Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1929 — Page 6

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MOTORCYCLE RACES PLANNED Motorcycle races, to be sponsored by Decatur rider*, will be held at Bellmont Park east of the city next 1 liarsday, July 4. It was announced today. Leading riders from Western Ohio will compete with those from Decatur Fort Wayne and vicinity. Five • events have been arranged", four solo and one side car events. There will be two 3-mile races; one 4 mile race: one 5 mile race and one 3-mile event for sidecars. In addition to the races, there will be stunt riding and motorcycle broad jumping for the entertaiment of the specators. The program will start at 2:30 o'clock, daylight saving time. Local riders have been practicing on the track for several days and have turned in some fast time. Simeon Hain Jr., has made the fastest lap so far, turning the half-mile oval in 29 seconds. a speed of grater than 60 miles an hour. o —— HOME RUN CLUB —(UR)— Leaders: Ott, Giants 22 Gehrig, Yankees 21 Wilson, Cubs 19 Klein, Phillies ■> 19 Hafey, Cardinals IS Simmons, Athletics 18 Yesterday’s Homers Stephenson, Cubs 2 Blair, Cubs 1 Paschal, Yankees 1 Totals National League 392 American League 275 T0ta1667 o Watching The Scoreboard

—(U.R)Yesterday's hero: Paschal, Yankee benchwarmer, whose home run scor ed the two runs that enabled the Yanks to beat Boston, 3 to 2; Herb Pennock, although pitching a great game, was benched in the seventh to allow Paschal to try his hand as a pinch-hitter. The home run, deep in the center field stands, resulted. The Chicago Cubs and St. Ixiuis Cardinals matched base hits for six Innings without effect. The game was called at the end of the sixth to allow St. Louis to catch a train and witli the score knotted at 11 runs. Chicago made 15 hits, two of them home runs by Riggs Stephenson. St. Louis made 14 hits. Only one other game was scheduled yesterday and that, Washington at Philadlephia, was rained oi|t. 0 Decatur Independents Defeat Wren Nine, 2-1 The. Decatur Independents defeated the Wren, Ohio, nine in a short base-

SPEAKING OF SP@RT * BY FRANK GETTY ~S!!1 . 1 . 1 -L ■■

A Ball Club Finds Itself The Philadelphia Athletics are heading for the American league pennant and their first world series in 15 years. Nothing, it seems. Is going to interfere with an ultimate triumph for Cornelius McGillicuddy this season. Yet there’s not much difference between the Mackmen of 1929 and the club which couldn't make good during the past couple of pennant races. What brought about the remarkable change ,and made a fighting and a winning team of one whose courage had been questioned? A Question cf Confidence Wise old heads among the Athletics board of strategy have been trying to bring about this change for several seasons. Eddie Collins, Kid Gleason, and Mack himself felt that Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons and several of the other youngsters had the stuff to make good. The trouble seemed to be that the younger players themselves couldn’t get to feeling that way. They would go up against the New York Yankees and kick away their pennant chances In a fit of stage fright. Experience may have brought the younger A's their present confidence and consequent success. Or there may be some reason behind their reformation, someone who stiffened the back-bone of a ball club which always had the natural playing ability. If someone alone Is responsible for the change that has come over the Mackmen, he should receive one full chare of the world series money which Jhe players will be dividing next fall. Simmons at the Bat It was not until the Athletics went Up against the Yankees In New York recently that the writer realized what * really great batter Al Simmons has <

Michigan State’s New Grid Coach

i|i C** «r > r ' •■' R 4 ■ i ■h. / y L jOLL■ James H. Crowley, one of the famous four horsemen of Notre Dame, who succeeds Harry Kipke as football coach of Michigan State University. Crowley has been assistant coach at Georgia for four years. ball game at Wren, Sunday, by a score of 2 to 1. Rain stopped the game at the end of the sixth inning. The teams were evenly matched. The Independents scored first, putting two runs across the pan in the fifth frame. Wren came back to score one run in the last of the sixth. The Independents will play at Markle next Sunday. Score by innings: RHE Decatur 00002 o—20 —2 5 2 Wren 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 3 2 Batteries: Schneider and F. Mylott; Wilson and Schad. o — Woodcuts* Distinction Woodcuts were once called “the democrats among the graphic arts.”

