Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1927 — Page 6

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COMMODORES TO HAVE NEW COACH. France Center Resigns As ( Mentor; George Laurent Appointed Coach France Confer, coach of the Decatur Catholic high school baskethall team for the last three years, lias resigned his position and George •Shorty" Murent, former Catholic high athlete, has been engaged to succeed him. according to an announcement made today by Father Joseph llession. assistant pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, who is the athletic supervisor of the Catholic high school. Mr. Confer felt that he did not have sufficient time to devote to the work. However, he will assist Mr. Laurent with the Commodores. During the the three years that Mr. Confer coached the Commodores, they made an enviable record, wining 59 out of 62 gam»-s played during the regular season. Each of the three years found the Commodores battling in the national Catholic tournament at Chicago ami twice they went Io the semi final round before being eliminated. Last Spring, they were eliminated in their third game. Mr. Center also coached the Catholic high school football team the only year the school hail a team in the field. To Attend Coaching School Mr. Laurent was a member of the Commodores' quintet a few years ago and took part in one of the national tournaments. He is an all-around athlete. being noted for his baseball and tennis ability, as well as basketball. . He has been coaching the St. Joe . eighth grade basketball team for the 1 past year ami had fine success, his ' team winning the city title. Mr. Laurent will attend the basketball coaches' school to be held at Ro- ( Chester in August by Coach Ward "Piggy" Minbert, basketball coach at Purdue University. Coach I-ambert will have other noted coaches on his staff at the school. Since Coach Lambert's ( style of basketball will be taught at | the school. It means that the Commodates will play a different style of game next winter than they have been used to playing. No one has been selected to coach 1 the St. Joe eighth grade team, so far. • Father llession stateil today that the * basketball schedule for the Commo- . dors is nearly complete. Twenty games ( have been scheduled, so far, and a few I more will be added. Thete will be some newcomers on the schedule this year. 0 TILDEN'S TENNIS I TITLE AT STAKE' Monarch Os American Tennis Courts, Begins Defense Os Title At Detroit f By Clyde G. Byers, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Detroit, Mich.. July IS.—(UP)—William T. Tiden 11, for years monarch of the American tennis courts, today starts defense of one of the titles he has annually recaptured—the national clay courts singles championship. It will be master against a youthful field. Junior Coen, young Kansas Ci y player who was guided through a number of tournaments last year by Tilden, Johnny Hennessey of Indianapolis and Clarence "Peck" Griffith of San Francisco —all much younger In competition than Tilden — are among the seeded players. Others who are expected to figure prominently lu the tournament are Wallace Johnson of Phlladalephia and Luke Williams of Chicago. Johnson Is an exponent of the chop stroke and has long been a familiar figure in American tennis competition. Tilden Is making no pretenses about his desire to again regain the tennis honors he has held for gu'ch a long time. His recent defeat in the Wimbledon championships and his defeat in the east last summer, have made the veteran champion anxious to prove he has not slipped. One of th* most interesting first round matches today will be between young Coen, who has been playing phenomenally this season, and Ty Cobb. Jr,, son ot the veteran baseball player.

