 — W L Pct. Toledo . 28 14 .667 Minneapolis 27 19 .587 Milwaukee 25 21 .543 Kansas City 22 23 .489 Indianapolis 22 2:’, .459 St. Paul 21 25 .457 Louisville . 20 27 .420 Columbus 18 30 .3751 1 1 ' YESTERDAY'S RESULTS , National League Philadelphia 5; Pittsburgh 7 Boston 3; Chicago 4 1 Brooklyn 2; St. Louis 6 | No others scheduled. ■ American League Chicago 10; Boston 2 Cleveland 1; Philadelphia 4 • No others scheduled. : t American Association Minneapolis 2; Indianapolis 3. No others scheduled. May Bar Professional Wrestling In Illinois Chicago. June 7. —(UP) —Professional wrestling may be barred in Illinois as a result of an investigation being conducted in Chicago now by a legislative committee. Rep. Claude Rew of Harrisburg. 111., following yesterday's somewhat ludicrous show of tes iniony, announced he would father a bill before the lower house of legislature which would . banish professional wrestling from the state. He said lie was highly disgusted after listening to the testimony. One of the chief witnesses yesterday was Bill Deme-tral, a form -r wrestler. Among the charges lie made were: That he had to offer a quit claim deed to his home—valued at $12,090 --as evidence of good faith ho would not throw Strangler Lewis, the champion heavyweight wrestler, in a bout they had. That Strangler Lewis and i »ffle Grenne "rehearsed” the holds they would use in a bout to lie held here. That he was barred from wrestling and that a wrestler he managed, John Evko, 'could not obtain matches because they would not become party to the wrestling syndicate headed by Billy Sandow, manager of Lewis, and Ed White, another wrestling manager. While the investigation was formed to determine• both the status of professional boxing and wrestling, the boxing side of the situation was not discussed much yesterday. The hearing was adjourned until next Monday. Berne Baseball Club Forms Organization BERNE, June 7. —Herbert Burdge has been 'chosen to manage the baseball team being organized in Berne tnis summer. He was elected manager at a meeting cf thirty mon interested in the team last week. The following men were elected to form the board of managers: Rev. J. H. Arndt, W. O. Netienschwander and Ralph Teeter. The 1 name of ''Berge Baseball Club'' was chosen. I'layers wishing to join the team will be assessed one dollar each, as membership fee in the club. Monday. Tuesday and Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons were designated as official practice periods. The board banned all Sunday baseball. The games will be played on Saturday afternoons and week-day evenings. o One Man Steals 89 Auto Tires Within Six Months South Bend. Ind., June 7. —(UP)— i Mystery of wholesale thefts of automobile tires was believed to have been solved today with the arrest of . William Huffine, 29. According to . police, Huffine admitted stealing 89 ! tires in six months. Peter Polk, a tire dealer, was also arrested as the result, of statements by Huffine that he sold /stolen tires I and rims to Polk,

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1927.

; GOLF COURSE EXPERT HERE I I Country Club Employes Man To Round Local Course Into Condition The Decatur Country Club has secured the services of Mr. William Egan, of Evansville, to take charge of (lie work of rounding the course into first class condition. Unless you know about Mr. Egan yot> may not. appreciate what it means. For seven years ho has been employed by the city of Evansville and had charge of the construction of Hie municipal course in that city, one of the finest in the United States and h's serviqos have been t*eCogni»ed Wv the best men in the golf world. Mr. Egan took charge of the work here yesterday and the results could be seen last evening. He will redress the greens, trim the course and put it in as good playing condition as possible at once, t will take several years to make it a real show I place, but in the meantime the links will he kept in first class playing condition. The fans here are delighted over the fact that a contract has been signed with this expert and are anticipating a lot of pleasure on the course from now on.

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BOYS WILL HAVE BASEBALL LEAGUE Junior League Will Open Season As Soon As Schedule Is Arranged The Junior Summer baseball league, with Conch Herb Curtis in. charge, will start as soon ns a schedule can be completed, it was announced at the South Ward basebull diamond, 1 and it is expected that there will be a large number of tennis in the > | league. '. All hoys of Decatur are urged to ,report al the South Ward diamond, this week, so that they may be assign-. ed to a team. Playing will start I some time next week, and the schedule will not interfere with work. I The league will close its schedule 'at the end of summer, and, it pos- ■ silde. the winning team will receive some sort of an award. All boys, of all schools in the city, are eligible. for membership on the teams. o +♦♦+♦♦♦♦+♦+++*♦♦ + SPORT TABS + •!-+ + ■> + + + + + + + + + + + + (By United Press) j Des Moines. la. — Harry O'Boyle, I football and baseball star at Notre Dame university, has been signed with the Des Moines baseball club of the Western league. He is an outfielder. Bloomington, Ind. — Jimmy Burke was elected captain of the 1928 University bf Indiana baseball team. Indianapolis.—The opening game of the series with Minneapolis went to Indianapolis. 3-2 in the tenth inning. ‘The winning run was the result of a walk and a sacrifice with only one down. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Pays

I COUNTRY CLUB SEEKS MEMBERS (COM’tM i:i» i hom time, tiflso, the various committees will report. The links are now rounding Into condition and the first nine holes will soon' be in very good playing shape. The greens are being treated and the farways mowed and filled. For the benefit of those interested, the following schedule is published again: Membership Fees and Dues Membership Duos Resident mon and wives llttil SSO Resident women (single) 50 25 i Resident men (single). 100 35 ' Ncn-res dent men * wives 50 25 'Non-resdont women 25 25 1 Junior members (14-21) 10 10 Memberships are non-assessible. Single men may include membershin of a mother or sister by paving I the SSO dues yearly instead of $35. No dues to bo charged for the year 1927. i Grand opening party to bo held June 21. Membership Committees: Arthur Holthouse, Chas. Kanpp and CHICAGO X d ns3.so via Erie Railroad SUNDAY. JUNE 12 Tickets good in couches only going on train No. 7 leaving Decatur at 2:18 A.M. Returning leave Chicago 10:20 P.M. Central Time. For further particulars call, G. E. TEEMS, Ticket Agent -

William Linn. Cal Peterson, Dick Holler, James Arnold and William Helm. France Conter, Chalmer Porter and Herman Myers. Dr Roy Archbold, Herman Yager, and James Cowan. Dr. E. G. Coverdale, (’. C. Schafer, John H Heller and W. A. KJepper. A. 1). Suttles, Leo Kirsch ami Robert Meillers 0 I. U. Commencement Held Monday Evening Bloomington, Ind., June 7.—(UP) A brilliant twilight ceremony was held here in the Indiana Memorial stadium late yesterday when Gov. Ed Jackson presided over the graduation exercises of tlte state university here. JJveiett Sanders, secretary to President Coolidge, made the principal address and brought a message of confidence in public education to this

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