Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1928 — Page 8

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CARD PITCHERS ARE BIG ASSET x; By George Kirksey, UP Staff Correspondent New Yoik. Oct. 2. — (U.PJ — Steady pitching and good fielding may offset the greater offensive strength of the New York Yankees and enable the St. Ixtuis Cardinals to wrest the world's baseball championship from the American League champions tn the world series opening Thursday at Yankee stadium. If this series is decided on pitching, as Bill McKechnie, manager of the Cardinals, contends it will be, then the National let<ne pennant winners ought to win their second world series in three years. With Herb Pennock, the l>est money pitcher in baseball out of the series with a sore arm. the Yankees do not have a single pitcher they can count on for victory. Even Waite Hoyt, who will pitch the opening game, is considered a question mark against the Cardinals. If Hoyt should lose, the Yankee pitching staff will be shattered. Huggins will have George Pipgras for the second game, but after that he will have to draw straws to select his iturler for the opening game in St. Louis. Henry Johnson, the erratic

youngster who was so effective against the Athletics, Tom Zachary, the veteran southpaw, and Fred Heiniach, the southpaw lately imported from St. Paul, all are eligible for the third game if the Cards rout Hoyt in the first game. However, if Hoyt wins. Huggins probably will send him back against the Cards in the third game with a two-day rest, and if Pipgras wins the second game, send him back in the fourth. Huggins is that hard up for pitchers. Sherdel, Haines, Alexander, Rhem and Mitchell give McKechnie five likely starters against the Yankees. Haines was the Cards’ biggest winner during the regular season, but Sherdel. master of a puzzling slow ball probably will draw the opening assignment. There is an impression among baseball men that Sherdel and iditchell. the southpaw spitball pitcher, can tie the Yanks in knots, especialy the. heavy-swingers — Ruth, Gehrig and Meusel. If Sherdell pitches the first game. Haines probably will pitch the second with Alexander opening the series in St. Louis Sunday. The outcome of the first three games will have a bearing on McKechnie's choice for the fourth game, but now it looks like Mitchell or Sherdell. depending upon Sherdel’s success in the opener. The pitching records of the regulars follow:

The Fourth Down By Willie Punt On to Kendallville. Indications are that the Yellow Jacket Red Devil game at Kendallville Saturday will be a red hot battle. Ralph Becker, veteran halfback of the Kendallville team, is in the hospital at Kendallville as a result of an injured knee and leg which he hurt in the game at Columbia City last Saturday. The physicians stated that the ligaments were torn and a leg muscle was ruptured, and that Becker probably would be unable to play anymore this fall. A slight error was made in this column, Monday, when it was said that Roosevelt high, of Dayton, Ohio, defeat <1 Portland, 65-0, Saturday. The correct score was 92 to 0, in favor of the Buckeyes. The game was played at Dayton. Cash Says:— “After viewing the work of the Vikings at Decatur in the recent triumph over the Yellow Jackets, we have almost come to the conclusion that there is still some hope for Huntington—that is, the hope of pll-, ing up a really convincing score in some game this season. Mr. Geller won’t officiate at all of them.’’ —Cash Keller, Huntington Herald. o Prizes for the best make-up at our Hobo Dance Wednesday night. Also free soup at Sun Set.

: Stagg Prepares For Wyoming Saturday !4S h « ’ - \ I £•„ T G G T \\ J \OOQ3COO ■poy • \ . k /’■ By SOL METZGER Whether the broncho busters froifi Wyoming can solve the mysteries of football as they can those of -the lariat and bucking cow pony will be decided this Saturday when the eleven from this Rocky Mountain state encounters Coach A. A. Stagg's Chicago University Maroons m Stagg Field. One thing certain is that Stagg will have some tricks for them, simple , ones they seem from the stands, but | evidently they are not so quickly fathomed by players as one would judge. Take the formation here that Stagg uses. Now let the No. 4 back trot out opposite the op ; posing left end. Dollars to doughnuts it’s an end run. thinks the defensive back on that side. Bang! , First play is a line smash. That makes him worry a bit more when next time the end run follows. By | that time he has it sized up and on the third lateral move by No. 4 he comes up to be ready to stop either run. That's exactly what Penn’s back did against Chicago last year. Whereupon back No. 1 tore down the field, got by this opponent and caught a forward pass from No. 3 for a touchdown ,the play pictured above. Tomorrow — One of Penn State's