e He’s Particular , [■r / at -v-s> . " 7 MN 7 . ' ‘ J When 11. C. Fulger, president ot the boat'll of directors ol the Standard Oil, puts, he puts with a putter of his own design. lie’s shown on the Luks of the Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove, New York. I IntPrn*NtNrwi* ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS <> NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Chicago 52 31 .637 Pittsburgh 48 30 .615 St. Louis 49 35 .583 New York .46 41 .529 Brooklyn ~... 39 46 .459 Phlaldelphia 34 48 .415 Cincinnati 32 51 .386 Boston . 30 48 .385 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York £2 25 .713 Washington 48 35 .578 Detroit 45 38 .542 Philadelphia 45 39 .536 Chicago 47 41 .534 St. Louis 35 48 .422 Cleveland 35 51 .407 Boston 21 63 .250 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo 54 33 • .621 Milwaukee 51 27 .58.) Kansas City 49 37 .570 Minneapolis 48 4'4 .522 St. Paul 47 43 .478 Indianapolis 38 52 .422 Columbus 36 53 .404 Louisville 36 59 .379 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis. 5; Brooklyn, 3. Chicago-New York, postponed, wet grounds. No others scheduled. American League Washington. 7; Chicago, 4. Philadelphia, 4; Detroit, 5. • Boston-Cleveland, postponed, rain. New York. 5; St. Louis, 4. American Association Columbus, 5-5; St. Paul, 13-17. Indianapolis, 8-4; Milwaukee, 4-5. Toledo. 8-5; Minneapolis, 7-2. Louisville, 4-3; Kansas City. 8-7. SATURDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis, 0-9; Brooklyn; 3-2. Cincinnati, 3; Boston, 2. Chicago, 5-2; New York, 6-4. Pittsburgh, 10-9; Philadelphia. 11-11. American League Washington, 5; Chicago, 7. Boston, 6-5; Cleveland, 3-4. Philadelphia. 9; Detroit, 3. New York, 5; St. Louis. 2. American Association Indianapolis, 13; Mi'waukee, 12. Louisville, 4; Kansas City, 2. Columbus, 7; St. Paul, 3. Toledo, 4; Minneapolis. 3. o Detroit. — Eddie Kane, manager of Sammy Mandell the lightweight boxing champion, indicated today that a campaign is to be started whereby the champion will meet all of th e topnotchers in the lightweight division. Mandell Saturday defeated Phil McGraw, Detroit, in a 10-round decision bout. Omaha, Neb. —Wray Brown, ranking American tennis player, won the Missouri Valley tennis title for the second consecutive year by defeating Junior Coen of Kansas City, 8-2, 6-2, 6-0.

LEANS ACCEPT FATS'CHALLENGE Battle Looms As Fat And Lean Men Prepare For Baseball Contest The lean. long, skinny men of Do] eatnr me up in aims over the challenge of the fat men of the city for a ba-ebaU g»me. and every Indication p hits toward a real battle within the mix: f. w weeks. Leland Franks, capt.iin of the f.it men. ami Charles Knapp captain of the leans will get together In the next day or two and appoint theii committee and arrange a date for the big game. It is hoped that all business houses will close at 3 or 4 o’clock on the afternoon of the game, and that, following a big parade, everyone will turn out for the "battle of the century". All the big and little fat and skinny men ot the community will be mustered into service on the day of the game, and efforts will he made to have the band out in full force for the occasion. Charles Knapp, captail of the lean men's team, isued the following reply to the fat men's challenge today: "Leland Franks, captain of the ‘tubby” or fat men of Decatur. "When you and your committee of and daytime also, challenged the lean and hungry men of Decatur to a game of baseball, you started something. "It is easy to make broad statements such as ‘you fellows never could play baseball’, and ’inferior brother men’. We accept your challenge and will lot the general public of Decatur act as a jury and decide whether you can prove your statements. "The weather man promises to turn on some good extra hot weather during the day of the game. Look over this array of talent; and weep or retract your statements; Lank Linn, Art Wemhoff, Mongo Myers. ’Babe Ruth’ Charles Brock. Logger Voglewede, Ferd O'Brien, Ed Bochnecht, Rev. Joseph Hesston, Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann. Earl Blackburn, the Bockman, Brothers. Carl Smith, Fred Smith, (not of the Smith Brothers) Bye Macy, Lem Ehler, Charles Helm. Vince Borman, etc. 1 • "We appoint ‘Leather' Frank France 1 as our umpire, knowing him to be fair s and honest and a man who cannot be I bought off by any bunch of fat and I lazy mortals, who are in the habit of j gaining their ends in the easiest way i possible and with the least effort. I "Let's get together soon, name the i date, get the men out to practice, get < out the band and the whole town and ; make it a real benefit for the Community recreation ground.” Signed in bloody ink by, "Charles W. Knapp, captain of the SKINNEYS.” “P. S. The fat men will have to weigh in at the Burk Elevator company prior to the game and I'll bring my 5-pound scales for the leans. o • WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦ (By United Press) The Yankees went into the eighth with a 4-3 count against them. With two men out Buster Gehrig hit a home run —his thirteenth of the season which tied Babe Ruth’s 1927 record —to knot the count. Meusel followed Gehrig with another home run that gave the Yankees a victory. Marty McManus srippled in ninth' and Dykes mussed up Deviveno's bunt thereby allowing Detroit to nose out a 5-4 victory over Philadelphia. Tris Speaker managed to get four hits out of five times at bat and this coupled with effective pitching by Walter Johnson enabled Washington to defeat the Chicago White Sox, 7-4. 0 Sharkey Begins Tapering Os His Training Today New York, July 18. — (UP) —Jack Sharkey began tapering off his training today for his fight with Jack Dempsey and although he will continue his workouts, it was hardly expected he would go through another heavy program. "Sharkey looks great and its certainly going to be a corking fight," Rickard said, but he followed his ( usual custom of refusing to hazard a guess as to who would win. He said Sharkey in some ways looks to his much as Dempsey did before the Willard fight.

