Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1928 — Page 6

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U. S. CUP TEAM TO HAVE TROUBLE By Davis J. Walsh, INS Sports Editor. New York. June 30. — Those who' have been dallying with the notion I that the Davis cup has been post-j marked, f. o. b. America, for July delivery may be interested to learn that a smart tennis man today offered to het ,100 against S2OO that the United States wouldn’t win a single match in the five comprising the challenge round. If this doesn't leave the 100 per cent Amerikaners aghast, then let it be recorded that Vincent Richards, former internationalist, declined to be a party to the bet. In fine, Richards thought more of S2OO than he did of America's chances of winning one match in five. The young man. having renounced amatourism in favor of eating dally, may be presumed to be in a position to speak his mind without restraint. The writer judged from Richards* remark that he, too, thought all too little of the chances of Tilden, Hennessey, Hunter and Lott in the challenge round with Erance, provided they get that far. They still face the necessity of beating Italy before they can qualify for the meeting with France. The writer was somewhat pained to learn that the discussion failed to consider America's chances for a team victory but merely for one victory. The boys seemed to regard this as quite a controversial point and I know Mr. Tilden, for one, will be delighted. He is fixing to play three of those matches himself. “Tilden will find the winning of Davis cup matches abroad just a little more difficult than winning them at home,” Richards said as he reached for the S2OO and abstractedly placed It in the sole of his shoe. “Besides, he has to beat Cochet and Lacoste 1 and that comes very hard, no matter j where you play them. If it happens to be in their own backyard, that is I just your hard luck. “As for the doubles, Tilden and I Hunter won at Germantown last j September but they never will be lucky enough again to catch Borotra i and Brugnon on such an off day. This ! pair never played so badly before or ■ since, yet they were able to carry the American team to five sets and possibly would have won if Borotra hadn’t i 'thrown' a point in a very critical , juncture because he thought a HHbkman had called a poor one against America in the previous rally. “I'm pulling for America just as strongly as when I was in there trying to help defend the cup. But this doesn’t blind me to facts. The facts here are that we will have gained one of those moral victories if we manage to make the challenge round close.” o THE BIG FIVE G AB R H HR Pct Hornsby ... 58 203 46 81 14 .399 Gehrig .. 64 243 63 87 16 .458 Ruth 64 223 75 74 30 .332 Cobb 63 258 32 82 1 .318 Speaker 48 174 27 45 3 .259 o YESTERDAY'S HOME RUNS Season’s Player and Club Total Koenig, Yankees (1) 3 Barrett. White Sox (1) 3 P. Waner, Pittsburgh (1) 2 The Leaders Ruth 30, Gehrig 16, Bottomley 15, Bissonette 15. League Totals National —286. American —258. o ■ * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * £ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥ (By United Press) Paul Waner —Hit a home run with the bases filled, his one hit in five times up. Frankie Frisch —Drove in two runs with two hits, one a two-bagger. Lou Gehrig—Two hits in five times at bat; struck out in the ninth in a pinch. Babe Ruth —Singled once in three times up. Ty Cobb—Helped the Athletics beat the Yankees with three safe hits. Tris Sneaker —Continued to warm the bench. Harry Heitmann and Rogers Hornsby were idle because of rain. o — Watching The Scoreboard (By United Press) Yesterday’s Hero: Lefty Grove, Philadelphia Athletic pitcher, who stopped a Yankee rally in the ninth by striking out Lou Gehrig and Tony lazzeri. The Athletics won 6 to 4. \ The Cincinnati Reds broke a losing streak by beating the Chicago Cubs 4 to 2. \The St. Louis Cardinals increased their lead to five full games by beating the Pittsburgh pirates 9 to 4. The Cleveland Indians won a 9 to 8 victory over the Chicago White Sox by a three-run rally in the ninth.

