Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1928 — Page 6

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ATHLETICS SEE HOPES SLIPPING Ry Frank Getty, VP Sports Editor. Now York, Sept. 25.—The two-game lead of the New York Yankees now looks like money from home, and Philadelphians who heard rumors of Connie Mack's Athletics winning the American league pennaut know it was merely some of the neighbors talking over the dear, departed days of 1914. Alvin Crowder’s twentieth victory of the season at St. Louis yesterday proved all lint fatal to the 1928 hopes of the .Mackmen, who thereby; lost their third game in four days and face an all but hopeless task in their pursuit of the elusive championship. Their great drive to the top. during which the Athletics overcame a Yankee lead of 13 games in August and early September, apparently took all the Philadelphia chib had to give this year. The situation today is simply this: the Athletics have five more games to play; the Yankees, six. During that brief span Philadelphia must overcome an advantage of two full games enjoyed by the world's champions. The National league race remains as close as court plaster, the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants still separated by a single game and neither club showing the slightest inclination to capitulate. The Cards have two games to play at Brooklyn, three at Boston and one at the Polo grounds. The Giants meet the Reds once more and then engage the Cubs in a four game series before meeting the Cardinals in the final game of the season. Both National league contenders are showing the strain of the desperate stretch finish, yet both are fighting with spirit and vigor. Neither • has an altogether dependable pitcher left for duty, but each club is hitting the ball hard and effectively. o ¥¥¥¥¥¥ *¥ * * ¥ ¥ ¥ * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * g*¥¥¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ —fU.R)Rogers Hornsby <391) hit triple ahd two singles, scored one run, in six times at bat. Goose Goslin (380) hit home run, double and single, scored one run, in four times at bat. P. Waner (375) went hitless in seven times at bat but scored one run. Lou Gehrig (366) went hitless in three times at bat. Freddy Lindstrom (353) singled and scored a run in three times at bat. Al Simmons (350) singled and scored a run in four times at bat. Jim Bottomley (325) hit home run, batted in a run and scored twice, in four times at bat. Babe Ruth (319) doubled in four times at bat. Q .... .. Watching The Scoreboard —(U.R)— Yesterday’s hero: AJivin Crowder, ace of the St. Louis Browns' pitching staff, who held the Philadelphia Athletics to four hits to win a 6 to 2 victory, his twentieth of the season. Crowder allowed only one hit until the eighth when Bishop singled. A single by Simmons and a double by Fox in the ninth accounted for the A's runs. John Quinn, veteran spitball pitcher, started for the Athletics ami was relieved by Orwal lin the seventh. The Cleveland Indians defeated the New York Yankees, 4 to 3. Walter Miller went the route for the Indians and held the Yankees to five hits. Hodapp led the attack for the tribe with three hits in four times up. Larry Benton, though hit hard by the Cincinnati Reds, turned in his twenty-fifth victory when the Giants defeated the Reds, 7 to 4. Benton now Is tied with Burleigh Grimes of the Pittsburgh Pirates in games won. Two home runs by Lefty O’Doul and one each by Mel Ott and Travis Jackson featured the Giants’ victory. The St. Louis Cardinals easily defeated the Brooklyn Robins, 9 to 2. Giover Cleveland Alexander allowed eight hits while the Cards found Elliott, Ehrhardt and Moss for fourteen. Douthit, with a double and two singles led the Cardinals' attack. The Washington Senators gained possession of fourth place by defeating the Chicago White Sox, 8 to 4. Goose Goslin obtained a home run and three singles in four times at bat. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox, 8 to 0. Sam Gibson, after warming the bench for three weeks, went to the mound and held the Red Sox to five hits. Stone, rookie outfielder of the Tigers, continued his sensational hitting, getting a double, a single and a triple In five trips. Before 700 chilly fans, the Chicago

