Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1927 — Page 6

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TENNIS TOURNEY IS IN PROGRESS Semi-finals Are Reached In Most Divisions Os City Tournament The city tenis tourament is progressing nicely and the semi finals have be»n reached in most of the divisions. The final matches will he played next week. hick Stoneburner, one of the outstanding players in the tournament, probably will be forced to forfeit the remainder of his matches on account of injuries sustained in an automobile accident Thursday night. Following are the results of the matches played so far: Men’s Singles Engeler defeated Thomas, 6-2. 6-0; Wemhoff defeated Gerberding .6-0, 6-4; Laurent defeated Dowling, 7-5, 10-8; Engeler defeated Wemhoff. 6-1. 6-0; Boys’ Singles Mount defeated Schafer; Dowling defeated Gass; Stoneburner defeated Engle, 6-2. 6-0; Hell defeated Engeler 7-5, 6-4; Mylott defeated Reynolds, 6-2, 3-6. 6-2. Boys’ Doubles DeVoss and Koos defeated Engle and C. Reynolds. 6-4. 8-6; Mount and dowling defeated I. Reynolds and Mylott. Men’s Doubles Kwick and Stoneburner defeated Myers ami iiumschlag. 6-2; 6-2; Laurent and Knapke defeated Wemhoff brothers, 6-4: 6-4. Mixed Doubles Zwick and Schroll defeated Bell and Schafer. 4-6. 6-3, 64: Laurent and Kocher defeated Zwick and Schroll, 6- 6-4. High School Mixed Doubles Dowling and Meyers defeated Bell and Schafer; Stoneburner and Macklin defeated Mount and Hite, 6-4: 6-3. Girl’s Singles R. Macklin defeated C. Fritzinger, 7- 7-5; 6-4. G. Hower defeated E. Macklin, 6-0; 6-1: G. Hower defeated 1!. Macklin, (Final). High School Girls’ Doubles E. Macklin and Hite defeated R. Macklin and Archbold. D.C.H.S. NET SCHEDULE OUT 1 Twenty Game s Already , Scheduled; New Teams On Card This Season The 1927-28 basketball slhedule for the Decatur Catholic high school i Commodores, containing twenty gam- i es and several open dates yet to be ; filled, was announced to day by Father t Joseph Hession, athletic manager of i the school. The opening game of the i reason will be played in the Commo- , dores own gymnasium on Friday , night, November 11, with the Geneva , high school quintet furnishing the op- . position. j The open dates in December and , January will he tilled with home games, Father Hesion said today. Games , away from home will be scheduled I for the open dates in February. Ne- , gotiat'on are in progress to fill the , open dates An effort has been made to schedule the best teams played by the Como- 1 dores last year and to add new and ( strong teams. Some teams, like Gen eva, C. C. H. S. of Fort Wayne and ( Anderson Catholic are expected to be ( stronger this year than they were last season. Fostoria. Ohio, and Cathedral high of Indianapolis would not . schedule games with the Commodores this year, because they are limiting the distance they will travel. The Commodores will not play teams 1 in the southern part of the state this 1 season, but will meet them in the ' state Catholic tournament to be held in indlanapo'is during the second week tn March. This will eliminate the large expense and loss of time oc casioned by the southern trip. Several of the teams to be played did not lose, any iflayfers from squads. Among the new teams on the schedule this year are Bluffton public high. Rihhmond Catholic and Shelby-1 ville Catholic. A game has been scheduled with the alumni for the Christmas holidays. This fs expected to be a real game, as the alumni now have Mongo, Wemmy, Christie,

Holthouse, Tubby Gass, Bud Voglewede and others on the list Prospects are good for another strong team nt Catholic high. Ihe young members of hist years squad '[are growing and putting on consider-' .ib'e weight this summer, indicating’ |that the team will be large. The schedult is as follows: Nov. 11-Geneva, here. Nov. 16- Hartford township, here. Nov. 18—Open. Nov. 23 St. Marys, Huntington, here. Nov. 26— Shelbyville Catholic, here Dec. 2—Open. Dec. 8 Open Dec. 9—Huntington Catholic, there. Dec. 14—Open. Dec. 16—Open. Dec. 21 Lima (St. Rose), here Dec. 23- l’.|uffton, there. Dec. 26 -Open. Dec. 29—Shelbyville Catholic, there Dec. 30 —Anderson Catholic, there. Jan. 2 Alumni, here Jan. 6—Richmond Catholic, there • Jan. 11 Open. Jan. 13—Geneva, there. Jan. 18—Open. Jan 20—Bellevue, Ohio, there. Jan. 25—Open , Jan. 27 Fort Wayne (C. C. IT. S.) there. February I—Open.l—Open. Fob. 3—Anderson Catholic, here. Feb. B—Open.B—Open. Feb. 10 —Fort Wayne (C. C. U.S.) i here. Feb. 15—Open. Feb.l7 —Bellevue., Ohio, here. Feb.22 —Lima (St. Rose), there. Fel>. 23 —Richmond Catholic, here. : Feb. 25—Bluffton, here. Feb. 29—Open March2—Open. Mar. 7 —Open. Mar. 9—Open. GOLF SIMPLIFIED By Charles (Chick) Evans, Jr. . - —— — |JL jo/ U Wit SOLE • MJUi clubhead IRON SPOON ]} J HAND “ i / I 2 ’iz AS i-OuJ • UM .yfegKT) There is a hole at Oakmont which required the absolutely perfect spoon-1 shot. Everyone knows that the 16th' hole on any 18 hole golf course should be the most testing, and this, of c.’.nrte was the loth at Oakmont. The distance varied, according to the tie plates, as much at 4b yards, but for our purpose it was a full spoon shot. The spoon shot may be defined as one which has no roll to speak of when, it lands. Now, if you have a slice spin] on a ball it tends to roll less than a hook spin. And so this green was so constructed that a ball with a well] I managed partial slice was the best] I to play. Now what was the best way to I get this? In the first place you must play the ball a little farther forward, not very much, however. And perhaps you might open your stance a ILttl? ’ more than cn the full driver shots that you want to go straight. Os course, too ] you must aim about 10 or 15 yards to the left of where you are playing. Some player turn the face of the club out a little bit, but this is not exactly necessary. You want to visualize the manner in which that clubface will swing sc that it will give the ball the tiniest amount of slice spin. This yen can do best by making your arc a curve coming from the outside o* tjie imaginary direction line to the hole on the down stroke. Your right hand should finish in an underneath position for the first two feet after the ball is hit. If you get your hands a tiny bit ahead of the clubhead when it hits the hall it will help you in obtaining this slice spin, it really isn't what is known as a true slice spin because the ball should go to the right at the end.’ A few years ago there was a big fad In England for this sort of a stroke for all full shots. I was once playing with an Englishman in the open chain- 1 pionship and he used this kind of a stroke for everything and it was really very effective. 1 write this article because there are so many people who slice and I want to assure them that if they do not slice so much that it | takes a good deal of distance off their ] stroke that they will develops a good game of golf. At any rate, everyone' ought to know how to ,put this slfcejl spin on tihe ball. (Copyright John F. Dille Co)

