Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1928 — Page 6

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TONNErMAKES A PREDICTION 'Speculator, N. Y,, July 10 ■ iU.R) Cent) Tunney does not think hi* heavyweight championship hum with Tom lleeney til Yankee stadium, July 26 will no the limit of IS round*. "The fight ts very apt not to go IS round*." the champion told the Unit ed Press today, "with two big rugged fellow* like lleeney and me in there going alter each other, cne of us Is likely to ho stopped before the fin tsh. and I do not expect to lie that one." Tunney believes he is stronger, faster and hitting harder today than, he was in eithei of hi* two bouts against Jack Dempsey. Asked If he thought Ills long lay \ off from the ring during the past two years in which lie has boxed only Jo rounds in two bouts against Dempsey.! had proved injurious Tunney said: "The only way in which the layoff j lms hurt me is that I had troulde measuting my distance when I first started training übout two months ago. lint i am timing as good now us I ever did. By keeping away from the ring. I really helped myself in a number of ways. For one tiling, 1 gained strength and sharpened my mental powers for a hard contest like this one is sure to be." If the bout goes 16 rounds, Tunnel is not afraid of his endurance and is confident that lie will lie stronger over the Inst fi> e rounds than Heeiiev , Tunney impressed the largest crowd I that ever saw him work out at Specie | lator Sunday afternoon with liisj marvelous physical Condition. After the workout Tex Rickard, who hail not seen Tunney in the ring since the Dempsey fight at Chicago, said he was surprised at the champion's condition. "Tunney appears ready to go into the ring tonight to defend his title,” Rickatd saiii. "His problem now is to keep his fighting form until the night of the fight. If anything, the champion is a little too fine, I think." Roy Howard, president of the Scripps-Howrard newspapers. spent the week-end at Speculator, the guest' of Rickard. Sunday afternoon he made motion pictures of Rickard, Tunney and Billy Gibson. Tlie official contract for the title bout was signed Sunday by Tunney | and Gibson, and the chatnion gave' Rickard his personal check for $10,000! as a guarantee of appearance for the bout July 26. The contract and check will he posted with the New York state athletic commission Tues day. "Any man who can stay 16 rounds with Harry Orel) three times, as I have, can go 16 rounds with any fighter in the ring today,” Tunney said. "Oreb always was in there coming at you from all angles and you never had a minute's rest.” Tunney has engaged in five 16 round contests. He boxed fireb two 16 round bouts in 11)22, winning both of them, ami one 16 round l«out In 1922, losing the decision. He defeated Martin Burke, New Orleans heavyweight, in 16 rounds in 1921 and Jeff Smith tlie same year over the same route. l -o , Tommy Loughran Favored ' To Defeat Pete Latzo New York, July 16. —(U.R) Tommy ! , Loughran, light heavyweight champ- j, ion, preached today from an old, fam- j, iliar text. "I will knock out Pete Latzo to- I night," Loughran said. The champion has said that before. He said it before his bout with Latzo at Ebhets Held, Brooklyn, not long - ago. Latzo was not knocked out; he , lost on points. Loughran said it tiefore liis fights with Jimmy Slattery, Armand Emanuel, young Stribling, Mike McTigue and Leo Lomski. No one was knocked out. The people who will gather around the ring at Wilkes-liarra, Pa., tonight are almost certain that if there is going to lie any knocking out, Latzo will do the knocking. There probably won't be. Loughran is an 11 to 10 favorite. • O-i YESTERDAY’S HOME RUNS i ft Season’s Payer and Club Total Ruth, Yankees (1) 34 Gehrig, Yankees (1) 19 J. Sewell, Cleveland (1) 4 The Leaders Ruth 34. Hack Wilson 22, Bottomley 20, Gehrig 19, Bissonelte IS, Hornsby 16, Hauser 13. League Totals National 362. American—3o6. o THE BIG FIVE Players G. ftkTt R H HR Tct. Hornsby 74 269 66 103 16 .398 Gehrig 83 306 82 1)2 19 .366 Cobb 79 321 46 104 1 .324 Ruth 83 287 88 90 34 .314 Speaker 56 182 27 50 3 .275

