Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1929 — Page 6

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Watching The Scoreboard —<U.R;— Yesterday's hero —Al Thomas, Chicago White Sox pitcher, who blanked the Cleveland Indians, 10 to 0. He allowed seven hits but only three Indians reached second base. The White Sox made IF> bits and were aided by four Cleveland errors, two of them by Jackie Tavener. Singles by Hellmann and Alexander drove Gehringer home with the run by wihch the Detroit Tigers beat the St. Louis Browns, 1 to 0. Gehringer had singled and advanced to second on a balk by Johnny Ogden. Both teams made five hits. Rogers Hornsby continued his terdific hitting as the Chicago Cubs scored their second straight shutout over the St. Louis Cardinals. 3 to 0. Hornsby hit a home run and a single. Malone had the better of Alexander in a pitcher's duel, holding the Cards to five hits. Six runs in the seventh inning enabled the Cincinnati Reds to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9 to 4. Granham of the Pirates drew four straight walks and scored thiee of the losers' runs. All other games were postponed because of bad weather. Pyle’s Runners Are Crossing Illinois Today Vandalia. 111.. Apr. 23. —(U.R>— C. C. Pyle's runners swung southwest to- ; day for Collinsville, 111., with PeteGavuvzi, Southampton, Eng., leading in elapsed time —148:06:12. Gavuzzi covered the 31.8 miles from Effingham yesterday’ in 4:06:50, to tie with Ed Gardner, Seattle, Wash, negro, for the day's honors. Gardner is in third place in elapsed time with 152:40:55, while John Salo. Passaic, N. J., is second, with 152:26:42. Q Jefferson Nine Wins From Geneva, 7 To 3 Jefferson high school's baseball team won its second victory of the season by defeating Geneva, at Jefferson, 7 to 3, last week. ‘'Moon” Runyon, on the mound for Geneva, held the Jefferson sluggers to three hits, but ragged support behind him lost the game. The misplays were due to lack of practice, since the Cardinals had held no workouts this spring. o— YESTERDAY'S HOMERS Hornsby, Cubs 1 Totals National League 21 American League 14 Totals 35 o Ex-Boxing Champion Wins First Match As Wrestler New York. Apr 23—(UP)—Paul Berfenbach's debut as a professional wrestler ended in a victory last night when the former light heavyweight boxing champion threw Fred Giubmeier, Chi-

SPEAKING OF SP©RT BY FRANK GETTY

Cliff Durant Steve Hannagan, the personable young impressario who assisted In putting over the . Sharkey-Stribling fight, now has turned his attention to his first love —the 500 mile autdmobile race at Indianapolis. In the following handout, he tells about this years most interesting contender: Cliff Durant, who first drove here in 19-19, is the veteran driver of the Seventeenth International 500-mile race which will be held-at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 30. The pin feathers of speed were scarcely sprouted on the three youngsters who were victorious in the pas* three races at the Indianapolis track where each yeai the American Grand Prize is held. Frank Lockhart, an unknown who won in 1926. was 24 years old; George Sounders who was victorious in 1927 was an engineer under graduate from Purdue University, age 25, and Louis Meyer, who would have been satisfied with any place among the first ten but w'ho won last year's classic was 25 years of age. as an amateur in 1912, is 38 now and Durant, who first drove race ears this probably will be his last event as a contestant. He could purchase the Indianapolis track stage the race with its SIOO,OOO prize money, be the only spectator if he so choses and still, after such a financia loutlay, have to make a subtantial return to the income tax department of his year’s earnings. He is one of the largest operators in the stock market. Spends Thousands on Speed Cariying on a boyhood interest in combustion motors, Durant has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars as a patron of the speed sport. Two months

| cai’o German. In IS minutes, 27 sec lends, with an nun wrigtloek. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Boston 3 0 1.00(1 ’ New York 2 0 1.000 Chicago 4 1 Sun St. Louis 3 3 ,50it Philadelphia 2 2 .500 Pittsburgh 2 3 .400 ' Cincinnati 2 4 .332 Brooklyn 0 5 .000 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Philadelphia 3 I .750 New York 2 1 .667 , Cleveland 3 2 .600 St Louis 4 3 .571 Detroit ... 3 4 .429 Boston 1 2 .333 ' Chicago 2 3 .400 Chicago 2 3 .400 Washington 1 3 .250 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Cincinnati. 9; Pittsburgh, 4. Chicago, 3; St. Louis. 0. New York at Boston, snow. Brooklyn at Philadelphia, rain. American League Detroit, 1; St. Louis, 0. Chicago. 10; Cleveland, 0. Philadelphia at New York. rain. Boston at Washington, cold. American Association I Kansas City, 4; Indianapolis. 0. Milwaukee, 4; Louisville. 2. Columbus, 4; St. Paul. 1. Minneapolis. 5; Toledo, 4. o Legislator Offers To “Shoot It Out” With Governor Os Louisiana Ba*,on Rouge, La., Apr. 23. —(U.R) — State Representative Gilbert L. DuI pre's offer to “shoot it out" with Governor Huey P. Long gave an aura of old world romance to the political warfare in Louisiana today. Thus far the challenge to a duel with guns has not been taken up by the youthful governor, who is busy stumping the state in his own defense against impeachment proceedings in the Louisiana legislature. The challenge was a result of Governor Long’s Sunday night speech in Opelousas and was made by Representative Dupre in a speech in the house of representatives. In his excitement. Dupre shouted: “I do not carry dangerous weapons but I’ll fight any man at the drop of the hat; I'll shoot it out with Long, ahd I'll shot it out until he gets enough.” Dupre had l>een aroused by Governor Long's charge in his Opelousas speech that Dupre “traded his votes to get a committee job for his nephew and for appointment of himself as chairman of the house judiciary committee." o >— F. B. Shields is making a short stay in the city. '

