Decatur Daily Democrat, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1929 — Page 6

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DECATUR LOSES TO NORTH SIDE A bndly crippled track and field team representing Decatur high school met an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the North Side Redskins in a dual meet at Fort Wayne, Tuesday afternoon, the final score being 72 to 27. Carl Gerber, captain and star performer of the Yellow .Jackets, stricken with cramps in the muscles of his legs while running in the firs: event of the meet, the 100-yard dash, and was unable to take part in any other events. He managed to finisli third in the 100-yard dash. He start-1 ed in the high hurdles, later, but he | had no more than started when hei we seized with cramps again and was forced to stop. Gerber usually takes | part in about five events and can be counted upon for from 15 to 25 points in a dual meet. His loss yesterday I was asevere handicap to the Yellow j Jackets. Ladd, the best broadjttmper on the squad, was unable to take part in the meet yesterday, due to a leg injury sustained last week. Reynolds and| Engle, the two best pole vaulters, were declared ineligible last Friday,; leaving the team weak in that event i Hanbold, however, did some good pinch hitting in that event yesterday and pulled down a second place. Debolt, who won the shot put event, scored Decatur’s only first yesterday. Decatur won five seconds and tied for another, and took five thirds. The weather was cold and bad for a meet. The Yellow' Jackets will go to Bluffton Saturday to take part in a quadrangular meet with Bluffton. Hartford township and Columbia City. Coach Curtis said today he expected Gerber and Ladd to be back into condition by that time. The summary follows: 100-yard dash — First, Eby (NS); second. Esterline (NS); third, Gerber (D). Time. 10. S seconds. Mile — First. Baker (NS); second. Hill (D); third. Meeker (NS). Time. 5.09 minutes. 440-yard dash —First, Geyer (NS); second. Green (D); third, Bowen (N S. Time, 58.8 seconds. 120-yard high hurdles —First, Sessler (NS); second, Vauris (NS); third, Lankenau (D). Time, 19 seconds. 220-yard dash — First, Eby (NS); second, Chaffin (NS); third, Lankenau (D). Time, 25.2 seconds. 220-yard low hurdles—First, Sessler (NS); second. Bowen (NS); third,! Green (D). Time. 29.4 seconds. Half mile—First. Baker (NS); sec-1 ond, Steele (D); third, Stein (NS).j Time, 2:16.2 minutes. High jump — First, Vauris (NS); second. Habecker (NS) and Beery (D) tied. Height, 5 feet 6 inches. Pole vault —First, Scott (NS); second. Haubold (D); third, Dalton (NS). Height, 9 feet 9 inches. Shot put,—First. Deßolt (D); second. Chaffin (NS); third. Smith (NS). Distance, 3.3 feet 10% inches. Broad jump — First, Chaffin (NS): second, Lankenau (D): third. Pelz, (D). Distance, 17 feet 3% inches. — o YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis 5; Cincinnati 2. Pittsburgh 4; Chicago 3. New York at Philadelphia, rain. Brooklyn at Boston, rain. American League St. Louis 3; Chicago 1. Cleveland 5; Detroit 4. Boston at New York rain. Philadelphia at Washington, rain. American Association Indianapolis 10; Milwaukee 6. Toledo 5; St. Paul 3 (12 innings) Kansas City 8; Louisville 2, Minneapolis 21; Columbus 4. o EUROPE'S CHAMP WILL RACE HERE Indianapolis, Ind., April 17 —Europe is sending her fastest son to wrest the world’s automobile racing championship from American hands. Louis Chiron,' the European champion, has arrived here with his record breaking De Lage, to compete in the Seventeenth International 500-mile race which will be held at the Indianaplis Motor Speedway, May 30. He brings with him the combined hope of France that he will have a repetition of the successful invasion Jules Goux began in 1913 when as the first foreign driver ever to appear here, he won the 500-mile race and began a series of foreign victories which were unbrokn until 1919 when the late Howdy Wilcox, an Indiana product, stemmed the foreign tides. ,_ o Arson Trial Postponed Newport, Ind., April 17 —(UP) —Ths fourth trial of Samuel Withrow, for mer Kligrdph of the Ku Klux Klan in Parke county, charged with Arson, has been postponed in Vermillion circuit court here from the April to the September term. The postponement was on a motion by the state.

