Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1928 — Page 8

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NO OUTSTANDING OUTFIT IN N. L. By George Kirksey, UP Staff Correspondent New York. June 7 (U.R) The baseball season is one-fourth completed anti not a single National league club has flaunted any of the strong tendencies of a pennant winner. The league-lending Cincinnati Reds, after netting the pate since May 22. have lost two straight anil are slipp- , Ing back with the rest of the pack. | The St. Louis Cardinals are being i mentioned in select bast-bull circles as the team that must be beaten to t win the pennant. The New York Giants are hanging tenaciously to the leaders. It is difficult to understand what's keeping the Giants up with Roush and Jackson batting around .270 and the infield going sieve ill too frequently. Only live games separate the Reds I In first place from the Robins in fifth p'aee, as the standing shows: Team W. L. Pct. I Cincinnati .72 lit .627 I St. Louis 28 lit .596 • New York 25 17 .595 l Chicago 28 21 .571 Brooklyn 24 21 .53.7 I The Philadelphia Phillies is the ■ only club not a contender tor. the National league flag. Even the Bos ■ ton Braves in seventh place ate far from out of the race. The Braves have lost only six more games than I the Reds, but having played ten less ; are therefore ten and a half games behind the Reds. Looking for the secret of the Reds, one does not have to go farther than Hughie Critz and Horace Eord. the . second base combination. Their sen- i sational fielding has pulled the Reds out of many a tight place. The Reds have made 76 double plays so far. F0.,1 and Critz executing most of ' them. Although the Cardinals have not held undisputed leadership of the league this season, they seem headed towaid the peak. The main rockets , in the St. Louis drive are Frankie ■ Frisch, Jim Bottoniley and Taylor Douthit. Batting .373 Douthit leads i the league in hits with 77. Bottom ley, with a batting average of .370. I leads the league in runs with 43 and is second in runs batted in with 40. i one 'ess than Del Bissonette of the ! Robins. With Kiki Cuvier and Woody Eng ' lish riding the bench, the Chicago Cubs seem to be getting along fairly I well. Hat k Wilson is playing great ball and the pitching has been good o * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * —(U.R)— Babe Ruth: Failed to hit safely in | four trips. Lou Gehrig: Got two singles and a I double in five times up, scored two ' runs and drove in one, Ty Cobb: Singled three times in j 1 four trips, driving in one run. Tris Speaker: Got a sacrifice in • four times up. , Watching The Scoreboard —(U.R)— Yesterday's hero: Clarence Mitchell, veteran spltba’l pitcher who recently was relet-: -d by the Philies after the othe- fifteen major eague I clubs had waive J on him, relieved G-over Cleveland Alexander in the | third inning and held the New York Giants at bay while the St. Louis Cardinals ra'lied to win, 11 to 6. Without a baseball job Monday, Mitchell accidentally caught on with the Cardinals and in his first assignment demonstrated that there is still a lot of good pitching left in the arm called lame. The Giants made only three hits off Mitchell in seven innings. Del Bissonette hit his tenth home tun of the season and the Brooklyn Robins cut the Cincinnati l?eds down. 8 to 5. The homer came with two men on in the seventh. George Uhle's spell over the NewYork Yankees was broken as the world champions hammered him out of'the box in the fifth, winning 8 to 3. I Sam C iy mastered h|s former tear, n es and the St. Louis Browns ben* the Philadelphia Athletics, 5 to 2. Tt was G-ay's ninth victory of the tease i. The Chicago Cubs defeated the P1.i1a... Iphia Phillies, 5 to 3. O Boys and Girls The president ot a depart inent ol education, enunciated a great educa llontrl truth at a luncheon In New York the other day He said: “Give a girl too much to do and she breaks down. Give a hoy too much to do and he doesn't do It " o % Hard Luck A girl lately told me that for months she will huge no beau; lint ns soon as one appears, two or three others Show up. And usually the three or four wrangle with each other, and all quit.—E W. Howe's Monthly.

