Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1928 — Page 6

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TEAMS SELECTED FDD STATE SHOOT Fred Diihnqgh, of I.inn Grove, Benjamin Baumgartner, of Berne, ami Fred Schurger of Decatur, will represent Adams county at the state rifle sin ot to lie held at Fort Benjamin Hat;lson. June 11. for all members of the state vigilante organization, as a result of the try-outs held yesterday, southwest of Berne. The pistol team Includes Robert Mevill and Dan (Trile, of Geneva, and Leo Eliinger, of this city. After a series < f tryouts, the six men were selected to represent Adams county. Fred Schurger. Decatur attorney, ptoved to be the most versatile shooter cf Adams county's 25 vigilantes, he qualifying in both rifle and pistol campetition. In the rifle competition, there were four sepaparte contests, lying down, standing and rapid lite at 2mt yards and lying down at 400 yards. Out of a possible 100 score. Mr. Dubaugh scored 76 points. dividing high honors with Mr. Baumgartner, who garnered the same number of points. Fred Schurger was third with a total of 69. In the pistol fire, Schurger led the other qualifiers, with a total of SO. It was decided, however, that a contestant could be entered at the state meet in only one division, s:> Schmger chose to represent Adams county in the rifle competition. Mr. Nevill was second in the pistol competition. Grile was third and Edinger was fourth. The six men will go to Fort Benja-i min Harrison June 11. ami compete for' state honors. James Briggs, of Geneva I and Theodore Graliker. of Decatur, had ' charge of the contests yesterday. Rob-i ert gass, cf this city, acted as range ■ manager and scorer. Mere than half the members of the' county organization took part in the: shoot. It is said by local marksmen that the scores made yesterday are! considered good ones and the county ■ team will have a good chance to win I state honors if they shoot as well Jun.'' 11 as they did in their qualifying' rounds. o YESTERDAY'S HOME RUNS National League Player and Club Total > Ott, New York (2) 4 ■ Hafey, St. Louis, (1» - Bottomley, St. Louis (1) 4 Hornsby, Boston (1). 3 , Cuyler, Chicago (1) ;; Herman, Brooklyn (ll 3 American League None. The Leaders National—Bissonette, 6; L. Wilson, 5; Ott, 4: Hafey. 4; Bottomley. 4. American — Ruth, 12; Hauser, 8; Gehrig, 6; K. Williams, 4. League Totals National. 105; American. 98. o— i— LEADING major LEAGUE HITTERS National League Player, Club G AB R H Pet. Callagham, Cin. 24 70 11 28 .418 Grantham, Pitts. 28 101 19 42 .416 P. Waner, Pitts. 28 ill 26 44 .396 Hornsby, Bos. 27 95 20 37 .389 Ott. New Y. 11 65 11 25 .385 Leader a year ego today, Harper, New York, .390. AmcricaY League Player, Club G AB R H Pc'. Kress. St. Louis 27 96 19 38 .396 Ruth, New York 27 93 35 35 .376 Hale, Phila. 24 88 18 33 .375 Fonseca, Cleve. 22 S 3 li 31 .373 Miller, Phila. 23 83 11 30 .361 Leader a year ago today, Miller, St. Louis, .446. -30 30 Bluffton H. S. Boys To Attend Football Camp Bluffton, May 19. —A squad of thirty athletes of the P. A. Allen High school has signed up for the spring football ramp acording to an announcement made this afternoon by Coach Louis E. Means, Camp will be held at Epworth Forest, Lake Webbster, again this year. Th se who have signed are Lloyd Rom'ne, Lester Kteigh, Herald Penrod, i! '"old Lee, Jack Kilty, Chalmer Tome i, Kenneth Pyle, Gerald Lantis. A .her es, Keneth Swigert, Jack Hemic" Wendell Costello, Clifton dner, Charles Day, Jack Spade, Robert Hesher, Robert Barrington. FranciswHigh, Ralph Stevens, Woodrow Neff, Dick Waugh, Dalits Harris, W. Hesher, R, Tappy, J. Nute, Melvin Gerber, William Grove, Har Id Stair, Wendell Van Horn and Calvin Smith. o St. Louis, May 19. —Chuck Wiggins, Indianapolis heavyweight, was suspended here for 30 days for fouling Jack Detnave of New York in their bout Thursday night. Chicago.—Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, long distance swimmer, began an attempt to break the world's endurance record in the Lincoln Park pool here. The present record is 46 hours.

