Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1928 — Page 6

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YANKS ARE OFF TO FLYING START NVw York, April 17 — <U.R) Bnseball history lias a wiy of repeating itself. A year ago the New York Yankees waltzed right into first place in the American League by winning six games before sustaining their first defeat, after which they never were 1 headed. This season, to date, the Yankees arc tin* only undefeated club in their I league and the pure they ate setting, ! and the quality of the opposition with j which they are meeting, justifies the j belief of their supporters that they! will cut an even faster pace than fiat of 1927. There are many queer things about the current major league season, but ncne of them is the way the world's chnmpi ns are playing Iwseball. De prived of their second baseman and a couple of pitchers, the Yankees have set nut to win hall games in a most convincing, matter-of-fact manner. Babe Ruth went through the lirst three games without a home i uni, hut Lou (Tehrig has produced a' couple, and the pitching furnished by Herli Pennock. Wiley Moore, Waite Hoyt and George I'lpgras has left little to he desired. Miller Huggins had Pennock ready to shoot, right back at the Red Sox this afternoon, while several other c Yankee twirlers are clami.ri.ig for a chance to break into the winnitig column while the winning is good. Philadelphia Athletics, before the start of the 1927 season, presented th > same sort of theoretical >hreat to j the supremacy of the Yankees thai they did when the current season opened. Last year, they collapsed at j the tossing out of the first hall and failed to win one game in the opening series in New York. At the pres- j ent moment, the Athletics are the only club in either league which has not. won a single game. They have I been defeated three times. The Chicago White Sox won their first game of th> year yesterday, after Rav Schalk, in disgust, had j shaken up his line-up. Simultaneously, and for the same reason, the , St. Louis Drowns met with their lb st defeat of L92S. The Boston Braves also broke into j the "games won" column for the first time yesterday, while the New York j Giants dropped their first of the year j when old Gy Williams clouted a homer in the eighth inning. Before the season opened, two ; clulis which were expected to start fast from the respective harriers w( re the Braves in tlie National League race and the Detro.l Tigers i:i the American. The Braves cannot he held too lightly for th"ir slow start, for they have encountered some strong pitch- ; ing. and were victims of little Andy j Cohen in the opener. The Detroit Tigers, however, have been a pron uiioed disappointment. They could he pronounced rotten with perfect I fairness. j George Moriarty's winter trades went back on him, and the players upon whom he has counted most have thrown tiir.i down. Tne Tigers have made 15 err ,rs in six games tmts far, and many of the misplays have been directly responsible for their defeat. Watching The Scoreboard Yesterday’s Hero: —Old Cv Williams starting his seventeenth Major League season and now relegated to the job of part time hitter for the Phillies, drove out a home run with two men on base and heat the New York Giants 7 to 5. It was the first defeat of the year for McGraw’s Club. Another Club sustained its first setback of the 1928 season when the St. Louis Brawns faded and curled up before the masterly pitching of A1 Thomas of the White Sox, who blank ed them, 7 to 0. Marty McManus, Detroit third baseman, was yesterday's goat. His two e. rots proved costly to the Tigers, who lost to Cleveland Indians, 5 to 4. “Goose" Goslin's bat contributed to the third successive defeat of the Philadelphia Athletics, who were beaten by the ,'ashingtou Senators, 5 to 4. Burleigh Grimes, obtained by thu Pi.ales from the Giants, was effective iu his second start of the season, and the National League champions defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 8 to 1. Guy Bush of the Cubs proved the right pitcher to stop Frankie Frisch and his fellow -Cardinals, who went down to defeat, 6 to 3. Earl Web, who is filling in for Hack Wilson, hit a Homer. A mix-up over a pop fly costs Jess Petty his chance against the Braves, who won theit first game of the year by beating the Robins, 3 to 2. George Pipgtas’ pitching and Lou Kphrig’s homer, his second of the season, helped the Yankees defeat the ostou Red Sox, 7 to 2.