of each year he devotes to the Indianapolis event, spending two months experimenting with his pet hobby. Victory means little or nothing to him. personally. His cars always are laden with experimental gadgets. He has his fun building and rebuilding his race cars and running them at top speed. Day after day he is to be found at the track, speeding his car around the course at gravity defying speed. He calls it practice but wiseacres of racing know that speed is his passion. After his practice spins each day. Durant, who was christened R. Clifford, usually hops into one of the two airplanes he keeps parked at the Speewday and flips through the clouds for a while. Later in the day if the mechanics hear strains of a violin, cornet or saxophone wafting from the Durant's padlocked garage, they know that Cliff is practicing n one of the favorite musical instruments he dotes on plav and rather well, too. In a neat corner of his garage is a complete broker s office from which he carries on his trading in the market. He wears old clothes around the track, having the appearance of one of the underpaid apprentice mechanics. Hot dogs and mustard make up his noon day fare. He appears to be working—and in reality does, and hard, too, but everyone knows Cliff Durant is on his annual racing vacation. The present-day veteran of the Indianapolis Speedway, except tor the two months he spends here, remains in seclusion at his woodland home 450 miles north of Detroit. Here he has a completely equipped broker’s office several airplanes, a group of high-pow-ered passenger cars —and an experimental shop filled with experimental motors, his hobby.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929.

U.S. MAYOR IN PRAISE OF THE . SIDEWALK CAFE Executive Davie of Oakland, Cal., Bemoans Lack Os Laziness Facilities By George Kent (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, April 23 —(UP) —The lack of sidewalk cases is what's wrong with American cities, the United Press learned from John L. Davie, Mayor of Oakland. Cal., the only American 'o attend the International Congress of Cities at Seville, Spain. "It's nice to sit in a case and have something,” the Mayor said. "It's control table. The sun shines. A go-getter stops banting. The world resumes its normal shape. In America, there are no facilities foi being lazy, and lazinness is fully as important as diligence —in its proper place. Waiters flash the checks before the diner is half through with his meal. “In Europe they do not care how long you sit. Cases help the digestion and improve the philosophy. If there were more tables in the sun, there would be more optimism.” Mayor Davie, who attended the Congress in company with 200 mayors of as many cities in various parts of the world, said that America could learn a lot from European cities. He thought Europe, for example, handled traffic more efficiently than America. Cops Not *emaphores "True, we have semaphores and other trick devices," he said. “But Europe has cops. They control the vehicular come and go. The proof of the superiority of the European system is that there are fewer accidents here.” Mayor Davie reverted to cases, deploring the stupidity of a “prohibition law which doesn't prohibit.” He said that California was the greatest grape growing country in the world and it

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Auto Carried in Storm I — < '• r— • - * - > -1- ... - * \ * • Automobile which was carried 200 yards in a storm which wrecked forty-five homes in Bolivar, Mo., during the course of which ten persons were injured, two seriously. This was a forerunner of the storms which swept the Middle West over the week end.

prohibition had not interferred would be producing better wines than France Before the war France was buying California wines and exporting them to America. “What harm is there if some people get together and take a few small glasses of wine? It is positively beneficial. "But cases are not possible in America now. Ameiican cities haven’t the space. Not have they anything to serve in cases. You know, I like the way European cities cate for their people. The iarge parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalks with space for case tables." From Paris, Mayor Davie went to Hamburg to christen the new Ham-

burg-American freighter, City of Oakland, in a new service of which Oakland will be the Western terminus. o — Interurban-Train Crash At Capital Investigated Indianapolis, April 23 —(UP)— Authorities today were to make an investigation of the train-interurban crash here in which nine persons were injured, none believed seriously. A trailer of the traction car was struck by a Pennsylvania freight train as it crossed the railroads tracks on the edge of the city. Most of the injured received cuts and bruises and were released from a

hospital after having their wounds treated. Witnesses said the accident occurred when l>oth the engineer or the train and the motor man of the car expected the other to stop. All the injured were occupants of the traction. o Luck on the Lookout Luck is always on the lookout for the fellow wtib has a conscience, and sense enough to obey iL This, however, does not wholly satisfy the fickle goddess. The yonng man must be enger to find his place, and generous in the work it demands. —American Magazine.

HOLOS MILK TEH MUB Lorain, 0., April « _ (V Amelia C. Faragher, 86 .. ' que recoid of being hoatemu * party at het horn,- here ever, a'* the past 60 years. 1 M?! » Morning visitors at 1 Faragher'a home will find her mu ly tending her targe tea-kettkT! always prepared to entertai. nomihr.. “j The custom was begun by \ lr , . agher's husband, thre« score in the same little farmhouse Grandma" now lives. He usw) in from the field in lh e middle morning and spend a half hour sipping the drink from which hi, J ow has become famous. After Faragher died’, the dan, patty was continued by their ren and grandchildren who gJ into the privilege of ’ Bobby Baker one of Mrs p a . ath J little grandchildren, has bee n 2' tual at the traditional social years. He is six years old. For im Bobby couldn't understand why TZ teacher refused to excuse him so u wouldn't be late to "Grannt's" f or J Mis. Faragher is an ideal hostAn interesting conversationalist ,u discourses on a variety of subject'saii is careful not to bore her guest, inconsequential matters. The weather may be indent*stoi ms may blow, rain or stfine-# doesn’t matter—because •'Grandar Faragher says she plans to continue her tea parties for at least ten w years. o Daughter’s Indignation Nothing makes daughter more la. dlgnant tlinn father’s not being able to make money enough so mother tn dress as she does.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Get the Habit—Traae at Home, l» Pan