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GOLF SIMPLIFIED By Charles (Chick) Evans, Jr. | *1 PLAY Ball across I forward ball XA FROM ■ OUTSIDE < IN OPEN YOUR ,--7° ) STANCE \ < o LEFT \ °F *\ green — How to Play the Spoon I would like to convince golfers that just because the head of a club is made of wood is no reason why it should he played differently than if , it were of iron. I don’t carry any driving iron or cleek. my longest iron being a midiron. 1 prefer playing the spoon for those distances, and I play this spoon the same way that I do my midiron. So. if you don’t carry f/spoon and use the driving iron or cleek you may rest assured that the following instruction will apply to your clubs too. My grip, of course, is the part finger and palm grip, the leather of necessity touching the low'er part of the palm of my left hand. The hands should be very close together so that they act as one. I like to feel the balance of the clubhead. Do not grip this dub so tightly that you arc tense, because with a wooden head even more than in iron there must be a relaxed swinging of it. Os course, you should not hold the club head so loose that its right angular face posittion is affected. I like the square stance for spoon shots. However, because you use this club often on fairway any stance near I the square stance is all right and acI ceptable. I have my feet just a little I farther apart than on the drive. I like | to be in such a position that my feet grip the ground somewhat as the different segments of the swing are I reached. Footwork in the spoon shot is a very important factor. If you have too open a stance you are apt to get in a position where it will be difficult for you to bring your left shoulder around to the club head. This would make it almost impossible, to get your weight behind the shots, and, therefore. lose much of your opportunity for greater distance. Feet should be s> placed that the whole weight of your body can be taken advantage of. As this club is taking the place of a i iron one the player should think verv carefully of his direction and his stance should be taken so that he can get that in the easiest way. I don’t like to see anybody •turn his toes in when he can get a much better pivot if thet are turned out. They don’t have to be turned out equally, however. Anything for good pivoting is the keyword for stance in this shot. The knees should be equally bent, the right one bracing back on the upstroke and the left one bracing back on the follow

through. The ball should lie almost exactly off the left heel. (Copyright John F. Dille Co.) M DEMPSEY MAKES . ii PRE-ROUT BOASV u I v Ex-Champion Predicts He ' Will Beat Sharkey By An Early Knockout o 1 White Sulphur Springs, N. 1.. July 18—(United Press)—Jack Dempsey t today predicted ho would beat Jack - Sharkey in their fight Thursday by r a knockout in the early rounds. I ( "Not more, than three rounds 1 < figure," be said. "However, if it| should have to go the limit, I'll win j the decision easily because I know , I can go 15 rounds fast enough' to win.” Dempsey made his before-thediat-tle statement to (he United Press . correspondent in his camp here today. where he is tapering off in the training that is dt signed to transform a so-ca'led "Fighting Shell" into a fi„ht'.ng man. "Where do you get that hcllow shell stuff'’" Dempsey asked. "Do I look hollow? Punch me here! Punch me any plate, and I think I can tik ■ it! Ain lan oh' man? I'm as young as Babe Ruth and 1 know I can swing and punch just as well as the Bale can in his own i-.el.et.” Dempsey certainly looks well He locks i i t!, tii'viiier than he did when be was working in preparation for his fights against Firpo and Tunney, and it is quite obvious that he hasn't the menial annoyances or the worries that he had when he was approaching the wet, rainsoaked fight in Philadelphia last fall. After the correspondent had been kept safely away from a barbed wire fence with a locked gate, guarded by a couple of state troopers and a detective or so, Leo Flynn, Dempsey's manager, emerged from the "Mystery House" in which Dempsey is living. Flynn led the way past the guards to Dempsey. Dempsey, when asked by the writer —“How long, champ?" raised three fingers and added: “If not that quick, any round. But if it goes the limit, I’ll be in there with the <l!d hand raised up." Although Dempsey and Flynn had announced that further training had been suspended, Flynn said la<er that Dempsey probably would have a ring workout this afternoon. Three sparring partners are on hand—Tillie Kid Herman, Dave Shade and Marty Burke.