D. H. S. NINE GOESTDBERNE I Coach Max Kidd took fourteen base- , bull players to Berne this afternoon to represent Decatur high school in a game with the Bettie Bears. The game was scheduled to start at 3 o’clock. Couch Kidd stated that Schatnerloh ptohably would start in the box for Decatur, with Fred Brown behind the bat. Other pitchers on the squad are Hartnond and Snedeker. George Roop, veteran hurler, is ineligible. Dick Engle and Reynolds, also members of last year's team, are ineligible. Members of the squad taken to Berne today were: Fred Brown, Sitedeker- Shoaf, Debolt. Ladd, Hebble, ! Mauler, Passwater, Schamerloh. Harmond, Keith Brown, Jocher, Hill and | Williams. BABE RUTH IS MARRIED TODAY New York, Apr. 17. —(U.RF—Babe , 1 Ruth and Mrs. Claire Hodgson were | married at 5:45 am. today in St. Gregory’s Roman Catnonc church. It was the start, of a busy day in the busy life of baseball’s best-paid employe, for at the Yankee Stadium this afternoon he expected to shoulder his bat and begin earning the yearly salary of $70,000 with which he hopes to furnish an apartment and buy groceries for his bride. was performed by '.he ifev. William F. Hughes. The bride wore a purple georgette I dress, a purple toque hat and black stockings and pumps. She barely came up to the Babe's shoulder as they stood at the altar. Ruth was attired in a double-breasted blue serge suit that had been rumpled by the i rain. The Rabe fidgeted throughout the: ceremony, but came through with a loud, brave “I do" at the crucial moment. A hundred persons gathered outside the church during mass when the word got around that Ruth was being married. At the door of the church, ■ after mass, the Babe's broad face j broke into a grin as he wedged his I way through the crowd. The crowd surged against the auto-1 mobile as the chauffeur blew a blast | on his siren in an attempt to clear a i : path. Someone tossed a hat into the: I car. Ruth grabbed it, thinking it was his own. and stuck it on his head. The throng howled, for the hat was three sizes too small. The autcmobile finally got under | way and the couple drove to Mrs. Ruth’s apartment. It was the second marriage for the baseball player and also the second for the former actress, who. as Claire i Merritt, once was a showgirl in the Ziegfield Follies. Mrs. Ruth’s first ’ husband died in 1924 and the Babe's wife was burned t death, recently. | Mrs. Ruth. 28 years old, has a daughter by her first marriage. Be-: sere going on the stage she was an artist's model and during the world ‘ war her face appeared on billboards all over the nation on Liberty Loan : posters. The Babe’s name has been linked i with that of his bride for sometime. ■ She has been a baseball fan for years, and recently she and Ruth have appeared at the theater together sever-1 al times. Ruth would reveal nothing con- j cerning his plans, beyond the fact that they expected to take an apart-: ment on Riverside Drive. o ¥¥*¥*¥*•¥¥¥¥¥¥* * CONGRESS TODAY * Senate Not in session. Agriculture committee meeting tc vote out farm relief hill. Judiciary committee opening of Mellon investigatiofi. House Meets at noon Ways and means committee continues drafting of new tariff act. Rep. Black, Dem., N. Y., talks on Federal Reserve Board. A WOMAN’S HEAD is level and her t judgment good when she puts her faith in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pres c r i p t i on. There is no beauty without good health. Nobody expects to become really beautiful from the use of complexion beautifiers. Bright eyes, clear skin, and rosy cheeks, follow the use of the “Prescription.” Every woman requires -a tonic and nervine at some period of her life. Whether suffering from nervousness, dizziness, faintness or general debility, the “Prescription" benefits. All dealers. Fluid or tablets. Mrs Della Sherer, 304 E. Sample St, South Bend, Ind., said:—“For about four years I could not sleep well, was all dragged out, weak, pale and thin. Finally I began taking 'Favorite Prescription' and it built me up so one would think X never had a sick day."