STANDINGS National League i . W L Pet. I New York 3 1 .75,i \ St. Louis 3 2 .lion 1 Chicago 3 3 .500 | Cincinnati 3 3 .500 Brooklyn 2 2 .Ron i Philadelphia 2 2 .500 ! Pittsburgh 2 3 ,400 ! Boston 1 3 .250 American League W L Pi",. New York 3 0 1.000 1 St. Louis 4 1 .800 j Cleveland 4 1 .800 : Washington 4 1 .800 Chicago 1 3 ,250 1 Boston 1 4 ,200 I Detroit 1 5 .107 j Philadelphia 0 3 .000 American Association W I- Pet. Kansas City r, o 1.000 Indianapolis 4 f .800 j St. Paul 3 3 .500 : Columbus 3 3 .500 Louisville T 3 4 .428 Milwaukee 2 4 .333 Minneapolis 2 4 ,333 Toledo 1 4 .200 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 8; Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 3; New York 5. Boston 3; Brooklyn 2. Chicago 0; St. Louis 3. American League , Washington 5; Philadelphia 4. Cleveland 5; Detroit 4. New York 7; Boston 2. Chicago, 7; St. Louis 0. American Association Indianapolis, 5: St. Paul 4. • Milwaukee 4: Toledo 2. Minneapolis 3; Louisville 1. Kansas City 8; Columbus S. (called i I COMMODORES TO PLAY ON FRIDAY i The high school baseball season in I Decatur will open next Friday after -noon, when the Catholic high school I . Commodores meet their old rival, Gen-1 i tral Catholic high of Fort Wayne, on | the diamond of the new municipal ath-j letie field, in the south part of the! city. The game will stall at 3 o’clock. An admission charge of 25 cents will he made. (’each Laurent said today that one' of the Mylott brothers, Fred or Jei ome, likely will get the call to pitch against the Itisli Friday. Sorg. Kohne or F.ed Mylott will got the catching; assignment. The Commodores have been handicappe dconsiderably by sick' ness this week, but it is thought that most of the players will lie hack in uni-i form by Friday. English Runner Holds Lead In “Bunion Derby” Tulsa, Okla, April 17—With Pete Gavuzzi of Southampton, Eng. still in the lead, the Pyle Cross- country runners left Tulsa today for Chelsea, 41 miles East. Gavuzzi increased his lead over Andrew Payne, Young Oklahoma runner, by wining yesterday’s 41.7 miles stretch from Bristow to Tulsa in 4:57. Giusto Umek of Trieste, Italy, was second with 5:28:26 and Payne third with 5:39:58. YESTERDDAY’S HOME RUNS American League Player and Club Season's Total Gehrig, New York (1) 2 Goslin, Washington (1) 2 Thomas, Chicago (1) j National League Williams, Philadelphia (1) i Webb, Chicago (1) ] The Leaders American—Gehrig, 2: Goslin 2; Hauser 2; Todt 2; National — Frisch 3; Hendrick 2. League Totals National —17. American —l3. , — —o- . ■ Rotary troop, No. 61, will meet In the Christian church basement, Wednesday evening, at 7 o’clock A. S. M. St. Joseph Troop No. 64 Staff Meeting this evening at 5:15 o’clock Miller. Secy. Big Reduction on Living Room Suites, Pianos and Mattresses, for the next thirty days. JONES & SPRAGUE, phone 199. 92t2

PENN TO OPEN 1.0. FIELD HOUSE i' i j i Bloomington, IrnT., April 17 —lndiana , University’s now field house which i will he eontpli leil by Oct. 1, will Is' , dedicated with a basketball game between indinnn and the Unlve-slty of Pennsylvania on Dec. 13. according to announcein''nt last night by 7. G. ( ! Clevenger, athletic director of Indi- , ana The game will bring together , tiie ova champions ot the ou'star.ding , ccnferences. Lidi.ma won a co-chain- , piottship with Put due in the Big Ten , ami Pennsylvania won the Eastern . Intercollegiate League title. | Clevenger announced that the contract called for a return game with Pennsylvania in the Ualestra at Philadelphia in 1929. pennslyvania will play three games while in the midwest next December. Kotowing