test passes. 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. —r - O Berne Defeats Jefferson Baseball Team, 2 To 1 Behind the fine pitching of Ralph Braun, the Heine high school baseball team defeated Jeffeis. n high schoolj on the latter’s diamond. Friday afternoon, by a score of 2-1. It was the first defeat of the season for Jefferson. This was the last game of the season for both teams. Both schools started basketball practice this week

Northeastern Indiana Conference Standing School— W L T Pct. Central *2 0 0 1.000 South Side 1 0 0 1.000 Bluffton 1 0 0 1.000 North Side 10 1 1.000 Columbia City 2 10 .666 Auburn 111 .500 Huntington 11 0 .500 Kendallville 1 2 0 .333 Garrett 0 2 0 .000 Decatur 0 3 0 .000 Scores Last Week Central, 18; Auburn, 0. North Side, 31; Garrett, 6. Columbia City, 25; Kendallville, 0. Huntington, 20; Decatur, 0. •Central's game with Bluffton won by the Tigers last Friday was declared not a conference game since each team can play but five N. E. I. C. games a season. ——— o COURT HOUSE Suit For Divorce Filed Gladys Smith has filed a suit for divorce from Archie Smith. The couple were married July 25, 1925, and separated July 30, 1928. The plaintiff alleges that her husband cursed her, stnuk and beat her with his fists, threatened to kill her, falsely accused her of associating with other men and failed to provide for her. She alleges further that the defendant is now an inmate of the state penal farm. Mrs. Smith asks for a divorce, the custody of theii minor child, S2OO alimony and an allowance of $l2O a year for the support of the child. Attorney A. C. Butcher of Decatur is counsel for the plaintiff. 0 Forgetting Their Role The trouble about worshiping ancestors Is that people who do ft seldom provide the same privilege for posterity.—Brooklyn Times.

CARDINALS ARE 2-1 FAVORITES By Ftank Getty (United Pt ess Spolt Edit r) New York. Oct. 2—The odds which favor the St. Louia Cardinals to win the World Series lengthened today to 2 to 1. Not since 1922, when the New York Giants obviously out, lassed lheir fel-low-townsmen the Yankees, have the National League champions been such ovei whelming' favorites in the postreason battle. As baseball men from all parts of the country gather in New Yolk today the talk concerns not so much the probable winner of the series as it does how many games wil! have to be play ed before Sam Brendon's club registi ers its sei nd victory over the Aineri can League penant winners. Two years ago. when New York and St. Louis met in the win Id series. , the Yankees were favorites, and it needed all the uncanny skill of old "Pete" Alexander to turn the tide in favor of the Cardinals. This year, thus far. the National League champions are the logical favorites. The Yanks are so crippled that they will have to enter the series with an experimental ball club —and expel ience of the past has demonstrated that the World Series is no place to I experiment. Miller Huggins, astute little* pilot of the Yankees, is forced to make a Hobson’s choice before the opening game on Thursday. He can send in a team l which includes three or four utility I men and trust to their coming through I cr he ian call upon his crippled regulars for extraordinary efforts and risk seeing the whole sei ies snatched away i by a well-balanced, well-prepared rival | ball club. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, high commissioner cf baseball will come to town to see the series start despite a severe attack of influenza which laid him low in Madison. Wis., recently. The Cardinals, with four good pitchers lead.'' for work, as compared with two reliable performers. on the Yankee pitching staff, went through a fast workout yesteiday and emerged cocky an J selfsatisfied.

