Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1927 — Page 5

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0. H. S. TO PLAY AT FORT WAYNE Yellow Jackets To Meet Concordia Team At Fort Wayne Instead Os Here The football game between the Decatur high school Yellow Jackets and the Concordia College eleven, of Fort Wayne, which was scheduled to be played in this city Saturday afternoon, will be played In Fort Wayne on Friday afternoon, instead, Principal Walter J. Krick announced today. It was impossible to suture officials for the game on Saturday, since the game was not scheduled until Monday and all officials were under contract for that day. It was then decided to chance the game to Friday and Concordia was unable to come to Decatur on that day, owing to a rule in force at the college. It was agreed t(s plajj the game at Lincoln Life Field, in Fort Wayne, Friday afternoon starting at 3 o’clock, Seveial Decatur fans wil accompany the team to Fort Wayne. The players are in good condition for the battle against their older and heavier opponents. They were sent through a stiff workout on Niblick Field last even-1 ing Q Phelan Planned To Spring “Pesty” Welch Against Chicago Team Indianapolis, Oct. 12. —(UP) —Ralph “Pesty” Welch, Purdue university's sensational halfback who helped the Boilermakers give Harvard its first drubbing at the hands of a western team, was not an “unknown,” but an appreciated factor even before injury of Captain “Colton” Wilcox forced that stellar player to the sidelines. But for Coach Jimmy Phelan's assistance, Welch -would . have been heralded as a sophomore “find” even before the football season got uudor way. Playing with the freshmen last year, Welch attracted much attention as he tore around in his red jersey and brought Coach Phelan to attention bycutting the regular line to 'bits when sent against it. That was one year ago while the Purdue team was being prepared for its game with Navy. Noble Kiser, the line coach, made use of Welch to test his guards, tackles and centers. The way Welch responded to Kiser's urgings to "smash ’em up” left no doubt that he was an unusual half back. When this season rolled around, Coach Phelan intended to save Welch out of the Harvard game and spring him against Alonzo Stagg's Chicago team. Phelan wanted to give Stagg another good season for his annual cry, headlined “Stagg fears Purdue.” ”1 have one hope,” said Phelan to this writer at the Hotel Denting in Terre Haute while the Indiana amateur golf tournament was being played, "and that is to keep that boy tinder cover and spring him on Stagg.” Wilcox’s injury forced Phelan to bring Welch out from hiding before the Chicago game. ■ o Program Os Boxing To Be Staged At Fort Wayne The first fight card to be staged in bort Wayne in several months will be held next Friday night, at the Internaional Harvester Plant, corner of Pontiac street and Bueter road, when Nick Ellenvvood, of Fort Wayne meets Sam Lupica, of Toledo, Ohio, in the main go. The bout will mark the first appearance in the ring of Ellenwood since an injury to an ankle, suffered several months ago, Lupica is touted as an aggressive and hard-hitting fighter and has s«K>red several Knockouts. The bout is scheduled for ten round. In the semi-windup bout “Moan” Baumgartner, of Fort Wayne, will meet Tommy Ishmile, of Chicago. The bout is scheduled for eight rounds. Tickets for the exhibition are on sale at Lose Brothers’ cigar store in this city. o PERU—Henry Chewning, negro, hailed a patrol wagon here instead of a taxicab and was given 30 days on the state penal farm. In addition he was fined SIOO. Chewning became intoxicated and hailed the police auto thinking it was a taxicab.

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GEHRIG VOTED MOST VALUABLE Yankee First Baseman (Jets Most Valuable Player Award For 1927 By Frank Getty (UP Sports Editor) New York, Oct. 12.—1 t takes many things to make a great ball player—and Lou Gehrig has most of them. The big first baseman of the New York Yankees has just been voted the most valuable player in the American league for the season of 1027. Since Babe Rutlr was ineligible under the rules which preclude the possibility of an American league player being named more than once tor the honor, ‘'Columbia Lou” well deserved the award. Gehrig was the first choice of all but one of a committee of baseball writers representing the cities of the circuit, his nearest competitiors being Harry Heilmann, Detroit outfielder who led the league in hitting, and Ted Lyons, White Sox pitcher. What manner of man in this youngster, just completing his third full major league season, yet named as the most valuable player in his league? Well, for one thing, Lou Gehrig is what is known as a ‘‘ball players' player.” In other words, he has won the confidence of his fellow Yankees as well as of the fans. His hitting this past season has been phenomenal, and while he failed by a few points to win the batting championship, he stood third in the Ameflcau league averages and drove in more runs than any other player. One hundred and seventy-five times during the season, Lou's big bat banged home a Yankee run—an average, it will be observed, of considerably better than a run a game, Joesting Mav Not Play Aaginst I. U. Saturday Minneapolis. Minn., Oct. 11?. — (INS —Wayne Kakela, Minnesota center, was to be given another trial today at tackle. Nagurski's transfer to right end makes it essential that a strong end may be developed. While Herb Joesting, start of the team and all-American player, continued to nurse his injuries on the sidelines, he he been allowed to take part In s’ignal drill. He will not be used in the game with Indiana next Saturday. o — Indiana’s Forward Wall Showing Improvement Bloomington. lud„ Oct. 12. (INS) —Coach Pat Page expressed his satisfaction here today with the forward wall of his Hoosier team as the University of Indiana gridiron athletes were summoned for further practice today in preparation for the game next Saturday with Minnesota. The slogan of the, men for the present i week has been “stop Herb Joesting, the Gopher star.