Last Hope - 1 - r Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, of Phil-1 ’ adelphia, was the last hope of America in the women’s British open I golf citampionship, lint she was elim t in itin Hie semi-finals. STANDINGS Central League W L Pt . I Erie 13 10 .565 j I Dayton 13 11 .542 , Spiingfield 12 10 .545 , | Akron 11 10 .524 i I Fort Wayne 12 11 .522' Canton 6 15 .286 National League W L Pct. I Chicago 21 12 .636 Cincinnati 20 13 .606 : St. Louis 18 13 .581 New York 14 11 .560 Pittsburgh 14 14 ,sm) Bicoklyn 14 15 .483 Boston 9 19 .321 P hiladelphia 6 21 .222 — American League W L Pct. | New York 22 5 .8151 Philadelphia*. 16 8 .667 Cleveland 19 13 .594 I I Boston 13 15 .464 ; ' St. Louis 14 18 .438 i i Washingion 11 16 .4(171 I Chicago 11 20 .355 ' Detroit 12 23 .343 — American Association W L Pct.' . St. Paul 21 12 .636 Milwaukee .... 20 13 .606 Indianapolis 18 13 ,581 Minneapolis 18 14 .563 Kansas'City 18 14 .563 Toledo 15 18 .455 Louisville 13 19 .406 Columbus 8 25 .242 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League Akron 7; Fort Wayne 1. Canton 9; Dayton 3. Elie-Springfield, postponed. National League Pittsburgh 6; Philadelphia 4. Chicago 3; Boston 1. Cincinnati 7: Brooklyn 6 New Ycrk 10; St. Louis 6. American League All games postponed, rain. American Association St. Paul 6; Kansas City 5. Milwaukee 3; Minneapolis 2. Toledo 2; Louisville 1. Indianapolis-Columbus, rain. o Watching The Scoreboard —(U.K)— Yesterday's hero—Melvin Ott, New York Giants, kid outfle'ders, who hit two home runs* and helped the Giants break their losing streak by beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 10 to 6. Ott’s first homer came off Alexander with Roush on base and the second off Littlejohn with none on. Artie Nehf held the Braves to live hits, and the Chicago Cubs won their twelfth straight victory. 3 to- 1 Hornsby’s homer was the only run made off . Nehf. Kiki Cuyler returned to the Chicago lineup after several days absence with an injured hand and hit a homer. Paul Waner had a perfect day at bat —three hits in three trips—as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 6 o 4. Jumbo Elliott faltered in the eighth inning and the Cincinnati Reds scored I five runs and beat the Brooklyn Role ; ins. 7 to 6. Ethan Allen, Reds’ center fielder, made four hits in four limes at bat, one of them a double. , o ’ THE BIG FIVE • Hornsby 27 95 20 37 3 .389 Ruth 27 93 35 35 12 .376 , Gehrig 27 99 25 34 6 .343 . Cobb 24 103 14 35 3 .340 . Speaker 24 102 15 26 1 .255 Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay*

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1928.

