Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1927 — Page 6

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CONTER LEADS 1 IN GOLF TOURNEY Leader Turns In Score Os 87 For First 18 Holes Os Country Club Meet France Oontor, of this city, was low medalist in (lie qualifying: round of the Jesse Rice handicap gnU tourney. which started at the Decatur Country Club yesterday. Conter’s net score for the 18 holes was 75. one over par. Mr. Center was out in 44 In the morning round and came in with a 4:!' for a total of 87, gross. Joe McConnell, with a net score of 77. was second in the qualifying round and George Andrews, with 78. was third. The lowest 16 players will compete next Sunday for the cup. The semi-final round will he held at 9 o'clock next. Sunday morning and the finals will be played in the nfternoon. Official scorers will be sent around with each foursome in the semi-final round, and Roy Craig, manager of the local club, and Jesse Rice, will act as official's in the final match. Indications are that the final match will be interesting, because of the oloseness of several players' scores. In arranging the semi-nnul four sonies, the four players with the lowest score will he grouped together and so on until all four quartettes are grouped. Donald Klepper and R. AVertzberger were tied for sixteenth man in palyers will be forced to play an exyesterday's match and these two tra 9 holes to determine which player will go into the semi-finals. The players who 'are still in the Tunning for the cup are: France Conter, Dr. K. 0. Coverdale, \V. A. Klepper. Harold E. Kirsch, Dr. Kauftnann. L. E. Elder, E. D. Engeier, Joe McConnell, Fred McConnell, Dick McConnell, Eno Lankenau. Robert Meibers, George Andrews, Ralph Tyndall, Chapes Wertzberger and either Donald Klepper or R. AVertzberger. o — ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦ National League W L Pet. Chicago 64 89 .622 Pittsburgh 60 42 .588 St. Louis 59 45 .567 New York 57 49 .538 Cincinnati 49 56 .4671 Brooklyn 46 59 .488 j Boston 38 60 .388 Philadelphia 39 62 .386 American League AV L Pet.)' New A’ork . 76 31 .710 , Washington 63 41 .606 | Detroit 56 47 .539 Philadelphia 55 50 .524 Chicago .... 52 56 .481' Cleveland 44 62 .415 St Louis 41 63 .394 ltostou 34 70 .327 i American Association W L Pet. Toledo 69 41 .627 < Milwaukee 65 46 .586 Kansas City - 63 50 .558 ( Minneapolis 60 54 .526 St. Paul 61 (p 5 .526 Louisville 45 72 .385 Indianapolis 42 68 .382 1 Columbus 42 69 .3'iS' YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Cincinnati, 6-2; Philadelphia. 1-1. Chicago, 6; Brooklyn, 5. St. Louis 6; Boston, 4. j No others scheduled. - i American League i Washington, 12; Cleveland, 3. i New York, 4; Chicago, 3. I No others scheduled. American Association i 1 Toledo, 7-3; Minneapolis, 0-0. |1 Milwaukee, 7-7; Indianapolis 5-1. c Kansas City, 12-6; Louisville, 5-9. j St. Paul, 7-6; Colymbus, 5-7. SATURDAY’S RESULTS ' — ( American League ( St. Louis, 4-2; Philadelphia, 5-0. ; Chicago, 6; New York, 3. Cleveland, 3; Washington, 1. Detroit, 2; Boston, 4. National League >'ew York, 9; Pittsbuigh, 2. Brooklyn, 2; Chicago, 2. Boston, 1; St. Louis. 4. Only games scheduled. American Association Kansas City, 7-11; Louisville, 5-7. St. Paul, 7-6; Columbus, 1-7. — ■ —o — Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay*

