Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1927 — Page 6

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1827 FOOTBALL MAKES ITS DEBUT College Teams Start Practice Tilts In All Parts ' * Os Country Chicago, Sept. 24. —(INS)—Timid and a bit uncertain, football, the king of collegiate sport, will make its 1927 debute on a hundred American gridirons today. Although today's games are little more than practice tilts for the big • contests to come later, the results will be watched with Interest as a clue to what may be expected from the various machines which are destined to battle for championship and intersectional honors. Tr al games are scheduled % till sections of the country. Interest throughout the middletQgst centers chiefly on Notre Dame and two or three other non-conference teams which are always a threat to sectional and natioiflll supremacy. None of the big ten conference schools have games scheduled excagt scrimmage tests between first and second string teams. "What has Rcckne got?" Is a cry familiar from coast to coast about this time every The secret may not be g'ven up” today as the Irish clash with their owu freshmen squad. The resourceful coach of Notre Dame is understood to have a few new tricks up his well-known sleeve, most important of which is said to be a new .\tyle of attack. Whether this will be unleashed this afternoon against the freshies remains to be seen. Rockne is always a fascinating mystery at the opening of The pigskin season and this year is no exception. His 1927 charges number many unknown quantities. Other mid-western games that will be -flittched closely today are: Marquette versus St. Viator at Milwaukee. Butler versus Indiana Normal at Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Kentucky Wesleyan at Cincinnati, Michigan State vs. Kalamazoo gies at East Lansing. Mich., and Detroit versus Adrian at Detroit. I Un versity of Chicago is one of the big mysteries of the western conference this year. Coach Alonso Stagg, veteran exponent of line-bucking p'ays. is said to be converted to the passing game He was quickened to this decision by the lightness of this year’s backfield. o HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS Elwood, 20; Tech of Indianapolis 13 Greenfield, 15; Rushville. 9 Short ridge (Indianapolis), 20; Lebanon. 7. Logansport, 0; Huntington, 0 Alderson, 7; Portland, 0. f

Catching Kick-Off N. U. Star Runs 92 Yards Through Chicago By Sol Metzger NO TEAM last fall was more anxious to win a game than was Northwestern ♦ in its encounter with Chicago. Thus, .when Captain Gustafson of this year's Northwestern eleven, caught the kick-off on his Syard line and ran 92 y-ards through the entire Maroon eleven for a touchdown, joy was great in the new stadium at Evanston. . 5 o ~ t- 25 j' \ \/ y —* 50 /Oi 11 I I U 45 \ I M ili \ 111 » oX x x x xkx x k There are several methods used to return kick-offs. Already I have shown the Ine scheme developed by Wlirner. Here is the on taught by Thistlethwaite, now Wisconsin coach, which is in more general use. In fact, Harvard used a version of it tellingly against Yale last fail, once freeing the runner who was nijjJed by the last Yale back, the one who had not gone down on the kick. But there Ila a slight difference at that between the Northwestern system and Harvard’s, as will be shown in a later release. Gustafson is the black dot in the diagram. His run was almost straight up the field All of his players came back and in toward the center of the field and then broke out again, each pickng a Chicago man. taking him from the inside, so as to keep a path clear for their back up the middle line. Such a play is a thriller to Watch. But the credit for this wonderful run must go to the fine style of interference TH stlethwaite taught Each of his men so maneuvered that he would be between Gustagson's path ami the opponent he was after. And thenJiecut him down. Copyright, 1927, Publishers Syndicate.

GOLF SIMPLIFIED By Charles (Chick) Evant, Jr. r In Hysiop’s book, MENTAL HANDICAPS IN GOLF, 1 came across this interesting quotation from Lyttleton: * ‘You may take a man thirty years old, who has been, and perhaps still is, a good cricketer, and has a good eye for , games generally. Let such a man on a putting green with a putter and three 8 or four balls, and he will very lively 8 p utt as well as the best professional; I- ask him to drive or piny a brassie, and Ihe will be nowhere. Experience is » notliilijk in putting; it is everything in ? the rest of the game. In the one case ’ experience besets fear, in the other 1 confidence. The man of thirty will I very likely develop into a really bad 5 putter, not because he has not the ’ skill, for he proved his skill when a ' beginner, but because he has learned ' the terrors of putting and his skill is ' overpowered by his nerves.” Khowing only too well the truth of the above statement I am offering the following suggestions; ' t 1. Be sure to relax youifrfingers just ' before you take a firm grip. Many a ' put is lost because the putter is held 1 to tight. Nevertheless one must hold I I it firmly enough, so that clubhead| goes through the ball and does not flop around when the ball is h’t. '®2. The left elbow should be more or ( less pointed toward the hole, and after the hole is struck it should lead on toward the hole. 3. Next is the little spot on the imaginary direction to the hole immediately in front of the ball. It the ball isj started light over this spot A is bound to end up Somewhere near the cup and your average will be better. 4. Next, when you examine the putt j you want to let your eye run up and down the imaginary course it is to take, instead of loking at the hole, 1 then back to the ball again. In «fherj words, visualize the straight line |the curve the ball is to run over in or-' der f to you to the hole. j 5. Last, 1 believe in almost a stiff wrist above for the put, two feet un- 1 der. The danger here is that you do not hit the ball on the sweet spot the face. Copyright John F. Dille Company o ■ BASEBALL’S BIG FIVE ■ Rogers Hornsby, the only member of the Big Five to see action yesterday, failed to hit safely in five times at bat. " I AB H Pct. HR Gehrig .. 560 242 .380 4 5 Hornsby .... .. 540 194 .360 26 I Ruth ... 497 174 .359 56 Speaker 518 169 .327 2 - 0 Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Pav«