Flynn was confident. "I've worked this guy into shape where no one can beat him, and when I say no one. I'm talking us a manager." he said. Jack Britton, former world welterweight champion, was among the holiday and week-end visitors. He sa'd he had been deliberating on' risking a few dollars on Sharkey but that he was going on the whole bankroll when he learned that Dempsey wasn't going to work any more. — ■ - I Yesterday's hero-Bob Meuse] whose ' home run in the eighth inning gave* the New York Yankees a 5-4 victory I over the St. Louis Browns.

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Two errors combined with a hit in the eleventh inning accounted for two runs and broke up a great pitcher's battle on the South Ward diamond Sunday afternoon, between Schneider, hurler for the St. Joe Athletic Chib baseball team, and Kircho. slabman for the Markle nine. The Markle team won by a score of 3-1. Both teams played a snappy brand of ball, and the two pitchers turned in as fine a job of hurling as has been seen here for some time. (Schneider struck out 9 Markle batsmen and allowed only three hits, while Kircho whiffed 17 of the St. Joe hatters and allowed only three hits. Markle scored one run in the second inning on an error and a hit. Decatur tied the count in the ninth , inning, while neither could score in the tenth frame. i The St. Joe team will go to Monroeville next Sunday to play the recently organized Monroeville |eam. Score of Sunday's game: I RHE Markle ... 010 000 000 02—3 3 1 Decatur 000 000 001 00—1 3 3 o Mr. and Mrs. Orval Heller, and family are enjoying a two weeks vacation. NAUSEA? Recover Quickly/ 7 " When food or water disturbs r your stomach.cramps and nausea I sometimes result. For prompt Al- • ■ , relief take some Chamberlain s Colic Remedy in a glass of '' water Soon you feel fine. A;k - your druggist for this old, reliable ; itmedy today For trial size, send 4c to > Chamberlain Medicine Company, 700 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, lowa. CHAMBERUjii’C 1 W GUARANTEED REMEDY FOR ’U I COUCas DIARRHEA, e ITH..ZIBST

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Racing Stars Entered ! n Races On Winchester Track Funk's Speedway, Wlnchentsr. i n , t July 18. —Another well-known to enter the July 24 ra.es is Schneider, of Indiunapolis [, nulß h thoroughly familiar with every of thia track and is considered oßt tl( the most fearless and skilled sp W| j demons that ever piloted a race c ar around the high banked oval. Louis was running second in the 500 mile race at Indianapolis, M a . 3i) and was forced out on account of m n . tor trouble. On Sunday, July ] 0 (lfo Souders, winners o' the 500-mlle race Indianapolis, May 30, also entered in these races, showed the boys how to get the checkered flag first at the Roby Speedway. Chicago, which added more fuel to the bitter hatred which exlais between these two men The tive-mlle dirt track chamhiqnj ship race is to decide who is the real champion. | When the starter's flag drops a t 2:15 o'clock, all friendship ceases every driver is out lo win. with the danger < louds hovering close over them hile driving at such reckless speed these boys go out and do their si tiff which gives the spectators |he thrills. ALL YOU NEED IS A NICKEL

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