STANDINGS Central League . | W L Pet. iKlle .9 < I Dayton 8 4 .66, I Akton ... 7 5 .683 Springfield 6 7 .462 ! Fort Wayne , 4 8 .333 i j Canton 3 9 .250 i i National Leayce W L I’d. j St. Louis 68 32 .624 ■ New Yolk 45 3.1 .577 I Chicago 50 31 .675 i Cincinnati 47 27 .660 1 Brooklyn' 44 36 .550 j Pittsburgh 28 40 .487 Boston 21 52 .312 i Philadelphia 21 54 .280 American League W L Pd. 1 New York 60 23 .723 Philadelphia 48 34 .585 I St. Louis 45 41 .523 | Chicago 39 45 .464 i Cleveland 38 46 .452 Washington 36 48 ,4"b ; Host' n 33 47 .412 Detroit i 33 48 ,407 American Association W L Pi! Indianapolis 63 27 .58}) St. Paul 50 42 .542 Minneapolis 60 42 .538 Kansas City 48 42 .533 Toledo 47 43 .522 Milwaukee 47 45 .51! Louisville 27 53 .611 Columbus 32 58 .356 f I YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Central League Akron 5-S; Foil Wayne 4-0 Erie 2 6; Springfield 5-3. Day Won N-7; Canton 4-5. National League New Ycik 2; Cincinnati 1. Chicago 6: Philadelphia 3. Brooklyn 3; St. Louis 1. Only games scheduled. St. Louis 6; Washington 4. New York 3-6; Cleveland 0-4. Only games scheduled. American Association Kansas City 5-9; Columbus 0-4. Louisville 9 4; Minneapolis 2-7. Indianapolis 7-3; St. Paul 2-4. Toledo 7-6; Milwaukee 9-1. . 4- ■ ■—— SATURDAY’S RESULTS Central League Spiingfield 7; Erie 3. F. it Wayne at Akron (rain) Dayton at Canton (Rain) National Leagi * New Yo.k 4; Cincinnati 2. Pittsburgh 15;_Boston 6. Chicago 10-3; Philadelphia 3-2. Brooklyn 5; St. Lcills 2. American League Chicago 11-11; Boston 4-2. St. Louis 4; Washington 2. Detroit at Philadelphia (rain)Cleveland at New York (rain). Milwaukee 7; Toledo 4. Columbus 3; Kansas City 1. SI. Paul 5; Indianapolis 3. Minneapolis 17; Louisville 6. Watching The Scoreboard (By United Press) Yesterday's Hero — Fred Fitzsim-j mons, Giant pitcher, who held the Cincinnati Reds to six hits and lilt a double in the eighth innings to win Ids own game 2 to 1. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig cami out of a hatting slump and hit a homo run each in the second game of the double-header between the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians. It was Ruth's 34th of the season and Gehrig's 19th. New York won both games, ;’> * to 0 and 6 to 4. Doug McWeeney’s "buzz ball’’ was working perfectly and the St. Louis j Cardinals oonild gel only six hits off | of him. The Brooklyn Dodgers won 3 to l and tightened up the National league race. The St. Louis Browns went twelve innings t get a 6 to 4 victory over tlie Washington Senators. Each team used three pitchers. The Chicago Cubs continued their winning ways, ghalking up their sixth stiaight victoVy at the expense of lbe Phillies 610 3. Each team got 11 lilts, but Philadelphia could get bunch t heir's. ,Q Gene Plans To Fly To Scene Os Flight, July 26 Speculator, N. Y., July 16—(U.P.) Gene Tunney announced today that he would fly from Speculator to New York on the morning of July -26 for his heavyweight title bout will) Tom Heeney. It will lie first time in the history of pugilism I hat a heavyweight chamP'on has flown from his training camp to the scene of tlie fight. Tunney flew from Stroudsburg. Pa. to Philadelphia in 1926 for his bout with Jack Dempsey, before ho won the title. Tex Rickard was a little perturbed over Tunney’* announcement. "I guess its all right if lie gets u good pilot." Tunney ho|kes to get Commander Byrd to pilot the plane. *

