Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1929 — Page 6

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FANS LEAVE FOR CATHOLIC MEET Several Decatur basketball fans departed via motor and train for Chicago today, to root for the Catholic high school Commodores in their game with Holy Redeemer high school of Portsmouth. Ohio, at 9 o’clock tonight, in the national Catholic interscholastic basketbal tournament, at Txiyola university. The tournament opened last nignt with St. Xavier high of Cincinnati. Ohio, defeating St. Francis high of Council Bluffs, lowa, 47-22. Other scores last night were: of Joliet, 111-, 29, Camden, N. J . 14; and Spaulding of Peoria, 111.. 23, Northeast Catholic high, Philadelphia, 13. A dispatch from Chicago today stated that St. Mel's high of Chicago, champions of the Chicago < atholic might withdraw from the tournament owing to the fact that two of Iheir stars had been declared ineligible. The Decatur Commodores are scheduled to play the winner of the St. Mel Creighton University High of Omaha game in the second round of the tourney, providing the Commodores win their game against Portsmouth tonight. The same dispatch from Chicago stated that Dugan, center on the Indianapolis Cathedral team, Indiana Catholic champions, had been declared ineligible for tournament play. The Daily Democrat has arranged to receive returns from the Commodores game tonight, but it probably will be after 10 o'clock before the returns are received. — o — Massive Airships Are Predicted For Future' Dallas, Tex., March 21—(VP) Giant airships with cabin accomodations for 50 or more passengers will be an accomplished fact within the next five years. H. J. McNally, general tarffic manager for the Universal Aviation Corporation of Chicago said while in Dallas to establish a Southwestern traffic department for his company. According to McNally, the giant airplanes of the futuer will have a wing spread of 300 to 400 feet. The present calfln plane and fuselage, which offers surface resistance to flight, will be eliminated. he predicts. "A normal cruising speed of 300 or more miles per hour is probable. The airplane manufacturing plants are turning out larger and larger engines. The sixe of the future plane will only be limited by the power provided by the motors. We are now carrying hundreds of gallons of gasoline and hundreds of pounds of baggage in the wings aud the possibility of also carrying passenegrs there, thus eliminating cabin, is a mathmetical one.” o Gum by the Mile It Is reported that over 100,000 miles of sticks of chewing gum are sold every year.

SPEAKING OF SP@RT BY FRANK GETTY

The Hard Rock Crumbles They called Tom Heeney the “Hard Rock from Down Under,’’ hut today the New Zealander looks as though he had been run through a stone crusher. Still bearing the marks of his bruising battle with Otto Bon Porat, Tom is just about convinced he is not cut out to be heavyweight champion of the world, after all. The recent defeats sustained by Heeney at the hands of Von Porat and Jimmy Maloney served to emphasize how silly it would have been to declare Tom one of the two finalists in the battle for Gene Tunney's crown, just because the New Zealander fighter was the last man to face the retired champion in the ring. Charley Harvey, popular little manager of the erstwhile "Hard Rock,” went so far as to claim the title for Tom on the grounds that he was the logical successor in view of Tunney’s retirement. Harvey also held out for a battle with Jack Dempsey, declaring Heeney was too good for the second raters and would not have to fight his way through the elimination tournament another time. As it turned out, Tom wasn’t even good enough for the second raters, two of whom, Maloney and Von Porat, handed him severe beatings. Heeney hesitated about returning to the ring following his defeat by TunDey. Tom was offered a lucrative and what he would call “cushy" job with a firm of diamond exporters and importers. Finally he decided to attempt a come-back in the boxing game. What really lured him was

