Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1929 — Page 6

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PENNANT RACES START TUESDAY New York, Apr. 9.—(U.R) -Sitting up the sixteen major league teams a week before the opening of the 1929 baseball season finds no radical reversals from last year's form experts cd In the two pennant races beginning next Tuesday. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia may have slipped a trifle, yet that remains to be seen for training camp evidence sometimes proves misleading. They are quite likely to battle for the pennant, again. The New York Giants and Chicago Cubs are favorites in the National league lace, with the St. Louis Cardinals possible figuring importantly* in a close race. The American league teams in a nutshell follow: Yankees—Same old tough team to lx at. Possibly improved pitching with Pennock back. Catching will be weak until Bengough returns. Spirit of club good as players really want to set a new Amerian league record of four straight pennants. Athletics—No better than last year, with a patched-up infield and a crippled pitching staff. In feriority complex of A's when they play the Yankees turned tide of race iast year and Philadelphia can hope for no better than second place unless it does better than 6 out of 22 against the Yanks this season. Washington—A dangerous club un-l der Walter Johnson's leadership.! Myer at third and Bluege at shortstop] have strengthened infield. Pitching] good. Will have to be watched alii the way. Browns —Failure of a rookie third' laseman to make good hasn't bright-' ened Browns' prospects. Gray and | Crowder will have to repeat last j year’s records to keep Browns up I there. Detroit—A good team but can Bucky Harris get a team that would not play for Moriarty to play for him’ Plenty of punch but pitching rather doubtful. Cleveland — Completely reorganized and may spring a surprise. Too many left-handed hitters in lineup but if all chances pan out well the Indians [ may go some place. White Sox—Stonger in outfield but I pitching and infield about same. | Blackburn will have trouble trying to keep dissension from cropping out' again. Red Sox—Many changes and likely to get out of cellar if White Sox flop. ■ The National league teams in a nutshell follow: Giants —Greatly, improved team over | last, season. Mays and Walker figure j to strenfthen pitching staff. Welsh. Ott, Hogan, O'Farrell all look better •than last, season. Leach will add strength. Looks like dub to beat. Cubs—Are the Cubs stronger wi'h Hornsby or aren’t they? Maguire i played a great defensive game at sec-! ond last season and the Cubs may | miss him although Hornsby will add '

SPEAKING OF HL 1k 9 JBL Mhk- JBL BY FRANK GETTY

The Pennant Races One week from today, the major leagues will open their 1929 season with ball games in eight ctiies, weather permitting. A suggestion brought up at a recent j National League meeting to have in-1 tersectional series start the ball rolling was not adopted by the schedule makers. Eastern teanis will open a- j gainst rivals, and western clubs will , battle among themselves in both circuits, as usual. Vagaries of April weather make this plan practicable, if uninteresting. It might happen otherwise that awes-1 tern team would travel east to open I the season and spend a week or more watching rain drops on the window panes of hotel lobbied. The same delay with the incidental expenses in the matter or railroad travel, might be occasioned by inclement weather in the west. Who Will Win? The nation's fans are busy doping out the approaching pennant races and seme will be fortunate enough to have their guesses come true. It’s a long time to wait until September 29 to say "1 told you so,” hut your died-in-the-wool baseball fan is the personification of patience. The wise fan. of course, makes his selections and then tears them up and forgets about them. So many things happen between April and October that the best laid calculations of the prognosticators often go astray. A ball club which looks “all washed up” in April sometimes has the opposition sending for the crying towels before mid-summer. And there are car ly autumn slumps, as well. Glass Houses The trouble with airing one’s opinion to the outcome of the pennant races in print is that the hostility of a fan is easily aroused if his team is

