Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1928 — Page 8

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CARDINALS AND GIANTS CLASH By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Pi-psh Staff Correspondent New York. Aug. J7.~(U.R) — The New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals open a crucial 3-game series at St. Lottis today and a clean sweep for either team would just about settle the national league pennant lace. The Giants went west 21-2 games behind the Cardinals, but slipped back another game by dropping two out of three games to the Chicago Cubs while the Cardinals were taking two out of three from the Boston Braves. John J. McGraw believes the Giants will win the pennant If they can stay within there games of the Cardinals until the Giants return home for a long stay Aug. 28. “if we can stay within 3 games of the Cardinals on this trip," McGraw said, “we ought to win the pennant.’’ Ered Fitzsimmons, who has won 14 games and lost six for the Giants this season, and Clarence Mitchell, the 37-year-old Philadelphia castoff, too holds a jinx over the Giants, were slated to pitch the opening game today. For some unaccountable reason, the Giants can't beat the Cubs at Chicago. The Giants have won only two games out of ten played at Chicago this season. Yesterday’s loss to the cubs was a costly one. as New York lost a chance to gain back the game they lost the day previous while the Cardinals fell before the Braves. The Cards are in none too good shape for this series. Rabbit Maranville is ten pounds underweight and out of the lineup after two months of strenuous play. Jimmy Wilson has an injured hand, but he is gamely staying in the game. Wattie Holm j is having trouble with an old knee in- I jury. YESTERDAY’S HOME RUNS Player and Club Season's Total Hafey. Cardinals (1) 19 Simmons. Athletics (1) 13 Foxx, Athletics (1) 11 Beil, Braves (1) 9 Hargrave. Detroit (1) 7 Sothern, Phillies (1) 5 McManus, Detroit (II 4 Morgan, Cleveland (11 4 Richsbourg, Braves (1) 2 The Leaders Ruth 45, Hack Wilson 27, Bottomley 26, Gehrig 21, Bissonette 19, Hurst 19, Hafey 19. League Totals National 467 American 387 Watching The Scoreboard BY UNITED PRESS Yestetday’s hero: Lance Richbourg, Boston Braves' outfielder, who accounted for six runs with a home run. double and triple in bls first three trips to the plate. Hornsby's team beating the SI. Louis Cardinals 9 to 4 Ed Brandt let the Cards down with seven hits. Art Nehf held the New York Giants t r nine hits and the Chicago Cubs won. 6 to 2. Vic Aldridge failed to hold the Cubs and gave way to Bill Walker in the eighth. Grimm and Cuvier drove in two runs each. Burleigh Grimes won his 21st game of the season, the Pittsburgh Pirates hammering out a 11 to .6 victory over tiie Brooklyn Robins. Lloyd Waner started at bat with four hits. Tlte Philadelphia Phillies went on a batting rampage, collecting 22 bits and beating the Cincinnati Reds, 13 to 4. Waite Hoyt pitched his fifteenth victory of the season, the New- York Yankees winning from the Chicago White Sox. 11 to 1. Lou Gehrig and Boh Meusel featured the Yanks’ attack, Gehrig driving in five runs with three doubles and Meusel four runs with three singles. Jimmy Foxx and Al Simmons helped the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 18 to 6. Foxx hit a home run and two doubles and Simmons hit a home run and two singles. Th-* Cleveland Indians advanced to fourth place in the American league by hcctlng the Boston Red Sox 10 to 8. The St. Louis Browns defeated the Washington Senators 7 to 2, the game being Iprlted by rain in the eighth. Fort Wayne — (U.R) — Mary Brotherhood, 17, deaf mute, and Ralph Llneweber, deaf, are I'.till afflicted after taking a 6,000 feet airplane dive at Paul Baer municipal airport here. The dive is reputed to have cured such cases in several instances. The couple came here from Ohio to undergo the test. Arch Alspach was the pilot for the dive of more than a mile which was made in one minute and eight seconds. O—- ... Get the Habit —“Trade at Home, It Pays