the de ! diratio ngame here, it wil meet Ohio State and Michigan. The new field house is well under i construction add should he fully equipped by dedication time. It will have a seating capacity of 15,000 with an indoor track and portable basketbaT floor. It is the last word m field houses. Indiana’s scheduling of tap great eastern team was due to the friendship between Clevenger and Ralph Morgan, of Pennsylvania. The two athletic directors were members of the national basket ball rules committee several years ago. Morgan serving as chairman. Morgan in accepting Indiana’s invitation to play wired Clevenger as follows: "I am certainly delighted! that we are going to see vou Dec. 13 and feel honored tlint we are picked to dedicate your new field house. If a 1 goes well. I shall try to make the nip with the boys and hope to have i the pleasure of seeing a very fine game." Director Clevenger was enthttsias- i ; tic over the booking of the eastern- I ers. He declared that Pennsylvania was the one team he desired above i all others, and that the game would he a great treat for Hoosier followi err, of the court game. Noted Young Actress Coming To The Shrine There is high hope for those whs he-1 : lievo in the coming supremacy of l ; Ameiiea in the arts in general and in i dramatic art in particular in the tri- 1 umphant career of the young American j emotional actress, Katharine Cornell, j who comes to the Shrine Audiuritim Fort Wayne, Thursday evening, April 19, i:i W. Somerset Maughm’s play. "The Letter,” For Miss Cornell has reached the top of the ladder. Everywhere she is hailed as the greatest of the younger actresses of the Ameri-1 >can stage, and everywhere her interpretation f her various roles are reI garded as decisions which influence j the whole ait of acting. Usually an ac- | tress does*not gain such authority nn- | less he comes to us with the glamor of ! foreign birth. Miss Cornell, Americans are proud to realize, is thoroughly American, and not only that, she grew up artistically in the American theatre and not long courses of study abroad and a long period spent in artistic endeavors there, though Miss Cornell has played in London, but only as a thoroughly established American actress, and not as an American learning European methods of acting. Miss Cornell is the daughter rs American parents, of a family distinguished for its interest and share in the best of American culture and etulea-' vors artistically, through neither of her parents was ever on the stage. She studied acting in American schools after the usual academic edu- ! caticn which a young girl of gmd family receives in this country. Then she made her stage debut with the Washington Square Players, a thoroughly American institution. Then came a period of Baoadway appearances, the most notable ’if which was "Tile Green Hat." a play which elevated her to stardom. advltx o -Y -V- -Y- -V- AA AA A5 -t• A£ * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAiAAAFAFAFAA Lou Gehrig, Yankees —Hit home run No. 2 for his only hit in three times up. Babe Ruth, Yankees —Got a double and scored a run in four times up. Ty Cobb, Athletics— Singled in four times at hat and scored a run. Tris Speaker, Athletics —Failed to get a hit in five times at hat and made an error. Rogers Hornsby, Braves— Made three hits in four times at bat, scored a run and made an error. Paul Waner, Pirate —Singled once- > in five trips. ■ Harry Heilmann, Tigers — Tripled - once in four trips. , Kiki Cuyler—Cubs—Made two hits ! in four times at hat.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. APRIL 17,1928.

