Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1927 — Page 6

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JACK UNCERTAIN ABOUT FOUL BLOW Dempsey Admits He Doesn’t Know Whether Or Not He Fouled Sharkey Ry Henry L. Farrell (IT. p. Staff Correspondent) New York. July 25—(UP)—As long as Jack Dempsey's name remains of any Importance in the record hooks there will remain a question about the punches with which ne knocked out Jack Sharkey. It is an argument that never can be settled. A man has to he granted the right to his own opinion and the best opinion is that of Jack Dempsey. He admitted before he left New York that he didn't know. In his characteristic frankness he said he didn’t think he won with a foul punch. Sharkey's opinion quite obviously is worth something and he could settle the argument with an admission that the punch was not low it it really wasn't but in all probability Sharkey couldn't be any too sure. When you get a punch in the stomach from a driver like Dempsey you can't be stir ,tst where you're hit. Tom Gibbons expressed his opinion in Shelby after Dempsey had been accused of hitting him low: “When you get full of hurt you don't know." it is curious that charges of fouls have been involved in nearly everyone of Dempsey's fights. They said he left the ring illegally against Jess Willard, that he punched Gibbons low, that he hit Firpo when he was on the floor and after the bell had struck and now the Sharkey controversy. It is just as curious that Dempsey never has been tagged a "foul fighter.” His friends deny his guilt and those who may not be his friends can be found defending him with the expression of the opinion that it ha was guilty it was not intentional. Regardless of all the arguments and the variance of opinion about Dempsey’s present condition and fighting form, the public is still overwhelmingly “with” (he former champion. Tex Rickard had more than 2,000 applications, accompanied by the money, for the return match between Dempsey and Gene Tunney in less than 48 hours after Sharkey had been "minted out. Rickard has the explanation. "Dempsey never failed to give the public a run for its money," Rickard said. "And every one of his fights have been spectacular and sensational. The public wants a fighter like Dempsey and it's my business to give the public what it wants.” <> Molla Mallory Wins Lawn Tennis Tournament Easthampton, N. Y„ July 25. —(UP) — Mrs. Molla Mallory, national champion. began her season’s play on metropolitan courts auspiciously by winning the Maidstone club’s annual invitation lawn tennis tournament. Mrs. Mallory defeated Miss Eleanor Goss in the final round yesterday. 6 2, 6-2. In the doubles Miss Goss paired with Helen Wills to defeat Mrs. Mallory and Helen Jacobs, 18-year-old California girl, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5. Miss Wills defeated Charles M. Bull in a one-set exhibition match, 6-2. ’ 5c DOES IT! It Buys a Good Cigar Any Place, Any Time, if You Know the Password “But will it?" you say, thinking of the typical five-center that claims to be worth more. Can’t blame you for asking. At the same time, there ix a fine, fragrant cigar on the market today at just five cents. There w a smoke to be bought for a nickel now that used to cost more years ago. That sold big for thirty years. That sells better than ever today. The name is Havana Ribbon. Will you forget the old-time fivecenter, the old-time ideas of cigar prices and buy just one Havana Ribbon on quality alone? If you will, you are going to get the smoke surprise of your life. You’re going to buy mellowness; mildness, rich ripe tobacco—satisfaction! fJon’t be afraid of Havana Ribbon. We can-offer quality at the price because we make the cigar by the millions. If you’ll only try one, you’ll forget the price.

“I Told You So” fl ’Ek'Mr * ‘ ■ wEi ■ ; w >-w Here's Jack Denipsy's smile of victory. He hopes to use it again.

GOLF SIMPLIFIED By Charles (Chick) Evans, Jr. all JI VIBRATE Nl THE CI.UB "f" HEAD WITH .iCL „ A RUBSIM& MOTIONsome piarers USE THE FORWARD PRESS TO START THElft RHYTHMIC SUJIkoG ‘ 1 The Accented Beat Lately I have forgotten about the little nctiott just behind the ball immediately before bringing the club up on the back stroke and in consequence my distance and accuracy of flight have suffered. Again I want to say that no player man, woman, boy or girl can just put the clubhead behind the ball and bring it up out of time. There must be that springboard effect down there. One must be careful, however, not to move the ball remembering if it gbes out of its position it is a stroke. Especially is there a chance of this if the grass has become slippery ft tn drouth. I have made the mistake and I know just how cruel it is. It was interesting at Oakmont to watch the different methods of the great players when making this little movement before the stroke proper, begins, With some it was a press with the clubhead still on the ground. Others had a rubbing motion back of the ball. With still others it was a circular sandpaiter sort of a motion. And others actually shivered the clubhead and 1 assure you that I did not mistake the nervousness of the body. The motion seemed to run out the ends of the players fingers and into the shaft and clubhead. This little preparatory movement must be used in every shot, even to the putt. I can never forget how effectively Bobby Jones used it on his short putts at Haltusrol, against tne. That convinced me that this little trilling motion at the beginning of the stroke is necessary with every club in the whole bag. I used to think that it was very dangerous on the tiny puts because of the difficulty in keeping the cltibhead at right angles to the imaginary direction line. (Copyright John F. Dille Co.) 0 The Washington Senators crowded 12 of their 15 hits into two innings, the sixth and seventh, scored 12 runs in these two innings, and smothered the St. Louis Browns, 14 to 6. There tvere no important changes in the standing of the American league, the pace setting Yankees defeating the White Sox. 3to 2. Babe Ruth hit his 31st home run of the season.