STANDINGS Central League W L Pct. Fort Wayne 35 24 .593 Erie 33 2S .541 Dayton 31 28 .52.7 Akron 29 28 .509 Springfield 29 .to 492 i Canton 20 39 .339 National League W L Pct. I St. Louis 45 24 652! New York 37 26 .5871 Brooklyn 36 29 .654 Chicago 38 32 .54:11 Cincinnati 39 33 .542 Pittsburgh 30 35 462 Boston 36 29 .554 i Philadelphia 17 43 .28 1 American League W L ret I New York 48 16 .750 Philadelphia 38 28 .576 St. Louis 36 41 .537 Washington 31 36 .463 Cleveland 31 37 .456 Boston 27 34 .44:: Chicago 27 39 .409 Detroit 25 42 .3731 American Association W I. Pct. I Indianapolis 43 31 .5751 Kansas City 41 33 .551 Toledo 38 33 .535 St. Paul 39 34 .534 .Milwaukee 39 34 .534 Minneapolis 37 36 .507 lamisville 31 42 .425 Columbus 25 47 .347 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League Fort Wayne 4; Akron 0. Erie 11; Springfield 2. Dayton 3; Canton 2. National League Cincinnati. 4; Chicago 2. St. Louis 9; Pittsburgh 4. I Boston at New York (rainl i (Only games scheduled.) ’ ■ ... 1 American League : Philadelphia 6; New York 4. 1 Cleveland 9; Chicago 8. Washington at Boston (rain). < St. Louis at Detroit (rain) < American Association Toledo, 2; IndianapolisO. ( Columbus 4-2; Louisville 3-3. j Milwaukee 5; Minneapolis 2. | Kansas City 9; St. Paul 3. , o | HELEN WILLS WINS AGAIN; I 11 Wimbledon, England. June 30 —(INS): —Miss Helen Wills this afternoon ell minated ancthei competitor for the 1 British Women's singles tennis championship, defeating Mrs. M. Watson. 6-3. 6-0. Mrs. Watson could not withstand Miss Wills hard drives. J. Drngnon and Henry Cochet defeated J. Crawford and H. Hopman, of Australia. 10-8. 6-2; 7-9; 4-6. 615 in the men's doubles this afternoon. In the fourth round of the men’s singles Baton H. L. De Morpurgo, of Italy, beat R. De Buzelet, 6 4: 6-2; 6-2. o Track Stars In Detroit For Olympic Tryouts Detroit, June 30 —<U,R)-- Facing a rain-sodden track, mote than 100 athletes of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois will compete in the preliminaries of the sectional Olympic track and field tryouts here today The finals will be held Sunday. Rain yesterday delayed opening of the track trials. The twc-day meet is a final roundout of rnid-western who seek to qualify for the final tests at Hardvard Stadium, July 6 and 7. when members of the American Olympic track squad will be chosen. Two I. U. Stars Present Bloomington. Ind., June 30—(U.R)— The 1928 track team at Indiana University today was represented in the sectional Olympic tryouts at Detroit by two men, Harold N. Fields, of Indianapolis, 1928 cross-country Captain and a consistent winner of Hie mile and two-mile runs, will enter the 5.000mAter grind, and Palmer Little, of Marion who placed third in the conference two-mile event, will enter the 3,000 meter steeple-chase. ILLINOIS MINE IS DYNAMITED \ • LaSalle, 111., June 30—(INS)—The La Salle carbon coal company mine No. 1 one of Illinois' largest coal shafts, was completely wrecked by dynamite at 1:30 o’clock this morning. The mine had been closed since the suspension some time ago. The shaft was to have been reopened Monday under the separate agreement signed by the operators and the newly formed mine workers union of northern Illinois. All equipment of the mine, officials said is completely wrecked.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1928.

FUNNER SALE I DRAWS CROWD Buyers Present From Six. States At Sale Os Noted Hereford Herd A large crowd of buyeis from six states were present, Fiid.iy, at the auction sale of the Fonner Stock Farm's herd of pine bled Hareford cattle, numbering 75 head, held at ttie farms north of the city. The entire herd was ! sold and the average price paid was *163. The sale yesterday marked the disI poisal of a held that has been in existence for more than 25 years and which has gained a wide reputation. I Animals from the Fonner herd have | been exhibited at state fairs and the I international Livestock Exposition at Chicago annually for many years and always carried away a large number of prizes. William Schrock, manager of the farms. Is recognized as an excellent judge of Herefords. The sale yesterday was held under a latge tent and arrangements for 'he sale hail been well taken care of by Mi. Schrock. All persons were seated j undei the tent. The auctioneers were I Col. Freil Reppert, of Decatur; Col. Roy Tyati. of Portland, and Col. Earl Wright, of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Buyers were present from Missouri, Illinois. Michigan. Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, including a large number fiom Adams and adjoining counties. The heaviest buyers were representatives of Si rails itrotheis, who ate starting herds on several farms in the vicinity of Col umbia City. o DECATUR JUNIOR BAND ITEMS —O — i Arline Becker, Editor I . Last evening, during the regular band rehearsal. Prof. Rice gave the members of the band a thorough workout on the rudiments of music, which included the major and minor scales. Mr. Rice introduced a new book called Union Exercises for Band Educator Book Two. The members of the band certainly enjoyed it and, or course, greatly needed it. I Since next Wednesday night comes - on the Fourth of July, the Junior f Band will be compelled to practice on 1 the night before, namely Tuesday < evening at 7:30 o’clock. Band mem- < bers. please take notice. i On next Thursday evening, the , Junior band will have a refreshment < stand. They will have for sale Ice I cream, drinks and smokes. We ask i the people to patronize our stand, i The money will be used to secure more music. Harold Zwick and Johnny DeVoss, two of our old band members, have returned to help uot the band. Boys, we are glad to see you back. The alto and clarinet seel ions were shining stars last evening. Watch the Junior Band grow. o- ■— German Professor Reverses Darwin On Origin Theory By International News Service Berlin —Man has not evolved from the animal. On the contrary, he evolves toward the animal the older he gets. This revolutionary theory, completely level sing the Darwinian doctrine, is propounded by Professor Schlndewolf, who explained his views before the German Society for Prehistoric Research recently. He finds that man cannot have descended from the animal because the specifically human characteristics have no counterpart in the animal world. More than that, he finds that early development of the individual, through does not tepeat the supposed ancestral animal forms, as was assumed hitherto. Quite to the contrary, says Professor Schindewolf. — o - lowa’s Yield Os Corn For 1927 Was Greater Than Any Other State By International News Service Des Moines la., lowa’s corn yield in 1927 again exceeded ail other states, according to a report of assessors made to the state department of agriculture, which gives 380,044,671 bushels as the crop for that year. The crop last year was 50 per cent greater that that of Illinois and exceeded by 30 per cent the crop of the nearest competitor, Nebraska. About one seventh of the total corn crop of the United States was produced in lowa, the report indicates. lowa raised 268,774 less acres of corn in 1927 than in 1926 and 332,937 acres less than in the peak year of 1925. Although the t eduction in 1927 seems large when expressed in acres, yet it amounted to only a reduction of 2.4 per cent of the acreage raised in lowa in 1926. o NOTICE No hunting or tresspassing op the Tony Voglewede and the Kohne Bros, farms. 154-2tx

