Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1928 — Page 8

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LETTERS GIVEN TOH. S. ATHLETES Athletic letteis were awarded l< the football, basketball, baseball and track athletes of Decatur hitch school, during the annual class day exercises held In the high school auditorium Thursday afternoon. The letters were presented by Coach Herb Curtis. Roy Amidell. senior, and Carl Gerher. sophomore, were the only ath’etes to win letteis in each of tlie four sports during the year just ended. Several of them won letters in three spoi ts. Eac‘h athlete who won a major letter this year was presented with a sweater. The athletes was given the privilege of (hosing the sport In which he wanted to be awarded a sweater, in case he qualified in more than one sport. The ahvaids made were as follows: Football Major letters: C. Reynolds, (captain l. Anade'l, Koop, Bell. D. Engle. Stone'mirner, Krick. Hill. Cole, Hilyard. Robert Kiess, Lewis Butcher, (Jerald Koos, Gerber. Minor letters: R. Butcher. Schnepp, Cable. Brown, Debolt. Km her. Waltei Kiess. Hebble Lankenau B. Butcher and Ray Holler. Basketball Major letteis: Anadell l c aptain >. C. Reyno'ds. Bell. Hill. Gerlier, Krick. Cole and J. Engle. Minor letters: D. Engle. Roop, Stoneburner. I. Reynolds, Shoaf. Debolt. Schnepp, Hebble, Kocher, F. Brown, Engeler. Beery, R. Heller, Schialuka, Parrish, Green. Zerkle Ostet man and Lankenau. Baseball Major letters: Be’l (captain), Gerber. Anadell. Passwater. Hill. I). Engle. Koop. Shoaf. I. Reynolds. Hebble. Minor letters: Workigger. Manlier. Schameiloh. Cable. Koos. Kocher, C. Reynolds and Ladd. T rack Major letteis: Anade'l (captain), Gerber. Minor letteis: Passwater. Bodie, Green. Hill, Cole, J Engle. C. Reyn olds. 1. Reynolds, Haubold and Hebble. YESTERDAY'S HOME RUNS Player and Club Season’s Total Ruth. Yankees (1) 14 Bottomley, Ca. Jinals (1) 7 H Im, Cardinals (1) 1, Gehringer, Tigers (1) li Lazzeri, Yankees (1) 1 The Leaders Ruth 14; Hack Wilson 9; Hauser 8 Ge hrig 7; Bottomley 7. Bissonette 7. Todt l>. League Totals National 123 A met lean 122. o Watching The Scoreboard Yesterday's Heio: Jess Petty. Brook-! lyn Southpaw, who pitched himself' hack into the good giaces of Uncle I Wilbert R binson by holding the New York Giants to thtee hits, the Robins, winning 3 to 0. The Yankees opened their crucial ■ six-game series with t ie Philadelphia i Athletics by spitting a double header ; Tony Lazzeri drove in six runs in the: tirsl game with two singles and a triple. The Yankees winning 9-7. Ossie I Ot wall pitched b. iliiantly, holding the I yanks t osix hits Pome runs by Ruth' and Lazzeri —aid the A’s took the sec-' end, 5t02. A c > 1 of 45.000 saw the two games. Flint (them checked the League-lead-1 Ing cincinati Red- and the st. Lou’s Cardinals won t eh fourth straight i game and meved within half a game of the top. The sc re was 7-1 Halm and Bottomley getting a home run each/ driving in five runs between them. Tile Chicago Cubs lost their four.th straight game as the Pirates broke their own losing streak with a 6-2 victory. Fothergill's double in the twelfth gave the Detroit Tigers, a 6 to 4 win over the Chicago White- S x. E ghteen hits failed to drive Sam Gray Lorn the box and. the St- Louis Browns beat the Cleveland Indians I 12 to 9. 0 Preble Nine To Play At Spencerville Sunday Preble, Mry 25. — (Special)—After a tw> v c s absence from the diamond U, - Preble baseball team will s \ tug im.) at Hon again Sunday afternoon. meeting the Spencerville nine at Spencerville. Little is known of the comparative strength of the two teams, but the Preble basketball team and the Spencerville quintet have had some close and interesting contests on the hardwood. Many of these players will meet on the baseball diamond, Sunday. The following players Are requested to report at Preble at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon: McDougal.. Schneider, Bogner. Corson, Hoffman, Lindeman. Durr, Werling, Busse, Gerber, Smith and Arnold. o Big Social Round Dance at Sun Set Sunday night.

