Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1927 — Page 8

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YELLOW JACKETS ARE WORKING HARD 1). H. S. Football Squad Settles Down To Honest-To-Goodness Drill After a week of preliminary practice and lectures, the Decatur high school football squad settled down yesterday afternoon to. real, honest-to-goodness drills and Coaches Tyndall and Curtis Rent the men through a strenuous work-out. in preparation for the first scrimmage which will he held the latter part of this week. The squad, enlarged to more than 30 candidates, appeared Sn near perfect condition yesterday afternoon. After the usual preliminary drills, the aggregation was taught its first plays of the season and then signal practices were held. No indication has been given as to who will be picked for the regular line-up. Several of last year's players are on the squid again this season. but some of the new material is showing up well and Coach Tyndall stated that he would not decide on any line-up until every man had been given an opportunity to try out for the first team. This year's line will be the heaviest since the famous Gay. Yahne Engeler aggregation made a name for the local school. All line candidates have been receiving special instructions as to blocking, tackling and forming interference and the boys have mastered the Instructions quickly and are showing the back field some real support in the early practicses. Several end candidates are showing their ability to snag passes, and several of the .bovs are developing into real passers. Two or three punters are being developed and two members of the squad have shown considerable ability at drop kicking, a phase of the game which the local aggregation ha 3 always lacked. The bank field wfll be light this year, blit the candidates are all showing some speed and ability to learn the plays in fast order. Many local fans, who have been witnessing the practices on the Niblick field, east of the city, say that indications r.oinf toward a real scrapping team this year. The first game will be held in this city September 17. with Auburn high school forming the opposit'on Auburn gave Decatur a trimming I last year and the Yellow Jackets are working hard for the lir-c game order to avenge the defeat. Season tickets will be sold this wepk to business men. and is it needless to say that local fans will rally to the support of the team. There w'll! be five home games and two away from home. o — Pleasant Center Sluggers Defeat Hesse Castle Greys The Pleasant Censer Sluggers defeated the Hessen Castle Grays in a baseball game Sunday, by a score of 9 to 7. The Sluggers shut out the Greys, 3 to 0. up until the seventh inning, while in the seventh and eighth frames, the Greys forged ahead, 5-4. The Sluggers made five runs and knocked Holman out of the l.ox in the ninth inning. Galmier and Burning, of the Friedheim Athletics, helped the Greys. The battery for the Sluggers was Springer end Pence. Ellenberger To Attend Bluffton High School Hluffton, Sept. 7 —Prospects for a winning football team in Bluffton high school received another boost today when it was announced that Dale Ellenberger, star Tiger athlete of last year, will return to the local school for his seior year. Dale's work was outstanding in all four major sports and he will strengthen Bluffton'a athletics fur the coming year. Intensive practice for the first game ut Columbia City September 17, was scheduled for this afternoon. Fifteen candidates, besides those attending the camp last week, are expected to turn out. A heavy line and a fast backfield are the hopes or. which the coach is basing his prospects for a winner this fall. - o Willis Leigh, of Portland, called on business friends here today. SHii

♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS ❖ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦« National League W L Pet. Pittsburgh •••-• 76 52 .594 New York 53 .681. St. L0u'5....... 73 53 .576 Chicago 74 fit. .1)69 Cincinnati ■ 59 66 .465 Bo ston ■ 55 73 .486 Brooklyn 54 74 .423 Philadelphia .... 47 83 .362 American League W L Pet. Kev- York 91 40 .695 Philadelphia 76 .56 .676 Detroit .. 70 61 .534 Washington 63 61 .531 Chicago 62 68 .477 Cleveland ,59 73 .447 St. Louis .54 76 .415 Boston 41 87 .320 American Association W L Pet. Kansas City . 87 59 .506 Milwaukee .. .97 59 .596 Toledo .83 62 .572 Minneapolis .... SO 62 .541 St. Paul 79 67 .541 Indianapolis 63 .83 .432 //ouisville 55 92 .371 Columbus . . 51 95 .249 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Boston 6; New York 9 Cincinnati 0: Pittsburgh 6 Chicago 1; St. I,ouis 13 Only games scheduled. American League Chicago 9; Detroit 6 Washington 14-0; Philadelphia 34. New York 14-2; Boston 2-5 St. Louis 7; Cleveland 4 American Association Indianapolis 6: Columbus 4 Louisville 4; Toledo 1 Kansas Cftv-St. Paul, rain Milwaukee-Minneapolis, rain. 1 o— — SCOREBOARD (By Pnited Press) With only two of the four National League pennant contenders scheduled to play today, the leaders were certain to remain unchanged for another 24 hours, but a victory of the backsliding Cubs over the Cardinals 'his afternoon will again put the Chicago team within striking distance of the top. The standing was: Won Lost Pet. Pittsburgh 76 52 .594 New York 75 53 .536 St. Louis 72 53 .576 Chicago 74 56 .569 Pittsburgh maintained its single rame lead yesterday by beating the Reds 5 to 0. Ray Kremer pitcher a hrec-hit game and the Reds never had a chance. The Giants continued to press for the lead by attacking the Braves viciously in the early innings for a t to 6 victory. Benton later was driy-l >n from the mound but Grimes sav■d the game. St. Louis took a lead of one and one half games on the Cubs by heating them 13 to 1. The p'tehing of Grover Cleveland Alexander wasi largely responsible. The scheduled doubleheader was prevented by rain ] in the sceond inning of the second j game. Boston and Nr-w York divided a I doub’eheader, 14-2 and 5 to 2 while j Babe Ruth entertained the fans with three home runs and Lou Gehrig hit me. Ruth got one of his home runs n the last inning of the second game, n spite of the effective pitching of Russell. St. Louis scored one run in every nirng except the first and seventh o win from Cleveland 7 to 4. The White SJnx rallied for four runs in the seventh to clinch a victory over the Tigers. 9 to 6 liCKELWjNsT Brings You a Cigar That is a Cigar—Mellow, Fragrant, Mild, and Ripe Tobacco Sounds like a fairy tale right from Never-never Land — these days. When we tell smokers that it is possible to make a really satisfying cigar at five cents, we can’t blame them for doubting. They are thinking of the average five-center that claims to be “worth more.” Men, the plain truth is that there is art Al, top-hole cigar on the market now that sells for five cents. That sold at more for years. That costs less now because we’re selling millions more of them. That's so mild you won’t tire of it in a long day of hard smoking. That’s actually better now than it ever was in thirty years of making good. Don't take our word for it. Let the cigar speak for itself. Invest one nickel only. Ask for Havana. Ribbon at any cigar counter. Then judge it like you would u higherpriced cigar. You’ll like Havana Ribbon from tip to tip. And you’ll bo glad you read this ad.

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TUNNEY, DEMPSEY BOTH IDLE TODAY I Champion (Jets Cut Over Eve In Practice Bout; ‘ Jack Plays Golf Bv Clark B. Kelsey (l'. P. Stuff Correspondent) Chicago. Sep;. 7. — (UP) —A cut over Gene Tunney's eve and Jack Dempsey's fear of becoming overtrained before their fight two weeks hence kept them from working with their sparring partners today. Dempsey planned to devote the day to golf, while Tunney was to go through the usual setting up exereises, hag punching and roadwork. So far It appears Tunney has gotten more for his money from his sparring mates than Dempsey lias, because Tunney's training opopnents show much more ability than the Half dozen youths who engage with Jack. Chuck Wiggins, Indianapolis heavy weight who has been fighting for some 13 years, nearly brought disaster to the Tunney camp when he brought his right across Tunney’s face yesterday, and cut the champion’s right eye with the lacing of his glove. Blood started to spout from the wound, and Wiggins was immediately ail apology, but Tunney bade him stand back and continue fighting. That was the cause of Tunney’s plan to omit the boxing today hut it was expected the cut would soon heal. The shifty southpaw is by far the best sparring partner in either camp, and he mixed it freely with Gene for hree rounds yesterday, putting his right to the champion’s body and his left to Tunney’s head. The latter landed several telling blows on Wiggins’ broad nose. Both fighters show--1 ed clever footwork. In both Tunney’s and Dempsey’s i camps, are fighters who have not : shown often in the public workouts, it was believed that Eddie Kagan, the Oxford amateur, may have been boxing in private with the title holder, while Dave Shade, one of the fastest iniddleweights in the business may have been working with Dempsey in secret. o Al Wolgast, Ex-Light* eight Champion, Declared Insane Los Angeles, Sept. 7.—(DP) —AI Wolgast, who enjoyed a Brief Hut