—o — World’s Series To Be Broadcast By Big Hookup New York. Oct. 2.—(U.R)—The National Broadcasting company anil the Columbia broadcasting system will broadcast the woi id series this year as in 1927. The N. B. network will extend from coast to coast, and the C. B. S. will use 20 stations in the east and middlewest with Major J. Andrew White at the microphone. The broadcasting will start 15 minutes before game time. o Oklahoma Squad Starts For I. U. Game Wednesday Norman. Okla.. Oct. 2. — (U.R) — A sooner squad of twenty-five foot ball players will leave Wednesday for Bloomington. Ind., where the Oklahomans meet Indiana Saturday. DECATUR H. S. NOTES —by— ROBERT HELLER This morning, Mr. Krick announced a. contest for the renaming of the “Ravelings.” In case the paper is changed the annual will continue under the name of “Ravelings.” A prize, such as a year's subscription to the paper, will be given to the person submitting the winning name. The reason for changing the name of the paper is to avoid the confusion caused by having it the same name, as the year book. Other schools have this distinction between their newspaper and annual.

An opera will be given by the music students, of the high school and it wi 1 be conducted by Miss Dessolee Chester, music instructor. It will probably be held on November 9. Part of the cast has already been selected and the remaining part of the cast will be chosen from those taking special music. James Burk was elected vice-presi-dent of the Sophomore class instead of James Engeler, as was announced yesterdaj. Tommy Loughran May Enter Heavyweight Class Philadelphia, Oct. 2. — 'U.R)—Tommy Loughran, flight heavyweight champion, today was contemplating entering the heavyweight ranks, after his victory over Jack Gross, 202 pounds, and hitherto undefeated heavyweight, at Philadelphia last night. A crowd of 25,000 watched Loughran win one of the greatest fights of his career. Loughian mixed a right cross and a jolting right uppercut with short body punches to good advantage.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928.

1 PLAYERS ELIGIBLE FOR WORLD’S SERIES Chicago, Oct. 2. U.R) The official list of players eligible for the world series us announced by Judge K. M. Landis' secietary follows: NEW YORK YANKEES Catchers: B. (). Bengough, Patrick CoPins. William Dickey and John GralKiXvsk'l. Pitchers: Fred Heimaeh, Waite • Hoyt, Henry Johnson, Tom Zachary, i Herb Pennock. George Pipgras, W. <>. Ryan, and Myles Thomas. Infielders: Joe Dugan, Leo Duroch- ■ er, Michael Gazella, Lou Gehrig. Anthony Lazier I, and Eiijfene Robertson. Outfielders: Earl Coombs, Cedric Durst, Boh Meuse!. Ben Paschal and George Herman Ruth. Manager Miller Huggins and coaches Arthur Fletcher. Charles O’Leary and Hany Matthews. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Catchers: Earl Smith andJunies Wilson. Pitchers: Grover Alexander, Fred Frankhouse. Harold Haiti, Jess Haines. Sylvester Johnson. Clarence Mitchell, Arthur Reinhart. Flint Rhem. and William Sherdel, Infielders: James Bottomley. Frank Frisch, Andrew High. Waller Maranvllle, and Thomas Thevenow. Outfielders: Ray Blades, Taylor Douthit. Charles Hafey, George Harper. Roscoe Holm. John Martin, Ernest Orsatti. Walter Roettger and Howard Williamson. Manager William B. McKechnie and Coach Jack Onslow. Yankees W. 1., Pct. Hoyt 22 7 .759 ♦Pennock 17 6 .739 Pipgras 24 13 .849 H. Johnson .... 13 9 .591 'Heimaeh 4 3 .571 Zachary 9 12 .429 (♦Out of series with sore arm.) Cardinals W. L Pct. Haines 20 8 .714 Sherdel 21 It) .677 S. Johnson 8 4 .667 Alexander 16 9 .640 Rhem 11 8 .579 Mitchell _ 8 9 .471 Defensively, the Cardinals as a team are better than the Yankees, but individually the records indicate that the Yankees have an advantage in the cold figures at six out of eight positions, excluding the pitchers. The weak spot in the Yankee defense may be at short stop where Mark Koenig, the goat of the 1926 series and the hero of the 1927 series, may waver.

if Koenig settles down, the Yankee infield is about equal to the Cardinals' inner defense. The Cardinals possibly have a better defensive outfield in Hafey, Douthit and Harper or Holm than the Yankees have in Meuse!, Durst or Paschal, and Ruth. Wilson is a better defensive catcher than Bengough or Collins.