AMERICANS INVADE EUROPE ..t — ——- " England, France and possibly Holland will witness two American tennis stars ptrform on their courts during the summer. Miss Penelope Anderson, of Richmond, \ a., has accepted the invitation to tour abroad with “our own Helen \\ ills’ (inset), and foreign court stars can look to their laurels when this team gets in action. * (International IlluKrafea Newt)

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The question of whether the Olyntpie flumes are worth whi'e —whether they iio not hamper rather than help international amity—has been raised !in flreat Britain. Difference of opinion arising be- | tween nations over amateur rulings, introduction of sectional sports, and intranational strife over control of the competing athletes are cited as reasons I' r a withdrawal from the Olympics-on the part of the British. "The f'.r.ush nation, intensely interested in sport, is vastly uninterested in the Olympic games," says the Daily Express editorially. A little more success in winning points at the modern Olympiads might hntter the Britons’ bread more , to their taste. It is inevitable that the monotonous regularity of American victories should cause lack of interest in Great Britain. Vet the British have nothing to complain of in the performances of their runners at Paris in 190-;, for Abrahams on the 100 metres. Liddell the 4hti and Lowe the Sou. a record which aroused env> among Americans who could win blit one first place in an individual running event on the flat. Britains, devoted to tennis, also have lost interest in the Davis Cup competition, because they no longer are certain of a place in the challenge round. Success is quit© a tonic It is possible that the British are right, however, about thjb Olympic i game* being none too beneficial for International amity. One can go right back to antiquity and find that, such has been the iasc. The Greek cities used to war about ; the first Olympiads, the amateur rules were just as strictly drawn and pliably applied as today, and the boys COURT HOUSE 1 Marriage Licenses Andrew Applenmn. bookkeeper, to Alice M. Kriegel, both, of Decatur. Walter G F Neff, farmer, Hoag and route 1, to L : na Poehler. Decatur, route 1. Estates Settled In the estate of Laura Jackson, the final report was filed and approved, the administratrix discharged and the estate settled. In the estate of aney E. Boss, the final report was filed and approved, the administratrix discharged and the estate settled. In the estate of Harry N. Helm, the final report was filed and approved, the administratrix discharged and ihe , estate settled. Sale Apprcved In the estate of John C. Myers, the ' report of sale of personal properly was filed and approved. Inheritance Tax Reports 1 An inheritance tax report in the estate of Henry Wisehmeyer showed 1 the total net value of the estate to be #12,134.70. The estate was left to five daughters, namely, Emma Koenentann, Louise Messntann, BulteI meier. Clara Zwick and Ida Koenemann. Each owed Inheritance tax in ■ the s tm of $4.30. An inheritance tax report in the > estate of Erastus Fritzinger showed the total net value of the estate to s j he $10,509.88 The estate was left to the widow and two sons. Each of

of the A.A.l’. who like to wear the 'all hats and badges and r° s<> at the head of tHe parade nad their prototypes in ancient Hellas. The qualifications rs a contender 'n the original Olympic games of the seventh anil eighth centuries before Christ were insisted upon rigidly. v- , A month before the games wore to begin all competitors, men, liovs and her-se-'. presented themselves at I lis where they demonstrated to the Hel’anodicae their right to participate. Tne Hellanodieae were judges, elected for the term of a single Olymp'ad, who had taken sacred oath and spent ten months preparing themselves for their tasks. The candidate had to be Greek and free-horn, a citizen and religious. He also had to lie reasonably well fixed f or spot cash money, because train'ng ami travel as well as gifts to the gods were costly in those ancient lays. The prospective contestants testified to the Hellanodieae that they had been in training for ten months, and then proceeded to spend another nwmth in even stricter dieting and exercise. Those who