Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1927 — Page 6

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GRID SEASON TO OPEN SATURDAY 1). H. S. Yellow Jackets To Play Auburn On Niblick Field Here If you want to forget all your sum- « mer cares—if you want to forget golf and baseball and other summer sports —just take an hour off any afternoon about 4 o’clock and go out to Niblick Field where Coaches Ralph Tyndall and Hetb Curtis are sending the 30 Yellow Jacket football players through a flock of work-outs, scrimmages and maneuvers, in preparations for the coming football season which opens in this city next Saturday, with Auburn high school furnishing the opposition. Indications are that the local high school will have one cf the best teams it has boasted of for several years. The line will average about 175 pounds in weight what the backfield lacks in I weight will be made up in speed, | bull-doggedness and spirit. The backfield is light, but swift as lightning, and e' ery one has been - bowing ability to carry the balk Following a two hour work-out on the field each night, Coach Tyndall has been holding skull practice at the high school building and every player is becoming acquainted witli the sig- • nals and plans of each play. In the scrimmages the last few days, Krick, Koos and Cole have been holding the end positions. All three have had at least a year's experience and all three have been showing some ability at snagging passes and inakiag way for the end runs. * Car! Gerber and Bob Hill, both of whom hit the scale at about 180 lbs. are holding down tackle positions. Butcher and Hillyard are playing guard positions and Kiess is pivot man. Several good utility men have been discovered and indications are that they will get an cppotrunity to show their, ability in the game Saturday. In the backfield, Chet Reynolds is playing fullback with considerable success. Roy Anadell and George Roop are holding down halfback positions and Bill Bell is playing quarter. Dick Stoneburner is utility quarter. The entire backfield has been showing great prowess and every man is being drilled in the fundame -tals of' the game. Plans have been completed to have the high school band cut Saturday for the opening game and indications are that more than 500 fans will attend the opening game. The game will start at 3 o clock, and will be played on Niblick Field east of the city. , o _ bud Taylor is Favorite Los Angeles, Sept. 13.—(INS)—Rud Taylor, worlds bantamweight champion from Terre Haute, Ind., today * was installed a slight favorite over Joey Sangor of Milwaukee, Wis. They will step ten rounds here on Sept. 30, fighting at ea ch weights. • — Q I BASEBALL’S • | BIG FIVE i | By United Press Robers Hornsby hit his twenty fourth home run of the season, d double and a single for a perfect day 1 at bat yesterday as the Giants took a 7 to 5 victory from the Chicago f Cubs. , Cobb made a single in four tempts. Ruth, Gehrig amJ Speaker went?' idle. AB H Pct. HR Gehrig 523 200 .382 45 Hornsby . 481 176 .366 24 ' Ruth 456 160 .350 50 Cobb 456 isg .34® 5 Speaker .. 500 166 332 0 1 —o f Square dance Wednesday I - night. Fillings orchestra. 8:00 f o’clock at Sun Set. 11 «