GOLF SIMPLIFIED By Charlei (Chick) Evans, Jr. I ’ MIX Wm- ,t s# .\\\ I m \\ HIT \\ \\ A f Ball just l*jder\\ A / THE CENTER* \\ , ill i ''' n into \\> —r X/ f' // the V H / LINE ' ( - FUC »HT A- take a CHIP OF sod after Ball >s hit More On Midirons The midiron is one of the clubs where it Is necessary to take a llitlP chip of sod after the ball is hit. it steadies the flight. As in all other shuts 1 think of the piece of the imaginary line in front of the hall and I hit into it. It is necessary to hit the hall just under the center; you will discover that this demands great skill. The clubhead must rest on t lie ground in ofder to allow a take-off on the beginning of the upstroke. Make it second nature to feel the correct position of the clubhead. With the left hand under on the hack half of the swing, draw the club back even with the hands along the ground on the direction line for a short distance. This motion begins backward, outward, upward slightly curving swing until the left arm is almost straight ami you can feel the clubhead pull the left arm socket at the back. Study the control illustration to understand this shot.. Break the wjists equally, bring the club down tracing the ascending line, clubhead leatffhg on last third, hands and clubhead describing smoothly the area of an iner and outer circle. In the wind the circles become ellipses. Hit into the piece of the imaginary direction line at the ball and hit die belt into the air. 1 let my wrists dip the blade toward the right shoulder on end of hack stroke. Hit! There is an inclination in this shot; to let the left shoulder enme around i tco much, and I advise that it be held back a little bit. I dip my club almost to touching my shoulder at the end of the backstroke; the shoulder should not he touched. Do not hurry* the shot. I A serious and common error is to let die weight of your body drop forward. (Copyright John F. Dille Co) ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ ♦♦♦+*♦****+*♦♦+* i (By United Tress) Chicago’s rampant Cubs advanced j their lead in the National League pennant race to three and a half games through an eleventh Lining v#tory over Brooklyn, 6-5, wdiile the Pirates were idle. The Cubs had to fight viciously in oroer to win their eighth consecutive j victory. In the eleventh inning after one mate had reached the paths, Hack Wilson hit safely to drive in the winning run. I j The New A’ork A’ankees increased their American League lead to 12 games by defeating the Chicago' White Sox 4-3. Ted Blankenship per- \ mitted the A'ankees only seven hits but four of them came in one inning. AVattie Holm smashed a homo n:n in the eighth inning, with one man! in tho base, and gave St. Louis Cardinals a 6-4 victory over Boston Rain which threatened to prevent the game left a decidedly soggy field. Excellent pitching gave the Cincinnati Iteds a twin victory over the Pm lies, 6-1 and 2-1. In the first game Jalcie May struck out eleven opposition batsmen. — Fifteen hits, earned off two pilch-' prs, gave Washington a 12-3 victory over Cleveland. Neither iludlin Jor| Grant was able to effectively stop );e hare! hitting Senators. • o St. Joe Team Loses To Fort Wayne Red Sox The St. Joe Athletic Club baseball team was defeated by the Fort Walne Red Sox in a weli-pleyed game on the I South Ward diamond here Sunday afternoon, by a score of 10-8. Dick' Gogner hurled the entire game for I the St. Joe team. The locals will play either the Zanesville team or the Fort* Wayne Dodgers away from home next ' Sunday. 1

CHICACO LEARNS ABOUT FIGHTING Chicagonans Learn About Details Os A Heavyweight Championship Fight Chicago, Aug. S.—(United Press)— A big fi-Jlit. lias been dumped Into Chicago’s laps and ChlctTgoans for the first time are beginning to learn something about one df its own townspeople and also something about what a heavyweight championship fight entails. The fellow townsman being learned about is George F. Getz, the man puked out by Tex Rickard and, the city ns tlie nominal producer of this major sporting affair. * Other than the' fact that lie traded ’ in ice and real and headed a com--1 mittee that advised Mayor William r Hale Thompson, Chicago didn’t know ' much about George Getz. The loop * Immediately asked: "What fight did Getz ever stage?” 1 The answer is “none.” AA'hile the • entire fight is being staged l>v Rick- ‘ ard, Getz figures as nominal firoi moter —and the man who signs the 1 contracts that will mean something - more than $1,000,000 to Champion Gene Tunney and former champion ■ Jaclf Dempsey—simp’y becausb he bei lieves in “fair fighting." . “It's good business for Chicago,” he , said when asked how he happened to i lie connected with the fight. That ex- • plains about everything for George ; Getz. He’s a town booster and as such is willing to be the “shadow” for Tex Rickard in this big undertaking. Incidentally it is brought out that Getz hired A1 Smith, governor of New A'ork, once and believes in the Smith way of handling things. As to what Chicago js learning about fights; There Avi'l be 2.500 ushers at Soldier's Field. The police, ushers, attendants, etc. w 11 number 10.000 —or just about the | size of the average Chicago fight I crowd. That a striking 21 year old girl. Naomi Lowensohn, is the “Man Friday” for Rickard. She came out from New A’ork over the week-end to open Rickard's offices, help arrange for ordering 150,000 seats and to aid a Chicago committee in parceling out the tickets. That Soldier's Field, arranged so as to seat the greatest possible number of people, may undergo a few minor operations by Pat Mulvey— ' : 'milder of six flay bicycle racing j plants—so that additional seats may he added. I j f * And -frliove all, Chicago is learning jthat even with a fight right here :n i r hicago they will have to rush Ao get tickets for Rickard announced: “About a million dollars worth hove been sold. A’ou can't get every . ringside patron into the first row. I We'll sell every seat before the night .of the fight.” -~ ~ I BASEBALL’S i BIG FIVE ! (By United Press) Ruth and Gehrig failed to live up Ito their reputations, only one hit, a single by Gehrig, resulting from six times at bat evenly divided between tlihm. Hornsby, Speaker andyCobb were idle. Averages AB H PCT HR Gehrig 109 158 .386 37 Speaker 379 140 .369 1 Ruth 368 134 .364 35 Hornsby 394 135 .343 17 Cobb 338 110 .325 5 Monroe Defeats Monmouth In Ball Game, Saturday Monroe, Aug. B—(Special)—Monroe defeated Monmouth in a baseball game here Saturday afternoon. The score was 10 to S. f • X o INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—J.immy Ziun ace of the Kansas City pitching staff, j was touched for eleven hits while iKoupal held the Blues to six safeties and shut out the visitors 5 to 0. | TOLEDO, O. —St. Paul annexed a , total pf 17 base hits which counted for 14 runs against Toledo, while the Hens found Betts for only eight hits ‘and three runs.

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