power. Third base is a weak spot and, pitching staff is no stronger. Cardinals — Showing of Cardinals ■ Hkelj to di pend on what veteran pitchers do. Revamped infield uncertain. Outfield stronger than last year. Pittsburgh—A great offensive team, but defensively none too strong. Tray11 tier's hip injury and Paul Waner's ’ holdout tactics have retarded the t Pirates'. Petty will strengthen pitch.ling staff. Cincinnati- Have no punch but may be troublesome if veteran pitchers i function smoothly. Third base is a ; weak spot. Kelly slipping at first] t base. I, , ; Brooklyn—Not as good as last year. ' ! Pitching staff weaker and injuries to ' J Wright. Flowers and other players | have weakened team. ( Braves—Worst looking Igill club in ] I either league. Phillies — Thevenow's injury cost ] t Phi.lles’ chance to climb to sixth place and maybe higher. Young,,’ , hustling club but can’t go any place] without pitching. o I EXHIBITION GAMES f Phillies, 11; Athletics, 8. I 1 Tulsa. 12; Yankees, 9. Browns, 5; Oklahoma City, 2. Senators, 8; Giants, 3. i Brooklyn, 4; Birmingham. 0. Red Sox. 8; Reading, 4. White Sox, 9; Dallas, 5. Braves. 13; New Haven, 12. Cubs, 10; Houston, 1. —o — Harvard Golfer Leads Pinehurst. N. C.. Apr. 9. —(U.R) —Phillips Findlay, Harvard golf star, held F I a one stroke lead as the final IS holes a lof the qualifying rounds for the an , f I nual north and south amateur golf s I championship started today. His card ; t lof 35-35-70, was one stroke ahead of t I George Voight. New York, and C. Ross e ] Somerville. London, Ont. I ii — o 1 1 Bowling Tournament Opens Boston. Apr. 9.—(U.R)—The annual I national A. A. I', bowing tournament n j opened last night with 114 local, c champions competing. The tourna-i s ment closes tomorrow night. t o 1 n Spring Football Practice Opens |c Chicago, Apr. 9.-(U.R) -Thirty play- b ers have reported to Coach A. A. |t< Stagg for spring footbal practice at p the University of Chicago. h o s Purdue Defeats Butler Again Lafayette. Ind., Apr. 9.—U.P.) The e I Purdue university basketball team de- r | seated Butler university. 11 to 3. ] i o c D Purpose Purpose is one thing very necessary v for success. Every man who gets anywhere In life has set for himself a goal, has established a purpose that is 1 worthy cf intense effort. And he Is ' I never satisfied until he achieves IL ' Romans Hard Hit At the battle of Cannae during the I Punic wars the Romans were practi i cally annihilated, and the loss of citi | zens was perhaps greater than in any other defeat that befell the republic The field nrmy numbered 85.000.

rated down in the second division. t It is alright to sit on a cracker box beside the stove and predict something j about baseball, but it is quite another ] matter to go on record in black and ; i white. Based entirely upon the logic of the ; situation, however, and making no allowance (as, indeed, no allowance can , :b e made) for the mysterious and oftj times decisive “breaks” of the game, . ' I would venture the opinion that the ■ National League pennant race of 1929 ; will wind up somewhat as follows: 1. New York Giants. 2. Chicago Cubs i 3. Cincinnati Reds 4. Pittsburgh Pirates 5. St. Louis Cardinals. C. Boston Braves. 7. Philadelphia Phillies 8. Brooklyn Robins While a majority of the nation's fans will prefer the Cubs to win the flag, it may be that the club has been over-rated, that Rogers Hornsby will not fit in as smoothly as some expect, and that the terrific hitting of Joe McCarthy's men at home will be reduced by certain radical changes in the grand stand. Another departure from the belief of the majority is rating the Cincinnati Reds a third place possibility, since most of the well-informed fans of the aging hurlers on the Cincinnati staff delivers one good season, and that is by no means impossible, and if the youngsters come through as they have given promise of doing, the Reds may • prove the surprise of the season. i A third digression from popular fancy is rating the Boston Braves in sixth place. A majority consigns them to the cellar, but we have seen one miracle • in the Rub, and if the club gets into : the sixth hole this year, it will be as ' pronounced a miracle as that of 1914. i (Tomorrow: American League Race)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929.