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Inspired Lateral Pass Play Won Big Victory lor Georgia lech (By Sol Metzger) There was a time In fooltall before Georgia Tech had been bean. <» f "« ; side Its mu ve beat It. Thu. was long betore ihe day o h ’ , ‘ l , l ' ! Then, the hitter rival of th- Guide., tornadoes was Altfurn,*dm no. a ways won il.es. annual dashes. In 19a6 'IVd. had • ght I but wli tat « a “fighting bunch" in Ihe nomenclature of football slarum, two UK weight backs. Chip and Hightower. *** FIPS-r LATEOAL PA«. pftfSF' \\'- t ga.iech-aubuPn 4 &.[ Hulypr —• — -i Ta*E*> OIK GETS U P * _ FOLLOWS PLAY AND SCOKtS Tech’s squad worked like Beavers that fa!! to heat the Mastodens of the Plains —the Auburn eleven. And shortly after the game started, when tne lightweights were in the full flush of their speed, they ran around the big tvi'ows for a touchdown. Eight! fight! fight! For the balance of the game the light Tech warriors fought back with all tho.r fury the constantly Increasing power of Auburn’s attack But the weight of he Plainsmen coynted heavily in the end. Tech seemed doomed to defeat. Tech finally took the ball from Auburn on downs near her own goal-line. Chip. Tech's quarter, realized that another touchdown was a necessity if Tech was to win. Being a fleet end runner he determined to make it himself. Hightower did his part on the play bv neatly howling over the Auburn end and Chip was oIT. He sprinted around everyone except the Auburn safety man. This deadly tackier out tuanenvred Chip by forein him to the side-lines where he was sure to down h’m. Chip’s idea was cooked. Bat at that very moment he heard the voice of Hightower booming behind him. “I’m onside! I’m onside!" The latter, not satisfied with having already done his part—tak ng out Hip end—jumped to ills feet when that was done and sprinted after Chip. Taking in the situation at a glanc-e a play was horn to him in a flash, so he called “OnU.de" to Chip. The latter knew what tr> meant. Thus, just as the Auburn safety man crashed into him, Chip tossed the hall back o\er his shoulder to the oncoming Hightower, who caught it on the dfead run and raced for a touchdown. The p’.av had never been thought of nor practiced. It is one of the first records of the use of tHe lateral pass I know of. The first use of the play I am aware of will he told of in a later release.

hectic reign as lightweight champion of the world 17 years ago, has been consigned to an asylum as hopelessly insane. Alienists at his hearing yesterday said lie was suffering from “deterioration of the brain cells.” But to his friends of the pugilictic world, he is “punch drunk”. His rise to fame as "King of the little fellows’’ they said, cost him his sanity. o / “Tad" Jones Resigns As Football Coach At Yale New Haven, Conn., Sept. 7—(United Press) —T. A. D. (Tad) Jones, who has criven Yale three championship

nas piveii I ate uurr | football teams in the nine years he has been head coach, will retire from that position at the end of the present season. Jones, who is head of the T. A. D Jones Coal company here, will devote his full time to his business. in making the announcement last night. Prof. Geovge H. Nettleton, chairman of the board of control, said no successor would lie considered now.

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BABE ON HOME RUN RAMPAGE • Sultan Os Swat Hits Three Homers Tuesday And Equals 192« Record New York. Sept. 7.~(!NS)-Hab* Ruth, the well-known sultan of swat,! is on a home run rampage that has! equalled ills last year’s record and threatens to break the great mark, of 59 which he set in 1921. Tue bambino pulled some world ser.es stuff by clouting three homers in the New Yolk-Boston. double-header yesterday and Increased his season s ntal to 47. One of ihem was one of ... . linns he has ever

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made. Buster Gehrig hit No. 45 Ruth got started yesterday, | m| Gehrig’s lead was only a tempqrj! one. Ruth’s three homers p, u j,, two ahead of the buster. ()p trj " however, clouted five hits it, addition to his circuit clout. Ruth is at 111 seven homers behind his 1921 record, ttnd needs thirteen more this season to set u new mark The Yankees have made l.tg hom ! p rs this season, breaking the modern I record of 134 which they set In is ; The all-time record of 140, made by ! the Cuba in 1884, may also fun lft d av With 253 extra bases on h'ts to bn credit, Gehrig has tied Ruth’s record and may surpass it today. K Qur other world's records made by rL in 1921 probably will he shattered i.y the leister before the end of tv season. They are for total has*, extra base hits, runs driven in, A] runs scored.