DEMPSEY STARTS FOR LOS ANGELES Arguments Still Rage On Regarding Alleged Foul Blows In Big Fight New York, July 23 (IP) —Tex RicNew York, July 23 ■ (UP) —Tex Rickard today formally designated Jack Dempsey as the next opponent of Gene Tunney, Heavyweight champion, and incidentally announced that 2.1K10 application- lor tickets already had been received for admission at the next fight. The date and place of the title bout will he made known before August 5 Tunney having consented to postponment of definite selection in a conference with Richard today. It was. however, considered certain that the fight will he held in Chicago 1 nSeptember. > According to the terms of a con-1 tract signed last winter by the chain ] pion and the promoter, an agreement ; already backed by $200,000 in forefit i money, Rickard was to name Tanney'si opponent and announce the time and I site of the battle by July 25 Tunney was willing, however, to forego the latter clause. “I don't care where I fight," he said. By Morris De Haven Tracy, L’nited Press Staff Correspondent New York, July 23 — (UP) —Jack Dempsey was enroute to r-os Angeles today for a short test before he starts j training to meet champion Gene Tunney, his unsuccessful baiter, Jack' -Sharkey, was at his Boston home re- |

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( Upenitlng from Thursday's battle, but behind them, the fighters left a trail us arguments which showed no signs of growing stnle. ••It was" and "it wasn't" ww the slogans of the Sharkey iMid Dempsey] supporters, respectively, wherever the alleged low blow that proceeded tlie ( knockout of the Boston boy was discussed—mid K there was anywhere It wasn’t discussed the place had not been discover <1 today. Out of the Hnllultaloo of Argument came with growing strength the charge] unsupported, as far as could he dis covered, by concrete evidence that soineG.ing whs wrong with the million] dollar battle, it is a charge which follows almost every important tight however and nothing ever comes of it. xWhlle others fought the batle over In words or vainly strained their eyes to try to tell from motion pictures whether the blow was below the bell Tex Rickard calmly set out on the business of preparing for the TttnneyD< mpsey championship fight which will be held in September—and which if the ai gument keeps up. may provide for Mr. Rickard a gate even larger titan tile record lie confidently expects. Possiblity of a bout between the winner and Sharkey also was beginning to be discussed. Dempsey went to Wilmington, Del., I home of his wife’s family, and after I a brief visit with relatives boarded a train for New Orleans. He stopped ' iiiug enough to renew to newspaper- ] men his denial that he had struck I Sharkey low. o Mrs. J. T. Merryman spent the at- , tetnoon in Fort Wayne with friends. ~ _ | YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh. 5; Boston. 2. Chicago. 5; Philadelphia. 6. Cincinnati. 3; Brooklyn, 0., St. Louis. 7; New York, 4. American League New York. 5; Chicago. 7. Washington. 6-2; St. Louis, 7-3. No other scheduled. American Asociation Kansas City, 1: Milwaukee, 10. I St. Paul, 6; Minneapolis. 4. No others scheduled.

JULY 23.1927.

BASEBALL’S BIG FIVE ißy United Press) Tris Speaker obtained five hits, one a double. In eight limes at bat. ] i Both Ruth and Gehrig hit safely p twice in live attempts, the Babe ting a triple and single, and Lou a double mid single. | Hornsby also made two hits, both singles. He was at bat tour times | Cobb's game nt Cleveland was called at the end of the second inning on account of rain. AB II PCT HR Gehrig «a5 139 .394 31 Speaker 338 124 .367 0 Ruth 212 ”3 361 30 Cobh 256 100 -350 4 Hornshy 343 117 341 16 * WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4-♦♦♦♦ ♦ (By United Press I The teeter-tottering National league baseball race has another leader today through the fact that the Chicago Cubs lost and the Pittsburgh Pirates won thereby elevating the Corsairs back into the lead. The Cubs dropped a 6-5 game to Philadelphia mainly through costly blunders in both the infield and and

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