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1 GEORGE SOUDERS :| SERIOUSLY HURT Del. oil. July 16 — (U.R) George i, 'Bonders, Lafayette, Ind., passed a fair--1 j |y eomfortulde nigh* and may recover 7|tiom*the Injuries ho suffered in tile .. pm mile Knight Templar sweepstake:; 2 ! auto race here yesterday, hospital at- ' | tendants said today. d i Souliers, who won lust year's 50o- ! mile Indianapolis nice, was touring 'around the north turn at the state fair mile dirt (lack when 'lie state auto ■* insurance special skidded and overy turned, hurling him out of tlie cur ’ into the rail, lie suffered a fractured " : left arm, numerous cuts and u possible 1! fracture of the skull. ‘ The former Purdue student had led the race until forced to the pits. He was rapidly-regaining the lap he lost I when tlie accident occurred. Howard Taylor. Flint. Mich., ilriv- , |ng a front drive Arunemn Special. -I mol the ioce in one hour, 22 minute* . and .0067 seconds, an average of 73.- ( 1707 miles an hour. Size Os Racing Motors Will Not Re Changed Indianapolis. Ind . July 16 The piston for m tors in the an- > j nual 600-mHe race w ill lie the same | ; in 1929 as it has been since tlie race > in 1926. That much was decided at i ■ meeting of the Stockholders and the ; '| Board of - Directors of the Indianapolis ' Motor Speedway Corporation week* It has been oust innrv to change the : : displacement eveiy three years, and i under this rule there should he a change in 1929. but the speedway of- | i ficials decided that for the present the j displacement was low enough. The! 91 L cubic inch class came into being in the 1926 500-tulle race, which Frank ( Lcckbart won. Previously to that the j 122 cubic inch motor held sway in 111 • | 1923. 1924 and 1925 races. It has been realized that the displace j ment was getting as low as was prat - j tlcal for the present, and that the i automotive Industry could not profi' i by the change in a smaller motor. All i the changes from the huge motors of ; rher days have been made to espe- j dally benefit the industry. Another decision of importance (hade at t he meeting spiked the rumor , that the supeichaigi r would lie lmnnf ed ill Speedway races ; f the future, i No mention was made of this question j in the meeting and this assure* that I iheie will lie no change at least for the 1929 race. — o — ammmmmmmmmmmmmmm—a ICJolf Tennis Sport Fever Hasebnl! Swim mi no, 1 Leigh Bowen says he doesn't see why they built the fairways at the Countiy Club golf course, since no one uses them. In other words I,eigh thinks that Decatur golfeis are “rough” players. Sunday was a gn at day for golfing. Xppnrently, most every no who owns a dub felt the same way about it. Decatur golfers made a nice showing Sunday afternoon. In balding the experienced Huntington team to a onepoint will. After tlie locals get a little more practice and experience, they will take no back talk from any club in this pa; t : f the state. Kenneth Farris, athletic ilirocto” and coach of Fo; Hand high school, is attending a school for coaches at the University of Michigan. He is studying football under Fielding H. “Hurry Up" Yost and Elton E. "Tad ' Welman; Basketball under Ge: rge Veenker, ind I baseball under Ray Fisher, former I New York Yankee huiler. Tlie Huntington Country Club Golf j team defeated the players of the local golf club yesterday, 21-20, in an 1 interesting match which was not decided until tile last foursome li led j cut on the 18th hole. Young Johnny Owens, Huntington* crack golfer, burned up the local | course yesterday with a beautiful 76, 1 establishing a course record for IS li les. Youug Owens was matched against Chas. Knapp, who jvas low medal for the home team with an 88. An idea of the closeness of the match can he gained from the knowledge that the Huntington team took 1,566 strokes to the Decatur team's ' 1,667 strokes. Just one stroke difference in the 32 cards. Members of the local team will travel to Huntington on the after- ' noon of Wednesday, July 25, for a rei turn match with the Huntington golfers. Tho local committee hopes that ’ al least JO players wll lbe able to • make this trip. HunjUngtoh lately i defeated Iho crack Peru Country - Clnb team on their own course. ) l On next Sunday, about 60 players ■ will tee off at the local club, for the qualifying round of the Rice Hotel I Handicap trophy meet. This <plav will lie over 18 holes anil the low 16 :i cards will qualify for the 36 hoes play-off on July 29. A list of eligible r players will be run in this column this week. / »