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YESTERDAYS RESULTS Central League I Springfield 2; Erie 1. Akron 12: Fort Wayne 6. Canton 7; Dayton 3. National League Chicago 6: New York 2. Pittsburgh 11: Brooklyn 6. Philadelphia 13: Cincinnati 4. • Boston 9; St. Louis 4. American League I New Yoak 11: Chicago 1. > Cleveland 10; Boston 8. I ! Philadelphia 18; Detroit 6. St. I lOiils 7; Washington 2: called seventh, rain. i American Association I Milwaukee 4; Columbus 1. i , Kansas City 5: Toledo 4. >' Minneapolis 11; Louisville 7. I Indianapolis-St. Paul, wet grounds. o— — ¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * g ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ By United Press Babe Ruth (3281 failed to hit safely in three trips, but scored three nms and stole a base. Lou Gehrig (369) got three doubles, ■ drove in five runs and scored three i runs. Harry Heilmann (296) hitless in | four trips. Al Simmons (379) hit a home run l! and two singles in five trips, driving ] in one tun and scoring four runs. Freddy Lindstrom (358) got aI. single and double in four trips and!' scored one run. ! ( Paul Waner (361) got a single and j, double in five trips/driving in one ‘. run ami scoring two runs. Rogers Hornsby (379) doubled once in three times up. Frankie Frisch (316) failed to hit ' safely in four trips. ——o “Knockout Stell” Wants To Be Real Champ, But Finds Opponents Scarce 1 Birmingham, England. Aug. 17. — i ' (U.R) — Miss Stella Smith, better ! known as knockout Stell, aspires to ( the feminine equivalent of Gene ; , Tanney's vacated throne. i Miss Smith is preparing to chai- ] lenge any girl in the world to box her i ■ 20 rounds at 160 pounds. i No girl—and few boys ever have - lasted more than three rounds with Stella. “I want to be a real champion, like ’ Tanney," confided Stella, who is 19. ; “But it is hard to find opponents.” t She practices daily in a gymnasium, t She shewed her prowess to an inter- I | viewer by going several fast rounds 1 witli a male sparring partner about I her own weight. She beat him around 1 the ring until he quit. '(

I I I Fly Over Decatur | ffi fl I Sunday, August 19th > I I $ y a-- 9 i i if; See the Beauties of your city and feel the joys of y I(DE W |e flying. y I , I Flv in licensed planes with licensed pilots at Decatur’s er y new flying field on the Barney Meyer’s Farm, 3 miles S southwest of the city, on the Winchester road. g I s I | Aereco Flying Service J 31 Aircraft Division of the J Sp AUTO ELECTRIC & RXDIO EQUIPMENT CO. g Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1

(iolf Tennis I Sport Fever | Baseball Swimming | Water carnival at the city swim- ' mlng pool tonight. Il’s likely to be all wet for the participants, bat plenty of fun for the spectators. And I remember, its FREE! Lovers of tennis ought to motor I over to Rockford. Ohio. Sunday afternon. and root for the Decatur racket I wlelders in their meet with the Rockford players. A good match is anticipated. The Bluffton Country club golfers defeated the Huntington tarn in a Northern Indiana golf league match at Bluffton. Wednesday. 31-22. Al the end of the first nine holes. Huntington led. 10-8. Bowers, of Huntington. with an 81. turned in the lowest score of the meet. Lloyd Cline and J. L. Ehler, of Bluffton, each turned in an 84. Bluffton will play at Wabash, I Aug. 29. I — The D. 11.5. Yellow Jackets are | scheduled to open their football sea--son at Auburn on Saturday, September 15. There is some talk of trying to change the date to September 14 and play the game in this city as an added feature to Decatur's Old Home Weed. Undoubtedly, scores of the former Decaturites and other 01. l Home Week guests would enjoy see- , ing the 1928 edition of Yellow Jackets in action. , — o Field In Woman’s Golf Tourney Reduced To Four Indian Hill Club. Chicago, Aug. 17 ' —(U.R) Four survivors from a start / ing field 'of 160 players clashed today in the semi-finals of the women's western golf championship tournament. Mrs. Harry Pressler, Pasadena, Cal. defending champion, was paired with Mrs. O. S. Hill, Kansas City, Mo., winner of the 1927 consolation flight. Dorothy Page, Madison. Wis„ 1928 medalist and title winner in 1926. met Virginia Wilson, last hope of the sixteen Chicago qualifiers. — o—• CULVER. Ind. —Frank Shields, New York, national junior tennis chant-' pion, was forced to “stand on his toes’’ to defeat Wa’mer Hines, Montreal. N. ('.. 6-4, 3-6. 6-4, and retain his title yesterday. Harry Plyiniret Palo Alto, Calif., furnished an upset by beating Joseph Couchlin. San Francisco, in a quarterfinal match 3-6, 6-3. 6 3.

DECATUB DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1925.

Becomes Smith Helper L J I z ~ Although formerly vice-chairman of National League of Women Voters and a member of Herbert Hoover's Belgian relief committee during the war. Mrs. Casper Whitney, of Irvington on-the-Hudson. N. Y.. has accepted the chairmanship of independent “Smith for President" clubs. SPORT TABS By Uniled Press ANN ARBOR. Midi. —A new record in Wolverine football history for the number of athletes invited to report for early grid practice, was set up when director of irthletics Fielding IL. Yost sent notice to 70 players to show u)i at the University of Michigan, Sept. 15. o— ——— Fort Wayne,—(U.R) —The contract for construction of a memorial to be erected to this city's World war veterans has been awarded the Muldoon Memorial company. Louisville;. Ky., I on a bid of $15,000. The memorial will be erected in Memorial park. Its motif!', will be three arches one each for the military forces of the land, sea and air. CHICAGO $3.50 (And Return.) EVERY SUNDAY Lv. Decatur—2.’.‘ls A. M. ' Ar. Chicago—7:2o A. M. Lv. Chicago—lo:2o P.M. Ar. Decatur—2:ss A. M. For Complete Information Consult | H. N. Blair, ticket agent ERIE RAILROAD . )

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