DUNDEE WINS FROM EVANS Van Wert, 0.. May 19—Billy Evans colored boxer of Van Weil losj the decision to Al Dundee of Mansfield in a fast 10-round bout here last night. Dundee won six rounds while four were even. Dundee cairied the fight all the way and showed exceptional speed against the colored boy. He landed sevetul damaging blows but Evans took the Mansfield boy’s punches without backing away. Evans put up his l»est show Ing in the last two rounds when he tried haul to land a knock out punch. I Dundee won the third, font th. sixth I eighth, ninth and tenth rounds. The | first, second, fifth and seventh were | even. Billy Evans stated after the bout that he would enter the insurance bni siness at Dayton and did not expect to I enter the ring many more times. A I capacity crowd saw the bout. A. II Nipkey refereed the two preliminaries I while Roy Schaffer refereed the’ last two bouts. Harry Long was the announcer. o — Cross-Country Race To End Next Saturday Night By Leland C. Lewis, INS Special Corersponden,t Wellsville, N. Y„ May 19. — C. C. "cross-Country” Pyle's battle of two thousand blisters will officially terminate at Madison Square Garden, New York City, on Saturday night, May I 26. the 55 survivors of the grind were told before they started today for Bath, their seventy-seventh control, | 51 miles east of here. Andrew Payne, Oklahoma farm boy. I still leads the pack with an elapsed ■ time of 503:57:112 for 3,044.9 miles. ! Nineteen hours, seventeen minutes. | eight seconds behind him is John I Salo, Passaic. New Jersey Legionnaire . Phillup Granville, Jamaica negro of Hamilton, Ontario, is third. Roy McMurtry, one-armed Indianapolis youth, stepped into twelfth place. The total elapsed time of John Stone, of Marion, Ind., is now 771 114: 08. His time for yesterday's run was 16:15:25. 0 —_— ■

* WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*.?•¥ -(U.PJ— Kiki Cuyler, Cubs- Hit a home run in the three trips ami scored a run. Rogers Hornsby, Braves—His home run accounted for the Braves’ only run. He also made a single in three trips. Paul Waner,. Pirates—Got a triple, double and single in litre trips, scored two runs and drove in one. o Roy Anadell Represents I). H. S. In State Meet Roj- Anadell, star all-around athlete of Decatur high school, carried the colors of the local school to the state high school track and field meet, al Indianapolis today. He was to be entered in the 440-yard dash, having qualified for the state meet last Saturday when he won second in that, event at the sectional meet in Fort Wayne. Coach Herb Curtis and Carl Gerber accompanied Anadell to Indianapolis the three motoring to the capital city Friday afternoon. o — COLLEGE BASEBALL RESULTS - — <U.R>— At Urbana—lllinois, 5; Notre Dame, 3. At Minneapolis — Ohio State, 11; Minnesota, (I. At Chicago — Michigan, 5; Northwestern, 2. At Manhattan —Kansas Aggies, 11; Oklahoma U., 0. Richey Wins L. E. Means Trophy At Bluffton H. S. Bluffton, May 19 — Robert Richey, school senior, was today awarded the L. E. Means trophy, a silver statue, bearing a basketball banner. Such a trophy is to be awarded each year to the senior with an outstanding record in two blanches of athletics. In addition to participating in two major sports he must have a high standing in scholarship and must be active in other school activities, and must have a good general school attitude. The school council and the principal make selections. 0 Detroit, Mich., —Jack Dundee, welterweight boxing champion, and George Levine of Brooklyn were suspended indefinitely by the Michigan state athletic board of control after the fight between the' two had been declared “no contest’’ Thursday night.

Contender -, T-r." • i ' * - JB - t Napoleon Jack Dorval. Jack Kearns’ new heavyweight championship hope, looms large as an opponent for Gene Tunney as a result of his fight with Otto von Porat at Chicago, in which Dorval was given the decision. Mandell-McLarnin Bout Delayed Again; Monday Night Is New Date Set Ne v York, May 19. —(U.R>—The lightweight championship bout between Sammy Mandell and Jimmy McLarnin scheduled for the Polo Grounds tonight was postponed again today because of cold weather and rain. ' It wiil be held Monday night.

FARMER ALMOST BLEEDS T 9 DEATH Huntington, Ind., May 19.-(INS) -- William M. WAer, farmer living near here, today was slowly recovering after a narrow escape from bleeding to death. Weber, who was dehorning a calf, suffered a small cut under the chin when the animal jumped, striking the arm with which he was holding the dehorning knife. At night Weber awoke and found that his bedding was saturated with blood from an arterj' which had broken in the wound. Too weak to move, he was forced to cry out to other members of the family who were unable to hear his feeble cries until many minutes later.