0. H. S, BEGINS SPRING SPORTS Spring sports officially got under way in Decatur high school this afternoon, when the Yellow Jackets met. the Wren, Ohio, team in a baseball game at the South Ward diamond. The Buckeyes handed the locals two defeats hist season, and a good game was in prospect today, despite the cold weather and the fact that it was the season opener. The Decatur track team will make its debut in an interscholastic meet tomorrow, when it meets Berne and Kirkland in a triangular meet to he s aged in the South Side high school stadium. Fort Wayne. On Saturday, Coach Curtis will take the Yellow Jacket thinly clads to Fort Wayne to participate in the South Side relays. I Other schools entered in the meet in- ; elude, Bluffton. Larwill. Berne. Auburn, Garrett, Kendallville, Angola and South Side. The relay races on Saturday will count points, it was stated today. There will bo four relays, the 440. [SSO. mile and a medley consisting of | a 220, 440. 880 and mile. In addition to the relays, there will be the other usual track and field events. PAGE INVENTS NEW FOOTBALL Bloomington. Ind., Apr. 9. — Pat Page's Indiana University gridders are tossing around a new type of football in their daily spring training sessions this week. The new ball is the invention of Coach Page. Although the ball has not been perfected yet, the Hoosier mentor is working on different designs and expects to have the finished product ready fro the market soon. Many disputes during the recent meeting of the intercollegiate rules committee concerning adoption of a standardized ball was Page’s incentive to create a Kall which would meet the qualifications of college coaches. Page maintains that footballs in use at the present time are too pointed to allow good passing and punting. The old-time egg-shaped ball has become almost obsolete, it. is said. The new ball has a surface that is entirely convex and has been pronounced by the Indiana players as ideal in all respects. Only 12 pounds of pressure is used in inflating the ball, and the intake valve is enclosed with an artificial lace. The specimens which are now being used by the Indiana players in practice have “Pat Page” autographed on the side. The name of the firm to manufacture the ball is being withheld until the ball is perfected. HEFLIN'S SON IN SPOTLIGHT New Yolk, Apr. 9. —(U.R) —Thomas Heflin, Jr., advocate of states’ rights in prohibition, nurse a black eye today—the price for research into the Volstead act along Broadway last ] night. Young Heflin, son of the dry senator from Alabama, ended his tour of the "whoopee” belt at the West 30th street police station. Yesterday he arrived cn the liner Ancon from Panama, announcing that the six bottles of Scotch with which he started out had proved insufficient, but that he had met many generous persons aboard ship. Today Heflin was in the charge of his father’s secretary, J. L. Thornton, who was sent here from Washington to guide him back to Washington. “I put him to bed last night,” Thornton told the United Press today. ’’Remember that he is just a boy and what happened yesterday and last night is just one of those things.” What happened last night was that young Heflin received a couple of cuffs from a policeman and was escorted to the West 30th street station. - At the sta’jon he applied for lodging for the night, or what was left of it, and was refused. Thornton finally arrived to take him to the Hotel McAlpin. Some suggested young Heflin was depressed by a statement issued by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, national president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. “If young Heflin had remained on the water wagon while in Panama his father would not Ire heartbroken now,” Mrs. Boole said. o Square Dance at Sunset Wednesdad night. STOP CoughinU Almost instant relief pwith one swallow of THOXINE Holthouse and all other good durg stores.

Pays 22-Hour Penance 9 A KI / Red Cagle, last year’s shining light of West Point s Football team, is doing a 22-hour trick in his spare time on the 100-yard stretch where all A. W. O. L. hammer out Lheir penalty. Red missed the. Hoboken ferry one night, all due to Mr. Whalen’s traffic laws, but the rules at West Point must be obeyed, too.

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RULING AFFECTS MANY CANADIANS Court Rules Canadians Working In U. S. Come Under Immigration Law Washington, Apr. 9. —(U.R) Students of internaticnal law and United S’ates organized labor evinced groift interest today in the remark- ' able supreme court decision placing foteign-born Canadian residents who work in the United States under the • imm'gratlon quota restrictions of their native lands. The unique feature of the case was the court’s ruling that the war of 1812 cancelled the provision of the 1794 Jay treaty between the United States and Great Britain whereby unre i strlcted intercourse was permitted between the United States and ■ Canada. The important feature to United Sates labor is that the decision upholds the attempt of the labor department and tile American Federation of ; labor to shut cut cheap alien laborers, including Chinese, who could get 'jobs in the United States after establish ng a residence in Canada, and (stay in for as long as six months, j thereafter either returning or “losing themselves'' from United States im-

migration authorities. The supremo court's unanimous decision held the 1921 immigration net In allowing visits of up to six months of aliens entering for business purposes cannot po-sildy have meant >o include ’’laborers." Affects Many At Buffalo Buffalo. N. Y., Apr. 9—Approximately 700 residents of Canada, commuting across the Niagara frontier under habeas corpus writs for the purpose of pursuing or seeking employment in this vicinity, will be affected by the decision handed i...,,n by the U. S. supreme court in the Cook-Danelson case. Since the Cook-Danelson case came before the courts, hundreds of aliens obtained the privilege of commuting for employment under writs issued by the district court. o Man Shoots Sister’s Divorced Husband South Bend.. Ind.. Apr. 9. —'U.R) —Enraged because Wilson Coleman. 26. refused to marry his sister. May Patesei. 22. Stephen Patesei. a taxi driver, poured five bullets into Coleman’s body here late yesterday. Coleman is at the point of death in a hospital. Coleman and Miss Patesei were divorced early this year after having been married for three years. Recently they resumed their marital relations without the formality of getting remarried. Patesei shot Coleman down in a

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