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CHICAGO M NTS ANOTHER HUNT Business Men Invite Tunney i 1 To Fight Bes£ Man Available There July 4 l x Chicago, Sept. 24.— (INS) —Gene! .■ Tunney, successful defendant of his ■ , heavyweight championship title in a 1 great Iglit night ago, will be in- * ( vited by Chicago business men at 1 noon today to return here next July I ’ 4 to meet the best man available with r the championship at stake. The inI vitation will be extended during a I luncheon at which Tunney will 1 e > the guest of the local committee of i business men whose efforts resulted I in bringing the Tunney ■ Dempsey i fight to Soldier's Field on Thursday | night. The invitation, it is understand, will receive an informal acceptance | from the champion, with the agreement that this acceptance can only 1 become morally binding in the event I that his opponent is a first class man. ■£' I This much Tunney made clear this 1 morning in a conversation With an I emissary of the committee. The ' champion’s notion, as expressed on 1 this occasion, was that only the best man would be acceptable and that j that man only could be determined through a series of eliminations, inI volv’ng Dempsey, Jack Sharkey, I Paulino and others, ! “I Want no set up for my next fight.” Tunney declared. “Get me | the stand-out man in the field and the match is yours. If Rickaril can line up his candidates as he did this 1 year, I am sure that the best man I available will be the survivor and, >in that case, his meeting with me i would be inevitable.” Tunney was rtYfnost unmarked in : spite of his -strenuous seventh round ! with Dempsey, during which he sat lon the floor, doll-eyed, for nine and | a fraction seconds but got up in time to save his title. He dismissed with . q work of his hand Leo P. Flynn’s post-bout bleat about a long count, i “I sat there and listened for nine; when I heard it, I got up," he said. | “And when I got up, I beat Dempsey. That should tell tho story.” t I In discussing the probability of his return to Chicago next summer for ' another championship match, Tunney I waxed eloquent abdut the city, its : surroundings, its officials, the public ' and its treatment of him. "I ,owo Chicago a .great debt.” was his parting word, “and if Cbjcago thinks my return would help repay , that debt, I am ready to return if it is possible. The welcome I received / here on my arrival will remain in my , memory for life. The way I have been treated here by all with whom 1 have come in contact affords me an-1 other pleasant memory. I would like to add another episode to it. I “Then, there was the handling of that great crowd last night. It was Everything was discipline « and order and 1 think such an occasion is a tribute to the game and the real men that are in it.” o Scranpin’ Hoosiers To Open Season October 1 Blomington, Ind., Sept. 24—^oach' Pat'Page ordered heavy football practice thi^ afternoon for his Indiana Uni-] versity grid candidates. The dynamic Pat has found his first game with Ken-1 tucky October 1 rapidly approaching,' and believes that no time can be lost in preparing for this clash. Cooler weather has been a great aid lo I. U. gridders. The hot weather of last week took off a lot of, weight but this week has provided real football atmosphere. The University of Kentucky has a veteran team, according to press reports. The Kentuckians are playing their first game today and will have that much experience on the Hoosiers -at Lexington next .’Saturday. ' Coach Page and his gridders will leave here Friday morning. It is probable that a light workout will be in order Friday afternoon on the University of Kentucky field. I A camfus celebfation is being planned here tor Thursday night, when 3,000 , students wil give the Indiana pigskin warriors a send-off. I O— | ■ Louisville, Ky—Louisvjlle and Columbus divided a double header, Columbus winning the first sto 3, and Louisville the second, 5 to 1.

Dempsey In A Crouch * , ■ Photograph shows Jack Dempsey crouc'iiiig low anti playing lor a knockout ilic third round of their fig'll at Soldier Fit Id. ('.hirago.