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 17, 1929.

RAIN AND THRILLS FEATURE OPENING New York, Apr. 17. —(U.P)~ The major league pennant races of 1929 hove opened somewhat hesitantly. Ay was the case a year ago, rain and cold prevented eastern engagements. Only in the west and middle west were the big league flag contenders able to set out on the long 154-game grind. Fans had several things of interest to consider, nevertheless, from yesterday's play. Starting his nineteenth season in the majors. Grover Cleveland Alexander of the St. Louis Cardinals, proved himself once more invincible in beating the Cincinnati Reds on their home turf. 5 to 2. Another feature of this game was furnished by “Chick” Hafey, St. Louis outfielder, who has adopted glasses as a cure for eye trouble. He belted out the only home run of the National league. Rogers Hornsby, around whom so much attention centers this season, failed to make a hit. That perhaps was not entirely his fault, since he was walked three times. The Pirates beat the Cubs before a capacity crowd at Chicago. 4 to 3. The major league debut of at least one newcomer was crowned with success when Earl Averill, expensive Cleveland outfielder, hit a homer in the first inning against Detroit in a game which the Indians finally won in 11 innings, .5 to 4. Before the current season opened, a number of experts picked the St. Louis Browns, formerly regular second division occupants, as possible pennant winners, and the Browns opened up with everything they had. winning, 3 to 1. from the Chicago White Sox. Sam Gray, star Brown pitcher, did well in the game. The raising of the American league pennant and the flag denoting the world's championship, the presentation of watches to the New York Yankees, the tossing out of the first ball at Washington by President Hoover and a number of other opening day ceremonies were postponed by a gale of wind and rain which swept the east. Leading hitters on the opening day were: Fonseca, Indians, .600; Walker, Cincinnati, .667; Metzler, White Sox, .667; Traynor. Pirates, .750; and

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Cuyler. Cubs, .600. The attendance w; s gratifying considering the weather, more than 100,000 fans turning out at four major league parks. Half of these attended the Cub-Pirate game in Chicago. Watching The Scoreboard (By United Preu) Yesterday’s Hero: “Ohl Pete", Grover Cleveland Alexander, shown by the record books to he starting his 19th Major League season, who pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5 to 2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in the opening game, allowing but five hits. Pie Traynor, captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, supposedly suffering with injuries which should have kept him on the bench, led the attack wereby the Corsairs carried off the Initial victory over the Chicago Cubs before 50,000 fans, 4 to 3. Sam Gray, star hurler of the St. Louis Browns, who are conceded by the experts to have their first pennant chance in history, pitched Dan Howley’s club to a 3 to 1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. After a ninth inning rally which tied the score, the Cleveland Indians won out over the Detorit Tigers. 5 to 4. in the 11th inning. The winnin grun scored n oCarl Lind's double. Four other scheduled pening games were washed out by rain. o Wisconsin Beats Missouri Columbia. Mo., April 17 —(UP) — Wisconsin defeated Missouri 5 to 1 in the first of a two game series between the two university nines yesterday. Hall's single with the bases full deicded the contest. AVOID DIZZY SPELLS Never well. Always tired and fagged out. Beauty tossed away by neglect. To be beautiful and to keep youth the system must be free from poisonous backwash of constipation which often causes dizzy spells. For 20 years. Dr. F. M. Edwards gave his patients, in place of calomel, a compound of vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. Known by their olive color. They free the system of poisons that ravage health, energy, beauty. You need never have sallow complexion, dull eyes, coated tongue, throbbing headaches — all signs that your bowels are clogged, liver is.torpid. Take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets nightly. They act smoothly and without griping. .. How much better you’ll feel and look! Everywhere wise men and women who know the value of good health take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets. All druggists, 15c, 30c and 60c.

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