EXHIBITION GAMES St. Louis (A. 1..) 2; Columbus (A. A.) 3. Philadelphia (N. L.) 6: Brooklyn, 5 Phfadelphia, (A. L) 7; Cincinnati. 5. Chicago (A. L.) 3; Dallas (T. T..i 3. (Called end third, rata). Cleveland, 4; New Orleans (S. L.) 3. Chicago (N. L.) 13; Detroit. 3. GRID PRACTICE IS HNOERWAT A squad of eighteen bovs are out for spring football practice at Decatur high school, Coach Max Kidd stated today. None of these boys has ever played football and Coach Kidd is spending his time teaching them the fundamentals of the game. As soon as these boys have learned the fundamentals, a call will be issued for classmen who have been 'out for football previously to join the ■ squad and more vigorous training will ! be started. Coach Kidd sttaed that some very promising material is being uncovered among the eighteen inexperienced candidates. Track and baseball practice has not been started at the local school but a call for candidates will be isused in each sport season. — O — Hoover Unable To Join Society Os Fish Liars Macon, Mo., March 21—(UP)—The “constructive joy” one can obtain by membership in the Missouri Fish Liars Club is going to be passed up by President Herbert Hoover. Invited by Charles U. Baker. Missouri's secretary of state, to fish in the Ozarks and enroll in the fish story society, President Hoover replied: “I would like very much to accept your kind invitation, but I am afraid the next four years will preclude very much that sort of constructive joy.” —o —— TEN BEST SELLERS 1. The Bishop Murder Case by S S I Van Dine. 2. The Seven Dials Mystery, by Aga-1 tha Christie. 3. This Strange Adventure by Mary R. Rinehart. 4. The Devil and the Deep Sea. by Elizabeth Jordan. 5. Good Gestes. By Percival C. Wren GENERAL 1. The Cradle of the Deep. By Joan Lowell. 2. The Art of Thinking. By Ernest Dimnet. 3- Believe It or Not. By Robert L. Ripley. 4. Elizabeth and Essex. By Lytton B. Strachey. 5. The Magic Island. By W. B. Seabrook.

Harvey’s hunch that he could get a match with Dempsey. There’s a stubborn streak in the Celt from New Zealand and he insists he is going to keep on in the ring and win his way to the top. He still is ten pounds overweight, and is a mark for any left hand in the game, but there’s no denying his courage. The Grand National Courage is the factor that will be required of horses and men at Aintree, England, tomorrow, when the Grand National Steeplechase is run. The course is more than four miles long, its obstacles high, wide and terrifying. Out of an average field of 30 starters, it is seldom that more than (wo or three finish the race. Last year, every starter but one in a record field fell before reaching the finish. Billy Barton, Howard Bruce’s gallant Maryland jumper, was remounted and finished second. This spring the American horse was declared to be ten pounds better, and hopes of another American triumph in this classic of all steeplechase events run high. The jumps are so high and wide, and the takeoffs, especially on a rainy day, so treacherous, that such societies as the S. P. C. A have sought to have the course modified or the Grand National abandoned altogether. But still men and horses go hard at the obstacles, disdaining anything easier in their quest for the prize in this greatest of horse races.

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D. H. S. ATHLETES GET SWEATERS Football and basketßiall sweaters were awarded to nine Decatur high school athletes yesterday evening. The sweaters are purple with gold arm stripes and purple letters outlined i't gold. There is a small gold bar on the letter ”D" for each sport In which the athlete wins a letter. For Instance It the athlete winning the sweater wins a letter tn football, basketball and baseball, there are three small bars on the letter. The athlete winning a letter in more than one sport has the privilege of | choosing which sport he wishes to receive his sweater in A small gold football appears on the letter on football sweaters and a small gold basketball on the letter of basketball sweaters. Basketball sweaters were awarded yesterday to Joe Krick, Robert Cole, Carl Gerber, John Engle, Dick Engle and Ivan Reynolds. Football sweaters were awarded to George Roop. Dwight Schnepp and Chalmer Debolt. Football letter men who did not play basketball had previously received their sweaters. o Charles Hite and Fred Connell motored to Fort Wayne last night where they attended the Indiana University production of the Jordan River Revue,