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Willshire Team Loses Baseball Gaine, 17 To f> fl The Willshite, Ohio, baseball team ' I was defeated by the Maples Athletics I <t Fort Wayne, in a gpme played at I Willshire, last Sunday, by a score of > 17 Io 6 Groll lan held the Buckeyes to five scattered hits. Pillars featured at bat with a home run, two doubles and two singles. Score: Maples 4 0 5 2 0 0 4 0 2 17 '■ Willshire .... 200002 0 2 o—6 'j Batteries: Grotrian and Crabill; \Beuchner, better and McDougal. | o : PIRATES, GIANTS, ii CARDINALS WIN Three Leaders Hold Positions In Spirited National League Race By Les Conklin, (INS Staff Correspondent) New York, Sept. 13. — Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New York are still occupying the money positions in the National league sweepstakes today as a result of timely home runs by their big hittors in yesterday’s games. Rogers Hornsby, anchor man for the Giants. Jim Bottomley, leading home run hitter of the Cardinals, and Glenn Weigh:, Smoketown's crack shortstop, all kept, their respective teams in the running by, hitting foi the circuit. Hack Wilson. Chicago's clean-up slugger, walloped his 27th homer ol the season and jumped ahead of Cy Williams in the race for league homt run honors. The Bruins lost to the Gidnts, however, 7 to 5, and got only ' an even break ou the Buries. Led by Hornsby, who made three hits in all. the Giants knocked Charley Root out of the box. As the game ended, the Chicago fans were only too ready to say “Au! wiederschen" to Umpire Charlie Pfirman, and they said it with pop bottles. Rather than force the umpires to practice the safe guard of putting heir masks on backard, William Wrigley, owner of the Cubs, announced that pop hot les would not be sold in h. park in the future. The Cubs are now l’ /2 games be hind the Cardinals and Giants, who in turn trail the Pirates by two j games. The Cardinals won again with a second string hurler. ' Thanks to Bottomley's homer with one on. Art Rein- ( hart gained a 2-to-0 decision ovei , Jumbo Elliott of Brooklyn. Wrigh.'s homer, following another , by Earl Smith, scuttled the Phillies , and enabled Carmen Hill of the Pir- , ates to win his 21st victory of the > season by a 3-to-2_score. . The Reds who are travelling at top speed bur unfortunately have no ties , tination in sight, again beat Boston twice, 6 to 4 ami 3 to 0. Luque and Lucas did the pitching and lots of ] it, while triples by Dressen and Walk*’ ; er sent in the winning runs. In the only game in tlie American league, the Athletics took a strangle < hold on second place by nosing out Detroit, 5 to 4. The Yankees can i . linch the pennant today by beating : Cleveland twice. New seijes will bo begun in the National league today. The Pirates i and Cubs figure to gain this week at the expense of the lowly Braves and Robins while the Cardinals and 1 Giants play seven games, including hr<’e double-headers, in the short space of three days. ■ Minneapolis, A costly error in the final inning broke up a pitchers battle allowing 'Minneapolis to win 2 to 1 from Kansas City. St. Paul—By holding St. Paul to eight scattered hits Milwaukee took another game 6 to 1 and increased their lead in the league. Columbus Columbus shuf'out Louis- : ville 5 to 0 and made three of a four games series. I Toledo—Playing listless ball and seeming undesirous of i allying with favorable openings, Toledo was defeated *y Indianapolis, 2 .to 1.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927.

hTUNNEY-DEMPSEY ; PAYROLL BANKED ' Tex Rickard Puts Certified Check For $1,450,000 In Chicago Bank Chicago, Sept. 13. —(UP)— A cert!- ' fled check for $1,450,000 was on depot t nt a Chicago bank today as th« payroll for Cine Tunney and Jack Dempsey in their heavyweight champion fight next week. This staggering sum. Promoter Tex Rickard announced, has been definitely agreed upon by aJI those concerned in new contracts signed this week. It represents $1,000,000 for Tunney and $450,000 for the former ■ champion. Under the percentage system of , tlie or'ginal contracts. Tunney’s share j was expected to equal or exceed 1 $1.000,000 —the largest amount ever paid a fighter. The champion, however, agreed to accept tlie guarantee of the seven-figure check rather than chance the apportioning of the gate receipts. , : Demppey's share is also approximately what he would have been paid under tlie old agreement. Tunney couldn’t “practice” for the fight yesterday “because of the heat”| and the direction of h's efforts today was uncertain. Jack hasn’t done any boxing either. | But many other things have been , happening to the heavyweight chain- j pionship fight and the fighters. I Some of them are: Chicago Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist ministers met and con-1 demned the Tnnney-Dempsey fight. *' They praised John Bain, only member of the South Park Board to vote against renting the stadium for the fight. The first authentic diagram of seats for tlie fight, priced at $5 to S4O each, was published by Chicago papers today. It shows sections 49 to 60 adjacent to The last row of $5 seats is 700 feet from the platform in the center of the stadium. A rumor appeared out of the clear sky to the effect that Eastern gamb'ers had offered Gene Tunney sl.000,000 to ‘throw’ the fight to Dempsey Sept. 22. It gave everybody remotely connected with the proposed boxing contest a chance to issue formal and informal denials expressing superlative indignation. Chicago bookmakers announced they had $1,000,000 of eastern money to bet at odds of 7 to 5 on Tunney. B. C. Clements’ contract with Jack Dempsey in which he agreed to meet the once highly regarded Harry Wills was found lacking in several particu'ars. Judge Otto Kerner dismissed a plea for an injunction to stop the Dempsey-Tunney fight on the basis cf the contract. Tunney was served with a praecipe n the suit of Thomas Hale, admittedly a former secretary and allegedly •-former social secretary to Tunney. Hale demanded $15,000 damages suffered by reason of his summary discharge. Both Dempsey and Tunney announced they would do some boxing at night under lights between now and the fight in order to become accustomed to the glare they will have to work with jn the bout next week. Policy of the Tunney camp against public workouts and exclusion of reporters. reported over the week-end, was apparently either revoked or . amended. Another public - workout • was also promised at the Dempsey camp “as soon as the b g boy gets right on the stuff he’s working with.” Thus interest in the boxing contest a week from next Thursday evening ■ (weallier permitting) continued una- . bated, augmented by rumors and mystery jn proportions essential to insure the expected “gate” of $3,000,600. 0 Cochran Leads Young Jake Schaeffer In Match — San Francisco, Sept. 13.—(INS) — Welker Cochran, 18.2 balkline billiard champion, today was leading young Jake S 'haeffer, 400 to 227, after the first game of their 2,800 point match" had been played. I o ■ ■ Geneva Greys Defeat Chattanooga Nine, 4-2 Geneva, Sept. 13.—(Spetcial)—The Geneva Greys defeated the Chattan ooga, Oh,io Braves in .an interesting i and well-played baseball game here Sunday afternoon by a score of 4-2. i