o —— —— GENE AND MAY TO BE MARRIED ON WEDNESDAY (COWT»m<jb» rnoM pack onei papermen to understand they would be married in Rome this afternoon. Then they made the dash to Rome, driving the 118 miles in a few hours. Miss Lauder's party preceded them by train and was installed in the Hotel de Russie, Tnnney’s headquarters. Members of Miss Lauder's entout age were anxious, and there was no assurance their trunks would arrive in time for a eere/nony this afti rnoen. Today is a holiday in Rome, in celebration of the Roman plebiscite for a united Italian kingdom, and it would have been difficult to obtain an official for the civil ceremony. At that juncture, Tunney add Miss Lauder arrived and told the press: “There will be no wedding today." Their actual plans could only be guessed. The manager of the Hotel de Russie told the United Press tin wedding would be held quietly in the hotel. The American college in Rome denied 1 nowledge of Tunneys plans, although it is generally understood that the vice-rector of the college, Mossigner Joseph A. Breslin, would perform the religious ceremony. He was Tnnney’s parrish priest in New York. Tunney and his bride may make another dash by automebiie and have the ceremony performed quickly and privately in some out of the-way spot by pre-arrangement. During the early morning conference of the engaged couple, Miss Lauder suggested they flee to Trieste to avoid newspapermen.

Tunney had kept an all-night vigil at Naples. Accompanied by American Consul General Horace M. Byington, he had gone to the wharf when he heard that the Saturnia would dock during the early morning hours. Only a few persons were around. Tunney was silent as the big liner came to its position. The United Press correspondent glanced nt Tuaney and remarked: This is an emotional moment.” Tunney turned glanced at the correspondent, and then sn.lied, but refused comment. A small crowd gathered oti the dock f He Saturnia turned binoculars mi the former boxer. Some shouted. Tunney was unable to recognize the members cf Miss Lauder's party. He nn'kd at the eager faces peering from the vessel and continued look-

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A new type of football wil! be introduced to Gastein gridiron fans this week when Southern Methodist University from Dallas, Texas, plays the Army at West Point. The fit st team from Texas ever to Invade the East, S. M. P. will bring a dazzling pass attack which has sen' many gieat teams in the southwest and middle west hurtling to defeat during the past five years to pit against Army’s veteran eleven. The S. M. U. Mustangs crushed Missouri’s powerful eleven last fall with an aerial offensive that rolled tin 32 points—one of the largest scores ever amassed against a Missouri team. The 1927 Missouri Valley champions beat Northwestern the next Saturday, 34 to 19. In the last five years S. M. IT. has lost only four games and stands second to Notre Dame in games won and lost that period. From 1923 through 1927, the Mustangs have scored 936 points to their opponents' 222 points. Only Texas A. and M. (twice) Oklahoma University and Centenary College have beaten S. M. U. during the past five years. The Mustangs have played eight intersectional games during that period and lost only one, to Oklahoma. 9 to 0. in 1925. Mann Lost to Team The S. M. U. eleven has lost Gerald Mann, the little blue streak who outshone Bruce Caldwell, Ed Connor. Gibby Welch and other eastern stars in the East-West game at San Francisco, at the close of last season, but has another brilliant quarterhack in Sammy Reed who has been Mann's shadow the Ing tor his fiancee. Finally there was a shout from the noat ■ ‘ Hurrah for Tunney. He’s our ■nan. ’ it was just about that time that he calm Ttifiney sighted Miss Lauders group and lie lifted his hat and waved his cane. His face was wreathed itt smiles. Tunney made his way to the vessel's side. Miss Lauder went down to the fifth deck. They conversed animatedly through an open port hole for more than an hour before Tin ivy left for his hotel ru iney arose at 7 a m. and return'd to the Satttrnia where lie greeted his Hancee aboard deck Their meet•ng was demonstrative. The entire par(y disembarked an 1 went by motor through Naples, at-t-tnpUng to dodge the motor cars of the newspaper correspondents o Hod Eller, Former Big League Star, Is Injured Indianapolis, Oct. 2. (U.R) Hod Eller. who gained fame as a big league baseball pitcher in the 1919 worlds series while a member of the Cincinnati Reds, was in a serious condition