The Fourth Down . ft By Willie Pynt The Portland Panthers were scalped bv the Anderson Indians, at Ander- ®- ' - son, Firday afternoon, 7 to 0. | The Yellow Jackets are meeting their old rivals at Garrett this afternoon. A hard game was in prospect, but the Yellow Jackets were optimistic as they left town this morning. Logansport and Huntlngtcn staged a nice contest Friday afternoon, at Huntington, neither team being able' to push over a score during the game. Huntington plays at Bluf.) on next 1 Friday. Athletes and coaches -from several Adams county high schools were present last night at the dedication of the Kirkland Kangaroos’ new gym. /- ~ - Tech of Indianapolis apparently isn’t what she used to lie in football. After Elwood took an 18-0 defeat at the hands of Kokomo two weeks ago, Tech fumbled before the Elwood attack yesterday, 20 to 13. And Kokomo never has rated as a strong contender for championship lienors in football. Red Lankenau, who had been worked at a half back position most of the week by Coach wrenched ' a leg in practice Thursday night and probably will not get in the game today. With Anadell and Uankenau both out of the backfield with injuries, the Yellow Jackets’ attack is somewhat crippled. Bell, Captain Reynolds, Roop Engle and Stoneburner were expected to carry the brunt, of the offensive drive today. Fair weather and a cool breze made i today a good football uay. With a I solid field underfoot there ought to be some good playing done today. I - f Football Fans See New Rules In Operation New York, Sept. 24. Spectators at more than 100 football games throughout the country will , see several new rules in operation ■ today. Some will make the game more open; others till tend to rob the sport of spectacular features; In addition to the forward pass, lateral and backward passes ■will be , used. In the execution of these plays, a. formation of several players Wil provide interference for the runner. The attacking side after kicking i from scrimmage, will not be allowed to advance the ball after pouncing upon fumbled kicks. The new shift rule requires that all players come to a complete stop for a period of one seconil. I The goal posts will be g|t back ten yards, to prevent players 1 from hitting the posts on a line blunge and to make Ihe point after Itouchdown hardor. ’ > !

♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BASE-BALL STANDINGS « ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦ NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct.j Pittsburgh 89 57 .610 New York .87 60 .596. St. Louis .. 86 60 .5851 Chicago 84 63 .571; Cincftinati 71 73 .493 Brooklyn . :62 86 .419 Boston ... 57 89 .390 Philadelphia 48 96 .333 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct New York ,105 4S .709 Philadelphia ... .88 59 .599 Washington -78 65 .545 Detroit .1- .78 68 .534 Chicago 66 80 .452 Cleveland 63 82 .434 St. Louis i 57 89 .890 Boston 49 97 .336 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Toledo 96 68 .585 Milwaukee 96 68 .585 Kansas Ci y . 96 69 .582 .Minneapolis 89 76 .539 St. Paul 88 76 -.537 Indianapolis 70 93 .430 Louisville .... 61 103 .372 Columbus ,60 105 .364 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS 'National League New York, 6; Pittsburgh, 5. Brooklyn, 3-1; Cincinnati, 6-3. Philadelphia, 0; Chicago, 10. Boston, 3; St. Louis, 2. American League Chicago, 2; Boston, 1. Cleveland-Philadelphia, postponed. American Association Toledo, 8-1; 2-1. Minneapolis, 6; Kansas City, 2. Columbus, 5-1; Louisville. 35. St. Paul. 9; Milwaukee. 5. .a. o ® SCOREBOARD (By United Press) Another loss today to the Giants 'will reduce the Pirates margin in the Na ional league over the second place New Yorkers to a game and a half and inerease the pennant chances of the latter enough to shatter the recent concession that Pittsburgh was “in.” The outlook for the Giants is made brighter by the fact they have easy games ahead with the Phils and ledgers while the Pirates have to play four games vvßh the Cubs who have recently demonstrated the mid-season proficiency which kept them at the head of the league for a month. St. Louis, only halt a game behind the Giants, may also prove a menace. The standing: W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 89 57 .610 New York 87 60 .592 St. Louis 86 60 .589 The Giants triumphed 6 to 5 over Pi tsburgh yes-.erdn'y through Lindstrom s triple which scored two runs tn the ninth. A home run by Fournier in the ninth and the steady pitching or Genewich forced the Cardinals from second to third place as Boston won, 3 to 2. Seventeen hits by the Cubs gave Carlson a 10-0 victory over Philadelpay Moss; recently obtained by Brooklyn, was credited with a 4-3 victory over the Reds. Cincinnati won the «r 3 game, 6-3. Although held to five hits, the White Sox made two runs and beat the Red Sox, 2 to 1. — o— Mrs H. L. Curtis and Mrs. Burt Mangold motored to Geneva last night.