become. He hasn’t Babe Ruth’s rhythm nor Lou Gehrig’s suggestion of power. But how he can belt the ball. Singles, doubles, triples, but especially home runs; these are Simmons’ specialties. It got so in that series that the crowd began to howl for Al, to hit each time he went to bat, and as a matter of fact he did so more than 75 per cent, of the time. Jimmy Foxx While perhaps not the greatest of fielding first basemen>-no Hal Chase, that is to say Jimmy Foxx is my idea of a mighty useful ball player. He, too. hit hard in that critical series when every hit counted. He had all the “guts’’ in the world. Yet this same Jimmy Foxx used to blush painfully if you even suggested that he was a good hitter. He was impressed by the prestige of b.g league pitchers. It didn’t seem to him that young Jimmy should presume to hit them. The Left Side Jimmy Dykes is a flashy fielder and Joe Boley is rapidly learning to use ins hands properly at short field, but you can't call the Mackmen a really great ball club until the left side of the infield either improves or is strengthened, especially when the A’s are on the offensive. Neither Dykes nor Boley was able to do much at bat. While Simmons, Haas, Cochrane and Foxx pounded the Yankee pitchers, the third baseman and shortstop were weak sisters. The Athletics are fortunate in having a hard hitting catcher. MicTey Cochrane makes up for the weakness at bat of one infielder. But to win these days, a club needs all the hitting it can muster, especially when almost any pitcher is likely to be. touched for a f ew home runs at odd moments.

DF.CATCR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929

PENNANT RACES ABOUT HALF OVER

New York. July 2—<U.R>— Nearing the halfway marK In the two major league pennant races, the Philadelphia Athletics hold sway in the American League, and the Chicago Cubs hold u slim lead in the National League. The first half of the season has provided a few surprises, but by and large, most of the clubs have run true

to form. The National League furnished several early upsets when the Boston i Braves jumped into the lead and the New York Giants tumbled into seventh place, but the Giants have fought their way back into the race and the Braves have dropped to their level. The Cincinnati Reds have been the biggest disappointment of the season and are floundering around down in the National League cellar. A year ago the Reds were in third place. In the American League the Yankees have shown signs of slipping after winning three pennants and two world championships in the last three years. They are nine games behind the Athletics. After fifteen | years Connie Mack apparently has found the ‘'right” combination and the Athletics are winging away eight' games in front of the Browns. The long expected slump of the Athletics has refused thus far to swoop down and not a few experts are wortdering if it ever will. The Athletics’ longest losing streak this year is two games, 'established on two occasions. The terrific hitting of Foxx, Simmons and Cochrane and the superb pitching of Rommel, Grove, Walberg and Earnshaw are the principal reasons for the success of the Athletics. As long as they keep going, the Athletics will keeip going. The second-place Browns are ridiculed as pennant contenders all around the league but Dan Howley is keeping his team up there, thanks to 10 victories over the White Sox. If the Browns can haul down the Athletics and Yankees when they visit St. Louis this month, they may stick around a while longer. Thus far the Browns have been able to win only one game each from the A’s and Yanks. With the return to form of Babe Ruth and Herb Pennock, things are looking up for the Yankees and they may improve tbeir position in the race this month if the Athletics should falter. Miller Huggins has the kinks in his pitching staff straightened and for the first time since the season opened Pennock, Piipgras, Hoyt, Heimach and Wells are ready to rotate. In the National League all four of the contenders have serious weaknesses. The Cubs have failed to show a sustained offensive and have been getting only spasmodic resuts from their pitching staff. Despite weak defensive play and a shaky pitching staff the Pittsburgh Pirates have managed to stay in the race, largely because of the hardhitting of Traynor and the pitching of Grimes, who has won 11 out of 12 games. The Pirates are only one game from the top. With the New York Giants it seems to be a question of whether a powerful attack can offset mediocre pitching. If the hitting of Terry, Roush and Ott can make up for inferior pitching the Giants are apt to make trouble. The St. Louis Cardinals appear to be fading out of the race because of their miserable pitching. With Frisch, Bottomley and Hafey leading the attack, the Cards have plenty of power, but their pitching staff has been tossing away games. Four straight defeats at the hands of the Cubs hasn’t helped the moral of the Cards any.