Two-Mile Champion <i & ■ KjK &Wl I —■’'Wsld -’Y*'-'W®| >. wiKi dh h WW * ■' ?■ .<* - - . IBIHHHHMIHI Although the .smallest man competing in intercollegiate athletics, Bernard “Poco” Frazier of Kansas University, is the owner of a brand new record for the two-mile run. At the Missouri Valley Conference championships he negotiated ( the distance in nine minutes 38 3/10 seconds. • , (International Newsreel) bnkeesWT SPLIT TWIN-BILL By Les Conklin, INS S', iff Correspondent New York, May 25.-- Walberg and ■ }uinn and Pennock and Hoyt are I dated for mound duty in Philadelphia ,- ihis afternoon when the Athletics 1 ind the Yankees, who ate making a I wo-horse race out of the American < ' 'eague scramble, ( lash in another louble-header. They divided yesterlay's twin bill amid the cheers of a j record slowtown crowd of 42.000 and < I the groans of 10,000 who were unable S io get into tlie park. < Three Yankee pitchers Outlasted as ’ , many Mack twirlers in the opener, I which Signor Antonio Lazzeri won 1 - single-handed by driving in six runs. ' , The wonderful wop hit for the circuit * in the nightcap and Babe Ruth got I his fomteenth homer, but young Ossie Ctowl stopped the other Yankees and I George Pipgras. New York ace, lost - his first game of the season, the * i scores wete 9 to 7 and 5 to 2. f In the National league the Cubs, a ! pool road team, have lost four straight * I since winning thirteen in a row at 1 , home. The Si. Louis Cardinals. * | boasting a winning strerk of four ' games, have taken second place away from them. The Cubs were stopped vesterday by Burleigh Grimes of the Piiates, 6 to 2, while Flint Rhem pitch'd the Cards to a 7 to 1 triumph over ' iCiminnati. The Reds now lead St. [.ouis by only five points. Fast Cars Entered For Funks Speedway Races , Winchester. Ind., May 25. —Judging from the entries that have come in to date, the May 30 auto races at Funk's I ake, will exceed a’l former records. One of the early entries is tlie famous Clemens Cai t'-l which still holds the world's one-halt mile record of 26 1-5 seconds. Orr Bros., Kempton. Ind., are also in the early entry list with a Pontiac Special. This will be the fij,st Pontiac car ever entered here on this speedway Thomas Wall of Dayton. Ohio, has entered an Acme Special. Thomas is an old timer on the dirt track and is expected to give the boys a chance to look at his back. Every mail brings in more new cars. Everything is being put in condition foi a Idg day, some of the boys have begun to tune up and the rail birds have begun to try to pick the winner | which seems to lie quite a job as all the boys are showing unusual speed and skill. By May 30, the entry list is expected to swell from 30 to 40 ! cars, fast racing and keen competition almost assured. o—- > THE BIG FIVE , Player and Club G AB R H HR. Pct. , i Hornsby, B .ston 30 10$ 22 39 3 .368 I Ruth Yankees. . 34 118 40 42 14 .356 , Gehrig Yankees 34 125 33 44 7 .352 j i Cobb, Ath 31 i 33 17 44 1 .331 Speaker, Ath.. 29 120 19 34 2 .283

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PYLE PROMISES ' TO PAY RUNNERS Suffern, N. Y., May 25. (U.R) Grins spread across the faces of many of the bewhiskered individuals of C. ('. Pyle's cross country run today — grins that radiated belief they were about to come Into sizeable money. Yesterday many of these individuals weren't so sure. Frowns broke through the dust and grease of the toads. They jogged along slowly and thought about what an upset it would be if Hiey reached New York Saturday night and found out this 3,000mile run had been for exercise Hone. Managers got In touch with ('. ('. i Pyle, who is in New York. There J wasn't exactly a revolt, but they wanted Pyle to diplomacy to settle any disputes. "I'll pay the winners off in real money, not buttons." Pyle relayed. He also mentioned if the boys wanted to become "Bolshevistic” they could dtop out. but that the official clot kers would he on hand in New York Saturday night and those clocked as winners would bet money - the full $48,500 promised when this cross country venture seemed to be another Pyle bonanza. "It's still my race and 11l see it through," the promoter said. Tlie run from Middletown yesterday was won by Seth Gonzales, Denver, in 4 hours, 59 minutes and twentyseven seconds. Today they inn to j Passaic, N. J. Elapsed time leaders: 1 — Andrew Payne, Claremore, Okla., i 564.32:36. 2— John Salo, Passaic, N. J., 55204:42. 3 Philip Granville, Hamilton. Ont., j 605:53:43. 4 —Mike Joyce, Cleveland. O„ Gl9:19:20. 5 Giusto I’mek, Trieste, Italy, 632:- ! 79:12. 6— Kerr. Minneapolis, Minn., 639:40:03. 7— Louis Perrella, Al baity, N. Y., 646:52:36. 8— Ed Gardner. Seattle, Wash., 652:31:53. 9 Frank Von Flue, Kerman. Cal., I 654:19:22. 10-John Cronick, Saskatoon, 657: t M:M i o , STANDINGS < Central League . W L Pct. I | Springfield 17 11 .607' Dayton 18 12 .600 1 ( Akron-.. 15 12 .556: Erie 15 14 .517 ' , Fort Wayne 13 16 .448 ; Canton 7 20 .259 t National League ■. \V L Pct. ( Cincinnati 24 15 .615.1 St. Louis 22 15 .5951 Chicago 22 16 .579 t New Ycrk 18 14 .563 1 t Brooklyn 18 17 .514 : Pittsburgh 17 18 .486 : i Boston 11 20 .355 Philadelphia 6 24 .200 t American League f W L Pet. New York 27 7 .794 1 Philadelphia 22 9 .710 Cleveland2l 17 .553 St. Louis 16 20 .444 Boston 14 18 .438 Detroit 15 24 .385 ) Chicago 13 23 .361 € Washington 11 22 .333 * i YESTERDAY’S RESULTS t Central League , ' Dayton 9: .Fort Wayne 6. Springfield 15; Canto 11. ! Akron 7; Erie 6. i 1 National League Br. oklya 3; New York 0 St. Louis 7: Cincinnati 1. '< Pittsburgh 6; Chicago 2. • Only games scheduled. American League 1 New York 9-2; Philadelphia 75. p St. Louis 12; Cleveland 9. i Dettolt 6; Chicago 4 Washington-Boston rain. American Association Kansas City 11; Minneapolis 0. St. Paul 9; Milwaukee 5. Toledo 7; Louisville 5. Columbus 5; Indianapolis 1. o Rut.h Six Days, Seven Games Ahead Os Record New York, May 25.—(INS)—If Babe Ruth continues to hit home runs at the pace he has maintained thus far this season, he will have a total of 63,-three more than the record he set last year, his fourteenth circuit clout of the current campaign, made against the Athletics yesterday, puts him three home runs, six days and seven I games ahead of his 1927 record. | —-— o Chryaanthemuma The United States Department of Agriculture says that by seieeting . proper strains. It Is possible* to grow j chrysanthemums in almost nil of the states except the extreme North and hoi wind-swept section of the great plains.