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♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. ■ Pittsburgh 54 35 .607 ,Chi. ago .. .55 36 .604 ' St. Louis 52 37 .584 I New York 49 -»6 .516 i Brooklyn .41 50 .451 I Philadelphia 37 51 .420 1 Cincinnati 38 52 .422 | Bos.on 34 53 .391 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. , Pet. New York 67 26 .720 Washington 53 38 .582 Detroit 49 39 .557 Philadelphia 48 43 .527 Chicago 48 47 .505 St. Louis . 38 52 .422 Cleveland 39 54 .419 Boston 24 67 .264 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Toledo 57 36 .613 Milwaukee 55 41 .573 Kansas City . 54 42 .563 Minneapolis 53 45 .541 St. Paul 52 47 .525 Ind'anapolls . 37 58 .389 Columbus . 37 53 .389 Louisville 38 63 .376 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh, 11-3; New York, 6-9. St. Louis, 4; Cincinnati. 9. Chicago. 2-7; Brooklyn. 3-1. American League Washington, 14; St. Louis, 6. New York. 3; Chicago, 2. Boston, 8; Detroit, 7. Philadelphia. 6-2; Cleveland. 9-6. American Association Kansas Ci.y, 85; Milwaukee, 5-2.-Indianapolis, 4-8; Columbus, 8-13. St. Paul. 3; Minneapolis, 5. Toledo. 7-1; Louisville, 0-1. SATURDAY'S RESULTS American League New York, 5; Chicago, 2, P iston, 2; Detroit, 3. Washington, 9; St. Louis, 8. National League Chicago-Philadelphia, rain. Pittsburgh. 2-4; Boston, 6-3 (Second game called end 6th, rain). American Association Milwaukee, 5; Kansas City, 4. Indianapolis, 9; Columbus, 8. Toledo, 7; Louisville, 1. Minneapolis. 8-0; St. Paul, 5-10. o Helen Wills Favored In Essex County Club Meet Manchester. Mass., July 25.—(UP) —With Miss Helen Wills as top seeded player, the third annual Essex county club tennin tournament smarted here today. Miss Wills was scheduled to meet Miss Isabella Lee Mumford of Brooklyn in her first round match. It was planned to run oft' all first and second round singles matches today. Mrs. Molla Mallory, who is second seeded player, was scheduled to meet Mrs. Herbert Zerxa in the afternoon play. « 0 Three errors in the first game and two in the second were partly responsible for the double defeat which the Athletics suffered nt the hands of the Cleveland Indians. The scores were 9 to 6 and 5 to 2.