Cubs defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 7 to 6. A three run rally by the Phillies fell one run short In the ninth inning. It was the twelfth I straight defeat for the Phillies. | The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Braves divided n doubleheader. The Pirates won the first game, 3 to 1, in ten innings, and the Braves took the second. 4 to 2. ? - , 0 - , .. STANDINGS i f National League » W L Pct. « St. Louis 91 57 .615 j New York 90 58 .608 . Chicago 87 61 .588 , Pittsburgh 84 65 .564 , Cincinnati 77 72 .517 , Brooklyn 73 75 .493 j Boston .... • 50 99 .336 I Philadelphia 42 106 .284 American League W L Pct. New York 96 52 .649 . Philadelphia 95 54 .635 I St. Louis M 69 .537 Washington 72 77 .483 Chicago .. 71 78 .477 Detroit 67 82 .45(1 Cleveland 61 87 .412 1 Boston 53 95 .358 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 3-2; Boston 1-4. St. Louis 9; Brooklyn 2. Chicago 7: Philadelphia 6. New York 7; Cincinnati 4. American League Cleveland 4; New York 3. St. Louis 6; Philadelphia 2. Washington 8; Chicago 4. Detroit 8; Boston 0. o— TO LET BRIDGE CONTRACTS OCT. 2 Indianapolis. Sept. 25. — (U.R) —Bids will be opened by the state highway 1 commission Oct. 2, for construction of 18 bridges on state roads in 12 counties, it was announced today by j Director John D. Williams. The will be the first bridge letting of the fiscal year 1929 and the eighth of the calendar year 1928. The cost will be approximately >350,000, Williams said. Five of the proposed bridges are major structures. One in Adams county is to lie 300 feet long ami span the Wabash river where the state , road is being re-located between Ge-i neva and Berne. A 260-foot re inforced concrete arch ' structure, consisting of four spans, is planned for the Mississnewa river between Muncie and Albany. In Lake county a 144-foot steel bridge is to go over Deep river near Hobart. In Warrick county a 350foot two-span structure will cross Cypress creek between Rockport and Newberry. Other counties and the number of bridges to he included in the letting are Adams on road 27; Delaware on road 67; two in Jay on road 67; Koscusko on road 15; Laporte on road 29; Lake on road 6; Monroe on road 37; Porter on road 6; Randolph on road 27; four in Wabash, two each on roads 15 and 24; Warrick on road 66 and three in Wayne, two on road 38 and one on road 27. o YESTERDAY'S HOMERS O’Doul, Giants, 2; Ott, Giants, 1; Jackson, Giants, 1; Cuvier, Cubs, 1; Bottomley, Cards, 1; Hellmann, Tigers, 1; Goslin. Senators, 1; McGowan, Browns, 1. Totals: Amercan League. 459; National League 589. Season's total, 1,048. — o Earth Shocks Occur In Hurricane Devasted Area Paris, Sept. 25. —(U.R) —Earth shocks have occurred in Guadeloupe, recently devastated by the West Indian hurricane, the ministry of colonies ■was advised in a cable today from the governor of the colony. The cablegram said Point A Pitre, principal town of the island, was “badly shaken" by earth tremors at 5:30 A.M. yesterday, a few hours after the governor had visited the areas devastated by the storm. Four Young People Killed In Auto Crash Cincinnati, Sept. 25. — (U.R) — The bodies of four persons, two youths and two girls, who were killed shortly before last midnight when their automobile overturned and was struck by a truck, today were identified at the county morgue. The dead are: Austin Ritchie. 18, and his brother, Wilbur, 22, both of Bellfontulne, Ohio; May McDonald, 19, Danville, Ky., and Celeste June Bastin, 17, Cincinnati.

Warner’s Place-Kick Formation Big Aid 1 . E. • T C < G T : * • \ \ jpoosooo\ | roa PiAct-kick . iWApMEO HA4 . BALL HELD MFOF x / I b VAR 04 SACK \ / NO4-C 4E.AM4 / f HAVE K HELD - ( HEPE * I lOYARO4 RACK ' OF CEM-fHR ~ W '■——J oy mETZGER ' When Stanford's games are decided by the point after touchdown, as j happened a year ago with the Olyini pic A. ('.. its opponent this Saturday, Warner's pupils usually win. Last season Stanford defeated Olympic A. C. 7-6. The reason Warner's elevens rarely miss the point after touchdown is because of the place-kick formation they use. Most teams try for a place-kick with the holder of the ball about 10 yards back of center. Warner's teams, since 1915, have been kicking with the holder of the ball but 6 yards behind his center. To the casual ob server this looks as though the kick would be far easier to block because the kicker is so much nearer his opponents. But study the digram above and you'll learn a bit of inside football. Generally kicks are blocked by an opponent getting to the ball around the men on the ends of she kicker's protective line. When one get through in that way he has a straight run at the kicker. But when one gets around the Stanford line no such luck con fronts him. He has to swerve from his course, turn abruptly in and then | try to block the kick. This abrupt ! turn not only slows him but forces him to rush at the kicker from the side, whereas when the latter is 1(1 yards back he charges directly on the line the ball is to be kicked. Warner’s formation holds a distinct advantage. Hence Stanford can be counted on to win when victory rests on the point after touchdown. Warner also uses the place-kick threat as ■ a fake from which to pass. TomorI row—this pass. — Sol Metzger has prepared a leaflet on “Diet and Training for Football.” which will aid in conditioning football players. Send stamped, addressed envelope, in care of this paper, | and request it. New York City’s Graft Scandal Case On Trial New York, Sept. ». — (U.R) — New York's most gigantic graft scandal of recent years—the $30,000,000 Queens swer case—goes to trial today after a year of sensational developments. In the antiquated Queens Bounty courtroom at Long Island city where Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray heard the death sentence, former borough president Maurice E. Connolly and Frederick B. Seeley, his engineer in charge of sewer design, will face a special “blue ribbon’’ jury. They are charged with conspiracy to defraud thousands of taxpayers in a huge sewer construction program involving more than $29,500,000.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928.

Rivals in Pennant Fight

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Miller Huggins, peppery manager of New York Yankees, and Connie Mack, gray-hsHred pilot of Philadelphia Athletics, are fighting it out for first place in the American league, witji the odds slightly in favor of the jtounffer.

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