Asks Relief From Court ■' I I i r " 7 r ' v ** a. ■st ittfkS \ « -j f 1 * jB - - > , —— - —•— - - Mrs. Ethel Cromwell, of Biidgeport, Conn., with three of her four ehiiI dren, appealed to the law to convict her husband of "breach of the peace” ; because he insisted that she ( 'ntinue to bear children after physicians had warned her that another child birth might cause her death. City Judge William A. Buckley refused to intervene in the case. Mrs. CronnVell is the mother nf thirteen children, of whom only four are living. The others have died through her being unable to provide for them out of her husband's meager salary. Prosecutor James Shannon (inset), of Bridgeport, has taken an active interest in the woman’s case and is seeking to find away out for the distracted woman. Fallowing a brief hearing in court Thursday, Mrs. ’Cromwell asked that her husband be released and the cottiple went home together.

************* * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * ************* Babe Ruth: First game up four times scored a run, got a single and drove in two runs. Second gameup three times, hit home run no. II and got a double. Lou Gehrig First Game, — Singled once in five times up, scored two runs and d ove in one. Second game—failed to hit safely in four trips. Ty Cobb’ first game got twi doubles I and a single in six times up and scored I one run. Second game—failed to hit safely in four trips. Tris Speaker, First game—Singled j twice in four times up, scored one ran | and drove in one. Second game -got j a double and single in three trips, driv-1 ingin three runs and serving one. Hairy Hellmann; singled twice in six times up. Paul Waner, wailed to hit safely in foul t: ips, but scored a run. o U. S.-China Davis Cup Matches Start Today Kansas City, Mo., May 25.— (U.R) — The American Zone Davis Cup matches between the Cnited States and China will begin here today. They wi'l last three davs. Although the American team was favored to win over its rivals from the Orient, the excellent form displayed by the Chinese in their practice games has,indicated that many of the matches will be c’ose. The first match brought together .John Hennessey of Indianapolis and Gordon Lum. Chinese player. The second singles match will be between George Lott. Chicago star, and Paul Kong. William T. Tilden 11, captain of the U. S. team, with Junior Coen, of Kansas City, will oppose Lum and Kong in the doubles tomorrow. Sunday will conclude the play beHERE’S CIGAR VALUE JLOR YOU Never Before Has a Nickel Bought Such a Cigar! Talk about the past and present o arc basing power of a nickel, here’s a buy that upsets all previous standards: Havaia Ribbon cigiT. Thirty years on the market! Produced by the millions today ! That and longstudied cigar-making have put value I into Havana Ribbon such as you’ve never before known in a five-cent cigar. And there’s something else: I Ripe tobacco. Imagine what a fine, mild, fragrant smoke that means! : No bitter under-ripe top leaves of ' the tobacco plant. No flat-tasting I over-ripe bottom leaves. Pure flavored Ripe middle leaves only. Long filler—that won’t come out in your mouth — same as used in higher-priced cigars. . . . You just can’t beat it for the money! Don’t dally—slip one nickel over ■ the counter and set yourself for a smoke you’ll want again and again. Better still, buy a ready-filled Practical Pocket Package of five cigars and be prepared for the longing that’s sure to come.

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