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past two years. Ray Morrison, the former Vanderbilt star who was picked by Grantland j Rice as one of the greatest quarter-1 backs <>' ’’ time, has schooled Reed to take i.p the t trclt carried so brightly in th* south-vest by Mann for the past three years. Almost a replica of Mann in size and actions. Reed is the key of the Mustang's baffling pass attack Wvl; slightly more than 150 pounds and built close to the ground, Reed has the hands of a giant. He can toss a football through a barrel at 20 yards, according tb Horace S. Mt Coy, of the Dallas (Tex.) Journal and outstanding football authority of the southwest. The Mustangs under Morrison have developed the pass in all its variations and have reached such perfection in handling the pigskin as to think nothing of passing on any down, at any stage of the game and at any point on the field. While the pass is the Mustang's greatest single weapen, it is by no means their only dangerous weapon. In Redman Human.’a trimly-built 170 pound halfback who runs with a serpentine motion. S. M. U. has the Southwest's greatest ball carrier. Hume runs with his hips and once in a broken field is harder than a seared deer to halt. His cue fault is his addiction to fumbling -at critical moments. The Mustangs have another star back in Ross Love, a 190 pound battering ram; Pat Knieff, a nigged halfback with a penchant for slipping off tackle; and Ira Hopper, a Indefatigable fullback who is a great defensive player. in a hospital here toitay as result of injuries sustained yesterday in an automobile accident. Eller was injured when thrown through a door' of an automobile, as It collided with another machine, in a-traffic jam. , Eller’s pitching was an outstanding feature of the 1919 series. In one contest he struck out six Chicago White Sox hatters in succession. He pitched two games, winning both. In 1924 Eller joined the Indianapolis Indians and attempted a comeback. He met wfth only slight success and soon withdrew from baseball and joined the Indianapolis police force where he has since been employed. ■ — o—> Tulsa Wins Western League Championship Oklahoma City. Okla., Oct, .2. —(U.R) Tulsa won the western league championship here yesterday, defeating Oklahoma City, 5 to 0, in the final game of the play-off series. The Tulsans officially won four of the six games played and Oklahoma City one. One game was ordered replaced when an Oklahoma City protest was allowed.

' IRACE BOS! BURN 101[ ( Horses Valued At Hum In Stables FiJ Near Cary, ]|| Chicgg >, oh. 2 , up . oughbred racing horseg than s2o<> were burned * last night when fit, swept d n. Hertz stables near Garv ■ miles northwest <>t | tFre ’’l Reigh Count, champion J for 19’8 ami Koniucky j was led t., safety by stable b..y onlto Peabody J Futurity winner of 1927 and J valuable horses were saved 1 Among the horses destrowJ laeonarett. which watt being X for the Kentucky Derby next >•» dalfan. Insulla. Black < Lucy, and Sandalbar. Possibility that the blaat WM i ed by an in, miliary was imderla gution today. Arthur Mavlor « tendent of Leona Farms on ig stables Were located, said heU entered to keep elose watch m horses bf-ause of the booths 8, of two Chicagt. garages of th, | Cab company, of which Kent ii rector. Warning rs the blaze was Authora Naylor, the Ithyear-aiH ter of the farm sniterinteaW saw flames shooting from the wit of the stalls. The fiist thought cf the staMi Jimmy Allen, was for Reigh Coa famous Derby winner. He rashei the thick smoke and led the Imi safety. Naylor, assisted by other w . cn the farm, also led forth Prots Luck's Crown. Vanish, Guititi Ostend and two unnamed (’a|J The men were driven bad making further rescues when th | es reached the loft and set fire J stored there. Get the Habit—Trade at Home,lt f— ————— ERIE RAILROAD IMPORTANT! Beginning October train No. 226 wi leave Decatur at ft a.m. Train No. 22" w leave Decatur a 8:45 p. m. 11. M. Blair, Agent, Erii