Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1928 — Page 3

PANTHERS DOWN YELLOW JACKETS After a 9 run rally in the lam Inning )„ the Decatur high school Yellow jackets, the Portland Panthers camo back strung and scored 4 runs and walked away with a 17-16 victory in a free-bitting baseball game at Portland aftWnoon before a small shivering crowd of specatofw. The Decatur nine started strong and led for the first two innings, but Portland came hack in the third tn tie the score and then go ahead of Decatur in the fourth. The Yellow lackers gained a 3-run advpnthge, 1(1-13 in the last inning, only to have ; the Portland sluggers score four runs I and win thqjrame. Many errors were marked u>p against each side, Decatur making 12 and Portland, 9. The Yellow JackMs connected for 13 safe hits, ed by CMr her who got three to his credit, and Portland, led by flaunt with 4 hits, managed to connect for 11 safeties. Several local fans accompanied the 1 team to Portland to witness the game. Summary: Portland AB R H E Wehrly, 3b 5 3 2 2 Cummins, as £.3 0 2 Teeters, cf ' 3 2 1 flaunt, lb 6 4 2 0 Stroble, 2b - 4 112 Starr, If 4 110 foul son, rs 4 110 Schemenourcr, c 5 12 1 Hergman, p 5 0 0-1 Totals *” 43 17 11 9 Decatur AB R II E Bell, 3b p 4 2 11 Engel, cf -4 2 11 I. rf 5 110 HUI, If -4 11 1 Gerber, lb —.5 2 3 2 Passwater, c 4 2 2 2 Anadell, 2b 3 2 '2 2 IMhP. ss -... 4 2 0 3 C. Reynolds, p J, 11 0 Hobble. If Z.'3 11 & . — — — 5Totals 37 1« 13 12 Ded|hr 1 5 0 0 1 0 9—16 Portland 0 0 6 1 3 3 4—17 - • ■ - o ® STANDINGS Central League „ W 1 Pct. Dayton 3 w 1.000 Akron 2 0 I,o*lo Erie 2 1 .667 Fort Wayne 1 2 .333 Canton W. 0 2 .000 Springfield @,... 0 3 .000 iffir — «ipr National League W L Pct. Brooklyn 7 4 .636 New York 5 3 .625 St. Izntis •• • • 7 5 583 Chicago 8 S .500 Cincinnati 7 .500 Pittsburgh .7*5 7 .417 Philadelphia ... 4 6 .400 Boston 3 6 .333 American League W L Pct Cleveland 11 4 .733 New York 8 3 .727 St Louis 8 7 .563 Philadelphia 5 4 .556 Washington 5 6 .455 Chicago 5 9 .357 Detroit, 6 11 .353 Boston 4 9 .308 American Association W I, Pct. Kansas City 9 4 .692 Indianapolis 8 4 .667 St. Paul 8 ,6 .571 Louisville 8 6 .571 Columbus 7 8 .467 Milwaukee 6 8 .429 Minneapolis 5 9 .357 Toledo 4 10 .286 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Central League Erie, 4; Fort Wayne 1. Dayton 18; Springfield 8. Akron-Cantonj postponed o|’d. National League Brooklyn 9; Boston 0. St. Louis 4; Chicago 2. Cincinnati-Pittsburgh rain. New York-Philadelphia, rain American League Cleveland 10; Detroit 6. St. Louis 14; Chicago 5. Boston-New York cold. Philadelphia-Washington cold. American Association Indianapolis 9; Minneapolis 3. Louisville 3; St. Paul 1. Milwaukee 15;i Columbus 3. Kansas City 3; Toledo 2. o THE BIG FIVE Player G AB. R H R Pct Cobb 9 39 5 14 0 .359 Hornsby 8 32 8 11 1 -344 Gehrig It 41 9 14 2 .341 Speaker 9 39 5 10 0 .256 Ruth 11! 37 12 9 3 .243