MONROE DEFEATS MONMOOTH NINE Winners Stage Rally In Last Inning To Score Five Runs For Victory The Mcnrc* high school baseball team staged a rally in the seventh and" final Inning of a game with the Monmouth nine at Monroe, Friday afternoon, and won the game by a score of 13 to 12. .Monmouth held a 12 to 8 lead ] when .Monroe can)# to hat in the last inning. Two were out when the winning tun was enp’d Elzey and (*.- Andrews composed the Monroe battery, while Parris pitched and Johnson caught for Monmouth. The score by innings: Monmouth .... 3 2 3 2 11 0 —l2 Monroe ( ... 401 12 0 5—13 ’ o Milwaukee — By hammering three ' plcthers for 16 hits, St. Paul wen a 9] to 5 victory over Milwaukee its the opening game of the closing series I here.

Grange’s Ice-Toting Arm Beat Down Many Tacklers Cy SOL METZGER HOW did Red Grange make his spectacular runs for Illinois? What made No, Phantom of the Gridiron? No college back ever proved s colorful in the long history of football. Zirppke, who coached Red. vis keen enough not only sense his outstanding alxlity but to build his att k around th s marvel. And because of the strategy of this mentor. Grange thriKed the gridiron world with his feats. ?sa, GCG T | gjw,wRb t # Si? S rC W 1 1 Grange was used principally from a semi punt formation, taking the libs tion of the No. 1 l»ack in the diagram. He was 6 yards back of v ’, ne and a ha’f to two yards farther back than the usual back is Btalion ® _on running plays. There was a reason. Grange started so fast and >• at such «peed that Zuppke had to move him that much farther back to p> vent Red's outrunning his interference. This position also enabled Zupl»»‘ to get both of his guards, Nos. 5 and 6 In the diagram, ahead of this star on end runs. z r Against Penn, for example, Red broke for long runs because Pen' 1 ‘ played a most compact defense, with her ends in close to tackle. That pe-- - mi t ted Britton. No. 3. to block .the end a*one. Whereupon Red would M clear by the line of scrimmage. Then he would usually reverse li* Dew. , that is, cut back of the defensive line. , , His work, once by the line, was outstanding. Almost always he ' sh ft Hie ball to his left side and depend on speed and an odd use ot r 1 right arm—the one that was strengthened by toting Ice all summer— to g>' by tackiers. it one came at-him from the right. Red put on full speed rai' ? ed his right hand above his shoulder, and ns the tackler drove at him ' crushed him to earth with a sweeping blow and continued without apP ar< 1 loss of speed. Any questions concerning the new football rules’mailed to Sol MetzgerI care of this paper, will be answered if stamped, addre'-sed envelope 13 enclosed. Copyright 1927, Publisher- Syndicate.

TUNNEY TO HOLS' g TITLE UNDISPUTED | 1 || By Dempsey’s Man^ er I Chicago. Sept. 21 ■ ii\si Tunney will remain nn.ii flB heavyweight boxing < lum|>| ()n KI The lllionls hexing <“<mimis, lo(U . ft <’ Rlghehm r ehalrm.m u, HH day. will not consider a protest ott < d-r islon of tho Tuiin.-. 1 1. , |g|| here Thursday night Wm ‘As far as the commLunn cerned the protest <>, th.- d.-, is| l)R IB by Leo P. Flynn, Ij.-tnp-.-y •- maii4 * Ift will nt be considered i> th.- bout »- ls ' H conducted in accordan. e V1!tl |E and th. < . <ilh ■ decision ns reuder.-d .. ;,. lvt . ilw 'ft; Beery will stand. |ft Wild Bank To I’av 93 I Cents On The Dollar 1 Indianapolis, Indr. Sept 21—(ikgr Assets of |he defunct J r. wng aM ft ■s ti State Rank, of this ( j !v , valued at 'la not less than 33.750,min. t..,| a j ] lal been ordered sold Is The .xder B vrtts issued by Jmh-I-I b.o t .md R,..). ft ltd Lowerer. K Sate of the Bank's assets nt not lesj than J",.760,000. Judge Ba-li -nd, B permit a settlement,to .T-positors o( 93 cents on the dollar. S The Wild company the largest 9 State Bank in Indiana. 9 Quiet Prevails Over Coal E Fields Following Disorder E Centerville, la., Sept 24 — (UPi— ■ B Outrfhotts quiet prevailed ... : the Al- B panoose county coal tields today where S deputies and ial officers R used tear gass bombs to dispense a mob of striking union pi.-keters. Additional guards were being sent into the trouble area today and sheriff Earl Gaughenbaugh said he believed the situation- was well under control. Last night's tear gas bat age following gathering c.t 250 striking'miners have been resumed on the $5 per dav scale. Infornjed of the mob, the sheriff proceeded to the pits with heavily armed force. Pleas to union officials to dis- ' perse the mob failed, the sheriff said, and the gas bombs wete released. ■y - —OFroaty Peters Has Injury Frost-y Peters, star drop kileker of Illinois University, will be out of : cbool til s semester because of an injured knee, it was announced.