Carolina’s Backspin Kick-Off Defeated Much Stronger Team (By Sol Metzger) In swapping yarns with football coaches the country over 1 «*»*»*«• 1 111 ’ twbntv-ftve years I never met one who had seen a klck-ort like tne o South Caroline used to defeat Wake Forest a few years ago. In 1908 botn Yale and Pennsylvania successfully used n short kick-off on th. same <iuy iiuitfiist Primeton and Michigan, respectively, an odd coincidence inetr klbks were to Jj)e side of the fid’d anu were caught by wing men going down after the kick had traveled 10 yards. The rule- require that it travel that tat into tlie oj iiosltion's territory before (be kicker’s aide can secure the ball. J _ o ——'s ,O — o 4 5 / J -o O-20 v i hg@s"6@ sosi t / yrs i HOW WAs MAOE . / \ APPLIED TO GIVE BALL \ / 'A THI6 ’ BACKSPIN ill The advantage of recover'ng your own kick-off is tremendoqg No other I play quite so upsets an opponent. In the Pennsylvania-Michigan game I I speak of Michigan was so upset by the result that Petin scored three touchdowns in the next five minutes. Then Michigan came down to earth . The play South Carolina worked was a fur different one, occasioned by II wo facts, first. Wake Forest had a much stronger team. Second, their formation for receiving the kick-off was odd. Weak. too. if some sure way could be worked out for kicking a ball just over 10 yards straight down the ' field and making it stick, like Bobby Jones can make a mashie p tch stick. 'ln the case of Wake Forest, the nearest man to the ball ou this play was ■ their center, who stood back 22 yards. Soutli Carolina conceived the idea of putting backspin on the ball. To .accomplish ths the man holding it pressed down hard and the kicker, in- ' stead of kicking through, applied his force downward. bail snot forward, struck the ground with tremendous underspin and stopped. They worked it on the first play against Wake I Forest, recovered the ball mid so upset iheir foe that they battled forward to a touchdown and won # the game. I Copyright, 1927, Publ'shers Syndicate

The Fourth Down - <v. ~ By Willie Punt Here it is—the first line of the 1927 edition of The Fourth Down By the way, the original first line of The Fourth Doi.n waft typed by these same digits September 11. 1923. Our good friend "Buck”, of the Bluffton Banner, got the jump on us this fall and blossomed forth with his coll mn, “Gridiron Dope”, last Saturday. Buck already has started gtea* ♦hlrtjs for his "Taggers." Buck paid us a personal visit (not one via liis column) last night, and we were delighted. But. getting back to the main pur-] pose of this column, the task of fighting the newspaper battles of the Yellow Jackets and any other football teams that chance to spring up in Adams coflnty, the said Yellow Jackets are looking mighty fittin’. The Yellow Jackets were divided into two squads last Friday and sent through their first scrimmage of the season, under the scrutinous eyes of Coaches Tyndall and Cur- | tis. The team composed of the most promising looking athletes scored four touchdowns and held their opponents scoreless during the 24-mimrte game. I » . j The Yellow Jackets will play their rfirst game of the season next Saturday afternoon, when Zeke Young brings his Auburn team to town for . a battle on Niblick Field. Auburn scored her first football victory over Decatur last year and the Yellow Jackets are out for revenge this year. — j The Yellow Jackets line will average abcnt 170 pounds this year, the heaviest line that has represented the Purple and Gold school since the famous Gay-Engeler-Macklin-Miils-Clark Vyittgenfeld-Hunsicker combination of 11922. The Northeastern Indiana high school conference appears to be a | go, with schedules drawn up for footbajl and basketball in 1928. It ( should prove a big benefrt to all : of the eleven members. I Are you reading the daily football