are inclined to deplore the modern tendency to glorify a successful athlete out of all due prouortion need net deceive themselves that such ha« not always been the ! custom. The 'Bed Grange sweaters" I and “Babe Ruth chewing gum" are ! not products of twentieth century in- 1 ven, ion. They were known in 700 B j c. The O’ympionikae, as the victors j I then were known, were showered with even conceivable honor and j | opportunity for living in luxury ever after. ' the sons, Harry and Bobert M. Fritzinger, owed inheritance lax in the sum of $13.03. Real Estate Transfers Frank Ketelium et al to Bobert 11. failson, farm in Jefferson township, for sl. t'hancpy von Guilder to William i Strahin. lots £22 and 223 ip Decatur, for $2,300. Charles Henry Zwick to Dawson F, | Seemnn, 120 acres in Bcot township for $7,319.84. Dorns Warling etux to Charles Arnold. lots 3 and 4 in Preble, for $3,000. C. Arthur Krugb to Calvin Coppers, lot 403^in Decatur, for $1,900. Berne Artificda! Stone company to Gottschalk Supply company, part of lot 364 in Berne, for $2," 50. Herne Artificial Stony company to Gottschalk Supply company, part of lot 364 in Borne, for SI,BOO. George A. Adler to C. Arthur Krugh lots 4 and 9 in Beiimont,Gardens for sl. , Fred Beppert to George Adler, lots I 1 and 6 in Beiimont Gardens, for sl. . 0 ’ Fort Wayne Schools To Drop Course In Spanish , Fort Wayne, Ind„ Apr. 17. —(U.R)i— Spanish should be dropped as a sub- ? ject in school here, the board has de--1 cided. It replaced German at the •> time of the World war, but the board i has decided that hereafter only Gerf man and French will be taught.

GOLFERS ANXIOUS TO SWING CLUBS The Decatur Country Club opening I which was postponed last Sunday hecutise of Inclement weather, will lie held Thursday, April 19, it was announced today. The golf course will lie opened Thursday morning and will renuiit open for the rest of the season, according t.i William Egan, superintendent of the course. The entire course D in the best of shape, and It Is expected that the Conn try ('lull will Ih*u busy place all summer. A few of the holes have been changed lu older to make the course more inlet est ing, and cttli members are j anxious to get tiieir dubs Into n..! Thursday. Caddies are asked (o teport immediately after school Thursday, at which time badges will he Issued. The Club Is in need of a few more caddies and any boys who wish to apply for the jobs ate asked to Inquire at the Club so: William Egan. A Clew of men Is working each day on tin* course, and it is the present i plan to continue the ctew all summer, j in an effort to keep tlie course iu good shape all year. INDIANAPOLIS— Frank Lockhart, taco driver, is enrnute to Daytona Beach to make another attempt to regain for America the world automobile speed record now held by Cant. Malcolm). Campbell of England. He will use the same Black Hawk Special In which he was injured on the hi-ach several weeks ago. NEW YORK—The success of Andy Cohen, Jewish infielder, has led John J. McGraw. manager of the New York Giants, to sign Jack Levy, pitcher.

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BLAST VICTIMS LAID TO REST West Plains, Mo j. West Plains will hold a funeral service toduy t„, nnil "% edy. . flr * trig. In one pint i„ n ak , the charred bodies „f t! , vi ..„**”*» he buried. Later u monument will*!! erected to their memory b * A coroner's Jl,, stinted its investigation ( , r ' * and leveled half „ hi... k nf Although the ,lym,,n, U ,. lll(M 'jj- | was tetalned by m„,t , f lllH |ouri Insepection bureau. wl„, >d the ruins. Will tell th „ j ™‘"’ : he believes the explosion was by gas fumes in the basemen, 0 garage below the dance |, a |j Prosecuting Attorney || j, r , brieves that J. \Y Wiser, Un* J jthe garage, became mentally „„J -a.iced by 111, uncial w ani| ™ t“f * h ? building dynamite „ I nitroglycerine. Wiser w.,s Killed i the blast. 24-Hour International Speed Race To Open At Indianapolis Tomorrow Indianapolis, Ind.. Apr. IT. ( n*> 'he 24-hour $25.0,hi international speed race at the Indianapolis speedway to. morrow will he broadcast by station j WFBM it was announced here today The race starts at 1 p. m. Wed tiesday. The radio station will tarry bulletins on its progr, ,-s from 3 p. m until the station signs off.