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CONNIE MACK IS ' HAVING TROUBLES I New York, Mur. 21. —(U.R) —AU is not well in the camp of the Phlladel- , phia Athletics these days. Connie Mack U sorely troubled about the behavior of his players and I right now the Athletics do not resemble a hall club capable of overhauling the world champion New York Yankees. The venerable Philadelphia manager frankly admits that the Athletics are far behind in their training and those observers who witnessed the series with Tris Speaker's Newark club were astonished to see a major league pennant contender—if the A’s are still one — play such mediocre baseball. "1 can't understand what's holding us back,” Mack said. "We have had injuries but they haven't been serious enough to cause all the trouble.” For one thing, Mack is having plenty of trouble picking his infield He has tried Ossie Orwell, the hardhitting southpaw, at first base and is dissatisfied with the result. “Orwoll doesn’t seem to be able to play first base." Mack acknowledged. "I guess I'll have touise Jimmy Foxx there unless Orwoll'•hows improvement right away.” Mack had planned to use Foxx at third, and if be moves the versatile youngster to first base, he’ll leave a gap on the other side of the diamond. If Foxx plays first, Sammy Hale, who ought to be a great player but isn't, or Jimmy Dykes will play third. Other infield trouble may develop at | shortstop. Joe Boley has a sore arm and Joe Hassler has yet to prove he is of major league calibre. Nick Borelli. former Muhlenberg college star,

~|„,wn himself to M hi"”'' and is fighting hard for u ber,h 1,1 the infield. Max Bishop, star second baseman. who recently deserted the ranks of th,, holdouts, is far from being in shape, but may expected to be back at the keystone sack shortly. Bishop has his heart set on developing into baseball's best lead-off man and should prove a valuable link in Mack’s machine once he gets going. Mack has two great outfielders in Al Simmons and Bing Miller but Mule Haas, who relegated Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb to the bench last season, has never proved himself a hitter (If major league qualifications. Homer Summa, trying a comeback after several uneventful years with the Indians, is striving to crowd his way Into the outfield. Lefty Grove is not in good shape, his training being retarded by the aftermaths of an attack of influenza. George Earnshaw’, who won a regulat berth on the pitching staff last season, has not reported. Howard Ehmke, another veteran pitcher, has a bad arm. “The catsup is at the other end o the counter,” said Druggist Artie Small, today, when a customer bought a liver pad. “Yes, I know, an’ I'm sorry I’ve kept him waitin’," said Bootlegger Ike Igirk, this mornin’, when Tell Binkley's office girl told him her boss wuz in conference. —Abe Martin. Indianapolis News IT’S NOT HARD TO GROW THIN People all about you can testify to that. Most of the slender figures seen today have been won in easy ways. Many have been won by Marmola prescription tablets, based on a modern scientific discovery. People have used Marmola for 20 years —millions of boxes of it. Now slender figures in almost every circle show what Marmola does. A book in each box of Marmola gives the formula and states the scientific reasons for results. So users realize how and why effects are beneficial. Away which has done so much for so many deserves a test from you. Make it now, watch the results for a little while, then, decide. Ask your druggist today for a $1 box of Marmola. * SALE CALENDAR Any sale advertised in the Decatur Daily Democrat will be listed in this column free of charge. We also have a special price for hand bills, when sale is advertised in this paper. Mar. 22 —Isaac Everett, 1 mile south, i/j mile north of Decatur. March 23— Furniture auction. Perry Ogg Second Hand store, 110 Jefferson street, DecaturMar. 23—Dr. Allen J. Miller, household sale. Cor. 3rd & Jefferson sts., Decatur Mar. 25 —Perry Walters, Admr. Henry Walters, 4 miles east Decatur. Mar. 27—Harry Cassel, closing out sale herd of registered atid high grade Guernsey cattle. 8 miles southwest of Fort Wayne, Ind., on Indianapolis road. PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER MIMEOGRAPH WORK NOTARY PUBLIC Office: Peoples Loan & Trust Bldg. Phones: Office 606 — Res. 1171 MILDRED AKEY Decatur, ... - Indiana I . . . .. . —-

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