ILL LUCK TRAILS i CAR CONDUCTOR Greencastle, Ind., May 19. — (INS)— Hal D. Titus, of Indianapolis, conductor of the Union Traction company interurban car which killed 22 members of the Indianapolis Sahra Grcttq. last October, was the driver today of an automobile which carried his wife, 34, and his four months ohl son, John, to their deaths in an accident on the National" road near here. The Titus car collided with a parked truck as the Titus family of six persons, including his mother, and a brother,-Thomas, were en route to Evansville. Mrs. Titus suffered a fractured skull and the infant buffered a fractured skull wnd abroken neck when they were thrown from the automobile to the paved road. Others in the car were uninjured. Frank Reed, Putnam county coroner was investigating. o Eyesight of Snakes Snakes do not actually go blind periodically. The belief that they go blind during dog days Is based on the fact that their eyes have a milky appearance shortly before the slough is cast. Thia, according to the United States biological survey, is due to the separation of the outer layer of. epidermis from the cornea. The vision is greatly Impaired while the snake is passing through this period. o Estimating Horse’s Age The age of horses may be rather accurately estimated by an examination of the. teeth. The time of eruption, the "cups” or depressions on the wearing rarfaces, and the form and direction of the teeth are all indicative of age at different periods of life.

THIRTY-NINE JOIN ACRE CORN CLUB Entries have been completed In the boys and girls' one-acre corn club, which was formed during the last six weeks. Tim Adams county one-acre corn dub has been In progress throughout the county during the last two years and Incteasing interest has been manifested each year. The enrollment of thlitv-nine members in this club is an indication of the success of the club in the past and the . increasing Interest that is being taken i in dub work from year to year. Practically all the members this ■year are using the same variety of I corn. An early matuiing. well bred variety was secured last/ year from the corn king pf the world, E. ('. Ttoyer, of LaFountaine, Indiana, and the members of the club are using this strain of corn on their club acres this spring. Most of the acre plots have now been planted and some verygood yields are expected. A schedule of prizes and awards will be announced vety soon. Those entering the club so far are as follows: Carl M. Lehman, Thearl Stults, Reuben L. Habegger, Harvey C. Habegger. Calvin Steury, Eli M. Schwartz, Dwight Green. Jacob Borne. Lawrence Blum, Tillman Nussbaum. Eldred Shiffetly, Sylvan Nussbaum. Ivan Huser, Lucy Graber. Thrueman Stults. John Schenck, Noah.J.Schrock.. Chalmer Reber, Robert Reber. Dan Habegger, Jr.. Noel C. Habegger, Rufus Mazelin, Roy A. Smith, Dessie Mazelin, Naomi Schwartz. Walter Barlett, Bertha Schwartz, Floyd Hupei t. Ruby Rupert, Glenn Rupert, Doris Laisure, Milo Habegger. Raymond MeAhren, Gerhart R. Schwartz, Helen Hirst hy, Kenneth Hirschy, Sylvan Habegger, Walter Hildebrand, Leo Nussbaum. o DERBY DAY BRINGS HUGE THRONG TO LOUISVILLE, KY. (CovriNVEn fhom pa«k osei day, probably will get away about 4:15 P. M.„ central standard time. Twenty-three horses remained cf the original list of 196 and scratches were expected to reduce this number to twenty. The entry list was reduced to 23 when three horses were scratched this morning because of the muddy I track. The scratches were Rumpelstiltskin. Mop Up and Dowagiac. Rcigh Count Is Favorite Re'gh Count* the splendid chestnut I eolt owned by Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago, was the ove; whelming favj orite. Thousands of dollars were being wagered on other horses, but most of it. was bet In the hope of beating the Hertz entries, Reigh Count and Reigh Olga. Millions of dollars depend on the

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