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Harry Blitmnn's shadow lit across | Mu* path of Tony Canzoneri, world's! | featherweight champion. Practically unknown a month ago. , Blitman is now the leading challenger for the 126-pound championship, j lit ought along couti tisly'by Max (Boo| Boo) Hoff, 'Blitman surprised the fistic , wot Id when he defeated'Canzoneri in a in-round bout at catchweights bei re 15.000 persons in the Philadelphia National League baseball park on the i night of June 27. Only the insistence of Sammy Coldman, Canzone; i's manager, that the fight be at catch weights savin the little Brooklyn Italian's title for .him. Weighing 128 pounds, two pounds over the divisional weight limit. Illithman have Canbo;eri a sound thrashing,, winning the judges' decision. "From messenger boy to uncrowned featherweight champion, is Hoff's own title to the story of Blitman's career. Three yeats ago Blit man was a delivery boy for his father’s tailor shop. Once Junior Flyweight While a student at Central High School in Philadelphia, young ltlith man took boxing ar.d bej came so proficient that he won the nnti nal junior flyweight championship in his senior year. Oddly enough, Illithman liked school but be had to come to a decision about his boxing and he decided to give up his studies to enter upon a profess)anal boxing career. He made his debut a.-* a professional against Eddie Covington at Atlantic City, X. J., Jply 23, 1926. Then followed a long string of victories. Including a knock ut rampage in which Blilhman stopped Jack Reno, Scotty McDonald, Rocco Risko, Ray Weigand and Tony Russo. Blitlnnan's liisf real test came In his eighteenth bout when he met Davie Adelman, who at that time had just been proclaimed BOY TENNIS TOURNEY OPENS Twelve boys have entered the singles and ten entered the doubles cf the city tennis tournament for hoys 12 years old or under. The schedule for the first round of matches was drawn Saturday and tew of the matches were played Sunday. There ate some exceptionally good tennis players among the hays entered in the tourney. Dick Maeklin and Charles Ehinger loom as probable winners in the singles, but they may meet their Waterloo before the final match Ehinger had hard going in his first round match against Charles Baumgartner Sunday. Ehinger won the firsl set. 6-2, hut his opponent braced in the second set and was defeated 6-4, only after a bitter struggle. The drawings far the first round of the singles and doubles are: Singles Bel) Magley, bye; Don Reynolds vs. Raymond Musset-; James Cowap, by; Dick Sheets vs. Dale Hunt; Harry Harkless; Sephus Jackson vs. Dick Maeklin; Charles Ehinger vs. Charles Baumgartner. Doubles John Cowan and John Hain vs. Sephus Jackson and James Harkless; Charles Ehinger and John Carrol vs. Hat;y Musset- and Raymond Musser; Charles Baumgartner and Bill Lose vs. winner of second match. Entries ate being made for the tournament for boys between the ages of 13 and 18 years. Entries should be filed ’ with Bryce Thomas at the city swimm--1 ing pool. i —!— n •—-- Raspberries for canning ' ■ Tuesday morning, Fisher & \ Harris.

M Shlley. or Haverford Township, who will compete in ihe Olympic U gh jump event; Jessie Cross. Millrose A ('. back and field star, and. inset. Florence Wright, ot New York, who will represent the United Stale* in the women’s 220-yard dash. _

' flyweight champion of Pennsylvania hv the boxing commission of that state. Blitman knocked out Adelman In the second round. Al Corbett of Cleveland stopped j Rlithtnan's •winning streak by holding the Philadelphia boy lo a draw on August 24, 1927. hut on the following October 4, Blitman knocked out Corbett in one round. Never Defeated it was on December 14. 1927, that Hlithmau really started his rise to fistic fame. Johnny Kilbane had a premising young featliei-weight in Young Datto who was being groomed for a title shot, but Blitman swept Datto out of the picture by stopping him in on** r uml at Youngstown. Ohio. Five days later Blitman knocked out Jose Lombardo and then came another crucial match, his thirty-second crucial match, his tlility second bout, with Pete Nebo. Ten thousand fans jammed Hie Philadelphia arena to see the bout and as many more were turned away. Blitman wen'the decision, and a few | weeks later Nebo held Canzoneri to a draw. Blithman broke his hand in the X?bo| bout and wuh laid up for several months, but returned to the ring on March 26, defeating Johnny Farr of Cleveland in 10 round at Hollywood. I California. In less than two years Blithman lias fought his way up from the tanks of the amateurs to the commanding position among the featherweight contenders. Another bout, with the title at stake, is inevitable between Canzoneri and Blitman. The smiling HelirewAnierican boy like his fellow towns man Lew Tendler is a southpaw. Blithinan has engaged in 30 matches and won 35, fought om* draw and never has been defeated. He has 14 knock outs to his credit. Frog Escapes From Sack And Makes Its Way Into Mechanism Os Auto Motor New Albany Ind., July IC—(INS) One of a dozen frogs caught on nocturnal frog hunt, by Lassie Brock, 18 year old local youth, is going to prove a costly catch. Returning fiom the hunt one of the frogs dissatisfied with the cramped quarters in a gunny sack, made its escape. In some manner it made its way into the mechanism of the motor, .through an opening which had been left uncovered. While the remains of the frog cannot be located, Brock is unable to use bis car on account of tile odor which emanates a part in order to remove the source oj the trouble.' 100 Women Golfers Tee Off In State Tournament Terre Haute, lnd., July 16.— (INS) - Nearly 100 women golfers teed off today in the qualifying round of the seventh annual Indiana women’s state golf tournament* which is being held at the Terre Hattie country dub. Miss Elizabeth Dunn, of Indianapolis, was the defending state champion. It was believed that a score of 98 would qualify in the championship round. Sixteen qualifiers will contest in the championship flight, four other (lights will be arranged for llie others who fail to qualify according to Miss Helen Benbridge, secretary of the Indiana Women’s Golf association. o League Baseball Player Seriously Hurt In Game ■j Evansville, Ind., July 10. — (INS) — : Walter Knox, outfielder for the Bloom- | ington, 111., Three I baseball league -