G,E. DEFEATS GENEVA, 11-8 Decatur Baseball Team Avenges Earlier Defeat Here Saturday Afternoon The Decatur General Electric baseball team avenged an 1 binning defeat a week ago. by trouncing the Geneva Greys here Saturday afternoon by a score of 11-8. The game was played on the diamond at the new community athletic field, in the south part of the>ty. A good sized crowd saw the game. Geneva took the lead in the first inning by scoring three rims. The Electricians wiped out the lead In the fourth iuing and the local hurlers held the visitors at bay until the eighth inning, when they scored live more runs The five-run tally fell short one run of tying the score, however. The Electricians scored two more runs in the eighth for good measure. Cochran, of Decatur, hit a two-bagger, while Ford ant' Blowers, of Geneva, hit two ami one baggers, respectively. The G. E. nine will go to Markle for a game next Saturday. The Score. Geneva ... 30000005 0 —• 89 6 Decatur .. 1003 41 0 2 x—ll 9 6 Batteries: McWhinney, I.tong. and Ford; Cochran, White and Acheson, Baxter. Umpire: Clay Engle. Decatur. o ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ ♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* By the slim margin of three points, the Pittsburgh Pirates remained today a’t the head of the National league percentage column. They divided a | double header with the New York Giants, 11-6 and 9-3 Sunday while the Chicago Cubs were splitting with Brooklyn. Carmen Hill, ace of the Pirates' pitching staff, won his 15th victory of the season in the opening game. In the second game the Giants settled the dispute in the sixth inning by driving Dawson to cover. , Old Jess Petty kept the Cults' hits well scattered in the first game of the Chicago-Brooklyn double header and the Cubs were vanquished. 3 to 2. The Cubs came back strong in the | second game behind the pitching of Sheriff Blake and made things even by trouncing the Robins, 7 to 1. Cincinnati's 9-4 victory over St. Lottis elevated the Reds to sixth position in the league. Grover Alexander started for the Cards but was driven to cover. Detroit's Tigers staged a desperate rally in the ninth inning of their Sunday game with Boston but fell one run short ami lost, 8 to 7. _o PLANE WRECKED t BY PASSENGER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONK) through field glasses from the clubhouse. The plane had risen only 150 feet when it started its tail spin and crashed. The two passengers were killed almost instantly and Hawkinson was ’ badly burned. At the hospital to which he was taken it was said ills condition was critical. Although Hawkinson was unable to explain the accident, another pilot who watched the crash, said Hawkinson's plane was equipped with a dual control handle in one of the passenger’s seats and that apparently one of his passengers had pulled this by mistake. This threw the nose of the plane almost straight up and since it had not picked up enough speed for a ' perpendicular ascent, the result was a tail spin. o COOLIDGE ASSIGNS WRITER TO COVER 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) . acres of 100,000 acre prospect which is watered by the Ice waters of the Bellefourch river which was harnessed by the government to make fertile farm land out of a prairie desert. | F. S. Smith, who runs a weekly newspaper at Bellfourch, says that there is justice In the farmer's demand Their ciops have been gradually improving the last few years but they have not made sufficient money to pay off their debt to the government in the pt esent specified time of 10 years, however, a sugar beet factory has been located out here this year and they , look for big crops next year. From an airplane, the project looks like a gigantic gridiron with little rivulets two feet wide and 100 yards i apart laid out upon the ground to ' breathe fertility into the soil, which furnishes annually J 1.500,000 in sugar beets, Alfalfa, outnumbers, corn and wheat. I’. C. Youngblood is federal official in charge of the plant, He is proud that the Sugar Beet Fatcory has been

STILLABLETOSMH* / -W/ / I I Cx .. 41 <• V ■ Although defeated in his bout with Jack Dempsey Thursday night, .lack Sharkev, the Boston heavyweight,.is still able to smile. He says he will he back al the t<>|) before Dempsey is, _

established and promises that crops: next year may be doubled. He believes that 40,000 vacant acres of Irrigated lands may lie then settled. "We are making a garden of the desert." he said. “The project is growing every year. Rainfall have been large' this year and helped intmensly. We will have the largest crop since the' plot was started in 1903.” Farmers, however, are complaining about the government requirements that they pay off their debt for land

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; within ten years anti Tuesday they are to hold an indignation meeting and ( hope Mr. Coolidge will see fit to lend his assistance to their movement. That's the story. If Mr. Coolidge had i his way newspapers would be made up . of stories like this instead of articles about his private life. But he may be surprised when he learns that the story has more personal interes fc- , hint than he suspected when he gave the assignment.

YOUTH IS BLAMED "" B FOR POISON PLo T » <<ONTINI 111 FRO,, PUiF. ONE, K son. with intent to kill." w:l .. bi ' ' H gaia.st young Wade Friday > )v M '' H Morc'tead. The sheriff ar-sted w j,. H near Dull, where he was w,„kii, P . ' K Ran Away From Home K Morehead says that the p 0 i SOn ■ found it. milk which he and his wit, H intettdeil t> drink on Jim, )<t |H the discovery was mad.. Wad,. away f;o.u home mid has n„. B back since, he says. Wade has hm-n given a home ),, , h(> H M .eheads alive he w,u ni n( . V1 ,,, M old. I‘,< ore that he had lived i ; , y a H Wert with it's parents. Poll..win. ,| l( , ■ death <> ills mother, the fatr.-r ai i ■ vertised for a home tor th- |. o . an( | H the Moreheads agreed to raise him H MERLE MM I M IS I HELD; CONFESSES I PART IN HOLDUP I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) children reside near Rockford, it is said. A charge of failure to support his two children is pending against Yocum in court at Celina. Ohio. An alibi has been proven for an . Adams cornify man who wqp pn S . pected of being one of the bandits who held up the bank, it is said. The man's employer told Sheriff Bari Hollingsworth that he was at work on the farm all day last Wednesday and could not have been in Rockford at the time of the robbery. | Yocum is well known to Cleveland authorities, it is said, hjs picture and j finger prints being in their possession already. The Icense number on the Ford coupe driven by the two bandits who actuary performed the holdup at Rockford was traced to Toledo, Ohio, where it was found that it was one los‘ by a highly respected resident of .hat city. oMrs. David Everhart and children