STANDINGS . CENTRAL LEAGUE W. 1,. Pct Springfield 24 16 .600 Akion 2'4 16 .579 Dayton 21 19 .525 I Erie 21 20 .512 iFoit Wayne 20 2o .500 Canton 11 28 .282 NATIONAL LEAGUE —. y W. L. Pct Cincinnati 32 18 .610 St. Louis 28 19 .596 New York 25 |7 .595 Chicago 28 21 .571 ' Brooklyn 24 21 .533 Pittsburgh 20 25 .414 Boston 17 25 .405 Philadelphia 7 31 .171 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct New York 37 8 .822 Philadelphia 27 16 .628 Cleveland 21 23 .511 St. Louis 23 24 .489 | I Boston 16 23 .410 D noit 19 28 ,|o| : Chicago 18 29 .383 'Washington 15 27 .357 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION • — 1 W I* Pct I I St. Paul 30 21 .5,88 Kansas City 29 22 .569 Indianapolis 27 21 .563 Milwaukee 28 22 .560 i Toledo 26 21 .553 Minneapolis 27 22 .551 Louisville 15 32 .319 Columbus II 39 .264 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League Canton. 6; Dayton. 5. Fort Wayne at Akron, rain. Erie at Springfield, rain. National League St. Louis, 11: New York. 6. Brooklyn, 8; Cincinnati. 5. Chicago, 5; Philadelphia. 3. Pittsburgh-Boston, rain. American League New York. 8; Cleveland. 3. St. Louis, 5; Philadelphia, 2. Other games postponed, rain. American Association Indianapolis, 2; St. Paul, 1. Kansas City. 9; Columbus, 7. I Other games postponed, rain. o . YESTERDAY’S HOME RUNS Season’s I Player, and Club Total I 1 ! Bissonette, Brooklyn (1) 111 Lindstrom. Giants (1) 6 Cy Williams, Phillies (1) 4 Brannon, Browns (1) “I 1 The Leaders Ruth 19. Gehrig 11. Bissonette 10. Hack Wilson 9. Bottomley 9. Hauser 9, Hornsby 8. League Totals < National —178. i American —162. f o < THE BIG FIVE G AB R H HR Pc» t Hornsby 41 H 6 36 61 8 .41S Gehrig 45 167 42 59 11 .353 i Ruth 45 151 49 52 19 .344 I Cc.bb 40 169 19 53 1 .314 I Speaker 41 165 27 45 3 .273 1 o i BlylTton Athletes Pick I. U. For Future Schooling , - Bluffton, June 7.—(U.R)—Dale Ellen- , berger, star athlete in the Bluffton high school for the past two years, : is uncertain about attending college this fall, but has indicated that Indiana University is his first choice. Lawrence CTosbie and Garth Swigart. 1926-27 basketball captain, have signified their intentions of going to the . state school. o—. Ed Walsh. .Jr.. To Join Chicago White Sox Soon Chicago, June 6. —(U.R) —Ed Walsh, Jr.. 23, son of the famous White Sox hurler. w’ill join the Chicago American lea- ue team soon, it was learned today. “Little Ed ’ will come here from the east, wihere he is to icing with the Notre Dame baseball team. He has been the outstanding pitcher of the Irish nine for three years, having won 22 games and lost two. Young Walsh was coached by his celebrated father in 1926 and 1927, when the White Eux veteran had charge of the pitchers of Notre Dame. o —— Sympathy The building was on fire where a woman’s husband Is employed She called bei friend on the telephone to relieve tier anxiety. “Oil. Mabel, did yon know about the lire?" said the excited wife. “It it burns down Joe will be out ot a Job, and we will have to come and eat with you-.” “Well, I hope It don’t burn down." was the sympathetic reply o • Energy in Electricity The bureau of atandurus says th,.i electricity is simply a form of mo tion When electricity Is "used" the energy given out appears In some other form, such as heat m work ot some kind

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1928.

* ■ -—I I ■ , ■ H-11-I— , ■ —- • Defends United States at Tennis . » ■■■■MM’ i. \ 2** A.S X ■V-j rinse four tennis players have been hallling right are: John Hennessey, Junior ( .oen. George i contenders lor the right to play tu’aipsl the j ( ,u , tn( | Bill Tilden. The first three are hoys I Erencli Davis (’up team in the challenge round . of the annual tournament. They tlefealed Japan Ironi the Middle West and (.oen is the younges. ;.l the Chicago Town and Tt nnis Chib. Left to p’ayer Io makt the Davis Cup team.