‘ feature in the Daily Democrat, written by Sol Metzger, former college coach? Its worth your time. A full game with 12-minnte quarters was in store for the Yellow Jackets first and second squads this evening. Coach Tyndall said yesterday evening. After the strenuous workout this ev- | ening, the practice sessions will be gradually tapered off in preparation ’ for the game with Auburn, Saturday. The Dying Gladiator. They carried him off and they dressed his wounds; . They fastened his arms in place. They bandaged his legs and they brought his nose, And pasted it on his face. They collected his teeth, they mopped up the blood; They said he looked like new. ' He seemed rather pale, but it could not be helped, | They had done all they could do.* He wiggled his ears and they sighed’ Almost he opened his eyes, At last he gasped, “You've made a , mistake; That leg is the other guy’s.” Bird's Eye View, Princeton News : ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS « National League , Pittsburgh a 79 53 599 N« w York 77 55 583 Louis 77 55 .583 .‘, h!fas ° • 78 59 .569 f Cincinnati 6 5 68 489 y los ’? r ? 55 78 .414 Brooklyn 5 J 79 410 Philadelphia 43 87 356 American League . W L Pct. f- r > 41 699 Philadelphia 7s 68 574 Washington ... 71 64 526 ™ ca f° G 5 70 .481 Cleveland .60 75 .444 . St. Louis 55 79 41() Boston 43 89 326 » American Association Mir , w L p c‘1 MHwaukee 92 6 U5 . Kansas l'. ,ledo 88 64 .579 • 'Minneapolis 82 72 539 St Paul 80» 71 ,53$ Indianapolis 6g 85 445 . Louisville 56 98 364 k Columbus 54 99 353 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS’ - National League New York 7; Chicago. 5. Philadelphia, 2; Pittsburgh, 3. Boston. 4-i); Cincinnati, 6-3. Brooklyn’, 0; St Louis. 2. American League Detroit, 4; Philadelphia, 5. Only games scheduled. American Association Indianapolis. 2; Toledo. 1 Louisville, 0; Columbus. 5 Milwaukee, 6; St. Paul, 1. Minneapolis, 2; Kansas’ City, 1

BACKBONE OF PIRATES Hillin' I llrfMfc- ' IIIIU ’ ~ ; F L' 1 1 < . {<l a /L fl a 7 I Al 1W; • Lloyd and Paul Waner, known as the Katzenjanin-r Kids of basebail, are main factors in Pirates’ desperate bid for that National League flag. Paul is out temporarily with injuries

SCOREBOARD Two games scheduled today between the Giants and the Caidinals at St. Louis were the center of interest in the Pennant race. Pittsburgh was to play Boston on the Pirates home grounds and Brooklyn went to Chicago. ty tlie four leaders, the Pirates and Caidinals, playing second division teams, fared best in series closed yesterday. Pittsburgh took thiee from the Phils while St. Louis won four from the Dodgers. Meanwhile, the Cubs and Giants divided a four game series. The Pirates took the third straight game from Philadelphia 3 to 2 through Cai men Hill's pitching efficiency. He allowed only four hits. Afngered by umpire Pfirman’s decissicn in calling Stephenson out at first and ending a Cub rally in the ninth, the Fans peltpd him with pop bottles and threatened assault. The threat did- . not stop the Giants from winning 7 to Tv. how ever. Reinhart shut out Brooklyn in the

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final game of their series with tlie Cardinals. The score was 2 to 0. Hot--1 tomley’s home run with one on base in the fiftli accounted for the Cardin- [; al runs. , | Cincinnati beat boston two games . 6-4, and 3-0. Lucas Pitched the shut, out. It was the Reds fifth consecutive I victory over the Braves. , After taking an early lead, Philadelphia broke a tie with one run in the , eiglith to overcome the tigers rallies , and win 5 to 4 Ij — o A Correction . Owing to an error appear ng in ‘.last evening's paper. It was stated “.that the new showing of Fur Coats |at Mrs. M. Moyer, corner Madison ‘land Eighth street would be held on Sept, 13. The ad should •' have reail Tuesday, Sept. 13, as the ' showing will be hold today from 2 - o’clock until 10 o’clock today. i’ — o Carl Klepper has returned* to Purdue university to take up his studies.