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~~ ~ — — I The Fourth Down I < fg fl OIL Jr ) 1 By l Willie Punt Decatur is doomed for another foot- 1 ball-less week-end. An announcement t made this morning says the Yellow 1 Jackets-Concordia College game wil) be played at Fort Wayne Friday in- 1 stead of in this city on Saturday, as originally planned. I The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel pub- 1 lished what was reported to be the of- 1 ficiai standing of the football teams 1 in the Northeastern Indiana high school conference Monday evening. Decatur’s Yellow Jackets were omitted from the standing, when they should have been shown tied for third place along with Auburn, Fort Wayne Central and Huntington, with a per centage of .500. Our good friend Buckner clipped the standing from the News-Sentin-el and reprinted it without as much as reading it over, evldentally, as he also omitted Decatur. The Columbia City Post complains because the News-Sen-tinel placed Kendallville above the Columbia City team in the standing and remarked that "Decatur is not rated in conference standings and is evidently not regarded as a member of the conference, in football as least-.” Our prestige has been damaged, fans What action shall be taken. For the of fic’al standing, read the Daily Democrat. The esteemed writer of a sports column called “Sportfolio” in the Goshen Daily Democrat, who signs himself “Eek”, sowehow got it into his overworked brain last year that the Wabash high school athletic teams were called Yellow Jackets. Mr. Eck has continued to call the Wabash teams Yellow Jackets since that time and as late as yesterday referred to the Wabash “Yellow Jackets”’ no less than three time in his column. Wabash athletic teams are called “Hillclimbers." Up until this year and while Mr. Thom was coaching there, the teams were called the Thomcats, also but never in their history have they been called, correctly, Yellow Jackets. Decatur is the home of the original Yellow Jackets of Indiana. Weakening "Enumerable times in the past few weeks we have been asked why Frankfort high doesn't play football. We don't know why, but we do know that it is not because of Miss Howard's objection, as a lot of fans seem to think. We are of the opinion that football will come back into the local school within the next year or son.jWith the exception of Martinsville, just about every high school in the state of any size is now participating in the grid sport” —Time Out, Frankfort Morning Times. •* Earl Rudy, who did quite a bit of basketballing for the Bluffton high school Tigers last year, has proved that he knows how to toss ’ ears of corn into the pig pen as well as basketballs into the basI ket. Earl fed a litter of 14 p-gs, which he had entered in the Hoosier Ton Litter Club, to a total i weight of 2,948 pounds in 180 days. This is the heaviest ton litter ever produced in Wells county. , ___ ) Famous last lines: ”UNDEFE|AT- ■ ED" Vikings to Meet Kendallville toI day".—Huntington Press last Satur- ! day morning. —o Four Purdue Players Are On Injured List Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 12. — (INS) — i Four of Purdue’s fighting Bo|lermak- ■ ers were on the injured list today as 1 Coach James Phelan called the men - out for practice. The four are s Leichtle, who played right half back ! in the game against Harvard, Ramby, i Caraway, and Capt. Wilcox, main cog } of the team. Purdue's defense is beI ing specially drilled in preparation for ’(the game with Chicago next SaturI day.

R ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥lT * NEWS FROM MAGLEY * * By * * Miss Theo Bauer * tf«¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥M Mrs. Fred Schlickman Ims returned home after visiting a wook with relatives at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs, Harry Bauer were dinner guests pf Mr. and Mrs. August Yake. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cas’le and daughter Ruth were also present. A box supper will be given at the Magloy grade*school, Thursday even- | ing, October 13. Everybody is ivited to attend. The Minsas Minnie Dalfe ami Vera Adams called on Mrs. Eligabeth Enter. Misp Betty Dettinger has returned' to her work at Wolfe and Dessuuet of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wilder, of De catur, Mr. and Mrs. D. Goldner and son. Richard, of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. William “Nenerich and family of Fort WKyne, Mrs. Elizabeth MoGiTI, of Decatur. and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Scnerry spent Sunday at the home of Mrs Conrad and her son Jacob Conrad Mr. John Bauer spent Sunday with his mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Bauer. Mr. James Stude is on the sick list. A box social will be given at Kirkland high school Friday evening, October 14. Everybody is invited to attend. There will be fun for young and old as the classes are each putting on a "stunt.’’ The Senior class has announced their intention of putting on for their stunt, "On the Road to Richmond.” Mr. George L. Elmore, of Fort Wayne, was a caller here Monday. Mr. Henry Thomas, of Decatur, was a business caller Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dettinger took dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Foley, of- Preble. Mr and Mrs. Kiel of Ohio City were also guests of Irvin Foley. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dotting >r Mr and Mrs. Keil of Ohio City called on Mr. and Mrs. Beu Linuger, Sunday. o —— WORLD'S FIRST SCOUT CAMP SITE IS SOLD Brownesa Island, in Poole Harbor Dorset, where twenty years ago thismonth Sir Robert Baden-Powell held the world's first Boy Scout camp, has just been sold to a woman landownei in Somerset. The famous castle on the island was one of the residences of Henry VII. When Sir Robert Baden-Powell start ed the Boy Scout Movement the island and castle belonged to Mr. C. Van Raalte. Within the last two or three yeais the property was purchased by Sir Arthur Wheeler, of Leicester, who has now disposed of it. - Q — Babe Ruth Receives Egg Laid By Champion Hen Named For Him Omaha, Neb., Oct. 12.—(UP)—The pet hen of the nursery rhyme who “laid eggs for gentlemen” was a mere courgeoise beside Lady Norfolk, better known as Babe Ruth, official champion egg layer of the world. The Babe laid her 167th egg in 167 days at 8:30 a. m. today—an hour earlier than usual — and it was immediately packed to be mailed to George Herman Ruth of the NewYork Yankees, after whom the hen wag named. Yesterday's egg, which broke the world’s record, was sent to President Coolidge. — o Hard-Boiled Football Star At Ohio Faints When He Sees Blood Columbus, 0., Oct. 12.—(UP)—Ohio State’s "most hard-boiled" football player fainted at the sight of a trickle of blood on his foot last night, it developed today. The young star, who has earned a reputation for being the “toughest” member of the squad has caused the team several penalties for rough playing. Last night before practice he went into the training room at Ohio stadium to pare a corn. He pared too deep and the blood came. The grid star passed out. Doc Duifee, team physician, reviv- . ed him. “Blood always does me that way,” the boy said. COURT HOUSE Suits On Notes The Enterprise Store, of Monroe, has filed a suit on a note in the Adams I circuit court against Dwight Brown

1 demanding judgement for $240 ami ' costs. Attorney J. T. Merryman is counsel for the plaintiff, A suit on a note, filed in the Allen superior cuurt at Fort Wayne by William E. Chapham and Thomas <l. Moorhead against Mary L. Parrish, has been venued to the Adams circuit court for trial. Judgment for $550 is demanded. Attorney Russel J. Gordon represents the plaintiffs. The Krick-Tyndall Company hus filed a suit on a note against Henry Relnking, demanding judgment for $250 and costs. Attorneys Lenhart, Heller ami Schurger represent the plaintiff. o — First Telegraph Line Paralleled Baltimore And Ohio Railway Line The history of the development of the electric telegraph in the United States is Inextricably bound up with that of American railways. The first public telegraph line, constructed by Samuel F. B. Morse between Baltimore and Washington in 1843, followed the line of the Baltimore and Ohio, the first American railroad, and to this day the gi eater part of the 2,000,000 miles of telegraph wires in the United States are constiucted along the routes of the various railway systems, the Western Union Telegraph Company alone having working contracts with more than 350 companies. So closely has the telegraph been connected with the railway that even today, when more than 200,000,000 messages covering a thousand phases of business and social intercourse, are handled annually, many perons still associate the telegraph with the familiar railway station and its “bay window" filled with clicking sounders. With $30,000 voted by Congress for the line and witli the permission of the Baltimore and Ohio, Morse set about actual construction of the line. Alfred Vail built the Instruments, while Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University was made superintendent of construction. Morse at first favored a plan of laying the wires underground, and about half the appropriation was expended before this idea was abandoned. Eventually the wires were strung on poles The insulators, designed by Cornell, consisted of two plates of glass between which the wire, wiapped with cloth and saturated with shelac was placed. Later these insulators were a bandoned for the bureau knob type. On May 24, 1844, the first public message, “What Hath God Wrought?" was successfully transmitted from Washington to Baltimore. The message was sent by Miss Annie G. Ellsworth, daughter of the United States Commissioner of Patents, who had been first to bring news to Morse ot the passage of the Telegraph Bill by —— "

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society to be held at Bluffton on Thursday evening, October 13. Thu meeting will be held at 8:15 o'clock and Dr. T. B. Rice, of Indianapolis, professor of Hygiene and Sanitation at Indiana University, will deliver an address on "infantile paralysis". Invitations to the meeting were received today by Dr. Allen Miller, secretary of the local medical society.

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