was near death in a local hospital today as the result of being hit by a | pitched ball In the first inning of the ! Evansvllle-Bloomington game here ! Sunday. Knox was taken to the hospital In an unconscious condition and physicians despaired of his life. The hall was pitched hv Wyatt, Evansville slab artist. *****¥*¥*¥##* * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * £ * * * ¥ ******** -(U.R) - Babe Ruth: Failed to hit in three times at hat in first game. Got 34th home run in three time sat bat in second. I,in Gehrig: Failed to hit in four times at ha tin first game. Got 19tli home run in tlnee times at hat in second. Hack Wilson: Got a single in two attempts and scored a run. Ty Colili, Rogers Hornsby, Paul Wnnei, Frank Frisch and Harry Hellniunii did not play. Get the Habit—T rade at Home, it Pay*

I Murray Holloway, Pleasant Mills, lnd. was presented with a fine new Suit of Clothes from this store Saturday Evening So pleased were we with the giving a\\a\ fit this suit, and in order to leave many more of our good friends and . customers in on a good thing, we have decided to give another suit away SATURDAY JULY 21 See our window and get full particulars. It’s worth your time. jotuvT-My&cA & Son j aom,„o , N 0 jzSDECATUR* ' INDIANA' I _

ILLINOIS HOADS WAIT ON TANGLE ! ON GAS TAX LAN Hv l.ouls J. Humphrey Springfield, Ml—lllinois’ defunct j ulliie lax law. knocked out by IV sttfc ' upi'emo court us "uneonstltu!i (m u nil is kicking up Its heels and i-auatng ec.iisiderablo trouble in the Mao- n, ai gave It birth. And as ft result of the knockout by Ihe court, much' trouble has been | n . herltcd by the counties that « (re planning to alignment their road Uni system through funds they expected to obtain Bom tax collections under !b e law. $6,300,000 In Fund The money collected after Uk> | aw was dead but before it ceased to fu nc . lion totaled some $6,300,000 which re . poses in tlie state treasury. The only way it could lie released was In legi.*. latlve approptiation s.i tlie Just-over session, after much skidding and wobbling. passed a law appropriating the entire amount to the counties for road work under supervision of the state highway department. Under the original gas tax law the | slate and counties were lo go fifty-fifty in the collections. While the legislature was milling j. Ire mid, however, federal and stale | courts tied up approximately bait of the sum collected and it appears now as though these writs, which prohibit payment of sums out of the collection until the claims of oil companies against the state have been settled, will be in effect for some time. Suits in the federal courts have been continued indefinitely. Money Tied Up State Treasurer G. I). Kinney takes the position that “one-dollar is the same as another” and that a* long as j these lestraining orders are In effect S ' he will turn over none ot the ninnies ; to the counties. If the suits are still in . progress when his term expires there i seems to tie some question w hether he should take the money with him as an individual or turn It over to his sue- ? cessoi in office. i Under the recent appropriation bill* l of the Legislature, which become es feetive July 1, tlie money would hi' r available to the counties.'With the in i junctions still on, however, there , seems to be no way by Which the counties can get at the funds. So it seems that their road programs, unless (in alli ed some other way, must be held up I stil further. o La .Barba said if he made a good showing he wil continue to fight, hut that if lie didn't "get my old stuff * back, we’ll call it oft."