Prehle Team Scheduled To Practice Tomorrow i The time worn adage, ’"The third | time is a 'harm’’, should give th" Pteble baseball teim an opportunity to Work-out Suntiuy afternoon. Alter > having heen kept off the diamond for : the last two weeks by Inclement w**a- • (her the entire squad is anxious to get i started Sunday on what promises to be t a very successful season. The Preble squad will meet the t Mooner A. C. of Fort Wayne in a . (practice game a week fr >tn next Sun- : day, May 6. q Mose TnylSsi, center fielder of the • Colored Giants is organizing a team I in Louisville, Kentucky, to bring to r Fort Wayne and they juWably will play at Preble soon after their return, t The management cf the Geneva i team is requested to write to the manager at Preble. o NEW YORK CLUB S I SURRENDER LEAD New York, April 2$. —(INS) —Uncle • Wilbert Robinson’s nephews, the - Brooklyn Robins, an>. the Cleveland : Indians are Wetting rne pace in the 1 bi<; league races today. The two .New 1 York clubs found themselves easijl ■ into second place when forced to ’ spend away of unprofitable idleness • yesterday. After being pounded foif/five runs ' in the first.inning, George Uhle camo to life and beat Detroit, 10 to 6 with 1 the aid of some murderous hitting by ’ the Indians. The Cleveland motl#d ace chalked up his fourth straight I victory and had a perfect day at bat 1 with three hits. Jumbo Elliott, ponderous pachy- ■ derm rjpbtained by Brooklyn from : Seattle, bore down wttji each and '■ every one of bis 235 pflnnds and held ' the Boston Braves to three singles, 1 winning 9 to 0. Bissonette, HenlfSw • and Riconda hit home runs. Seattle is getting to be a regular • cradle of baseball stars, • Big Ed > Brandt, of the Braves, another Seattle ’ southpaw, held Brooklyn to two hits” on Thursday. Paul Easterling of Detroit. and Purdy of Cincinnati, both hard hitting outfielders, also hail from Wie Washington city. Manager Robinson of Brooklyn, i like Dan Howley of the St. Louis , Browns, has transformed a collection 1 of discarded major leaguers into a ; strong team. Brooklyn players who i were cast adrift by other big time , outfits include Tyson, Bancroft, Hendrick, Bressler, Riconda, Hcnline. Vance, McWeeney, Doak, Statz. Carey, rieigau and Flowers. o * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * ¥•¥¥¥* i Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of the ; Yankees were id|e when rain and cold weather caused postponement ol the Red Sox-Yanke£'gami>. Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker also were ; idle due to general inclement weather ’ in the east which prevented the Sena- ; tor-Athletics contest. ; Rogers Hornsby of the Braves went , hitless in four times at bat. Kiki Cuyler of the Cubs got a single ; and sacrifice and scored a run in three ; credited turns at the plate. Harry Hellmann of the Tigers hit. a double in five attempts. Paul Waner of the Pirates was idle ; when ||ie Reds-Pirates game was rained out. YESTERDAY’S HOME RUNS —(U.R)— National League Player and Club Season’s Total ; Bissonette, Brooklyn (1) 2 Riconda, Brooklyn (1) 1 Henline, Brooklyn (1) 1 American League Manush, St Louis (1) 2 Hargrave Detroit (1) 1 Q Central Nine Hands Auburn 32-1 Defeat Fort Wayne, April 28 Central swamped Auburn in a five inning conference game at tire stadium yesterday afternoon by a,, score of 32 to 1. The Tigers hammered the ball to all corners of the lot and Auburn was helpless before this constant shower of hits, many of which were for extra bases. Six Tigers hit for the circuit yesterday. Brockall, Schwartz, Vincenski, Steinhouser, Lester and Jenkins slammed out home runs. © o Bluffton Tigers Lose To New Haven, 6 To 5 Bluffton Tigers met with their first i defeat of the season Thursday afternoon when Paul White’? baseball nine scored a 6 to 5 victory in a sewn inn- ; ing game played on the New Haven diamond.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. APRIL 28, 1928.