FRENCH TENNIS STARS DEFEATED Wimbledon, Eng. July 2—(UP) — Wilmer Allison of Austin, Texas, and John Van Ryn of Orange, N. J., provided the biggest upset of the all comers’ Wimbledon tennis tournament here today when they eliminated the veteran Fi ench pair, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon, from the mens doubles. It was a hard fought match, the Americans winning 7-5, 8-6, 3-6, 8-6. The American yuongsters by their determined battle succeeded in putting out of the Wimbledon competition the only titleholders so far eliminated. Cochet and Burgnon won the the doubles title here last year. The French pair also is the first seeded pair eliminated from the men’s doubles. William T. Tilden, 11, and Francis T. Hunter, America's chief threats in the tourney, went into the semi-finals today with a three set victory over H. Kleinschroth of Germany and Baron Bela Von Kherling of Hurgary, 6-4 8-6, 6-1. Helen Wills and Edith Cross, the American women’s doubles team encountered a .surprising defeat by Mrs. C. C. Mcllquham, recent conqueror of Senorita Lili D'Alvarez, and Miss E H. Harvey, both of England. The score was 6-4, 8-10, 6-3. George Lott, of Chicago and John Hennessey, of Indianapolis defeated

R. Lycetl and J. D. P. Wheatley, of England, In straight sets 6-2, 63, 6-1, to gain the quarter finals where they will encounter another British team, C. H. Klnksley mid J. S. Olllff Elizabeth Ryan, of the United States and Betty Nuthall of England advanced to the semi-finals defeating Miss G. R. StSerry and Miss Joan Fry of England 6-2, 6-1. — —o Reverie Order of Thing! Dogs are allowed to roam free, while cats are chained up, in French Indo-Chlna; in this topsy turvy land women wear trousers and men skirts, while children are given numbers instead of names. Peanuti and Rabbit! Science Ims extracted 60 products from peanuts; but the lowly goober pea doesn’t yet rival In versatility the rabbit’s skin that wraps up Baby Bunting In a hundred varieties of expensive furs.-" Louisville Courier Journal.

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MARATHON COIF GAME , wr! <tr th.same cluss an “peanut pushing an flag pole setting as far as the genera public is concerned, will have an important part in the Los Angeles National Sports Exposition on July and 30, The eleven-day exposition plans a number of novel events but anient golfers claim long distance golfing wi.l hold its share of attention as the "plus-four” brigade tours the. countryside. • A According to the announcement there will be three coutses, each approximately 30 miles long One will originate near Melibu Ranch, in the Los Angeles suburbs, a second in Longßeach and the third near roviaThe general idea of the game is to

.foliate a golf ball over city streets al|d ( , lllintry highways until the expog|tlOn stadium is reached. There “tatortwm cheeMhe golfers io a -P >— d 1,1 °/eou h t 8 s to eaddy for contestants and police have been asked to guard the "fairways through thiikly-ixjpuluted districts. one rule has been announced so far -that the golfers must "putt" their wav through business sections. It is planned to keep the scores se ret' from thep layers during the several days the - ontest will be in o ee On the final day, all entered will te off from a spot about a mile from the exposition building. Inspiration A certain Detroit resident's way of getting out of any unwelcome invltatlon, during the current social season, has beer, to hold his nose while telephoning and pretend lie has grippe. Detroit News.

YESTERDAY’S Central League fl| Fort Wayne 3; Canton 4 ■ Dayton 5; Springfield 11 H Akron 6; Erie 9. ■ National Lea gue M Chicago 11; St. Louis n ,1 sixth to allow Cards to Catch Only games scheduled ‘Mb American League Boston 2; New York 3. Washington Philadelphia rai i Only games scheduled ' r I American Association Louisville, 7; Toledo 5. I Kansas City 1; MinueapoH,. ! St Paul 9; Milwaukee 3 ' 9 Indlanapolia-Columbus 0 • — Almoit Uaaiukable The Eskimo kayak Is a nift J* seaworthy canoe, made of skin,,-” * ly decked over except for the re hole in the'middle. In which on» pant sits. It is possible for then. at rlenced paddler of the kayak tos ai the canoe Immediately when Ithj, u turned In the water. " .