Plsads Chinese J "U v’W \ T y x z r Dr. Chao Chu Wtt of the Chinese diplomatic service is in this country to place his country's position jn the present Far East crisis before the V. S. Government. He is shown here on bis atiival in New York. Track Athletes Gather For Meet At Chicago Chicago, June 6 —(U.R)— Hundreds of tra<?-< athletes —the pick of the country’s university and colleg ■ squads—arrived here today for the opening of the National Collegiate A. A championship at Soldiers' Field tcmoi row. Stanford, which won the eastern meet recently for the second consecutive year, was the favorite to capture the national title, although Illinois, Big Ten champion, was expected to give the westerners closet competition. More than 300 contestants from 29 colleges and universities were entered in the meet. The entry list inc'uded twenty-five teams which have won sectional conference championships. The preliminaries and trial heats wi 1 Ik? held tomorrow, the finals Saturday. • o Arthur Wemhoff Finishes Course In Vermont H. S. Several Decatur persons have received invitations to the annual commencement exercises of Northfield, Vermont, high school, from Arthur Wemhoff. son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wemhoff, ot Decatur, who is a member of the graduating class. The commencement will be held in the Savoy Theatre. Northfield, Thursday evening, June 14, starting at 7:30 o’clock. Arthur has enrolled in Norwich University, at Northfield, and will enter that school next fall. Norwich is a military school, where cavalry students are trained. Arthur will return to Decatur late this month and spend the summer here. While a pupil in Northfield high school. Arthur was a star on the high school basketball team, playing center. He formerly was a member and captain of the Decatur Caho’ic high school team. 0 — Made Proper by Usage Leading dictionaries do not recug nlze the word “penny” us the name ol our 1-cetd piece except us u colloquialism. Usage, however, pays little at tention to ttie dictionaries on this point and "penny" is now almost uni versa Ily' regarded as a correct name for a copper Lcent piece In American money. It has been so used by many good writers since the lieginning of our coinage system.—Pathfinder Maga zlue.

Woman Rides Horse On Merry-Go-Rround. A La Prince Os Wales Elwood, Ind., June (INS)— Suffering painful but not serious injuries Mrs. Walter Julius, local resident is tecoveiing from the effects of being thr. wn from n wooden wild horse on a metry-go-round, dining the Elk; fair here. Mrs. Julius did an a la Prince of ; Wales when she attempted to quiet 'her son Fiederick by tak'ng him in her arms when he became frightened. While lifting him from the hobby hotse he was riding to her own mechanical horse she Jest her balance and fell, her back striking a chain support of the carrousal. Mrs. Julius held her son in front of her when she fell and he escaped injury. o —— Pioneers m Army Music British military music liaiMts origin in the Grenadier guards. The first bund was raised by them In 1(185. The | Gremullers’ drum-mnjor wears the mos* -nw'ti uniform In 'lie army. _ c When It Strikes Home The expression "the long anil the short of it” Is oevei hettet understood than when a man tongs for money when he is short of it. DEMOCRATS ARE OPTIMISTIC OVER FALL ELECTION tcoxTixuen fhom pv-e onk> B'uffton to practice, remaining there until 1914 when he came to Indianapolis to become federal district attorney. As district attorney. Dailey scored heavily in the conviction of Mayor Donn Roberts of Terre Haute and a ring of democratic politicians there for election frauds and also cleaned //V New York Giy ' Convenient to Every- , thing You'll Find THE HOTEL BRISTOL I29WEST4ff*ST. Comfort, Cleanliness Convenience Food of Excellence RATES •3 per day for One; •5 for Two (with bath) Ovmenhip = Management "I T.ELLIOTTTOLSON

out another corrupt gang of his own ' patty in Indianapolis during the ’ Joseph Bell administration. Later President Wilson named Dailey as special prosecutor of former United States Senator Truman Newberry of Michigan. Dailey obtained Newberry's conviction of election frauds in the Michigan court but the decision was reversed by the United States sup. erne court, however, evidence gathered by Dailey and revealed in the trial probably motivated Newberry to resign his senate seat. I iter, Dailey gathered ♦ evidence concerning the 1. W. W. activities in Chicago which led to the arrest of William (Big Bill) Haywood. Drake For Lieut.-Governor In a spirited three-ballot contest. Addison Drake, of Sullivan, who was lemoi vatic floor leader of the house

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|of represeiltatlves In the 1927 legislature, won the nomination for Lieutenant Governor. The final vote was; Drake, 666; Fretl L. Felck. Garrett. 305; Robert B. Iloiighani, Franklin, 145. and Earl C. Crawford, Millon, 55. Aithur J. Hamrick, of Greencastle, beat Herman Weinke of South Bend to the tune of 719 to 436 for the nomination for secretary of state. Dr. George W. Sweigart, of East ; Chicago, won over a field of three other candidates for the nomlntalon for state auditor. State Senator Curtin Shake of Vincennes triumplled on the first ballot over John W. Kitch of Plymouth for

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