Wins Bout From Giant Neffro Boxer jit ■ ?. S •*** k I J fc b,; ‘, fe' 4 Johnny Risko, the Cleveland baker, shown above, won a 10-round bout from ’he giant Alabama negro, George Godfrey, at New York. Wednesday night. His victory eliminated the last “black menace" among the challengers for the heavyweight crown now held by Gene Tunney. v*' FRANK GETTY (KU PttUS SPIMtTS SUtoa

Phil Ball, the flying magnate, who 1 travels hither and yon in his private airplane, has flown no higher this season than his own St. I.ouis Browns, : who have proved at once the most . experimental and the most surprising of American league baseball clubs. During the "hot stove league" season. last winter, the rotund St. Louis president decided that the time had come to do something about lowly |< Browns, who had been encumbering I the second division for lo! these many seasons. Together with Dan Howley, his! manager. Ball set out to clean house ! in away which made some of the; baseball experts gasp. Before the St. Louis management was through. George Sisler, Ken Williams. Elam Van Glider, Harry Rice, Milton Gaston. Sam Jones, and Bing Miller, supposedly fixtures with the Browns, bad departed to don aither uniforms. Some were sold and' others traded. Gray A Bargain In exchange for Rice. Van Gilder and Chick Galloway, who had been with the minors, St. Louis acquired Heinie Manush and Lou Blue. From the Athletics, they got Sam Gray, who has been pitching brilliantly this season and is in a large measure responsible for the tenacious hold which the Browns fixed upon a first division post. The real crux of the St. Louis experiment, however, was the acquisition of a new Keystone combination in Dudley Brannon and Ralph Kress, who had played side by side at Tulsa, Okla., the previous year. This is only Kress's second year in professional baseball, but his batting was one of the sensations of spring. Brannon, after failing to hit well as the start of the season, lias blossomed out as a slugger, while on the defense the St. Louis shortstop and second baseman are functioning smoothly. Earl McNeeley was obtained from Washington and has been playing regularly in the cntflehl alongside of Manush in center and Schulte, a holdover from last season, in right. Schulte was bought by Ball for *50,000 a couple of years ago, and is beginning to prove his worth. During spring training Dan Howley declared that his hopes were pinned upon the smooth functioning of his ■Keystone kids. "Make Or Break” "They will make or break me,” declared Dan. “It's the first division or the cellar, according to how those boys perform.” Thus far, it has been the first division. The introduction of a minor league Keystone combination is always a risky experiment, it has been axiomatic in baseball that an old head is needed on one side or the other of second base.* Miller Huggins won a pennant with the Yankees in 1926 with Mark Koenig and Tony Lazzeri, both new to the majors, performing brilliantly If somewhat erratically around the Keystone sack. Koenig was a wild flelder, but made up for this by his heavy hitting' and aggressiveness. Koenig and Lazzeri, of course, never *

—— had played side by side as Kress <ind Brannon did at Tulsa. Bucky Harris, manager of the Senaors, has attributed his club's disappointing showing this spring, to the tact that an old pair of hands was needed around second base. Harris himself was laid up and he believes that part of the trouble with the

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