H. S, CONFERENCE GAMES CARDED The lemaining schedule for baseball games in the Northeastern- "Indiana conference has been announced by J. 11. .McClure of Angola. It has been decided that all games played between conference teams will count in the standing. The winner of the northern division will play the winner of the southern division for the conference title. The championship game will bo played al tae South Side stadium b'wrt Wayne May 26. The North Side has entered the conference and exjrects to be lejuesented in the conference track meet at Garrett, May 5. The lemaining conference baseball schedule follows: April 28 Bluffton at Huntington May 1 —Huntington at South Side. May 2 Central at Decatur. May I—Columbia City at Bluffton May 2—Angola at Kendallville. May 4—South Side at Kendallville. May 4 Decatur at Huntington. May B—HuntingtonB—Huntington at Bluffton. May 8 South Side at Decatur. May 9—Central at South Side, jl May 11—South Side at Angola May 11- Bluffton at Central. May 14 - Kendallville at Soiith Side May 15 Huntington at Columbia cityMay 15—Bluffton at Decatur. May 16 —Central at Kendallville. May 17 —Decatur at Angola. May 18 —Bluffton at "Columbia City May 22-sijr>ecatiir at Central. May 28—Angola at South Side. May 26 —Conference championship gtthie at South Side. May 29—Central at South Side — o d. Watching The Scorehoard The Bronklyn-Bostcn affray was featured by thtee homo tuns, Riconda, JJenline and Bissonette each getting /me. S im Gray, who pitched the St. Louis ]*owns to a 14 to 5 win over the Chicago Sox, featured the game with a double in third inning which brought irouia three runs. But for an error by Kress in the ninth. Gray would have shut out the Sox. It was Gray's fourth start in five days.

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HAGEN LOSES TO BRITISH GOLEER Mom Park, Eng.. April 28 (U.R) • Archie Cornpston, British pr.tfesslrfnnl today won his |3,75(t niatehAKith Walter Hagen, p. G. A. chant|>Mn of th*' United States, lx up and 17 to play. Hagen took the woijfi I room ing of his golfing career in the two-day cmtest which was heralded as the "Match , iay for the Championship of the World" The American was 18 down at th*' ending of the morning round, and agreed to quit. Later it was decided to continue play until Cornpston should win, which lie promptly did witlt :i half at the first hole after lunch. The rival professional then played an exhibition much to entertain the spectators who bad paid 33.75 for their tickets and who were rather dissat"kified with the onesided struggle. Compston played miraculously. In the first 36 holes yesterday he hail Hagen 11 down. He took four holes on the morning today, picking up three of them on the 1 first nine when he played the entire ' nine either in threes or £urs. He jticked up ancther hole on the incoming nine of the morning round. 1 The American's putting was bad and plainly showed the lack of winter practice. < # Records Fall At Drake Relay Carnival D*f Moines, la., April 28 (U.R)—Fair weather and ideal track conditions favored record-shattering jietformauces in the final and featured events of the Drake relay here today. Three new meet records wore es » tiblfshed yesterday in a pregram ( which consisted fflainh- of preliminaries and secondary soSool events. Today, with only the best of the original 2,574 entties remaining in competition several more .Clarks weie exjiected to f fall. The half-mile relay team of Morningside College. Sioux City la., made the [> first record setting a new lowa intercollegiate mark of 1:31:6. Simpson College of Indianola, la.

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dipped two tenths of u second from I the Intercollegiate one mile relay rci on! by ruijtjkig it In ,”,:29:3. The tbiiMruaik wa;. . uftihli hed '*v I Clarinda, la., high school whi<-h broke the 440-y ird class B high school r*'lay I record with a lime of 16 3 ocondx. Three Tigers' pitchers Hillings. | Holloway and VaitGilder were ham- 1 mered for a total of 16 hits by th"' Cleveland Indians who won 10 to *; I Thus replacing the Yanks in the fir-t place of the American League.

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